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« Reply #75 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 13:58:30 »

I think you mean 'Smack The Pony'. Think that was out around the same sort of time and yes that had some very close to the bone moments.

Ha ha, very funny Si.  No not Smack the flippin Pony, I've had to confer and ring a mate to ask him what it was called, it was....

...he hasn't answered his phone so I don't know!
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« Reply #76 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 14:00:47 »

I think that was Big Train Janaage, featuring a pre-Spaced Simon Pegg.
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« Reply #77 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 14:06:05 »

Yeah the wanking ban programme was Big Train, but there was another sketch show on C4 which was excellent, that's what I'm trying (and failing) to think of.
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« Reply #78 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 14:10:02 »

It was called Jam, on C4, in 2000 (d'oh).

Episode 1 highlights included

Homo Mum Dad
Two parents explain to their son's godfather that they are worried their son will become homosexual because he has a friend who is apparently gay. The father has been having sex with his son's friend to keep him distracted, while the mother has been keeping her son "interested in ladies" by having sex with him. The godfather is encouraged to pitch in and help.

Kilroy
Chris Morris announces it's "The day Kilroy lost his mind." There is then a series of manic shots of a lookalike of television presenter Robert Kilroy Silk going mad in a shopping mall, running around naked, shouting at passers-by, urinating on a shop window then falling asleep in a supermarket's freezer after attempting to wrestle a baby from its mother.

Coma
A doctor insists that one of his patients - who is obviously perfectly healthy - is in a coma, one that apparently has no symptoms. He then carries out a mercy killing on the heavily drugged patient.

Shrunken Car
An angry man walks down a street complaining that he recently took his car to a garage and, when he went to pick it up, the car was only four-foot-long, the mechanic insisting that that was how it was when it came in. The complaining man gets angrier and angrier as he explains this anecdote, swearing frequently and eventually attacking the pavement.

One Man Wedding
A forty-six-year-old man explains how he married himself out of fear of being a life-long bachelor. We see a shot of the wedding with the solitary newly-wed driving off on a honeymoon with himself.

Indian Restaurant
A brief scene shows two men in an Indian restaurant. Poppadoms are served. One man breaks the poppadoms for ease of consumption. His dinner partner becomes enraged, flings the table aside and starts beating up the other man, the violent assault accompanied by very relaxing music.

Thick People
An agency provides thick people for jobs they are good at, such as arguments, which they are apparently very good at winning "because they are too thick to realise they've lost."

Apartment Jumper
A suicidal man wants to kill himself but, instead of leaping from the top of the building, he opts to throw himself from the first-floor repeatedly in case he changed his mind half-way through.

Tree
Standing in a tree, a woman sings "Lovin' You" by Minnie Riperton while a crying man spanks her slowly with a spacehopper.

Infidel
A wife's fury at her husband having been caught apparently having sex with another woman is tempered when her husband tells her he was merely raping the woman.

Doc Knee
In the first of many sketches set in a general practitioner's office, a woman comes in to complain about her sore leg. The doctor goes to rub it and asks "Does this hurt" when in fact he's rubbing his own leg. He loses himself in the pleasure of stroking his thigh and asks the woman to leave. The visuals and audio of the sketch are slowed down, creating a very dreamy and even hypnotic effect
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« Reply #79 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 14:13:01 »

Jam was weird. I have it on DVD somewhere. I love the sketch for the agency that gives jobs to thick people.
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« Reply #80 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 15:07:58 »

Jaaaam was even weirder. They turned up the druggy effects and slowed the sound down. It was a bit too much. The radio version - Blue Jam - had a brilliant one about parents no noticing about their son getting picked up by a nonce and killed. Hilarious.

The Big Train Wanking Office sketch is great - even in German. It's on the DVD somewhere.
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« Reply #81 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 16:25:55 »

Jam was great, if weird.  Morris seems a bit lost these days (though he is currently trying to get a comedy about british suicide bombers off the ground!)  That sketch is available on a cd of blue jam from warp records along with my own personal favourite, the suicide journalist.
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« Reply #82 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 17:24:14 »

Drop the Dead Donkey (Comedy)

Between the Lines (Drama)

Incidentally,both series starred Neil Pearson.
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« Reply #83 on: Friday, January 2, 2009, 17:27:10 »

Birds Of A Feather, 2.4 Children, The Upper Hand, Bullseye
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