Category: British
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Jack And Jeremy’s Real Lives
I keep finding some rather glaring gaps in my 1990’s British comedy knowledge, and they all seem to be things that were broadcast in 1995 or 1996. God knows what else I was doing back then if not watching telly. Anyway, one such gap is the rather intriguing and incongruous pairing of Jack Dee and…
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2point4 Continuity
Let’s have a look at just how mis-promoted 2point4 Children was by the BBC, given that it was such a popular sitcom. Here’s a number of Christmas 1996 promos, featuring the voices (I think) of Tony Hawks and Kate Robbins. Here’s a junction from 1993, that still doesn’t really sell the tone of the show.…
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It’s June The 12th
“It’s the middle of summer, big ears.” Every year, around this time, I am reminded of this, from the Time episode of The Young Ones: As is Dawn French, it seems. Anyway, I wondered about this date (June 12th), in particular its specificity. I can’t find any copies of an original script for the episode,…
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Rick’s A B’Stard
This moment from The New Statesman Comic Relief Special still brings me absolute joy. I’d not seen this one before, which is from a 2006ish episode of that godawful, thankfully no longer on show This Week.
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Victoria Wood … As Listed In The Radio Times
Yesterday I learned that Victoria Wood herself wrote the Radio Times listings for her show As Seen On TV. The first one, which aired on Friday 11th January 1985, reads like this: ‘Chipper’ Patel arrived from New Delhi in 1962 with an artificial leg and five pounds in his pocket. He now controls a multi-million…
