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  1. michaellevenson

    Review Lead Balloon -s01e03- £5000

    Magda the home help walks in carrying a laundry basket. Mag " what happened to your eye?" R " at the gig last night. Got punched" Mag " ah , they didn't find your jokes funny" R " no the opposite actually, I was too funny" Mag " of course. Try putting vodka on it, it's a good antiskeptic" R "...
  2. michaellevenson

    Review Lead Balloon -s01e03- £5000

    The next day in the kitchen of his home his partner Mel is looking at Rick's ever so slightly black eye. M" what happened?" R " I was cracking jokes at his expense and he just couldn't handle it" Rick prefers his version of events. M " they hire you to be funny, and when you are you're attacked...
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    Review Lead Balloon -s01e03- £5000

    Rick is compering an awards dinner, up at the rostrum in front of a hundred or so pissed business men and women, sat at tables, drunk mostly. This is what he's reduced to doing , hoping one day to get back on tv. R ( into mic) " we now come to the special achievement category. The winner is...
  4. michaellevenson

    Review Lead Balloon -s01e03- £5000

    Background - Comedy series with Jack Dee as comedian Rick Spleen, a man who's career is on a downturn. He lives with partner Mel, who runs an agency for tv people, it's very successful, and she is the main breadwinner. They have a daughter Sammy, a lazy scrounger who has a dopey boyfriend Ben...
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    Review Blake's 7 (1978)

    Big Finish have produced a series of B7 audios, I have listened to a few and they are enjoyable. Wonderful hearing the original cast again, why I haven't listened to more I don't know, but there must be loads of great Avon and Vila quips to hear yet, so still more of the B7 universe to explore!
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    News Paul Darrow (1941-2019)

    This is terrible news. I'm devastated, Paul and Tom Baker were my boyhood celluloid heroes, Avon and the Fourth Doctor I adored as a young Sci fi fan. This is so sad. I will definitely now buy Big Finish's Blake's 7 stuff, which hitherto I've only partially heard. I want to enjoy these...
  7. michaellevenson

    Review Trigger Happy TV with Dom Joly

    There are some great gags in the above episode. The snake in the cinema, the car park attendant wrecking cars, the street information guy though is classic. With his sandwich board advertising tourist information, a woman asks for Russell Street, he gives her a complete history of the street...
  8. michaellevenson

    Review Trigger Happy TV with Dom Joly

    Another above average episode, with a funny opening gag.
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    Fun Cricket

    NO WAY ! NO NO ! Yes it was a remarkable catch.
  10. michaellevenson

    Review World Party

    This is a homage to ELO, pure and simple.
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