Sketch Shows – Page 47 – Simon Dunn

Category: Sketch Shows

TFI May The Fourth

Not sure you could get any more 90s than Adam & Joe ripping in to TFI Friday using Star Wars figures.

May 4, 2019
WW2 101

This isn’t all that funny.

April 28, 2019
Michael Redmond On Friday Night Live

Here’s Michael Redmond doing some stand up on Friday Night Live circa 1988. This is actually an excellent example of really good crowd control. Listen to how rowdy they are before he speaks, and watch him raise his volume on the setup, then bring himself down to his normal level. Pretty soon, he’s got them…

April 27, 2019
Eamon, Older Brother Of Jesus

It began as a recurring sketch on Alan’s Big 1FM, and was written by its star Michael Redmond. It later reappeared with more instalments on Shuttleworth’s Showtime. But come late October 1996, Eamon, Older Brother Of Jesus, was due to become its own 15 minute show on BBC Radio 4. It never aired. The premise…

April 25, 2019
How To Fire Donald Duck

Probably not the best way to fire one of your biggest stars. This is a sketch from The Carol Burnett Show, which was a huge hit for CBS in the 70s. It never really caught on here in the UK, and only managed a 13 episode run on BBC2, although 244 episodes were made.

April 23, 2019

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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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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…