Category: Filthy, Rich & Catflap
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Filthy Rich And Catclips
Or When Rik Mayall Nearly Quit To Be A Teacher I really like Filthy, Rich And Catflap. As I say in Proctology: A Bottom Examination, it didn’t help that at times the show was being pushed as the natural successor to The Young Ones. Ben Elton, talking on The South Bank Show recalled the show […]
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Filthy
Buried inside this full-page interview with Ben Elton (Dublin Evening Herald, 27th September 1986) is an early mention of a new sitcom called Filthy, Rich And Catflap. Lots of talk about The Young Ones, and Blackadder of of course, and the inevitable clarification that Eric and Ernie are good, but Benny Hill is problematic. I […]
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Ed Bye In His Own Words
It’s depressingly easy to forget the influence and contribution TV directors have made to comedy over the years. It’s not like the movies, which revere the director, and forget the writers, it’s the other way round really. So it was nice to stumble across this interview with Ed Bye in The Stage from the 3rd […]
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Lee Cornes
There was a time when Lee Cornes was on every great show that I used to watch. From The Young Ones, through Filthy, Rich & Catflap, and onto Bottom, by way The Comic Strip, Saturday Live, Red Dwarf, French & Saunders, Lenny Henry, and so much more. Then he just seemed to drop off my […]
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Filthy Rich And Something
Here’s a little rare treat, some continuity before the start of an episode of Filthy, Rich & Catflap. I particularly enjoy the way he enunciates the show’s title. Enjoy.