Cunk on Life

Ingeniously, Cunk’s guileless, blasé approach to sacrosanct and controversial subjects often sheds light on injustice, absurdity and hypocrisy.

Some of the diversions work better than others (shout-out to the puppetry team), but there are still just enough gags that transcend stupidity for subversive insight.

Love her or loathe her, Philomena Cunk might be the perfect creation for our age. Blissfully and wilfully ignorant, she careens down the misinformation superhighway, sideswiping science, expertise and pomposity with abandon.

Its inventive mockery is exhaustingly funny. A minor downside is that one or two jokes – mainly about our souls and other nethers – grow repetitious. But its audacity is always pushing boundaries

Philomena’s foolishness might be the punchline of Cunk On Life, but the real joke is on us.

The show is worth a watch for the very amusing stuff that surrounds it. Frankly, a lot of TV is pretty uneven these days. In “Cunk on Life,” at least you know you’ll get some good laughs.

The hilarious reflections and absurd comparisons are still there... But between laughter and laughter, there is still something that doesn't feel quite fluid.[Full review in Spanish]

Cunk On Life is often laugh-out-loud funny, mainly because Diane Morgan plays Philomena Cunk with just the right tone; Cunk is dumb, ignorant about her own stupidity, and confident in that stupidity without being cocky.

This is the Cunk way. It’s an extremely sophisticated form of childishness, really, asking clever people stupid questions about their fields.

Through it all, Morgan’s delivery remains delightfully, diabolically dry, asking her increasingly insane interview questions with the utmost seriousness. You have to be wickedly smart to make something so blessedly stupid work this well.