Rob & Romesh Vs: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
The comic duo are well and truly out of their comfort zone in a show that's back for a new run
Year: 2019-
Certificate: 18
Watching a pair of comedians thrown in at the deep end has been a rich source of laughs for Sky's challenge show, although it wouldn't work nearly as well as it does were it not for the chemistry of the comics in question. Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan have been friends for years and, as they haplessly try their hands at worlds as varied as art, the Olympics and Disney on Ice, will mercilessly wind each other up when one proves just slightly less useless at an activity than the other.
If you're after a couple of highlights to sample, we'd recommend the episode in which they're coached by tennis great Andy Murray (series three, episode four) and the duo's disastrous foray into the world of restaurants (series four, episodes three and four), in which it's genuinely lucky that no one died.
Series five opens with another corker, as Penn and Teller try to school Rob and Romesh in the ways of magic. Rob turns out to be so, so awful at it that Teller - usually a strictly silent man - is forced to speak in order to help him. Forays into K-pop, Crufts and classical music follow in that series, while the latest seventh run features the duo trying their hilariously hapless hands at Hollywood stunts on the set of The Fall Guy and trying to make it big in darts.
The most recent series opens with the duo in Bollywood where Romesh believes that Rob, against all expectations, could well make it big in the Indian film industry. Is he just winding him up? This run will also feature them tackling the worlds of hip hop, Shakespeare and venturing into the jungle. (Eight series)
