Rush Hour

2007

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  • 1

5.6| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

Rush Hour is a sketch show made by Zeppotron and shown on BBC Three during March and April 2007. The show featured several sketches centred around characters travelling to work, school or otherwise, therefore many of the sketches took place inside a car or bus. Several cult and up and coming comedians and comic actors star in the show, each performing several of the characters. The cast includes Adam Buxton, Sanjeev Kohli, Miranda Hart, Frankie Boyle, David Armand, Marek Larwood, Kerry Godliman, Bruce Mackinnon, Naomi Bentley, Lorna Watson, and Katy Wix. BBC Three didn't recommission the show for a second series due to bad reviews.

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Reviews

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!
Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
tigers_hungry Judging by the presence of some key people on board with this production, namely Adam Buxton (Adam and Joe Show) and Charlie Brooker (Screenwipe, TV Go Home), this show had the potential to be something truly original, fresh and most importantly, funny. Clearly however something went very wrong. Instead of utilising the potential of the shows set up 'people in cars (occasionaly buses) at rush hour' for sharp observational humour, the premise is reduced to little more than a gimmick through which the show defines itself against the legion of mediocre British sketch shows. Rush Hour does nothing inventive with its format, nor strives to revive perhaps a flagging area of British TV comedy. There are moments within the show however that have potential and made me titter, but these were sadly fleeting and the editing of these sketches (such as a child bumping his head on the dashboard after not wearing his seat belt) causes them to out-stay their on screen welcome. I do fear that I may be judging the show too harshly, but I feel like a disappointed teacher that expected better of her pupils. And here is were I end with an also not very witty comparison between comedy shows and buses, but I'm still waiting for three to come along at once. I'm going to file this one in the same place I put the IT crowd.