Tag: Ben Elton
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Rik Mayall On Countdown
No, not that Countdown, alas. This is an appearance from Rik Mayall and Ben Elton on the Australian network ABC. It was a music magazine show, with theme music by Brian May. Rik and Ben were promoting their tour.
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A Night Of Stand Up Comedy
Here’s a live show I would give my soul to have seen in person. In 1986, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton toured the UK with their show A Night Of Stand Up Comedy. Here’s what Angela Thomas made of it all in The Stage on the 9th January. By May, they had relocated the tour…
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Fry And Laurie’s Russia Plan
Here’s Fry and Laurie, on an episode of Saturday Live, accompanied by Harry Enfield and Ben Elton.
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Be-Hi-De-Hi-nd The Scenes
Here’s a really interesting short look behind the scenes of the final episode of Hi-De-Hi. It aired as a segment on Open Air, the BBC One daily daytime show about its output. https://youtu.be/ln4fdEDSSKY It’s worth a watch, sorry I can’t embed it. Here’s a full length early edition version of the show, including a telephone…
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Double Seat, Double Vision, & Casey Jones Burgers
I listened to the snot out of Double Seat on the Comic Relief album, but I’ve never actually seen it. So it was nice to stumble across this today. Rhythm and timing. Rhythm and timing. Watching it now, I realise he mentions something called The Casey Jones Burger. I have no idea what that was,…
