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‘Made in Britain’ today features a Scottish artist who has already gained accolades from various British organisations and he features in our very first
[...click on headline to read full story]  Silliness Rules OK!
The Monty Python team were the kingpins of TV and cinema comedy in the seventies and early eighties. Masters of catch phrases and ludicrous situations, (The Dead Parrot sketch, The Lumberjack song and The Spanish Inquisition) they swept into public consciousness as a breath of fresh air. Considered the heirs to
[...click on headline to read full story]  ‘Classic Kids TV’
Michael Bentine was one of the original Goons and that spirit inhabits this release on DVD of his children’s television shows from the seventies. Written, directed and voiced by Bentine they consist of puppets acting out famous stories and fairy tales in ten minute films. Themes featured
[...click on headline to read full story]  ‘Comedy of Errors’ is one of Shakespeare’s early plays and as the title suggests it lives up to its name.
It certainly is in Ed Hall’s direction of the play. It has often been reported that the play is hard to stage successfully due to its convoluted plot and artificial structure. It also suffers from the dreaded criticism
[...click on headline to read full story]  Jokers Wild was a comedy panel game show hosted by the evergreen Barry Cryer which ran for a number of series between 1969 and 1974 on ITV.
Based on the format of an American show of the same name, two teams of comedians compete to guess the punch line of a joke
[...click on headline to read full story]  A hale and hearty laugh in enchanted Merrydown.
Now that the snow has melted and I could get my car off my drive, the invitation to a panto could not be resisted. Its show time and this was the one for me. Throw away your troubles and indulge yourself with an evening of music,
[...click on headline to read full story]  This Lady’s Not For Turning.
Known on this side of the pond as a forceful sharp tongued wasp of a comedienne, this DVD/film is a fly on the wall look at a year in the life of this hard working seventy seven year old force of
[...click on headline to read full story]  Remembering the Magic Roundabout past and present.
Doleful Dougal, wise Zebedee and Dylan the hippy dippy rabbit make a welcome and long sought after reappearance in this long lost masterpiece of children’s television and premier adult, guilty pleasure. The boys and sometime girl Florence are back in town with this feature length film involving a blue
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When it comes to having a tear stained face through laughing there are a few who do it for me. Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, The Goons, Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, Joe Pasquale, the radio show ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’ and
[...click on headline to read full story]  Mother knows best and you better believe it !
‘Barbara’ is a British sitcom first aired on our screens between 1999 and 2003. This DVD is the first release in a series of four to be released over the next year. I missed it first time round but on this showing I won’t miss it again. This is
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