Category: Sketch Shows
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A Bit More Back Matter
There’s a collection of bowel-shattering comic sketches from the increasingly misunderstood BBC TV series ‘A Bit Of Fry and Laurie‘, and it’s written using only lead-free pencils. So claims the book cover for the second collection of their sketches anyway. On the back it also claims that the book contains no satire at the expense…
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A Bit Of Back Matter
I’m amazed it took me so long to buy the script books for A Bit Of Fry and Laurie, but there it is. The first one has the tagline ‘raw, trembling, naked sketches from their first BBC TV series’. The back cover is rather lovely. It’s got hand-scrawled notes about the design. Signed by S.F.,…
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The Film Of Reeves And Mortimer
In September of 1997, the BBC’s arts strand Omnibus, aired The Film Of Reeves And Mortimer. It traced their career, and included a lot of specially made comedy material too.
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The All Star Comedy Show
A few days ago we had a brief look at Monkey Trousers. Here’s the pilots for that series, with its initial title of The All Star Comedy Show. These two episodes aired on ITV in 2004, and were written by Vic and Bob, with help from others including Simon Blackwell and Caroline Aherne. It was…
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Monkey Trousers
There was a time when ITV flirted with sketch shows featuring big name performers. While The Sketch Show did well, another project did less so, in spite of a stellar cast and line up of writers. Monkey Trousers didn’t even last it’s full run of six shows, leaving the final one unaired. I think it…
