Category: British
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Fawlty Towers: Too Much Of A One-Man Show
Fawlty Towers was announced in The Stage on Thursday 24 August 1975, amidst a cluster of ex-Python production news. I suspect the Chapman project mentioned was Out Of The Trees, which he co-wrote with Douglas Adams. It’s likely that the Palin show became Ripping Yarns. With Q6, Briers in the Barry Took adapted One-Upmanship, and…
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Some Comic Strip Continuity
A couple of short trailers for the BBC Two iteration of The Comic Strip Presents …
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A Night Of Stand Up Comedy
Here’s a live show I would give my soul to have seen in person. In 1986, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton toured the UK with their show A Night Of Stand Up Comedy. Here’s what Angela Thomas made of it all in The Stage on the 9th January. By May, they had relocated the tour…
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A Peep Behind The Green Door
In April of 1990, viewers in Scotland got another chance to watch Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind The Green Door. Originally broadcast on BBC Two on 13th September 1982, it was a BBC Scotland production, and had a running time of 40 minutes. By the time it received this repeat though, it had been cut…
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The Diary Of Paul Jackson, Aged Thirty-Ish
Independent producer Paul Jackson gives a sneak preview of some of what we’ll see of the Melbourne Festival of comedy when it is screened on Channel 4 next month, and an insight into some of the behind-the-scenes comedy we won’t be seeing. The show they are filming for was Craig Goes Mad In Melbourne, which…
