Joe Cornish
- Actor, writer, director and presenter
Press clippings
Joe Cornish: 'Revolution brought on by young people is very attractive'
Joe Cornish's stories tend to star "kids with swords fighting aliens, zombie knights or ghosts"... there's an obvious message about the world that older generations are leaving behind .
Laura Kelly, The Big Issue, 23rd January 2023Joe Cornish: 'I turned down every franchise out there'
The director and writer talks about his new Netflix fantasy series Lockwood & Co, his partnership with Adam Buxton and why he hasn't become a 'fancy-pants LA idiot'.
Alice Jones, The Times, 21st January 2023The Adam and Joe Show, 25 years on
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish built a cult following with their DIY Channel 4 show - but the pressure got to them. They reminisce over Britpop, getting cancelled and patching up their friendship.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 22nd November 2021How we made The Adam And Joe Show
'We walked into a shop with hammers and started smashing it up. We didn't realise it would scare the owner. Then the police arrived ...'
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 15th January 2019An inspired 90s time capsule that would never work now
The Adam And Joe Show revelled so much in '90s pop culture that, viewed today, it feels like a time capsule of its era.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 1st June 201710 top tens for Hot Fuzz's tenth
This year, after watching Hot Fuzz for the tenth time, and still picking up little details I'd never noticed before, I went down to the pub for a glass of celebratory cranberry juice. I thought Anglonerd magazine, too, should celebrate the brilliance of this film in a big way, so here is not just a top ten list, but ten top ten lists, highlighting the best one hundred things about Edgar Wright's comedy action flick. *Spoilers*
Jaime Pond, Anglonerd, 14th February 2017The Adam And Joe Show still makes us deeply nostalgic (Link expired)
The Adam and Joe Show was a brilliant, anarchic, defiantly uncool TV experiment. It would never work today, but that's no reason to not revel in the sheer 90s-ness of it.
Alex Nelson, WOW247, 9th June 2016Interview: rarely asked questions - Adam Buxton
You should all know Adam Buxton. From his TV and radio work with Joe Cornish, his appearances in films such as Hot Fuzz and Stardust or his marvellously childish yet gloriously clever multi-media live shows.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st November 2015Adam and Joe to reunite
Joe Cornish is joining his long-time collaborator on a Christmas episode of The Adam Buxton Podcast, the latter announced yesterday.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 12th November 2015Interview with Adam Buxton
Adam Buxton on his award-winning radio show with Joe Cornish, (almost) meeting hero David Bowie and his upcoming London gigs.
Emma McAlpine, Spoonfed, 9th September 2013