Dave Gorman’s comic dissection of 21st-century coincidence and absurdity is back after a seven-year hiatus, for a sixth season that was meant to run for four episodes. But check the schedules and you’ll notice there are only three episodes of Modern Life Is Goodish. What happened? The answer lies in the sort of low-key calamity that feels very Dave Gorman.
“We made four,” the comedian explains. “But one of them is 75% about Gregg Wallace. It’s in the bin.” This lost, cursed Goodish episode was filmed and finished just as news broke that Wallace, a presenter on BBC1’s hit cookery show MasterChef, was the subject of multiple accusations of inappropriate behaviour – which he has denied – instantly cancelling the cult hero status Goodish was drawing on. “It’s sort of taking the piss out of him but in a very loving way, tongue in cheek,” says Gorman. “There’s a routine that sets up the idea that I’ve invented a product. I need to get a celebrity endorsement for it. The punchline tying all the routines together is that he’s filmed an advert for it.”
