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    Bellamy's People

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    Bellamy’s People

    Bellamy’s People, also known as Bellamy’s People of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a British comedy show first broadcast on BBC 2 as an eight episode series. The show is a spin off from the BBC Radio 4 show Down the Line. The show stars Rhys Thomas as the eponymous Gary Bellamy and features Charlie Higson, Paul Whitehouse, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Amelia Bullmore, Lucy Montgomery, Adil Ray & Robert Popper as a host of characters.

    $12.00
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    The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer

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    The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer

    The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer was a BBC TV sketch show written by and starring double act Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer. Its first series appeared in 1993 following the duo’s move to the BBC after parting company with Channel 4. The show marked a continuation of Reeves & Mortimer’s bizarre, anarchic and frequently silly comedy that they had first explored on Channel 4’s Vic Reeves Big Night Out, with a number of important differences.

    Firstly, Mortimer was now Reeves’s partner as opposed to his assistant on the previous programme. As well as getting his name in the title, he shared the trademark prop-strewn desk with Reeves.

    With virtually all of the Vic Reeves Big Night Out characters consigned to the past, a whole range of new characters appeared. The show also featured pre-recorded sketches and a lavish studio set, laden with columns and pillars and in the centre the enormous letters R&M, from which the duo emerged at the start of each show.

    The show would usually close with the song “Let’s Have A Little Bit More,” which saw the duo enthusing about the smells of things, from “Pol Pot’s Dungarees” to “Lulu’s Hairdos.”

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    Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer

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    Bang, Bang, It’s Reeves and Mortimer

    Bang, Bang, It’s Reeves and Mortimer is a British comedy television series, the third by comedy double act Vic & Bob and their second in a sketch show format. Directed by Mark Mylod and produced by Alan Marke, it was first aired in 1999 on BBC2. While maintaining certain elements from The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, the show was very different in many ways.

    As with the previous sketch show, a song kicked off the proceedings, and once again the duo sat at their trademark desk. However, the desk was almost completely bare, and had a transparent front, through which the moving form of a naked man could be seen. The studio set was different too, the huge R&M letters replaced with large representations of the pair behind warped glass. The duo’s humour had evolved too, their chat at the desk seemed more improvised, but also more obtuse.

    There were also changes in the double-act dynamic. Vic’s character was frequently unhinged and waved guns and large blunt objects around with relish, while Bob played a slightly baffled innocent most of the time. As usual, however, they would tend to fall out very easily, which would result in one of their trademark slapstick fights, which grew more absurd, violent and freeform as the series progressed. One memorable instance involved Vic’s head becoming grotesquely mutated after a spin in a tumble dryer. Bob then gleefully set about the hunchbacked, pathetic Vic with a baseball bat.

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    The Fast Show

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    The Fast Show

    The Fast Show, known as Brilliant in the US, was a BBC comedy sketch show programme that ran from 1994 to 1997, with a special in 2000. It was one of the most popular sketch shows of the 1990s in the UK. The show’s central performers were Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Mark Williams, John Thomson, Arabella Weir and Caroline Aherne. Other significant cast members included Paul Shearer, Felix Dexter, Rhys Thomas, Jeff Harding, Maria McErlane, Eryl Maynard, Colin McFarlane and Donna Ewin.

    It was loosely structured and relied on character sketches, recurring running gags, and many catchphrases. Its fast-paced “blackout” style set it apart from traditional sketch series because of the number and relative brevity of its sketches; a typical half-hour TV sketch comedy of the period might have consisted of nine or ten major items, with contrived situations and extended setups, whereas the premiere episode of The Fast Show featured twenty-seven sketches in thirty minutes, with some items lasting less than ten seconds and none running longer than three minutes. Its innovative style and presentation influenced many later series such as Little Britain and The Catherine Tate Show.

    $48.00
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