Posted by Douglas Anderson November 23, 2010 comedy, steve coogan, the trip Comments (3)

I wrote a while back about the great Rich Hall documentary The Dirty South which was the best thing I’d seen on television in some time. I have a similar urge once more having watched the fourth episode of Steve …
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Posted by Douglas Anderson November 2, 2010 comedy, satire, Shaun Micallef Comments(0)
The argument that Americans don’t get satire has been all but quashed by the work of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher to name but three. In fact, as has been widely documented, their satire has segued in …
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Posted by Douglas Anderson June 21, 2010 Bob Monkhouse, comedian, comedy, dougie anderson, Film, Television, writer Comments (3)

In recent years British broadcasting has seen something of a resurgence of the old guard. The television careers of Bruce Forsyth, Terry Wogan and Noel Edmonds to name but three have been reinvigorated and they are now regularly seen …
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