Comedy Reviews for The Unbroadcastable Radio Show

Here is just a small sample of some of the many great reviews this live comedy sketch show has received over the years:

The Unbroadcastable Radio Show MANCHESTER - The Manchester Evening News

"This is a real corker, with more laughs per minute than your average sketch show."

The Unbroadcastable Radio Show MANCHESTER - The Guardian

"For about a fortnight in the 1990s, stand-up comedy was supposed to be the new rock’n’roll. Soon, they’ll be saying the same thing about sketch shows. Everywhere you look, comedians are doing sketches (maybe stand-up is only funny when the tories are in power?) and the latest batch of bright young things are a Mancunian troupe called The Unbroadcastable Radio Show (aka Helen Copley, Toby Hadoke, Alfie Joey, Tony Kinsella, PeterSlater and John Warburton).

Despite their catchy title, there’s nothing unbroadcastable about them, and although they’ve only been going a year or so, they’ve already landed a commission from BBC Radio 4 to develop their own pilot. If you can’t wait for their first series, they also have a monthly residency at Manchester’s Comedy Store. where they’re doing a greatest hits show this week as part of the Manchester Comedy Festival. Familiar favourites include Radio Free Radical (“putting the fun into fundamentalism”) and The Napalm Chef, an explosive cookery show starring Joe Pesci and Christopher Walken."

The Unbroadcastable Radio Show MANCHESTER - The Guardian 'Pick of the Week'

"Don’t believe the title. Despite it’s radical content, this topical sketch show is actually eminently broadcastable, and should be very soon, if Radio 4 have any sense."

The Unbroadcastable Radio Show MANCHESTER - The Guardian

"Good news at last. Satirical sketch comedy is alive and well and living in Manchester, and from next month you’ll be able to enjoy it in Leeds as well. So far, I’ve only been to hear an audio tape – but this show is even funny with your eyes closed. It’s called the Unbroadcastable Radio Show, the idea being that if it was on the wireless, it would be hauled off the airwaves straight away.

In fact, it’s likely Radio 4 would adore this wellinformed and wellintentioned ensemble, whose north-west credits range from Phoenix Nights to Coronation Street. Consequently, they actually view national issues from a vantage point that isn’t marooned inside the M25. “Please shop these scroungers,” ran their recent spoof ad about benefit fraud, “We only need to catch another 10,000 and we’ll have paid for this advert.”

The brainchild of local comedian and actor Toby Hadoke (pictured), this eminently broadcastable show is surely bound for even bigger things."

The Unbroadcastable Radio Show MANCHESTER - Ben Carlish, The Metro

"The intelligent, satirical sketchshow, once one of Englishcomedy’s cornerstones, has,with one or two notableexceptions, virtually droppedoff the radar of live comedy.
So the creation of theUnbroadcastable Radio Show -the initial idea of XS Malarkey compère Toby Hadoke - shouldbe welcomed into the heavingbosom of the Manchester comedy circuit. ‘It’s in the format of a radio show,’ explains Hadoke, ‘We’re not getting laughs from silly costumes or props or anything like that. We read from our own scripts and want it to be an intelligent andchallenging antidote to the prevalent standars stand-up show. It’s the Channel 4 of the Manchester comedy circuit, if you like.’

Fellow radio stars in the making are Pete Slater (lampooning ofHollywood celebrities), Alfie Joey (impressions and songs), actressHelen Copley (supporting roles) and journalist John Warburton (script editir and burgeoning comic in his own right). Combined with Hadoke’sown politically agitated musings, it promises to make for a fine evening of thoughtful comedy from the pens and lips of the city’s more creative comic minds.

All in all, possibly the best radio show you’ll never hear on the radio...but, then again, with a writing team this strong, you might just yet."

The Unbroadcastable Radio Show MANCHESTER - The Guardian 'Pick of the Week'

"Topical sketches and songs with Toby Hadoke & Co. Don’t be fooled by the title. It’s actually eminently broadcastable.