I'm building a garden office. It started as a pile like this ...
Simon Dunn
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Scriptwriter, Author, and Comedian. Done a podcast with Iszi Lawrence called setisoppO - buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/sighdone
Yes, the sketch is fantastic - but take a moment to just admire the gorgeous set design too. youtu.be/sO6EE1xTXmw?...
GREATEST COMEDY MOMENTS - The Two Ronnies - Fork Handles
YouTube video by The Pie Man
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When Eric eats a banana he becomes Bananaman. Is that true of other things he eats?
Remembering Kathy Staff, born this day in 1928.
The Bottom Bugle (a blog from the archive) www.simondunn.me.uk?p=11878
The Bottom Bugle
Often when you see a newspaper on a TV show it's a mock up, and often it's one that's been mocked up from a real paper. Take this, for example, from the first episode of Bottom (Smells), which aired o...
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My latest Rik Mayall thing. He narrated it and appears on a 24 minute "how we made it" DVD extra. That's got to be rarer than something that's quite rare. Upscaling animation often works very well, so we'll find out later today.
This is a project I’ve thought about starting for ages! It’s time to open the TV Burp Time Capsule and take a look back at how Harry Hill’s late-night comedy show, which quietly launched on ITV back in 2001, ended up changing TV forever! thatcomedyfan.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/t...
The TV Burp Time Capsule – Series One
What’s the most influential British TV programme made in the last quarter century? The answer is TV Burp! What do you mean, “No!”? Of course it’s TV Burp. There isn’t another TV show that has chang…
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So, in Blackadder The Third, is Baldrick a Lord throughout after Dish & Dishonesty?
What's the song that's playing just before kick off of every single World Cup match?
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Friday Night Armistice features Omid Djalili as the man who plays the drums at Eastenders cliffhangers. The busload of Princess Dianas is inaugurated, while David Schneider goes on a marriage boot camp with Mel, Sue and Al Murray.
The Friday Night Armistice (1996) - 21st June 1996
(c) BBC 1996
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Fame at last for Felix. Hi-De-Pi-lot! - a new blog about how a sitcom pilot changed career trajectories. www.simondunn.me.uk?p=14218
Hi-De-Pi-lot!
As the 70s turned into the 80s, a little story unfolded quietly in the local Reading paper. It began in October. Reading Evening Post - Wednesday 31 October 1979 There's a nice story from perenn...
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Fame at last for Felix. Hi-De-Pi-lot! - a new blog about how a sitcom pilot changed career trajectories. www.simondunn.me.uk?p=14218
Hi-De-Pi-lot!
As the 70s turned into the 80s, a little story unfolded quietly in the local Reading paper. It began in October. Reading Evening Post - Wednesday 31 October 1979 There's a nice story from perenn...
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I wrote a short blog for the first time in ages. Some Alexei Sayle Stuff www.simondunn.me.uk?p=14210
Some Alexei Sayle Stuff
Here's the first mention of Alexei Sayle that I can find on the British Newspaper Archive. It's from The Stage on Thursday 24th June 1976, and it's a small notice that the company he was a member of w...
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Just A Gigolo - 1993 ITV sitcom starring Tony Slattery at the peak of his being in everything as a schoolteacher who finds himself also having to work as a male escort because reasons. And yes he *did* sing the theme song. There was no second series. timworthington.org/2022/09/06/l...
He might have cut a fearsome figure as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It. But Peter Capaldi's brief stand-up career came to be defined by him getting pelted with oranges by teenage Spandau Ballet fans. www.comedy.co.uk/people/fyi/1...
Peter Capaldi's orange-strewn stand-up for Spandau Ballet - British Comedy Guide
He might have cut a fearsome figure as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It. But Peter Capaldi's brief stand-up career came to be defined by him getting…
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I wrote a short blog for the first time in ages. Some Alexei Sayle Stuff www.simondunn.me.uk?p=14210
Some Alexei Sayle Stuff
Here's the first mention of Alexei Sayle that I can find on the British Newspaper Archive. It's from The Stage on Thursday 24th June 1976, and it's a small notice that the company he was a member of w...
simondunn.me.uk
Finished! Here's my completed #arniecaricature. It's for sale, so drop me a line if interested: Teal.Cartoons@yahoo.com Has showing my process been of interest? Let me know. I'm planning a Sherlock/Cumberbatch/Freeman piece next, if that appeals. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
It's strange watching the very first appearance of Columbo on TV which led to an extremely successful series. No not Prescription Murder with Peter Falk, the very FIRST appearance of Columbo on TV. Enough Rope with Bert Freed. No mac but the cigar is there. This is on Wikipedia!
Is there a technical fault in the ITV studio? Not seen it at all during half time, and the ad breaks have been much longer.
My book about 1990s television is a year old today. Nineteen 90s Shows www.simondunn.me.uk?p=14105
Nineteen 90s Shows
I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this ... What shows do they make you t...
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Alan Rickman Was Going To Be Doctor Who? (a blog from the archive) www.simondunn.me.uk?p=4421
Alan Rickman Was Going To Be Doctor Who?
I popped open another vintage magazine from the pile this morning. It's been a while, and the pile has just been sat there, so it was time for another delve. This time, I picked TV Zone #55 from June ...
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Proctology: A Bottom Examination. www.simondunn.me.uk?p=12000
Proctology: A Bottom Examination
For a long time now I've been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom ...
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Grange Hill in its earliest days was as hard-hitting as it was in any way 'unruly'. From Ronnie getting her collar felt for shoplifting to Gripper's racist punch-up to 'the man' on the common, there was always something to keep you up at night... timworthington.org/2023/02/13/l...
20 years ago today "Mission: Impossible III" was released, with visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic. We sneaked R2-D2 into a shot, and here it is.
Had to go ‘somewhere’ today for work and saw this, this is what’s left of the Red Dwarf set before it’s finally scrapped. I assume people on here like the show, I’ve never quite understood the appeal I’m afraid. Iconic all the same. #reddwarf
There's a chapter about this show in my book Nineteen 90s Television Shows.
Russty Russ@russtyruss.bsky.social · 4mo ago#OnThisDay 1993 : Sylvania Waters was first broadcast in the UK on BBC1. It was an Australian reality television series that followed the lives of an Australian family. #90s
