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Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish

Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish

  • TV stand-up
  • Dave
  • 2013 - 2017
  • 36 episodes (5 series)

Comedy series in which Dave Gorman uses stand-up and PowerPoint slides to take a look at various aspects of modern life.

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Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish. Dave Gorman

Key details

Genre
Stand-Up
Broadcast
2013 - 2017
Channel
Dave
Episodes
36 (5 series), plus 3 highlights specials
Star
Dave Gorman
Writers
Dave Gorman, Dan Schreiber, Sarah Morgan, Nick Doody, Carrie Quinlan, Carey Marx and Carl Cooper
Director
Paul Wheeler
Producers
Nick Martin, James Fidler, Jamie Isaacs, Iain Coyle, Dave Gorman and Joe McVey
Company

Dave Gorman thinks modern life is good...ish. However, tired of endlessly being sold stuff he doesn't need, feeling manipulated by the media and harassed by technology, he's become slightly obsessive about the 'ish'. But instead of letting it drive him mad he's decided to fight back. A bit. Sort of. Ish. So he'll be sharing his observations and venting his frustrations in mischievous shows for Dave.

Presented using his own unique blend of stand-up and documentary comedy, it's a whole new take on the things we normally take for granted.

Whether it's 'Greatest' Hits Albums, ill-thought-out technological solutions, unquestioned advertising logic, online 'news', one-click agreements to pages of terms and conditions, the cult of celebrity, Lord Sugar, the new Blister Pack Economy, what to do with a found camera or even (somewhat distressingly) discovering exactly where on the A-Z lists of fame he resides, Dave Gorman does what we don't: he stops and actually looks at things. And asks questions. And judging by some of the things he discovers, perhaps the people churning this stuff out ought to stop and look at what they're doing from time to time too. Because there's a hell of a lot of it that makes no sense at all.

The series is loosely based on Dave Gorman's internationally critically acclaimed live show, PowerPoint Presentation, which went on a three-time-extended nationwide tour of the UK including multiple London dates at the Hammersmith Apollo and the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre.

Join Dave, on Dave, for a journey of intellectual curiosity and a healthy amount of humour as he holds up a mirror to the countless questionable things we're all exposed to but just seem to accept as ok.

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Additional details

Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Multi-camera
Picture
Colour
Soundtrack
The Billroth String Quartet play the music over Dave's Found Poem section.

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 17th September 2013 at 10pm on Dave
Most recent repeats

Recording details

  • The Tabernacle and Notting Hill

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