I loved Chapman's American accent when he played "Tony Bennett" in the climatic scene of the Meaning of Life.

Charles was also an enormous fan of the Goon Show, I believe. Also, I think I heard somewhere that his both of his sons were big fans of Blackadder.

Not the Nine 'O Clock News did a pretty funny 'Royal Episode,' which featured a grovelling introductory speech by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, the punchline being that the "personage" they were so shamelessly bootlicking wasn't the Queen, but Mary Whitehouse!

With a gammy leg? Ew.

Perhaps a better result would have been achieved had they combined the Gordon Jump, Nancy Reagan and kidnapper episodes into a single storyline? "In this week's high-larious episode, a hitch hiker kidnaps Arnold, Dudley, Kimberly, Conrad Bain, Gordon Jump and Nancy Reagan and forces them to do inappropriate things at…

Everything I know about Rio I learned from Moonraker and the Simpsons!

Oh, I don't know. I'd say the song's very awfulness actually makes it's use in this skit all the funnier!

The rock group singing "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love in My Tummy" inside a bunch of wooden packing crates always cracks me up, especially the dramatic camera pans and close ups that you'd see on any typical Top of the Pops kind of music show. It's just so damned silly!

Cary Grant-esque 'hero': "Miss Jane, you have a ready wit I could easily find myself falling for…If only you weren't so infernally plain!"

There's another, more recent, TV movie version of Wind in the Willows (made in 2006, 10 years after Jonsey's film), which also features British actors and comedians: Matt Lucas as Toad, Mark Gatiss as Rat, Bob Hoskins as Badger. It played on the CBC on Christmas of that year, and to my knowledge, has never been rerun.…

Really? I never knew that, but it certainly fits with my own experience in seeing the film: It played in Toronto for all of a week, in a tiny Cineplex unit that could have been mistaken for a moderately large closet. The poster outside the cinema wasn't even a proper poster, but a very cheap looking black & white…

For fans/obsessives of British comedy, this also features Steve Coogan, Stephen Fry, Nigel Planer (from the Young Ones), Victoria Wood and Julia Sawalha (from AbFab).

Capaldi's a fine actor, so I'm sure he'll do well with the role, but I'm still surprised they chose him. Given the tendency in recent years to choose ever younger men to play the Doctor, I figured the next guy would be an out-and-out teenager. Or near enough.

Alexie Sayle as the Doctor!

"…the show's director, Ian MacNaughton, who was apparently in the habit of getting
totally plastered during location shoots."

I agree with you about the fish licence sketch, Zack - it's rather on the tiresome side - but I couldn't disagree more about Scott of the Antarctic. I adore every demented detail: Cleese's hack director so eager to please, the Giant Tentacled Electric Penguin, the man-eating desk, Michael Palin as Scott (and his…

Not exactly part of the "young gay boys falling in love" genre, but has anyone here seen the demented drag queen comedy, Girls Will Be Girls? Sample dialogue: When the, er, heroine is asked if she's ever had an abortion, she replies: "Oh, my God, Coco! I've had more children pulled out of me than a burning orphanage!"

"No. It's still funny."

And the people he falls on top of!

As a gay male, I feel confident in saying there was nothing 'offensive' about the Poofy Judges sketch. Usually, you only really need a little common sense to weed out the genuinely nasty stuff from material that doesn't have a reactionary agenda, and I'd say it's pretty obvious there's no hateful intent here. If you…