Horrible Histories for April Fools day.
You’ve Been Artois’d!
April Fools!
Karen on a trampoline
from Doctor Who Confidential
I will miss Doctor Who Confidential because it allowed us to see things like this.
Brilliant! The Best Ever Sketch Shows EVER (and some of the worst)
Recently I’ve been watching a new sketch show on the BBC. Watson & Oliver stars the two female comics and their variety of characters as well as some live studio antics. It’s not perfect some of the sketches fall short while some are very good. Personally I thought the Bond spoof they did was brilliant. But this entry into my rather neglected blog isn’t about that. You see it got me thinking about the sketch shows which I’ve loved over the years. Personally this genre of comedy is perhaps my favourite above all others. Probably because I’ve got a very short attention span. But thinking about it it’s probably the one comedy genre that has been abused the most. It seems that TV producers feel the need to give a sketch show to any person that has proven themselves to be funny somewhere else. Most the time this doesn’t work as we shall see but for now, lets look at the sketch shows I have adored above all others.
The Fast Show (BBC, 1994-1997)
Perhaps the sketch show I remember the most growing up was The Fast Show. This was the only comedy show that we watched as a family and it could be argued that it’s the archetype to the modern sketch show that we know today. Rising from the ashes of Harry Enfield and Chums, The Fast Show was a character based show that relied heavily on catchphrases and characters. That makes it sound like it was bad but it wasn’t. The creative team of Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson made the shows three series and several specials feel fresh and new.
TARDIS Ring
I was bored and made this. Its a TARDIS based ring with a tension set 1CT Princess Cut center stone. The three round stones is the Police Box sign, the two sets of four baguettes symbolize the windows, and a small princess cut below that to symbolize the instructions found on the front of the Police Box.
I would very much like that to be my engagement ring!
A Dozen Roses...
Just casually being the best valentine ever and giving my valentine a dozen Roses.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
(Source: tsunopolis)
My Television Blog: A Christmas Special
In case you’ve lived in a box or time travelled so much you’ve lost all track of time and space you probably will have noticed that it is in fact Christmas. Now as a fully confirmed, out-and-proud, unashamed Atheist, you may be thinking I won’t go for this Christmas malarkey and would rather just drink my way through until my birthday on the third of January. Well you would be wrong, for one, due to a chronic medical condition I can’t touch a drop of the green fairy and her assorted friends without being in bed, vomiting for two weeks. But the main reason is this; I bloody LOVE Christmas. I love everything about it; I love the tree, I love the decorations, I love the smell of the Christmas cookies my boyfriend makes, I love emptying my bank account to buy random gifts for everyone I know, I even love receiving gifts (if it’s the one’s I’ve asked for, and not a remote controlled mouse that my father gave me one year which on it’s maiden voyage around the living room, proceeded to terrify the dog so badly that the robotic vermin never saw the light of day again, but I digress….). What I love the most is the TV. Beginning from the middle of December, the shows that I’ve loved get a special Christmassy episodes. I’m guessing those who read this will have their own memories of Christmas TV but let us take a look some of my memories of what I gazed at, while I clutched my remote control Dalek, after I ODed on Mince Pies, Turkey and stuffing.
Back in the day, when the world was black and white (then as the 70s began became a sort of vivid green and brown) the Christmas Special
Merry Christmas Everyone!
aqv:
Olivia Colman, Julia Davis, Sharon Horgan to star in C4 pilot
Channel 4 has commissioned a new comedy pilot featuring three of Britain’s leading comic actresses.
Bad Sugar will star Olivia Colman, Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan. The trio also co-conceived the idea for the show.
The half-hour pilot centres on a dysfunctional, wealthy mining dynasty, with an ailing patriarch and some greedy siblings. The show, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, is described as ‘a peculiarly British take on telenovela style melodramas, played for laughs’.
Bad Sugar has been written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, the award-winning writers behindThe Old Guys and hit Channel 4 comedies Peep Show and Fresh Meat, and will be brought to the screen by Inbetweeners director Ben Palmer.
The programme will also feature Peter Serafinowicz, Reece Shearsmith and Ideal actor David Bradley.
Executive Producer Sophie Clarke-Jervoise said: “The process of bringing together such gigantic talent, both on and off screen, has been tremendously exciting. Bad Sugar is a darkly comic world where anything can happen, and does!”
Writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong add: “We’ve always wanted to write a show with poisonings, death threats, extreme psychological pain and big hair. With the help of the amazing cast we’re hoping it might be what everyone in UK television has been waiting so long for - Grey Gardens, the sitcom.”
Nerys Evans, Channel 4’s Comedy Commissioning Editor, says: “We’re so delighted to have three of the country’s funniest comedy actresses come together on this glorious project, it’s beautifully written by Sam and Jesse, who are without a doubt the hottest comedy writers in the UK right now. If that mix of comedy talent wasn’t tantalising enough, it’s also directed by Ben Palmer, fresh from the record-breaking Inbetweeners Movie. To say we’re excited by Bad Sugar is a bit of an understatement.”
Bad Sugar will be shown on Channel 4 next year. Meanwhile Olivia Colman is currently starring inRev and will continue to appear in Peep Show when it returns next year; Julia Davis stars in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror on Channel 4 on December 11th; and Sharon Horgan is currently making Life Story, a new BBC Three sitcom set in a prison.
Fresh Meat on Channel 4. Incredibly accurate comedy about Uni life.
From the makers of PEEP SHOW.
(Source: fntboyblue)
