Matt Lucas
- 50 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
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Ian Cognito film being made
Ian Cognito, the hellraising stand-up comedian who died in 2019, is to be the subject of a new film.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd October 2020Bake Off gets 181 complaints over Lucas's PM impression
Matt Lucas's impression of Boris Johnson on this week's episode of The Great British Bake Off was hit by many complaints, Ofcom has revealed.
Molly Pike, The Mirror, 23rd September 2020Matt Lucas signs four book deal
Matt Lucas has signed a deal with a publisher to release four new books. The first of the offerings will be a family-friendly joke book called My Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Silly Book of Jokes, released on 1st October.
British Comedy Guide, 9th September 2020Slapstick Festival online events during August
Bristol's annual Slapstick festival of silent and classic comedy is adding a choice of celebrity-led live online events to the series of archive treasures it has been sharing via its YouTube channel since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th July 2020No joke: ironic racism in comedy is just not funny
From Matt Lucas and David Walliams's Little Britain to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat, the idea that it's OK to be racist to mock racism is naive and dangerous
Jason Okundaye, The Guardian, 24th July 2020Minister: BBC 'taking political correctness' too far
Media minister John Whittingdale said while some shows from the 1960s are now 'wholly unacceptable', he was surprised to see Little Britain removed.
The Express and Star, 21st July 2020Little Britain set for reboot as podcast
David Walliams and Matt Lucas want to bring the show back as a podcast despite row over their use of blackface in the hit BBC show.
Janine Yaqoob, The Mirror, 12th July 2020Little Britain was offensive trash from the start
'Of its time', says the BBC, but was the early noughties shock-comedy acceptable even then?
Gary Ryan, NME, 15th June 2020Little Britain duo break their silence over blackface
Matt Lucas and David Walliams have issued a fresh apology for using blackface in Little Britain.
Chortle, 13th June 2020Blacking up: 'comedy' that dealt in contempt
Little Britain, removed from BBC streaming services, anticipated a coming vindictiveness.
Nick Cohen, The Guardian, 13th June 2020