WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2020EPIC(UREAN) COMEDY
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are back in Sky One’s ‘The Trip to
Greece’, visiting salubrious restaurants and hotels – and mocking each
other’s careers, writes Ed Cumming
Coogan and Brydon are towers of neediness, unable to go for more than a few seconds without seeking a laugh (Sky)
★★★★★
In the wake of the lamentable Philip Green satire Greed, it’s a relief to discover that Steve Coogan plus
Michael Winterbottom plus Greece needn’t be a recipe for a complete sense-of-humour failure. After
England, Italy and Spain, The Trip to Greece (Sky One) takes Coogan and his long-standing partner-in-jolly
Rob Brydon on a tour through the Hellenic lands, from Turkey through modern Macedonia and Greece.
Winterbottom directs.