Category: British
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The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
In looking at British television satire and topical comedy in the latest episode of Comedy Is …, I somehow managed to overlook The Mark Thomas Comedy Product. This Channel 4 show ran for six series from 1996 to 2003, and was something I watched avidly when it was on.
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The Two Johns
By necessity, the latest episode of Comedy Is …, which explores British topical satire TV shows, had to skip over a lot of really good things. One of those things was the decades long partnership of John Bird and John Fortune. Here they are on a South Bank Show special, deconstructing the looming financial collapse…
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Comedy Is … All About Timing
Here’s the third installment of Comedy Is … an audio essay that uses a show from the late 1990s line-up on the Paramount Comedy Channel as a springboard to talk about the history of television comedy, and explore the wider social context of these shows, and what they mean to me on a more personal level. This time round,…
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Popular Space Show
If you’re not already familiar with Alasdair Beckett-King, you should seek out all of his videos and gobble them up like they’re Jaffa Cakes.
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Armando’s Gash
I think I can remember the very last show that I recorded on a VHS tape. I’m fairly sure that it was the Channel Four topical comedy show Gash, in 2003. It was one of the shows that Armando Iannucci made in between the Chris Morris years, Armistice, and The Thick Of It, and shared…
