Well, it would appear that the London West End Battle of the Spoofs (LWEBOTS for short) is over. The Hound of the Baskervilles is closing a month early, while The 39 Steps extends its London run and also undergoes a transplantation to Boston (that's the United States, not Lincolnshire) and thenceforth to Broadway (that's New York City, not Splott).( Read more... )

On the way out of the theatre I pick up a letter from a woman in Kingsteignton who is looking forward to the moment that I stand before God and am sent to hell. Idiot.

Channel Four, erroneously considering me to be an opinion leader in the world of television audiences, have put the first episode of The IT Crowd online. Pedigree is good: it's written by Graham "Father Ted" Linehan, and has Richard "Garth Marenghi" Ayoade and Chris "Yes, that Chris Morris" Morris in it. Not bad for a first episode, some of it ( Read more... )

Googling (not very thoroughly I hasten to add) for a transcript of the infamous Harry Enfield "Women! Know Your Limits!" sketch the other day, I was slightly disturbed to find the only source (please note again, I was not thorough) was a Jehovah's Witness discussion forum (in two parts, starts about a third of the way down). More distubing were ( Read more... )

Huzzah, there's an episode of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace online! It may be the best TV show ever about a cursed NHS hospital in Romford, but it's dimmed a smidgeon in my estimation since watching The Howling 7 the other night. It seems to want to use Windows Media Player, mind.

The deliberate mistake was that Pegg and Schwimmer are not "together at last!", they both shared screentime on Band of Brothers. Of course, looking over the entry again, I see a couple of unintended mistakes as well (plus a bonus deliberate one).

Yep, it's Simon "Spaced" Pegg and David "Hi I'm Ross From Popular US Comedy 'Friends'" Schwimmer. Apparently they're in Cardiff filming a new "black comedy": "Big Nothing". Given that the Peggmeister has recently sold out to Hollywood (Mission Impossible 3!?!?) I'm not very hopeful.* panzer_attack and jaxvor, you have 5 seconds to spot the deliberate mistake, the ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know, I mention him far too often, and he is from Somerset, but Richard Herring on the new King Kong is a gem of a piece. The wonderful thing about modern film blockbusters is that you don't actually have to see them to know everything there is to know about them.

Taste in comedy is a thing universally acknowledged to be subjective, but sometimes I find the arbitrariness of it quite disturbing. Example: re-badgings of the Python's Yorkshiremen sketch almost always leave me cold, but I never tire of Richard Herrings's use of the "not that I was thinking/would do outrageous/perverted thing X, and anyone who ( Read more... )