Category: British

  • BJ On A Seesaw
    BJ On A Seesaw

    I still can’t believe it took me so long to realise the massive B and J on their dungarees was a joke.

  • A Moment Of Clarity
    A Moment Of Clarity

    For whatever reason, I can’t stop thinking about this sketch at the moment. Or more correctly, which I didn’t remember, these two sketches.

  • It’s A Puppet
    It’s A Puppet

    This is only funny because it’s a puppet. Otherwise, it’s very disturbing. As far as I can tell, Live On Tape was a sketch show that ran on KLJB-TV, a local station in Davenport, Iowa. It was on for two years in the late 1980s. I may well be wrong that this is the source…

  • Gorden Kaye On Wogan
    Gorden Kaye On Wogan

    Here’s an interview from Wogan, with Gordon Kaye, just as the first series of ‘Allo ‘Allo was gathering an audience, and the second series had just been shot. I still find it odd hearing Kaye’s real accent, and it’s interesting to hear him make reference to Secret Army. Why are there bits of the Every…

  • Pole Vaulters
    Pole Vaulters

    The Armando Iannucci Shows haunts me (in a good way). It’s crammed with great ideas, brilliant sketches, and hung together on a neat premise. Snippets of it live in my brain forever. Rod Stewart will never again catch a bus. That’s my pie. If you’ve not seen it, or not seen it for a while,…

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  • Nineteen 90s Shows
    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    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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