A Cock and Bull Story

• 6.2 Comedy
• 2005-07-17
• 94 minutes mins

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.

Starring:

Steve Coogan (Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy / Steve Coogan) Rob Brydon (Toby Shandy / Rob Brydon) Keeley Hawes (Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes) Shirley Henderson (Susannah / Shirley Henderson) Raymond Waring (Trim) Conal Murphy (Six-Year-Old Tristam) Joe Williams (Nine-Year-Old Tristam) Paul Kynman (Obadiah) Mark Tandy (London Doctor) Dylan Moran (Dr. Slop)

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Writer:

Frank Cottrell Boyce