Sketch Shows – Page 30 – Simon Dunn

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The Sketch Show Overseas

After winning a BAFTA for its first series, The Sketch Show was actually cancelled before the end of its second series, with episodes left that have never been broadcast. Meanwhile, the format sold well overseas, with versions in Greece (Skertsakia), Canada, Israel (Ktsarim), Indonesia (Sketsa), and Italy. Which provides a fun opportunity to do this.…

November 13, 2020
The English Class

This is a good sketch. As always I’d love to know who wrote it.

November 11, 2020
Bruiser’s IT Guy

Here’s a selection of sketches from BBC Two 2000 sketch show Bruiser. If you need to see the value of sketch shows, just look at the number of careers that this show helped develop, both in front of, and behind the camera. But that’s not why we’re here. Does anyone know who wrote the IT…

November 10, 2020
My Plan To Change The World

Has anyone just tried offering Trump a wafer thin mint?

November 4, 2020
Hale & Pace & Parodies

I still think Hale & Pace’s ITV show is overlooked a bit. Here’s a few parodies they did, starting with this James Bond one. Not sure this one counts as a parody really, but it invokes the Miami Vice name. He does blink in this one, but not much, which makes it rather accurate to…

October 27, 2020

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…