Room 101 – Simon Dunn

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All Night Long

Funny how the memory plays tricks on you. For the longest time I keep remembering a mid-1990s 8.30pm sitcom starring Keith Barron, working in an all-night bakery. Sometimes I forget what it was called, and it takes ages to recall the title … but my mind keeps coming back to it. All Night Long, written…

March 29, 2022
Room 101 Overseas

We’ve looked at all sorts of international versions of familiar British shows on this site, and it’s always fun to see something we know so well with a different look or in a different voice. But we rarely see the same thing with the same show itself. Room 101 has had a number of different…

September 20, 2021
Julia Morris On Room 101 (Australia)

I love it when several of my interests collide. Here’s one of my most favourite comedians, Julia Morris, on the Australian version of Room 101. And it’s the best version of the format, one on one with the host. Room 101 ran on SBS in 2015 for ten episodes over the summer. As you can…

May 26, 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…