The trouble with Monkey Dust, aside from it being a great, bleak sketch show, is that it’s not polite to quote it in company. The other trouble with Monkey Dust, is that this character in particular is almost impossible not to do impressions of as you walk around the house.
I thoroughly recommend the DVD of this (first series only alas), not least because it has a fabulous feature on it that lists all the credits for each sketch, including writers, performers, and animators.
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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…
