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Harry Enfield

April 2023

  • Haydn Gwynne as Camilla and Harry Enfield as Charles in The Windsors coronation special.

    Harry Enfield on his King Charles TV portrayal: ‘We both have sausagey fingers’

    The comedian stars as the monarch in a coronation special of The Windsors – but parody is not without empathy, he says

March 2023

  • Bob Goody in the TV sketch show Smith and Goody.

    Harry Enfield on Bob Goody: ‘I was too frightened to approach him and tell him how he had inspired me’

    Harry Enfield writes: Bob Goody inspired me to take up a life on the stage

October 2022

  • A history of Britain … The Love Box in Your Living Room, on BBC Two

    TV review
    The Love Box in Your Living Room review – spectacular silliness from Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse

    The comics’ spoof Adam Curtis-style documentary celebrating 100 years of the BBC is full of deft satire, sharp insight and moments of utter oddness. It’s very clever – and very funny
  • ‘First generation heroes’ … (l-r) Harry Enfield, Jo Brand, Julian Clary and Ben Elton on Channel 4’s Friday Night Live

    The Liz Truss gags flowed like No 10 plonk: Friday Night Live proves our best satirists are in their 60s

    From Ben Elton’s electrifying political routine to Harry Enfield’s force-10 performance, Channel 4’s comedy programme showed that nobody does spiky topicality better than 1980s stars
  • Paul Whitehouse as John Reith in The Love Box in Your Living Room.

    ‘Our whole show is complete bollocks!’ Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield on their BBC mockumentary

    Gloriously spoofing Downton, Peaky Blinders, Jackanory and much, much more, the comedy legends reveal all about their riotous sketch show for the Beeb’s centenary

September 2021

  • Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine

    There's a podcast for that
    Five of the best podcasts: laugh-out-loud fictional comedies

    From the world’s rudest agony aunts to pirate radio DJs and mock-celeb chat, if it’s comedy you’re after, there’s a podcast for that

August 2021

  • Harry Enfield as Charles in The Windsors: Endgame.

    The Windsors: Endgame review – a right royal disaster

    The sharp Channel 4 comedy becomes a lumbering stage show sending up King Charles and a band of boo-worthy buffoons

June 2021

  • Harry Enfield in the TV version of The Windsors

    Harry Enfield to star in stage version of The Windsors

    The comedian will play the Prince of Wales in The Windsors: Endgame, due to play for 10 weeks in London this summer

June 2020

  • Harry Enfield.

    Harry Enfield says blacking up as Mandela was 'so wrong it was right'

    On Radio 4’s Today programme, the comedian justified decision to portray former South African president in blackface

January 2018

  • Poitical characters on TV

    From Roseanne to Partridge: what happens when TV characters get political?

    Loadsamoney was co-opted by Thatcher, Roseanne is a Trump fan and Partridge could be the new face of Brexit. But do fictional allegiances make any difference?

October 2017

  • Kathy Burke portrait

    Kathy Burke: ‘Lifelong member of the non-pretty working classes’

    That’s how Kathy Burke describes herself. But the famously outspoken actor and director has proved she can’t be pigeonholed. Stefanie Marsh meets her

December 2016

  • Kevin Bishop (Jerry Hyland), Claudie Blakley (May Daniels) and Harry Enfield (Glogauer) in Once In A Lifetime by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman @ Young Vic. Directed by Richard Jones. (Opening 06-12-16) ©Tristram Kenton 12/16 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Once in a Lifetime review – Harry Enfield stars in flat-pack revival

  • Claudie Blakley and Harry Enfield in Once in a Lifetime at the Young Vic

    Once in a Lifetime review – Harry Enfield is a legit hit in Hollywood satire

September 2016

  • ‘Playing this all-powerful Hollywood studio boss sounded like a lot of fun’ … Harry Enfield.

    Harry Enfield to make theatre debut as movie mogul in Hollywood satire

    Once in a Lifetime leads Young Vic season that includes a ‘grownup’ Midsummer Night’s Dream and a new show devised by sex workers

May 2016

  • The Windsors.

    The Windsors: behind the scenes of a right royal send-up

    A star cast of comics impersonate our first family in this Channel 4 sitcom. But is it satire or something more affectionate?

April 2016

  • RONNIE BARKER & RONNIE CORBETT TV 'THE TWO RONNIES' (1976) 18/09/1976 TA222 Allstar/BBC

    Two's company: comedy's five best sketch duos, according to Max & Ivan

    The British double act pay tribute to their heroes – including Matt Lucas and David Walliams, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, and the late Ronnies Corbett and Barker

January 2016

  • The Comic Strip Presents Red Top! preview TV screening and Q&A, London, Britain - 18 Jan 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Can Nguyen/REX/Shutterstock (5548473e) Peter Richardson and Maxine Peake The Comic Strip Presents Red Top! preview TV screening and Q&A, London, Britain - 18 Jan 2016

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    Don't forget to watch Rebekah's roller-skating performance...

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    Greenslade
    Imagine Rebekah Brooks roller-skating through the Sun newsroom...

December 2015

  • Brian Logan

    Open mic
    The comedy trends of 2015: nostalgia, oversharing and new-school mimes

    Brian Logan
    From newfound political awareness to the resurgence of mime, 2015’s comedy landscape was bumpy but invigorating

November 2015

  • Brian Logan

    Open mic
    Comedy is starting its own nostalgia industry – for better and worse

    Brian Logan
    Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are touring their 90s characters around the UK, and trying to update them for the era of #piggate. But can they ever really work when comedy relies on the here and now for its bite?
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