The Dave Gorman Collection (BBC)

You Know My Name ================ I've been a Dave Gorman fan ever since I happened to come across this program one night on BBC2 purely by accident. I'd never even heard of him before this but since I've seen and read just about everything he's done. His obsessive personality and bizarre quests make great reading and viewing and he is a genuinely funny guy and there's not that many people who can claim that. In this he is undertaking a bizarre quest to find and meet 54 people who share his name, "one for every card in the deck including the jokers". This has come about from a drunken bet from his flat mate Danny Wallace who you ...  Read the complete review

The Dave Gorman Collection is deceptively hilarious. That is, for those who bother to scratch beneeth the surface and realise the humour. I missed it the first time round but thankfully, it has recently been repeated. Dave has travelled around Britain, and overseas if necessary on a quest to find others by the name of Dave Gorman. The show is basically a report on his findings. He aims to maintain the standard of somewhere in-between 300 and 500 miles per Dave Gorman (mpdg) where any value below the former would indicate his name was too common and a mpdg value above the latter would mean he hasn't found a sufficient amount of Dave Gormans. ...  Read the complete review

For most people drunken bets end in embarrassment and humiliation but for comedians they seem to lead to fame and fortune. Two drunken bets with comic Arthur Smith led stand-up comedian Tony Hawks to hitchhike around Ireland with a fridge and play the entire Moldavian football team at tennis. He won both and went on to write two marvellous books about his experiences. Elsewhere it led another stand-up, Dave Gorman, to search for 54 of his namesakes. Luckily he chronicled his findings and made ‘The Dave Gorman Collection’. The basic story is that on his birthday the hairy faced Gorman and his flatmate, journalist Danny Wallace, got smashed and during ...  Read the complete review

Dave Gorman is the kind of comedian I like; he's famous, yet slightly away from the mainstream comedy acts so he can stay original. His humour is very unique, and always cracks me up (even when it's not, under analysis, actually that funny). The point of Dave's show is obviously for him to find 54 people called Dave Gorman, which is a simple idea, although not the kind of idea you could theoretically base a six-episode comedy series on. Yet that's all it's about, and that is hilarious. The idea that he is playing a sad, almost insane man on an obsessive quest is very appealing, and when Dave draws out all his statistics and graphs, you ...  Read the complete review

The Plot- Dave Gorman, whilst drunk, mentions to his best mate that the manager of a Scottish football club happens to be called Dave Gorman. His mate doesn't believe him. So they go to Scotland, with his mates video camera, to try and find the other Dave. On the train back, whilst playing cards, Dave's mate challenges him to find one other Dave for every card in the pack. Including jokers. And, as the saying goes, from hence the humour arose.. But it’s not just that simple! Oh no! Ya see, Dave reckons that if you can find more than 1 Dave Gorman per 300 miles, it’s too frequent, and there’s nothing special about your name. But if it’s ...  Read the complete review