Sketch Shows – Page 31 – Simon Dunn

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More Portlandia

Some more sketches from the wonderful Portlandia. Seek it out.

October 14, 2020
Spitting Image Live! From London

Here’s some footage from Live! From London, an HBO special, hosted by Howie Mandel in 1988, of Spitting Image. No idea why Nigel is in the back of the plane. I wish I could find more clips from the show, which was MC’d by Ben Elton, and also featured French & Saunders, Rowan Atkinson, and…

October 8, 2020
Beekeeping And A 2 Litre Bottle Of Ginger

I asked people to tweet me sketches. Here are two great ones I got sent. First, from @garyrodger, this from 1981. And second, this one from @bbapbf.

October 3, 2020
Kate McKinnon’s Commercials

Here’s a series of adverts Kate McKinnon made to launch the 2015 Ford Focus. And here’s one for Suddenlink (whatever that is), made before SNL I think. A run for Stride Gum (though I have no idea if this is real or parody tbh). Pretty sure these are real though.

October 1, 2020
Sponsored Threat

Here’s Da Management performing at Comedians Do It On Stage, a 1986 Channel 4 charity special.

September 30, 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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