Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Benny Hill Show or Morecambe & Wise — what is Britain’s greatest sketch show? TV Insiders Jimmy Mulville and Peter Fincham rank the best British sketch shows, from That Mitchell and Webb Look and The Two Ronnies to The Fast Show, Spitting Image, French & Saunders, Goodness Gracious Me! and more…
In this episode:
Chapters:
00:00 Intro and the rules
03:50 A Bit of Fry & Laurie
05:40 The Two Ronnies
07:55 Not the Nine O’Clock News
11:05 The Fast Show
13:25 That Mitchell and Webb Look
14:45 The Benny Hill Show
17:05 Spitting Image
20:15 French & Saunders
21:35 The Morecambe and Wise Show
23:45 Goodness Gracious Me!
26:40 Monty Python’s Flying Circus
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Jimmy Mulville is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hat Trick Productions. His list of hit shows includes Have I Got News for You, Father Ted, Derry Girls, Outnumbered and Episodes. In the US, Hat Trick launched Whose Line Is It Anyway? in 1997, which ran on ABC for seven years and was the first British series to be recreated for American network television by a British producer.
Peter Fincham ran TalkBack, where he executive produced many of their biggest shows, including I’m Alan Partridge, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Da Ali G Show. He went on to be Controller of BBC1, then Director of Television at ITV, before returning to the independent sector as co-CEO of Expectation, the company behind Clarkson’s Farm and Alma’s Not Normal.
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