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Greg Davies

Greg Davies (I)

  • 55 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer and stand-up comedian

Press clippings Page 47

After the japery of last year's hit-and-miss sitcom We Are Klang, silly comedy trio We Are Klang (Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood) get another pop at a BBC3 show. This time the Klangers are hosting a fictional revue show featuring the trio acting out various interviews, sketches and songs as different characters - often dressed in little but their pants. Its success will depend on whether audiences embrace or loathe Klang's slapstick, which veers towards the rambunctious rather than the surreal.

The Guardian, 16th August 2010

After one series of sitcommy larks last year, frantic trio We Are Klang are back with a pilot for a new format, which suggests they've been told to rethink. It's worked - this is funnier. On a cardboard set, with a script that's equally ramshackle, they play various characters, almost all of whom end up being hit, dry-humped or covered in food. At the centre is Greg Davies, an enormous, prancing man constantly suppressing a giggle, which will be annoying if you're not laughing too. But the Klang have a knack for bludgeoning apparently hopeless material, eg an item about hoodies attacking ill-looking people with vegetables, into working. Meanwhile, a sketch with Davies as a mad female faith healer could be a Shooting Stars offcut, and the running gag spoofing a Noel Edmonds NTV prank is a peach.

Jack Seale, Radio Times, 16th August 2010

If slapstick be the food of love, play on. Though winning with its relentless stupidity, the Klang team's last series We Are Klang was not a complete success. It looked like too much of the fun was had in the studio without transmitting home. So the trio of stupid comedians (Steve Hall (Mike), Greg Davies (Rick), Marek Larwood (Vivian)) went away and refined their act. Well, refined is putting too fine a point on it.

They made a fake variety show featuring a lot of fake stupid acts. tvBite was totally won over by the arrival of Donkey Dunkirk, who dresses a donkey in a Nazi uniform and then punching it out cold. But we can understand if you think it sounds rubbish so here's a quick test to see if you will like it. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. How long would you have to repeat that for it to become funny? If fairly on you found a lot of 'stupid' very funny, tune in. If you can repeat it to yourself like Paxman asking Michael Howard a question, then avoid.

TV Bite, 16th August 2010

The music panel show continues as Noel Fielding settles into his new role as permanent team captain opposite the immovable Phill Jupitus. Comedian Rhod Gilbert takes the guest presenter's chair tonight (replacing Simon Amstell who has now left the series). Fielding is joined by sports presenter Gabby Logan and Jeremy Reynolds from trendy electro band Hockey. Facing them is a far more intriguing line-up comprised of Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp and gravel-voiced comedian Greg Davies, who plays the angry head of sixth form in The Inbetweeners.

Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 8th October 2009

We Are Klang: Aliens

The final episode of the Klang series is entitled 'Alien' and there is nothing ambiguous about the title and subsequent content; it's about Aliens.

Greg Davies, BBC Comedy, 3rd September 2009

The adventures of the Klang mob are beyond silly, but Greg Davies, Marek Larwood and Steve Hall are so likable as the useless council officers that it's hard not to go along with their rambunctiousness. Tonight there's an implausibly efficient juggler-burglar careering through town; he's even stolen the mayor's wig. He claims to have contracted a juggling virus: "What, you mean to tell me juggling is catching?" asks Greg.

The Guardian, 6th August 2009

Idiotic, silly, funny, annoying: the comedy trio We Are Klang are all these. Their show, set in the fictional council offices of Klangbury, is part sitcom, part physical comedy as incompetent council leader Greg (Greg Davies), simpleton councillor Marek (Marek Larwood) and sociopath Steve (Steve Hall) go about their business.

Simon Horsford, The Telegraph, 30th July 2009

Comedy circuit stalwarts get their own show. They are Greg Davies (the brilliantly hateful head of Sixth Form in The Inbetweeners), Steve Hall and Marek Larwood and you will have seen them on various TV sketch shows at some point. This six-part sitcom is set in a council office and is distinctly old skool - live studio aud, physical comedy, japes, etc. To give you an idea of the tone: at one point, a character is hit in the nuts with a hammer, and you might also notice the audience being hit around the head with the jokes. That being said, it has its moments, and if you enjoyed Bottom or The Young Ones, then this is an amusing-enough half an hour.

TV Bite, 30th July 2009

Set in fictional Klangbury Council's offices and starring a trio - including Greg Davies, the demonic head of sixth form in The Inbetweeners - as three drastically incompetent councillors, We Are Klang part sitcom, part live comedy with a lot of audience interaction. Fans of Pappy's Fun Club and the live Klang show ought to love it. Our own hopes are only slightly neutered due to it being shown on noted comedy morgue BBC3.

Will Dean, The Guardian, 11th July 2009

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