Category: British
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Where’s Elvis This Week?
Back in the mid-1990s, no-one quite knew what to do with Jon Stewart. He was clearly destined for something great, and networks and broadcasters were keen to find him the right show. It took some time, and he clearly ended up in exactly the right place, by way of The Jon Stewart Show and The…
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Mel And Sue And Rich And Stew Too
Light Lunch was such a fixture in my life at the time, that it’s amazing to me now that it was only on our screens for less than a year. It ran between March of 1997 and February of 1998. Here’s a fabulous episode featuring Lee And Herring, which unfolds in a natural and funny…
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I Am The Spider
Here’s the first episode of Vic and Bob (and Alice too)’s Saturday evening gameshow Families At War. Produced by Channel X, the show aired on BBC One for nine episodes in 1998 and 1999.
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Comedy Connections – The New Statesman
I always enjoyed these shows, and they often had some little nuggets of new information in them.
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A Bit More Back Matter
There’s a collection of bowel-shattering comic sketches from the increasingly misunderstood BBC TV series ‘A Bit Of Fry and Laurie‘, and it’s written using only lead-free pencils. So claims the book cover for the second collection of their sketches anyway. On the back it also claims that the book contains no satire at the expense…
