Dave Hearn
- Actor and comedian
Press clippings
BBC axes King Gary and Goes Wrong Show
BBC One sitcoms King Gary and The Goes Wrong Show have both been dropped by the broadcaster.
British Comedy Guide, 6th April 2024The Time Machine: A Comedy review
This riff on HG Wells's sci-fi novella has a sharp cast but relies on a wearisome play-within-a-play concept and lacks momentum.
Chris Wiegand, The Guardian, 3rd March 2023Fire alarm forces show onto street
In space, nobody can hear you scream... but they can hear the fire alarm that drove performer and punter alike onto the street.
British Comedy Guide, 18th August 2022Fringe Q&A: The Play That Goes Wrong stars Mischief on returning to festival roots
Mischief, the company behind worldwide hit The Play That Goes Wrong, have returned to their Edinburgh Fringe roots this year.
Ross Crae, The Sunday Post, 12th August 2022Original The Play That Goes Wrong cast to return to show for two weeks
The original cast of The Play That Goes Wrong will return to the show for two weeks this summer.
Alex Wood, What's On Stage, 6th May 2022The Goes Wrong Show gets second series
The Goes Wrong Show, from the writers of the hit Goes Wrong series of stage comedies, will return to BBC One for another series.
British Comedy Guide, 14th February 2020Review: Magic Goes Wrong (Vaudeville Theatre)
All in all, Mischief Theatre have done it again with another fun night at the theatre where more goes right than wrong . . . or should that be more goes wrong than right?
Tony Peters, West End Wilma, 13th January 2020Theatre review: Magic Goes Wrong
What's missing is the unexpected -- this is a series of uneven sketches on the same running gag, although there is also some proper, brilliant magic too.
Claire Allfree, Metro, 13th January 2020Magic Goes Wrong, Vaudeville Theatre review
Mischief Theatre's "Goes Wrong" oeuvre is now well established: broad humour combined with physical comedy and slapstick mishaps. Magic Goes Wrong, though, is the company's first outside collaboration - with American magicians Penn & Teller, themselves purveyors of fine spoof comedy of the ta-da! kind.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 10th January 2020The Goes Wrong Show: When TV festive frolics go awry
The phenomenally successful franchise that began with The Play That Goes Wrong seven years ago in a small north London pub is coming to a living room near you.
Emma Saunders, BBC, 20th December 2019