Matthew Sweet
- English
- Academic and journalist
Press clippings
Terry Gilliam and Robert Lindsay get Slapstick Festival awards
Monty Python star Terry Gilliam picked up the Aardman Slapstick Award for Visual Comedy whilst Robert Lindsay took home the Aardman Slapstick Comedy Legend Award.
British Comedy Guide, 19th February 2024Hearing Bernard Cribbins is dead is like being told that chocolate digestives have been discontinued
He brought kindness and virtue to every role, and his bond with audiences was unbreakable. How will it feel to watch him take his final bow?
Matthew Sweet, The Telegraph, 28th July 2022Slapstick 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 2020Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in conversation
A transcript of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's two part interview with Dr Matthew Sweet - and an audience Q&A - at the Phoenix Cinema, East Finchley, as part of the Phoenix Cinema's #Phoenixrising fundraising campaign.
Dodo's Words, 25th March 2019Goodies + Little & Large reunite for Slapstick Festival
The Goodies and Little and Large were among the legendary comedians who have reunited as part of the latest Slapstick Festival in Bristol.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th January 2019John Howard Davies obituary
A child star as Oliver Twist, he became a key figure in epoch-making TV comedy.
Matthew Sweet, The Guardian, 25th August 2011