Category: Thought Vomit
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Sitcom Moments That Stick With Me
Every time I’ve stood up from the desk this morning, and wandered from my chilly office out into the sun-drenched hallway, I’ve had a song stuck in my head. Or more specifically, a moment from Red Dwarf, because whenever I have this ear-worm, I also have this eye-snail. I really wish I could find a…
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Joan Rivers On Des O’Connor Tonight
Enjoy. https://youtu.be/GqYqu8elX64 And here’s a great photo of her behind the desk on The Tonight Show.
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Dave Allen On Des O’Connor Tonight
Watching this clip makes you realise just how generous an interviewer Des O’Connor is. He’s totally happy to set up the gags, and sit back and enjoy them with the rest of us. There’s a lesson there for some talk show hosts. It feels like there are a few edits in here, and it would…
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Gorden Kaye On Wogan
In which Tel reveals he doesn’t own a video cassette recorder, or at least doesn’t know how to set the timer on it. Should have asked Monkhouse. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t aware that ‘Allo ‘Allo was so directly parodying the show Secret Army, but here’s a nice behind the scenes clip of the latter…
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The Martha Mitchell Effect
One of the most important people in the whole Watergate scandal is often over-looked, and even barely remembered today. But Martha Mitchell was one of the first, and most prominent whistle blowers of the whole Nixon scandal. Sure, we all remember Deep Throat (now publicly named as Mark Felt), but we know little about the…
