Category: British
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Harry And Paul’s Magnificent Sporting Moments
As excuses to broadcast YouTube clips go, this one is nicely packaged, and features some good performances from Harry and Paul. It aired in 2013, on January 15th, just after the news. It completely passed me by at the time. I like that they get the US convention correct, of the sports presenters addressing the…
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Some Blue Jams
One of the more striking things about Blue Jam, Chris Morris’ late night Radio 1 skecth show, is just how traditional some of the sketches were.
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Miriam And Scorsese
This should brighten your day, like everything Miriam Margolyes ever says.
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Tommy Cockles To Powergen
My first experience of Simon Day, I think, was as Tommy Cockles, appearing as a regular on Paramount City, right at the start of the 1990s. It was a good few years before The Fast Show. Here he is, as Cockles, on Wogan in 1992. The applause at the end seems a little sudden. Was…
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The Genesis Of Swiss Toni
Swiss Toni made his first appearance on screen in an episode of The Smell Of Reeves and Mortimer. The character is a creation of Bob Mortimer and Charlie Higson, and this is how he arrived on the show. He later moved to The Fast Show, but Mortimer receives no writing credits on that, so he…
