Nikki Amuka-Bird

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The Personal History of David Copperfield review

Armando Iannucci both respects and reinvents the novel in a wonderfully entertaining adaptation full to bursting with fantastic comic performances.

Mark Kermode, The Observer, 26th January 2020

David Copperfield adaptation is brilliantly inclusive

Dickens's story is very funny in The Thick Of It mastermind's hands with a bonus of wonderful casting.

Cath Clarke, The Big Issue, 24th January 2020

Having produced two small masterpieces in a row, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have set an impossibly high standard for themselves and it's only fair they should be allowed a breather. In tonight's episode, a volunteer (Pemberton) has joined a Samaritans-type call centre called Comfort Support Line. "Whatever the caller wants to talk about," says his boss (Shearsmith), "we offer active listening." There are two volunteers (Jane Horrocks and Nikki Amuka-Bird) who loathe one another, and the boss may be more disturbed than any of the callers. It's a promising set-up, but the episode doesn't unfold with the same simple, logical elegance as others in the series.

David Chater, The Times, 11th April 2015

Vic and Bob's rumbustious riff on the trad sitcom continues with its best episode to date, centred on Vic's brother Bosh's (Dan Skinner) attempts to convince his probation officer (Luther star Nikki Amuka-Bird) that he is in gainful employment. He determines that the best way to do this is to open a pop-up restaurant in Bob's humble abode, with the double act installed as its head chefs. Plot deviations include Matt Berry stomping about in cast-iron boots and a very funny mishap with a nerve agent.

Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 28th January 2014

Horses gallop around Bob's beautiful home in this week's surreal scamper as Vic Reeves pastes up some unique wallpaper he bought on eBay. And while ex-con Bosh ropes the gang in on impressing his probation officer - guest star Nikki Amuka-Bird (Luther) - the Beef (Matt Berry) shows up sporting a buttercup-yellow belt. So naturally he gets Vic and Bob to kneel before him to try that thing you do with buttercups - but with belts instead. Come close... no, closer.

Carol Carter and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 28th January 2014

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