Fast Show, The Reviews

The Fast Show has now ended but it will live on in the memory for a long time. It will of course continue to be shown in repeats and on satellite for years to come. Many of the sketches though have already become very familiar due to the excellence of the writing, the performances of the acting principles, the characters they created and of course ...  Read the complete review

Ahh... the Fast Show. Creators of meaningless yet hysterically funny catchphrases, unbelieveable yet unbelievably funny characters and of course the subsitute that Monty Python fan's needed since the Monty's went off and made crap like Fierce Creatures. The Fast Show's breed of bizarre humour and sketches is obviously heavily ...  Read the complete review

Just before it begins, you feel butterflies in your stomach, and within seconds you find yourself uncontrollably going with the flow, a huge grin on your face. You strap yourself in (kinky) and lay back to enjoy the ride. Once it's over you just can't move, sitting there, grinning euphorically, and desperate to doo it all over again. ...  Read the complete review

The fast show, once a superb comdey show with well thought out sketches,now a annoying way of filling half-a-hour of the BBC programme timetable! I must amit the first series was very funny and enjoyable,but the time paul whithouse and his "gang" did there last series,i,frankly,lost intrest with the way viewers would see the ...  Read the complete review

Sadly it is no more. But it probably was time to call it a day, the final episides didn't quite have the same spark that has managed to tickle my funny bone for the last few years. It stars Paul Whitehouse, Chris Day, Charlie Higson and, up untill the last series or two, Caroline Ahern. Each of them have their own memorable ...  Read the complete review

There are no catchphrases left from this show to use in my title, which haven't already been used to great effect as titles for other opinions. I thought I would pick one from a totally unrelated show, which, although irrelevant to any specific material, probably sums up the entire contents. Life. Reality. It is something that ...  Read the complete review

What a great show. Even repeats on Play UK are side-splitting. From the fantastic Channel 9 *problemo teknikas, apologias*, to the quite crazy old man who is always quite drunk, and the crafty cockney, this show has so many good sketches and characters. A kind of mish-mash of Harry Enfield type humour, and wry observational ...  Read the complete review

-Ooooooohh suits you Sir! Would you like to watch it sir? Oooooh I bet you would sir! Oooooohhh yes sir! Suits you sir! The Fast Show has brought some of the most memorable catchphrases around at the moment into existance. Every sketch is over the top, immature but very funny. Paul Whitehouse is clearly a very intelligent man. He manages ...  Read the complete review

The Fast Show is essentially our generation's Monty Python. In a way that defies explanation, it captured something about the 1990s when nothing else quite could. Even if its progenitors are in their thirties and forties, it speaks to the younger generation in a language that they have adopted and made their own. The Fast Show, not Ali G or ...  Read the complete review

This must be one of the funniest comedies on TV and I recommend it to anyone who likes comedies such as Harry Enfield and Chums. I first watched this programme thinking that it was just going to be a copy of Harry Enfield. However, I personally would say that it is better. There are many more sketches in the Fast Show which I think are ...  Read the complete review

Ok. This is one of the most funniest show's I have *ever* seen. The Fast Show is amazingly brilliant. And the way it's been put together is outstanding. The different segments are split sidingly funny. A few good ones, are: Bob Fleming, Unlucky Al, "Oh, suit you sir" and many more. One of the best ...  Read the complete review

The Fast Show surely must be the best comedy sketch show ever. Its full of great characters that never fail to amuse week in, week out. Ted & Ralph have become two of the shows most famous characters even though in my opinion they are two of the least funniest, I prefer Channel 9 with its cheap and tacky shows followed by a somewhat predictable ...  Read the complete review

The Fast Show is so funny, the funniest show on the tv. What has happened to it? There should be a new series, and one now. Every character is memorable and has their own catcphrase. My favourite character is Swiss Tony. He stereotypes every car salesman ever. "Making coffee is like making love to a beautiful women, it's gonna ...  Read the complete review

The ‘Fast Show’ is just full of laughs. There are no long drawn out sketches. It does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s fast. You laugh. There are a good number of characters, and they appear in short sketches with a quick punch-line. Sometimes the same idea will come back, but each sketch is quick to the point. It may ...  Read the complete review

I must admit to being quite a big fan of the Fast Show when it first appeared on our screens. Well written, sharp and pacey, a guaranteed winner. When the second series was announced I was as excited as anyone. Once I had seen a couple of episodes, I realised the terrible truth, the Fast Show was starting to become unfunny. Much like the Harry ...  Read the complete review

Surrounded by leagues of avid fans who insist that The Fast Show is the best thing since Monty Python, I have to admit that I'm a bit lost. There is quite a lot to laugh at, the first time, but the comic element just wears off he second, third, fourth atec. time that the same joke is used. Not that I want to offend anyone - I guess if you ...  Read the complete review

The Fast Show is magic, it's really good you know. Ain't it brilliant how it makes people laugh? Aren't teles brilliant, you can watch the Fast Show on them... ...oh bugger, I just blew up my tele so I can't watch it... ...scorchio... ...this'll do you sir...do you sir... Just great. Paul ...  Read the complete review

The Fast Show is a modern classic. Sadly missing from the BBC lineup at the moment but kept alive on many of the satellite stations, notably UK Play. Paul Whitehouse was very much Harry Enfield's understudy in the Harry Enfield shows. he clearly deserved better and he showed it in the first series. The range of characters is ...  Read the complete review

I wasn't really a fan of the first series. I don't think I understood it well enough to think it was funny. I didn't watch it often, and when I did I probably didn't watch an entire episode. The second series came along and I paid it more attention because there was nothing else on. It was then that I realised the ...  Read the complete review

The Fast Show is definately a modern classic when it come's to BBC Comedy, and it's sketches always have me in stitches of laughter no matter how many times I watch it. Every week when it was on the same characters in sketches are on, but as you already have some idea of what is going to happen you're already tittering, but that ...  Read the complete review