Category: Thought Vomit
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A “Bit” Of A Christmas Night With The Stars
Here’s a little bit more of Fry & Laurie Host A Christmas Night With The Stars. Two years later in 1996, ITV presented their own Christmas Night With The Stars, hosted by Des O’Connor, featuring spots with Joe Pasquale and Lily Savage.
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Fry & Laurie Host A Christmas Night With The Stars
It seems odd to me to see Fry & Laurie in a sketch with the tailors from The Fast Show. I mean, intellectually I know the two shows overlapped in time, but somehow they occupy different universes, and The Fast Show happened after ABOFAL, even though it didn’t. Anyway, before the fourth series of ABOFAL…
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Casting Creek
I’d read the story that Susan Belbin saw Alan Davies rehearsing for a sitcom and bought him in for an audition for Jonathan Creek before. Here’s Alan telling it himself. I’m intrigued to know what the sitcom was. In the above clip he makes it sound like a pilot, and it’s ambiguous to me whether…
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Behind The Scenes Of Jonathan Creek
It’s a bit quiet, but worth a look. I’m having difficulty dating this clip. It’s probably from the shoot for series 3, which aired at the end of 1999. It might be from the show TV’s Greatest Hits, but this clip from that shows a different set, and Gaby is on her feet. Anyone know?…
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Bob Monkhouse In Splott
Before we get to Splott, let’s have a look at two wonderful interviews with Bob. The first is with Wogan, from 1984. https://youtu.be/EdHuJg_aKro And the second is from 1993 with Danny Baker. The show referred to as being weird and bad is Bob’s Your Uncle, a remake of the Dutch show Ron’s Honeymoon Quiz. Bob…
