The Fast Show
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two
- 1994 - 2001
- 25 episodes (3 series)
Fast-moving BBC Two sketch show featuring a host of hugely popular characters. Stars Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, John Thomson, Simon Day, Mark Williams and more.
- The Fast Show Night, Out-takes repeated Thursday at 10:20pm on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 791
Press clippings Page 6
New 'Fast Show' scenes revealed
Hit sketch show The Fast Show is making a return, with John Thomson slipping back into Jazz Club host Louis Balfour's polo neck jumper in newly-released scene pictures.
Metro, 29th September 2011Fast Show look for extras, but only on Friday afternoon
The Fast Show's return is being heralded by a hunt for extras - but only during Friday afternoon.
Such Small Portions, 22nd September 2011The Fast Show is back. Online. Brilliant?
I'm optimistic this will venture be a success, despite it being 11 years since the show vanished from our screens. The fact it's an online project may suit The Fast Show perfectly, because its unique brand of high-speed sketches fits the impatience of YouTube users down to the ground.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 7th September 2011New web series for The Fast Show
Cult hit 1990s sketch show The Fast Show will return with a selection of new web episodes thanks to Foster's Lager.
British Comedy Guide, 6th September 2011The Fast Show to return?
Simon Day has hinted that The Fast Show, the hit 1990s sketch show, could be set to return to TV for a new series.
British Comedy Guide, 21st July 2011The really wild show
Relatively speaking, the current series of The Fast Show (BBC2) is even speedier than the first, with more cuts than the average TV commercial and enough deep, dark, sexually perverse humour to shock even the most priapic tortoise. Its creator, Paul Whitehouse, has recently compalined that nobody except John Peel wrote positively about the first run of shows, but he's wrong, because I regularly sang its praises from the rooftops (much to the annoyance of my neighbours, who threatened to call the police).
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 26th February 1996The Fast Show has its feet in Dick Emery, its brain in Monty Python, its groin in Benny Hill, and its heart in Viz, and the result is a monster of a show. The performances are excellent (John Thomson and Robin Driscoll are a particular joy), Arch Dyson's direction is superb and, while I ration myself to one use of the word "genius" each alternate blue moon, I believe Paul Whitehouse may be touched by it (and, by a simple process of elimination, we're getting some idea of how much Harry Enfield owes to him).
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 26th October 1994