Comic Strip Rehashed

A recent RoMo post (describing her debauched galavanting in the Soho area) reminded me of the Comic Strip episodes that used to appear on Channel 4. Of course, it was all good fun back in the anarchic days of the early eighties and for many a school kid "The Young Ones" was the tele-visual highlight of the week. Featuring the comic talents of Keith Allen, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders amongst others, they were a group of people who started off doing their sketches on stage in the very same area where present day American tourists currently go to get their kicks.

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I bought the DVD box set some months ago and settled down to watch the episodes again, content in the knowledge that I wouldn't have to dig out my primitive Comic Strip VHS collection that are so old and by now have accumulated more drop-outs than an entire population of half-arsed college students. As I watched them, I was dissapointed to realise that most of the episodes have dated terribly, and what used to be funny became rather mundane. Only a few of the older instalments still make me chuckle, namely both of the Bad News episodes, A Fistful of Traveller's Cheques and Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (the latter starring the late great Peter Cook as a blood thirsty psychopath). Nostalgia isn't what it used to be, folks.

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JifSpace Pluggage: I was glad to see that the JifDumpAlliance has resurrected his MySpace profile. Songs featured on it are "Here Come the Anthrapoids", "Penelope's Second Belly Button" and "You Sad Old Git".

I believe the recent MySpace musical additions of Stray and Roberta may have been 'instrumental' in inspiring Jif to have another go on Murdoch's interweb machinery, though I could be wrong. I wonder how you're getting on with that new song of yours, Jif?