I like watching the genesis and development of comedy ideas and characters, and here’s something to compliment the MeeBOX video from the other day. It’s Adam Buxton performing Famous Guy live in Edinburgh. He’s not quite as realised as he will be on the pilot, and it’s fascinating to see what traits were dropped (the verbal repeating tick), and which were expanded upon.
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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…
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…
