Category: Piffle
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5 Best Comedy Moments Ever
I’m often (never) asked to name my seven most favourite comedy moments ever. Sure, I (never) say, if you want to reduce and decontextualise scenes that are often informed by everything preceding them, and then proscribe some sort of aribtrary ranking system on to totally unconnected things. Yes, please, they reply (not ever happened). So,…
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2020 Vision
As the clock struck midnight and the fireworks ejaculated like an excited spaniel into the dark night sky, my world slipped from me, and I was visited by a wise old soul, who took the form of a tortoise. This tortoise had a lot to say, and not a lot of time in which to…
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Travelogue Of A Twat
I am on a train. I have no idea what is going to fall out of my head onto the page today. Looks like everyone has decided today is the day to travel to that Lunduun for the new year. That is, it’s rammed. It’s been a while since I last made this journey and…
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Mrs BJ Smegma
What’s your favourite comedy name? In my more formative years, I remember being told by someone whom I respected that the use of comedy names was the last resort of the desperate. This person of course, was very, very wrong. Re-watching Bottom, I’m appreciating some of the peripheral character names a great deal. Mr Sex,…
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Whither 2 Point 4 Children?
Not sure where this is going, it may just be a rambling jumble of words, but what happened to 2 Point 4 Children? I’ve had the theme tune stuck in my head all week, which is quite something, because I probably haven’t heard it since the late nineties. It was a flagship show for the…
