Comedy Slab

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 stuff he doesn't need, feeling manipulated by the media and harassed by technology, he's become slightly obsessive about the 'ish'.

Instead of letting it drive him mad he's decided to fight back. A bit. Sort of, ish and he shares his observations and frustrations in this mischievous show.

Presented using his own unique blend of stand-up and documentary comedy, it's a whole new take on the things we normally take for granted.

Written by Dave Gorman
Produced by Nick Martin and James Fidler
Directed by Paul Wheeler
A Liberty Bell production for Dave.
Modern Life Is Goodish is available here: https://bit.ly/3danYWo
 
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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 Jones written for BBC Radio 4 and ran for five series.

Each week Milton plays the part of an expert in a given field, with no discernible ability or aptitude for his new found environment.

Assisting him are his good friend Anton, (Tom Goodman-Hill) whom Milton has known from an early age (though the exact scenarios differ from episode to episode) and for the first series, his sister Susan (Debbie Chazen).

The show is a dean pan pun-heavy sitcom and has seen our eponymous hero in the roles of courtroom barrister, world explorer, Mayor of London and championship jockey to name but a few.

Not necessarily carried off with aplomb but always with boyish enthusiasm.

Written by Milton Jones & James Carey
Produced by David Tyler
A Pozzitive Productions for BBC Radio 4.
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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 developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central.

The series revolves around four boys - Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick and their exploits in and around the titular Colorado town. The show became infamous for its profanity and dark, surreal humor that satirizes a wide range of topics towards a mature audience.

Parker and Stone developed the show from The Spirit of Christmas, two consecutive animated shorts. The latter became one of the first Internet viral videos, ultimately leading to South Park's production.

The pilot episode was produced using cutout animation, leading to all subsequent episodes being produced with computer animation that emulated the cutout technique.

South Park has received numerous accolades, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and numerous inclusions in various publications' lists of greatest television shows.

Written by Trey Parker
Produced by Kyle McCulloch
Directed by Trey Parker
A Celluloid Studios / Braniff Productions / Parker-Stone / South Park Studios for Comedy Central.
South Park is available here: https://bit.ly/3c3BY3X
 
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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 with the arrival of new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd (Tamsin Greig), a woman who seems to manage to constantly put herself in the most embarrassing situations.

During her time in the hospital she begins to form friendships with her two co-workers: half-Swiss, womanising anaesthetist Dr Guy Secretan (Stephen Mangan), and cool surgeon Dr 'Mac' Macartney (Julian Rhind-Tutt). It is not long before these friendships become stronger, but who will end up dating whom?

A strong supporting cast boasts performances from Karl Theobald as a well-meaning house officer, Sarah Alexander as senior paediatric registrar Dr Angela Hunter, Olivia Coleman, Sally Bretton and Mark Heap as the pompous and odd Dr Alan Statham.

Written by Victoria Pile, Robert Harley, James Henry, Stuart Kenworthy, Oriane Messina, Fay Rusling, Richard Preddy and Gary Howe
Produced by Victoria Pile
Directed by Dominic Brigstocke and Tristram Shapeero
A Talkback Thames Production for Channel 4.
Green Wing is available here: https://bit.ly/3nUPYiH

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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. When Robert, an irrepressibly posh British butler applies, he takes an instant dislike to her.

A true Gentleman's Gentleman, Robert is stubborn and constantly frustrated by his employer's lack of decorum and sophistication. But in Dorothy he has met both his match and his adversary; equally stubborn and with a coarseness to match his impeccable manners, her indifference to all that is important to Robert is a constant source of friction between them.

Written by Bill MacIlwraith
Produced by Stuart Allen and Humphrey Barclay
Directed by Stuart Allen and John Reardon.
A London Weekend Television Production for ITV.
Two's Company is available here: https://amzn.to/3oXyenY

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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 from history.

Top UK stand-ups relate their favourite historical stories while getting absolutely bladdered on a mixture of beers, wines and spirits. Their slurred versions of history are then acted out, word for word, by a host of well-known actors, celebrities and comedians

Luckily, Jimmy Carr is on voice-over duties to restore some order if the drinking sessions get out of hand.

Created by Jeremy Konner and Derek Waters
Additional Material by Dominic English.
Produced by Ben Rogers.
Directed by Tom McKay.
A Tiger Aspect Production for Comedy Central.
Drunk History UK is available here: https://amzn.to/3ntPU9r
 
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This week we review - Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) (Episodes 2)
 
Life’s rubbish. However artist, comedian and manic depressive Kim Noble has just bought a microphone and he’s decided to make a podcast (like every other loser).

Over ten episodes, we join Kim on a surreal and hilarious sonic journey.

In a podcast unlike anything you’ve heard before, Kim’s quest to discover what makes life worth living takes him to Sting’s mansion, down a sewer, underneath a church altar and into the arms of a Hounslow-based cult.

Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) is written and presented by Kim Noble.

Written by Kim Noble.
Produced by Benbrick.
A Novel Production.
Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) is available here: https://spoti.fi/3r2GlkT
 
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This week we review - Seinfeld (Series 8 Episode 20)
 
Seinfeld is an American sitcom television series created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld which ran on NBC from 1989 to 1998, over nine seasons and 180 episodes.

The show stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself who is the main protagonist and focuses on his personal life with three of friends - George Costanza (Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and neighbour across the hall Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). 

Seinfeld is set mostly in an apartment building in Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City and has been described as "a show about nothing," often focusing on the minutiae of daily life.

Created by Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld.
Executive Produced by Larry David, George Shapiro, Howard West, Andrew Scheinman, Jerry Seinfeld, Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer
Directed by various.
A Giggling Goose / Fred Barron Productions / West/Shapiro Productions / Castle Rock Entertainment production for NBC.
Seinfeld is available here: https://bit.ly/3qywuD6
 
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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 transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968, the show was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the first three series. The fourth was written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Donald Webster.

Horne's supporting cast comprised Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and, in the first three series, Bill Pertwee, with Douglas Smith as the announcer, who also took part in the sketches.

All except the last series featured music by Edwin Braden, played by the band "the Hornblowers", with a song in the middle of each show performed by the close-harmony singing group the Fraser Hayes Four.

Written by Barry Took, Marty Feldman, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Donald Webster.
Produced by Jakes Brown and John Simmonds.
A BBC Radio Production.
Round The Horne is available through Audible: https://adbl.co/33PrsIx
 
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