Category: That Reminds Me . . .

WELCOME to the final instalment of my comedy catalogue, starting with a visit to the grim Craighill estate in Glasgow, home of elderly friends Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade. Still … Continue readingComedy gems, Part 4

IF YOU’D asked me what was wrong with Britain when I were a lad, I would have struggled to come up with many answers apart from the northern weather and … Continue readingWhat have they done to my country, ma?

IN previous columns here and here I wrote about Homage to PG Wodehouse, a 1973 tribute compiled by Thelma Cazalet-Keir, sister-in-law of Wodehouse’s beloved stepdaughter Leonora. Here are some more selections. The writer and actor Basil … Continue readingFurther homage to Wodehouse

This is part 3 of a series. You can read the first two here and here.  I MUST admit that the largely Scottish comedy sketch show Absolutely passed me by when shown on Channel 4 … Continue readingComedy gems continued

IN a previous column I wrote about Homage to PG Wodehouse, a 1973 tribute compiled by Thelma Cazalet-Keir, sister-in-law of Wodehouse’s beloved stepdaughter Leonora. Here are some more selections from this charming book. … Continue readingMore homage to Wodehouse

This is Part Two of a series which began here.  A GERIATRIC ward in an NHS hospital is, one might think, an unpromising setting for comedy. Yet Getting On, in three series … Continue readingMore comedy gems you might have missed

AMONG the treasures in my book collection is a slim volume, Homage to PG Wodehouse. This was compiled in 1973, two years before the Master’s death, by Thelma Cazalet-Keir, a former … Continue readingHomage to Wodehouse

I HAVE already waxed lyrical here about Brass, Peter Kay and Father Ted, and think enough has probably been said on the subject of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Dad’s … Continue readingSome comedy gems you might have missed

BACK in 2006, BBC Four started airing a cop show set in the seedy underbelly of Paris. There were eight episodes in that first series, shown two at a time … Continue readingThe Spiral phenomenon

WHEN I started out as a reporter on the Burnley Evening Star, the news editor was an irascible cove named Ray Horsfield, renowned for furious high-volume telephone conversations with his wife … Continue readingNewshound savaged by dogs