Comedy Slab

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Adrian Lacey & Shane O'Connor have more than 30 years of TV and Radio broadcasting experience in the UK.

They get together every week to discuss a chosen comedy show, their love of comedy and to share their experiences of the programmes they have worked on and the people they have met and interviewed.

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215 - Lookwell

Sep 27 2022 45 mins

This week we review Lookwell (Pilot)Lookwell was a television pilot written and produced by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel, the latter of whom would become a primary creative voice for O'Brien's late night show.It starred Adam West. Despite being a "personal favorite" of NBC chairman Brandon Tartikoff (who had left that position by the time the pilot aired and was replaced by Warr

214 - Not Going Out

Sep 20 2022 44 mins

This week we review Not Going Out (Series 12 Episode 5)Not Going Out is a light-hearted, fast-paced mainstream sitcom based around the life of a man un-burdened by ambition or drive. Lee deflects criticism and bad news with his trademark wit and one-liners but deep down he is looking for love, a steady job and a flat he can call his own.By series 7, the will-they-won't-they tension

213 - Bob's Burgers

Sep 13 2022 45 mins

This week we review Bob’s Burgers (Series 12 Episode 1)The show features the Belcher family. Bob, his wife Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and Louise. The family runs a burger restaurant on Ocean Avenue in an unnamed seaside community (informally known as "Seymour's Bay" among the show's writing staff).Bob's Burgers is located in a green two-story building which features an

212 - Bristow

Sep 06 2022 45 mins

This week we review Bristow (Series 2 Episode 1)Bristow is a buying clerk (18th in line for Chief Buyer) working for the Chester-Perry organisation (the company's boss, Sir Reginald Chester-Perry, is never seen), who dreaming of grander things. Hoping the world is listening, he gives his opinions on life to anyone around, and if no one is around, is quite happy talking to himself.H

211 - Age Of Outrage

Aug 23 2022 44 mins

This week we review Age Of Outrage (Series 1 Episode 1)A pioneer of virtual production in sketch comedy and the most popular and successful TV comedy show (of 2020) featuring a sketch based in a bakers' shop. Providing fodder for internet trolls since February 2020. With Miriam 'two bread rolls please' Isaac, Geraint Rhys 'too many characters' Edwards, Zak 'thinking' Ghazi-Torbati

210 - Steptoe & Son

Aug 16 2022 43 mins

This week we review Steptoe & Son (Series 3 Episode 7)Living at Mews Cottage, Shepherd's Bush, Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are a family business. They are rag and bone men. With a yard full of battered furniture, tyres and scrap metal, Albert refuses to sell half of what Harold collects and keeps it, filling the house with worthless ornaments rather than pay the bills.Albert

209 - Police Squad!

Aug 09 2022 45 mins

This week we review Police Squad (Series 1 Episode 5)Created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starred Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, Police Squad was first broadcast in the United States on the ABC network in 1982.A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. While a parody of man

208 - Hacks

Aug 02 2022 45 mins

This week we review Hacks (Series 1 Episode 1)Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas stand-up comedy diva, needs to re-invent her aging act to avoid losing her residency at the Palmetto Casino. Ava is a young comedy writer who is unable to find work due to an insensitive tweet and her reputation for being self-centered and arrogant. When Ava's manager sends her to work as Deborah's n

207 - Ankle Tag

Jul 26 2022 45 mins

This week we review Ankle Tag (Series 3 Episode 1)Former convict Bob is forced to live with his uptight son Gruff, sympathetic daughter-in-law Alice and granddaughter Carys whilst on parole.Gruff is a new father whose own father, Bob, suddenly comes back into his life after a long absence.Bob is a convicted fraudster, released from prison on licence, who wants to inveigle his way b

206 - Only Murders In The Building

Jul 19 2022 45 mins

This week we review Only Murders In The Building (Series 2 Episode 1)Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. Perhaps even more explosive ar