Where the hell did November go? Here, have some of this as an olive branch!
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Peter Cook – Experiences in A Mine
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore -Teaching Ravens To Fly Underwater
Two extracts from what I believe to be at the very least Beyond The Fringe related sketches from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. And if we are going talk that classic duo, [...]
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Ever the improvisers, Abbott and Costello evolved the above out of the ‘mustard’ sketch. Personally, I like the above version because it just feels smoother. Yet, I can’t deny the comedic genius of the original posted below.
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Here’s my modest event for October.I am going to post 31 posts for Halloween. Of course they’ll all be horror related. So let’s get started with some amusing quotes from Guy N Smith’s novels.
clipped from www.imdb.com
Gordon would you … take me away from here? Take me with you, where there aren’t such things as wolves, [...]
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Emergency Caterers
John Candy on SCTV was the greatest.
The Waiters
Recognize these guys? They are comedy giants now. From the short lived Dana Carvey Show.
The Fairsley Difference
I love me some Mr. Show! Under-rated or simply underground? How underground can you be on HBO?
Roy’s Food Repair
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Over at Bostworld, Derrick Bostrom has been digging up a radio show from Phoenix’s past for which he has lots of love. Derrick Bostrom says…
‘ “Love Workshop” was a fifteen-minute comedy program that ran on KDKB-FM radio in Phoenix, Arizona for most of 1976. The show was always somewhat of a mystery to me. During [...]
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