That Gareth Edwards Blog blog
Producer Gareth Edwards has done a highly ‘factual’ blog over at the BBC Comedy site which is well worth a read. Here is a sample to tempt you:
Rather than simply ending up on video tape like all other television the comedy is remembered manually by a specially trained “rememberist” who then rests in a cool cellar for three to four months, before the mature programme is “dis-remembered” again directly into the original wood and wrought-iron television transmitters that take it by canal to every home in the land.
Full article is here.
As is this photo:
Talking of photos, this is also one of those soul-stealing images:
From The Daily Telegraph (click the link for the full review) after episode one was on the telly:
Last night That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC Two) began its fourth series, and it was exactly as funny as the preceding three series, i.e. mostly. (Last year Mitchell and Webb did a sketch mocking reviewers who call their show “hit-and-miss”, with Mitchell, playing himself at a script meeting, outlining the “running order” for an episode: “I was thinking hit, hit, miss, hit, hit, miss, hit…” Pointed and amusing, this sketch was itself a hit, although I’m not sure whether the joke was undermined or reinforced by the fact that some other sketches in the same episode proved to be misses.)
In format, That Mitchell and Webb Look isn’t in the least revolutionary: it might have been made 30 years ago. But actually I don’t think that matters. There’s no more need to revolutionise the sketch show than there is to revolutionise the table. The chief purpose of comedy is not to be experimental and avant-garde, it’s to be funny. And Mitchell and Webb are funny, often sublimely so.
On a relatively different subject but linked because Rob starred in the writer I am about to mention’s popular cigarette-based sitcom The Smoking Room, we went to see the marvellous Brian Dooley’s new work in progress being performed on chairs at Soho Theatre on Saturday and very bloody funny it was too. Full report at my “normil” blog aka here.
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