Paul Merton - The Series
- TV sketch show
- Channel 4
- 1991 - 1993
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Paul Merton stars in his own comedy series on Channel 4, which features an intriguing mix of surreal sketches and stand-up routines. Also features John Irwin, Robert Harley, Neil Mullarkey and Ben Miller.
Press clippings
Channel 4 make classic comedies available on All4
Channel 4 is making some of its classic comedy shows available on its catch-up service All 4 to mark World Alzheimer's Day. Viewers will be able to re-watch nostalgia-inducing titles including The Comic Strip Presents, Crapston Villas, Porterhouse Blue, Terry & Julian, The Jack Dee Show, Paul Merton - The Series, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Sean's Show and Desmond's.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st September 2019Paul Merton - The Series is extraordinary from the opening moments. Eleanor Rigby-like strings pound away melancholically in a minor key, with a sombreness rarely encountered in TV comedy. [...] But these monologues are far more than a string of disconnected jokes. Each one possesses a strange distorted logic of its own, a subtle twist that transforms a simple idea into something utterly baffling, the verbal equivalent of a Mobius strip.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 6th September 1993