Category: British
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Geoff
Watch this, watch it now, just watch it. And then send it to all your friends called Geoff.
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Comedy Is … The Best Medicine
Here’s the second installment of Comedy Is … a sort of 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…
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Ads Mortimer
Bob Mortimer could tell me to eat a rancid owl and I would probably consider it. Luckily, I do like a Mini Cheddar. If this was a gonzo as it’s made to look, I would love to have seen Bob doing more of these sorts of silly public stunts.
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Comes Up Peanuts
I just watched this advert from 1977 for the new flavoured Marathon. It has a weird wrapper, and features Keith Chegwin. but it’s boasting a new extra flavour – what does that mean? And what did Marathons taste like before I was born? People in adverts hold their Marathon bars in such a peculiar manner.…
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St Evil Gold
Whenever I watch ads from the 1980s, I always, always comment about how terrifying they were. And aside from the ones for Catrol GTX, it’s these ones, for St Ivel Gold that epitomise that the most. They’re just … evil. Everything about them is horrible. The voice, the audio treatment, the shot angles, the lighting,…
