The Trip to Italy
Why this pick
Coogan and Brydon’s competitive impressions, affectionate bickering and pauses of melancholy return in a sunlit Italian road journey, with meals and landscapes given as much comic rhythm as the conversation.
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Why this pick
Coogan and Brydon’s competitive impressions, affectionate bickering and pauses of melancholy return in a sunlit Italian road journey, with meals and landscapes given as much comic rhythm as the conversation.
Why this pick
Another beautifully observed chapter in the same loose travel-comedy mode: elaborate verbal sparring, food, spectacular locations and an undercurrent of midlife reflection.
Why this pick
The first Coogan-and-Brydon journey has the most intimate version of the formula: restaurant-hopping, virtuoso impersonations and a gently sad awareness that the jokes conceal real insecurities.
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Winterbottom, Coogan and Brydon turn a literary adaptation into playful, self-aware comic chaos, driven by the same delight in performance, rivalry and conversational detours.
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A wine-country trip between mismatched old friends balances dry, character-led humour with gorgeous regional detail and a similarly bittersweet look at friendship, disappointment and getting older.
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01 / THE STORY
Actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue their travelogue series by voyaging from Troy to Ithaca, following in the footsteps of Odysseus.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Steve Coogan

Rob Brydon