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Sketches flow with the sharpest wit. News clippings and archive material are mixed with monologues and music.
This selection of their quick-fire blend of satire, pastiche pop and witty sketches includes such memorable TV moments as: Nobble Button; Not the Parrot Sketch; Jenkins' Pee; Nine to Five Wildebeest; Schmidt's Old Shag; National Health Beds; University Challenge; Cappuccino; I Like Trucking; Join the Russian Army; Campari and Soda; Non-Diet Pepsi; Nice Video Shame About The Song.
Michael King - History Man
Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius - Sea of Trouble
Doctor Who - Genesis of the Daleks
Horrible Histories - series 1
Guess How Much I Love You: To the Moon and Back
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
The Young Ones - Series One
Boom Brothers - Family Flyers Pack - GBA004
Sea Patrol: Season One
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 2
The Strain - Season One
Jack Ryan: Season 1Product reviews...
Review by: tucker (Karl)
Dated: 22nd of November, 2004
This is classic British comedy in slapstick format. Think Monty Python for the non-wierd. Think upmarket Two Ronnies, plus 2. Think Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, and our own darling Pamela Stephenson, wife to the King of roughest Scotish humour, Billy Connolly.
These four folks banded together in the mid-70's to form a new era of comedy, exploring new areas of wit and satire, with some blatant, almost American humour to add a bit of variety and spice to the otherwise quite dry humour of our Colonial Motherland.
Not having seen a lot of NtNON in it's hey-day, I was quite taken with the chance to see some now, with a fresh perspective and some more educated wits. And I was impressed... this is some really good stuff. Of a similar era to "The Young Ones", but with a smoother 'taste', I was quite taken with these fresh-faced comedic-trailblasers.
Overall, there is some great laughs in here, and if you like British wit, or jokes that don't just slap you with a fish and start laughing, this could be well worth investigating. I was quite entertained, and it has earned it's rightful place between the Billy Connolly and the the full Monty Python Collection.
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