Jasper Rees
- Writer and journalist
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King & queen of comedy: Sharon Horgan & Graham Linehan
If they were musicians, they'd be forming a London Irish supergroup. Sharon Horgan is co-creator and star of the savvy, groundbreaking comedies Pulling and Catastrophe. Graham Linehan is the grandmaster of surreal farce, most of all in Father Ted and The IT Crowd. Together they have merged their talents in Motherland, a new comedy pilot directed by Linehan about the horrors of daytime parenting.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 6th September 2016Fleabag, BBC Three, review
Have you seen Fleabag yet? If not, here's the one-word review: brilliant.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 25th August 2016It's time for 'Man Down' to grow up - review
Who is Man Down (Channel 4) for? Or rather, who was it for? There's one episode to go in the third series and there's a sense that it is seeing itself out, and perhaps won't be allowed back in through Channel 4's doors.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 10th August 2016A Granny's Guide to the Modern World review
A photograph of every spirited Methuselah gently reminded us that they haven't always been old, nor have they lost their taste for mischief.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 3rd August 2016Fleabag: a gloriously rude update of Bridget Jones
Is eye-popping female sex comedy your sort of thing? If not, best look away now.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 21st July 2016Boy Meets Girl review
As the United Kingdom is convulsed by a post-referendum outbreak of intolerance, goodness knows the nation needs all the harmony-enhancing, bridge-building entertainment it can lay its eyeballs on. Anything that promotes civilised values and challenges fear of otherness is to be welcomed and supported. It was in this spirit that, last year, Boy Meets Girl became the first mainstream comedy with a transgender lead character. Its return for a second series couldn't come at a more propitious moment. It's not much fun, then, to report that its good intentions are the best thing about Boy Meets Girl.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 6th July 2016Mum had a masterful send-off for a sitcom - review
Bar the odd irresistible pursuit of a gag for the gag's sake, the scripts by Stefan Golaszewski purred as satisfyingly as anything in The Royle Family.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 17th June 2016Upstart Crow: Bard saved Elton from sitcom oblivion
Alack the day! Upstart Crow (BBC Two) has shuffled off its chortle coil. There was something for everyone in Ben Elton's learned Bardcom.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 14th June 2016Rovers, Sky1, review
Lo-fi football sitcom starring Craig Cash and Sue Johnston has its heart in the right place.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 25th May 2016Going Forward: Jo Brand shines but sitcom needs nursing
This was another comedy about broken Britain, but focusing not on those who toil inside a knackered state institution but the wider social fabric, privatised to buggery but somehow doddering on. Homelier and gentler and patchier than Getting On, it somehow lacks its asperity but also its poetry.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 19th May 2016