Cunk Turns Film History into Gloriously Daft Television

11/12 @ 11:34pm by Morten Nielsen

BBC Two’s *Cunk On Cinema* continues to send up pompous film documentaries while quietly proving that its apparently hopeless presenter knows rather more than she lets on

Philomena Cunk races from early silent pictures and Hollywood musicals to propaganda, sound films and editing theory, puncturing every lofty claim with a malapropism or a spectacularly silly question

Diane Morgan delivers the deadpan performance brilliantly, while Mark Kermode finds himself an unwilling target

Benedict Cumberbatch also receives a wonderfully mundane Tesco-related humiliation

The finest gag, however, sees Cunk recreated beneath a falling house.