Hmm - does this triangulate with:

Every week I listen to Johnnie Walker’s Sounds of the Seventies on BBC Radio 2. Recently a listener sent in his story of meeting Townshend (and Paul Cook and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols) in a club in London.  Later that night the incident related in those lyrics occurred.

“It’s basically applying public pressure/shame to get the politician to discontinue using a particular song”

She was amazing in The Others. Brilliant film.  But I also enjoyed her in Bewitched - a film that seems to have gone down better in our household than elsewhere.

And Derry Girls.

Agree - it’s certainly not an obvious casting choice but no reason it shouldn’t work out.

Same for me. Funnily enough I read your comment just before watching Calypso’s birthday and agree, it was good fun. And Izzy’s rendition of La Vie en Rose was strangely affecting.

The best thing May ever did.

In 2013, a journalist called Stuart Heritage who writes frequently for The Guardian, convinced that esteemed publication to let him liveblog a weekday afternoon broadcast of Carry on Dick.

How about Lamia in X-Bomber/Star Fleet?

Not as good as the first season but definitely entertainingly silly.

Ironically (given the narrative that seems to have grown up around him) Gillis actually has a routine where he describes somebody becoming a Republican with the line “OK, now it’s time to be a prick about everything”.

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Or the Master Butcher of Leigh-on-Sea.

They do know you can turn your phone on its side don’t they?

I’m sure you’re right but it’s pretty childish.

Really surprising this.  Paterson has always seemed a very nice chap.

I think Bullock could have a few entries here - with Melissa McCarthy in The Heat, and Regina King in Miss Congeniality 2, for example.

He speaks a number of African languages, but yes, I believe English is either his “first” language, or something he spoke regularly growing up..

Who also, of course, wrote God Gave Rock’n’Roll To You.  I really like Frehley’s New York Groove, but it’s almost identical to the original.