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'How Not To Live Your Life' In The Press...I can see why people are watching and enjoying How Not To Live Your Life - it doesn't offer anything particularly new and groundbreaking, but there's some juvenile humour (hurrah!) and plenty of nice observations, and in Dan Clark BBC Three have a bit of a new poster boy. Don't even get me started on Sinead Moynihan. Pity poor Sinead Moynihan. Okay, don't pity her too much, because she's drop dead gorgeous and clearly in demand as an actor. But it must have been galling to get the second lead in sitcom How Not to Live Your Life, only to discover that the full extent of your contribution would be to look pretty and provide a sensible foil to the show's writer/star Dan Clark. Would it have killed Clark to throw the show's only female character the occasional funny line to deliver? Written by and starring Dan Clark as Don, this was a real hit and miss effort - with laugh out loud lines interspersed with behaviour by Don that left you wishing someone would give him a bloody good hammering. We'll probably give it a second chance. Don Danbury drinks and cusses his way through the second episode of this buffoonery celebratus new sitcom. For those new to the drill, the show features a refreshingly unique format whereby scenes cut to a list of alternative life lessons, courtesy of Don's imagination. Waddling along with decent jokes in tow, Danbury offers entertainment and a character worthy of our hate-to-love affection. There's definitely room to grow, so let's see where he takes it next. Time Out, 14th August 2008 It's a dead cert that How Not to Live Your Life will attract no prizes at all. A great deal of humour can be squeezed from observing the lives of stupid men. But Don Danbury is no David Brent and this new sitcom offers nothing except sound evidence that the BBC has now got more airtime than it can fill. This show is an insult to the intelligence of stupid men everywhere. August is when TV companies bury the shows they have no faith in. Which is the only possible explanation for BBC3 to try to slip the excruciating How Not To Live Your Life past us. It's a showcase for the comedy talents of writer/star Dan Clark. Which would be fine if he had any. Metro, 13th August 2008 Hurrah - yet another comedy series gets a chance to stretch its legs on BBC Three. This offering, penned by star Dan Clark, follows the fortunes of Don. He's your average neurotic singleton who spends his days trying to make a sense of ordinary life. The London Paper, 12th August 2008 Dan Clark tells Time Out how not to make a bad sitcom. Written by Tim Arthur. From Time Out, 12th August 2008 First based on a series of shorts made for Paramount Comedy, 10 months have been spent perfecting How Not To Live Your Life following the pilot's first broadcast last year. While it's not a laugh-a-minute, it is worth watching for the many fantasy sequences that are simply too debauched for us to put into print. Sky Magazine, 12th August 2008 The BBC News website interviews Dan Clark about his new sitcom. Written by Kevin Young. From BBC News, 12th August 2008 There are an absolute maximum of three laugh-out-loud moments in this self-conscious and crass studenty sitcom, which co-stars Sinead Moynihan, slumming it here after her stint in BBC3's criminally underrated Drop Dead Gorgeous. So if you're content with a hit-rate of one laugh every 10 minutes, tune in to Dan Clark's comedy about an idiotic, priapic bloke who is left a house by his foul-mouthed nan. If, however, you fancy more charm, hunt down early 1990s US sitcom Dream On on DVD. Dan Clark - who writes and stars in this new sitcom - isn't one of those comedians you instantly warm to. He comes across as a bit of a prat to be honest. The Mirror, 12th August 2008 After a pilot last year, BBC Three has commissioned a series of the sitcom created by Dan Clark, who plays Don Danbury, a morally vacant cretin who inherits his Nana's house on the same day he is fired from his job. New sketch comedy series written by and starring Dan Clark. Luck never seems to smile on Don although fantasy sequences show that in his mind life would be very different. In the opener he finds he's been left a house by his recently deceased grandmother but it comes with a mountain of back payments. When he decides to get a lodger, a girl he was in love with as a teenager replies. Rarely more than mildly amusing. BBC3 hasn't exactly got a great pedigree when it comes to home-grown comedy but this new sitcom, written by up-and-coming star Dan Clark, is worth a look. Following the hapless 20-something who is left a house in his grandmonther's will, it blends farce, gags and nice characterisation with some sublimely silly fantasy sequences. Metro, 12th August 2008 Donald, the star of this new sitcom, is not a well-liked chap. Not even by his grandma, who has left him an indebted house in her will as proof. The ensuing farce isn't exactly laugh-a-minute, but comes with handy lists such as: Things You Shouldn't Do When Fired. Claire Webb, Radio Times, 12th August 2008 Following a successful pilot last year, this comedy of errors returns for a full squirm-inducing series. The multi-talented Dan Clark writes the series and also stars as the hapless Don, whose imagination tends to run away with him - giving us the chance to see the things he really wishes he'd said or done in certain situations. Inside Soap, 9th August 2008 You might know him as Johnny Two Hats in The Mighty Boosh, but now comedian, actor and writer Dan Clark stars in his own sitcom. He plays Don, a twentysomething man with bad luck like you'd never believe - and even worse instincts. If you've ever dreamt of telling your boss exactly what you think of them, or wish you could say what you really thought after a one-night stand, this comedy will satisfy your itch as Don's overactive imagination conjures up all the things he wishes he'd said. Reveal, 9th August 2008 |
