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Walliams & Friend
- TV sketch show
- BBC One
- 2015 - 2017
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Sketch show starring David Walliams, with special guest stars. Also features Morgana Robinson, Mike Wozniak, Ashley Gilmour, Mikel Sylvanus, Emmanuel Kojo and Jason Lewis
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1 - Jack Whitehall
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Further details
See Jack Whitehall as you've never seen him before. This episode includes Jack and David's inappropriate take on Sherlock and Watson; the world's worst dating show contestant and Jack doing something David has never done before - dressing as a woman.
Also includes the launch of Britain's cruellest reality TV show, Celebrity Slammer, in which David finds himself locked up with the likes of The Chuckle Brothers and Bob Carolgees.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 25th November 2016
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Recorded
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- Saturday 8th October 2016, 18:00 at The London Studios
Cast & crew
David Walliams | Various |
Mike Wozniak | Ensemble Actor |
Ashley Gilmour | Ensemble Actor |
Mikel Sylvanus | Ensemble Actor |
Emmanuel Kojo | Ensemble Actor |
Jack Whitehall | Various |
Judy Loe | Mrs Hudson |
Cariad Lloyd | Lindsey (Dating Game Contestant) |
Jason Lewis | Sammy (Dating Game Contestant) |
Hilary Whitehall | Beatrice (Gideon's Mother) |
Michael Knowles | Monty (Gideon's Father) |
Vernon Kay | Self |
Barry Elliott (as Barry Chuckle) | Self |
Paul Elliott (as Paul Chuckle) | Self |
Christopher Ellison | Self |
Bob Carolgees | Self |
Eamonn Holmes | Self |
Christopher Biggins | Self |
David Walliams | Writer |
Andrew Dawson (as Dawson Bros) | Writer |
Steve Dawson (as Dawson Bros) | Writer |
Tim Inman (as Dawson Bros) | Writer |
Kevin Cecil | Script Editor |
Harry Enfield | Writer (Additional Material) |
Ben Ashenden | Writer (Additional Material) |
Alexander Owen (as Alex Owen) | Writer (Additional Material) |
Matt Lipsey | Director |
Sarah Fraser | Producer |
Gregor Sharp | Executive Producer |
Jo Sargent | Executive Producer |
Chris Evans | Post Production Producer |
Gavin Buckley | Editor |
Richard Drew | Production Designer |
Andy Brierley | Casting Director |
Annie Hardinge | Costume Designer |
Lisa Cavalli-Green | Make-up Designer |
Martin Hawkins | Lighting Designer |
David Arnold | Composer |
Vivien Ackland-Snow | 1st Assistant Director |
Videos
Sherlock parody
Jack Whitehall and David Walliams present an alternative take on the Sherlock and Watson story.
Featuring: David Walliams & Jack Whitehall.
Celebrity Slammer
It's the launch of Britain's cruellest reality TV show, Celebrity Slammer.
Featuring: David Walliams, Mike Wozniak, Vernon Kay, Barry Chuckle, Paul Chuckle, Christopher Ellison, Bob Carolgees, Eamonn Holmes & Christopher Biggins.
Middle class Jeremy Kyle
Gideon has a very valid complaint to make about his parents.
Featuring: David Walliams, Jack Whitehall, Hilary Whitehall (Beatrice) & Michael Knowles (Monty).
Press
Walliams & Friend was presumably given a full series off the back of the seasonal goodwill (hic!) shown by viewers towards the pilot last Christmas Eve. Aside from the funnier of their two Sherlock skits there was little to stretch the talents of Walliams or his first friend Jack Whitehall in the opener on Friday night. In fact, some of the sketches were so lame it would be an insult to CBBC if I suggested they would have been turned down by CBBC.
It's a real shame. Walliams is one of the sharpest off-the-cuff comics out there. Sadly, when it comes to scripted sketch shows he's like a bald man on a windy day. Just stick the wig on and hope for the best.
Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 27th November 2016Walliams & Friend review
The problem for most of these sketches are so blandly decontextualised they could have been written any time in the past 40 years, and the punchlines tend to be feeble.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 26th November 2016The conceit here is that every week David Walliams's sketches are played opposite a different sidekick. Tonight, it is Jack Whitehall, who proves a surprisingly versatile counterpoint, as a pathological status-flaunter and a passive-aggressive Sherlock Holmes, among others. It doesn't all land - dating shows have long been in on their own joke - but the album of operatic football chants feels as if it could one day be revealed as prophecy.
Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 25th November 2016There was a time when David Walliams was everywhere, and it was not a particularly good time. When a celebrity becomes "flavour of the month" and is pushed at us relentlessly things becomes wearying, no matter how good they might be. Years back Walliams was in sketch shows, sitcoms, took on various presenting roles and did the rounds of the chat show couches as a children's author. The Walliams mania has mercifully died down and perhaps he has now subsided to being a camp Christmas thing.
In this new series he appears in sketches with a "friend." There'll be a different one each week and tonight it's comedian Jack Whitehall. It kicks off with a scene which borrows so heavily from the Monty Python "nudge nudge wink wink" sketch that you can see the punchline coming a mile off. Other targets for the mild jokes include Cumberbatch's Sherlock and embarrassing dating gameshows.
Julie McDowall, The National (Scotland), 24th November 2016