Category: The Young Ones

  • Jennifer Aniston’s Other Sitcoms
    Jennifer Aniston’s Other Sitcoms

    We’ve talked before on this blog, and on the Comedy Is … podcast about Jennifer Aniston’s role in the much maligned, and quickly cancelled sitcom Ferris Bueller. The season before this though, in 1990, she was cast as a regular in the Fox sitcom Molloy. This was a starring vehicle for the hotly touted Mayim…

  • Rick’s A B’Stard
    Rick’s A B’Stard

    This moment from The New Statesman Comic Relief Special still brings me absolute joy. I’d not seen this one before, which is from a 2006ish episode of that godawful, thankfully no longer on show This Week.

  • There’s A Hole In My Brit
    There’s A Hole In My Brit

    At the 1985 Brit Awards, things didn’t seem to be going too well. Then came the category for the Best Comedy Record, and things livened up a bit. It’s worth looking at all this a little more closely. Listen to the crowd just talking over Noel, and look at how lost he looks (this was…

  • The Young Ones Prop Gag Failure
    The Young Ones Prop Gag Failure

    Do you remember this moment from The Young Ones episode Nasty? There’s a wrap party tape made for the end of filming on series two of the show, which pops up every now and then on video sites, and then promptly vanishes again. It’s called Just For Fun, and it’s up at the moment, but…

  • R Soles At The Friendy Fascist Pig Bank
    R Soles At The Friendy Fascist Pig Bank

    This Hale & Pace sketch … … reminded me of this Smith & Jones sketch … … which reminded me of this from The Young Ones. Which lead me to wonder – is the Jools Holland ‘Good Morning Sir’ bit, a little reference to this? If so, then that’s pretty meta. Referencing an advert that…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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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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