Here’s some footage from Live! From London, an HBO special, hosted by Howie Mandel in 1988, of Spitting Image. No idea why Nigel is in the back of the plane.
I wish I could find more clips from the show, which was MC’d by Ben Elton, and also featured French & Saunders, Rowan Atkinson, and Jeremy Hardy.
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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…
