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Some ambitions seem so unlikely
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Some ambitions seem so unlikely that they end up just being vague curiosities. For instance I always assumed there was some kind of vetting process for TV pop show audiences and that a fat bearded thirtysomething would fall well outside it. So it cam[…]

A Bird In The Hand
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A Bird In The Hand was what Channel 4 called its biog of tragic emu-wielding funnyman Rod Hull. The show ran along standard tears-behind-the-laughter lines; what really divided the viewers was the question of whether Emu was funny. Alan and I voted a[…]

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