Comedy Slab

215 - Lookwell

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review Lookwell (Pilot)Lookwell was a television pilot written and produced by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel, the latter of whom would ...

214 - Not Going Out

20 Sep 2022

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This week we review Not Going Out (Series 12 Episode 5)Not Going Out is a light-hearted, fast-paced mainstream sitcom based around the life of a man u...

213 - Bob's Burgers

13 Sep 2022

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This week we review Bob’s Burgers (Series 12 Episode 1)The show features the Belcher family. Bob, his wife Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and...

212 - Bristow

06 Sep 2022

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This week we review Bristow (Series 2 Episode 1)Bristow is a buying clerk (18th in line for Chief Buyer) working for the Chester-Perry organisation (t...

211 - Age Of Outrage

23 Aug 2022

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This week we review Age Of Outrage (Series 1 Episode 1)A pioneer of virtual production in sketch comedy and the most popular and successful TV comedy ...

210 - Steptoe & Son

16 Aug 2022

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This week we review Steptoe & Son (Series 3 Episode 7)Living at Mews Cottage, Shepherd's Bush, Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are a family business...

209 - Police Squad!

09 Aug 2022

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This week we review Police Squad (Series 1 Episode 5)Created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starred Leslie Nielsen as Frank Dreb...

208 - Hacks

02 Aug 2022

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This week we review Hacks (Series 1 Episode 1)Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas stand-up comedy diva, needs to re-invent her aging act to avoid los...

207 - Ankle Tag

26 Jul 2022

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This week we review Ankle Tag (Series 3 Episode 1)Former convict Bob is forced to live with his uptight son Gruff, sympathetic daughter-in-law Alice a...

206 - Only Murders In The Building

19 Jul 2022

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This week we review Only Murders In The Building (Series 2 Episode 1)Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves w...

205 - Henry IX

12 Jul 2022

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This week we review Henry IX (Series 1 Episode 1)Set in the fictitious, contemporary court of Henry IX, King of the United Kingdom, this is the almost...

204 - Benidorm

05 Jul 2022

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This week we review Benidorm (Series 1 Episode 1)The Solana holiday resort in Spain welcomes a regular group of British holiday makers each year.There...

203 - The Music Teacher

28 Jun 2022

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This week we review The Music Teacher (Series 1 Episode 1 & 2)The Music Teacher is a musical comedy written by and starring 2009 Writers' Guild award ...

202 - Superstore

21 Jun 2022

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This week we review Superstore (Series 2 Episode 1)Starring America Ferrera and Ben Feldman (who both also serve as executive producers), Superstore f...

201 - Here We Go

14 Jun 2022

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This week we review Here We Go (Series 1 Episode 1)Here We Go follows the highs and lows of the Jessop family as they navigate a combination of life's...

200 - Monty Python's Flying Circus

07 Jun 2022

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This week we review Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Series 1 Episode 1)Surrealist, observational and curiously subversive, Monty Python's Flying Circu...

199 - The Secret World

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review The Secret World (Series 2 Episode 1)The Secret World allows listeners to eavesdrop on the bizarre, surprising and very secret liv...

198 - Modern Toss

24 May 2022

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This week we review Modern Toss (Pilot)Modern Toss is a couple of cack handed trouble-makers thinking up jokes and drawing them up for comics, greetin...

197 - Peter Kay's Car Share

17 May 2022

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This week we review Peter Kay’s Car Share (Series 1 Episode 3)Car Share is written, directed by and stars Peter Kay.The sitcom follows John and Kayl...

196 - Mum's On The Run

10 May 2022

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This week we review Mum’s On The Run (Series 1 Episode 1)Sitcom starring Ronni Ancona as single mum Jen and John Gordon-Sinclair as Mr Rigby.Mum's O...

195 - It's A Fair Cop

03 May 2022

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This week we review It’s A Fair Cop (Series 2 Episode 1)Former police officer and stand-up comic Alfie Moore presents this show in which he asks his...

194 - Defending The Guilty

26 Apr 2022

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This week we review Defending The Guilty (Series 1 Episode 4)Will Packham is a pupil barrister: smart, dedicated and good-hearted. Or at least he is f...

193 - It Ain't Half Hot Mum

19 Apr 2022

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This week we review It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (Series 2 Episode 1)As World War II is coming to a close, the Royal Artillery Concert Party in India are d...

192 - George Fouracres, Black Country Gentlemon

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review George Fouracres - Black Country GentlemonBased on George Fouracres's 2019 Edinburgh Fringe solo debut, Gentlemon, in which the st...

191 - The Witchfinder

05 Apr 2022

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This week we review The Witchfinder (Series 1 Episode 1)It's the year of our Lord 1647 and fear of witchcraft is rife. Puritanical Christianity, deep-...

190 - Drop The Dead Donkey

29 Mar 2022

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This week we review Drop The Dead Donkey (Series 1 Episode 5)Topical sitcom set in the production office of GlobeLink News, a television news company ...

189 - People Just Do Nothing

22 Mar 2022

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This week we review People Just Do Nothing (Series 2 Episode 1) A mockumentary that goes behind the microphone of Kurupt FM - the second most popular...

188 - Conversations From A Long Marriage

15 Mar 2022

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This week we review Conversations From A Long Marriage (Series 3 Episode 1) Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a couple who have been married for ove...

187 - Vent

08 Mar 2022

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This week we review Vent (Series 1 Episode 1) Vent is a dark radio comedy about a man recovering from a coma.The main character, Ben doesn't get out ...

186 - 30 Rock

28 Feb 2022

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This week we review 30 Rock (Series 1 Episode 2) Liz Lemon, head writer of a sketch comedy show, has to deal with her arrogant boss and eccentric sta...

185 - Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This time we review Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads (Series 1 Episode 6) It's been over 5 years since the little mishap that left Terry in the Ar...

184 - How Does That Make You Feel

15 Feb 2022

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This time we review How Does That Make You Feel (Two epsiodes) In How Does that Make You Feel? we visit a group of people who all share one thing in c...

183 - Avenue 5

08 Feb 2022

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This time we review Avenue 5 (Series 1 Episode 1) Avenue 5 has been described as "set in the future, mostly in space."On board the interplanetary crui...

182 - Believe It!

01 Feb 2022

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This time we review Believe It (Series 4 Legacy) Based on 'glimmers of truth', Believe It! is the bizarre, revealing and, most importantly, untrue cel...

181 - It's Kevin

25 Jan 2022

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This time we review It's Kevin (Series 1 Episode 4) It's sketches, it's songs, it's characters, it's guests, it's a man who's old enough to know bette...

180 - Sophie Willan's Guide To Normality

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This time we review Sophie Willan's Guide To Normality (Series 1 Episode 3 & 4) Break out comedy star (as she was at the time) Sophie Willan comes to...

179 - Home

11 Jan 2022

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Home (Series 1 Episode 1) When new couple Peter and Katy and Katy's son John go on their first family holiday to France.The plan is to bring back a ta...

178 - Two Doors Down

04 Jan 2022

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Two Doors Down (Series 5 Episode 1) Comedy centred around a couple and their insufferable neighbours.Latimer Crescent residents Eric and Beth Baird ar...

177 - The Goon Show

28 Dec 2021

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The Goon Show (Series 7 Episode 1) The Goon Show, originally under the title of Crazy People focused on the bizarre experiments of Prof Osric Purehear...

176 - Rising Damp

21 Dec 2021

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Rising Damp (Series 2 Episode 8) An unnamed northern university town is home to Rupert Rigsby, landlord of arguably the seediest, most run-down boardi...

175 - Rev

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rev (Series 2 Episode 2) Rev is a contemporary sitcom about the daily frustrations and moral conflicts of Reverend Adam Smallbone - a Church of Englan...

174 - The Outlaws

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Outlaws (Series 1 Episode 1) The Outlaws follows seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete Community Payback senten...

173 - The Tuckers

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Tuckers (Series 1 Episode) Set in the south Wales valleys, The Tuckers tells the story of a family of chancers, low on cash but high on spirit - d...

172 - Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (From 15th March 1971) Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead, is a British comedy radio sketch show, first broadca...

171 - Saxondale

08 Nov 2021

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Saxondale (Series 2 Episode 1) Saxondale is a sitcom by Steve Coogan and Neil Maclennan which focuses on the life of Tommy Saxondale (Coogan). Tommy i...

170 - Sam Simmons Is Not A People Person

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Simmons Is Not A People Person (Series 1 Episodes 1&2) Comedian. Writer. Ex-Zoo Keeper. Bird Watcher. Definitely NOT a people person.Sam and Henry...

169 - Alma's Not Normal

25 Oct 2021

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This week we review Alma's Not Normal (Series 1 Episode 1) Alma's Not Normal follows Boltonian wild-child Alma Nuthall and her family of eccentric, un...

168 - Nighty Night

18 Oct 2021

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This week we review Nighty Night (Series 2 Episode 6) Jill is a monstrously self-involved beautician whose husband, Terry, is dying of cancer. Her rea...

167 - The Cleaner

11 Oct 2021

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This week we review The Cleaner (Series 1 Episode 2) Paul 'Wicky' Wickstead, is a state-certified cleaning technician with a very special field of wo...

166 - This Is Jinsy

27 Sep 2021

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This week we review This Is Jinsy (Series 1 Episode 1) This Is Jinsy started life as a pilot on BBC Three, but has now been turned into a full show by...

165 - Continuity

20 Sep 2021

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This week we review Continuity (Series 1 Episodes 5 & 6) A continuity announcer's booth can be a lonely place - especially on the late shift, when you...

164 - Blackadder Goes Forth

13 Sep 2021

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This week we review - (Series 4 Episode 6) Blackadder Goes Forth is set in 1917 on the Western Front in the trenches of World War I. Captain Edmund B...

163 - Hobby Bobbies

06 Sep 2021

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This week we review - Hobby Bobbies (Series 1 Episode 1) Hobby Bobbies is a sitcom about community policing from the team behind The Music Teacher, Da...

162 - Limmy's Home Made Show

30 Aug 2021

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This week we review - Limmy's Home Made Show (Episode 3) Limmy returns with a new helping of his distinctive brand of comedy and this time he has gone...

161 - We Are Lady Parts

23 Aug 2021

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This week we review - We Are Lady Parts (Series 1 Episode 1) Sitcom following a Muslim punk band.We Are Lady Parts is written, created and directed by...

160 - Alun Cochrane - Centrist Dad?

16 Aug 2021

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This week we review - Alun Chochrane: Centrist Dad? Despite their bad reputation, Alun Cochrane is fine with being a "Centrist Dad".Join Alun for this...

159 - Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review - Max & Paddy's Road To Nowhere (Series 1 Episode 1) Comedy spin-off from Peter Kay's award-winning Phoenix Nights series. The sta...

158 - The Shuttleworths

02 Aug 2021

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This week we review - The Shuttleworths (Series 4 Episodes 1&2) Radio sitcom in which all parts are voiced by comedian Graham Fellows.John Shuttlewor...

157 - Code 404

26 Jul 2021

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This week we review - Code 404 (Series 1 Episodes 1) Detective Inspectors DI John Major and DI Roy Carver are the top crime fighting duo in the Met's...

156 - All New Fonejacker

19 Jul 2021

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This week we review - All New Fonejacker (Episodes 7 & 8)Fonejacker is a British comedy programme broadcast on Channel 4's E4 featuring a series of pr...

155 - Harry Hill's World Of TV

12 Jul 2021

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This week we review - Harry Hill's World Of TV (Series 1 Episode 4)Whether this is one of those programmes that defies description, doesn’t inspire ...

154 - Unite

05 Jul 2021

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This week we review - Unite (Series 1 Episode 1)When Tony (Mark Steel) a working-class, left wing South Londoner, falls in love and moves in with Imog...

153 - Going Straight

28 Jun 2021

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This week we review - Going Straight (Episode 5)After four-odd years inside, Norman Stanley Fletcher has made parole. Aided and encouraged by his daug...

152 - Simon Bird Debrief

21 Jun 2021

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This week we review - Simon Bird: DebriefSimon Bird, star of Friday Night Dinner and The Inbetweeners, makes his stand-up special debut.Recorded durin...

151 - Bellamy's People

14 Jun 2021

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This week we review - Bellamy's People (Episode 7)Award winning journalist Gary Bellamy (Rhys Thomas), host of Radio 4's 'groundbreaking' phone-in pro...

150 - Fawlty Towers

07 Jun 2021

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This week we review - Fawlty Towers (Series 1 Episode 1)Fawlty Towers, a 22-room hotel located in Torquay, the centre of the 'English Riviera', is a d...

149 - The League Of Gentlemen

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review - The League Of Gentlemen (Series 1 Episode 5)The League of Gentlemen is a surreal British sitcom that premiered on BBC Two in 199...

148 - Motherland

24 May 2021

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This week we review - Motherland (Series 1 Episode 2)Motherland is a show all about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, look...

147 - Frank Of Ireland

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review - Frank Of Ireland (Series 1 Episode 1)Frank Marron is a 32-year-old catastrophe. A misanthropic, narcissistic, fantasist in arres...

146 - Athena's Cancel Culture

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review - Athena's Cancel Culture (Series 1 Episodes 1&2)Over the last few years, if a celebrity has ever said or done anything remotely c...

145 - Radio Active

03 May 2021

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This week we review - Radio Active (Series 4 Episode 4)Radio Active is "Britain's first national local radio station". With presenters including Mike ...

144 - 3rd Rock From The Sun

26 Apr 2021

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This week we review - Third Rock From The Sun (Series 3 Episode 1)The show revolves around an extra-terrestrial research expedition from a planet on t...

143 - Whites

19 Apr 2021

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This week we review - Whites (Series 1 Episode 3)Set in the kitchen of a country house hotel, Whites follows the trials and tribulations of head chef ...

142 - Mister Winner

12 Apr 2021

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This week we review - Mister Winner (Series 1 Episode 3)Leslie Winner is an eternally-optimistic klutz with his heart in the right place. Somehow, des...

141 - Ted Lasso

05 Apr 2021

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This week we review - Ted Lasso (Series 1 Episode 6)Recently divorced Rebecca Welton is the new owner of AFC Richmond, a struggling team in the Englis...

140 - 15 Storeys High

29 Mar 2021

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This week we review - 15 Storeys High (Series 2 Episode 1)Sitcom focusing on miserable lifeguard Vince Clark, who hates being touched, and his Chinese...

139 - Mandy

22 Mar 2021

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This week we review - Mandy (Series 1 Episode 1&2)Mandy is a BBC TV series, written by and starring Diane Morgan as the title character Mandy Carter. ...

138 - The Men From The Ministry

15 Mar 2021

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The Men from the Ministry was broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1977 and starred Wilfrid Hyde-White and Richard Murdoch until 1966, when Deryck Gu...

137 - Back

08 Mar 2021

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This week we review - Back (Series 1 Episode 1)Stephen's father, a local legend and pub landlord, has died so Stephen is set to - finally - take over ...

136 - Toast Of London

01 Mar 2021

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This week we review - Toast Of London (Series 3 Episode 5)Steven Toast is a middle-aged, middling actor with a chequered past who spends more time dea...

135 - Modern Life Is Goodish

22 Feb 2021

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This week we review - Modern Life Is Goodish (Series 4 Episode 3)Dave Gorman thinks modern life is good-ish. However, tired of endlessly being sold s...

134 - Catastrophe

15 Feb 2021

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133 - Another Case Of Milton Jones

08 Feb 2021

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This week we review - Another Case Of Milton Jones (Series 4 Episode 1)Another Case of Milton Jones is the third comedy programme starring Milton Jo...

132 - South Park

01 Feb 2021

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This week we review - Green Wing (Series 12 Episode 7) South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and dev...

131 - Green Wing

25 Jan 2021

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This week we review - Green Wing (Series 1 Episode 1) Green Wing follows the lives of the staff of the East Hampton Hospital Trust. The series begins ...

130 - Two's Company

18 Jan 2021

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This week we review - Two's Company (Series 2 Episode 1) Dorothy McNab, a prickly American authoress needs domestic help for her new Chelsea townhouse...

129 - Drunk History UK

11 Jan 2021

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This week we review - Drunk History UK (Series 3 Episode 4) A UK version of the TV format in which inebriated comedians attempt to recount events fro...

128 - Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow)

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review - Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) (Episodes 2) Life’s rubbish. However artist, comedian and manic depressive Kim Noble ...

127 - Seinfeld

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review - Seinfeld (Series 8 Episode 20) Seinfeld is an American sitcom television series created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld...

126 - Round The Horne

21 Dec 2020

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This week we review - Round The Horne (Series 3 Episode 21) Round the Horne was a BBC Radio comedy programme starring Kenneth Horne.First transmi...

125 - Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we review - Giles Wemmbley Goes Off (Series 2 Episode 6) Sitcom following the adventures of Giles Wemmbley Hogg. Traveller, backpacker, fear...

124 - Gavin & Stacey

07 Dec 2020

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This week we review - Gavin & Stacey (Series 1 Episode 1) Stacey is from Barry, near Cardiff, and Gavin is from Essex. But the difference in backgrou...

123 - The Mighty Boosh

30 Nov 2020

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This week we review - The Mighty Boosh (Series 3 Episodes 1) Surreal sitcom following the adventures of Vince Noir and Howard Moon.Vince and Howard a...

122 - The Break

23 Nov 2020

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This week we review - The Break (Series 3 Episodes 1) The Break is set in the fictional Yorkshire coastal town of Flamford - the seaside town sanity...

121 - Stella Street

16 Nov 2020

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This week we review - Stella Street (Series 3 Episodes 1 & 2) From the minds of John Sessions, Phil Cornwell and "The Comic Strip Presents …." creat...

120 - Rob Newman's Half-Full Philosophy Hour

09 Nov 2020

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This week we review - Rob Newman's Half-Full Philosophy Hour (The New Forest Festival of Stoic Philosophy) Rob Newman tackles some of the great philo...

119 - After Life

02 Nov 2020

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This week we review - After Life (Series 1 Episode 1) Set in the small fictitious town of Tambury, the series follows Tony, a writer for the local ne...

118 - Stand Up For Live Comedy

26 Oct 2020

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This week we review - Stand Up for Live Comedy (Series 1 Episode 3) Stand-up comedy is a vital part of our British culture, and this series aims to su...

117 - Spitting Image

19 Oct 2020

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This week we review - Spitting Image (Series 21 Episode 1) First broadcast in February 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productions' ...

116 - Alan Partridge from the Oast House

12 Oct 2020

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This week we review - Alan Partridge From The Oasthouse (Episode 5) Alan Partridge is a familiar face (and voice!) to anyone who enjoys genuinely goo...