Simon Dunn

Scriptwriter and Comedian

Category: e.phemera

  • Learning Fast Food Fast
    Learning Fast Food Fast

    Today we’re all going to become proficient at serving fast food. To begin, we’ll watch this remarkable training video for Wendy’s about how to pour a cold drink. Next we can move on to making the weirdest looking burgers you’ve ever seen. I think we’re ready now to learn how to pour hot drinks. Enjoy…

  • Buchwald Vs Paramount
    Buchwald Vs Paramount

    I spent some time on this in the latest episode of Comedy Is …, but there’s so much more to the Art Buchwald versus Paramount Pictures case, and the contract breach around Coming To America. It lead to a second, and then a third, trial, both of which were landmarks in their own right. Here’s…

  • Elmo And Robin
    Elmo And Robin

    This is delightful.

  • Award Show Banter
    Award Show Banter

    Found moments of great comedy are so lovely. Sometimes, they’re where you expect to find them, sometimes not.

  • Flixwatcher: Galaxy Quest
    Flixwatcher: Galaxy Quest

    It was a pleasure to have been a guest on the Flixwatcher podcast again. Here I am with Iszi, and hosts Kobi and Helen, talking happily about the film Galaxy Quest. It’s definitely a movie worth watching.

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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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