Category: The Young Ones
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It’s June The 12th
“It’s the middle of summer, big ears.” Every year, around this time, I am reminded of this, from the Time episode of The Young Ones: As is Dawn French, it seems. Anyway, I wondered about this date (June 12th), in particular its specificity. I can’t find any copies of an original script for the episode,…
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Jennifer Aniston’s Other Sitcoms
We’ve talked before on this blog, and on the Comedy Is … podcast about Jennifer Aniston’s role in the much maligned, and quickly cancelled sitcom Ferris Bueller. The season before this though, in 1990, she was cast as a regular in the Fox sitcom Molloy. This was a starring vehicle for the hotly touted Mayim…
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Rick’s A B’Stard
This moment from The New Statesman Comic Relief Special still brings me absolute joy. I’d not seen this one before, which is from a 2006ish episode of that godawful, thankfully no longer on show This Week.
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There’s A Hole In My Brit
At the 1985 Brit Awards, things didn’t seem to be going too well. Then came the category for the Best Comedy Record, and things livened up a bit. It’s worth looking at all this a little more closely. Listen to the crowd just talking over Noel, and look at how lost he looks (this was…
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The Young Ones Prop Gag Failure
Do you remember this moment from The Young Ones episode Nasty? There’s a wrap party tape made for the end of filming on series two of the show, which pops up every now and then on video sites, and then promptly vanishes again. It’s called Just For Fun, and it’s up at the moment, but…
