It’s difficult to write about comedy. Specifically, it’s difficult to write positively about comedy, the danger being that the writer could easily fall into one of two traps: 1) explaining the joke, ...

We should have seen it coming. They’d managed to keep it under wraps for twenty years: hiding the tapes, suppressing the press coverage. Two long decades of misinformation separated us from a truth ...

Watching the show years later, it’s easy to see why: This is one of the all-time great, weird, idiosyncratic comedies of our time. Comedian and author Matthew Holness played Garth Marenghi, a leather ...

Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness and Alice Lowe starred in 2004's Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. (Channel 4) Sometime in the 1980s, a TV horror was made that proved “so radical, so risky, so ...

The real comedic genius of the show is its sheer awfulness. The acting is purposely dreadful, the camera shots often stick from hilariously terrible angles that cut off half of people's heads, and ...

There are two sides to every story.

Plenty of publications have been using the month of October to celebrate the best in horror, but the A.V. Club’s Erik Adams went another way, celebrating the genre at its absolute worst. Garth ...

They're armed but she's dangerous.

It’s been ten years now since author, visionary, and dreamweaver Garth Marenghi’s legendary horror TV show, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, was rescued from a vault in Peru and broadcast to a largely ...