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  • Nothing
    Nothing

    I’ve decided to do nothing today. It’s not often I do nothing, therefore it’s quite hard to do nothing. So far this morning, I’ve found myself doing the following things. Loudly singing the theme tune to Police Academy. Humming a tune that I recognise as being from an 80s or 90s sitcom or kid’s TV…

  • e.phemera: You Bet Your Life
    e.phemera: You Bet Your Life

    Here’s a classic episode of You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx.

  • e.phemera: Jason Alexander’s McDLT Advert
    e.phemera: Jason Alexander’s McDLT Advert

    If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll know how much I enjoy sharing little pieces of lost ephemera I find on the web, especially if they have some tenuous link to great comedy, game shows, or board games (preferably all three). Not this time. I don’t want to share this with you. In…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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