Category: Comedy

  • Letterman
    Letterman

    David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Inc. has launched an official Letterman YouTube channel. It features clips from Late Night and The Late Show, and hopefully eventually ones from his earlier breakfast show too. It also has interviews with staff from the productions. Here’s a great one with Marc Karzen, about the bumpers.

  • Dud And Johnny
    Dud And Johnny

    Here’s Dudley Moore’s first appearance on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.

  • Everything’s Relative (Twice)
    Everything’s Relative (Twice)

    Mitchell Hurwitz created a sitcom about a man who is trying to rid himself of a troublesome family. It starred Jeffrey Tambor. It was not Arrested Development. A few years before he created that show, he created Everything’s Relative, for NBC. It was cancelled after just four episodes, leaving two more unaired. It’s not to…

  • Kenneth Williams On Joan Rivers
    Kenneth Williams On Joan Rivers

    Following on from yesterday, Kenneth Williams joined Dudley Moore and others on the couch to chat to Joan Rivers, as part of her BBC show Can We Talk?. He mentions Pieces Of Eight, a revue show that was written by Peter Cook (Joan’s co-host). The follow up to this revue was One Over The Eight,…

  • The Golden Girls Kitchen Used To Live In Chicago
    The Golden Girls Kitchen Used To Live In Chicago

    I mean, the title says it all really. But with the caveat that the kitchen is a set in Los Angeles, of course. The point is, the kitchen as used by The Golden Girls first made an appearance in an earlier sitcom, also created by Susan Harris, called It Takes Two, which was set in…

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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
    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…

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