Of all the ways to even attempt an accurate description of the complex character of Noel Edmonds, none have so perfectly and succinctly pinned him down as Vic and Bob's portrayal, in 1993's Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. Their great skill is usin...
2018-09-24 08:26:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Been watching Sharp Objects. Is it just me, or do the constant flashbacks seem a bit... unrelated?
2018-09-22 12:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a particular cliché in film and television that rings truer than the rest, that is, the social hierarchy of the highschool male. Almost always, unsporty, flailing nerds fester at the bottom, with the popular jocks spitting at them from the top, ...
2018-09-16 14:46:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a miracle I've gone this long without tackling the works of Danny Dyer, who's one of those celebrities that embraces their stereotype so hard, they've become an actual cartoon. I've often wondered what genuine Italians make of Gino D'Acampo's Super ...
2018-09-07 08:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally got around to editing some highlights from the Ultimate Warrior's reality show featured in this post from a few months back, if you want to see a man scream himself into a such a vivid shade of red, it passes beyond the visible colour sp...
2018-09-05 11:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In the summer of 1962, a flurry of monster sightings at the famous Loch inspire a group of volunteers to band together and keep watch on its waters.
That's more of a log-line than a blurb, but I want to...
Whoopi and Ted. Bruce and Demi. Gareth and Norman. But amid the early 90's landscape of wonderful celebrity couplings, there were none quite like Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold. In many ways, they were the Kim and Kanye of their time, a true Hollywood powe...
2018-08-28 10:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I couldn't stay away. I think we all knew, once I watched the Hulk Hogan episode and realised how gloriously stupid a show it was, that I'd b...
2018-08-18 23:07:51 +0000 UTC View Post
As a nine-year-old boy, I was right in the sweet spot when TMNT hit, or rather, TMHT, with the H for Hero, as the very word 'ninja' was banned in the UK, lest us delicate British dandies timorously trickle wee-wee into...
2018-08-10 15:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that Jangle's concluded, I thought I'd quickly address what happens with the $5 tier going forward.
There are a lot of things I want to write. I'm surrounded by notebooks and word files and scraps of pap...
Reincarnation is a nice idea, and out of all the afterlife possibilities, it's the one I most hope is real. What better than a chance to respawn and try again if, say, you completely fucked up your life by trying to be a writer, subsequently condemning y...
2018-08-01 07:02:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Baby Boomers get a lot of flak for knocking today's privilege-guzzling, smartphone-owning youngsters, while having spent their own twenties doing monstrous lines of coke off the bathroom sink of the three-bedroom house they bought for about a year'...
2018-07-22 10:19:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Of all the things I've covered on here, Bibleman may be the first actual propaganda. Though it claims to be an exciting live-action superhero story, that's really just a Clark Kent level disguise, on something that exists solely to spread the Christian m...
2018-07-13 16:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Preview of something I'm working on. I'd simply DIE if I couldn't share this clip immediately.
2018-07-06 15:28:36 +0000 UTC View Post
On the surface, Shaun Ryder on UFOs seems like one of those celebrity Madlibs shows Alan Partridge might pitch into his dictaphone. Brian Harvey on The Crusades, Steve McFadden Bought an Alpaca Farm; hey, what if we go...
2018-07-05 09:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
With the least name value of all the 'artists' featured on Past Laugh Regression so far, I expect this piece to get less hits than a video entitled 1 Piers Morgan 1 Cup. However, I've committed to rooting out the laff-makers of my child...
2018-06-27 07:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The last time I wrote about the Ultimate Warrior was in the 24 hours immediately following his death, which came as the sudden ...
2018-06-18 07:31:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The very title Russ Abbot's Madhouse conjurors images of cruel Victorian asylums; scream-filled corridors, where wailing patients rhythmically smash their heads against filthy walls, their desperate pleas for mercy scrawled with human effluence....
2018-06-09 08:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post
My constant trawl through terrible TV and weird, forgotten documentaries will occasionally throw up clips unworthy of a deep dive, but still worth sharing. For those not keeping an eye on Twitter 24/7, I'm going to stick them up here as extra bonus content.
First up is a thing I first saw in 2001, which stayed with me ever since, wherein cel...
As much as this is a story about Jimmy Stewart, more than that, it's the tale of oil magnate, adventurer, and heist-architect, Tom Slick. An oil man literally called Tom Slick is so on-the-nose, it sounds like something from The Dandy, but...
2018-06-01 07:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post
In this series of fictional pieces, we'll look at the moments that almost happened, but didn't. At least, not here. While this is how it went down in our world 2018-05-24 07:36:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Imagine Knight Rider, but instead of David Hasselhoff, it's Hulk Hogan, and instead of a car, it's a boat. Cars drive on roads; boring concrete roads where there are hardly any boobs or butts; but boats live on the water, which is where you find...
2018-05-16 08:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
It was inevitable in writing this series that I'd end up covering Davro, king of the eighties; our Eddie Murphy. While many of the comedy faces from that era were double-acts, Bobby Davro walked alone, and those two words were more than just a name; they...
2018-05-07 09:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I've always unashamedly loved the Carry On films. Not in an ironic way that takes a jokey jab at my wokeness, but with the same purity I adore Chris Morris or the League of Gentlemen. Partly it's nostalgia, as the comedy of my childhood, each film is a c...
2018-04-28 14:53:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The immediate realisation on revisiting Baywatch for the first time in 25 years, is that they might as well just be naked. I'm no prude, but with everyone slow-mo running in those high-cut, atom-thin swimsuits, I suddenly feel like I'm at Burnin...
2018-04-20 09:08:11 +0000 UTC View Post
There's been a lot of discussion in the last couple of years about shifting notions of masculinity, with angry comments in The Sun from fathers worried their sons will grow up to be Danny La Rue because their John Lewis dinosaur pyjamas...
2018-04-12 07:58:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometime in the late 80s, my mum found me loitering in the kitchen. The last she'd seen of me, I'd been happily sat in the living room, watching The Wizard of Oz.
“Are you hiding out here because you're afraid of the witch?â€...
2018-04-05 17:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Comedy has always been very important to me, and as is probably evident through the showy-off nature of my work, I'm a frustrated performer at heart. Maybe the Patreon will give me enough cash to buy a camera and some editing software, to take my nob gag...
2018-03-28 11:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post
