in bed with medinner

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  1. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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    Does anyone remember this late-night 1990s ITV comedy show? Basically Bob Mills would play videos of random episodes of other TV shows, and pause them and sort of do comedy routines based on the TV programme he was talking about. Sort of like Harry Hill, only, I think, much better (even though I do like HH's TV Burp).

    OK, very hard to describe, but it was a classic, honest... I remember it being frequently hilarious, without expecting it to be, the kind of thing you would discover by mistake!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/i/inbedwithmedinne_7773815.shtml
     
  2. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    I think the sound of pins dropping answers your question dear....
     
  3. phoenix_indigo

    phoenix_indigo dreadfully real

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    *pats you on the head*

    sorry didn't live over here and thus have no clue. unfortunately the only BBC programs that travelled (until recently) across the ocean were Python, AbFab, Benny Hill, and Are You Being Served - that is, until we got Ground Force.
     
  4. Harry Tuttle

    Harry Tuttle Member

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    I 'member it! it was rofl-haha!
     
  5. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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  6. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    Kind of reminds me of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe....
     
  7. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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    Yep, Bob Mills got there before Harry Hill and Charlie Brooker, it really was quite unique in its day!:)
     
  8. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    It seems more like Brooker's than Hill's, more cosy, down to Earth and deadpan, much less zany. I'm not that much of a Harry Hill fan....
     
  9. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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    Ah, I love Harry Hill. Yes I see what you mean, I meant the technique of stopping things halfway through and deconstructing them, that's something I'd never seen done before Medinner.
     
  10. Harry Tuttle

    Harry Tuttle Member

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    And the catchphrase "I'm usually out & about".... seemed funny at the time!
     
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