Category: The Fast Show
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You Ain’t Clipped These, Right?
I mean, it’s impossible to write about The Fast Show without quoting it. So let’s get them out of the way. Brilliant. I like this, when comedy worlds collide and remind me that sometimes shows that seem from different eras actually shared a schedule. Which is nice. This one is more interesting from a TV…
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Some Fast Show Clips
The TV Weekly page in the Daily Mirror on the 24th September is titled Smashie Pens A Real Smasher. We’ll have a look at most of what’s on the page, just to get a sense of where TV comedy was at on the weekend before the first episode of The Fast Show aired. The write-up…
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A Bit Of Bitesize. Nice
Here’s John Thompson doing a bit for Bitesize circa 1997, and helping those taking their exams with revision and whatnot. Really nice.
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You Ain’t Seen Pils, Right
During an episode of the Harry Hill show on Channel 4 in 1998, something rather remarkable happened. The first part of the show ended, and the advert break began. Except it was an advert break with a bit of a difference. As reported on 23 July 1998 on the BBC News Site: The Fast Show’s…
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We Wanna Be Together
I want to be a tree. It’s a fair bet that we’ve collectively forgotten all the things the people in the Prudential campaigns of the 1990s wanted … except perhaps the memorable, and brilliantly delivered, Mark Williams exhaltation. I didn’t realise, or more likely, had forgotten, that there was a follow-up to this advert, a…
