Category: Comedy
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Standing Quite A Long Way Away From
A Fry and Laurie sketch from a 1987 appearance on Saturday Live.
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The Chicken Song
I went to bed last night with The Chicken Song running round my head in a constant loop. The song featured heavily in episodes of Spitting Image, with characters humming it, or it being used as background muzak. It was written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, with the music by Phillip Pope. It was…
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Titles By Jump Design
Last night, Twitter reminded me of the amazing title sequence for Smith And Jones, as the duo moved from BBC Two to BBC One. If you’ve not seen it, it looked like this. It’s still excellent. It was shot on 35mm film over two days, using motion control cameras, and was conceived by Jump Design…
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Phil Kay Feels
One of the more memorable of my live stand up experiences was watching Phil Kay expound an hour long shaggy dog story about some fish and chips. I think my first experience of him would have been his appearances on TV, perhaps on Edinburgh Nights, or Festival of Fun, or maybe even The Stand Up…
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Don’t Slam Your Podcast!
Don’t Slam Your Podcast! is a podcast all about the sitcom 2point4 Children. It’s great, and takes an in-depth look at the show episode by episode, including interviews with show creator Andrew Marshall. So it was a great pleasure to be asked on to talk about the sister show Health and Efficiency.
