Here, we’ll be taking a fresh look at comedy, past. Re-evaluating forgotten gems of comedy history and bursting the media-fuelled cocoon of misinformation surrounding the more well-known gems. Okay, so it’s personal stuff. But what are you gonna do about it, eh?


  • ABSOLUTELY - A tenth anniversary tribute. Absolutely, which - at its height - was described by Vox magazine as one of Channel 4’s best-kept secrets ...

  • ALFRESCO - Alfresco was a series so fantastic Granada could only have shown it by accident.

  • COLLINS, MACONIE AND QUANTICK - - Death Metal, Sludge-core, Belgian New Beat, Hard Bag, Skiffle: they lived to tell the tale.

  • DEREK AND CLIVE ARE STILL ALIVE - ‘Are you going to go out laughing?’ asks Dudley Moore during the sessions for Derek & Clive Come Again.

  • HOW TO IRRITATE PEOPLE - A 1990 video release for a Cleese/Palin/Jones/ Chapman/Brooke-Taylor show which nobody remembers doing...

  • THE GOODIES TOOTHPICK COMPANION - Bent Halo's contribution to media salvation

  • KENNY EVERETT - An affectionate overview of Cuddly Ken...

  • THE MARY WHITEHOUSE EXPERIENCE - The best radio comedy series ever broadcast....

  • MONTY PYTHON - MONTREUX SPECIAL - This is a rarely broadcast compilation of the first two series. Unusually however it features exclusive material and links.

  • NEIL'S HEAVY CONCEPT ALBUM - Hello, vegetables... 

  • OUT OF THE TREES - Douglas Adams, Graham Chapman and Bernard KcKenna's mythical, hardly-ever-seen comedy show.  We haven't seen it either... but at least we've got a shooting script to work from...

  • SATURDAY NIGHT FRY - A Radio 4 comedy series more enjoyable than The Liar, The Hippopotamous and that other one about going back in time and killing Hitler put together...

     


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