The Comic Strip – Simon Dunn

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Some Comic Strip Continuity

A couple of short trailers for the BBC Two iteration of The Comic Strip Presents …

April 9, 2022
The Comic Strip Clipped

There’s something fasincating about charting the development of things through their contemporaneous newspaper clippings. So let’s take a wander through the early years of The Comic Strip, and it’s beginnings in Soho. On the 25th September 1980, news broke that a contentious row about the chosen venue of the new Comic Strip had been resolved.…

April 3, 2022

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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…