Category: Sketch Shows
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Harry Enfield And Votes
Everything changes, but everything stays the same. Bet something like this ended up being put on Facebook at some point. In 1997 there was a 3 hours election comedy special. Go vote.
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Mrs BJ Smegma
What’s your favourite comedy name? In my more formative years, I remember being told by someone whom I respected that the use of comedy names was the last resort of the desperate. This person of course, was very, very wrong. Re-watching Bottom, I’m appreciating some of the peripheral character names a great deal. Mr Sex,…
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Comic Relief Blankety Blank
I just stumbled across this sketch from the 2003 Comic Relief, and it’s a work of wonder. You should recognise every single face in it, though at the time of broadcast, that may not have been the case. That’s quite a lineup. Me and Kevin Cecil were slightly involved in it – it was very…
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For 4 Tonight
A title that’s a mouthful, and difficult to get your tongue around, For 4 Tonight was a Channel 4 show, created by Ruby Wax, starring George Irving and Rachel Bell. It aired on the network in the autumn of 1983, and was directed by Michael Dolenz (yes, that one). Stay tuned for the disconcerting 80s…
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Up Yer News
I love it when I stumble upon a hitherto unknown gap in my 90s comedy canon. So it was with the discovery of Up Yer News. I should have been all over this, what with my deep dives into the calamity of BSB last year, but there was no mention of it in the otherwise…
