Category: Comedy
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Fringe Cuttings
Yesterday we had a browse through the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe brochure. So today let’s travel a year further back and see what we can find in the 1996 one. Beginning with this. If you’ve not heard Simon Day’s Radio 4 show, you should. It features all of these characters (and more), and it’s excellent. Now,…
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Barcode Dress Code Decode
If you want to see the full Edinburgh Fringe brochure from 1997, you can look at it here. But here are some of the bits that jumped out at me as I digitally thumbed through it.
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Down Under Your Bottom
Here’s a nice spin on a familiar thing on this blog. It’s the TV listings write up for Bottom, when it first aired on the ABC in Australia, from the Torres News on 18th November 1994. That’s rather later than I would have expected it to reach there. At first blush, it does look a…
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Television Today (Then)
Each week in The Stage, there’s a section called Television Today, and it’s always a fascinating read. Especially old ones, available on The British Newspaper Archive. Let’s have a look at the edition from this week, back in 1993. We’ll start with a bit of a cheat, because this article is actually from the theatre…
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Junkies
David Quantick, over on Twitter, reminded me the other day of his online sitcom Junkies. It starred Sally Phillips, Peter Serafinowicz, Kevin Eldon, and Peter Baynham. It was written by David and Jane Bussman, and appeared on the internet in 2000. I remember waiting days for the Real Video file to download, when watching video,…
