James Hogg
@JamesAHogg2
Sunday Times #1 collaborator and ghost | Student of comedy | Speaker | Event host | Bestselling biographer. CURRENTLY ON TOUR WITH GUENTHER STEINER 👊
The Fish Slapping Dance was filmed at Teddington Lock in 1971 (broadcast in 1972) and is credited as being the sketch that made Monty Python internationally popular. ‘It works anywhere on the planet,’ Michael Palin said many years later. ‘Even North Korea’. Good evening.
I’m welcoming the weekend with what I consider to be the most ingenious sketch from the superb Dave Allen At Large. Please wait till the end, you won't regret it. It’s so flipping clever!! Happy weekend to you all.
Just spotted David St Hubins (the patron saint of quality footwear) at the @judaspriest show at @ScarboroughOAT 🤘
My wife and son are going to a pub quiz while me and my other son go and see Judas Priest. What should they choose for their team name?
This is from a show called Behind the Fridge (geddit) and marked the end of Pete and Dud's initial partnership, although they did return with Derek and Clive, thank God! From what I’ve read it was very much a collaborative effort and is blindingly clever. Good day.
Richard gets it, how come govt don’t?
My #water bill will rise by 47% in 2025, less than half as much as the 100% bonus-ban-busting pay rise for my water company’s boss. This represents “common industry practice”, like rinsing customers to pay shareholders dividends and filling our rivers and sea with shit.
This cracker is from series 3 of Alas Smith and Jones which was first broadcast in 1984! Three years prior, Mel and Griff toformed Talkback Productions which became one of the UK's most successful TV production companies. Makes a change from writing a children's book, I suppose
This is from series two of Not the Nine O’clock News and was first broadcast over 45 years ago! It’s an excellent little sketch, IMHO. A simple idea perfectly executed, this time by the uber talented Rowan Atkinson.
Spotted on a car. I see Mr. Toad is still incurring the wrath of his neighbours.
As Wimbledon is almost at an end I think it’s only right that I post the fabulous Not the Nine O’clock News lampoon of John McEnroe’s epic 1981 Wimbledon meltdown, which I believe every child in the world took great delight in repeating ad nauseam in the playground.
The famous bit in the opening titles of Cagney & Lacey where they meet a bloke with autism
“Cold water has never bothered me and though I prefer the sea I will swim wherever I can..." #MargaretRutherford : Dreadnought with Good Manners by @AndyMerriman1 Margaret Rutherford, a keen swimmer - has a splash around with dear friend #DamarisHayman 🏊🏊🥽 #HappyWeekend 🌞🕶️
Another premium pastiche from the Prefab Four, AKA The Rutles. This one, Get Up And Go, is obviously a pastiche of The Beatles’ Get Back and their infamous rooftop performance. Good day.
An in-form Kenneth Williams tells David Frost and Ted Ray an apocryphal story about something going wrong during play. This is from a 1968 episode of Fost on Sunday. Good morning.
One of the finest quickies you’ll get all week, courtesy of, who else, but Dick Emery.
How about a quick blast from the Clown Prince of Denmark, AKA Mr Victor Borge. This man was a bona fide genius IMHO. He was obviously an outrageously talented musician, but his ability to transfer that talent so successfully to making people laugh was and is a joy to behold.
I adore Brassic. One of my sons recommended it a while ago and I've been watching it avidly ever since. T'is the mutts, IMHO. This scene, which is from my favourite episode, features the joyously profane farmer, Jim, making the central character, Vinnie, an offer he can refuse.