There’s a veritable treasure trove of classic talk show moments on YouTube. Not only the Carson archives, but now also hundreds of interviews from The Merv Griffin Show. Hopefully you can ignore the annoying captions, and enjoy the moments.
Here’s a young Richard Pryor making quite an entrance, and then later, he gets to meet his comedy hero Jerry Lewis. It must have been quite something to have seen your idol laughing at something you just said.
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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…
