Category: Sketch Shows
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A New Angel
This is from The Carol Burnett Show. The show ran for 244 episodes in the US, across twelve years, but somehow only 13 episodes were ever broadcast in the UK. That was on BBC2 in the summer of 1970.
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Puh Oh Buh
Funny how time mangles your memory. This morning, as I stared out of the misty window at the drizzle, I remembered a TV show from my childhood. And when I looked it up, it bore no resemblance to that memory whatsoever. For a start it wasn’t called Pob. It was called Pob’s Programme. And it…
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Cresps
Here are two sketches, both called Cresps, which go in very different directions. The first is from That Mitchell And Webb Look. The second is from Aunty Donna’s Rumpus Room. And everyone looks so young in both. Cresps was originally called Crisps but then some people started calling it Cresps, so we were like oh…
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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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How To Be A Corporate Spy
Some more fun from Aunty Donna, this time an episode of their web-series 1999.
