Category: French & Saunders

  • This Is A Joke I Have Made
    This Is A Joke I Have Made

    This needs no preamble. Their radio show, which aired during Christmas and Easter at the start of the 2010s and on was marvellous, and I wish I could find more of it. How are you?

  • What’s The Opposite Of Soap Bubbles?
    What’s The Opposite Of Soap Bubbles?

    Another episode of setisoppO to put in your ears. Within, we mention this.

  • Portable TV Comedy
    Portable TV Comedy

    Whilst walking through the bitter cold wind, a hundred metres from anyone else, I had a pang of nostalgia for when I used to stay up late in my bedroom and watch all sorts of brilliant comedy shows on my black and white portable TV. So, imagine some of these in monochrome, and slightly out…

  • Angry Sitcom Characters
    Angry Sitcom Characters

    Let’s start with Rik again, this time playing Rick in The Young Ones. Here’s a character consumed by the impotent rage of youth, wanting to change the world, thwarted by his spots. Basil Fawlty is angry at everything, taking it out on everyone, but this anger is fueled by the reality of his failing business.…

  • French & Adverts Doop Be Doo Be Doo
    French & Adverts Doop Be Doo Be Doo

    It occurs to me I could be hiring out these advert blogs to advertisers. Missed a trick there. Anyway, it’s not often that Dawn and Jennifer appear in adverts together, they’re more likely to do them alone. This one though is the only one that references their show directly. Hey, remember when that was the…

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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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