There was also Lee & Herrings Fist of Fun and an Armando Ianucci show called The Friday Night Armistice - altho I forget whether that one was sketches or stand-up or both...
The armistice iterations were a kind of ‘magazine’ style show not unlike That’s Life, but with satirical content rather than jolly frivolity. It had ‘bits’ (ianucci prancing bob monkhouse is a classic example), but not so much in the way of sketches.
Mel Smith. Gone far too soon, but not forgotten. One of those rare human beings who had 'funny bones' - he didn't have to say, or do, anything to be funny. Tommy Cooper was another.
In the Paul Merton Show I still recall the joke he said while in his little shop, “A bloke asked me what I had in the way of cigarettes. I said nothing, they’re just there” (points to cigarettes on shelf)
I remember a sketch, in it, where he and another were planning a robbery, and it went into great detail, including having a model of a security guard's head and going into detail of the guard's vision.
Gordon Kennedy and Moray Hunter still produce lots of radio comedies on Radio 4 under their Absolutely production company. They haven't lost their comedy edge.
@@Mike_Connor I still recall John Sparkes as Mr Twitch, losing it with some sellotape. Now he does Peppa Pig with Morweena Banks. It’s true, it’s true!!!
@@PHDiaz-vv7yo Yes I almost spat my tea out the first time when sitting down with friends with kids with Peppa Pig on. Knowing how most of his career has been built on fairly scurrilous material seemed like a bold move to have him on children's TV show.
Out of all of them, Absolutely was the best by a country mile. Frank Hovis as you featured is John Sparkes as Siadwell, Denzil (in Absolutely) and... the narrator on Peppa Pig (along with Morwenna Banks as Mummy Pig). You can also check out more of his scurrilous work on an HTV Wales series called 'Barry Welsh', which itself has a section called 'Lookout Wales with Hugh Pugh' where they take old B&W stock footage and work it into a kind of news story. Back to Absolutely.. Stoneybridge!, Don & George (who had a spin off series, episode 1 titled "you can run, but you cant hide your legs"), Denzil & Gwinneth, Geoff the Parky, the Scots nationalist McGlashan, Callum Gilhooly, the old man Bert Bastard, all the Pete Baike musical parodies and characters, the middle class couple... amazing fun. "Remember the golden rule of selling. Do Not. Resort. To violence!"
Some very kind people have uploaded a lot of Barry Welsh on TH-cam The Hugh Pugh stuff was definitely my favourite along with Geraint Pillock and the challenge of his coracle
@@A-small-amount-of-peas - I just watched some Barry Welsh - dear god, is that funny! Fishguard film festival made me cry with laughter. I love Fishguard, but it's a tiny place.
The Jim Tavaré Show is one that always seems to get forgotten about. I Believe Ricky Gervais of all people did some writing on that one. I used to love many of these. Paul Merton, Mary Whitehouse, Big Train, The Real Mcoy were all class.
One from 2000, was Bruiser which was an early vehicle for Mitchell and Webb & Olivia Colman. Also featured the IT guy played by Matt Holness before he moved to The Office, Bob would’ve been proud!
"Do you sell poison?" The skit with Robert Webb asking various places if they sell poison (not that his character wants to kill his wife or anything), is dark comedy at it's best. Also, the annoying surgeon who implants squeakers into patients whilst doing regular surgery, is wonderfully silly.
In his autobiography, Paul Merton said he hated doing stand-up, and those bits with him as a newsagent were pretty much his entire act, every bit of material used up. I actually went to see him live in the 90s, wishing I'd known that, as there wasn't a single line he said that he'd not said in the TV series.
Mary Whitehouse Experience was brilliant! I watched Punt & Dennis and Newman & Baddiel live after season 1, so saw most of the Season 2 gags before they were on telly! History Today was genius! That's your mum, that is!
Paul Merton had a sketch I think of often. A Colditz setting, where the inmates have laboriously recreated a German Soldier's uniform to perfection. Secure in the knowledge that he will blend in perfectly, Merton marches out into the compound heading toward freedom... The look on the faces of the Japanese Prison Guards is classic.
I think you're wrong, Big Train was very good. Yes, some sketches didn't really work, but that's the case with every sketch show. There were some really inventive sketches played by talented comic actors. I watched it all a couple of years ago, still good stuff.
Welsh poet Ciadwell was on Naked Video, not Absolutely (John Sparkes was in both, but was really only on NV as Ciadwell). The man on the toilet (also Sparkes) was Frank Hovis.
I loved Absolutely. As soon as Naked Video showed up, I hoped Absolutely would be on here. The Stoneybridge Council sketches were brilliant, and Denzil and Gwynedd were just bonkers 😂
"The Mary Whitehouse Experience"'s Punt & Dennis had their own, far less remembered, spin-off sketch show. In fact, the only specific thing I remember about the Punt & Dennis show was a recurring cold-war action movie spoof where the hero would exclaim "Damn you, Krapotkin!!!"
Certainly wish I could remember that last one now, but think the Fiona Allen clip at the end will be etched into my mind for a long time! I had such a crush on her in Smack The Pony, along with Sally Phillips!
@@hadz8671 for myself it would definitely fail the "not thought of recently" part though, as I've just finished it on BritBox. Still as good now as it was back then.
Thankyou this is exactly what I need.. Im in Australia and can't remember the names of all these shows we briefly enjoyed growing up in Oz.. Can you do more please ? Mainly 2000+ TO today ? Trying to find these on TH-cam to enjoy again ☺
Milky Milky and Thats your mum that is were catchphrases of the day in my school. Lol Big fan of Naked Video too. Such a great period for sketch shows.
Actually the Baldy Man sketch accredited to Naked Video wasn't used on the programme but the character was used for a Hamlet cigar advert in the case of that clip.
So glad you mentioned We Know Where You Live at the end. I thought I was the only person who remembered it. Also I always got confused between Jeremy Fowlds and James Fleet for some reason.
So many memories. I was sure Mary Whitehouse Experience lasted longer but I think it's because it scissored into 2 different shows that also imploded quickly despite one of them selling out Wembley Arena which was unheard of at the time. My mate even had the annual back when they were a thing which had possibly the best bad taste piss take joke on inept sports reporter Gary Newbon I've ever seen. Because Gary asked the most simplistic unoriginal questions ever they had a picture in the Mary Whitehouse Experience annual of the secret service agent trying to help Jacqui Kennedy after JFK had been shot, it's quite a famous photo but they superimposed Gary Newbons head onto the agents body with a microphone in hand and a text bubble saying "Jacqui, you're husband's just been shot! How does that make you feel?" 13 year old me nearly died laughing. I'm sure Coogan based parts of Partridge on him
The Idi Amin sketches from Titty Bang Bang always have me in stitches. "Have you tried a spatula?" "The king will not scratch his frittering arse with an omelette wand!" or "Get me some of the yogurt in the tiny pots with the creepy crawlies in them! The _ooooooh danone_ stuff!"
Some of the stuff I used to laugh at, the mary whitehouse experience came out when i was a student we thought it was amazing, looking at it now im 49 yrs old, oh my days, what happened? :)
"up do something" with Shane Richie and a load of other recognisable faces is a sketch show and is something I can't find for love nor money. if you can get anything about that I'll be mega impressed!
I loved Big Train! Absolutely and Naked Video were staples in our house. The Paul Merton Show was fab, liked it when he did the monologues from a kiosk. Wish I’d saw the last one, that was back when C5 tried out different things and late night content was comedy and soft core porn.
My favourite Absolutely sketch was Stoneybridge Town Council. Sean Connery will eternally be Seen Conn-erray because of that. I suspect many a community council is scarily like Stoneybridge Town Council.🤣
Frank Hovis. Guy on toilet. Loved Absolutely. Cymdeithas coed cymru (Welsh institute of wood) =Siadwel. The Stoneybridge Olympic bid, "With a bus stop to rival any other". Very well written.
back when Stuart Lee was funny. I thought about writing to him about his boring repetitive business about pulling on his glasses, putting them on, pulling out a letter, reading it sarcastically, putting it away, taking glasses off, putting them away, but realised he would just... pull out his glasses... etc etc etc etc etc etc
I never saw "mistero buffo" with the late great Robbie Coltrane. One sketch I remember from The Real McCoy was a guy who was being turned away from a nightclub because of the dress code. By the time he's properly attired he's turned away because the club had closed. A couple you missed out were "Newman & Baddiel in Pieces" & "The Imaginatively Titled Dennis & Punt" both of which came from "The Mary Whitehouse Experience".
I've got the single! Music produced by Trevor Horn (among the long list of stuff I own that he has produced lol). Best bit? The Colin Corelene sketch always opened with him and Phil Cornwell walking along a bunch of flats, low camera. children shouting at them, then one slings a rubber brick from the 2nd floor and smacks Phil in the head. What a shot!
Milky Milky. Mary Whitehouse Experience. The last thing of note I remember Gordon Kennedy was in would be Trainspotting 2 as the Headmaster who was blackmailed by Sickboy.
Yeah some of these I haven't even heard of or have heard of but never watched. Big Train I love and have the DVD. Alas Smith & Jones was must see in our house. I remember Punt & Dennis more than Mary Whitehouse. We Know Where You Live I should have watched really but I'd given up on Channel 5 already. Ella Kenion I only really know from being Mrs Cakeworthy in The Green Green Grass and I think she also starred in Hardware....a relatively forgotten about sitcom from the 2000s with Martin Freeman, Ken Morley and Peter Serafinowicz. Fiona Allen though....always fancied her from Smack The Pony which I guess is a more well known 90s sketch show. Naked Video I recall seeing a few episodes of. The Real McCoy completely passed me by and I only remember seeing adverts for the vhs inside other vhs cases.
I'm not sure you're right about the Alas Smith & Jones / Alias Smith and Jones / Knight Rider connection. Alias S & J was set in the old West and originally aired in 1972. Knight Rider was a 1982 show set in contemporary times - I can't remember a time travel story in the show, so unless the actors played their own descendants that doesn't track... And BOTH series were done before Mel & Griff started their show. I know they used the name as a punny title but I can't remember any repeats of the old show anywhere near its premiere. It was a long time ago, though.
The Classical-music themed radio4 sketch show "The Miles & Millner Show" did try to transfer to BBC Two. It starred the guy who did the music for "Jerry Springer: The Opera."
I used to like the pervert (on the Mary whitehouse experience) who would frequent the back alleys of Soho. Dressed in a smoking jacket, a cigarette holder and long black nails. He would say such stuff as "I wouldn't want to come over all mother Theresa now? Would I?......oh goddddd."
@@gingernutpreacher you see that bird that has been run over by a car? The one that looks rather pathetic with no feathers and covered in maggots? That's your Christmas turkey that is
Big Train is severely underrated, amazing comedy show
The best, i have the DVD's.
Those Staring sketches with Barry Davies on commentary were genius!
@@mirage123451 Agree, they hit the nail on the head.
Prince hunting the jockeys
@@mirage123451 Samuel Wallace vs Pipi Popstopulus was an all time classic
"That's you that is..." It shouldn't be funny, but I cannot help but laugh even now!
Even now I go "Oh what a Personal disaster" and "Haircut! Haircut!"
You see that gob of spit on the floor that's you're swimming pool that is
@@gingernutpreacher Look theres your mum.
"That's the way aha aha"😂😂😂
i can remember almost nothing of Mary Whitehouse Experience, other than those two old characters and their recurring routine
Alexei Sayle's Stuff was by far my favourite of the 90s sketch shows.
There was also Lee & Herrings Fist of Fun and an Armando Ianucci show called The Friday Night Armistice - altho I forget whether that one was sketches or stand-up or both...
Wasn't Fist of Fun on radio or was it on both
@@TheCaptScarlett both
The armistice iterations were a kind of ‘magazine’ style show not unlike That’s Life, but with satirical content rather than jolly frivolity. It had ‘bits’ (ianucci prancing bob monkhouse is a classic example), but not so much in the way of sketches.
The guy on the toilet in Absolutely was called Frank Hovis.
Mel Smith. Gone far too soon, but not forgotten. One of those rare human beings who had 'funny bones' - he didn't have to say, or do, anything to be funny. Tommy Cooper was another.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience, they all look so young! It breaks my heart to see how time marches on...
Paul Merton was brilliant back in the day…innit marvellous!
The Baldy Man also appeared in the Hamlet cigar adverts in the 1980s early 90s
In the Paul Merton Show I still recall the joke he said while in his little shop, “A bloke asked me what I had in the way of cigarettes. I said nothing, they’re just there” (points to cigarettes on shelf)
I remember a sketch, in it, where he and another were planning a robbery, and it went into great detail, including having a model of a security guard's head and going into detail of the guard's vision.
I LOVED Mary Whitehouse Experience, quoting it at school the next day. I still say "Oh, you've had a haircut.... hair cuuuuuttt"
Lovely.... Milky Milky.
Gordon Kennedy and Moray Hunter still produce lots of radio comedies on Radio 4 under their Absolutely production company. They haven't lost their comedy edge.
The original Absolutely TV series was genius! Callum Gilhooley and Stoneybridge were personal favourites!
@@Mike_Connor I still recall John Sparkes as Mr Twitch, losing it with some sellotape. Now he does Peppa Pig with Morweena Banks. It’s true, it’s true!!!
@@PHDiaz-vv7yo Yes I almost spat my tea out the first time when sitting down with friends with kids with Peppa Pig on. Knowing how most of his career has been built on fairly scurrilous material seemed like a bold move to have him on children's TV show.
Newman and Baddiel was my fathers favourite comedy at the time. “That’s you that is” was his catchphrase, lol!
M Kahn is bent
Out of all of them, Absolutely was the best by a country mile. Frank Hovis as you featured is John Sparkes as Siadwell, Denzil (in Absolutely) and... the narrator on Peppa Pig (along with Morwenna Banks as Mummy Pig). You can also check out more of his scurrilous work on an HTV Wales series called 'Barry Welsh', which itself has a section called 'Lookout Wales with Hugh Pugh' where they take old B&W stock footage and work it into a kind of news story. Back to Absolutely.. Stoneybridge!, Don & George (who had a spin off series, episode 1 titled "you can run, but you cant hide your legs"), Denzil & Gwinneth, Geoff the Parky, the Scots nationalist McGlashan, Callum Gilhooly, the old man Bert Bastard, all the Pete Baike musical parodies and characters, the middle class couple... amazing fun. "Remember the golden rule of selling. Do Not. Resort. To violence!"
Yes! Absolutely is still one of my favourite sketch shows!
McGlashan “POOFS!!!!”
@@PHDiaz-vv7yo Also McGlashan: "Be courteous, be polite, you want them to buy your stuff. Remember the first rule of selling. DO NOT RESORT VIOLENCE!"
Some very kind people have uploaded a lot of Barry Welsh on TH-cam
The Hugh Pugh stuff was definitely my favourite along with Geraint Pillock and the challenge of his coracle
@@A-small-amount-of-peas - I just watched some Barry Welsh - dear god, is that funny! Fishguard film festival made me cry with laughter. I love Fishguard, but it's a tiny place.
For me the big one thats missing from this list is The Glam Metal Detectives. Everybody up!
Loved that show!
Well that's good, as we're playing there next week.
@@kayemcnab8045 Shame it only lasted 1 series...
Song was awesome
Colin Corleone 😂. 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Big Train was the absolute peak of 90s comedy
Big Train was quality. So underrated.
So true. Loved the Virginia Plain sketch
Mary Whitehouse Experience and Paul Merton were two of my favourite shows at the time
Big Train was a brilliant sketch show
Fist of Fun was another belter.
The Jim Tavaré Show is one that always seems to get forgotten about. I Believe Ricky Gervais of all people did some writing on that one.
I used to love many of these. Paul Merton, Mary Whitehouse, Big Train, The Real Mcoy were all class.
Loved "Paul Merton The Series" and Mr Don and Mr George from "Absolutely". Also "Stoneybridge!" from the latter.
"....... and over here we have a bus shelter!!"
Absolutely was brilliant Denzel and Gweneth were brilliant
Llandudno neck for all
Big Train was absolutely fantastic. Far better than many others on this list. It was essential viewing in our house, and my missus loved it, too.
So glad you mentioned Absolutely. It's my life's ambition to retire to Stoney Bridge 😂❤️👍
...with its Stoney Bridge?
One from 2000, was Bruiser which was an early vehicle for Mitchell and Webb & Olivia Colman. Also featured the IT guy played by Matt Holness before he moved to The Office, Bob would’ve been proud!
Bruiser was ace. Back in the days when BBC3 was called BBC Choice! T T T Touchy!!!
"Do you sell poison?"
The skit with Robert Webb asking various places if they sell poison (not that his character wants to kill his wife or anything), is dark comedy at it's best. Also, the annoying surgeon who implants squeakers into patients whilst doing regular surgery, is wonderfully silly.
I liked big train actually. this sketch is genius in it's absurdity.
I think about the Mary Whitehouse Experience regularly, because I still use so many of its catch phrases. Lovely.
Big Train is in a different league to everything else on this list. Phenomenal show.
Thanks
Thanks so much Stephanie
Another wonderful trip down memory lane 👍
In his autobiography, Paul Merton said he hated doing stand-up, and those bits with him as a newsagent were pretty much his entire act, every bit of material used up. I actually went to see him live in the 90s, wishing I'd known that, as there wasn't a single line he said that he'd not said in the TV series.
that was the problem with tv from the 50s. People who did the music halls for 30 years went on tv and did their act - now everybody had seen it
I remembered that “Milky Milky” character. Brilliant!
Mary Whitehouse Experience was brilliant! I watched Punt & Dennis and Newman & Baddiel live after season 1, so saw most of the Season 2 gags before they were on telly! History Today was genius! That's your mum, that is!
Most of these are awesome and nobody has forgotten them, we still quote from them.
Paul Merton had a sketch I think of often. A Colditz setting, where the inmates have laboriously recreated a German Soldier's uniform to perfection. Secure in the knowledge that he will blend in perfectly, Merton marches out into the compound heading toward freedom... The look on the faces of the Japanese Prison Guards is classic.
There was a "Whose line is it anyway?" spin-off sketch show called "S&M," starring Tony Slattery and Mike McShane.
Big Train is an amazing show - the stare off sketches are still some of my favourites of all time.
I used to watch all of these.
Stoneybridge!!!!!!
I think you're wrong, Big Train was very good. Yes, some sketches didn't really work, but that's the case with every sketch show. There were some really inventive sketches played by talented comic actors. I watched it all a couple of years ago, still good stuff.
Welsh poet Ciadwell was on Naked Video, not Absolutely (John Sparkes was in both, but was really only on NV as Ciadwell). The man on the toilet (also Sparkes) was Frank Hovis.
Bit of a stretch to say Nick Frost was part of the Big Train ensemble. He was in 2 sketches, in the background.
I loved Absolutely. As soon as Naked Video showed up, I hoped Absolutely would be on here. The Stoneybridge Council sketches were brilliant, and Denzil and Gwynedd were just bonkers 😂
naked video was the first great sketch show of the 80's. Rab C, that posh blonde and others. even the theme tune was great!
I actually went to see an episode of Absolutely filmed, I loved that show.
somebody invent me a time machine I want to do that!
Milky!! Milky!!
Commented this as soon as I saw the thumbnail!!
That's you that is!!
Absolutely, class show!!
"The Mary Whitehouse Experience"'s Punt & Dennis had their own, far less remembered, spin-off sketch show. In fact, the only specific thing I remember about the Punt & Dennis show was a recurring cold-war action movie spoof where the hero would exclaim "Damn you, Krapotkin!!!"
And then went to R4 and The Now Show
Don't forget it launched Newman and Baddiel as well
@@shauntaylor9251 Sadly it did not launch Baddiel into the centre of the sun. Rob Newman has gotten very preachy too of late.
lovely milky milky!
At the time, Punt and Dennis seemed so uncool compared to Baddiel and Newman who were the height of early 90s studenty, pre-britpop indie band cool.
Certainly wish I could remember that last one now, but think the Fiona Allen clip at the end will be etched into my mind for a long time! I had such a crush on her in Smack The Pony, along with Sally Phillips!
yep Sally Phillips is worth of song!
Smack the Pony just qualifies as the 90s (1999-2003)
@@hadz8671 for myself it would definitely fail the "not thought of recently" part though, as I've just finished it on BritBox. Still as good now as it was back then.
@@rikrob - my favourite sketch is the ladies drinking water in the office.
@@hadz8671 brilliant sketch. I love some of the songs they did. 😄
Paul Merton: The Series is great. It is on All 4 and is well worth a watch.
Some freaking GREAT shows.
Thankyou this is exactly what I need.. Im in Australia and can't remember the names of all these shows we briefly enjoyed growing up in Oz.. Can you do more please ? Mainly 2000+ TO today ? Trying to find these on TH-cam to enjoy again ☺
See if any of this lot jogs your memory: th-cam.com/play/PLF2Ysx_IA3rnCfheARDVsgkXZEdIk_4sU.html
9:15 Didn't realise that Morwenna Banks married Davis Baddiel until I Googled her....
8:13 Siadwel was actually a character from Naked Video not Absolutely, John Sparkes was a member of both shows.
Loved Mary Whitehouse experience and Real McCoy (think ive still got some of them on video tape) also have Big Train on dvd (brilliant show)
I remember all of them!
Milky Milky and Thats your mum that is were catchphrases of the day in my school. Lol Big fan of Naked Video too. Such a great period for sketch shows.
Actually the Baldy Man sketch accredited to Naked Video wasn't used on the programme but the character was used for a Hamlet cigar advert in the case of that clip.
@Longrodvonhugendon yes, the sketch was recreated for the Hamlet advert
So glad you mentioned We Know Where You Live at the end. I thought I was the only person who remembered it.
Also I always got confused between Jeremy Fowlds and James Fleet for some reason.
Watched the Mary Whitehouse Experience yesterday. lol....
So many memories. I was sure Mary Whitehouse Experience lasted longer but I think it's because it scissored into 2 different shows that also imploded quickly despite one of them selling out Wembley Arena which was unheard of at the time.
My mate even had the annual back when they were a thing which had possibly the best bad taste piss take joke on inept sports reporter Gary Newbon I've ever seen.
Because Gary asked the most simplistic unoriginal questions ever they had a picture in the Mary Whitehouse Experience annual of the secret service agent trying to help Jacqui Kennedy after JFK had been shot, it's quite a famous photo but they superimposed Gary Newbons head onto the agents body with a microphone in hand and a text bubble saying "Jacqui, you're husband's just been shot! How does that make you feel?"
13 year old me nearly died laughing. I'm sure Coogan based parts of Partridge on him
RIP Felix Dexter
Gotta do the 2000s!...Morgana Robinson...We Are Klang..Lee Nelson..Mark Wotton?(the guy from Nativity?)...Titty Bang Bang...all of them were lil gems!
The Idi Amin sketches from Titty Bang Bang always have me in stitches.
"Have you tried a spatula?"
"The king will not scratch his frittering arse with an omelette wand!"
or
"Get me some of the yogurt in the tiny pots with the creepy crawlies in them! The _ooooooh danone_ stuff!"
true fact. i came very close to smacking lee nelson in his face. then i told him the next time i saw him :D
So much good comed but yeah, Absolutely was defo one I hadn’t thought about for a long time
Big Train was the best of the bunch!
You 100% sound like someone who wouldn't grasp Big Train
You thought Brasseye was real didn't you?
Loved big train and Mary Whitehouse experience
The TH-cam ads begining at the thing in the corner sketch was pretty good .
Paul Merton was Fantastic!
Some of the stuff I used to laugh at, the mary whitehouse experience came out when i was a student we thought it was amazing, looking at it now im 49 yrs old, oh my days, what happened? :)
Still quite regularly watch naked video and absolutely, few there id forgotten about for a month or two 😅
"up do something" with Shane Richie and a load of other recognisable faces is a sketch show and is something I can't find for love nor money. if you can get anything about that I'll be mega impressed!
I've got the Absolutely Boxset. I'm currently re-watching it.
Lovely Milky Milky was all I heard at school, and the bickering old men XD
Loved Mary Whitehouse Experience. Milky Milky and History Today (plus Rob Newman's Robert Smith impressions)
I loved Big Train! Absolutely and Naked Video were staples in our house. The Paul Merton Show was fab, liked it when he did the monologues from a kiosk. Wish I’d saw the last one, that was back when C5 tried out different things and late night content was comedy and soft core porn.
History Today.......classic
Brilliant
" Gwyneth, why do the Hoover suck"?
" I don't know, Denzil. Why do the Hoover suck"?
" Because it has no teeth".
Still my favourite joke.
Gordon Kennedy from Absolutely is the voice of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
My favourite Absolutely sketch was Stoneybridge Town Council. Sean Connery will eternally be Seen Conn-erray because of that. I suspect many a community council is scarily like Stoneybridge Town Council.🤣
"A bus stop to rival any other"
I remember watching each one on this list..
Frank Hovis. Guy on toilet. Loved Absolutely. Cymdeithas coed cymru (Welsh institute of wood) =Siadwel.
The Stoneybridge Olympic bid, "With a bus stop to rival any other". Very well written.
If you do another 90's Sketch Show vid, please don't forget the excellent Fist of Fun.
back when Stuart Lee was funny. I thought about writing to him about his boring repetitive business about pulling on his glasses, putting them on, pulling out a letter, reading it sarcastically, putting it away, taking glasses off, putting them away, but realised he would just... pull out his glasses... etc etc etc etc etc etc
I never saw "mistero buffo" with the late great Robbie Coltrane. One sketch I remember from The Real McCoy was a guy who was being turned away from a nightclub because of the dress code. By the time he's properly attired he's turned away because the club had closed. A couple you missed out were "Newman & Baddiel in Pieces" & "The Imaginatively Titled Dennis & Punt" both of which came from "The Mary Whitehouse Experience".
Alfresco. An early & funny outing for Coltrane & chums....
Anyone else remember "The Glam Metal Detectives"?
I've got the single! Music produced by Trevor Horn (among the long list of stuff I own that he has produced lol). Best bit? The Colin Corelene sketch always opened with him and Phil Cornwell walking along a bunch of flats, low camera. children shouting at them, then one slings a rubber brick from the 2nd floor and smacks Phil in the head. What a shot!
The trouble is there's very few sketch shows I've forgotten about.
Dare to Believe - Agua Moose.... Moose Moose Agua.... Yes I remember the Aguamoose.
Loved 'The Real McCoy' and 'Absolutely'. Even my hard to please father loved 'The Real McCoy'.
This Morning with Richard Not Judy.
Which was Peter Kay's big break.
Milky Milky. Mary Whitehouse Experience. The last thing of note I remember Gordon Kennedy was in would be Trainspotting 2 as the Headmaster who was blackmailed by Sickboy.
Big Train is the only one that still stands up.
RIP Mel Smith and Felix Dexter. Sadly David Baddiel is still alive.
Robbie Coltraine is gone too.
Completely agree about Absolutely, wonderfully silly stuff.
Oh come on, The Mary Whitehouse Experience was brilliant!
Seeing a neonatal Hugh Dennis after watching him age on Mock the Week is very strange.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience transferred from BBC Radio 1 the year before it went on the box.
Naked Video essentially spawned 2 successors in Pulp Video and Chewin’ The Fat.
And Rab C Nessbit
And there was a childrens TV version of the show called Fast Forward if memory serves me
In what way is Chewin' the Fat a successor? Greg and Ford had nothing to do with Naked Video.
@@krashd Never said they were but they did appear in Pulp Video and same production team did all 3 series
Yeah some of these I haven't even heard of or have heard of but never watched. Big Train I love and have the DVD. Alas Smith & Jones was must see in our house. I remember Punt & Dennis more than Mary Whitehouse. We Know Where You Live I should have watched really but I'd given up on Channel 5 already. Ella Kenion I only really know from being Mrs Cakeworthy in The Green Green Grass and I think she also starred in Hardware....a relatively forgotten about sitcom from the 2000s with Martin Freeman, Ken Morley and Peter Serafinowicz. Fiona Allen though....always fancied her from Smack The Pony which I guess is a more well known 90s sketch show. Naked Video I recall seeing a few episodes of. The Real McCoy completely passed me by and I only remember seeing adverts for the vhs inside other vhs cases.
Real McCoy was class
I'm not sure you're right about the Alas Smith & Jones / Alias Smith and Jones / Knight Rider connection.
Alias S & J was set in the old West and originally aired in 1972. Knight Rider was a 1982 show set in contemporary times - I can't remember a time travel story in the show, so unless the actors played their own descendants that doesn't track... And BOTH series were done before Mel & Griff started their show. I know they used the name as a punny title but I can't remember any repeats of the old show anywhere near its premiere. It was a long time ago, though.
The Classical-music themed radio4 sketch show "The Miles & Millner Show" did try to transfer to BBC Two. It starred the guy who did the music for "Jerry Springer: The Opera."
Are you joking????? Big Train, 'not that funny'??? THE best show on this list? Whaaaaat?
4:23 that's you, that is!
I used to like the pervert (on the Mary whitehouse experience) who would frequent the back alleys of Soho. Dressed in a smoking jacket, a cigarette holder and long black nails. He would say such stuff as "I wouldn't want to come over all mother Theresa now? Would I?......oh goddddd."
You see that gop of spit on the floor that's you're swimming pool that is
@@gingernutpreacher you see that bird that has been run over by a car? The one that looks rather pathetic with no feathers and covered in maggots? That's your Christmas turkey that is