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Bo' Selecta! (2002)
Rude,crude and very,very funny.
Now in it's 2nd series,Bo Selecta gets funnier every week.Celebrity stalker Avid Merrion fantasizes about meeting various celebrities,despite restraining orders.Bear up a tree interviews minor celebrities each week,getting them to read him a bedtime story which always ends up with some smutty scenario.
The highlight for me is the rubber masked take offs of various celebrities,none of whom sound like the actual person,but in some instances do actually look like them.Personal favourites of mine are Michael Jackson(New York is a ceetay!Thats right!),Scary Spice(Ow Doo) and Lorraine Kelly(Can ye see mah growler?).
Not for the easily offended.If you like "Alistair McGowan",then this is not for you,however fans of Graham Norton will like this. Leigh Francis has been compared to Reeves and Mortimer for this surreal comedy,but in my opinion this is far funnier,and the product of a very clever(if somewhat warped)mind! 5 stars out of 5 *****
Going Out (1981)
20 years later
I seem to remember this was shown on Channel 4 when it first started twenty years ago. I would love to see it again,at the time I loved it,and Im curious to see if it was as good as I remember. I was 17 then,around the same age as the characters,and really indentified with them,and their exploits;unemployment,under-age drinking,parties when parents were on holiday,fighting etc. And I really fancied "cathy"--braces and all!!Does anyone remember any of the characters names,especially the one who always wore an old coat?And was Gerard Kelly in it?