Category: Sketch Shows
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Spitting Creme Eggs
It’s a cream egg surely? But let’s not get into that. Here’s a mid 90s campaign for Creme Eggs featuring the puppets of Spitting Image. The implication at the end being, am I wrong, that Piggot humps his? A charge they are so sure of, they repeat it in the second advert. Now I wanted…
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KellyVision – Spitting Image
This is rather a good look behind the scenes of Spitting Image.
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Christopher Buyin’
There are more adverts we need to talk about. Firstly, this one, featuring the voice of Christopher Ryan, from around 1986. Who is this advert aimed at? Who are Del and Harry, and why are they turning the Financial Times newspaper into a pub? Next, Mark Williams is just inherently funny. Here’s Ray Winstone in…
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Spitting Hot Metal
I’ve just started watching Hot Metal, the mid-80s sitcom about the newspaper business, written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick for LWT. I have a vague memory of watching it at the time, though it may have only been a snippet of one episode. A week after the first series finished, a new series of…
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Hunt The Old Woman
I just tweeted about this, but I’m going to put it here too. On my long, oh so long, re-watch of Last Of The Summer Wine, in the 1995, series 17 episode Desperate For A Duffield, this happened. I did a double take. I rewound. I let the scene play out. That’s … that’s the…
