Remember Christmas TV before the BBC gave up?
You know they have. Even people who actually like Call the Midwife and Mrs Brown’s Boys are like, “what, again?”
Anyway, back when Everyone Dies In Sunderland is set, Terry Wogan would come on at Christmas and present a show called “Auntie’s Christmas Bloomers”, which was like a gag reel for the entire BBC that year. Yes, an entire hour of one of the cast of the Lion and the Unicorn fluffing their lines and saying bugger. There was a funny once when Neil Pearson is doing a tough police interrogation scene in Between the Lines, but you can hear a tiny electronic version of Greensleeves in the background and he says “would you like an ice cream?” while staying in character. That was funny.
What I’m trying to say is, what we are presenting to you here is mechanically reclaimed off cuts from series 1 and 2, including!
· “My ceramic Romana 2 always due east Toni Basil!”
· Claire’s paranormal fears!
· “Fucking Gulf War!”
· Nostalgia for the Suez Crisis!
· “I’m the ruffian with the tank and the gun and the chicken chucker”
· Claire saying “chickens” for no reason at all!
· An extraordinarily highbrow joke about Ronald Harewood’s 1980 play “The Dresser”
· “I haven’t wanked off a pig since 2006”
· More poetry from Gareth!
In the words of Andrew Falkous from McLusky “there is a reason why this material was previously unreleased”