Sitcom Advent Calendar Day Five

December 5, 2012

Sitcom Advent Calendar Day Five

Before Coupling and Chalk, way before Doctor Who and Sherlock, but after Press Gang, Steven Moffat bought us Joking Apart. I remember watching this in my bedroom on a portable black and white television, and enjoying it a lot. It probably got a few unfair comparisons to Seinfeld, but only because of the stand-up scenes, and it really shouldn’t be put side by side with it.

There’s a lot of good information about the show on Wikipedia and there’s a lovingly put together DVD [amazon asin=B000SKIJ2S&text=available].

Anyway, here’s a clip:

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