Category: British
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Don’t Question Patsy
I hadn’t noticed this verbal tick of Patsy’s on Absolutely Fabulous. Had you?
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Shop Sketches
I love a good shop sketch. Shops lend themselves so well to the format. Whether it’s a normal assistant dealing with a weird customer … Or two normal people doing something weird … Or annoying assistants ticking off haughty customers.
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Marina Sirtis On Minder
YouTube just presented me with a long clip of Marina Sirtis playing a foreign barmaid in an episode of the Jim Davidson sitcom Up The Elephant And Round The Castle. She pretty much acts them all off the screen with some brilliant timing, but buggered if I’m going to make you watch the clip here.…
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Re-Casting Keanu
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
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The Doctor And The Bastard Bunny
A lot of thought must go into some of the props that surround characters, and more so into the ones that the actors are holding. Excluding ones that are there for plot reasons, the type of mug the boss holds, or the sort of book a friend reads, all speak to that character. Here, in…
