League of Gentlemen, The

The League of Gentlemen (LOG) is a fantastic British comedy series. It ran for 3 seasons and then there was a movie and live shows. I have all of it on DVD, and you should too. It is set in a small village in the country side which is fairly remote and cut off from the rest of the world. The 3 main actors each play lots of different characters, and they all do a great job. The characters are all odd types, they seem very random but all work together well. This is prooved in the movie when the characters are ones that haven't appeared in the same scenece before. They are all so different but come together as they realize they are all residents of the same ...  Read the complete review

In my humble opinion, The League of Gentlemen is a comedy masterpiece. Conceived and performed by Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss, together with their writing partner Jeremy Dyson, it is set in the fictional town of Royston Vasey (a homage to the Gents' favourite comedian, Roy 'Chubby' Brown - Royston Vasey being his real name) and features the every day lives of some of its inhabitants. Essentially, the programme is a character sketch show, but unlike many of its counterparts (The Fast Show, Little Britain etc.) it has an ongoing story which runs through it, linking some of the characters together and also allowing the characters to develop a lot ...  Read the complete review

Lets get things nice and sparkling clear before I begin this review; I am a massive fan of the League of Gentlemen. I would love to have been a fly on the wall when Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith pitched this dark comedy to the BBC executives. I imagine it going something like this... "Well we've got this idea for a show. Its set in a fictional northern town named Royston Vasey. The local shop is owned by an inbred couple who are searching for a bride for their son who is half man, half monster. The local doctor is actually a modern day Sweeney Todd who is feeding human meat to his unsuspecting customers. Are you with me so ...  Read the complete review

The League of Gentlemen is the comic masterpiece of Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith , based around bizarre, and often disturbing, inhabitants of Royston Vassey, a fictional town based in the rural backwaters of Northern England. Although each of the three series has it's own storyline, it is usually fairly fragile and only plays as a back drop to the weird and not particularly wonderful residents of the surreal little hamlet, and the morbid mishaps they invariably get involved in. The first series starts with the arrival of Benjamin Denton, who was roped in to a short stay at his aunt and uncle's whilst on his way to a ...  Read the complete review

League of Gentleman Directed by Jeremy Dyson and starring Mark Gattiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, this television series was adapted from the popular Radio 4 series of the same name. Set in the northern village, Royston Vasey (Roy Chubby Brown's real name for all you culture vultures out there), this follows the weird, deranged residents of this strange little village. Essentially the first two series were sketch shows flipping between the separate inhabitants of the town and watching their strange lifes unfold, but there was a narrative running through them all, the third series had much more narrative and linked the stories ...  Read the complete review