Tittybangbang, A review

Tittybangbang returns for its second series, with comedy actresses Lucy Montgomery and Debbie Chazen portraying “even more weird and wonderful characters”. (According to the official BBC blurb) Weird? Certainly. Wonderful? Not really.
With a name like “Tittybangbang” for a comedy show, you’re immediately half drawn into thinking it’s going to be about tits.....and it is. But it’s so blatantly obvious you can’t help but cringe slightly. An example, within the first 5 seconds of the episode, Chazen's character sticks a Hoover to Montgomery’s boob. To be honest, I have porn for that sort of thing. Dotted throughout the show are other similar scenes, tending to involve smutty foreigners. Not that Italian maids aren’t dirty madams, but it’s been done.
Despite the director’s obsession with sexual innuendos and foreigners, this show does have some hidden gems. Montgomery’s portrayal of Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is one of the best I’ve seen. And it’s funny. Other good pieces include more ‘Cultural’ scenes, like the ‘elegant Mrs Baxter’, an upper class English woman who likes fighting with everyone. ‘The darters’, were Montgomery and Chazen play a couple of small down pub darters…Carol, the lazy wife, The two welsh friends….whenever they stray away from crude, OTT, sex-obsessed ‘humour’, the show actually starts getting funny.
All in all, the second series of Tittybangbang, while trying to carry on from the success of the first series, still seems like a show trying to shadow Little Britain with over the top, obvious sexual innuendos and impressions. Still, it’s worth a chuckle.

By Joe Robinson