Alistair McGowan's Big Impression

Alistair McGowan first came to prominence on the radio as an impersonator doing sports personalities like Howard Wilkinson, Alex Ferguson and Martin O'Neill. Like many who have found success on the radio he is just not as funny on TV. The first problem with McGowan is that whilst he often gets the verbal mannerisms correct he never seems to look like anyone he is impersonating. No amount of make-up has made him look like Kilroy and when he is supposed to be David Beckham he could be any shaven headed thick footballer. The next problem is in the script. McGowan is obviously a nice person who wishes to have gentle affectionate portrayals of the people he is ...  Read the complete review

The main two impressionists in this show are Alistair Mcowan and Roni Ancona who take on the female roles. Both are skilled comics and great at impersonations, I really enjoy their Posh and Becks which is very funny even if it does play on the public view of the couple to a great deal. Alistair McGown has a huge range of characters and he certainly has the facial expressions and mannerisms of these down to a tee. As well as Becks he does a very good Sven Goran Eriksson which has the swede as a sex maniac, keeping on a sporting theme he also sends up Gary Linekar. The one character I especially like is when he mimics Louis Theroux who ...  Read the complete review

Victoria Beckham looks more like Kat Slater than Posh! Loose Ronni, and it'll be half as rubbish. - Advantages: Richard and Judy(but without Judy) SPOT ON, Sven:Easy to do, but done well, Mark Lawrenson and Garth CrooksPERFECT! - Disadvantages: Ruby Wax, Jennie Bond and Victoria Beckham inpersonations., The woman again..

Ronni Ancona and Alistair Mcgowan have now invaded Friday night's tv viewing giving the BBC some positive competition to fight against Friends on E4 and Brookside. The show is on for half an hour once a week, on Friday nights at 8.30pm BBC1. Impression programmes are few and far between. They aren't as popular as many other types of television. If they were there would be far more of them. Mike Yarwood was one of the best in the 1970s. I had not liked this programme initially, but when I watched the Christmas special, I had to say that it had radically improved and the stars had attained a level of performance and programme content ...  Read the complete review

Good, show, especially Richard and Judy Sketch. - Advantages: Brilliant Impressions, Funny, Takes the mick out of popular t.v shows. - Disadvantages: The woman is not that funny., Some sketches go on and on and on and on and on, get what I mean.