Category: Sketch Shows
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Michael Palin’s Teeth
Here’s a radio advert for Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. And here’s a review of the exclusive performance they mention, from the next day (9th November 1979) in the Daily Mirror.
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Fast Forward x 2
Fast Forward was an Australian sketch show that ran on the 7 Network for 74 episodes between 1989 and 1994. It’s worth quoting Mark Lewisohn in full from his excellent Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy: An earthy and funny sketch show, spoofing film and television and featuring, in its original version at least, some…
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It’s Time For …
Here’s a few curios from the newspapers about The Mary Whitehouse Experience. First up, from the Dublin Sunday World, on 15th July 1990, there’s a review of what sounds like an horrendous episode of The James Whale Radio Show. This is a review, from The Stage, of the TV show on 17th January 1991. There’s…
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Too Many Ronnies
Here’s an episode of Alexei Sayle’s podcast, in which he chats with the writers David Renwick and Andrew Marshall.
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Some Fast Show Clips
The TV Weekly page in the Daily Mirror on the 24th September is titled Smashie Pens A Real Smasher. We’ll have a look at most of what’s on the page, just to get a sense of where TV comedy was at on the weekend before the first episode of The Fast Show aired. The write-up…
