Thought Vomit – Page 6 – Simon Dunn

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A Rabbit In A Hat With A Bat

When I was in halls at Uni, the guy in the room next to me used to play this song a lot. And I mean a lot. It’s a perfectly good track. It sticks in your mind. However, it’s burned deeply into my brain because the guy in the room next to me took the…

November 4, 2019
Can You Read Clocks In Movies?

I can’t read clocks in movies. Or on TV shows for that matter. I don’t mean the flipping ones like in Groundhog Day, or digital clocks, I mean yer bog standard analogue ticky tock type clock. (Not sure I ever noticed that picture of a man hanging from the clock hand before. Good foreshadowing is…

November 2, 2019
Lucy Darling Plays Hide And Seek With A Martini

This is brilliant variation on the cup and balls trick, from an excellent performer.

October 14, 2019
Chop Cup

An amazing variant on a familiar routine, and one that Paul Daniels is still remembered for even now, apparently. I’m more familiar with this version.

September 30, 2019
The Computer That Predicted The End Of The World

From 1973:

September 1, 2019

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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…