Cunk’s stock-in-trade, the faux-naif misunderstanding, delivered completely deadpan, worked a treat, but that’s only the start of her comic journey. The best lines emerged in a baroque concatenation ...

Some kids aspire to be doctors, astronauts, teachers or firefighters. Growing up in Bolton, a former mill town in the north of England, Diane Morgan was interested in one thing: comedy. She watched a ...

Fresh from her triumphs on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe investigating time, Winston Churchill, and Donald Trump, Philomena Cunk has finally been given her own show - about William Shakespeare. Cunk ...

The nation's favourite dim-witted interviewer was given her first show this evening (May 11) - as she tackled the Bard. The idiotic Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) is best-known as a talking head on ...

So this is the dumbed-down BBC; a presenter not only ill-versed in the subject she’s supposed to be educating us about, but proud of the fact. Philomena Cunk has never shed the insolent teenage ...