Category: Sketch Shows
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Victoria Wood … As Listed In The Radio Times
Yesterday I learned that Victoria Wood herself wrote the Radio Times listings for her show As Seen On TV. The first one, which aired on Friday 11th January 1985, reads like this: ‘Chipper’ Patel arrived from New Delhi in 1962 with an artificial leg and five pounds in his pocket. He now controls a multi-million…
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Seen
Today’s mood, basically.
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The Ballads Of Barry And Freda
Let’s do it. Let’s have a look at The Ballad of Barry and Frida, and watch how Victoria Wood developed the song over time, changing the contemporary references. Here’s the song as it appeared in 1986 on an episode of As Seen On TV. She said of the song, ‘A joy to write, a sod…
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Shop Sketches
I love a good shop sketch. Shops lend themselves so well to the format. Whether it’s a normal assistant dealing with a weird customer … Or two normal people doing something weird … Or annoying assistants ticking off haughty customers.
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What’s A Mum?
This is a good sketch. I particularly like how he hands the gun back to the runner between takes.
