Walliams & Friend

Don't believe the other reviews. This is an incredibly well written, well-acted, hilarious sketch show! Love having a new big name guest star each week. Hope he makes more!!!

In structural terms, WALLIAMS AND FRIEND is an old-fashioned sketch show of the kind found in Eighties comedies such as THE TWO RONNIES and THE MIKE YARWOOD SHOW. Designed to show off the versatility of the star, it proves that he possesses comic talent, especially in cross-gender roles.

Some of the sketches are funnier than others; I especially enjoyed a spoof of THE GREAT British BAKE-OFF where Walliams (as Paul Hollywood) and guest Joanna Lumley (as Mary Berry) indulge in a lewd exchange of pleasantries involving the names of cakes and buns. I also liked Walliams's parody newsreader sketch reminiscent of Ronnie Barker at his best.

Joanna Lumley has great fun playing a variety of roles, including a sketch where she lectures a group of Lumley clones in how to behave in Lumleyesque fashion.

Nothing but a collection of very unfunny jokes from someone who should have given up sketch shows years ago. Some may call it an old fashioned sketch show but I would describe it in less glowing terms and at best dated rubbish. Walliams and his 'B'list celebrities create a cringeworthy spectacle best avoided.

Sooo bad! From David Walliams, the man with an ego the size of a small planet, more unfunny crap...so unfunny they've had to add a laughter track (check the real audience next to the fake audience member asking the unfunny J. Beiber question)....How did this escape? Oh yes, it's from the well known National Treasure (?!?) Walliams...total bilge!

Would the BBC like to inform us exactly how much these 'shows'cost? Probably not...whatever, it was way too much.

Walliams has got by with a thimbleful of talent and a barrow-load of bluster...he's a very lucky boy.

Because of him being a National Treasure (?!?) he'll probably survive this ordure...unjustly.

There was an unlikely one off pairing at Christmas 1989 when Bruce Forsyth and Ronnie Corbett teamed up for a comedy special.

This brings into mind something similar as Walliams has had a supposed falling out with comedy partner Matt Lucas.

Walliams & Friend includes Joanna Lumley who appears in lots of sketches with him here. There is the nerdy fan who pesters Ms Lumley for a cheeky selfie, the rather racy Bake Off judges with added double entendres and the chavvy fake tan workers.

There is little of the bad taste humour from Little Britain that we associate Walliams with. It is more mainstream but apart from a few mild chuckles there was little comedy.