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Smashie And Nicey on Comic Relief

Here’s Harry and Paul’s turn on the 1993 Comic Relief, with a great intro by Lenny Henry. Here’s the Bohemian Rhapsody bit that’s missing … I would give anything to see the full song by Jeeves and Wooster. If you’re wondering why Kryten is missing the tip of his nose, you should read The Man…

November 22, 2021
Hugh Reads The Results

There’s something charming about this sketch. I mean, it’s obvious where it’s going, but the laughs come from Hugh’s brilliant performance.

October 7, 2021
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.

June 9, 2021
‘Allo ‘Allo Live

Here’s the ‘Allo ‘Allo live show, as featured on one of the best iterations of Comic Relief in 1989. It appears to be an extract from the full live show, which ran from 1986 to 1992, rather than anything specially made for Comic Relief.

September 29, 2020
Wetty Hainthropp Looks Into It

It’s always interesting to see which old posts suddenly start to get lots of new reads, and I like to go back and read them to see why that might be. At the moment, I am getting a lot of readers of The Daniels Boyle, but I’ve no idea why. This is one of those…

July 9, 2020

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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Re-Casting Keanu

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…