Oh, the Comic Strip DVD Box set, you guys! (Oh, and pick one, why not!)

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been watching the box set again this weekend. I'm enjoying them a lot more this time around.

and was in tears of laughter at The Crying Game ending, showing The Scum newspaper headline

bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 13 December 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Oh right, there's a Comic Strip thread. The GLC one's just been on London Live. LOL @ Neil Kinnock, portrayed as a dithering prevaricating compromiser being shot by Tony Benn, played by Lee Van Cleef. Interesting that the music in this episode was composed by Kate Bush!

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link

Oh I knew she'd done the song for the "Ken" Livingstone one...

Mark G, Thursday, 18 March 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link

That's... this one

armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link

Ah I know what I think I mixed up "Strike" with "GLC" so dmm..

Mark G, Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link

Yes, this is Robbie Coltrane as Charles Bronson as Ken Livingstone. Good episode this one apart from Keith Allen doing a 'gay', especially as he'd played a very sympathetic gay character in "The Crying Game" episode. Prince Charles as kind of distracted upper class hippy was good.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link

spent a while watching these a few years ago, they are such an odd mix of obvious classic episodes, crap am-dram pissabout parodies which just baffle (The Beat Generation, Susie, Summer School) and the occasional wonderful surprise- I'd never seen Didn't You Kill My Brother? before and was not prepared for quite how intricate / granular it was, just a brilliant piece of writing.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Kate Bush is actually in this one, getting mauled by a chocolate-covered Daniel Peacock right now.

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link

I'd completely forgotten the existence of Daniel Peacock - who, it turns out, is the son of the recently deceased Trevor.

25:30 mins bongo solo (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link

There was a definite family resemblance!

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link

I also had no idea about this until Trevor passed away; Trevor also father of Daniel's much younger half-sibling Harry (Ray Bloody Purchase in Toast of London, married to Katherine Parkinson).

Has Gino: Full Story and Pics been on yet? I think more of that is imprinted in my brain than even Fistful.... "He was ranting about he was going 'get' Mrs Thatcher and I pretended to agree with him." "Oh, I could never go back to sheets and blankets."

Michael Jones, Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link


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