Category: Sketch Shows
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7 Fake Adverts
My Monty Python blu ray boxset just arrived, and it is a thing of beauty. So I’m a bit distracted by that right now. Here are 7 fake adverts from various TV shows.
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Ha Ha Halloween: Spooklyn Nine Nine
Every season Brooklyn Nine Nine has a heist-based Halloween episode, and they are always a joy to watch. Sort of along the lines of Bar Wars from Cheers. Spoilers ahead. When you see this moment in the opening titles, did you know that the doll is Mahoney from Police Academy? We’ve seen Samberg channel John…
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Ha Ha Halloween: Newsradiooooh
It shouldn’t surprise you to know that US sitcoms are much more likely to have made Halloween themed specials than UK ones. I wish these clips were more indicative of the quality of Newsradio, because it’s an overlooked show that is well worth a watch. Stephen Root and Dave Foley are particularly good in it.…
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Ha Ha Halloween: Reasonably Scary Monsters
To celebrate the release of Godzilla, and nothing to do with yer actual Halloween, BBC2 dedicated itself in July of 1998 to Monster Night. The strand was hosted by Bill Bailey, with guests Phill Jupitus and Paul Ross, and had a documentary from Alex Cox about Godzilla, a showing of the 1976 version of King…
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Monty Python’s Viewer Discretion
Here’s how MTV introduced that night’s episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. And here’s a specially filmed intro with Chapman and Jones for WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago.
