a baby monitor appeared in a David Attenborough documentary about lizards and their young.

Singing work-men in adverts.
eg: "Why do Do It All do it?" men, Kwik Fit Fitters, and those "We hope it's chips" slackers...
They make me sick.
I once had a debate with me dad (whilst enjoying several pints in a boozer, admittedly) on what level of financial reward would have to be offered before one would agree to appear in an ad as a singing work-man. My dad had a far lower thresh-hold than me. Fascinating, eh?

Not strictly a cliche, but about two years ago (could've been longer) a single joke was mentioned on 5 sitcoms all within the space of two months or so. The joke went along the lines of "You think denial is somewhere in Egypt" and was mutated into A:"You're in denial" B:"But I've never even been to Egypt!" for another show. The fist time I heard it was on that Tony Slattery / Nick Hancock vehicle about a man minding a child, then another one with that short irritating woman called "Up the Path" or something.

It also appeared as "Oh, now I see what the problem is, you're in that great Egyptian river"
"You what?"
"DENIAL!"

Synchronicity, eh?

Synchronicity is dead; these days the lazy pleb-pleasing sitcom writers conciously get their inspiration from the unending source of hilarity that is the email propagated joke.

Or at least it seems that way.

>Synchronicity is dead; these days the lazy pleb-pleasing sitcom writers conciously get their inspiration from the unending source of hilarity that is the email propagated joke.
>

The pinacle of this is Ally McBeal's Dancing Baby.

I thought it was the Sunscreen Song, myself. May Baz Luhrmann burn in Wandsworth for that one.

>I thought it was the Sunscreen Song, myself. May Baz Luhrmann burn in Wandsworth for that one.

Just to leave the subject for a sec, have you heard the Vengaboys new 'song'? It uses the same two chords from that awful The Vengabus Is Coming song they did a while ago, and puts them into a computer that spounds like a Bontempi organ whilst singing crap double entendres in the voice of Professor Stephen Hawking! Is this the first song where the band has sampling themselves? It can now be downloaded onto a mobile phone, and if you kill someone on a bus or train with this bollocks as their ring-tone, no jury in the world would EVER convict you.

Ok. Take a deep breath. Rant over. Lets get back to talking comedy...

>It uses the same two chords from that awful >The Vengabus Is Coming song they did a >while ago, and puts them into a computer >that spounds like a Bontempi organ whilst >singing crap double entendres in the voice >of Professor Stephen Hawking!

That sounds distressingly like Blue Jam...

Oh god. Everyone's trying to be so bloody "quirky".

I heard you can download the venga boys single as a ring tone for your mobile if you're stuck for something to do.

No-one's THAT bored...








...except people that watch the 11 O'Clock Show, that is.

"ludicrous puff-piece"

eastenders used the baby monitor thing when tiffany found out that someone was shagging someone. and they even managed to combine it with not one but *two* falling-down-the-stair plot twists.

political clich�s: a package of measures etc.

words only found in tabloid newspapers: tryst, romp etc.

not a clich�, just a bit of theft: 'tummy banana' in 11ocs last night. thanks, chris.

j xxx

>not a clich�, just a bit of theft: 'tummy banana' in 11ocs last night. thanks, chris.
>
>j xxx

I spotted that too. Why I wasn't in bed, God only knows.