The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: Nano Num-Nums
Nano Num-Nums 2015
Last year I spiced up Nano with my num-nums, a segued journey through my comedy favs, starting back in the 1960s with early Palin and moving up to date and back. I make no promises this time that I’ll complete … Continue reading
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Tagged doon mackichan, fiona allen, Nano Num-Nums, sally phillips, smack the pony
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Num-nums (reprise)
For those of you with me during Nano last November you might remember my Num-Nums tour around British comedy. Today, while reading a memory post from Hugh Roberts here he put me in mind of a sketch from National Treasure … Continue reading
Nano Num-Nums No 17
Hugh Dennis is a fab stand up with the sort of face that needs ironing; his greatest TV success is with Outnumbered. This is the story of a family where the children run the show. Here we have Karen the … Continue reading
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Tagged Hugh Dennis, Nano Num-Nums, NaNoWriMo, outnumbered, steve punt
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Nano Num-Nums no. 16
Olivia Coleman has a string of excellent parts behind her. A personal favourite is her role in Twenty Twelve which ran in the run up to the London 2012 Olympics and took the mick out of the Olympic Delivery Authority (called … Continue reading
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Tagged Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Dennis, Maggie Smith, Matt Lucas, Nano Num-Nums, NaNoWriMo, Olivia Coleman, Paddington bear, Twenty Twelve
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Nano Num-Nums No. 15
Tom Hollander has his own series, Rev, in which he plays the vicar of an inner London church, with a falling congregation, is constantly under threat of closure and conversion into a supermarket. In this clip, his wife Alex surprises him in … Continue reading
Nano Num-Nums No. 14
Capaldi is a serious actor but he starred as the brilliant Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It. This is seriously rude but his torrential swearing is the funniest I’ve heard. In the Loop is a fab film with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Capaldi, Malcolm Tucker, Nano Num-Nums, NaNoWriMo, Tom Hollander
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Nano Num-Nums No. 13
Mayall appeared with Edmondson and others in The Comic Strip Presents. Here’s an early pre young ones episode with the dangerous brothers above and Nigel Planer. And here’s the Dangerous Brothers, if you’ve not seen them. Don’t watch them all, … Continue reading
Nano Num-Nums No. 12
From Rowan let’s move to the Young Ones via Rik Mayall who appeared in several episodes with Rowan. Here’s Living Doll with Cliff. RIP Rik
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Tagged Cliff Richard, Nano Num-Nums, NaNoWriMo, Ric mayall, Young Ones
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Nano Num-Nums No. 11
Let’s continue with Rowan Atkinson into Blackadder. These are outtakes, just to be different. And fir those of you who have seen his Jonny English super spy, here is the series of adverts for Barclay Card that provided the germ … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackadder, Boff and Latham, Nano Num-Nums, NaNoWriMo, Rowna Atinson
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Nano Num-Nums No. 10
Stephen Fry appeared on Not the Nine O’clock News with amongst others Rowan Atkinson. Here’s a sketch from that show. One of his great solo sketches is his reading the school register. Or an earlier one with Griff Rhys Jones … Continue reading
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