Sketch Shows – Page 5 – Simon Dunn

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It’s Time For …

Here’s a few curios from the newspapers about The Mary Whitehouse Experience. First up, from the Dublin Sunday World, on 15th July 1990, there’s a review of what sounds like an horrendous episode of The James Whale Radio Show. This is a review, from The Stage, of the TV show on 17th January 1991. There’s…

September 15, 2022
Too Many Ronnies

Here’s an episode of Alexei Sayle’s podcast, in which he chats with the writers David Renwick and Andrew Marshall.

August 13, 2022
Some Fast Show Clips

The TV Weekly page in the Daily Mirror on the 24th September is titled Smashie Pens A Real Smasher. We’ll have a look at most of what’s on the page, just to get a sense of where TV comedy was at on the weekend before the first episode of The Fast Show aired. The write-up…

July 14, 2022
A Bit Of Bitesize. Nice

Here’s John Thompson doing a bit for Bitesize circa 1997, and helping those taking their exams with revision and whatnot. Really nice.

July 4, 2022
Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth

In 2011, Ben Elton returned to live variety TV comedy in the form of Live From Planet Earth, an hour long show on Australia’s Nine network. It featured Ben as host, introducing sketches and performances from a cast of regular contributors, in much the same way Saturday Live had done in the UK back in…

July 2, 2022

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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…