A Wonderfully bleak dark comedy and a frankly hilarious half hour of television. 'Eddie Monsoon: A Life?' Is a mockumentary charting the recent events in the life of Eddie, a chronically alcoholic, manic depressive with severe liver failure, cancer, prolapses, a broken arm and leg and asthma.
His television career in tatters after a string of controversies, Eddie is in rehab for the 17th time (in 18 months) and this documentary interviews him and the people around him, to try and find out, what went wrong...
Honestly, one of the best 'Comic strips' I've seen so far. Written and Starring Ade Edmondson as Eddie. There's a certain frantic unknowing energy that radiates off this thing, you honestly never *quite* know what direction its going to fly off in.
An astonishing hit rate on the joke front, shot just like the documentaries of the day and with some wonderful faux archival recordings of Eddie's TV show. This one made me gut laugh a good few times. I really liked it and I'm honestly stunned that this was a one off. It just SCREAMS for a follow up honestly...in fact...the longer the gap between this and a follow up, the funnier and bleaker it gets really!
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