Author: Simon Dunn
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Your Bottom’s Listing
Let’s have a look at the listings for the debut of Bottom, on 17th September 1991. We’ll start with the Staffordshire Sentinel, because why not? It’s not often described as a black comedy, even though it’s terribly bleak. That said, we see that descriptor again, this time from Graham Young in the Sandwell Evening Mail.…
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We’ll Think Of Something, Jacko
Sam Kelly has appeared in a number of excellent comedy roles in his time, not least as Warren in Porridge and Hans in ‘Allo ‘Allo. It’s rather suprirsing then that he never really got a chance to lead a sitcom, given those great performances. But he was the starring role in ITV’s We’ll Think Of…
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Blind Men
Nick Hancock wrote a sitcom. He co-wrote it with the sitcom’s creator Chris England. It was on ITV at the end of 1997, and starred Jesse Birdsall and Tamsin Greig. It was not called Me, You And Him, nor was it called Holding The Baby. It was called Blind Men, and it was about men…
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What’s The Opposite Of Cadfael?
It’s all food based this week, as we work out the opposite of Cadfael, Sweet And Sour, and salami. Do not share, and do not enjoy.
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What’s The Opposite Of Eldorado?
What’s the opposite of Eldorado? What even is Eldorado? Squeeze your stress balls, listen to the hummingbird sing, and find out. But do not share, and do not enjoy.
