Author: Simon Dunn
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Maria’s Target Ads
Here’s a couple of Maria Bamford’s commercials for Target.
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Don’t Slam Your Podcast!
Don’t Slam Your Podcast! is a podcast all about the sitcom 2point4 Children. It’s great, and takes an in-depth look at the show episode by episode, including interviews with show creator Andrew Marshall. So it was a great pleasure to be asked on to talk about the sister show Health and Efficiency.
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The Detectives
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen The Detectives. I may not have even seen it since it was first broadcast. The sitcom began life as a run of sketches on Canned Carrott. It ran for five series between 1993 and 1997, and was written by Mike Whitehill and Steve Knight. Unusually for the…
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Carrott Canned
I was watching 24 Carrott Gold yesterday, a show I’ve not seen for years, but one which I recorded on VHS and watched a lot of. The broadcast version was a good half an hour shorter than the released version though, so there were bits of it that I hadn’t seen before. I think one…
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Canned Carrott
Here’s one of the more well known advert spoofs from Canned Carrott. Canned Carrott ran for two series in the early 1990s, and lead to the sitcom The Detectives. It also feautred Punt and Dennis around the time they were also doing The Mary Whitehouse Experience.
