The Kevin Bishop Show. Image of Kevin Bishop. Image credit: Objective Productions.

Repeats Scheduled:
  Thu 9th Jul (23.00, E4) Go
  Thu 16th Jul (23.00, E4) Go

Series two filmed March and April 2009. Will be broadcast in July

The Kevin Bishop Show

Series two filmed March and April 2009. Will be broadcast in July.

Fast paced Channel 4 sketch show built around Kevin Bishop. Includes a number of celebrity impressions

AKA:
Comedy Showcase: Kevin Bishop
Genre:
Sketch Show
Broadcast:
2007 - 2008  (Channel 4)
Episodes:
7 (pilot + 1 series)
Starring:
Kevin Bishop, Jim Howick, Katie Males, Oliver Maltman, Karen Gillan
Writers:
Kevin Bishop, Lee Hupfield, Nico Tatarowicz, David Cadji-Newby, Andrew Dawson, Steve Dawson, Tim Inman, Samantha Martin, Les Keen
Production:
Objective Productions

A faced-paced sketch show from the team behind Star Stories. Built around the lead's talents for impressions, the show includes celebrity mimicry, archive footage gags, parodies, spoof adverts and one-off skits.

This comedy is perhaps most notable for delivering sketches at a very quick rate - each episode features over 40 unique sketches.

Our Review: The full series of this sketch show picked up from where the pilot left off - pounding the viewer with quick gag after quick gag. It was a winning formula, as whilst some of the sketches were lame, there was just so many skits in each episode that you didn't have to wait long before a gem arrived on screen.

The fact each episode featured in the main completely different setups and characters - with very little overlap was also very refreshing. Much credit must go to the writers and production team for not getting lazy like many other sketch shows.

Our favourites from the pilot were OCD Batman, Schindler's List II - Electric Boogaloo and The Middle Class Hulk. We can now add to this list sketches like the age of consent rap, Kevin's take on The Shining, his foreign 'Allo 'Allo re-makes, The Pun Detective and Cornish TV's version of ER.