'Miranda Hart's Joke Shop' In The Press...Miranda Hart's Joke Shop is likeably silly, the maladroit heroine engagingly self-destructing. Miranda Hart is shaping up as the Big Lady of the future. If Dawn French built a career out of being hefty without mentioning it, and Jo Brand did it by mentioning it incessantly, Hart's new sitcom (so much a trailer for a TV version that they are already filming the TV version) trades on her not only being big, but very tall and extremely posh. And frequently taken for a man. She has never had sex (a consignment of chocolate penises comes into the shop. "They're very lifelike," she says. "No they're not," says her waspish co-owner). She has terrible chat-up lines: "I weighed my breasts. They cost £1.48 to post, and you'd have to use Parcel Force." She's terrific. Wasted on TV. |
