Sketch Shows – Page 49 – Simon Dunn

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Adam’s Royal Wedding Song

Enjoy.

March 21, 2019
An Apt Metaphor?

This feels like it could be a political metaphor somehow, but I can’t quite put my finger on why.

November 6, 2018
Sporting Memories With Spitting Image

Here’s a nice clip from the LWT Sporting Memories. This was 1998, a good two years after Spitting Image came to an end. I’m amazed the puppet was still in any sort of working order. And it was bugging me who was doing the voice, because it clearly wasn’t any of the Spitting Image impersonators…

August 22, 2018
The Broom Cupboard, Masterteam, and The Two Ronnies

It’s always fun to have a look at what was on TV on this day thirty years ago. Perusing the listing on BBC Genome, I was drawn to the Angela Rippon quiz show Masterteam. It say in the slot that would soon be filled by Neighbours, and is not filled by Pointless, and was a…

December 4, 2017
Splitting Images

The curious case of Norris McWhirter and the explicit flash frames. On the 24th February 1985, viewers tuning in to Spitting Image on ITV were treated to a comedy song. Norris McWhirter didn’t see this song, but his nephew did, in excruciating detail, and three frames of the video would end up being argued over…

December 3, 2017

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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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