Category: Sketch Shows
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Comic Asides: Felix Dexter On TV
Here’s another Comic Asides pilot that I’m amazed didn’t make it to a full series. Felix Dexter On TV was written by Dexter, with Higson and Whitehouse taking on script editing duties.
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Comic Asides: It’s A Mad World World World
Another radio show that got a pilot as part of the Comic Asides strand on BBC Two was And Now, In Colour. Only here it was called It’s A Mad World World World, and was completely re-cast, but written by the original crew. This wasn’t the first TV pilot for the radio show though. A…
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Comic Asides: The Honeymoon’s Over
About eight months before The Fast Show hit the screens of BBC Two, a sitcom pilot written by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson aired as part of Comic Asides. This was in the same run of pilots that introduced us to The High Life. Higson and Whitehouse’s pilot was called The Honeymoon’s Over, and it…
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The First Key & Peele Sketch
The thought that goes in to the choice of the first ever sketch shown in a new series must be a headache. The first sketch we see in the series proper for A Bit Of Fry & Laurie for example is Parent Power, with Hugh telling off Stephen’s headmaster for suggesting his child is the…
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Mel And Sue And Rich And Stew Too
Light Lunch was such a fixture in my life at the time, that it’s amazing to me now that it was only on our screens for less than a year. It ran between March of 1997 and February of 1998. Here’s a fabulous episode featuring Lee And Herring, which unfolds in a natural and funny…
