He apparently was offered a ton of film work that his ITV contract ensured he never got.

@andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social can you solve an argument I once had with Taylor Parkes?
Are the Smiley serials 'haunto'?
He says no, I say yes.
He said no, cos they're 'prestige drama'
I say yes, cos they show a world of Co-Ops, K8 phone boxes and Michael Fish on telly mixed with Cold War dread

Did every mam fancy Errol? #totp

We're all children of the Unknown Comic.

Not to mention David Kelly in brownface as an Iranian, doing what appears to be a Welsh accent, but might be what happens when you tell a posh Dublin thesp (as Kelly actually was) to do 'Arab'.

It's very 2000 AD, in that it's all about America, Vietnam (it's all very Camouflage/Nineteen type British kids in the 80s' obsession with Nam) and satire (panto dame president). Music by Joe Fagin. Ozzy plays himself, as does former Radio 1 DJ Dave Cash

HALF MY EXTENDED FAMILY WORKED ON IT

Can't help but saying it in a North Dublin accent like I am my mam talking about the Aslan frontman

He is such a strange and as he got older,increasingly sinister presence

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?

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.”

The pavilion is the beating heart of Scottish LE shite.

The thing is his trans character Geraldine was mostly fine but a few weird jokes she'd make ie misgendering Hayley Cropper as yer man Haylet Cropper.
SURPRISED he hasn't gone Linehan

Anyway, that’s when I’d started realising that Kay, of whom I had been a big fan, might be a cunt.

Also, we all know why really Peter, m8. Can't have Dave or Neil getting any money.

I must admit I really am looking forward to it, but in the same way I can't help but chatting to my transphobic uncle to see what mad shit he tells me, ie Brendan O'Carroll being trans.

Kogan was a researcher on John Cleese's GBNews show.
I get with Linehan the same vibes from post-ITV Hughie Green and Cilla Black.

With Ted, the cast - two of them were major names in Ireland, the others rising stars. Even though they were unknown in England, they had proven track records (Frank Kelly arguably the major TV/radio comedy star in Ireland throughout the 70s/80s).

I recently noticed that around this time he returned to Germany to write an Edgar Wallace krimi, but his name is misspelt Carter on some prints, while others use his original German name Katscher www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSnE... Presumably brought in cos he was a German who knew the British idiom.