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Pallas

I randomly opened my Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy this morning, and saw the entry for Pallas. It was a Channel 4 show, created by Geoff Atkinson and Kim Fuller, that utilised stock footage of the British Royal Family, dubbed by the same people who voiced Spitting Image. And would you believe it, the…

April 9, 2020
Portable TV Comedy

Whilst walking through the bitter cold wind, a hundred metres from anyone else, I had a pang of nostalgia for when I used to stay up late in my bedroom and watch all sorts of brilliant comedy shows on my black and white portable TV. So, imagine some of these in monochrome, and slightly out…

March 29, 2020
Thatcher Resigned, Images Spat

Here’s how Spitting Image reacted to Margaret Thatcher’s resignation in 1990. Anyone know who wrote the sketch?

October 4, 2019
Spitting Creme Eggs

It’s a cream egg surely? But let’s not get into that. Here’s a mid 90s campaign for Creme Eggs featuring the puppets of Spitting Image. The implication at the end being, am I wrong, that Piggot humps his? A charge they are so sure of, they repeat it in the second advert. Now I wanted…

August 23, 2019
KellyVision – Spitting Image

This is rather a good look behind the scenes of Spitting Image.

August 22, 2019

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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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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…