Britcom Goes To The Movies

Director's Commentary (w/ Alison Dennison & Nina Buckley)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Finding funny stuff on ITV since the turn of the century has been an arduous task. So it was quite the surprise to the 19-year-old Rob and Guy that late night on a Wednesday, one of the new darlings of British comedy, Rob Brydon, could be found as alter ego Peter De Lane performing fake director’s commentary on such classic Granada TV shows as Flambards, Only When I Laugh, and Mr and Mrs! As well as, for some reason, the classic US western TV show Bonanza, for which Brydon’s production company owned the rights to 32 episodes. This is a forgotten Brydon Classic. Shortly after the success of Marion and Geoff and Human Remains, the BBC turned down the opportunity for Brydon’s latest venture with collaborator Paul Duddridge, so their loss was Granada’s gain, and it would serve the dual purpose of giving ITV a comedy vehicle with the man everyone wanted a piece of as well as reminding audiences of some of their back catalogue.
So for our second Rob Brydon-related round table episode, we’ve enlisted the help of two of our favourite former guests to make up a classic De Lane Four. Alison Dennison and Nina Buckley returned to discuss their love (in one case) and disdain (in the other) for a show that neither had previously remembered.
Join the four of us for a deep dive into the world of Peter De Lane, Denny Hall and Lord Cheggers of Oddbins, and we’ll also discuss our favourite real-life director's commentaries and lots more to boot.

Thanks as always to our payingest Patreon, Andrew Greenwood!
Eurovision 1977 - Stewart Morris Talkback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTgCLfYdRo4
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Quentin Tarantino director’s commentary on Spaced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWOQH76BZbQ
Mike Scully calls John Schwartzwelder on the Simpsons commentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAWE0Kjn8ac&t=1s
Director’s Commentary - The Duchess of Duke Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXVB_tW_KXQ
Director’s Commentary - Flambards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Df03uATMM
Grace Jones at the Golden Jubilee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIicwZrkEhY&list=RDkIicwZrkEhY&start_radio=1
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand De Burgos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v37TG6uG3c

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Spice World (w/ Catrin Lowe)

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:07:00 GMT

Episode two of BritPOP Goes to the Movies sees Guy and Rob joined by Catrin Lowe to discuss Spice World: The Movie. Kim Fuller, brother of the mogul behind the Spice Girls, Simon Fuller, wanted to make a genuine homage to our previous film A Hard Day's Night, and to do that he wanted to make this just as cynical and rich with meta-textual, self-referential craziness. Cramming in celebrity cameos (too many for his script editor) and musical set-pieces.
Spice World certainly had that and a whole lot more. The film was put in motion before the five-piece had properly blown up worldwide, but by the time shooting had wrapped, they were truly a worldwide sensation. This movie broke all kinds of box-office records; despite being critically panned, it now sits as the most financially successful film about a real pop group ever.
To believe the critics' initial reaction would do this subversive, bonkers and surprisingly well-acted film a disservice. Yes, there's the odd "what the hell were you thinking?!" moment, but for every Michael Barrymore and Gary Glitter (yes, Gary Glitter!) there's an Alan Cumming and Bob Hoskins.
Sit back and listen to the gang wax lyrical and get all nostalgic about the era of Spice. With clear dividing lines about what the Spice Girls meant to their teenage girl and teenage boy fan clubs! There's even a little inside scoop from a familiar voice who appeared in the movie. So Stop! Say you’ll be there with us for a cracking episode that hopefully you won’t find Too Much…
…..Goodbye!

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Just My Luck (w/ At The Movies in the Noughties)

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:07:00 GMT

To round off our BritPop Goes to the Movies mini-series, we jump to 2006, a simpler time when fledgling British pop-rockers McFly and their management could force themselves on an unsuspecting Hollywood. Lindsay Lohan (at the height of her fame) and Chris Pine (who Rob would argue is the best of the Chrises) on the come-up, star in an all-American, by-the-numbers romcom, which was sold in this country largely based on the already successful McFly's appearance. However, in America, Tom, Dougie, Harry and Danny were complete unknowns, and this was their only shot to crack the US market.
This film differs in many ways from the previous two in the series, not least because it is a fully American production, but also because the band is very much the B-plot to a high-concept convolution in which Lohan and Pine continue to switch luck and status. There's still plenty of British pop music in it, though. Lots of McFly tracks but a lot of repetition of Five Colours in Her Hair.
Joining Guy and Rob is fellow Film Stories Podcast Network host Dev Elson of Chucky Vision and At The Movies in the Noughties. He did more than his fair share of superfluous research by listening to every McFly album. Is this film as bad as we are making it sound, though? Well, you’ll just have to finish the trilogy to find out.

Five Colours In Her Hair - McFly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h76uVRSJ5bc
Obviously - McFly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiyF3K7hFqM
Harry Judd Wins Strictly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_s2RHVBdY
Chris Pine in Smokin' Aces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tGV96ceBM&t=148s
Chris Pine - The Otley Run
https://x.com/CapitalOfficial/status/1641409178387324934
Just My Luck Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClDQ4SLDDOw
Just My Luck - Central Park Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZz6l8MCFFY

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A Hard Day's Night (w/ Goon Pod)

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:06:00 GMT

As we eagerly await Series Seven in the autumn, how about treating ourselves to a mini-series during the bank holiday? What could be more fun than watching British pop groups trying to crack the movies?

In our new mini-series, BritPop Goes To The Movies, Rob and Guy will be diving into exactly that over the next three days!

We kick off our series with a huge first episode, featuring a returning friend of the show. Tyler Adams from Goon Pod is back for his third appearance, ready to help us explore a film that truly changed everything. Who better to guide us through how a business-savvy soundtrack tie-in became a cinematic masterpiece?

Tyler helps us to start things off with A Hard Day’s Night. Originally commissioned by United Artists to get a Beatles soundtrack album, director Richard Lester and writer Alun Owen took a modest £189,000 budget and a tight schedule and turned it into something sharper, funnier, and more influential than anyone could have imagined. By moving away from the usual vehicles of Elvis and Cliff Richard, John, Paul, George, and Ringo really shine on screen, playing heightened versions of themselves. They are supported by a fantastic cast of British character actors, including Wilfred Bramble, Victor Spinetti, and Norman Rossington, who add a sharp edge to the film’s satire on age, class, and authority.

Come along with us as we get stuck into Beatlemania and the birth of the modern music video as we explore A Hard Day’s Night!

Running, Jumping, Standing Still film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScwV_yIGZ5Y

It’s Trad Dad (trailer) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk8ad0u0URw

A Hard Days Night Press Conference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9VJ7GZYcWU

George Harrison funny scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QREeweMWTZk

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S06 E10 - Fackham Hall (2025)

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Is the art of parody the sole reserve of Americans? Well, us Brits have had a few jolly good cracks at it. Most recently, Fackham Hall. The star-studded Downton Abbey send-up from 2025, written by the Dawson brothers (one of whom is an Inman) and the Carr brothers (one of whom is the UK’s biggest stand-up of the 21st century).
To round off the sixth series of BritCom Goes to the Movies, Rob and Guy tackle their most recent film to date and have paired it with the other most valiant BritCom ZAZ-style attempt, A Touch of Cloth. The gloriously silly spoof of the police procedural dramas of the BBC and ITV. A programme that started life in creator Charlie Brooker’s spoof TV listings website TV Go Home.
Series six has had our most guests ever, so it's only right to finish it with the original lineup. For this one, Guy and Rob go it alone. There’s also the matter of the Series Six quiz champion to decide, as scores are all level at 24-24 going into this episode. Join us for the last in the series at Fackham Hall!
TV Go Home
http://www.ntk.net/tvgohome/190399.html
A Touch of Cloth - It was 1996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrOnQG-ZYyM
A Touch of Cloth - I cam As Soon As I Heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4RKGels8Wo&pp=ygUQYSB0b3VjaCBvZiBjbG90aA%3D%3D&pbjreload=102
Fackham Hall - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWrZCkL8Kqs
Fackham Hall - Jimmy Carr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XhP-mmIPDY

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S06 E09 - The Death of Stalin (w/ Eleanor Morton)

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:00:00 GMT

At BritCom Goes to the Movies, we are dipping back into the world of Armando Iannucci. Last we heard of him on this show, he’d just adapted his hit sitcom The Thick of It into big screen success In The Loop, and eight years later was turning his attention to a farcical retelling of an actual moment in history with The Death of Stalin.
Based on a French graphic novel telling of the Soviet dictator’s demise, Iannucci reassembled some of his most trusted writers and performers to tell this story in a very Thick of It way, without the need for comedy Russian accents. Ian Martin and David Schneider, longtime Iannucci collaborators, would help write, and while the cast had familiar Britcom faces, there would also be a sprinkling of Hollywood with Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor as well as the cream of theater in Simon Russell Beale as the terrifying Beria.
We dip not only into this 2017 movie but also the critically acclaimed 2001 sketch show, The Armando Iannucci Shows, which was one of the few TV series that Armando wrote and produced, which he also took the lead in performing. This is a second episode in a row in which we feature a TV show written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley (amongst others), and (spoiler alert) we enjoyed their work here much more than we did Hyperdrive.
Joining Guy and Rob is the brilliant comedian, writer, and historian Eleanor Morton, who jumped at the chance to talk about one of her favourite films of the 2010s. But would Rob and Guy be quite so effusive? This episode would also represent Guy’s chance to put the quiz competition to bed with one episode remaining. Going into episode nine, Guy had a two-point lead. If he could extend this into episode ten, it would surely be curtains for Rob.
Armando Iannucci - OJ Simpson on the Saturday Night Armistice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfEtYYqSl4
The Armando Iannucci Shows - Hello Hugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmjWCk36C8
The Armando Iannucci Shows - Chronic fatigue syndrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDhoM_vhIeo
Death of Stalin - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9eAshaPvYw
Death of Stalin - Rupert Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN-mq2RPAto
Death of Stalin - Best of Zhukov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNbvepjd46A

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S06 E08 - Cuban Fury (2014)

Tue, 26 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Get on your dancing shoes and join Guy and Rob (because it only takes two to tango) for 2014’s Cuban Fury. Something of a passion project for Nick Frost, who basically wanted to learn how to dance and probably wanted to be the main character in a wish-fulfillment Rom Com. There’s some transatlantic crossover here as Rashida Jones of The Office, Parks and Rec, and being the daughter of famous people, joined the mainly British and Irish cast.
We’ve covered Nick Frost before, of course, but never as a leading man, and while he teamed up with Nira Park and Big Talk once again, there was no trace of Edgar Wright here, but just the tiniest bit of Simon Pegg. To pair a TV show with this, it made sense to pick the first time Frost had a lead role in a sitcom as well, the divisive Hyperdrive. Starting in 2006 and running for two series, this was Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley’s (them again) venture into the unknown, for a space set sci-fi sitcom with just a few echoes of the two big hitters that came before it.
To find out if Rob and Guy liked either Hyperdrive or Cuban Fury, you’ll need to tune in for episode seven, which, in a series laden with guests, stands out as one for the purists. Can Rob claw back the quiz deficit? Will Guy mention The Beatles? Will we have a challenger for the upper or lower places in the league table? Only one way to know for sure!
Hyperdrive Series 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz-1c2o1Dxw&list=PL2907664D333F4F02
Hyperdrive - Starting Therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNbKr4cm1-8
Cuban Fury - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFSP9iO71AE
Cuban Fury - Kayvan Novak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrllJthntlE
Cuban Fury - Al Pacino Impression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVaVICJF_gQ

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S06 E07 - The Young Poisoner's Handbook (w/ Tim Worthington)

Tue, 19 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Episode Seven began life as a thread on Bluesky by our guest Tim Worthington. The font of all obscure pop culture knowledge was discussing with followers what the most obscure BritCom they'd seen at the cinema was. Needless to say, a lot of the answers were on our long list, but not Tim's choice.
The Young Poisoner's Handbook is the darkest of all the dark comedies we've covered so far. Based on, but the filmmakers must stress, not a biopic of The Teacup Poisoner Graham Young, who killed several people in the 60s and 70s.
A film full of familiar Britcom faces, including Roger Lloyd Pack, Charlotte Coleman, John Thompson, and Simon Kunz. Still, it's the central performance from Irish actor Hugh O'Connor that really stole the show.
Co-writer Jeff Rawle was at the height of his Drop the Dead Donkey fame when this film was released in 1995, so the topical newsroom sitcom by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin was the obvious choice for our "source material" and was a joy to revisit. Join Rob, Guy, and Tim for the Young Poisoner's Handbook.

Damien Gets High On The Field - Drop The Dead Donkey

https://youtu.be/JfeQyp0PihM?si=t0cIRk2zFHKVfNZq

Teddy Bear Disaster - Drop The Dead Donkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip0sLEMCEdY

How To Announce a War - Drop The Dead Donkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErktQhN6TvM

Episode One - Educating Marmalade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGeHsjfVptk

Marmalade Atkins joins MI5 - Danger: Marmalade at Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBCxewUANM

The Young Poisoner's Handbook - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7_e79Ik3Vs

The Young Poisoner's Handbook - Full Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ndiGKuUkt0&t=1012s

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S06 E06 - Bloodbath at the House of Death (w/ Kat Hughes)

Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Last time Kat Hughes joined Rob and Guy, the horror writer and critic had the misfortune of dissecting the Christmas family mess Nativity! This time she’s much more in her wheelhouse as we discuss Bloodbath at the House of Death. A vehicle for Britain’s best loved DJ Kenny Everett to take his brand of spoofing, innuendo and larger than life characters to the big screen after the success on both ITV and BBC with his Video Show/Television Show.
It cannot be underestimated just what a huge cultural phenomenon Kenny Everett was. As one of Britain’s most popular Radio and TV personalities in the early 80s, he could make careers of pop stars and bands and was able to attract some of the biggest names to guest on his TV shows. However, just when it looked like Kenny might hit the big time on the big screen, a controversial incident at the Young Conservatives conference of 1984 was publicity suicide for Bloodbath and it crashed and burned at the box office.
However, as was often the case in the mid-80s, VHS came somewhat to its rescue, and now the film is even on Netflix…but was it any good? Could a supporting cast of such huge BritCom names as Pamela Stephenson, Don Warrington and John Fortune elevate this film beyond Everett’s more disposable TV sketches? Could Vincent Price give it some Hollywood clout and horror credibility? Writer Barry Cryer and writer director Ray Cameron had been working with Everett for years, but the big screen was fairly new to them as well.
We discuss all of the above and more in episode six, so join us as we take a trip to The House of Death.
Kenny Everett Video Show - Best of VHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HeX1CPQf9k
Kenny Everett Television Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecqQBG9q3Ok
Charley Says Always Tell Your Mummy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDu7yYHxZr0
The Prodigy - Charly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2E
Pamela Stephenson - England My Leotard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMXIro1P_7g
Pamela Stephenson - Shrink Wrap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZodTyEoFRZQ
Bloodbath at the House of Death - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6zmvE-uEu0
Bloodbath at the House of Death - Best of Vincent Price
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLWS_CjI1M

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S06 E05 - The Harry Hill Movie (w/ Ruth Husko)

Tue, 05 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Now that’s enough of the 1970s, let’s move this series into the 20th century. Well, actually, our story for this icon of BritCom begins at the end of the 20th. Harry Hill won the Perrier award in 1992 and was quickly on TV and radio soon after. Rob and Guy take a particular look at The Harry Hill Show…or rather just Harry Hill as it was known on Channel 4 in the late 90s.

To join the chaps is Harry Hill superfan, internet sensation, and comedy writer Ruth Husko. As it turns out, both Ruth and Rob saw an early Harry Hill tour as their first forays into live comedy. Guy, however, still needed some convincing of the wonder of Hill’s own brand of surreal silliness. Could he be won over?

Well, the chances are that would not be done by watching the universally panned Harry Hill Movie from 2013. Held up as one of the cases that most proves the rule that big-screen adaptations of small-screen comedy don’t work, but is it really that bad? There’s only one way to find out…FIIIIFGHTT! Or just have a listen to the latest episode of BritCom Goes to the Movies.

Harry Hill - Fruit Fancies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlIGkKUxWak

Harry Hill - Fruit Corner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOOkh8ffqko

Harry Hill - Channel 4 - SE1 Ep1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUS_EPSNNtY&list=PLVEP6KjsyeTd9sScdD-KH4ZTvvWuW17V5

Harry Hill and Stoofer - 7 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeW61GTxe-Q

TV Burp - Ear Cataracts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NswiFD8qSgI

Harry Hill Movie - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywarD9fcZGQ

Harry Hill Movie - Blackpool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg1AxAHJBJg

Shooting Stars - Billy Elliott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-ASY9X1dU

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S06 E04 - Please Sir! (w/ Jason Hazeley)

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT

We’re on a roll with the 70s sitcom spin-offs. Hot on the heels of George and Mildred and Mutiny On The Buses comes 1971’s Please Sir! This is, in no small part, down to our guest this week, Jason Hazeley, being the world’s loudest cheerleader for this film and its preceding sitcom. We didn’t even need to show him the list; he was straight in there for a personal favourite since his youth.

But never two to hold back, would Rob and Guy’s thoughts on Please Sir! align with Jason’s? Certainly, the ingredients were there for that not to be the case. Some dated attitudes, men and women in their 20s playing teenagers, a rushed release capitalising on the success of its TV predecessor, and our old favourite, a flimsy pretext to get the cast to a holiday camp.

Having said that, both Rob and Guy come to this fresh. Neither had ever seen as much as an episode of this once-beloved sitcom, but both were aware of the all-round entertainment chops of the cast. Not least Deryck Guyler, in whose washboarding hands anyone could feel at ease.

Join us as we delve into one of the last ITV sitcom spin-offs left to cover, which could well prove the best of the lot.

Please Sir! SE1 Ep1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8PVA-TDeYw
Deryck Guyler on the Washboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWKHTcC-I8k&list=RDGWKHTcC-I8k&start_radio=1
Derrick Geyler Scotch Tape Ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL3mpzAvHFA
Michael Winner Esure Ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efl5pFTFnBU
Victor Lewis Smith pranks Michael Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTGc1PKVrH0
Please Sir! (1971) Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhhiqg0aKOM
Please Sir! Full Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0CL4bhlH8

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S06 E03 - Mutiny On The Buses (w/ John Rain)

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT

After some time away, we’re ready to dip back into the On The Busesverse. Our resident expert in all things Butler and Blakey, John Rain, returns to discuss the Empire Strikes Back of the trilogy. It’s time for Mutiny on the Buses. A mere year after the first film and backed by a (slightly) bigger budget, none of which the actors saw, the Ronalds, Chesney, and Wolf had forged a screenplay with much more of a semblance of a plot and some new characters to boot.

There’s all the usual fun (at Blakey’s expense mainly) as well as naked protest, Arthur joining the depot, a huge fire extinguisher leak, and fun and frolics in Windsor Safari Park in which Reg Varney shits himself with a chimp on his lap.

Great to welcome back John Rain and his unique brand of analysis and even tee up the promise of Holiday on the Buses to come…but one instalment at a time, eh?

Morris Bright’s Elstree On The Buses Documentary

https://youtu.be/luKxuhVxNGQ?si=pZduxvq7pY1CLk5c

Mutiny on the Buses Filming Locations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9dv6flrmW4

Mutiny on the Buses Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LQbflW--q4

Mutiny on the Buses - Radio Control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECzCL97E28w

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S06 E02 - George & Mildred (w/ Alison Dennison)

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Time to get our teeth into another straight spin-off. It’s a significant one at that. The final of the ITC/EMI/Hammer spin-offs of ITV sitcoms, which many credit as the death of the genre altogether. That’s right, it is the 1980 big-screen adaptation of the long-running sitcom that in itself was a spin-off. George and Mildred.

Long-time listeners will know that in the first series, Rob and Guy were pleasantly surprised by Man About the House...if not the movie, the sitcom itself. So there’s every chance that George and Mildred could follow suit. As we always end up repeating, this show is all about expectations, which would obviously be on the floor with the reputation this film has preceding it. So things could only look up, right?….RIGHT?!

Joining us to find out is comedian Alison Dennison, so committed to the G&M cause she’d already watched every episode ever made in preparation. With attention to detail like this, episode two of series six would prove to be one of the best we’d ever made. A tale of comedy and tragedy, life and death, both metaphorical and literal. Join us for George and Mildred!

George and Mildred Opening theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ygWHpvoFE

Best of George Roper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2YQtqXTktY

George and Mildred Last Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-3utPaAdU

George and Mildred Movie in Full

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAaNz1DW1DY

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S06 E01 - The Ladykillers (w/ Tom Salinsky)

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT

No sooner are we gone than we’re back with a brand-new series. In series six, we’ll pass 60 films viewed and reviewed for a project that still has plenty of legs in it yet! But we begin this brand new series by embracing the familiar. Tom Salinsky returns to BritCom Goes to the Movies for the first time since episode six, and not only does he join for a film all three of us have seen before, all three of us love it!

The film in question is the 1955 classic Ealing comedy, The Ladykillers, a real contender for the top ten of our table and beyond. But how will we link this to the small screen, I hear you ask? The answer is…we won’t. We’re going down the Sellers route. As this was one of Peter Sellers’ earliest big-screen appearances, we’ve decided to match it with one of his earliest radio appearances and the rather forgotten, if not prolific, Ray’s A Laugh from the 1950s BBC radio.

Ray’s A Laugh was exactly the kind of broadcast variety/comedy that Sellers and co would go on to blow out of the water with the pioneering Goon Show. While a fair few episodes still exist on BBC Sounds and YouTube, you can hear the star quality of Sellers rising above what was already a pretty tired format in the early 1950s.

Then, of course, the film itself. Widely considered not just the best Ealing Comedy (and the three of us will offer some of our other favourites) but also one of the greatest British comedy films of all time. A heist/farce with some career-best performances, not least from Alec Guinness, Katie Johnson, and many of the supporting cast. But how will it hold up against the top echelons of the BritCom Goes to the Movies league? Tom has already had one table-topper with The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, but could he have another? Tune in and find out.

Ray’s a Laugh - 1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBQ7YrPNx9A

Ray’s a Laugh - 1949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s77ZhWxf9JU

The Ladykillers - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDVMD8dktKI

The Ladykillers - Such Pretty Windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuIvga5t_Hc

Alec Guinness as George Smiley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCm3IrscqH8

Tom Salinsky - All British Comedy Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kFktzEvNuI&list=PLmJSdGQRAwRyQjtWhrtFtDpOLo6iaRmpX

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Cruise of the Gods (w/Steve Dunne & Stuart Laws)

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Happy St David’s Day! To mark the occasion here at Britcom Goes to the Movies, we are celebrating one of Wales’ most beloved comedy sons, Rob Brydon, and…actually, it is just a ham-fisted way of doing a round table episode on Cruise of the Gods!

This TV film was written by Tim Firth (remember him from our Blackball episode?) and contained not only some Britcom heavyweights of the time, but also ground zero for the careers of some of the most controversial Britcommers of the 21st century, including Russell Brand, David Walliams, and James Corden.

Despite all that, its stars Brydon and Steve Coogan, along with its premise of forgotten 80s kids sci-fi being celebrated by nerds on a cruise, made it a firm favourite for Rob and Guy, and they welcomed back returning guests Steve Dunne and Stuart Laws, neither of whom had seen the film before. So how would this have aged, and would our guests immediately be regretting their decision? Only one way to find out. Join us in Leicester, 1982…

Cruise of the Gods - Full Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uPsHGPKnWk

Children of Castor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPOMIHJHPks

Sherlock Holmes in Miami

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj8A3OEicBg

Human Remains - Swingers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVAqWMGyqH0

Marion and Geoff - Student House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5V60QG0mJ0

You’re a Star - New Faces theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMfzr2Bufkk

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Special: Our Top Ten Favourite Sketches

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Here at BritCom Goes to the Movies, we love each and every one of our listeners. That is why we’re giving you this Valentine’s present. Rob & Guy discuss their favourite British sketches of all time. To make sure there were no clashes, notes were compared before, duplicates removed, and of course, the arbitrary rule of no more than one sketch from one show per host.

These two top-ten lists have a little something for everyone. A good mixture of styles, eras, tones, and formats. So settle in for nearly two hours of discussion of some of the greatest sketches in the history of British comedy!

Of course, there are some obvious omissions, and some of you may want to take to the socials to share your favourites or give us grief for ours. Both are encouraged! You can find links to every sketch discussed below, but of course, these are in no particular order to avoid spoilers.

Bit of a Chat - Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

https://videopress.com/v/IBVjIA8I

⁠ Dirty Fork - Monty Python

https://youtu.be/Z9VLwV48OHs?si=rYfeDwrAXXrrzwkc

Jackson Jeffrey Jackson - The Fast Show

https://youtu.be/LwbJ-N8rrek?si=U0qdYsRvlkKwOF4r

Tory Conference - Not The Nine O’clock News

https://youtu.be/qB0ZOu_EZ2M?si=lpBupRZ8w36a7Gsb

Billie Piper - Big Train

https://youtu.be/4_3oU-Z4Vxo?si=Hva6PalUR40g82-h

Yoker - Limmy

https://youtu.be/0YfRbNipdOg?si=ON_QecbOTrcnKXgs

Wedding Registry - Smack The Pony

https://www.facebook.com/Channel4Homes/videos/1101703119964373/?vh=e&fs=e&mibextid=wwXIfr

Credit Card Application - Armstrong & Miller

https://youtu.be/loaP46f8Lhw?si=7YILcGPHTANVCHxu

Vape Doms - Ellie & Natasia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0c9983q/ellie-natasia-series-1-episode-4

Balham Gateway to the South - Peter Sellers

https://youtu.be/8RTWk9QIKS0?si=ABCE1fZbTsR3QgxG

French and Saunders - Silence of the Lambs.

https://share.google/xvd7XeKyrdR2O0d2R

The Two Ninnies - not the 9 o clock news

https://youtu.be/IbC3Fdv5wKU?si=MPY4UulwEDyfBvZs

Adam and Joe - People Place

https://youtu.be/s1myCos0xXI?si=Ge42ZkfXXHrTY-Xb

Goodness Gracious Me - Going for an English

https://youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?si=wG8IWxZzjWSL0KhG

Brass Eye - Oh Me Oh Myra

https://youtu.be/wVibsNPXBx0?si=ySFCFVmy2LiMBtf_

Alistair Green - Punk Squirrel IPA

https://youtu.be/-wP3BjTdogY?si=G_jh4OGM7Up8OMDe

The Peter serafinowicz show - Brian Butterfield diet plan

https://youtu.be/1NjTWvl8x-U?si=TSC31Jkk3JLvyFyK

Vic and Bob - BBC licence advert

https://youtu.be/xhPVP8cghN4?si=hasgqfSIRU8Gzy8V

Two Ronnies - Mastermind

https://youtu.be/y0C59pI_ypQ?si=7krxJroa1tFKxi4X

Fast Show - Monkfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_ohQ7yP0-I&list=PLu_1AWOleoaWWstu62EEnWzDGhOwo1GtD

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S05 E11 - Nativity! Christmas Special (w/ Kat Hughes)

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Merry Christmas to our beloved BritCom Goes to the Movies listeners!

Thanks for seeing in the festive period with us. This is our third Christmas episode, and while our previous two were a bit of a mixed bag, we’ve finally found a film we can all agree on: the 2009 classic, Nativity!

Writer and director Debbie Isitt was already the pride of the West Midlands theatre scene before turning to film. Her previous feature, Confetti, boasted the cream of British comic talent, even if some of the cast later tried to disavow the experience!

For her first festive foray, Isitt enlisted everyone’s favourite wise-cracking sitcom star, Martin Freeman, at a point in his career where he was firmly transitioning into a leading man. He’s joined by oddball comedian Marc Wootton as Mr. Poppy, Extras star Ashley Jensen and a whole host of familiar British faces, as well as an ocean of charming, non-theatre-school kids.

Joining Guy and Rob to discuss Nativity! (and Martin Freeman’s forgotten early-2000s sitcom Hardware) is writer and film critic Kat Hughes. Kat is the co-host of Movies with Mummy—the podcast where she and her daughter watch films together. But does Nativity! have what it takes to meet their high standards?

We also have the thrilling climax to our Quiz Season. With the scores currently deadlocked at 24-24, it’s all to play for!

So, join us for some "Ho-Ho-Hos" and a whole lot of sparkle and shine. Merry Christmas!

Bruiser - A Level Geography

https://youtu.be/pHmcBFxgov4?si=pNC_rUWx7atIUPrU

Bruiser - Martin Freeman

https://youtu.be/8w55vM3jwuA?si=Z3rgT1xTas8zMsxM

Robert Webb on Confetti

https://youtu.be/16xLrzEuLoM?si=uwIRD78sQFGSZ7YI

Hardware - Student

https://youtu.be/EMDwINZmwp4?si=g68dvIPmkfsnx348

Hardware - S1e1

Dailymotion https://share.google/BACweRPsFHozyTy7o

Martin Freeman argues with Tim Lovejoy

https://youtu.be/cqK-i6KSY88?si=Mmi2JUZ-5usxeNNW

Nativity! - Trailer

https://youtu.be/6DaaTsSQktk?si=-tOiWjTSdavTjoaP

Nativity! - Sparkle and Shine

https://youtu.be/dO6qmNNiAts?si=NUKNVKIv49MFZZir

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S05 E10 - True Identity (w/ Doom Generation)

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

1991 was the year for beloved British comedy performers to try and make their names stateside. We already heard about Rik Mayall’s experience with Drop Dead Fred, but the same year, Lenny Henry, riding high off the success of Live & Unleashed, was able to take advantage of a spot on a high-concept comedy caper vacated by Eddie Murphy (and others) called True Identity.

Were the Americans ready for Lenny? Well, as it turned out, no, they weren’t. But that wasn’t necessarily down to him, as we’ll find out in this episode. It was a troubled production with rather large amounts of meddling from Disney execs, throwing Henry and his director, the highly sought-after Charles Lane, under a bus. (One of those big American school buses, no doubt.)

For an American take on this British hope gone wrong, we invited the incomparable Tessa and Nicole from Doom Generation, themselves huge fans of British comedy, to join us and discuss not just this film, but Lenny Henry’s career leading up to it. New territory for the Doom Dames, who had never heard of our Lenny before.

there’s also the closest ending to a quiz series we’ve had, with the scores locked at 23-23, so join the four of us as we dive headlong into True Identity.

Lenny Henry Show - Thriller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfXzx1SHsY

Lenny Henry Show - Prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zmSn8tnJtA

Lenny Henry Show - Sitcom ep1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWcBsaWpQQY

EMF Unbelievable Andrew Dice Clay Samples

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QQCDE1Uy__c

Lenny Henry - Live & Unleashed Intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3W17Z7ZTVM

True Identity - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyHLV90D8pY

True Identity - Transformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heP9g22t_m

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S05 E09 - Cemetery Junction (2010)

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:31:00 GMT

There are a few entries from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on our long list at Britcom Goes to the Movies, but we start with perhaps their least remembered and least successful offering, the period coming-of-age comedy/drama Cemetery Junction.

In contrast, the pair’s second sitcom offering, Extras, is in the annals of the all-time great British comedy shows. A by-product of a newfound celebrity and the connections it brought with it in 2005. Guest stars galore and a version of what might have been if The Office didn’t have the freedom to be itself.

Cemetery Junction was Gervais and Merchant’s first foray into cinema after Extras and is still the only film they have co-written and directed. Based on an idea they’d had for a 70s set sitcom, Ricky and Steve turned “The Men At The Pru” into a feature-length offering, with only small roles for themselves and focussing on the journeys of three young men in 1970s Berkshire. They made it clear as possible that this would be a departure and for audiences to expect the hilarity of Extras and The Office.

The result, it failed to penetrate the UK Box Office Top 10, but was that because it wasn’t any good? Stay tuned to find out what Rob and Guy made of it and a lengthy discussion about Extras as well.

Ricky Gervais on the 11 o Clock Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl_gS0FsIsM

The Ricky Gervais Show - Monkey News - Russian Chat Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikvq0wZAFLM

Extras - Les Dennis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytDCab8ZoIM

Extras - Ronnie Corbett Bloopers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2FNaXLe_ro

Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant - Finding Leo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHdTve2PpeI

Gervais and Merchant on Mark Kermode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz3MTwufC5s&t=104s

Cemetery Junction - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYDeHIszUqA

Cemetery Junction - Snork performs Cum on Feel the Noize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTRyiNVl_G0

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S05 E08 - Two Way Stretch (w/ Neil Mullarkey)

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:42:00 GMT

We follow up a Goon-centric episodewith another Goon-centric episode! Hot on the heels of Spike Milligan’s Postman’s Knock comes Peter Sellers’ Two Way Stretch from 1960. A prison heist movie (our second after Get Santa), which has a little whiff of Porridge, just 15 years before.

This is our 50th film profiled on the main series, and we couldn’t let such an important landmark go past without enlisting the help of a very special guest. Step forward, Neil Mullarkey! Neil is a comedy writer, performer, and improv king with a big love for all things Sellers, especially this film, which he’d watched relentlessly as a child and young man. We also spoke about Sellers’ 1959 album Songs for Swinging Sellers, which came out just before this film and, of course, before superstardom beckoned with Dr Strangelove.

Join Rob, Guy, and Neil, who talk all things not only Sellers but also a cast with an abundance of comic talent, including Lionel Jeffries, Irene Handl, Bernard Cribbins, and, of course, Wilfred Hyde-White. Also, there’s the small matter of the quiz. It is now the business end of the series, and Guy still holds a slender lead.

Neil Mullarkey in 6 Pairs of Pants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZkItmbFiQ

Songs For Swingin’ Sellers - Full Album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wogie3WEhwg

Two Way Stretch - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3BOsDoG29w

Lionel Jeffries in Two Way Stretch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irnfVwdYv1Q

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S05 E07 - Postman's Knock (w/ Goon Pod)

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 08:11:00 GMT

On Britcom Goes to the Movies, you are never too far from the next Goon-related movie. We last spoke in depth about Spike Milligan on our episode about The Bed Sitting Room. We’re going full Milligan again for his first starring role in a British movie, Postman’s Knock, and it is quite the departure for Spike. A role that perhaps you might expect somebody of the more Norman Wisdom persuasion to be inhabiting. This 1962 crime caper farce was the first of what was meant to be a five-picture British MGM deal for Spike.

Even the sound of the word “Wisdom”, even knowing that he wasn’t in the film, was enough to send a shiver down Guy’s spine, so to help us dissect this oddity, we brought back the Goon Oracle, Tyler Adams. This is the second appearance of the host of Goon Pod to share his all-encompassing knowledge and love for all things Milligan and lend this episode that little bit more authenticity.

As well as Postman’s Knock, we discuss Spike’s Australian radio show, Idiot Weekly, not to be confused with The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d, the ITV sketch show, which we mentioned the last time Tyler was on this show to talk about The Mouse That Roared. Generally, Milligan’s time down under was a mixed bag. Rob still trails Guy hideously in the quiz stakes and is running out of time to put things right, so check out episode 7 to see how it all unfolds!

The Idiot Weekly; The Ashes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Bh8Q6JToU&t=323s

Postman's Knock Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw92zbex4bw

What a Whopper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWlOpsuuPw

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiLyKEYOOJQ

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S05 E06 - Seize Them (2024)

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

What can you do during Covid Lockdown if you want some outdoor time but need to isolate? Go Medieval! That’s what Andy Riley, writer of Year of the Rabbit, Veep, and books such as the Bunny Suicides and Action Dude did, and guess what? It led directly to his first solo feature film screenplay, Seize Them!

Riley, who had forged an incredibly successful writing partnership with Kevin Cecil, went it alone on this one. The script was lapped up by Britcom super-producer Damian Jones, and with a cast of established comedy stars and some of the hottest recent talent, what could go wrong?

Join Guy and Rob as they discuss Riley and Cecil’s Victorian cop comedy, Year of the Rabbit, with Matt Berry, and get into the newest of our films so far, Seize Them! We’re also now six episodes in, and Guy is looking good in the series quiz stakes. What can Rob do to turn the tide? Find out by having a listen!

Year of the Rabbit - The Elephant Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-hPr4HQsI

Year of the Rabbit - Prince and Princess of Bulgaria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo2Mxhg4www

Dave Gorman - Lady in the Van

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhr-CSq1sx8

Seize Them! - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBMib2Nfu8A

Seize Them! - Bobick’s Guide to Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMYvrystyrk

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S05 E05 - Stella Street (2004)

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Where can you find the cream of Hollywood, rock and roll, and football punditry all on one suburban street? Surbiton, that’s where…or at least Shepherd’s Bush masquerading as Surbiton. We’re taking a trip to Stella Street on Britcom Goes to the Movies! That’s right, this late 90s cult, small-budget, and even smaller cast-list comedy had a 2004 big-screen adaptation! Something that seemed to pass a lot of British comedy fans by, not least Rob Heath.

The genius mind of Peter Richardson, that brought us Comic Strip Presents, was busy in 1997 harnessing the comedy and impersonation talents of the then little-known Phil Cornwell and John Sessions to make an anarchic, foul-mouthed, and downright hilarious mockusoap about some huge stars descending on suburban London. Stella Street saw Michael Caine narrating, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards running the local corner shop, as well as Joe Pesci putting the Psycho in Psychotherapy.

Cornwell and Sessions would play all manner of celebrity inhabitants as well as some less-famous but equally hilarious recurring characters such as Mrs Huggett and Len the arsonist gardener. In 2004, whilst also busy with Churchill: The Hollywood Years, Richardson made a feature-length version of his cult hit show for the Aspen Film Festival. The cast would grow by 33.3% with the addition of impressionist of the moment Ronni Ancona, but the premise remained the same.

We revisit themes of direct spin-offs, recycling of material, and in some cases footage and some dodgy filmmaking, but did any of that matter given the essence of Stella Street was and remains to this day one of the unsung gems of British comedy? Find out by having a listen!

Stella Street Se1 Ep1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI5vEevmbvQ

Stella Street - Brando and Bowie Fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqDKQ6vfEnc

Stella Street - Bowie and Roger Moore exchange Christmas presents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbsmqeIdtTg

John Sessions - Whose Line is it Anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_v6ha1blI

Phil Cornwell as Gilbert The Alien

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyBi2Bgfvg

Stella Street Film Trailer

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1384841497/?ref_=ttvg_vi_3

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S05 E04 - Starter for Ten (w/ Verbal Diorama)

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

You all know the rules by now, here’s your Starter for Ten. What could be more British than University Challenge? One of the longest-running quiz shows ever on British TV, it has associations of class, difficulty, and unmitigated stress. The perfect setting for a rom-com then, or at least David Nicholls thought so. Long before One Day, the screenwriter was floundering somewhat with the small screen and so turned his attentions to the page. Always a fan of University Challenge, Nicholls penned a semi-autobiographical novel set around a 1980s University of Bristol team and a central coming-of-age rom-com conceit.

Through the unlikely help of Tom Hanks, this well-received novel then became a screenplay, and Starter for Ten the Movie was born. In 2006, not too much was known about James McEvoy, Rebecca Hall, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Alice Eve, but all four went on to have hugely successful Hollywood careers.

Join Rob and Guy as they discuss Starter for Ten and its origins. They dive into University Challenge and the excruciatingly difficult-to-find Rescue Me, Nicholls’ forgotten 2002 comedy drama starring Sally Phillips and Oliver Chris. Guy’s voyage to find any evidence of this ever even existing beyond a Daniela Denby-Ashe Supercut on YouTube was both painstaking and hilarious…for Rob anyway.

Joining the team this week is Em from the comprehensively brilliant movie podcast Verbal Diorama. Em very kindly gave Starter for Ten her classic treatment and left no stone unturned in telling us about the making of this very mid-00s, while simultaneously very 80s of romantic comedies. She was the Bamber Gascoigne to our Paxo and Rajan.

Rescue Me - Daniela Denby Ashe Supercut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr4WfAFNRv8&ab_channel=HollyoaksFans

James McEvoy in Shameless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNtKrycBI50

Benedict Cumberbatch in Nathan Barley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Juf2jWCAM

University Challenge - Gail Trimble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCj4wjV-oqM

University Challenge - Ted Loveday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC2buT3gQww

University Challenge - Eric Monkman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZagrO1C8UUY

We need Jungle I’m Afraid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiVdlz8bDY

Starter For 10 Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5JwoOHPmbw

Starter For 10 Headbutt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPSMJVpl24E

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S05 E03 - The Punch & Judy Man (w/ Very Nearly an Armful)

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Who fancies a Piltdown Glory?

Guy and Rob return to Tony Hancock territory for a second time, and this time they’re joined by some proper experts. Tim Elms, Martin Gibbons, and Jon Street from the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, as well as the presenters of the Very Nearly An Armful official Tony Hancock podcast, join us to discuss The Punch and Judy Man, the 1963 film that marked a significant departure for Hancock. For the first time, The Lad is not The Lad. Hancock plays the titular puppeteer, not named Tony Hancock, but Wally Pinner.

This departure in name, character, tone, and filmmaking came as a shock to fans and critics alike in 1963. The Punch and Judy Man was not a success at the time and has long been considered one of Britcom’s great flops. But is that reputation entirely fair? Or have the intervening years been kind to a misunderstood gem?

We’ll also explore Hancock’s move to ITV in the early '60s. That programme, simply titled Hancock, saw him leave behind not only the familiar Railway Cuttings setting but also his legendary writing duo, Galton and Simpson, who had moved on to Steptoe and Son. What followed was a hit-and-miss format featuring some intriguing guest stars and flashes of Hancock’s trademark wit.

So join all five of us (a BritCom Goes To The Movies record!) for another slice of Hancock.

Hancock - Man On The Corner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hpqLCOXu0I
Sylvia Sims - Ice Cold In Alex Carlsberg Advert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsqZDl99PNk
Punch and Judy Man - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph2Dzyjytzg

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S05 E02 - Keith Lemon: The Film (w/ Nina Buckley)

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Could we finally have a contender for bottom of the league? Bottom of the barrel? Most certainly. Keith Lemon: The Film is widely regarded by critics as one of the worst British comedy movies of all time. Completely mauled upon its release and a disappointment at the box office in 2012, Leigh Francis (AKA Keith Lemon) was nevertheless and remains one of the most popular comedians on the small screen.

So what went wrong? To discuss this in great length with Rob and Guy is one of the funniest people on social media, Nina Buckley. Nina went above and beyond for Britcom Goes to the Movies, watching this monstrosity on no fewer than five (FIVE) occasions before recording, to really get to the heart of what made this film not work.

We get deep into the character of Keith Lemon, who first appeared to South East ITV audiences in 2000 and has been one of Leigh Francis’ go-to characters for the intervening quarter of a century. Celebrity Juice, Very Brilliant World Tour, The Keith and Paddy Picture Show and of course the programme that made Francis a household name, Bo Selecta.

So join us for Keith Lemon: The Film and all that comes with it. Copious celeb cameos shot on green screen, recycled jokes, inappropriate touching of female co-stars, hastily written and rewritten denouements and a whole load besides as we finally answer the age-old question: Is this really worse than Lesbian Vampire Killers?
Leigh Francis – Whatever I Want – First appearance of Keith Lemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK4QKhIcqhU&t=1052s
Keith and Fabio – Bo In The USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL-N_A0d1vs&list=PL390C2FE08AA6D091
Keith Lemon’s Very Brilliant World Tour – Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPAReLy-UPU
Keith Lemon best bits – Celebrity Juice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGanpd_jLLI
Leigh Francis Apology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KYgYTxJwjc
Keith Lemon: The Film – Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIemgNIFKEM
Keith Lemon: The Film – Gary Barlow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kum3R7_EEos

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S05 E01 - Rising Damp (w/ Jake Yapp)

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT

How time flies. It doesn’t seem feasible that we should be on series five already, but here we are. We begin with a huge figure in the British comedy landscape, The Banana Box. You may know it as Rising Damp, but Eric Chappel’s beloved sitcom began life as a stage play with this rather more visceral title. Indeed, everyone’s (least) favourite landlord Rigsby, although always portrayed by the magnificent Leonard Rossiter from stage to small screen to big screen, was originally known as Rooksby.

Rob and Guy have had mixed experiences with 1970s straight spin-offs in the past, but surely a sitcom widely regarded as ITV’s best-ever could not diminish in quality too much in adaptation. Even if Chappel’s tactic of reworking multiple episode scripts to fit a film was reminiscent of a couple of other noticeable failures, surely it wouldn’t claim the good name of Rising Damp?!

Joining our regular team to discuss this comedy institution is Jake Yapp. The writer, producer, performer, and broadcaster has a huge fondness for all things Rigsby and Miss Jones, so was an eager participant in our first adventure of a new series. Jake also acted as quizmaster for the newly reset competition and was keen to put in an early plug for his son’s new line of 1970s light entertainment Top Trumps, which will no doubt be in the shops for Christmas.

Get comfy for a new series and some Rising Damp.
Rising Damp - Funniest moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96VpnQq197U&list=PLT2hAuUDOLMAgPlQjv0EO0YQAPuo7jgwd
Rising Damp - Pink Carnations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4honiX0_vk
Rising Damp - Disco opening sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhCI0JceBic
Rising Damp Movie - Rigsby’s Dream Sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBGvGuGKWcw
Jake Yapp - This Morning in 97 Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DLx8FPtA8k
Tin Sandwich Anyone?: The History of the Harmonica - Produced by Jake Yapp, Assistant Produced by Rob Heath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clsGakOc8AE

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Smashie & Nicey: The End of an Era (w/ Ricardo Autobahn & Rob Gilroy)

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:30:00 GMT

On the 17th Sep 25, an event happened of such earth-shattering proportions that it would shatter the earth to its very core. Yes, BritCom goes to the Movies, did a Smashie and Nicey: End of an Era mid-season special.

Harry Enfield's beloved characters (well, not by Radio 1 DJs) were to be retired after a changing of the guard at the BBC's flagship music station rendered their very specific brand of satire almost irrelevant. Some of these new DJs coming through the door at the broadcasting house were so young they were still in their thirties. But messers Smash and Nice wouldn't go out without a fight, and what transpired was one of the greatest stand-alone pieces of British television comedy history.

Using the Matthew Bannister-led cull of out-of-touch disc jockeys as a backdrop, End of an Era recounted the history of Smashie and Nicey's careers, poking fun at just about every real-life radio presenter ever to take the mic in the UK up to that point in the process.

Joining Rob and Guy for this cultural high point, culturally-wise, in an English cultural high point sense, are two of the most popmongous former guests of the BritCom Goes to the Movies back catalogue and huge Smashie and Nicey fans, Rob Gilroy and Ricardo Autobahn. It promises to be Good. Clean. Family. Fun.

Smashie and Nicey: End of an Era

https://youtu.be/UP67GQoII5M?si=fUIWsKg4nXHiWQ71

Blood on the Carpet: Walking with DJs

https://youtu.be/D3R1Mcr7I0M?si=dgvjzlXfKWz3Vry1

A day in the life of Radio 1

https://youtu.be/UnKsDmDv6g8?si=g-ymC1m0F5beMIdq

Smashie and Nicey fab commercial

https://youtu.be/13fbOp1qQDQ?si=GfgROowU2HxMi-hw

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St Trinian's (2007)

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:58:00 GMT

Here we are at the end of our St Trinian's bank holiday treat. The final episode sees Rob and Guy tackle the reboot(s) of the mid-00s. A kind of back to basics, borrowing heavily from Belles but with an updated 00s sensibility, which depressingly probably means more sexism if anything.

An embarrassment of riches of a cast. Early roles for the likes of Gemma Arterton and Juno Temple, plus old hands like Colin Firth and Rupert Everett. All tied together with the rather large elephant in the room of Russell Brand as Flash Harry, set to a malaise of Girls Allowed and Landfill Indie.

Along with 2007's St Trinian's, we also briefly discuss the 2009 sequel: Legend of Fritton's Gold and any possible legacy and future for the IP. Guy had been waiting for the films to be more about the students, and on the face of it this reboot would deliver. Tune in to find out if it did.

St Trinian's - Trailer

https://youtu.be/JJQ1pAW4uU8?si=5Vw-kwNNwVNWCBBD

St Trinian's - Premiere

https://youtu.be/Rtx43qThERk?si=rtDofxBgOnJd3tDr

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold - Trailer

https://youtu.be/9chVAXvsOcQ?si=qJCieDgWkLB1s7Td

Pistol - Trailer

https://youtu.be/-QtyfPxkBqs?si=G75tBV7RnbNuIkPz

4 3 2 1 - Trailer

https://youtu.be/VL27h8b-K38?si=kB1NfMh3ZHmLZWfV

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The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (w/ A.J. Black)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Hot on the heels of the Belles for St Trinian's, Rob and Guy are back and have skipped through the next two movies of the franchise (Blue Murder at St Trinian's and The Pure Hell of St Trinian's) to 12 years later and the midst of the Swinging Sixties for The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery.

This just so happens to be a childhood favourite of Mr Film Stories Podcast Network A.J. Black, so Tony joined us once more to discuss a new breed of St Trinian's students, the new Headmistress, played by Dora Bryan, and the new villain played by Frankie Howerd.

Of its time, it includes jokes about the Wilson Government, James Bond, The Beatles, and some rather unfortunate use of boot polish.

Train Robbery is a new era for St Trinian's and a real departure from the 50s versions. But is that all for the bad, or will there be redeeming features? Tune in to find out.

...and if that hasn't sold you...it has Reg Varney in it!

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery - Trailer

https://youtu.be/DWVyGvMz8-g?si=tBSzd4JpfcMTgodp

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery - New Pupils

https://youtu.be/a9und3QCBM8?si=ZdFELSkeWb2Bw8Zw

Before Your Very Eyes - Sabrina with Arthur Askey

https://youtu.be/1OsX-A4XZcg?si=trW8cETrSPsClnff

Sabrina - 1956

https://youtu.be/NwjdnKQrUhg?si=U7ckWIfFswuf1DJS

The Pretty Things - Midnight To Six (1966)

https://youtu.be/w3qJ-KPlt4M?si=Ppvyn0nqb2JY_Ec-

Peter Sellers in The Millionairess

https://youtu.be/DZz4KfUfkQY?si=gX25sKRan0NYx-o9

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The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:51:00 GMT

The St Trinian's films were one of the first names on the long list when we first came up with the concept of this podcast, but even with the most tenuous and creative of thinking, we weren't able to link them to the small screen. So much like Carry On last summer, we decided a three-episode mini-series would be the best way to tackle the issue.

We start at the very beginning with the first St Trinian's films, The Belle's of St Trinian's from 1954 with Alastair Sim popularising what could now be known as The Tyler Perry, playing both Headmistress Millicent Fritton and her no-good brother. This being the first time Ronald Searle's schoolgirl characters were brought to life, it was perhaps a surprise to see the grown-ups take centre stage, but not without plenty of chaotic school set pieces with the students and a surprisingly complicated plot for a family film!

Join Rob and Guy as both of them start their St Trinian's journey with the O.G. of the franchise. Will this movie have aged like a fine wine, or a bottle of Flash Harry's gin? Tune in to find out.

The Belles of St Trinians - Trailer

https://youtu.be/VKzCKoO-K9I?si=HE3LCv-2ekTLEAaz

The Belles of St Trinians - Best scenes

https://youtu.be/0O__WLDjMNo?si=KB77PUBB_rnI6znk

Hockey match at St Trinians

https://youtu.be/uS4LLAKPwyk?si=fy3hkWtuOT2_e1sv

Dad - Series 1, Episode 1

https://youtu.be/b0S1q1zyMn8?si=IH6RJGnfea1wGBXy

Minder - Grass growing on the car

https://youtu.be/01dXHywMMyE?si=hs-uQIBkHUFnuQUv

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S04 E10 - The Intelligence Men (w/ A.J. Black)

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:00:00 GMT

We're at the end of series four already. Our second series as part of The Film Stories Podcast Network, so to celebrate we're joined by Mr FSPN himself, A.J. Black, to talk about one of the biggest BritCom institutions ever, Morecambe and Wise.

The inimitable double act made three movies before joining the BBC from ITV, and we'll start at the beginning with the first instalment, the spy pastiche, Intelligence Men. It is hard to imagine Morecambe and Wise before the BBC series and Christmas specials that endure in the memories of all Brits of a certain age, but the pair had been going long before The Stripper, long before Andre Previn, Angela Ripon, and Glenda Jackson, and The Intelligence Men is very much part of a different era.

As well as the film, we'll dive deep into Two of a Kind, the Morecambe and Wise ITV series of the 1960s. As if that wasn't enough, all three of us count down our top three British comedy double acts. All this, plus the culmination of the series four quiz. Join us for the first in a much lesser-known trilogy.

Morecambe and Wise - Two of a Kind with the Beatles

https://youtu.be/Qw9dJG8GnmY?si=5X1bUeXhjHpjRSZL

Morecambe and Wise - Two of a Kind with Roy Castle

https://youtu.be/gC1XaYGGJVc?si=-0PD0oJrWfHZTNbu

She'll Have to Go - With Bob Monkhouse

https://youtu.be/BpvRcXADNXA?si=zPn8OD00B9yumRJu

Morecambe and Wise on The Sweeney

https://youtu.be/yXuLlhOt1xk?si=mrI5ZcCGrKAFGsbr

Two Ronnies - Mastermind

https://youtu.be/QRhyc56aVb0?si=bPoG9lMJf7p3cL08

Morecambe and Wise - Mastermind

https://youtu.be/HEjdJszBbY8?si=93WNU3b8bHYa-FCk

Ellie and Natasia - Saturday Kitchen

https://youtu.be/XDVECscArVQ?si=G-CzJ9zFsuvI4fmF

Adam and Joe - Room For Change

https://youtu.be/b-d0RZKexNA?si=CJbwCMB1K5mRMvva

Derek and Clive - The Pope

https://youtu.be/RPcDREaxsu8?si=4ORwpEJdN5Pr_8cK

Vic and Bob - Hernia Hotline

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdBSmt9v/

Vic and Bob - The Club

https://youtu.be/LjjjVApPePw?si=YPZ-LIm6XiMkciJu

French and Saunders Go to the Movies

https://youtu.be/BczGvH60a38?si=aGjHp-_h6orIQ-iY

Derek and Clive - Cancer

https://youtu.be/KDerCtj3-RI?si=GqcvD16BqP8zUgvq

The Intelligence Men - Full Movie

https://youtu.be/kGy5HRI8plg?si=NfDWYezPONaLSgYC

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S04 E09 - Powder Room (2013)

Tue, 27 May 2025 23:00:00 GMT

It's only from 12 years ago, yet Powder Room is not a British indie that sticks in the memory. Indeed, it didn't exactly perform at the box office. Only 2,100 people went to see it in British cinemas, making it the least successful film we've profiled so far.A micro-budget adaptation of a hit Edinburgh play, starring some big and up-and-coming names from British TV, as well as a pop star! But chief amongst Powder Room's cast was Sheridan Smith. Now a huge West End and television star, but at the time, she was known primarily for Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.The early 21st-century three-camera studio sitcom has been the butt of many a sneering industry joke, but was incredibly popular and ran for over a decade. Its creator, Susan Nickson, was something of a prodigy. She started writing Two Pints at the age of 18, having already seen success in short film competitions. An unsung heroine of British comedy, episode nine will do its best to honour an undeniable and prolific talent.

Susan Nickson on Channel 4's Lloyds Bank Film Challenge

https://youtu.be/iQ6qz4nyX0M?si=U7iSIUXz3_nOsTQi

Two Pints of Lager - Biscuit Rap

https://youtu.be/anRKT3hYz60?si=d5m5JoDntsBAN_5j

Two Pints of Lager - Phone Messages

https://youtu.be/m8IM-MFeKvk?si=gaxjVJOHeLsI-JfA

Newport State of Mind - Directed by MJ Delaney

https://youtu.be/Eijc2tGe-zM?si=MMhLXUeRLsqEPyhz

That One Guy Who's Always Preaching - Key and Peele

https://youtu.be/GrYbMbudILQ

Powder Room Trailer

https://youtu.be/77Eb6NsLFqE?si=kY3j-hhxs3KYutwN

Powder Room - Bad Night

https://youtu.be/KlUG46H4W8o?si=iTee2ZuyYNIIIyfu

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S04 E08 - Take a Girl Like You (w/ Jain Edwards)

Tue, 20 May 2025 23:00:00 GMT

It's another visit back to the old school this week. We go all the way back to 1970 for a rom-com...of sorts. The Jonathan Miller-directed Take A Girl Like You.

As it is directed by Miller, we're also going to talk about his comedy breakthrough Beyond the Fringe. A show without which we might not have any modern comedy. So for extreme old-school source material, it made sense to have a new school comedian on the show to discuss the origins of her craft.

The hilarious Jain Edwards joined Rob and Guy to assess the lasting impact of Beyond the Fringe, as well as the, let's say, dated attitudes of Take A Girl Like You.

A standout cast of Hayley Mills and Oliver Reed, as well as supporting roles of the British kings of satire John Bird and John Fortune, this sex comedy couldn't be all that bad... could it?!

Oliver Reed on the Word

https://youtu.be/EvCh6bbSQDg?si=6W7dHB7jmAqRkiCb

Hayley Mills at Disney

https://youtu.be/zeAmQ2zmVoY?si=M1XVL-Jbll6_r3t1

Hayley Mills in Twisted Nerve - Trailer

https://youtu.be/BWoMM6-fpAA?si=dp1BF04ormKHe5aZ

Beyond the Fringe

https://youtu.be/KUd1OxPbKk4?si=k4QDTCsOkVAgwYgJ

One legged Tarzan

https://youtu.be/lbnkY1tBvMU?si=Tbv38-0BRHtOZzP4

Take a Girl Like You - trailer

https://youtu.be/AZzpyfJZwMs?si=s-GiYaSW1UQn6qkb

Take a Girl Like You - Dick Thompson

https://youtu.be/KF5pXwpwEH4?si=G4UVv8kutnrW_aao

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S04 E07 - Wicked Little Letters (w/ Tracy Milnes)

Thu, 15 May 2025 08:11:00 GMT

For episode seven, we have another movie from 2024. Wicked Little Letters is Jonny Sweet's retelling of the curious case of the Littlehampton Letters. A falling out involving some incredibly creative, foul-mouthed penwomanship.

As the film is written by Jonny Sweet, it made sense to also talk about his similar time-period sitcom Chickens, which he co-wrote with Simon Bird and Joe Thomas.

Joining Guy and Rob to discuss both these works was Tracy Milnes. Herself already a big fan of the film, could she convert Rob and Guy to the Church of Wicked Little Letters? There'll be plenty of Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley and Timothy Spall chat and some suspicious quiz scoring. Check out episode seven!

Johnny Sweet in When Boris met Dave

https://youtu.be/KiM3uUqsO7E?si=VzIXB-87kVDhMITv

Olivia Colman in bruiser

https://youtu.be/MA6ksn6oNYk?si=daNVOzPUw6tc5r1z

Olivia Colman in Peep Show

https://youtu.be/3l1mbCSUw-0?si=mq5-7M5mtj-nJqTc

Olivia Colman in Look Around You

https://youtu.be/g7JrUGhfcTI?si=K8N0npre5iAlnunS

Jessie Buckley in I'd Do Anything

https://youtu.be/yKiCTEf6Xn0?si=hhUGfPlA-onr26Dv

Jessie Buckley in Beast

https://youtu.be/cdzfnve-10A?si=L4cV6If2bc5RW2Ik

Jessie Buckley in Chernobyl

https://youtu.be/xqbUJYgd8_E?si=p_aNMcjvdsCuPo23

Chickens Episode 1

https://youtu.be/B6ydb5Nb__Y?si=WrN5PyhYhADTmWlJ

Wicked Little Letters Trailer

https://youtu.be/SeTeCWbF8KY?si=9FF89S2vkxsxFJkb

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S04 E06 - The Lovers (1973)

Tue, 06 May 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Time for a good old-fashioned Rom-Com, although not as old-fashioned as you’d think from a 1970s spin-off. Rob and Guy delve deep into ITV sitcom The Lovers, a show neither of our hosts knew much, if anything, about before the other week! A very young Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox landed their first leading TV roles in a will-they/won’t-they kitchen sink sitcom, set against the permissive society making its way to Manchester.

Written by Coronation Street writer and creator of London’s Burning Jack Rosenthal, this forgotten gem (well, by anyone under the age of 50 anyway) is not as widely lauded as many of its 1970s contemporaries, and we get right to the heart of just whether that’s fair or not.

After two series, there was the inevitable 1973 movie spin-off. With a lavish premiere, sweeping rooftop shots of the Manchester skyline, and a liberal amount of Old Trafford football and cricket stadiums, this adaptation took the sitcom from its more humble studio roots to show off the burgeoning metropolis in which it was set and the talents of its two central stars.

But, would the movie version fall foul of the number one mistake nearly every other spin-off we have seen so far on this podcast and not live up to its small-screen counterpart? Well, you’ll have to tune in to find out. There’s Percy Filth Galore as we take on The Lovers!

The Lovers – SE1EP1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_SGqWcSRdQ

Ms Jones & Son – SE1EP1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHj5TxGSMiY

The Family Way - Trailer

https://youtu.be/p2azcOdkRbU

The George Best Boutique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wndQC483D7s

The Lovers! – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku9vQ2ERD9s

The Lovers – Old Trafford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Ci5lWFGbY

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S04 E05 - Blackball (w/ Stuart Laws)

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Episode five and time to talk about a BritCom legend. Paul Kaye was at the cutting edge of a new wave of punk comedy in the 90s thanks to his unforgettable character Dennis Pennis, who was incredibly first seen by audiences in the middle of the ruddy day on BBC2's The Sunday Show.

A few specials later and Pennis was on everyone's lips (Yeah, that's right.) Before jumping the shark, Kaye ditched the character that allowed him to hit the big time, in favour of branching out. We discuss one such role, his first cinematic lead in fact, as we take on 2003's Blackball. The Mel Smith-directed, National Lampoon’s affiliated, sports rom-com set in the dangerous world of Devonian bowls. Where else could you hope to find Johnny Vegas and Vince Vaughn share a screen?

To help us dissect this curiously gentle comedy, one of the best British comic talents of recent years and a cinephile extraordinaire, Stuart Laws. So if you are a Paul Kaye fan, or just wondering how it is Blackball came to be, check out episode five!

Perfect World - Boys Pub Chat

https://youtu.be/UYmv0vjvTtk?si=I_57z9EZQ4yEkGBL

Paul Kaye in pulling

https://youtu.be/KgHKlCM-7Wk?si=uh4X1oBobWLR51y1

James Cromwell as Ewan Roy in Succession

https://youtu.be/ZnxZGgRUGFk?si=Smlh639tEDNiaw9p

Flint Street Nativity

https://youtu.be/cpiECTOR4Ok?si=j2VMxkHrjsLB8_VE

Early Pennis

The Sunday Show

https://youtu.be/CBAYFrS6cWM?si=s-sOrOaavnpdzO4K

Dennis Pennis - Michael Jackson

https://youtu.be/ZcOhglTtAok?si=SulMf4nsk7-IQNeT

Dennis Pennis - Demi Moore

https://youtu.be/dIYEm50YOiQ?si=so0Kpf3NpaZzFOo4

Blackball trailer

https://youtu.be/v8MuNXR_lCY?si=77YTsVmo_vx4N4HQ

Blackball - County Championship

https://youtu.be/bL4eT1cd4fc?si=2UdCSKdidvpsXGf2

Sky One's The Villa with Mark Little

https://youtu.be/4z6mXy68NtI?si=ZZ7DDjPCbbEyprou

30 Rock - Tracy Jordan boys and girls club

https://youtu.be/qEilcGAPvMg?si=Ti517GtHnWmAqGYz

Hail Caesar - Would that it were so simple

https://youtu.be/G629a_3MkkI?si=XMSxKI3se8n63-il

Stuart Laws - Michael Caine saying Never

https://youtu.be/AloLTaSV8jY?si=cHXRW9lgK28odSoc

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S04 E04 - Clockwise (w/ Don't You Want Me?)

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMT

As we near the midway point of series four, it's time to really step up our punctuality with a good time keeper's worst nightmare. Yes, Rob and Guy have taken a trip to 1986 for the Michael Frayn farce Clockwise.

We've enlisted the help of co-hosts of the wonderful, Don't You Want Me podcast: Catrin Lowe and Rich Nelson to not only run the rule over Clockwise, but arguably Britain's best-loved sitcom Fawlty Towers.

We'll hear how a Fawlty film was close to production (something that would have suited this podcast down to ground) but never came to pass. We'll also hear some inside insight into the making of the iconic comedy series from someone very close to the cast.

But Clockwise notwithstanding, could Frayn's knack for making Swiss watch stage farces translate to the big screen, with one of Britain's brightest comedy stars front and centre? Join all four of us to find out.

Fawlty Towers - Irish Builder

https://youtu.be/O4X_bdJox8w?si=yK86qSgj4niBdtKv

Fawlty Towers - Waldorf Salad

https://youtu.be/BZoUH43nI4w?si=fClIlPtwqqOGuX87

Fawlty Towers - Sea View

https://youtu.be/MVMgtv9oIM4?si=9vx3CAazVZNTpuJS

John Cleese in Die Another Day

https://youtu.be/ICmuFRBvPmk?si=OADL6hj-b-2e8xuk

The Fourth Protocol - Train Station scene

https://youtu.be/p5_23EYddAE?si=j6HOh2E5TIQIcZ9h

Parting Shots Trailer

https://youtu.be/c3yjd7Y7rYI?si=nIftsul7zvcnhYKy

Clockwise Trailer

https://youtu.be/3oViEN1CxPQ?si=ZDD8pMonrjp1pZ-e

Clockwise - Right

https://youtu.be/-T5UG1GRe2A?si=XSglVswRq6m4wC3E

Clockwise - Sherry Glasses

https://youtu.be/j2idPywwrFQ?si=XC9MJe8FH_o2mFQD

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S04 E03 - Swede Caroline

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMT

As we hit episode three of the series, Rob and Guy tackle their most recent film to date, 2024’s Swede Caroline. Starring mainstay of British film and television Jo Hartley, and supported by a talented array of comedians, thesps, and character actors. The film looks at the world of competitive giant vegetable-growing and what happens when proceedings are rocked by scandal.

We also take a look at forgotten sitcom Bliss starring Stephen Mangan, Hartley, and Heather Graham. The show was created by American comedian David Cross and followed the trials and tribulations of a man trying to balance life with two families in the same city.

Not adverse to controversial comedies, will Bliss leave us wanting more or wishing we’d not bothered in the first place? You’ll have to give the episode a listen to find out!

Swede Caroline - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHhIHzOpl4k&ab_channel=BritFlicks

Swede Caroline - Jo Hartley interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lmyBQ3TRh8&ab_channel=Channel4News

Bliss - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWHQHuPsdyw&ab_channel=SkyTV

Arrested Development - The Best of Tobias Funke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r52Z-GscUwU&ab_channel=PickleRick

Mr Show - Larry Kleist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKE9W0O8bX8&ab_channel=F33bs

Mr Show - Taint Magazine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-1EIdnDB9g&ab_channel=fansofdongeronimo

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S04 E02 - Mindhorn (w/ Ricardo Autobahn)

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMT

For episode two, we fast-forward two decades to 2017 and Mindhorn. Written by and starring Julian Barrett and frequent collaborator Simon Farnaby. If you're a fan of Bergerac, you'll love Mindhorn, the 80s sci-fi cop who can see the truth.

Someone who is a big fan of this film is musician, producer, and podcaster Ricardo Autobahn, AKA John Matthews, who joined us to discuss his love for the Isle-of-Man-com.

As well as Mindhorn, we chatted at length about 00s cult sitcom Nathan Barley, which, of course, starred Julian Barrett and was ahead of its time, to say the very least.

So strap in for Geek Pies, Sugar Apes, and Trashbats, as well as Windjammers, Moonshafts, and Nutmegs. It's time for Mindhorn!

Mindhorn trailer

https://youtu.be/lA5njebTiZY?si=5KAU2Ij3jWBvcuKk

Mindhorn show intro

https://youtu.be/hnb04jAXwUM?si=WfMsS1EhOyLY1S7O

Mindhorn - Minge coming out of our arse

https://youtu.be/DibRKH2S2K8?si=R3xfa_g4Ic2gbjzt

Nathan Barley Geek Pie

https://youtu.be/5PY_8nkEOeM?si=4k4I93AZiSt3rWRa

Nathan Barley - Meow

https://youtu.be/NFXRSgUHrQg?si=GyeaR5QrPTWn2ECe

TV Go Home - listings

http://www.ntk.net/tvgohome/121199.html

TV Go Home Daily Mail Island

https://youtu.be/xPlEIryW8zA?si=Lqa_QDoVOMDGCK_S

Julian Barrett - Garth Marenghi

https://youtu.be/ppP2xgoQ55o?si=iDBA0PvAn5WSTpWV

You can't handcuff the wind

https://youtu.be/fIgSw_26Nko?si=g9pbPaMH-5-cpWTN

Nicholas Cage on Wogan

https://youtu.be/LzNMjO2SpF0?si=6xdxgimwC4vjb9U7

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S04 E01 - Bean (w/ Bill Oakley)

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMT

It’s series 4 and we are back with a transatlantic bang. Joining Rob and Guy to kick us off is a legend of comedy writing. Bill Oakley was writer and showrunner on The Simpsons throughout the golden period and has gone on to create more such greats as Mission Hill and Space 1969.

But Bill, like a lot of American comedy writers, is also a huge fan of British comedy. From the early days of Python and Benny Hill, through Blackadder and surprisingly perhaps an avid watcher of Gogglebox!

But when we sent him our list, Bill was immediately drawn to another of his favourites, Mr Bean, which of course has fans all around the world, but despite going to see the 1997 spin-off Bean at the cinema, had no recollection. So, we are on hand to provide that.

As we’ve seen in past episodes, a straight small to big screen transformation can be a difficult thing to achieve, but perhaps even more so with this character, famed for his lack of speech. But as with a lot of big screen outings for Britcom characters, 1997’s Bean takes Rowan Atkinson’s character abroad, this time to sunny Los Angeles, where we all hoped hilarity would ensue…but would it? Well, you’ll have to tune it to find out!

Dave and Shirley on Gogglebox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ig6-PvCTrU

Bean – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHgpXqi0LZQ

Bean – Whistler’s Mother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWqVoaYxgRs

Mr Bean Goes Diving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFY0PJO-c20

Mr Ben’s New Years Eve Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSa9-BIM89U

Rowan Atkinson in Hotshots Part Deux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr_U5dX7YsI

Man vs Bee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rKKXGEMJ6c

Dream On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWHoQrMNgnQ

Not the 9 o Clock News – The Two Ninnies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oVG4_k7Hbc

Naked Gun 2 ½ - Birth mark in the shape of Whistler’s Mother

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he0qOcBs-Nk

Boyzone – Picture of You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCIAJRTwJg

Mr Bean – Newcastle in the Champions League meme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gR6cX3l6mg

Ecce Homo Restoration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB7GeSPwx-Y

Space 1969 by Bill Oakley on Audible

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Space-1969-Audiobook/B0B1S292LW?eac_link=0kJv5oEiG36o&ref=web_search_eac_asin_1&eac_selected_type=asin&eac_selected=B0B1S292LW&qid=wOOGlzqQ7j&eac_id=262-2723224-2622631_wOOGlzqQ7j&sr=1-1

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Special: Top Five Comic Relief Moments

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

It’s Red Nose Day! The 40th anniversary of Comic Relief, no less, so Rob and Guy took time from their busy schedule prepping series 4 of Britcom Goes to the Movies to release a Red Nose Day special in which they run down their top five Comic Relief comedy moments.

There have been so many great sketches and live comedy moments over the course of the last 40 years since Richard Curtis and Lenny Henry set up the charity. Who can forget Dawn French snogging Hugh Grant, Billy Connolly dancing around Trafalgar Square in the buff, and of course, Hale and Pace putting a red nose on their conks and performing The Stonk? Unfortunately, none of those moments made our top five, but you can find out what did by listening to the show! You can find all the sketches mentioned below, but if you don’t want to spoil the experience, look away now!

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Call the Midwife - One Born Every Minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSOGQmidkyc

Kurupt FM with Ed Sheeran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIQFHcChNfw

Only Fools & Horses with David Beckham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7YBuMhKhXE&t=25s

Ricky Gervais Africa Appeal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRMdnJOKZe4&t=137s

Alan Partridge and Tony Maloney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLQGnAvvac&t=26s

Tony Ferrino and Bjork perform Short term Affair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GnAn0oxvVY

Brent and Johnson - Equality Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmTV62mE1PA

Alan Partridge Comic Relief Mid Morning Matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmywrDBW3Us

Men Behaving Badly and Kylie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZtkzeNb5H0

Comic Relief Balnkety Blank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUC4un_G5AA&t=32s

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S03 E11 - Get Santa Christmas Special (w/ Rob Gilroy)

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Merry Christmas from everyone at BritCom Goes to the Movies. Our present to you is the finale of series three. Comedian and internet sensation Rob Gilroy joins Guy and Rob to discuss the criminally lesser-known Get Santa.

Jim Broadbent and Rafe Spall star in the first family comedy on our list, directed by Chris Smith, more known for his horror prowess and exec produced by Ridley Scott, no less!

There's a lot of Rafe Spall chat, kicked off with our profiling of another undervalued comedy, Pete Vs Life. Which ran for two series in the early 2010s.

Join us for festive merriment with plenty of laughs and even a few tears.

Pete Vs Life - In love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpET7Pccxu4

Pete Vs Life - Finding words to break up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-KKpnHn2M

Cheaters - Series One Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnyYl7GeiOE

Adam Buxton - Help The Police (Rush Hour)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrofVsNc790

Frankie Boyle - Policeman (Rush Hour)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv49EfV_m1g

Get Santa - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2EFmDpNqd8

Get Santa - Kit Meets Santa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsmRX8WeFS0

Get Santa - Mad Jimmy Claws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdma9t7bvHc

Get Santa - Prison Fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9XKNz9qgsY

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S03 E10 - The Inbetweeners 2 (w/ Gabi Thorogood)

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Uncharted territory for Rob and Guy as they tackle their first sequel. There's also uncharted territory for The Inbetweeners in their second movie installment, as the boys head down under and encounter Peter Andre-Mobiles, slip-sliding turds, and sensitive rape alarms. Sounds a bit much, but is it?

To discuss, the chaps are joined by content creator Gabi Thorogood, herself a massive Inbetweeners fan. Between them, our trio will navigate series 3 of the Channel 4 TV show, the infamous US remake, and of course, the 2014 feature-length movie.

By 2014, was Inbetweeners fatigue a thing? If so, is it indeed still a thing ten years later? Of course there's the age-old question of how a sequel holds up against the first film. So strap in for the last non-festive episode of series three!

Inbetweeners series 3 - Bottle bank

https://youtu.be/AfLTpbyaXm8?si=QqxYdRlxzAZRmbz3

Inbetweeners series 3 - Tent Puke

https://youtu.be/s8_isWJAiT8?si=IzbM2W_uF8vTK8m8

Christmas at the Holly Day Inn - Trailer

https://youtu.be/tFOD9Mqwtgw?si=IROP47isP5P9eWOf

Inbetweeners US - Trailer

https://youtu.be/950-4oaMQgY?si=c3R6CmeyOQOC50k9

Inbetweeners 2 Trailer

https://youtu.be/G-O6OU03CSw?si=cuq5k_kzgrBqS5Y_

Inbetweeners 2 - Jay's email

https://youtu.be/rAtfw2Rggbc?si=6wC5GvCqgezG63Mz

Inbetweeners 2 - Waterslide

https://youtu.be/ZSW4v6tqz_c?si=-uLqsbo45ufnC2DZ

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S03 E09 - Polite Society (2023)

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

We are back with a roundhouse kick to the face. Episode 9 is all about the work of 2020s writing/directing sensation Nida Manzoor. First came the semi-biographical, musical sitcom We Are Ladyparts, about the trials and tribulations of a young, female, Muslim punk band trying to gain a following, which was multi-award-winning, gaining acclaim on both sides of the pond, and then came the feature-length debut.

Polite Society is our most recent film to date. From 2023, it tells the tale of sisterly love, high school angst, and sinister goings-on, all punctuated with some of the best fight sequences we’re certainly ever likely to find on our list. Can’t imagine Reg Varney packing a punch in anywhere near the same way.

A new writer/director and an almost completely unknown cast make for plenty of incredible moments in this film, but just how funny is it? Find out by giving episode 9 a listen as Rob and Guy talk all things Nida Manzoor, We Are Ladyparts, and Polite Society.

We Are Lady Parts – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPqzoAjxvl4

We Are Lady Parts – Amina’s Search For A Husband

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YleAvIsafFs

We Are Lady Parts – Bashir With the Good Beard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzAGqmdOBzE

We Are Lady Parts – Malala Made Me Do It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3TclipIlm0

Polite Society – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRFM7HQmkH0

Polite Society – I Am the Fury

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgzOzkkI68c

Polite Society – Khan vs Khan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCQHIIdoh28

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S03 E08 - Ali G Indahouse (2002)

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Booyakasha! It didn’t seem that long ago that you couldn’t walk 10 metres without someone doing an Ali G impression in your face, but it’s over a quarter of a century since this cultural phenomenon of a character first graced our late-night Channel 4 screens as part of the anarchic topical comedy the 11 O’ Clock Show. Originally a tool to poke the pomposity of politicians, religious figures, and artists, the boy from Staines became so much more, having his own spin-off shows, appearing in a Madonna music video, and eventually his own film in 2002.

In this episode, Guy and Rob talk all things Ali G and Sacha Baron Cohen, whilst being ever so careful to leave Borat and Bruno for a later date. Plus a mini dive into the 11 O'Clock Show and all the comedy talent that particularly divisive programme gave the world.

This may well also end up being the most represented film in our Spotify playlist, as the amount of Hip-Hop had Rob unable to contain his excitement, as did the line delivery of Charles Dance, but what was the overall impression of this film that left both our hosts relatively cold the first time around? Have a listen and find out!

Sacha Baron Cohen – Schvitzing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs45jcOkWAM

Sacha Baron Cohen – Pump TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV70hTdyKZo

Ali G interviews Jacob Rees-Mogg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGxq3pvJPQ

Ali G in Northern Ireland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNG5UeKMZw

Ali G and Jarvis Cocker – Help the Aged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCZI4RkK5OY

Ali G and Olivia Wilde at the Oscars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2oEx3ARgMo

11 o Clock Show - Daisy Donovan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o38kU6hQ434

11 o Clock Show – Series 1 Episode 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geeuh5PFvPg

Iain Lee watches old 11 O Clock Shows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1pJXxyE76g

Madonna - Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdz2oW0NMFk

Shaggy and Ali G – Me Julie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A91wAkz3NpE

Ali G at the Comedy Awards 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrmvjR9ETDQ

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S03 E07 - In The Loop (w/ Mollie Goodfellow)

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

How do you follow a massive film with a fantastic and well-informed guest? Do another one straight away! This week we are joined by the brilliant TV writer, journalist, podcaster, and comedian Mollie Goodfellow to talk about one of the greatest sitcoms of the 21st century, The Thick of It, and the film it spawned, In The Loop.

Make sure young ears are out of shot because this is a sweary one… and that’s just Rob and Guy’s thoughts on Alistair Campbell! We look at Armando Iannucci’s magnum opus as the man behind so many enduring TV comedy classics of the 90s. With inspiration from endorsing Yes Minister on Britain’s Best Sitcom in 2004, he took on the political establishment, turning it into his big-screen directorial debut and subsequently hit HBO political comedy Veep.

Not since Michael Rimmer have we tackled satire. We ask if there is any weight to the claim that you can’t make this kind of comedy anymore because of the state of politics today and whether New Labour 2.0 would even allow itself to be sent up in the same way it was in its original iteration’s death knell in the late 00s.

We hope it’s not too much of an omnishambles as Britcom Goes to the Movies presents In The Loop!

The Thick of It – Insults

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njcuww9Einc

The Thick of It – Tim in Ruislip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xcVov-UL4Q

The Thick of It – Nicknames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMNHu9YM-4

The Thick of It – Blinky Ben Swain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNjevGdB5g

In the Loop – The Culture Show with Alistair Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcFaizGw860

In The Loop – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJU2qRg5zLI

In The Loop – Jamie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jr731Mhxkg

In the Loop – Don’t Call Me English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySD0u4RXXcI

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S03 E06 - Monty Python & The Holy Grail (w/ Jeremy Dyson)

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Over halfway through our third series, and it’s time to tackle a behemoth! Monty Python’s Flying Circus has been a comedy touchstone for pretty much every comedian and comedy writer to come after, including our guest for this episode.

Jeremy Dyson is one quarter of The League of Gentlemen and has written for countless other comedy shows as well as writing and directing for the big screen. In fact, in The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, he made his very own TV sitcom to cinema spin-off, so Rob and Guy couldn’t be joined by anyone more appropriate for some expert insight.

As a huge fan of the Python’s, Jeremy joined to talk about his favourite of their movies; The Holy Grail, as well as Monty Python’s Flying Circus and how it has informed and influenced his work.

Where do we start with such a critical and fan favourite? Endlessly quoted, constantly in the upper echelons of all-time movie lists, and helmed by a director who would go on to be considered one of the best to ever make films. This is a film that would be challenging for the top spot, but where will it end up? Listen and find out!

Monty Python – Piranha Brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV1Yq2aS5FM

Monty Python – Spanish Inquisition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Df191WJ3o

Help! I’m a Fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RobKrS63DEk

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urRkGvhXc8w

Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Knights Who Say Ni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIV4poUZAQo

Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Brave Sir Robin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8

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S03 E05 - Up 'n' Under (1998)

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Could episode 5 be where you find your heaven? Well, if you get that musical reference, then perhaps so.

Guy and Rob are going all in on the 90s nostalgia. A Samantha Janus odyssey covering Game On, with its groundbreaking attitudes, jarring cast changes, and "skunk pussies," followed by Up 'n' Under, the John Godber play turned 90s BritCom. Hot off the heels of the Full Monty, this Yorkshire set (but not filmed) Rugby League comedy took advantage of the cream of TV comedy acting at the time.

Not just the aforementioned Janus, but 2.4 Children's Gary Olsen, Men Behaving Badly's Neil Morrissey, not to mention John Thompson, Griff Rhys Jones, and a whole load more.

Join us for our first play adaptation and stay for the quiz, where Guy would have to do some serious winning to cancel out last week's thrashing.

Game On - Opening Credits

https://youtu.be/liKGRdQaeMQ?si=lNOt0Aw0aV8lyoJg

Game On - New Matthew

https://youtu.be/pF6qzf9kjoc?si=PaDAbxAOoZCz6xHe

Game On - Chris

https://youtu.be/upNH7iFpTRs?si=I65B_Wedtkiqhbdn

Samantha Janus on Eurovision

https://youtu.be/nYU_3l0-hVo?si=CIcedIxkW1QKV2Sv

Mad About Alice - Episode 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPI34P65Cc

The Grimleys - Pilot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzFHmtLNkC0

Up n Under - Trailer

https://youtu.be/Qt0lfv6vW3M?si=usTkR5ANl0vkn-jp

Up n Under - Full Movie

https://youtu.be/6DHTxuflkNM?si=r5wOI8w1qv-j4nma

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S03 E04 - Run Fatboy Run (2007)

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Rob and Guy Love Simon Pegg. That was clear for all to hear in our episode on Shaun of the Dead. After that movie he became hot property and Hollywood came calling. After a Mission Impossible and with Star Trek to come, Pegg’s showbiz mate David Schwimmer, star of arguably the biggest Ameri-Com Friends, was directing a British set, US written Rom-Com, and wanted Pegg as his leading man. Problem is, how do you make an alter-jilter layabout tosspot seem loveable? If anyone can do it...

Pegg is joined by an abundance of British comedy and acting talent. From Thandiwe Newton to Simon Day, some American muscle in the shape of Hank Azaria and once again joining forces with Dylan Moran to create a cast to die for... And that’s before we even get to cameos from Stephen Merchant, David Walliams and a host more.

However, how likely was a movie originally to be set in the US and written and directed by Americans to grasp that Britcom sensibility? Join Rob and Guy as they find out.

It’s not just Run Fatboy Run that we’ll be discussing in episode 4. The ground-breaking sketch show, which gave Pegg an early break, will also go under the microscope as iconic sketches such as The Staring Contest, Smug Man Who Can’t Open Doors, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince preying upon Jockeys in the wild and a host more. So get on Episode 4!

Run Fatboy Run Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnJkCPpIngs

Run Fatboy Run – Blister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYt28vX954w

Big Train – Join the Army

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II

Big Train – Chaka Khan vs the BeeGees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQZDFv0aTlk

Big Train – Sexy Puppet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQWm2Hq2xM

30 Rock – David Schwimmer as Greenzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyMs2xox_hE

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S03 E03 - Bedazzled (w/ John Dorney)

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:00 GMT

You may remember that Rob and Guy covered Peter Cook in quite some detail in our episode on the Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer with our guest, Tom Salinsky of Best Pick Pod. Well, now we are talking about Cook & Moore as a duo, focusing mainly on Not Only But Also and, of course, our film for this week, Bedazzled. Rather neatly, another host of Best Pick joins us for the 1967 Faustian adaptation. John Dorney gets involved with our Pete & Dud-centric episode.

Bedazzled, also starring Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, and Barry Humphries, is the first film we have covered on Britcom Goes to the Movies, which has a Hollywood remake. Much as the idea of a Tom Cruise-starring remake of On The Buses would excite us, it simply doesn’t exist! To Rob and Guy’s shame, they didn’t watch the remake, but luckily our guest did and was more than happy to fill us in on that as well.

Tom Salinksy and Jess Regan (the other two presenters of Best Pick) had chosen movies that shot straight to number one on our League table (although neither Michael Rimmer nor Sightseers stayed there), so could John continue this trend? Could Guy eat into Rob’s quiz lead with John’s questions on Cook & Moore? Find out by listening to episode 3!

Bedazzled Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsyqpUP1knQ

Bedazzled – Leaping Nuns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9kg-Ngz0Q

Bedazzled - Drimble Wedge & the Vegetation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXnoWb88Jr4

Not Only But Also with Peter Sellers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKZ79jUl3U

Pete & Dud – Greta Garbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLh3Dck0D9g

Naked Gun 33 1/3 – Raquel Welch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PA0Qje9G8

Bedazzled (200 remake) Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfpLEU2YKzc

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S03 E02 - Splitting Heirs (1993)

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:27:00 GMT

We all remember what Rob and Guy thought of Nuns on the Run. Perhaps their biggest disappointment so far on Britcom Goes to the Movies. So another Eric Idle vehicle with another questionable love interest age gap was enough to set alarm bells ringing. Could John Cleese and Rick Moranis help stem the flow of ill will, though?

One significant advantage of tackling 1993's Splitting Heirs was the opportunity to examine Rutland Weekend Television. Idle’s post-Python sketch show, with more than a little help from musical maestro Neil Innes and pioneering an idea as maverick as a “music video” (it’ll never catch on), has become a big comedy touchstone for many generations to follow, and let’s not forget, gave the world The Rutles.

As well as Splitting Heirs and Rutland Weekend Television, we chat Saturday Night Live, SCTV, and plenty more. Guy with some work to do in the quiz stakes already after a 4-2 loss in episode one. Could he reduce the margin?

Splitting Heirs Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bakWHKecYw0

Splitting Heirs – Not Really Asian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQ-oyvp-mk

Splitting Heirs – Behind The Scenes -Film 93

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewwD4nYN9Ww

Rutland Weekend Television – S1 E1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrjP8ltFgw

George Harrison on RWT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ACyZIXkHq0

The Rutles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFxencNmZw

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olGXtohOs7c

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S03 E01 - On The Buses (w/ John Rain)

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Britcom Goes to the Movies is back! We begin our third, yes, THIRD series with an absolute classic of the genre... of sorts. On The Buses was one of the most popular British sitcoms ever made, so midway through its run, Hammer decided to take it to the big screen, the first of many such ventures for the studio, and it paid off, literally! With box office numbers, a Marvel movie would kill for in 1971.

But On The Buses the Movie has become a byword for terrible sitcom to movie spin-offs, by which all subsequent examples would be judged. You could say we have this movie to blame for the short shrift and general disdain a lot of British comedies get critically. Without this film, we’d probably have no podcast.

It’s reputation therefore preceded it, and Rob and Guy were in no hurry to cover it, but once writer, funnyman, host of SMERSH Pod, and all-round On The Buses apologist John Rain expressed an interest in joining us to discuss the film, how could we say no?

So join Guy, Rob, and John on an odyssey of crass jokes, old men playing 30-year-old lotharios, the world’s first ATM, pencil-moustached knicker-snatchers, and rolling left to right pecking. Finally, it’s time for On The Buses.

On the Buses – First Colour Episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFV3aAMPTgg&list=PLgD5-qNnzSa5nAynMx58UWJsetOvWgyfk&index=2

On The Buses – The Cistern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ghggVZOs4

On The Buses – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRmkh8tMB9k

On The Buses – Skid Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvV8jjvI42o

On The Buses cast on Wogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fVCJ0_0HE

Reg Varney uses world’s first ATM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mwgKMrZ1U

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The Test (2024)

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:25:00 GMT

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Carry On Camping (1969)

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:00:00 GMT

And so our Carry On journey comes to an end with Carry On Camping, arguably the most iconic offering of the entire franchise.

Hattie Jacques is back, which means our first; "Oooh Maaaatron". The rest of the regular cast is also in attendance for an innuendo-laden laugh fest. Expect Sid James staring at arses, Barbara Windsor's top flying off, and some good old-fashioned hippy bashing.

This is Guy's pick to round us off and although we've only managed a mere 3 of 31, Carry On BritCom Goes to the Movies has seen the perfect cross-section of the collection. Go out and watch some more, we'll see you in the autumn for series 3 of BritCom Goes to the Movies!

Carry On Camping trailer

https://youtu.be/LDTQW3ztgNc?si=_TUFc4ti2AGBrTmS

Carry On Camping tent scene

https://youtu.be/CGUj9OcO0xM?si=70WdhFwJsP7yFwRu

Shooting Stars - Carry On Camping

https://youtu.be/6ydD2hizE6g?si=x6QQO253NxPPbODJ

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Carry On Screaming (1966)

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:00:00 GMT

There is no let-off this bank holiday as we hit you with another Carry On straight away.

This time it's Rob's pick. Critic and hipster's choice, Carry On Screaming. It's a Hammer Horror Homage but without the scariest cast member Sid James, replaced to great effect by Harry H Corbett.

There's low budget scares, laughs, and uncredited session musician's theme tunes galore.

Will Rob still rate Screaming as his favourite on second viewing and will Guy enjoy only his second ever Carry On? Join us to find out.

Carry On Screaming - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwVGuxvhou8&t=29s

Carry On Screaming - Blow on your whistle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9BlgkvENgY&t=69s

Carry On Screaming - Best scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60y0vYxf7PA&t=453s

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Carry On Abroad (w/ Andy Clarke)

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 23:00:00 GMT

While we wait for series three in the autumn, here's a bank holiday treat of a mini-series. What better way to spend a bank holiday weekend than with British comedy institution Carry On?

Over the next three days, Rob and Guy scratch the surface of the comedy behemoth, choosing one film from the massive back catalogue each.

We start our series of three with a choice from our guest. TV's Andy Clarke. Writer, presenter and Carry On fanatic. Who better to make our first pick and provide some expert analysis? (particularly for Guy, who'd inexplicably never before seen a Carry On)

Andy kicks us off with Carry On Abroad. Widely regarded by fans and critics as the last good Carry On Film and certainly the final one with the bulk of the core cast. James, Williams, Connor, Windsor, Whitfield, Sims and Hawtry make their way to the beautiful resort of El's Bells in "the Med". In lieu of budget though, Pinewood studios must double for an exotic resort.

Join the three of us for sun, sea and Splendid Kenneth Williams impressions as we Carry On Abroad.

Carry On Abroad Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTg_Gn63EMs

Carry On Abroad - Tried it once

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXtFQdvcp4o

Carry On Abroad - Slide Whistle Supercut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufbrSC36FGQ

Julian Clary - Fisting Norman Lamont

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAU7pATH5_M

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S02 E10 - Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:00:00 GMT

It feels like only yesterday we were getting stuck into some Porridge and now Series 2 of BritCom Goes to the Movies, draws to a close with 2004’s Churchill: The Hollywood Years. A movie that was met with a lukewarm critical reception and a limited release, leaving it with a somewhat tarnished at worst, and forgettable at best legacy.

...but is any of that fair? Both Rob and Guy remembered loving it. The film had the cream of TV comedy talent of the time and all masterminded by Mr. Comic Strip Presents Peter Richardson, with a blueprint similar to one of his best episodes, The Strike. Is it really as bad as all that?

There’s a deep dive into The Comic Strip from its early days as a cabaret show, to a mockumentary directed by Julian Temple, to the opening night of Channel 4. This show gave the world Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, French and Saunders, Robbie Coltraine, Keith Allen, Alexi Sayle, Phil Cornwell...the list goes on!

There’s the small matter of crowning the series quiz champion, with Rob needing an absolute miracle to defend his title. What a series it’s been, with two new number ones, could we have a third?

The Comic Strip Presents – Julian Temple Doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-4QTIyWmXA

Channel 4 – First Broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03c9vit5G4w

Comic Strip Presents – Five Go Mad in Dorset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_KfQ0pD2gw

Comic Strip presents – The Strike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beyNSIUEIxk

Four Men in a Car – Sounds of the 80s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH1Igdckll0

Churchill: The Hollywood Years – Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYB7aSWSyOI

Churchill: The Hollywood Years – Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fouJZyxFCSU

Leslie Phillips - I Must Resist Temptation (from Crooks Anonymous) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOuvUt3VZaI

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S02 E09 - The Mouse That Roared (w/ Tyler Adams)

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 06:24:46 GMT

Our second Goon-related podcast of the series, so who better to join Rob and Guy to talk about all things Peter Sellers, A Show Called Fred, and The Mouse That Roared, than host of The Goon Pod, Tyler Adams? There was expert insight galore as BritCom Goes to the Movies tackled its earliest film yet.

An early high-concept outing for Sellers’ many faces and voices on the big screen as he channeled his inner Alec Guinness to play three of the main characters in this Anglo-American cult classic (not the first one of those we’ve profiled in this series either).

There are many unexpected mentions of The Simpsons, Alan Partridge and The Fast Show, proving just how long a shadow Peter Sellers has cast on the comedy world for decades.

Guy had a huge lead over Rob in the quiz coming into this episode, with only one more to go, Rob would need to buck up his ideas…and quickly!

A Show Called Fred – 1956

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbWbz1Z0q3M

The Mouse That Roared – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7L7WLFBYR4

The Mouse That Roared – Full Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfD_LTad1hE

Coldland - Shooting Stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYgXl5AxQA

Passport To Pimlico - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=634VTm9y1Eo

Theatre of Blood - Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94e43JIgHc

Holmes & Yo-Yo - Opening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeJd7j-Rhtg

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S02 E08 - Steptoe & Son (1972)

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:00:00 GMT

With Old Ned still ringing in their ears, Rob and Guy sat down to record episode 8: Steptoe and Son. An enduring sitcom with a huge legacy, written by a couple of comedy pioneers…but let’s not forget this is a movie spin-off from the 70s, by which all low bars apparently, should be judged.

Surely that can’t be the case for a pair of characters still held in such high esteem even now, situations as timeless as the day is long and a budget to be envious of….well, let’s not give anything away. The classic traps of lack of TV network reigning in are a jaunt abroad and a hurried script.

All this plus some chat about Mr Acker Bilk and his impressive record, a public toilet in Shepherd’s Bush, class warfare by sporting preference, and a chance for Rob to get back in the running for the series quiz title. Join Britcom Goes to the Movies for Steptoe & Son!

Steptoe and Son Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaiiT3ZnJw

Steptoe and Son – 65 Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85DfL-hyu_8

Steptoe and Son – Any Old Iron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDsJHAdi1Ws

Harry H Corbett – The Old Junk Shop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50waA8lCBU

Wilfred Bramble – Ragtime Rag n Bone Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2B0geglzE

The Curse of Steptoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11VCYx2-mqY

When Steptoe met son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=G4Nksn4MAl4

Mr Acker Bilk – Stranger on the shore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTl-iAF6KsE

Steptoe and Son The Movie Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnwnPj9S4SY

Steptoe and Son The Movie – Kitchen Sink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgX1cPfethA

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S02 E07 - Shaun of the Dead (w/ Ross Birks)

Tue, 28 May 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Anger, Pain, Fear, Aggression….Watercolours and laughs! As we know from our special on Britain’s Best Sitcom, Spaced is in both Guy and Rob’s top 5, so neither could contain their excitement when it came to talking about Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright’s seminal turn of the century pop-culture-reference-a-thon.

Skip to the end….but there’s more. Joining our very own Tim and Daisy was filmmaker Ross Birks, fresh from stealing a tank and trying to invade Paris, to lend his two penn’orth. We could have done a whole two hours on that, but of course, this is a movie podcast so what better than the film inspired by a short segment in an episode of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead?

The movie that spawned the genre Zom Rom Com was 20 years old at the time of recording and all three of our panelists made no secret of their love, quotability, and rewatchabilty of one of the most influential films of the 00s… despite itself making so many references to all three of the genres it drew from.

After a truly terrible showing in last week’s quiz, who would break the deadlock this week with Ross’ fiendishly difficult questions?

So let’s take the car. Go to Mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, listen to Britcom Goes To the Movies, and wait for all of this to blow over.

Simon Pegg and Jessica Stephenson in Six Pairs of Pants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZkItmbFiQ

Edgar Wright directed Asylum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhzHQfSkg0w

Mash & Peas – John Littlerichard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGF5z4hyzY

Spaced – One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoU_GG38Tc

Spaced – Clubbing Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_wVOA_95QU

Spaced – The Matrix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kLk9gfK_w

Comic Relief Blankety Blank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUC4un_G5AA

Big Train – Billie Piper fanclub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_3oU-Z4Vxo

Shaun of the Dead trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfcaZ4pC-4

Shaun of the Dead record throwing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHAOY7C1go

Shaun of the Dead – Prink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJvDtF1ios

Edgar Wright’s Don’t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czR4qJbkSuc

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S02 E06 - The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

Tue, 21 May 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Over halfway through series two of Britcom Goes to the Movies we’re back to the 1960s....and the 50s as we look at Spike Milliagn, the Goon Show, and the Post-Apocalyptic surreal comedy The Bed Sitting Room. This is the first of our episodes in which we look at a radio show as our source material (if you don’t include Hancock’s Half Hour for The Rebel in series one).

This film contains two of the three (or is it four) Goons as well as a plethora of British comedy talent of the time. Many of whom we’ve seen appear in previous episodes, including Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Frank Thornton, and of course Arthur Lowe, who is the Britcom Goes to the Movies record appearance maker so far.

In a series and a half, Rob and Guy have been fairly united on their approval or disapproval of a film, but this time there is some serious disagreement. What will this mean for the rankings and could the non-believer yet be brought round to reform his opinion? All the while, the quiz scores are delicately poised with Rob having a one-point lead. Join us for episode six.

The Goon Show – The Dreaded Battered Pudding Hurler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Vg2S3S8W0

The Goon Show – The Treasure of Loch Lomond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGwAJtZKEc

Tin Sandwich Anyone? The History of the Harmonica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clsGakOc8AE

Roy Kinnear on Give Us A Clue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUvPSJfyn0

The Bed Sitting Room – Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVZcY53nVU

The Bed Sitting Room – Inside Leg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu-TjD7s-UY

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S02 E05 - Kevin & Perry Go Large (w/ Ben Clark)

Tue, 14 May 2024 23:00:00 GMT

As the Venga Boys once said, "We're going to Ibiza"... unfortunately the BritCom goes to the Movies budget didn't stretch as far as actually going to the Balearics, but via the magic of podcasting, we can transport you there by discussing Kevin and Perry Go Large.

Ben Clark joins Guy and Rob for this episode. The writer, director, and comedian is also one-third of Pappys and had, up until this moment, never seen the movie. Luckily he's still talking to us!

We talk about the origins of Kevin the teenager from Kevin the annoying little brother in Harry Enfield's Television Programme to Superstar DJ with sidekick Perry, played by the inimitable Kathy Burke. Kevin became the benchmark by which all millennial teenage boys were (rightly or wrongly) compared.

But as big a cultural phenomenon as Kevin and Perry were (along with many other of Enfield and Burke's characters) how did that translate to the big screen? How kind has the last quarter of a century been to the movie and of course, its memorable soundtrack packed with dance anthems. Join Rob, Guy, and Ben to find out.

Kevin the annoying little brother

https://youtu.be/WIhtPCyEDCY?si=t0Hox3WsE86aif-I

Kevin becomes a teenager

https://youtu.be/dLuEY6jN6gY?si=F-1K44boOCE1JTA3

Kevin washes the family car

https://youtu.be/-qUP3yHEpRw?si=TrEMvywKMm1EtJWd

Perry returns from Manchester

https://youtu.be/ZDKF8KkD7rE?si=RQS0wn9ypYPp4DCJ

Kevin the teenager Pillsbury Toaster Pockets

https://youtu.be/EuNTG1sOovU?si=Bf-dnR0gIO_onEGD

Ben Clark in Badults

https://youtu.be/R7w6y6snkzo?si=u8rY5f-BCmEHzKzm

Smashie and Nicey End of an Era

https://youtu.be/UP67GQoII5M?si=kDdkcNC-59ohvn53

Wobbly Randy Old Ladies

https://youtu.be/vPrI8rIcFSk?si=7CHDCGmk-W780lH6

Fast Show - Newlyweds

https://youtu.be/LXxgxXiqZZw?si=kM-b6r3m2VEDuSYI

Kevin and Perry Go Large Trailer

https://youtu.be/nENwy9GRyF0?si=aTI3i1P3n9rq4lkD

Precious Bratz presents Kevin and Perry - Big Girl

https://youtu.be/iEk-bUC1sGs?si=wo7dT__R3NdZIDdo

Fragma - Toca's Miracle

https://youtu.be/zlDn4_sMUtg?si=xvql3LC73XHwa_8G

Kevin and Perry Go Large - Turd in the sea

https://youtu.be/_nETL4r2mrc?si=bvgZgsj_4ma5Eqxg

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S02 E04 - Drop Dead Fred (w/ Charlotte White)

Tue, 07 May 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Four episodes deep into our difficult second series, and to make it a little easier, we’ve enlisted the help of an expert. It’s fair to say Rob and Guy had probably never really considered the impact of the world of Psychotherapy, early 90s favourite Drop Dead Fred had...but it did! In a big way and to help us get to grips with that we enlisted Psychotherapist Charlotte White to talk not only about the significance of imaginary friends but also the roles of women and girls in cinema and abusive relationships.

Don’t worry, this is a comedy...or Is it? This film tests both aspects of the criteria of our podcast in that it is arguably neither British nor comedy! But how can you have British Cinema without Working Title and how can you say a film starring Rik Mayall is not a comedy? As our source material, we go back to the beginning of TV for Rik and talk about The Young Ones, a seminal piece of British comedy history. It changed the British Sitcom forever (while maintaining a laughter track) influencing the entire generation of comedians that came after it, not to mention its admiration across the pond, becoming the first non-musical show to be broadcast on MTV. But was it any good and has it held up over time? Find out what we think about The Young Ones and Drop Dead Fred in episode 4.

Our list continues to grow. We’ve already had a new number one in this series, could there be another? The quiz is hotting up this series, with Rob leveling the scores at 7-7 in episode three, with Charlotte writing the questions this time, who could take the lead after four episodes?

Young Ones – Opening Titles
THE YOUNG ONES - Intro (youtube.com)

The Young Ones – Bambi
The Young Ones Bambi (youtube.com)

Rik Mayall – Legend of Zelda Advert Link’s Awakening
Nintendo Gameboy Zelda Link's Awakening TV advert - 1993 - Rik Mayall (youtube.com)

Rik Mayall in Man Down
rik mayall man down romantic story (youtube.com)

Drop Dead Fred Trailer
🎥 DROP DEAD FRED (1991) | Trailer | Full HD | 1080p (youtube.com)

Drop Dead Fred – Dog Poo
Drop Dead Fred - Got Some Dog Poo (youtube.com)

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S02 E03 - All My Friends Hate Me (2021)

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Episode three of series two sees us tackle our most recent film. The Covid-delayed darkly comic and borderline (if not out and out) psychological horror, All My Friends Hate Me by the Toms (Stourton and Palmer). Here’s a movie that tackles alienation, anxiety, and (like most good British comedies) the class system.

Rob and Guy discuss all those topics, plus the university experience, the leg-up in the industry that is public schools, and of course Sandstorm by Darude. That’s not to mention our (kind of) source material, the cringe-core sitcom Siblings, starring Stourton and Charlotte Richie. The quiz scores are starting to take shape as well. Can Rob claw back his two-point deficit, or will Guy pull even further ahead? Siblings Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hW0OAD0ps Totally Tom - People’s Houses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3jvfd_ZDQ High Renaissance Manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJY73GgkvWg Cardinal Burns Episode 5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7caUGv6yY8k All My Friends Hate Me - Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcLusCip1Gs All my friends hate me - Normanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odbe6AcFHKc

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S02 E02 - Sightseers (w/ Jessica Regan)

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Episode 2 of Series 2 sees another crossover with the Best Pick Podcast as another of its hosts Jessica Regan (our second guest after Tom Salinsky) joins to talk about the 2012 darkest of dark comedies Sightseers. Jess provided unparalleled insight into director Ben Wheatley’s process, starring as she did in his 2009 sketch show The Wrong Door.

We take a closer look at The Wrong Door, a show in which dinosaurs are dates, Pirates hijack commuter trains and Matt Berry puts John Virgo’s trick shots in the shade, as well as a deep dive into Wheatley’s third feature-length film, which became the first big screen starring roles for comedy collaborators Steve Oram and Alice Lowe.

It helped to have a voice of Irish sanity to help assess a movie that so precisely captures a slice of English eccentricity, repressed anger and downright insanity! We also take a look at the use of double, double pop covers for needle drops and a supporting cast of some of the British movie industry’s very best bit players.

How would Guy and Rob get on with Jess’ questions on the Oram and Lowe and could we have a new contender for the top spot? Find out in episode two.

The Wrong Door Episode one - The Wrong Door S01E01 The World's Most Annoying Creature (youtube.com)

The Wrong Door – Train Pirates starring Jessica Regan 2008 The Wrong Door. The Train Pirates! (youtube.com)

Alice Lowe and Steve Oram interviewed by Alan Partridge - EM 10004 Video NA RunEscape GunShot TsktpkV15 Nor Q F NA EN PC A bluedemo (youtube.com)

A Dark Song Trailer A Dark Song - Official Trailer I HD I IFC Midnight (youtube.com)

Sightseers Trailer Sightseers trailer (youtube.com)

Sightseers – Report that to the National Trust - SIGHTSEERS - National Trust - Film Clip (youtube.com)

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S02 E01 - Porridge (1979)

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:00:00 GMT

We're back for our difficult second series. Guy and Rob carefully curated a list of films that span eight decades and showcase all manner of British comedy....or we just picked some random films from the long list. I forget now.

Series two begins with a classic sitcom spin-off. The seventh favourite British sitcom of all time (as recorded in 2004 in a BBC light entertainment list show, so legally binding) the Ronnie Barker vehicle Porridge!

Lots to get through for our intrepid hosts, including pondering the likely career trajectory of Richard Beckinsale (had he not been taken from us so early), the likelihood of being able to stand a 12 month stretch of Norman Stanley Fletcher's wise cracks without lamping him and the continued quest to ascertain exactly what makes the comedy transfer from small to big screen, such a difficult process.

Our master league table continues from series one, but the quiz scores are reset with Rob having narrowly taken victory in series one. So nerks and nerkettes, enjoy Porridge!

Porridge Intro https://youtu.be/nvmYfcQB5HY?si=FOcKacUB1h08h0_E

Porridge Medical Scene https://youtu.be/VEsxfpK_8L0?si=_SctuVtow7vzyks2

Porridge Movie Trailer https://youtu.be/XVaZJEEXUh0?si=KNnpqzUd8oRsNoBp

Two Ronnies - Mastermind https://youtu.be/QRhyc56aVb0?si=ZlWUwn9i_9_bBFpN

Not the Nine O Clock News - The Two Ninnies https://youtu.be/IbC3Fdv5wKU?si=Wed25oMahFl1T_qm

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Special: Britain's Best Sitcom

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:09:00 GMT

It's not quite time for the second series of Britcom Goes to the Movies yet, but in the meantime, we've prepared a top ten British sitcoms special.

In 2004 Jonathan Ross hosted Britain's Best Sitcom on the BBC. Audiences were polled on their favourite British sitcom. A top 50 list was compiled, episode one rattled through numbers 50-11 at a dismissive pace and then audiences were polled once again on the top ten.

This time, each sitcom from the top ten had it's own celebrity advocate who would try to persuade you to vote for their favourite. Ranging from Carol Vorderman to David Dickinson. So like a French Presidential run-off (but with few fascists), voters were asked to choose again from a smaller sample.

Rob and Guy discuss this poll, the accompanying show, and then after, run down their top 10 British sitcoms. Who (if at all) do you agree with? Get in touch and tell us!

Britain's Best Sitcom - Blackadder with John Sargeant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwgFjrfXqYc

Britain's Best Sitcom - Yes Minister with Armando Ianucci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtKm9HuFs4

Britain's Best Sitcom - Fawlty Towers with Jack Dee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1MOdntdKa8
Britain's Best Sitcom Top 50 sitcoms list
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/top/

Keeping Up Appearances: 30 years of Laughs
https://www.channel5.com/show/keeping-up-appearances-30-years-of-laughs

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S01 E11 - Love Actually Christmas Special (w/ Monica Sagar)

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 06:00:00 GMT

The main series may be over, but we’ve one more festive treat. Guy and Rob joined by actor Monica Sagar to discuss the divisive Christmas classic on its 20th birthday, Love Actually. We also get stuck into the Vicar of Dibley Christmas special, which is perhaps the most tonally similar to Love Actually of all of Richard Curtis’ TV work.

A movie that’s been reappraised by both its cheerleaders and detractors over the course of the past two decades, Love Actually has also caused Richard Curtis himself to address things he would rather have changed with his time again.

With a multitude of plots, some classic rom-com, some a bit more esoteric, and some just downright weird and difficult to defend, our panel try their best to revisit with an open mind to see where it will place in the final league rankings of series one of Britcom Goes to the Movies.

We will also crown the series one winner of the Britcom Goes to the Movies quiz. After episode 10, Guy led for the first time in the series, but who would come out on top?

Vicar of Dibley Christmas Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTon56Kb3P0

Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special – Sprout-off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ck4qRdfGCU

Red Nose Day Actually Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9vGoj449s4

Love Actually Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Z3_ifFheQ

Love Actually – Dancing Prime Minister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcgxBHBsl-4

Love Actually – To me you are perfect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7u6bMBlCXw

Lynden David Hall – Sexy Cinderella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsWk2gO3o

Martine McCutcheon – This is my Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG16jv-itYw

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S01 E10 - The Rebel (1961)

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:17:36 GMT

We've reached the magical tenth installment and what better way to round off the regular series than by following our newest film so far, with our oldest.

The Rebel from 1961 is the earliest example we've found yet of transporting a character (Tony Hancock) out of his usual environment of 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam into new foreign and exotic climes. A blueprint for many, many BritCom adaptations to come. As Guy and Rob discuss, this is not the only thing for which Hancock, Ray Galton, and Alan Simpson set the blueprint.

Join us as we talk all things Hancock up to The Rebel, including his beginnings in panto and variety and his most celebrated work, Hancock's Half Hour.

Hancock's Half Hour - Poetry Society https://youtu.be/lMVmxDwjaJc?si=pL_Li6O65louxjCf

Hancock's Half Hour - How to Win Money and Influence People https://youtu.be/Kcxb4c3jyns?si=JEfoqBQSFy-o2Th2

The Rebel - Trailer https://youtu.be/3V-AXTHnsUY?si=ySeD16-_Gzc3-mE_

The Rebel - Existentialism https://youtu.be/IhXfhYbq92E?si=5TspSXhhkNp9EXfh

The Simpsons - The Bloodening https://youtu.be/pAJPf-I7PkM?si=BKH1nmCEedx3WX6z

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S01 E09 - People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan (w/ Daisy Edwards)

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:00:00 GMT

Hold tight man like Guy and Rob as Britcom Crew are joined by galdem Daisy Edwards from the W-Rated Possee. That’s right, episode nine is all about People Just Do Nothing and it’s movie spin-off Big in Japan. It was great to have Daisy (a self confessed PJDN fan) to talk about a film she knew she liked as opposed to some of the dross she usually gets served in her W-Rated podcast. There’s plenty of UK garage chat as Guy looks on in bewilderment with Rob and Daisy chatting about their all-time favourite garage tracks. At Britcom Goes to the Movies we’ve had a mixed bag of direct sitcom spin-offs. Could People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan, tickle our funny bones as much as or more than the Inbetweeners Movie, or will it be a straight-up Man About The House style disappointment? Tune in to find out. Wasteman TV – People Just Do Nothing first webisodehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G65UwuxPOOI People Just Do Nothing – First Episodehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up0dG-2mUf8 Chabuddy G’s best bitshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHVXrqogr8 UK Garage Horseracinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq99acy8xdE Azzido Da Bass – Dooms Nighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cYwggM2UGk DJ Deekline – I Don’t Smokehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7Hyk14s0g Marcus Brigstocke in Barking – I Don’t smoke the reeferhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWQFV9ulV8 Oxide and Neutrino – Bound 4 da Reloadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-27rdwJPs The Streets – Dry Your Eyeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyHr-4SeILI People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan – Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6cAyHXrE4

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S01 E08 - Nuns on the Run (1990)

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 06:00:00 GMT

Produced by an ex-Beatle, starring an ex-Python, written and directed by an ex-Yes Minister writer. What's not to like about Nuns on the Run? Guy and Rob look to answer that question in episode 8 of Britcom Goes to the Movies.

As well as Nuns on the Run, we delve deeply into Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister and shallowly into the Swiss cheesy electro band Yello. There's plenty about Handmade films and what they did for the British movie industry.

Now we get close to the end of the series, the battle for quiz scores is hotting up, with very little to separate the two hosts. This one gets a bit shouty!

Yes Minister - Who reads the papers?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

Yes Minister - The Best of Sir Humphrey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WupyKCfB_E

Nuns on the Run - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkv_-zMElY

Nuns on the Run - Car Chase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQ3Xnn8WlY

Yello - The Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4QbJRAWvRU

Beyonce - He Still Loves Me (Directed by Jonathan Lynn)

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S01 E07 - The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:00:00 GMT

A couple of Podcast fwends set out on episode seven of Britcom Goes to the Movies. Rob and Guy dissect their most recent film yet, the Inbetweeners Movie. This is the second of the series to be a direct sitcom to big screen transfer and one both our hosts were very familiar with.

Whether you are a briefcase wanker, bus wanker or bumder…or all of the above, this is a must-listen episode for any fan of The Inbetweeners. Has the comedy of the series and film held up, or has it aged like milk?

As well as The Inbetweeners, Rob and Guy discuss Look Around You, Everyone Else Burns, Fresh Meat, Derry Girls, and Drifters amongst others. Plus, as we get to the business end of the series quiz we’ll see if Rob can pull ahead even further or if Guy can bridge the deficit.

The Inbetweeners – Intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6VsEBgQSis

The Inbetweeners – Will and Charlotte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60THXYuwLhI

The Inbetweeners – Bottle Bank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfLTpbyaXm8

At Home With The Buckleys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xipoPxOpgo

Look Around You ep 7 – Starring Iain Morris https://vimeo.com/77647572

The Inbetweeners Movie Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_HyEy-yog

Yolanda B Cool & DCUP – We No Speak Americano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E9Ed9DUQoQ

The Inbetweeners Movie – Kitty Don’t Bite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPHdfDRBnQ

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S01 E06 - The Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer (w/ Tom Salinsky)

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 06:00:00 GMT

Episode six of Britcom Goes to the Movies marks the halfway point of the series and this week we’re going all the back to 1970. Having said that the themes and satire from The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer are all too prescient in 2023.

Guy and Rob are joined to talk all things Peter Cook, David Frost and of course The Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer by writer, producer and host of the Best Pick Podcast Tom Salinsky. Tom’s insights and political context for this episode were invaluable and he also wrote and hosted our quiz.

Among other things, we talk about That Was The Week That Was, Goodbye Again, Frost/Nixon, and a sprinkling of Monty Python. We wouldn’t always urge listeners to watch the film we’re talking about (Lesbian Vampire Killers we’re looking at you) but The Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer is worth everyone’s time, if not for anything other than Arthur Lowe. Could this biting satire challenge the top of our table, tune in and find out.

Ned Sherrin introduces TW3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e4R2038tfU

Goodbye again – full episodehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfnrTdecoVc

David Frost on his Nixon Interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fpYu36q_tQ

Arthur Lowe narrating the Mr Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2D1fDiSP_Y

The Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer – Full Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_prfYb6DE

The Cadbury’s Flake advert on which the Scorpio Humbugs commercial is based https://youtu.be/DqTPVvam1uY?si=cd9-uUyhmxPgpUN_

Harold Wilson and pipe exhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Ssw_WQ-y4

Monty Python – The Silly Party hold Leicester https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVI5ZOT5QEM

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S01 E05 - The Parole Officer (2001)

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:19:35 GMT

Episode 5 of Britcom Goes to the Movies. Rob and Guy are on a Busman's Holiday (not On the Buses yet thank God) as they research the writing team of Steve Coogan and Henry Normal. A chance to fanboy the shit out of things as this episode is on 2001's The Parole Officer.

Although memories of the movie aren't completely favorable, both Rob and Guy are huge Coogan and Normal fans. The Parole Officer's genesis seems to lie in Coogan's Run and Paul and Pauline Calf, so expect some deep dives into those shows.

The Parole Officer was Coogan's first feature-length writing credit and featured breakthrough appearances from Lena Headey and Stephen Dillane, making episode 5 a must-listen for Game of Thrones completists.

Is The Parole Officer capable of knocking Mike Bassett off the top spot of the Britcom goes to the Movies chart or will we think it's a bag of shite. Tune in to find out.

Paul Calf's Video Diary in full. https://youtu.be/VrIx9exTyxY?si=8CEXxo94RpjKw0kP

Paul and Pauline Calf on the Filth Tour https://youtu.be/M0_bxdRWWSk?si=1w5g-4QJwOq1VpKB

Pauline Calf Hen Party https://youtu.be/DLHWzj5dhTg?si=W465x3Moacm7erTT

Coogan's Run - Get Calf clip https://youtu.be/UjFP-K9uzC4?si=IGT9dO7v2fLUDLNI

Coogan's Run - A Handyman for all Seasons cliphttps://youtu.be/nF71JU___js?si=Kg7cLAMEEp4kVuiD

Coogan's Run Titles https://youtu.be/1gf0YdnSnN4?si=3DoqtCAujTxFiRwI

Henry Normal and Steve Coogan in Packet of Three https://youtu.be/PL3rXczQSm0?si=zWuxx3IIlBC23D4_

The Parole Officer Trailer https://youtu.be/nJw7JrN3vOY?si=gLKx5QJ6ZxcARs5R

Parole officer bits https://youtu.be/o_r65nWn_Mk?si=Nr-o_qY_VA_Nl2Yq

Atomic Kitten -Eternal Flame videohttps://youtu.be/yE3O-bx0noI?si=NwJhuW0gpFJuCljb

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S01 E04 - Mike Bassett: England Manager (w/ Steve Dunne)

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:00:00 GMT

Episode four already?! Guy and Rob are building up a head of steam and are joined for the first time by a guest. TV Writer Steve Dunne chips in with his thoughts on the 2001 football fan favourite Mike Bassett: England Manager. Ricky Tomlinson, at the height of his Jim Royle fame, starred as the ever-optimistic lower league football manager turned England’s savior at a time when the real England team was looking to the continent in Sven Goran Eriksson and playing some of the most memorable matches in the last 30 years. As we’ll hear, there were moments when art and life intertwined. We delve deep into not only Mike Bassett but also the Royle Family and the film’s major inspiration, the groundbreaking documentary, The Impossible Job. But does this film work on any level if not being watched by someone who is already a football fan? Jim Royle’s best bitshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBZvagHfwDQ Aha – Take on Me video by Steve Barronhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914 The Impossible Job – Full Documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLBA8ivsrt8 Mike Bassett: Benson & Hedgeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbP_pIgR4s Mike Bassett: Three Cheers for Ramirezhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpWUaRtZ-JU Mike Bassett: On Me ‘Ead Sonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQfkcboDIE8 Markus Nikolai – Busheshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42gBMtL9zhE Robbie Williams – Summertimehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqvSrjDljA

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S01 E03 - Man About The House (1974)

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:00:00 GMT

Episode 3 of Britcom Goes to the Movies sees Guy and Rob tackle their first direct TV Sitcom Spin-off. Man About the House from 1974 was one of a glut of Hammer produced big screen versions of beloved TV sitcoms and the show, which debuted in 1973 spawned not only this film, but two other spin-off series, a US remake, and two US spin-offs. You could say it’s a bit of a big hitter. However, the 1970s sensibilities and style of humour filled at least one of us with dread. Find out if those concerns were warranted as we dissect a 70s crowd pleaser which may or may not have aged well. As well as Man About the House, we discuss Hammer Pictures, Love Thy Neighbour, Three’s Company, and much more. Our ongoing quiz continues to remain a close-run thing and our ranking list is beginning to take shape. You can follow Britcom Goes To The Movies on Twitter and Instagram as @britcomgoes you can email us at britcomgoes@gmail.com and don’t forget to like, subscribe and give us a lovely review wherever you get your podcasts to help us reach a wider audience. Man About the House Sitcom Opening Titleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQRgBYsmAMQ Man About the House Movie Opening Titleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTUARfmOj8 Man About the House (1974) Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icBwYDvHFy0Three’s Company Opening Titleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rS7in7OdWQ

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S01 E02 - Staggered (1994)

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 05:00:00 GMT

Episode 2: Getting in the Swing. The only way is up (we hope) after Lesbian Vampire Killers. Next on our agenda was to take a closer look at the Martin Clunes 1994 vehicle Staggered. A film that at the time seemed ubiquitous because of an aggressive marketing campaign, but not one that’s widely remembered in 2023.

In fact not even by Guy and Rob it would seem. Both huge Men Behaving Badly fans, one had seen Staggered but couldn’t remember it, while the other couldn’t remember if he had seen it. Keeping up?

It’s fair to say that Staggered wouldn’t have received the exposure it did at the time without the burgeoning TV stardom of Martin Clunes on Men Behaving Badly and after losing the services on Comic Strip Presents director Sandy Johnson, Clunes was given the task of directing Staggered himself. Tune in to find out whether that was a good idea or not.

Amongst other things, we get stuck into Men Behaving Badly, Robin of Sherwood, Babes in the Wood, Boobs in the Wood and the unforgettable Warren. See where Staggered rates in our master list of two and who can gain the upper hand (sadly a sitcom that never made the big screen) in the BritCom Goes to the Movies Quiz.

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Staggered – Full Movie

https://youtu.be/Iu_nz5StaWw?si=pRxzS2eJwSJzsygZ

Tim Nice But Dim feat. Martin Clunes

https://youtu.be/5XHN_1oJXeY?si=POx13MMXgLltN0ee

Men Behaving Badly: What are you thinking?

https://youtu.be/-GyxboBU4J4?si=qzNgq6YOtLizACwO

Men Behaving Badly: Toilet

https://youtu.be/6NXpAjCudnA?si=XhYwrZiiqj8m2B6H

Robin of Sherwood Trailer

https://youtu.be/b9BiXsnYd7k?si=oI6R4bNn2DtDPnLy

Babes in the Wood

https://youtu.be/whj5h8-WZZc?si=tSs1qSuvTI56p7zu

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S01 E01 Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 04:00:00 GMT

Series one episode one of Britcom Goes to the Movies. After a low-brow discussion in a high-end Leeds boozer, Guy Walker and Rob Heath decided to set on a quest to definitively rank as many British comedy small to big/screen transfers as they could before they or more importantly their audience got bored of it. Building the long list of movies that contained some kind of programme, sketch, or talent crossover was the fun bit, then the real work began. It was decided that Britcom Goes to the Movies would kick off with the 2009 cinematic outing of the Horne & Corden partnership, Lesbian Vampire Killers. This was a film that had become a byword for terrible TV comedy transfers, which is why neither of our presenters had ever seen it. Was this Hammer Horror-inflected comedy really as bad as everyone said? There was only one way to find out. Charting LVK’s origins all the way from the universally loved Gavin & Stacy to the unanimously slated late-noughties sketch show Horne & Corden, this is a deep dive into all things Lesbian Vampire Killers. As a quirk of format at the end of this episode this film would sit both top and bottom of the BGTTM rankings list, but how long would it stay at either end? You can follow Britcom Goes To The Movies on Twitter and Instagram as @britcomgoes you can email us at britcomgoes@gmail.com and don’t forget to like, subscribe and give us a lovely review wherever you get your podcasts to help us reach a wider audience. James Corden’s early TV comedy appearance in Boyz Unlimitedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z52BM_RXa-I Lesbian Vampire Killers trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug60BEOdrB4 Viz Comic’s “Which McGann Brother are you?https://twitter.com/PaulBurleyHQ/status/583366696766967808?t=KfzOgNHagjBQG3Pp1nssLA&s=08 I like You So Much Better When You’re Naked by Ida Mariahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkVy2FeqIyc Shout by James Corden and Dizzy Rascalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHq3vy_7cJQ

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Britcom Goes To The Movies

Director's Commentary (w/ Alison Dennison & Nina Buckley)

Spice World (w/ Catrin Lowe)

Just My Luck (w/ At The Movies in the Noughties)

A Hard Day's Night (w/ Goon Pod)

S06 E10 - Fackham Hall (2025)

S06 E09 - The Death of Stalin (w/ Eleanor Morton)

S06 E08 - Cuban Fury (2014)

S06 E07 - The Young Poisoner's Handbook (w/ Tim Worthington)

S06 E06 - Bloodbath at the House of Death (w/ Kat Hughes)

S06 E05 - The Harry Hill Movie (w/ Ruth Husko)

S06 E04 - Please Sir! (w/ Jason Hazeley)

S06 E03 - Mutiny On The Buses (w/ John Rain)

S06 E02 - George & Mildred (w/ Alison Dennison)

S06 E01 - The Ladykillers (w/ Tom Salinsky)

Cruise of the Gods (w/Steve Dunne & Stuart Laws)

Special: Our Top Ten Favourite Sketches

S05 E11 - Nativity! *Christmas Special* (w/ Kat Hughes)

S05 E10 - True Identity (w/ Doom Generation)

S05 E09 - Cemetery Junction (2010)

S05 E08 - Two Way Stretch (w/ Neil Mullarkey)

S05 E07 - Postman's Knock (w/ Goon Pod)

S05 E06 - Seize Them (2024)

S05 E05 - Stella Street (2004)

S05 E04 - Starter for Ten (w/ Verbal Diorama)

S05 E03 - The Punch & Judy Man (w/ Very Nearly an Armful)

S05 E02 - Keith Lemon: The Film (w/ Nina Buckley)

S05 E01 - Rising Damp (w/ Jake Yapp)

Smashie & Nicey: The End of an Era (w/ Ricardo Autobahn & Rob Gilroy)

St Trinian's (2007)

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (w/ A.J. Black)

The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)

S04 E10 - The Intelligence Men (w/ A.J. Black)

S04 E09 - Powder Room (2013)

S04 E08 - Take a Girl Like You (w/ Jain Edwards)

S04 E07 - Wicked Little Letters (w/ Tracy Milnes)

S04 E06 - The Lovers (1973)

S04 E05 - Blackball (w/ Stuart Laws)

S04 E04 - Clockwise (w/ Don't You Want Me?)

S04 E03 - Swede Caroline

S04 E02 - Mindhorn (w/ Ricardo Autobahn)

S04 E01 - Bean (w/ Bill Oakley)

Special: Top Five Comic Relief Moments

S03 E11 - Get Santa *Christmas Special* (w/ Rob Gilroy)

S03 E10 - The Inbetweeners 2 (w/ Gabi Thorogood)

S03 E09 - Polite Society (2023)

S03 E08 - Ali G Indahouse (2002)

S03 E07 - In The Loop (w/ Mollie Goodfellow)

S03 E06 - Monty Python & The Holy Grail (w/ Jeremy Dyson)

S03 E05 - Up 'n' Under (1998)

S03 E04 - Run Fatboy Run (2007)

S03 E03 - Bedazzled (w/ John Dorney)

S03 E02 - Splitting Heirs (1993)

S03 E01 - On The Buses (w/ John Rain)

The Test (2024)

Carry On Camping (1969)

Carry On Screaming (1966)

Carry On Abroad (w/ Andy Clarke)

S02 E10 - Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)

S02 E09 - The Mouse That Roared (w/ Tyler Adams)

S02 E08 - Steptoe & Son (1972)

S02 E07 - Shaun of the Dead (w/ Ross Birks)

S02 E06 - The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

S02 E05 - Kevin & Perry Go Large (w/ Ben Clark)

S02 E04 - Drop Dead Fred (w/ Charlotte White)

S02 E03 - All My Friends Hate Me (2021)

S02 E02 - Sightseers (w/ Jessica Regan)

S02 E01 - Porridge (1979)

Special: Britain's Best Sitcom

S01 E11 - Love Actually *Christmas Special* (w/ Monica Sagar)

S01 E10 - The Rebel (1961)

S01 E09 - People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan (w/ Daisy Edwards)

S01 E08 - Nuns on the Run (1990)

S01 E07 - The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)

S01 E06 - The Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer (w/ Tom Salinsky)

S01 E05 - The Parole Officer (2001)

S01 E04 - Mike Bassett: England Manager (w/ Steve Dunne)

S01 E03 - Man About The House (1974)

S01 E02 - Staggered (1994)

S01 E01 Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009)

S05 E11 - Nativity! Christmas Special (w/ Kat Hughes)

S03 E11 - Get Santa Christmas Special (w/ Rob Gilroy)

S01 E11 - Love Actually Christmas Special (w/ Monica Sagar)