I do like stumbling across some hitherto unknown to me comedy, and thanks to Facebook, I did exactly that this morning. Here’s where it all started.
This is Clarke & Dawe, who are John Clarke and John Dawe. From 1989 onwards, they did these head to head interviews for the Australian show A Current Affair on the Nine network, before becoming its own show on the ABC.
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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…
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…
