Tag: Roseanne
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The Fifth Seinfeld
This isn’t quite the fun of the fifth housemate in The Young Ones, or the mystery of the dog bowl in Bottom, but after Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer, the character who appears most in Seinfeld is Ruthie Cohen. She appears in 101 of 180 episodes, and has a speaking role in three (The Gum,…
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Comedy Is … Nice Work If You Can Get It
There was a time in the late 1990s when I would watch cable television into the small hours of the night. And more often than not, I was watching The Paramount Comedy Channel. Home to an eclectic mix of British, American, and Australian sitcoms, sketch shows, stand up, and panel shows – the channel’s strap-line…
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Absolutely FabulUSA
Tortuous title aside, the US networks have made a few attempts at adapting Absolutely Fabulous for the American market. Probably the more well-known attempt is the one speahheaded by Roseanne, with a view to casting Carrie Fisher and Barbara Carrera. That never got to a pilot stage, as fas as I’m aware, but some elements…
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Clooney Sitcoms
Before his ascent into stardom, and literal use of the stratosphere and satellites, George Clooney appeared in a number of sitcoms. Weirdly, as many people know, his first role in a sitcom was in E/R. E/R was a Normal Lear joint, that aired for one season on CBS in 1984-5. A year or so later,…
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Letterman Walks In On The Seinfeld Set
Have a watch of this, and we’ll talk afterwards. https://youtu.be/6zGsJB2ggUA First of all, that Hotdog bit is great, and I want to see much more of that argument. Let’s try and pin down when this episode aired. The sets of shows we see are Grace Under Fire, The Larry Sanders Show (which itself wandered onto…
