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Vox Pops: Twas Ever Thus

Vox Pops might as well just be this, all the time, looped. It would make as much sense. Or this. And I still think these real ones from ABC’s Four Corners are great. See more of these here.

February 1, 2020
Mrs BJ Smegma

What’s your favourite comedy name? In my more formative years, I remember being told by someone whom I respected that the use of comedy names was the last resort of the desperate. This person of course, was very, very wrong. Re-watching Bottom, I’m appreciating some of the peripheral character names a great deal. Mr Sex,…

December 9, 2019
At The Theatre With Fry & Laurie

See if you can spot the moment that Hugh nearly corpses … This feels like a Saturday Live sketch that could equally have been performed by Rik & Ade, and had it been, it would have had a very different feel to it. Also, under the lights, that meat must have stank.

May 22, 2019
Fry & Laurie Say Goodbye To Gordon

It bewilders me why Saturday Live isn’t more widely available.

May 21, 2019

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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

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…