My favourite sketch show was the ITV(!) sketch show 'The Sketch Show' with Lee Mack, Tim Vine, possibly Ronnie Ancona and/or Karen Taylor and maybe one or two others. That was consistently … (View Post)

I loved the website TVGoHome from which Nathan Barley sprang. (This was roughly the moment at which the internet became funnier than TV: I also enjoyed from that era the Framley Examiner and Law of t… (View Post)

I rather liked TPOLAAPOC, but I've not come across anyone else before now who did. It was quite north-western humour and I'm not sure it necessarily travelled well. (View Post)

Yes, I always thought his problem was that he was brilliant at playing really dislikeable characters. If you play a likeable character, everyone wants you; I don't know how the industry works bu… (View Post)

I found the first fifteen minutes of Red Dwarf funnier than anything I had ever seen up to that point. The first two series were very good. A long and gradual decline thereafter. A good premise (same… (View Post)