British Comedy Classics

Ali G interviews Victoria & David Beckham - Red Nose Day, 2006
In 2006 David Beckham & Victoria Beckahm, aka ‘Posh Spice’ agreed to be interviewed by Sacha Baron Cohen aka Ali G as part of the BBC Red Nose Day.
Whatever you think of David & Victoira Beckham, you have admire them for appearing on [...]

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The Fast Show - Jazz Club introducing The James Nance Quartet
The Fast Show, known as Brilliant in the US, ran for three series from 1994 to 1997.
Jazz Club was greeeeaat! I love this particularly sketch as I remember my friend James Taylor asking if he thought they were taking the piss out of him and [...]

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Spike Milligan - The Irish O’lympics
Some of Spike Milligan’s sketches could very easily been seen a racist today, though this Irish O’lympics sketch though suggesting all Irish people are stupid, is surely harmless and cannot been taken too seriously.
I’m not sure when this sketch dates from but I am guessing the late 1960’s.  I’m not [...]

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Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Comic Relief 1987
In 1987 Peter Cook & Dudley Moore got back together to perform for Comic Relief. They performed one of their most popular sketches where Dudley Moore auditions for the part of Tarzan but is 50% deficient in the leg department.

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Brass Eye - Good AIDs vs Bad AIDs
After the success of the spoof news programme, The Day Today, Chris Morris pushed the boundaries of british comedy even further with the spoof documentary programme Brass Eye.  Each week Chris Morris and Brass Eye tackled a contemporary issue in the most outrageous way possible.  The most talked [...]

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