{"id":137289,"date":"2020-03-23T14:59:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/23\/stay-at-home-festival-review-mark-gatisss-dystopia-flashbacks-kick-off-comedy-series\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:59:37","slug":"stay-at-home-festival-review-mark-gatisss-dystopia-flashbacks-kick-off-comedy-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=137289","title":{"rendered":"Stay at Home festival review \u2013 Mark Gatiss&#039;s dystopia flashbacks kick off comedy series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sherlock star joined Robin Ince and Josie Long\u2019s daily online broadcast to self-isolated comedy fans \u2013 and the results were rallying\u2018Stay apart \u2013 and keep connecting,\u201d is the mantra of Robin Ince\u2019s new Stay at Home festival, a daily online broadcast to self-isolated comedy fans everywhere. Produced by the Cosmic Shambles Network, the show brings comedians, entertainers and scientists together (at a safe social distance), and hopes to raise donations for artists denied an income by the coronavirus outbreak. Its first episode proper, streamed this morning, is distinguished \u2013 as you\u2019d expect from Ince \u2013 by recondite but infectiously enthusiastic chat, now and then interrupted by cookery and song. It\u2019s not must-see viewing, but its good humour and jaundiced optimism are oddly rallying.Hosted by Ince and Josie Long, broadcasting from their houses, its star guest is Mark Gatiss, for whom Ince has canvassed audience questions. By accident or Ince\u2019s design, they prompt nerdy discussions (which would work equally well as audio) about horror movies, Peter Cushing\u2019s memoirs, or this week\u2019s auction of the estate of Sixties TV icon Peter Wyngarde. Of 1970s dystopian drama, Gatiss observes that \u201cwe\u2019ve been workshopping this [ie the coronavirus response] for donkey\u2019s years \u2026 All TV was dystopian in the 70s, even Nationwide.\u201d But that doesn\u2019t mean Brits are well placed to weather a catastrophe. Talk of our blitz spirit is \u201cclearly not true\u201d, says the Sherlock man: \u201cWe are just a pack of savages.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/mar\/23\/stay-at-home-festival-review-mark-gatiss-robin-ince-josie-long\" target=\"_blank\">Stay at Home festival review \u2013 Mark Gatiss&#039;s dystopia flashbacks kick off comedy series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sherlock star joined Robin Ince and Josie Long\u2019s daily online broadcast to self-isolated comedy fans \u2013 and the results were rallying\u2018Stay apart \u2013 and keep connecting,\u201d is the mantra of Robin Ince\u2019s new Stay at Home festival, a daily online broadcast to self-isolated comedy fans everywhere. Produced by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}