Went to see Frankie Boyle live at Hammersmith a few years back. Funny first 15 minutes then died a death. Once he started picking on the front row punters you knew he had run out of ideas

Looks like our youth side have a friendly at Horley next Saturday

I went to see a couple of episodes of Father Ted live, rather good

I remember going to see Shooting Stars & The Fast Show Live - a double bill live show back at some point in the 90s. Shooting Stars was the bigger deal but the stage show was really poor - clearly scripted including scripted corpsing something I can’t stand. Loads of people left at the interval. Thankfully The Fast Show’s go on stage was brilliantly done and made up for it completely.

Mad times...

The 60's and 70's were made times really Pythons, Potty time, Goodies, along with a host of other personalities like Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cooke and many more added to an affectionate time for comedy that didn't rely on swearing to be funny, or that it was cleverly and sparingly applied.

It’s a sneaky and annoying new thing that shared links from social media channels now tell you the name/tag of the person who shared the link. For YT you can turn this off in Settings - Privacy - Channel Visibility For Shared Links but for most other channels you have to do it manually each time by deleting everything that comes after the ? in the url.

My favourite Goodie was Tim. [Link]

Saw the Goodies live in Australia in 2005, they were very popular there and moaned that the BBC didn’t show their old shows any more

Was my favourite Goodie back in the 70s[Link]

Alan - echo that, The Goodies was great fun!!

RIP Bill Oddie

Yeah but that was more of a cameo. He wasn’t a main character like in the others.

Trig - Tim played the Scarlet Pimpernel in BA 3.

Yes Nick W and also the cheap gag but also heavyweight line “the Great War, 1913 to 1917.”

On Tim McInnery, I always think how good his speech as Darling was at the end of the last episode of Blackadder when he says that he just wanted to get through the war, “go home, keep wicket for the Croydon Gentlemen, marry Doris..”. Suddenly someone who has been a bit of a cartoon villain metamorphosises in an instant to a real and sympathetic character- a brilliant piece of writing and acting.

This is impressive from 6,500 travelling fans for a PSF at Watford!! [Link]

The English Game is half decent, but much of it made up, so treat it as such. The Detectorists is superb as is, imo, After Life (if you can get over a dislike of Gervais).

Mindhunter was a fantastic 2 series programme that inexplicitly didn't get the third series that would have tied up the franchise, loosely similar to David Duchovny's Aquarius both of which were excellent

Neither have I, Alan, but I mentioned it because it is about football and lots of people seem to like it.

Beware the future series of True Detective. They suck the big one. Different people and the latest one with that lady from Silence Of The Lambs is just a massive con job that the writer of the series one has publicly criticised because they’re piggy backing and trashing his excellent work.

The other one that qualifies is True Detective (season one) - it’s anthology series so all done and dusted in the series no cliff hangers no loose ends. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson playing gritty detectives and absolutely brilliant writing and cinematography.

Ted Lasso season one was good then they changed the writing and nowadays it’s just twee heartwarming dramatic moment with associated pop-culture song after another. It started out as a comedy. No one’s laughing these days.

Never watched it Spartan, having just Googled it, umm, not sure I will. May do one episode and see if it doesn't do a Fargo, eg never gets past the first.

Alan IoW - The new series of Ted Lasso starts soon as well. I think on the 6 August.