Category: Thought Vomit

  • Behind The Scenes On The Late Show With David Letterman
    Behind The Scenes On The Late Show With David Letterman

    Following on from yesterday’s peek behind Johnny’s curtain, here’s a look at the Late Show, which aired during the final episode on 20th May 2015. https://youtu.be/6nJw-jPQYVI Nice to see Dave taking a run through the theatre, and also grating the soles of his shoes before going on stage. If you want to know more about…

  • What’s The Opposite Of A Love Heart?
    What’s The Opposite Of A Love Heart?

    Every now and then we do a themed episode of setisoppO, the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. Inevitably, that means this week’s episode is all about Lurve, and Valentine’s and all that gooey stuff. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo116.mp3 (Download) I hope you love it. Geddit? Humph.

  • Reeves And Mortimer’s Driving School
    Reeves And Mortimer’s Driving School

    There’s often fun to be had finding comedy gems in corporate videos, and while this isn’t quite that, it’s definitely worth a watch. The film you are about to see is both funny and deadly serious … https://youtu.be/MyLkGW2G-uQ This was a straight-to-video affair, from 1993, but it doesn’t really matter.

  • Vic & Bob At Just For Laughs
    Vic & Bob At Just For Laughs

    I think it’s fair to say seeing this episode of Just For Laughs at the time in 1993 was when I really became aware of Vic and Bob. If that’s not true, it’s certainly true that this was the first time I saw the Lucky Carpet stuff. https://youtu.be/UDNVhoGk8IU It feels like this was a ten…

  • Vic, Bob, Papa & Nicole
    Vic, Bob, Papa & Nicole

    The biggest audience Vic & Bob ever enjoyed was in the advertisement break for a 1998 episode of Coronation Street. It’s estimated that 23 million people saw this punchline to a seven year advertising campaign. The company sold 26,000 cars in the two months following this debut. There’s a joke about the campaign in Birds…

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  • Nineteen 90s Shows
    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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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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