My Comedy World

Acorn Antiques started on the “Victoria Wood – As seen on TV” show in 1985. The main inspiration behind the sketch was the cheap and not so cheerful ‘Crossroads’ (a sleepy soap opera, which ran on ITV) as well as the old radio soap, ‘Waggoner’s Walk’. Acorn Antiques became famous for its blatantly unrealistic story [...]

This is pure classic ‘Two Ronnies’. The ‘Four Candles’ sketch is so simple and so obvious, but it is delivered so well that even the worst puns that are thrown in get a laugh from the audience. Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker performed this sketch in September 1976, on their ‘Two Ronnies’ show on BBC1. [...]

The glam rock stalwarts, Slade, came a cropper of the bizarre comic duo, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, when they were a constant theme for celebrity annihilation throughout the BBC series, ‘The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer’. The show ran for two series on the BBC back in 1993.
 
Slade were such an easy target for [...]

Vic and Bob, masters of the surreal and quite happy to take their sketches to new uncharted levels in comedy, took an ordinary and pleasant Sunday evening cookery programme, turned it on its head and twisted it into a bizarre concept in experimental alternative comedy.
 
The ‘Masterchef’ sketch appeared on ‘The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer’ [...]

It would be hard to find a sketch that goes into such meticulous detail as this one from the classic comedy minds of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. The ‘Breakfast’ sketch put Morecambe and Wise into the annals of comedy history when it was performed on ‘The Morecambe and Wise Show’ in the early 70’s. [...]

Andre Previn was at the receiving end for one of Morecambe and Wise’s classic sketches from their “Morecambe and Wise Show’ in the early 70’s. Previn is a famous pianist and composer and was then the main conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra. The sketch starts off with Ernie Wise introducing the act:
 
“And now ladies [...]

Isn’t it a pleasure to see a legendary classic comedy act doing their take on a legendary classic movie scene? Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise were the masters of this genre.
 
They were the undisputed kings of sketch show comedy in the late 60’s and early 70’s and had a career in show business that lasted [...]

“That’s you that is!” was the catchphrase that swept across the UK when “The Mary Whitehouse Experience” came onto TV screens – via BBC2 at the beginning of the 90’s. The programme’s second series saw the introduction of ‘History Today’.
 
The sketch starred comedians, David Baddiel and Rob Newman, as two old university professors, discussing important [...]

“Out with a lady last night sir? Did she want it sir? Did she?”*
“Oh! Suit you sir!”*
 
What better way to be introduced to the two most sly, sneaky, and slightly perverted sales people out there, than to pay a visit to your local tailor. Ken and Kenneth, the two button-pushing suit fitters from the Fast [...]

Easily the most famous character duo from the Fast Show’s repertoire, The Ted and Ralph series of sketches almost rose to become a sort of mini drama for loyal fans towards the end of the show’s run. The two characters were creations of the writing pair of Hugh Linehan and Arthur Mathews and the sketch [...]