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Watching bits of Brass Eye in bits. Itās not something you can binge. Itās just too embarrassing for any of the parties concerned except for Chris Morris, who basically convinced the fame hungry has beens of the late 1990s to unwittingly self-immolate.
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His announcement of Jimmy Savileās death on his Boxing Day show on Radio 1 in 1994 was jaw dropping. Superb, and it just goes to show that everyone knew what he was up to.
Chris Morris on Jimmy Savileās death. by ultraculture (soundcloud.com)
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Iām putting this on the comedy thread in the hope of not getting @pap onto the MI5 hit list.
But the guy running that account is a friend of Tony66, from our motley Sickipedia WhatsApp group. And Tony reckons the bloke is serious about the tale. 
This is the third reference Iāve seen to this rumour.
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It did the rounds on Twitter about a week ago.
Well, is there anything to it?
This is a good Young Ones documentary that I havenāt seen before.
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I love these twoā¦their whole series are delights of gentle boys banter, pathos, unexpected wisdom, brilliant photography, heart healthy cuisine and natural comedy.
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Couldnāt agree more, itās superb. As a concept when it was pitched it raised a few eyebrows and sniggers at the Beeb apparently, but hats off to whoever saw the potential and commissioned it, a type of programme you will only see on the BBC, weāll miss it when itās gone. It reminds me a lot of Detectorists, the same vibe.
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I loved that series - brilliantly nerdy
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Pretty much the entire Down The Line archive, except for Lockdown special.
EDIT: Link playing up. Copy and paste the below into a browser.
https://archive.org/details/DownTheLineBBCRadio4
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Weirdly I missed it so am now watching S1 on BBC iPlayer.
Very nerdy but nice gentle comedy.
I think the theme tune was used on a proper archaeology programme hosted by Alice Roberts (gives an archeological phwoar)
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Theyāve got a new show coming covering 100 years of the BBC. They did a very good similar show called the History of the Twos.
But what do I know about comedy? I still hold a candle for Hale and Pace, who I believe will remain forever unsurpassed in the comedic animal cruelty stakes*.
* I am not cruel to animals, but when animal cruelty humour is done well, you canāt not laugh.
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I took to animal cruelty like a duck to lighter fluid.
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Iāve been watching A Kick Up The Eighties. Watching old comedy youāve never seen before is always great, but it comes with a warning, especially if youāre a Harry Enfield fan.
The more I watch of old comedy the more I realise how unoriginal a lot od modern famous sketches are. For example, the Moore and Cook sketches include this bit where they talk about all these unlikely stars visiting their bedquarters in the middle of the night. The Self Rightous brothers are exactly the same thing.
A Kick Up The Eighties has a great scene where posh women keep Northerners as pets, again, another Enfield scene.
You could argue homage but personally I think itās a bit of a rip off. The thing I really respect about A Kick Up The Eighties is the experimentation. The most memorable things to fall out of that series are not the best thing about it.
For me, itās seeing Miriam Margoyles and Tracey Ullman playing off each other. No surprise to me whatsoever that Ullman made it big in the States after this. She could do everything.
Iāve got to put some more love out for Operation Good Guys, which I think is one of the great underrated British comedy series.
Comedy, when you boil it down, is about setup and punchline. Good Guys is fantastic at that, even if the setup is usually DS Beach being a complete fucking idiot.
Case in point; currently watching the episode where Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller guest star. Jonny Lee Miller is treated like a criminal throughout because he played a heroin addict in Trainspotting.