Well well. When i saw that my former classmate at St Clement Danes school, Katy Brand had made a TV show I was obviously intrigued. When I heard that it was based on celebrity impersonations, I thought 'wow she'd better get that right.' When I finally got around to watching an episode, unfortunately I saw that this couldn't be wider of the mark. From her awful Lily Allen gig - I mean, it's bad enough that there IS a Lily Allen, without our TV show hosts having to remind us of it -, to her weird and frankly embarrassing Kate Winslet pastiche, I couldn't even sit through a whole episode. It started off bad and got so bad that if the remote control battery had expired, I'd .  Read the complete review

Wow, I have to admit I had seen glimpses of this show before and thought it was rubbish but having watched a whole episode last night I can now say categorically it is not remotely funny. The show started with Brand dressed as a man in a suit, I think her skit was taking the michael out of Mark Ronson for lacking originality (Bit of a shame she hasn't heard some of his remix work or DJ work prior to his 'Versions' album'. The skit wasn't funny it was simply her dressed as Ronson singing about being unoriginal. The next skit sums Brand up for me, when your doing an impression and your first comment in a sketch is 'I'm Lily Allen' its clear your ...  Read the complete review

After watching a couple of shows and being decidedly not amused, I flicked to the cable tv 'on demand' and settled down to give her another chance. The first sketch was a spoof of the singer Rhianna's 'Umbrella' song called 'Bad Spella'. Katy was dressed in Rhianna-type clothes and even, perhaps a little unwisely, 'blacked up' for the song in terrible stage make-up. I did, in fact, enjoy this spoof as it reeled off many better rhymes that go with umbrella (with associated visuals). I've watched a great deal of 'French & Saunders' in my time, and this song was as good as the song spoofs they do - at least in the written material. I do think, ...  Read the complete review

I admit that I watch a lot of rubbish on TV - but it's normally rubbish that I (shamefully) enjoy, and is rightfully given obscure time-slots on obscure channels. There is however, rubbish which I really can't stand which takes prime-time space on the main channels, clogging up the airwaves with its general awfulness. I apologise if this review ends up sounding like a bit of a rant, but 'Katy Brand's Big Ass Show' is one of the least funny pieces of supposedly funny television that I have ever had the misfortune to see. I forced myself to watch two more of the shows last night, just in case I was missing something - but alas, I don't think I was. ...  Read the complete review