You just can’t make this stuff up, even in the midst of all this post Ross/Brand upsurge in Complainer Culture. Escape From Colditz, the allies-favouring older-brother-and-his-mates-centric million-hour-lasting World War II-themed ambitious intellectual board game from the late seventies, has got TV Cream Toys author Steve Berry into a spot of bother over at eBay. Better forget about that listing for “Brass Eye Moral Decline VHS rare early edit includes unbroadcast ‘Horrocaust’ sketch”, then…
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Fun At One – The Story Of Comedy At Radio 1: Chris Morris, Kenny Everett, Armando Iannucci, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Lee & Herring, Harry Hill, Viv Stanshall, John Shuttleworth, Noel Edmonds, John Peel, Eric Idle, Simon Munnery, Dawn French, Ivor Cutler, Neil Innes, Lenny Henry, Adrian Juste, Victor Lewis-Smith, John Walters, Stephen Fry, Steve Wright, Keith Moon, Mark Thomas, Andrew Collins, Mark Radcliffe, Stuart Maconie, Kevin Greening, David Quantick, Jo Brand, Alan Davies, Nick Hancock, Marvin The Paranoid Android and many, many more
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