Stella Street

As Michael Caine says,”women are like hurricanes, they blow into your life by surpise, and then take your car and your house leaving you skint and broken. Yes there is some good writing in Stella Street, but the characters and impressions are pretty light this time around. Caine is impersonator Cormwalls stock mimic along with his whiney Jack Nicholson, Sessions hasn’t got on im afraid. But his other efforts are rather short of the mark in accuracy and humor. Stella Street is an ideal platform for John Sessions incessant showing off, although he struggles with the impressions whilst over cooking the mannerisms. This show is very much on the Beeb ...  Read the complete review

Spot on. Absolute classic, will be honoured one day - Advantages: genius, Gem, ball-bouncingly funny - Disadvantages: not many about

Stella Street is a series of 10-minute episodes, set in Surbiton, in a street that has become a mecca for celebrities like Mick Jagger, Roger Moore and Joe Pesci. The show is played out by three comedians who take on nearly all of the roles between themselves, and often end up having conversations into thin air and only later filling in the spaces of dialogue in another voice and costume. Some of the voices are spot on, like Jagger, who runs the local grocers in a brown Arkwright jacket with typical Rolling Stone panache, constantly preening and pouting to his neighbours. Another excellent impression is Jack Nicholson, wearing a typically loud Hawaiian shirt and ...  Read the complete review