Not The Nine O'Clock News – Simon Dunn

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Comedy Is … All About Timing

Here’s the third installment of Comedy Is … an audio essay that uses a show from the late 1990s line-up on the Paramount Comedy Channel as a springboard to talk about the history of television comedy, and explore the wider social context of these shows, and what they mean to me on a more personal level. This time round,…

March 15, 2021
The Gift Shop

Writing sketches can be cathartic. Let’s all go and write a venting a spleen type sketch set in a shop.

August 6, 2020
Dick Head For President

Imagine.

August 5, 2020
Not Necessarily Rowan Atkinson

This is interesting. A rare interview with Rowan Atkinson, this time for Good Morning America, in which he plugs Blackadder and the new ‘pilot’ Mr Bean. Here’s the US version of Not The Nine O’Clock News he mentions.

March 18, 2020

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Proctology: A Bottom Examination

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…

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Re-Casting Keanu

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…