Der Blaue Diamant
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Semi-active account.
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Daughter of Cain
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Daughter of Cain
Something I've never noticed (tho other people have) - the 1979 comedy flop Americathon, has a picture for its future Vietnamese dictator, not Mao not Burt Kwouk as Chairman Peng in The Shoes of the Fisherman, specifically from the poster.
Did Kwouk know about this? Probably not.
Did Kwouk know about this? Probably not.
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Something I've never noticed (tho other people have) - the 1979 comedy flop Americathon, has a picture for its future Vietnamese dictator, not Mao not Burt Kwouk as Chairman Peng in The Shoes of the Fisherman, specifically from the poster.
Did Kwouk know about this? Probably not.
Did Kwouk know about this? Probably not.
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'Sleeping Beauty' flopped in 1959, leading to cutbacks of the animation department in favor of theme parks, to make animation production faster/cheaper. Much of the women were the Ink & Department, yes, but getting rid of women were not why the cuts were made.
Please stop spreading misinfo, thanks.
Please stop spreading misinfo, thanks.
the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
'Sleeping Beauty' flopped in 1959, leading to cutbacks of the animation department in favor of theme parks, to make animation production faster/cheaper. Much of the women were the Ink & Department, yes, but getting rid of women were not why the cuts were made.
Please stop spreading misinfo, thanks.
Please stop spreading misinfo, thanks.
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Now available for all, every skunk ape and boggart's favourite tradition. Spritz yourself with holy water, it's your fourth annual Fright Bag.
youtu.be/R3i59_54_5U?...
youtu.be/R3i59_54_5U?...
Millard's Halloween Fright Bag IV
YouTube video by Stuart Millard
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Now available for all, every skunk ape and boggart's favourite tradition. Spritz yourself with holy water, it's your fourth annual Fright Bag.
youtu.be/R3i59_54_5U?...
youtu.be/R3i59_54_5U?...
Learnt that Anjelica Huston originally wanted Rosie O'Donnell to play Mrs Brown in Agnes Browne. TBH that's a far better choice, because I can actually imagine the young Mrs Brown being like Rosie O'Donnell, though she and June Rodgers together may have been too similar.
November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Learnt that Anjelica Huston originally wanted Rosie O'Donnell to play Mrs Brown in Agnes Browne. TBH that's a far better choice, because I can actually imagine the young Mrs Brown being like Rosie O'Donnell, though she and June Rodgers together may have been too similar.
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Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
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Read that the original concept for Deanna Troi was she’d have three breasts until DC Fontana intervened and men really can’t help themselves sometimes, can they?
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Read that the original concept for Deanna Troi was she’d have three breasts until DC Fontana intervened and men really can’t help themselves sometimes, can they?
70s Time-Life television ads
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
70s Time-Life television ads
@andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social @johnrain.co.uk US syndication ad for Smiley's People (which unusually did not premiere on PBS unlike TTSS, but instead was syndicated to ind. commercial stations as part of Operation Primetime with Christopher Lee sf Goliath Awaits and Ingrid Bergman's Golda biopic)
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
@andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social @johnrain.co.uk US syndication ad for Smiley's People (which unusually did not premiere on PBS unlike TTSS, but instead was syndicated to ind. commercial stations as part of Operation Primetime with Christopher Lee sf Goliath Awaits and Ingrid Bergman's Golda biopic)
@danmckee.bsky.social @franticplanet.bsky.social Extraordinarily delusional interview with Twink, Ireland's queen of panto and LE star of the 70s/80s/90s. archive.ph/cO7m1 She forgets she sang country songs when she appeared on 321 in 1984-85.
archive.ph
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
@danmckee.bsky.social @franticplanet.bsky.social Extraordinarily delusional interview with Twink, Ireland's queen of panto and LE star of the 70s/80s/90s. archive.ph/cO7m1 She forgets she sang country songs when she appeared on 321 in 1984-85.
This looks like an SCTV parody of Hi-De-Hi.
Joe Flaherty as Geoffrey.
Andrea Martin as Peggy.
Catherine O'Hara as Gladys
Joe Flaherty as Geoffrey.
Andrea Martin as Peggy.
Catherine O'Hara as Gladys
From the Hi-de-Hi annual of 1984, please enjoy this picture of Ted Bovis being played by John Candy
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This looks like an SCTV parody of Hi-De-Hi.
Joe Flaherty as Geoffrey.
Andrea Martin as Peggy.
Catherine O'Hara as Gladys
Joe Flaherty as Geoffrey.
Andrea Martin as Peggy.
Catherine O'Hara as Gladys
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@smershpod.com @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social excellent podcast (finally some fellow NB rep on Smershpod) My fave thing about the original Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the Michael Fish cameo.
That because it was so widely syndicated, it's how millions of people solely know Fish from.
That because it was so widely syndicated, it's how millions of people solely know Fish from.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@smershpod.com @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social excellent podcast (finally some fellow NB rep on Smershpod) My fave thing about the original Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the Michael Fish cameo.
That because it was so widely syndicated, it's how millions of people solely know Fish from.
That because it was so widely syndicated, it's how millions of people solely know Fish from.
I often refer to the four levels.
1. Genuine concerns - well meaning but misguided.
2. Gender-Critical
3. TERF (like 2 but fully mask-off)
4. Actually needs mental help
But the lines can be very narrow between even 1 and 4. I thought my uncle was 1. No, he's a 4.
1. Genuine concerns - well meaning but misguided.
2. Gender-Critical
3. TERF (like 2 but fully mask-off)
4. Actually needs mental help
But the lines can be very narrow between even 1 and 4. I thought my uncle was 1. No, he's a 4.
No one comes out of this interview looking great - but I think it's an important guide to the colours of transphobia.
"Just a bit transphobic" like the interviewer
"Middle class activist transphobia" like Sarah Ditum
"All consuming obsession" like Graham Linehan
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
"Just a bit transphobic" like the interviewer
"Middle class activist transphobia" like Sarah Ditum
"All consuming obsession" like Graham Linehan
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
Graham Linehan won’t shut up | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I often refer to the four levels.
1. Genuine concerns - well meaning but misguided.
2. Gender-Critical
3. TERF (like 2 but fully mask-off)
4. Actually needs mental help
But the lines can be very narrow between even 1 and 4. I thought my uncle was 1. No, he's a 4.
1. Genuine concerns - well meaning but misguided.
2. Gender-Critical
3. TERF (like 2 but fully mask-off)
4. Actually needs mental help
But the lines can be very narrow between even 1 and 4. I thought my uncle was 1. No, he's a 4.
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Ooh remembers that bloke from Saw? useta ride that tiny bike? What were that all about?!
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ooh remembers that bloke from Saw? useta ride that tiny bike? What were that all about?!
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'Or to give any money to Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice.'
Peter Kay: I wouldn't put Phoenix Nights on Netflix as I didn't want a trigger warning
Peter Kay: I wouldn't put Phoenix Nights on Netflix as I didn't want a trigger warning
But comic reveals he HAS written a film based on the sitcom
dlvr.it
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
'Or to give any money to Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice.'
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A “trigger warning” for comedy has always existed. Poster design, say, acts as a social tag. You won’t go to a show that isn’t *for* you.
That’s a good old WMC tradition. “Too BLUE for TV”. I mean, surely PK gets that. Or is the martyrdom too tasty for all these guys?
That’s a good old WMC tradition. “Too BLUE for TV”. I mean, surely PK gets that. Or is the martyrdom too tasty for all these guys?
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A “trigger warning” for comedy has always existed. Poster design, say, acts as a social tag. You won’t go to a show that isn’t *for* you.
That’s a good old WMC tradition. “Too BLUE for TV”. I mean, surely PK gets that. Or is the martyrdom too tasty for all these guys?
That’s a good old WMC tradition. “Too BLUE for TV”. I mean, surely PK gets that. Or is the martyrdom too tasty for all these guys?
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Would love to hear a comic being asked “do you think you were phenomenally lucky to be able to build your reputation during a time that encouraged and rewarded creative freedom? And why do you think that stopped?” And NOT answer “humans outside my core audience started objecting to being bullied.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Would love to hear a comic being asked “do you think you were phenomenally lucky to be able to build your reputation during a time that encouraged and rewarded creative freedom? And why do you think that stopped?” And NOT answer “humans outside my core audience started objecting to being bullied.”
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Anyway, that’s when I’d started realising that Kay, of whom I had been a big fan, might be a cunt.
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Anyway, that’s when I’d started realising that Kay, of whom I had been a big fan, might be a cunt.
@danmckee.bsky.social @ricardoautobahn.co.uk @terwillikerinst.bsky.social @chinnyvision.bsky.social @franticplanet.bsky.social @mikduffy.bsky.social @afterglow2046.bsky.social @pussellrarker.bsky.social 80s British dystopia filmmaking
Obscure YT of the day: Dennis Hopper & Michael J Pollard are Vietnam Vets flying around the country in a B-29 who jam right-wing broadcasts & try to sabotage a female presidential candidate in 1986's RIDERS OF THE STORM (aka THE AMERICAN WAY outside the U.S.).
youtu.be/_8kCjtHWAZs?...
youtu.be/_8kCjtHWAZs?...
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Also, we all know why really Peter, m8. Can't have Dave or Neil getting any money.
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Also, we all know why really Peter, m8. Can't have Dave or Neil getting any money.
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Imagine the golden age of Australian television production that would have resulted from the ABC retaining merchandising right to Bluey instead of letting the BBC have them
Informal sample size of early Halloween events suggests somewhere been 20-30% of children in Los Angeles are Bluey this year
October 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Imagine the golden age of Australian television production that would have resulted from the ABC retaining merchandising right to Bluey instead of letting the BBC have them
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Noddy did a phone interview on 6 Music on Christmas Eve a few years ago, and said he'd just been for a wander round the market that day. They asked him if he got fed up of people's reactions when they saw him at Christmas and he said no, I love it. It's like I AM Christmas.
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Noddy did a phone interview on 6 Music on Christmas Eve a few years ago, and said he'd just been for a wander round the market that day. They asked him if he got fed up of people's reactions when they saw him at Christmas and he said no, I love it. It's like I AM Christmas.
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Lands extra hard when you know the indigenous American voice actor who played John Redcorn, Jonathan Joss, was murdered in a hate-crime this year.
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Lands extra hard when you know the indigenous American voice actor who played John Redcorn, Jonathan Joss, was murdered in a hate-crime this year.