Category: Comedy
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Some Comic Strip Continuity
A couple of short trailers for the BBC Two iteration of The Comic Strip Presents …
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A Night Of Stand Up Comedy
Here’s a live show I would give my soul to have seen in person. In 1986, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton toured the UK with their show A Night Of Stand Up Comedy. Here’s what Angela Thomas made of it all in The Stage on the 9th January. By May, they had relocated the tour…
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A Peep Behind The Green Door
In April of 1990, viewers in Scotland got another chance to watch Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind The Green Door. Originally broadcast on BBC Two on 13th September 1982, it was a BBC Scotland production, and had a running time of 40 minutes. By the time it received this repeat though, it had been cut…
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The Diary Of Paul Jackson, Aged Thirty-Ish
Independent producer Paul Jackson gives a sneak preview of some of what we’ll see of the Melbourne Festival of comedy when it is screened on Channel 4 next month, and an insight into some of the behind-the-scenes comedy we won’t be seeing. The show they are filming for was Craig Goes Mad In Melbourne, which…
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Red Dwarf: The Reviews Are In
Here’s a couple of contemporaneous reviews for the first series of Red Dwarf, in February of 1988. The first is from the 18th, by Ann Mann in The Stage. And here’s another, this from a couple of weeks later, on the 28th, by David Bradbury in The Sunday Mirror.
