• Let us pray as Dibley’s Vicar teases something special for Christmas.
    October 25, 2020

    Let us pray as Dibley’s Vicar teases something special for Christmas.

    Since everything you read on the Internet is true, I’m taking Dawn French’s teasing of something special from the creators of The Vicar of Dibley this season to the bank. Ok, fine, I can only find one mention of the absolutely brilliant news reportedly dropped recently by French, who plays Dibley’s vicar, Geraldine Granger, but I’m taking that as meaning ‘there is a chance’ that this possibility could be worth the paper it was printed on.

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  • Friday Funny — ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
    October 9, 2020

    Friday Funny — ‘Jeeves and Wooster’ with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie

    Tellyspotting digs deep into the ‘Friday Funny’ vault for this weeks entry. With Hugh Laurie’s upcoming effort in Roadkill, which premieres on PBS beginning Sunday, November 1, we thought we’d go ‘classic comedy’ with a look back at Jeeves and Wooster. Based on the ‘Jeeves’ short stories and novels by P.G. Wodehouse, the series ran for 4 seasons […]

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  • Happy belated 45th, ‘Fawlty Towers’!
    September 20, 2020

    Happy belated 45th, ‘Fawlty Towers’!

    On Saturday, as Planet Earth quietly celebrated the 45th anniversary of Fawlty Towers, series co-creator/co-writer John Cleese posed a question on Twitter to which the ability to come up with an answer is next to impossible, if not impossible. Easily the funniest comedy of all-time, the 12 episodes (yes, there were only 12) are wall-to-wall […]

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  • Friday Funny — ‘Yes Minister’ on the proper function of Government
    September 18, 2020

    Friday Funny — ‘Yes Minister’ on the proper function of Government

    For today’s Friday Funny, we step into Mr. Peabody’s WABAC machine and set the dial for 1980. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 40 years since co-creators, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn wrote the unbelievably brilliant British comedy, Yes Minister, and that it is more relevant today than when it first originated. Long praised […]

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  • John Cleese is Santa in ‘Father Christmas is Back’
    September 16, 2020

    John Cleese is Santa in ‘Father Christmas is Back’

    Sadly, we’ll have to wait until Christmas for this one as, personally, in the words of the song made famous in the Jerry Herman Broadway musical, Auntie Name, “We Need a Little Christmas” right now at this point in 2020. John Cleese (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Hold the Sunset) leads an all-star cast in taking on the role of Santa in new festive comedy film Father Christmas Is Back.

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  • Friday Funny — ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ deduces why Sherlock is so popular
    September 11, 2020

    Friday Funny — ‘Goodness Gracious Me’ deduces why Sherlock is so popular

    Goodness Gracious Me, the British sitcom with a central theme focusing on British Asian culture, ran for 3 series and 23 episodes from 1998-2001. Starring the foursome of Sanjeev Bhaskar (Kumars at No. 42, The Indian Doctor, Unforgotten), Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal (Kumars at No. 42) and Nina Wadia (Eastenders, Still Open All Hours), Goodness Gracious Me sketches poked fun at […]

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  • Friday Funny — “The Bookshop Sketch” from ‘At Last the 1948 Show’
    September 4, 2020

    Friday Funny — “The Bookshop Sketch” from ‘At Last the 1948 Show’

    For those of you that thought humor was invented in 1969 with the premiere of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, take a look at At Last the 1948 Show sometime. A product of David Frost’s production company, Paradine Productions, and starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman and Aimi MacDonald, the 1967 series brought to light the […]

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