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Count Arthur Strong

March 2022

  • Mathew Horne as Jamie and Catherine Tate as Nan in The Nan Movie.

    Catherine Tate’s The Nan Movie: when sketch characters run out of road

    Tate’s sweary grump went from TV to stage show to a misfiring film, proving how tricky it is to keep audiences on a lifelong journey with a comic creation

December 2019

  • It’s monstrous, it’s ridiculous, it’s showbiz ... Catherine Cohen.

    Best culture 2019
    Top 10 comedy shows of 2019

    A double dose of Stewart Lee, Hannah Gadsby’s follow-up to Nanette and London Hughes’ uproarious blue humour tickled the comedy circuit this year

November 2017

  • trail-tv

    2017 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2017: 50-1

    The countdown reaches its peak with a sci-fi dystopia that chimed with the real threat of Donald Trump, followed closely by superlative police drama, true-crime milestones, peril at sea, and the comic adventures in wrestling

May 2017

  • Programme Name: Count Arthur Strong - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. Generics) - Picture Shows: Count Arthur Strong (STEVE DELANEY) - (C) Retort - Photographer: Des Willie

    Count Arthur Strong review – blissfully, brilliantly bewildered

  • Count Arthur Strong<br>Programme Name: Count Arthur Strong - TX: n/a - Episode: Arthur The Hat (No. 2 - Arthur The Hat) - Picture Shows: Eggy (DAVE PLIMMER), John the Watch (ANDY LINDEN), Count Arthur Strong (STEVE DELANEY), Birdie (BRONAGH GALLAGHER) - (C) Retort - Photographer: Des Willie

    TV tonight
    Friday’s best TV: Sharon Osbourne’s Dodgiest Deals in Rock’n’Roll; Count Arthur Strong

  • Chaos … (from left) Dave Plimmer, Bronagh Gallagher, Andy Linden, Chris Ryman, Steve Delaney as Count Arthur Strong (seated), Rory Kinnear and Zahra Ahmadi.

    TV review
    Count Arthur Strong review – Delaney's dummies dish up a glorious shambles

  • Programme Name: Count Arthur Strong - TX: n/a - Episode: House of Horrors (No. 1) - Picture Shows: (L-R) Eggy (DAVE PLIMMER), John the Watch (ANDY LINDEN), Count Arthur Strong (STEVE DELANEY) - (C) Retort - Photographer: Des Willie

    TV tonight
    Friday’s best TV: What Would Beyoncé Do; Count Arthur Strong

August 2016

  • The cast of Mrs Brown’s Boys: Brendan O’Carroll with (from left): Danny O’Carroll, Dermot O’Neill, Gary Hollywood, Rory Cowan, Jennifer Gibney, Pat Shields, Amanda Woods, Eilish O’Carroll, Paddy Houlihan and Fiona O’Carroll

    Mrs Brown's Boys voted best sitcom of 21st century

    BBC1 show has failed to wow critics but takes top spot in Radio Times online poll

December 2015

  • Kieran Hodgson in his cycling comedy Lance.

    Best culture 2015
    Brian Logan's top 10 comedy of 2015

    Bridget Christie was belligerent, Doug Stanhope was savage, and Nish Kumar was reborn a rightwinger. But a touching show about Lance Armstrong wins our critic’s best comedy of 2015

April 2015

  • Count Arthur Strong

    Count Arthur Strong review – the deluded Doncastrian just gets funnier

    From a sermon about the garden of Edam to hilariously inept ventriloquism, Steve Delaney’s alter ego is as entertaining as ever

February 2015

  • Mellowing in his old age … Steve Delaney's Count Arthur Strong.

    Open mic
    Why Count Arthur is still going Strong

    Who knew 10 years ago that Steve Delaney’s tragicomic portrait of a delusional old man would be vying with Miranda for primetime TV celebrity? He may have morphed into a lovable old duffer, but he’s still a fiercely brilliant creation, writes Brian Logan

October 2014

  • Todd Barry

    This week's new live comedy
    This week’s new live comedy

    Toddy Barry | Brighton Comedy Festival | Paul Foot
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