Category: The New Statesman
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House Of Comedy
Aside from this sketch being terrible, also marvel at the complete lack of attention to any detail whatsoever. Compare it to the gorgeous set here, and the proper protocols, and people sitting on the correct benches. Even puppets can get it right.
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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…
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Filthy Ward & Bottom Swap
I have no idea why I’m writing this. I just got it into my head the other day that the hospital set in Bottom‘s Apocalypse is the same, or at least rather similar to the hospital set in Filthy, Rich & Catflap‘s first episode. Catflap sits in an odd place in my comedy timeline. You…
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Speech To Conference
Posted for no reason whatsoever. Thank you Mister Bastard.
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Spitting Hot Metal
I’ve just started watching Hot Metal, the mid-80s sitcom about the newspaper business, written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick for LWT. I have a vague memory of watching it at the time, though it may have only been a snippet of one episode. A week after the first series finished, a new series of…
