Category: Australian

  • Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ Dot Of Red
    Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ Dot Of Red

    This one is into the weeds, even for me. If you haven’t watched Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House Of Fun, you should. Here’s a moment from episode five Night Time!. Can you see it? How about now? The red dot on Mark’s sleeve? It’s so incongruous, that it makes me think it has to be…

  • Christmas Pud
    Christmas Pud

    I don’t know why I like this sketch so much, but I do, in spite of the custard.

  • Cresps
    Cresps

    Here are two sketches, both called Cresps, which go in very different directions. The first is from That Mitchell And Webb Look. The second is from Aunty Donna’s Rumpus Room. And everyone looks so young in both. Cresps was originally called Crisps but then some people started calling it Cresps, so we were like oh…

  • How To Be A Corporate Spy
    How To Be A Corporate Spy

    Some more fun from Aunty Donna, this time an episode of their web-series 1999.

  • A Comedy Library
    A Comedy Library

    Some sketches on a theme.

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    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
    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…

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