Thank you so much for putting this together. Half a dozen of these are some of the best clip humour of all time and I have carried them mentally for the best part of 25 years (favourite football team, the ant, one armed wife after threshing machine accident, daughter in labour, Blur/Oasis, interesting pre-Christian pagan religions). How they got away with this on a Sunday morning in the 20th century is a wonderful mystery, but it was marvellous. Points of View found itself inundated with complaints. You can almost feel the gestation of Jerry Springer the Opera in these skits.
Lee and Herring worked on "On the Hour" for Radio 4, and I'm sure some of these were used for the Monsignor Treeb-Lopez character, voiced by Patrick Marber, who also did a "Pause for Thought" bit at points in each episode. Lee and Herring were writers on that show, but I don't think they were involved with the TV version "The Day Today" - I would assume the Treeb-Lopez character was theirs, some material was reused, and Monsignor Treeb-Lopez became the Unusual Priest. There are other sketches here that are new, I would think Eldon may have contributed in some way, he was working with them since Fist of Fun.
Thank you so much for putting this together. Half a dozen of these are some of the best clip humour of all time and I have carried them mentally for the best part of 25 years (favourite football team, the ant, one armed wife after threshing machine accident, daughter in labour, Blur/Oasis, interesting pre-Christian pagan religions).
How they got away with this on a Sunday morning in the 20th century is a wonderful mystery, but it was marvellous. Points of View found itself inundated with complaints. You can almost feel the gestation of Jerry Springer the Opera in these skits.
Man, I loved this show so much. Thanks for posting
Haha what a great compilation! Thank you, my poor fool!
Keep up the good work!!!!!
I often wondered if these were written by Lee And Herring or if Kevin Eldon himself wrote these.
Lee and Herring worked on "On the Hour" for Radio 4, and I'm sure some of these were used for the Monsignor Treeb-Lopez character, voiced by Patrick Marber, who also did a "Pause for Thought" bit at points in each episode.
Lee and Herring were writers on that show, but I don't think they were involved with the TV version "The Day Today" - I would assume the Treeb-Lopez character was theirs, some material was reused, and Monsignor Treeb-Lopez became the Unusual Priest. There are other sketches here that are new, I would think Eldon may have contributed in some way, he was working with them since Fist of Fun.