Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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Josh gets second series on BBC Three". RadioTimes. 17 December 2015. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016 . Retrieved 3 July 2016. When asked what type of father Widdicombe is, he replies: "I'm weak, too eager to please, a pushover." Wild, Stephi (9 May 2018). "Josh Widdicombe, Milton Jones, Shappi Khorsandi Primed For Ealing Comedy Festival". Broadway World UK. Wisdom Digital Media. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. This is a book about growing up in the ’90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. For my generation television was the one thing that united everyone. There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque, however, we all loved Gladiators, Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these).’ Tope, Rebecca. Sabine Baring-Gould. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 24 February 2023.

Acaster, Helm and Widdicombe - Live at the Voodoo Bar". Edingburgh Festival. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009 . Retrieved 8 November 2015. According to Widdicombe, Rose’s mother was responsible for creating Zippy, the puppet from 80s children’s TV show Rainbow. Josh Widdicombe has a congenital chest deformity But we are really good friends and we get on and we laugh about it. Basically, no one knows how to parent – we are all just doing our best. It's quite fun that two people who do it so differently get on, and can wind each other up about it."

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Episode 8". BBC One Programes. n.d. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Josh Widdicombe". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016 . Retrieved 2 September 2016. I play football on a Sunday with over-45-year-old blokes, which makes me feel like I'm 18 again. Josh has got it all wrong, that's why he's so stressed. He needs to hang around with old people." Allsopp, Ashleigh (17 December 2013). "Best apps, music, films, books, TV and podcasts of 2013 listed by Apple on iTunes". MacWorld. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014 . Retrieved 4 January 2022.

Taskmaster New Series – Stars Revealed - Beyond The Joke". www.beyondthejoke.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016 . Retrieved 5 January 2017. In 2015, Widdicombe was a contestant on the first series of the Dave game show Taskmaster and won the series. For one of the tasks, Widdicombe got a tattoo of host Greg Davies's name on his left foot. [3] He then returned for a team task in series two where he was partnered with Richard Osman and Jon Richardson. [34] [35]JW: I have struggled. We didn’t make friends through NCT [a charity that provides support for expectant parents], because we did an extreme two-day course. The friends I’ve got at the nursery gates are all mums, actually. I haven’t made any new dad friends, beyond acquaintances. JW: I listen to podcasts about unsolved murders and paranormal activity. I’ve just listened to two documentary series about Robert Maxwell. In many ways, they act as interesting parenting podcasts.

Widdicombe worked as a sports journalist, writing for The Guardian, before becoming a comedian. He began performing live in 2008 and made it to the final of So You Think You’re Funny at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that year. Josh Widdicombe wrote and starred in a sitcom Series 2, Episode 2". BritishComedy Guide. n.d. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Josh Widdicombe, Frank Skinner for new Dave show Taskmaster". DigitalSpy British Comedy Guide. 9 February 2015. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015 . Retrieved 18 August 2015. Josh Widdicombe has had a remarkable impact on the comedy circuit since his debut gig in 2008. He is now considered one of the most in demand and highly regarded comedians in the UK for both his live stand-up and TV work.

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a b "Josh Widdicombe To Publish His First Book This September". Off the Kerb. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Before becoming a comedian, Widdicombe worked as a sports journalist, writing for The Guardian. [48] [49] He supports Plymouth Argyle. [50] He is a vegetarian. [47] He is married to Rose Hanson, a television producer, with whom he has a daughter, Pearl, born in October 2017, and a son, Cassius, born in May 2021. [46] [17] [51] The couple lived for a considerable amount of time in Shoreditch, East London before moving to a "sleepier" area of East London to raise their children. [52]

Using a different television show of the time as it's starting point for each chapter Watching the Nineties is part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of 90s television and culture. It will discuss everything from the dangers of recreating Gladiators in your front room, to Josh's belief that Mr Blobby is one of the great comic characters, to being the only vegetarian child west of Bristol. In December 2015, Widdicombe announced that he was a team captain on the BBC Two comedy panel show Insert Name Here, appearing alongside Richard Osman and host Sue Perkins. [38] The show aired in January 2016 and returned for two more series in January 2017/2018. [43]

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day… How 90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

JW: I’m genuinely excited about it. Particularly because I think I’ll be a lot more confident with the child. All that stuff about: ‘How do you hold them?’ ‘How do you swaddle?’ I’m all right with that now, so I can actually enjoy having the child. But, conversely, I’m heartbroken about how it’ll coincide with the pubs reopening and the European championship [Euro 2020]. It’s brutal. a b c Jones, Alice (8 November 2015). "Josh Widdicombe interview: The Last Leg comedian on having his own BBC3 sitcom and making it to the top of UK stand-up". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Widdicombe has made four appearances on Live at the Apollo. He was a featured performer on Episodes 7.8 (21 January 2012), 9.1 (22 November 2013) and 11.7 (AKA Nöel at the Apollo; 20 December 2015) and hosted on Episode 12.2 (14 November 2016). [38]