Author: Simon Dunn
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Kingsmoll By Mel And Sue
I could have sworn Mel and Sue did a brief run of adverts for Philadelphia soft cheese. Am I wrong? Or am I conflating it with these for Kingsmill, in which we see soft cheese being spread on bread?
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Terrible Lizards
You may have noticed it’s been a couple of weeks since we did an episode of setisoppO, the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. That’s because I have Covid. It’s very mild, no worse than a cold really, but it’s made me fuzzy headed and tired…
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Titles By Jump Design
Last night, Twitter reminded me of the amazing title sequence for Smith And Jones, as the duo moved from BBC Two to BBC One. If you’ve not seen it, it looked like this. It’s still excellent. It was shot on 35mm film over two days, using motion control cameras, and was conceived by Jump Design…
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Phil Kay Feels
One of the more memorable of my live stand up experiences was watching Phil Kay expound an hour long shaggy dog story about some fish and chips. I think my first experience of him would have been his appearances on TV, perhaps on Edinburgh Nights, or Festival of Fun, or maybe even The Stand Up…
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The ER Companion
I’m incredibly fond of ER, to the point that I find it hard to watch other medical dramas without making unfair comparisons. So it was fun to find this in a charity shop the other day. It’s unauthorised, as you can see, and is written by Stephen Spignesi, who has also written books about Stephen…
