I don’t think Tracey Ullman was ever a “huge deal” in the UK. She was one-third of a decent but very mainstream sketch show, Three of a Kind, with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield (not that one, and not the other one either) and had a few minor pop hits doing covers of old songs. I think most people in the UK were a…

I guess it depends on your definition. Bowie was a far greater cultural phenomenon, and definitely more influential, but Queen were probably shifting more units. Hence Bowie hiring Nile Rodgers and making Let’s Dance soon afterwards.

I didn’t feel the need to see it having seen Strange Bedfellows.

I stopped reading at “Piers M…”

I don’t get it either.  Maybe it’s just “suitable for kids” Ferrell that they’re OK with.

I think Thunderbirds was doomed by not featuring Lady Penelope heavily in the trailer.

I will not have a word said against Bewitched. It is one of those films that 18 years later, we still quote from extensively as a family - even though the rest of my family are generally not keen on Will Ferrell (Elf aside).

Thanks for that - I don’t recall seeing it before. It’s like The Plank with a bit of Benny Hill-style smut thrown in.

“Are we the baddies?”

“Got” as in “got to see” or as in “understood”?

Good call - an absolute classic. Having come up with the concept, they also had to string together joke after joke, as each punchline has to act as the set up line for the next punchline.

The Two Ronnies is great but had quite a few sketches that don’t hold up well for modern audiences. But one of the great things about sketch comedy is that you can repackage them for “best of” shows losing the problematic sketches.

Ah right - that makes sense (while not making sense).

So have we all just given up on seeing Rhea Seehorn get her proper recognition?

That car explosion is pure Python - especially the policeman getting his notebook out.

Ok - maybe “tactless” rather than “disrespectful”.  My point is she was worried it might hurt her feelings and back-pedalled a bit.  It’s not a hanging offence.

I’ll start - Alberta: Cool Runnings.

You mean the Coen brothers produced a film with a heightened sense of reality? I’m shocked I tell yer.

She’s backtracking a bit because she realises it may have been a bit disrespectful to Kelley. The film is never going to happen. Zendaya hardly needs the props. Given all of that, you could just let it go.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/29/blonde-v-bombshell-get-set-for-the-barbie-oppenheimer-smackdown