Category: Sketch Shows
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What’s The Opposite Of Spitting Image?
If Mario looks at his reflection in a glass, is what looks back at him a Spitting Image of himself? I mean, there’s no way of knowing, so instead we work out the opposite of those things. Don’t share. Don’t enjoy.
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The Other Spitting Image Computer Game
After pressing the random article button in the corner up there last night, I was reminded of the Spitting Image computer game, and tweeted it out once more. This prompted @bbapbf to direct me to the precursor to this game, originally called Spitting Image, but later re-packaged as Split Personalities. As you can see it…
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The Complete History Of Masterchef (According To Vic And Bob)
Here’s a sketch from The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer, which provides a weird insight into the hidden cake phenomenon on today’s Internet. And here they are, mocking the same show, many years later on Shooting Stars. I think Vic and Bob like their food shows. But maybe not the newer ones so much.
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Turn-On Turned Off
One of the most notorious show cancellations in the US happened to Tim Conway, of all people. Turn-On was ABC’s attempt to steal the thunder of NBC’s Laugh-In, to which end they lured that show’s producers and writers across, promising them carte-blanche for a sketch show. Here’s how one of those producers, George Schlatter remembered…
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The Batmans
Sometimes, when writing a sketch, you find yourself putting in little verbal ticks for no apparent reason. I wonder if that’s the case with this, and the way they are pluralising everything. Whatever, I really like it.
