Matthew Holness - Pompous writer characters NDH22

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Our NDH22 guest was Matthew Holness, creator/star of cult show Darkplace with Garth Marenghi, and director of new horror film Possum starring Sean Harris, on release now.
Mon Nov 12th 2018 at The Hospital Club
Matthew Holness is an actor, writer and director perhaps best known for creating the beloved cult hit Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) starring himself, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry. As a performer, he has appeared in shows such as Bruiser, Time Trumpet, The Office and most recently Back (2017) with his Cambridge contemporaries David Mitchell and Robert Webb. His directorial debut Possum stars Sean Harris and is on UK release Friday 26th Oct.

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@nakenmil 3 жыл бұрын

I know writers who use subtext. They're all cowards.

@madnessbydesign1415 Жыл бұрын

That was my first thought as well... :) Love Garth Marenghi...

@possiblycrazy442 3 жыл бұрын

What's funny is that I was thinking of the people involved with Darkplace, wishing I could do something like it, thinking to myself, "Unlike me, those are all dedicated people. I'll never be that driven." And now I hear Matt Holness saying that these characters are wish fulfillment because he's not dedicated enough. I guess the moral is just "get off the internet and do things."

@gabe_s_videos 8 ай бұрын

It's a certain empathy that I feel would make the character much less funny if it weren't there. Yes, Garth Marenghi is a hack with a huge head, but he's a DRIVEN hack. Who else can claim that they've written more books than they've read, whether or not that's a good thing? Confidence, even misplaced confidence, is attractive.

@possiblycrazy442 8 ай бұрын

@@gabe_s_videos Agreed

@sublimeade 3 жыл бұрын

plus Actor

@bertsbooks2505 3 жыл бұрын

It's very difficult now not to reference Holness when dealing with 70s / 80s pulp... 'Night of the Crabs, that's just so Garth'...

@LEARSIKCIGAM Жыл бұрын

Amazon spends 500 mil on crap they should bring this back

@azulk955 4 жыл бұрын

Love this.

@ramsayross 3 жыл бұрын

Bill Bailey shaved his beard and started doing interviews. Weird.

@thaddpresley Жыл бұрын

It's the voice. I heard Black Books right off the rip.

@terry8767 3 жыл бұрын

It is ironic though.

@austinhuber3131 Жыл бұрын

It's actually refreshing to see he doesn't utterly disdain his characters. Modern American satire could learn from this, it's literally a mean girls clique doing straw man again and again with no depth or subtext to be found.