Category: British
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My Most Enthusiastic Contrafibularities
I was never sure whenever I watched Ink & Incapability if all the words Blackadder used were real, or if, as I mostly suspected, they were neologisms. You have to admire the mangling of the subtitles here, even on a made up word. Is that how it was written on the page? Because that’s not…
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Ivan Dobsky And Mr Hoppy
The trouble with Monkey Dust, aside from it being a great, bleak sketch show, is that it’s not polite to quote it in company. The other trouble with Monkey Dust, is that this character in particular is almost impossible not to do impressions of as you walk around the house. I thoroughly recommend the DVD…
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CraigyFerg On JonnyRoss
Some primo 90s chat show action for you.
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Very Good Indeed Sitcoms
It seems obvious, from looking at the BBC’s Annual Report of 1979, that they were much more proud of their drama output than of their comedy fare. A mere three paragraphs are given over to the gigglepics. To win the viewer’s affection, the scripts of any situation comedy need to be very good indeed. The…
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Positively Enriching Situation Comedies
Here’s the overview of the BBC’s comedy output during 1977, as recorded in their annual report. Comedies including The Good Life and serials including I, Claudius shared pride of place during the year. Situation comedies, some of which were not only funny but positively enriching, again flourished on BBC Television. As usual much depended on…
