Britcom Goes To The Movies

Merry Christmas from everyone at BritCom Goes to the Movies. Our present to you is the finale of series three. Comedian and internet sensation Rob Gilroy joins Guy and Rob to discuss the criminally lesser-known Get Santa. Jim Broadbent and Rafe Spall star in the first family comedy on our list, directed by Chris Smith, more known for his horror prowess and exec produced by Ridley Scott, no less! There's a lot of Rafe Spall chat, kicked off with our profiling of another undervalued comedy, Pete Vs Life. Which ran for two series in the early 2010s. Join us for festive merriment with plenty of laughs and even a few tears. Pete Vs Life - In love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpET7Pccxu4 Pete Vs Life - Finding words to break up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-KKpnHn2M Cheaters - Series One Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnyYl7GeiOE Adam Buxton - Help The Police (Rush Hour) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrofVsNc790 Frankie Boyle - Policeman (Rush Hour) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv49EfV_m1g Get Santa - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2EFmDpNqd8 Get Santa - Kit Meets Santa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsmRX8WeFS0 Get Santa - Mad Jimmy Claws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdma9t7bvHc Get Santa - Prison Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9XKNz9qgsY Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn  It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uncharted territory for Rob and Guy as they tackle their first sequel. There's also uncharted territory for The Inbetweeners in their second movie installment, as the boys head down under and encounter Peter Andre-Mobiles, slip-sliding turds, and sensitive rape alarms. Sounds a bit much, but is it? To discuss, the chaps are joined by content creator Gabi Thorogood, herself a massive Inbetweeners fan. Between them, our trio will navigate series 3 of the Channel 4 TV show, the infamous US remake, and of course, the 2014 feature-length movie. By 2014, was Inbetweeners fatigue a thing? If so, is it indeed still a thing ten years later? Of course there's the age-old question of how a sequel holds up against the first film. So strap in for the last non-festive episode of series three!   Inbetweeners series 3 - Bottle bank https://youtu.be/AfLTpbyaXm8?si=QqxYdRlxzAZRmbz3   Inbetweeners series 3 - Tent Puke https://youtu.be/s8_isWJAiT8?si=IzbM2W_uF8vTK8m8   Christmas at the Holly Day Inn - Trailer  https://youtu.be/tFOD9Mqwtgw?si=IROP47isP5P9eWOf   Inbetweeners US - Trailer https://youtu.be/950-4oaMQgY?si=c3R6CmeyOQOC50k9   Inbetweeners 2 Trailer  https://youtu.be/G-O6OU03CSw?si=cuq5k_kzgrBqS5Y_   Inbetweeners 2 - Jay's email  https://youtu.be/rAtfw2Rggbc?si=6wC5GvCqgezG63Mz   Inbetweeners 2 - Waterslide  https://youtu.be/ZSW4v6tqz_c?si=-uLqsbo45ufnC2DZ Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn  It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are back with a roundhouse kick to the face. Episode 9 is all about the work of 2020s writing/directing sensation Nida Manzoor. First came the semi-biographical, musical sitcom We Are Ladyparts, about the trials and tribulations of a young, female, Muslim punk band trying to gain a following, which was multi-award-winning, gaining acclaim on both sides of the pond, and then came the feature-length debut.   Polite Society is our most recent film to date. From 2023, it tells the tale of sisterly love, high school angst, and sinister goings-on, all punctuated with some of the best fight sequences we’re certainly ever likely to find on our list. Can’t imagine Reg Varney packing a punch in anywhere near the same way.   A new writer/director and an almost completely unknown cast make for plenty of incredible moments in this film, but just how funny is it? Find out by giving episode 9 a listen as Rob and Guy talk all things Nida Manzoor, We Are Ladyparts, and Polite Society.    We Are Lady Parts – Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPqzoAjxvl4   We Are Lady Parts – Amina’s Search For A Husband https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YleAvIsafFs   We Are Lady Parts – Bashir With the Good Beard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzAGqmdOBzE   We Are Lady Parts – Malala Made Me Do It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3TclipIlm0   Polite Society – Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRFM7HQmkH0   Polite Society – I Am the Fury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgzOzkkI68c   Polite Society – Khan vs Khan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCQHIIdoh28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Booyakasha! It didn’t seem that long ago that you couldn’t walk 10 metres without someone doing an Ali G impression in your face, but it’s over a quarter of a century since this cultural phenomenon of a character first graced our late-night Channel 4 screens as part of the anarchic topical comedy the 11 O’ Clock Show. Originally a tool to poke the pomposity of politicians, religious figures, and artists, the boy from Staines became so much more, having his own spin-off shows, appearing in a Madonna music video, and eventually his own film in 2002.   In this episode, Guy and Rob talk all things Ali G and Sacha Baron Cohen, whilst being ever so careful to leave Borat and Bruno for a later date. Plus a mini dive into the 11 O'Clock Show and all the comedy talent that particularly divisive programme gave the world.   This may well also end up being the most represented film in our Spotify playlist, as the amount of Hip-Hop had Rob unable to contain his excitement, as did the line delivery of Charles Dance, but what was the overall impression of this film that left both our hosts relatively cold the first time around? Have a listen and find out!   Sacha Baron Cohen – Schvitzing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs45jcOkWAM    Sacha Baron Cohen – Pump TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV70hTdyKZo    Ali G interviews Jacob Rees-Mogg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGxq3pvJPQ   Ali G in Northern Ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNG5UeKMZw    Ali G and Jarvis Cocker – Help the Aged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCZI4RkK5OY   Ali G and Olivia Wilde at the Oscars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2oEx3ARgMo   11 o Clock Show - Daisy Donovan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o38kU6hQ434   11 o Clock Show – Series 1 Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geeuh5PFvPg   Iain Lee watches old 11 O Clock Shows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1pJXxyE76g   Madonna -  Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdz2oW0NMFk   Shaggy and Ali G – Me Julie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A91wAkz3NpE   Ali G at the Comedy Awards 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrmvjR9ETDQ    Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn  It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you follow a massive film with a fantastic and well-informed guest? Do another one straight away! This week we are joined by the brilliant TV writer, journalist, podcaster, and comedian Mollie Goodfellow to talk about one of the greatest sitcoms of the 21st century, The Thick of It, and the film it spawned, In The Loop. Make sure young ears are out of shot because this is a sweary one… and that’s just Rob and Guy’s thoughts on Alistair Campbell! We look at Armando Iannucci’s magnum opus as the man behind so many enduring TV comedy classics of the 90s. With inspiration from endorsing Yes Minister on Britain’s Best Sitcom in 2004, he took on the political establishment, turning it into his big-screen directorial debut and subsequently hit HBO political comedy Veep. Not since Michael Rimmer have we tackled satire. We ask if there is any weight to the claim that you can’t make this kind of comedy anymore because of the state of politics today and whether New Labour 2.0 would even allow itself to be sent up in the same way it was in its original iteration’s death knell in the late 00s.  We hope it’s not too much of an omnishambles as Britcom Goes to the Movies presents In The Loop!   The Thick of It – Insults https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njcuww9Einc   The Thick of It – Tim in Ruislip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xcVov-UL4Q    The Thick of It – Nicknames  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMNHu9YM-4    The Thick of It – Blinky Ben Swain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNjevGdB5g   In the Loop – The Culture Show with Alistair Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcFaizGw860    In The Loop – Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJU2qRg5zLI    In The Loop – Jamie  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jr731Mhxkg   In the Loop – Don’t Call Me English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySD0u4RXXcI Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over halfway through our third series, and it’s time to tackle a behemoth! Monty Python’s Flying Circus has been a comedy touchstone for pretty much every comedian and comedy writer to come after, including our guest for this episode.   Jeremy Dyson is one quarter of The League of Gentlemen and has written for countless other comedy shows as well as writing and directing for the big screen. In fact, in The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, he made his very own TV sitcom to cinema spin-off, so Rob and Guy couldn’t be joined by anyone more appropriate for some expert insight.   As a huge fan of the Python’s, Jeremy joined to talk about his favourite of their movies; The Holy Grail, as well as Monty Python’s Flying Circus and how it has informed and influenced his work.    Where do we start with such a critical and fan favourite? Endlessly quoted, constantly in the upper echelons of all-time movie lists, and helmed by a director who would go on to be considered one of the best to ever make films. This is a film that would be challenging for the top spot, but where will it end up? Listen and find out!   Monty Python – Piranha Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV1Yq2aS5FM   Monty Python – Spanish Inquisition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Df191WJ3o   Help! I’m a Fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RobKrS63DEk   Monty Python and the Holy Grail Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urRkGvhXc8w   Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Knights Who Say Ni https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIV4poUZAQo   Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Brave Sir Robin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could episode 5 be where you find your heaven? Well, if you get that musical reference, then perhaps so. Guy and Rob are going all in on the 90s nostalgia. A Samantha Janus odyssey covering Game On, with its groundbreaking attitudes, jarring cast changes, and "skunk pussies," followed by Up 'n' Under, the John Godber play turned 90s BritCom. Hot off the heels of the Full Monty, this Yorkshire set (but not filmed) Rugby League comedy took advantage of the cream of TV comedy acting at the time. Not just the aforementioned Janus, but 2.4 Children's Gary Olsen, Men Behaving Badly's Neil Morrissey, not to mention John Thompson, Griff Rhys Jones, and a whole load more. Join us for our first play adaptation and stay for the quiz, where Guy would have to do some serious winning to cancel out last week's thrashing. Game On - Opening Credits  https://youtu.be/liKGRdQaeMQ?si=lNOt0Aw0aV8lyoJg Game On - New Matthew  https://youtu.be/pF6qzf9kjoc?si=PaDAbxAOoZCz6xHe Game On - Chris https://youtu.be/upNH7iFpTRs?si=I65B_Wedtkiqhbdn Samantha Janus on Eurovision  https://youtu.be/nYU_3l0-hVo?si=CIcedIxkW1QKV2Sv Mad About Alice - Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPI34P65Cc The Grimleys - Pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzFHmtLNkC0 Up n Under - Trailer  https://youtu.be/Qt0lfv6vW3M?si=usTkR5ANl0vkn-jp Up n Under - Full Movie  https://youtu.be/6DHTxuflkNM?si=r5wOI8w1qv-j4nma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob and Guy Love Simon Pegg. That was clear for all to hear in our episode on Shaun of the Dead. After that movie he became hot property and Hollywood came calling. After a Mission Impossible and with Star Trek to come, Pegg’s showbiz mate David Schwimmer, star of arguably the biggest Ameri-Com Friends, was directing a British set, US written Rom-Com, and wanted Pegg as his leading man. Problem is, how do you make an alter-jilter layabout tosspot seem loveable? If anyone can do it...   Pegg is joined by an abundance of British comedy and acting talent. From Thandiwe Newton to Simon Day, some American muscle in the shape of Hank Azaria and once again joining forces with Dylan Moran to create a cast to die for... And that’s before we even get to cameos from Stephen Merchant, David Walliams and a host more.   However, how likely was a movie originally to be set in the US and written and directed by Americans to grasp that Britcom sensibility? Join Rob and Guy as they find out.    It’s not just Run Fatboy Run that we’ll be discussing in episode 4. The ground-breaking sketch show, which gave Pegg an early break, will also go under the microscope as iconic sketches such as The Staring Contest, Smug Man Who Can’t Open Doors, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince preying upon Jockeys in the wild and a host more. So get on Episode 4!   Run Fatboy Run Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnJkCPpIngs   Run Fatboy Run – Blister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYt28vX954w   Big Train – Join the Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II    Big Train – Chaka Khan vs the BeeGees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQZDFv0aTlk   Big Train – Sexy Puppet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfQWm2Hq2xM   30 Rock – David Schwimmer as Greenzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyMs2xox_hE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may remember that Rob and Guy covered Peter Cook in quite some detail in our episode on the Rise & Rise of Michael Rimmer with our guest, Tom Salinsky of Best Pick Pod. Well, now we are talking about Cook & Moore as a duo, focusing mainly on Not Only But Also and, of course, our film for this week, Bedazzled. Rather neatly, another host of Best Pick joins us for the 1967 Faustian adaptation. John Dorney gets involved with our Pete & Dud-centric episode. Bedazzled, also starring Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, and Barry Humphries, is the first film we have covered on Britcom Goes to the Movies, which has a Hollywood remake. Much as the idea of a Tom Cruise-starring remake of On The Buses would excite us, it simply doesn’t exist! To Rob and Guy’s shame, they didn’t watch the remake, but luckily our guest did and was more than happy to fill us in on that as well.  Tom Salinksy and Jess Regan (the other two presenters of Best Pick) had chosen movies that shot straight to number one on our League table (although neither Michael Rimmer nor Sightseers stayed there), so could John continue this trend? Could Guy eat into Rob’s quiz lead with John’s questions on Cook & Moore? Find out by listening to episode 3! Bedazzled Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsyqpUP1knQ Bedazzled – Leaping Nuns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9kg-Ngz0Q Bedazzled - Drimble Wedge & the Vegetation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXnoWb88Jr4 Not Only But Also with Peter Sellers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKZ79jUl3U Pete & Dud – Greta Garbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLh3Dck0D9g Naked Gun 33 1/3 – Raquel Welch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PA0Qje9G8 Bedazzled (200 remake) Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfpLEU2YKzc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all remember what Rob and Guy thought of Nuns on the Run. Perhaps their biggest disappointment so far on Britcom Goes to the Movies. So another Eric Idle vehicle with another questionable love interest age gap was enough to set alarm bells ringing. Could John Cleese and Rick Moranis help stem the flow of ill will, though?   One significant advantage of tackling 1993's Splitting Heirs was the opportunity to examine Rutland Weekend Television. Idle’s post-Python sketch show, with more than a little help from musical maestro Neil Innes and pioneering an idea as maverick as a “music video” (it’ll never catch on), has become a big comedy touchstone for many generations to follow, and let’s not forget, gave the world The Rutles.   As well as Splitting Heirs and Rutland Weekend Television, we chat Saturday Night Live, SCTV, and plenty more. Guy with some work to do in the quiz stakes already after a 4-2 loss in episode one. Could he reduce the margin?   Splitting Heirs Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bakWHKecYw0   Splitting Heirs – Not Really Asian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQ-oyvp-mk    Splitting Heirs – Behind The Scenes -Film 93 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewwD4nYN9Ww   Rutland Weekend Television – S1 E1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrjP8ltFgw   George Harrison on RWT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ACyZIXkHq0   The Rutles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFxencNmZw   The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olGXtohOs7c Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Britcom Goes to the Movies is back! We begin our third, yes, THIRD series with an absolute classic of the genre... of sorts. On The Buses was one of the most popular British sitcoms ever made, so midway through its run, Hammer decided to take it to the big screen, the first of many such ventures for the studio, and it paid off, literally! With box office numbers, a Marvel movie would kill for in 1971.   But On The Buses the Movie has become a byword for terrible sitcom to movie spin-offs, by which all subsequent examples would be judged. You could say we have this movie to blame for the short shrift and general disdain a lot of British comedies get critically. Without this film, we’d probably have no podcast.    It’s reputation therefore preceded it, and Rob and Guy were in no hurry to cover it, but once writer, funnyman, host of SMERSH Pod, and all-round On The Buses apologist John Rain expressed an interest in joining us to discuss the film, how could we say no?   So join Guy, Rob, and John on an odyssey of crass jokes, old men playing 30-year-old lotharios, the world’s first ATM, pencil-moustached knicker-snatchers, and rolling left to right pecking. Finally, it’s time for On The Buses.   On the Buses – First Colour Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFV3aAMPTgg&list=PLgD5-qNnzSa5nAynMx58UWJsetOvWgyfk&index=2   On The Buses – The Cistern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ghggVZOs4   On The Buses – Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRmkh8tMB9k   On The Buses – Skid Test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvV8jjvI42o   On The Buses cast on Wogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fVCJ0_0HE   Reg Varney uses world’s first ATM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mwgKMrZ1U Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 2: Getting in the Swing. The only way is up (we hope) after Lesbian Vampire Killers. Next on our agenda was to take a closer look at the Martin Clunes 1994 vehicle Staggered. A film that at the time seemed ubiquitous because of an aggressive marketing campaign, but not one that’s widely remembered in 2023. In fact not even by Guy and Rob it would seem. Both huge Men Behaving Badly fans, one had seen Staggered but couldn’t remember it, while the other couldn’t remember if he had seen it. Keeping up? It’s fair to say that Staggered wouldn’t have received the exposure it did at the time without the burgeoning TV stardom of Martin Clunes on Men Behaving Badly and after losing the services on Comic Strip Presents director Sandy Johnson, Clunes was given the task of directing Staggered himself. Tune in to find out whether that was a good idea or not. Amongst other things, we get stuck into Men Behaving Badly, Robin of Sherwood, Babes in the Wood, Boobs in the Wood and the unforgettable Warren. See where Staggered rates in our master list of two and who can gain the upper hand (sadly a sitcom that never made the big screen) in the BritCom Goes to the Movies Quiz. You can follow Britcom Goes To The Movies on Twitter and Instagram as @britcomgoes you can email us at britcomgoes@gmail.com and don’t forget to like, subscribe and give us a lovely review wherever you get your podcasts to help us reach a wider audience. Staggered – Full Movie https://youtu.be/Iu_nz5StaWw?si=pRxzS2eJwSJzsygZ   Tim Nice But Dim feat. Martin Clunes https://youtu.be/5XHN_1oJXeY?si=POx13MMXgLltN0ee   Men Behaving Badly: What are you thinking? https://youtu.be/-GyxboBU4J4?si=qzNgq6YOtLizACwO   Men Behaving Badly: Toilet https://youtu.be/6NXpAjCudnA?si=XhYwrZiiqj8m2B6H   Robin of Sherwood Trailer https://youtu.be/b9BiXsnYd7k?si=oI6R4bNn2DtDPnLy   Babes in the Wood https://youtu.be/whj5h8-WZZc?si=tSs1qSuvTI56p7zu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Series one episode one of Britcom Goes to the Movies. After a low-brow discussion in a high-end Leeds boozer, Guy Walker and Rob Heath decided to set on a quest to definitively rank as many British comedy small to big/screen transfers as they could before they or more importantly their audience got bored of it. Building the long list of movies that contained some kind of programme, sketch, or talent crossover was the fun bit, then the real work began.   It was decided that Britcom Goes to the Movies would kick off with the 2009 cinematic outing of the Horne & Corden partnership, Lesbian Vampire Killers. This was a film that had become a byword for terrible TV comedy transfers, which is why neither of our presenters had ever seen it. Was this Hammer Horror-inflected comedy really as bad as everyone said? There was only one way to find out.   Charting LVK’s origins all the way from the universally loved Gavin & Stacy to the unanimously slated late-noughties sketch show Horne & Corden, this is a deep dive into all things Lesbian Vampire Killers. As a quirk of format at the end of this episode this film would sit both top and bottom of the BGTTM rankings list, but how long would it stay at either end?   You can follow Britcom Goes To The Movies on Twitter and Instagram as @britcomgoes you can email us at britcomgoes@gmail.com and don’t forget to like, subscribe and give us a lovely review wherever you get your podcasts to help us reach a wider audience.   James Corden’s early TV comedy appearance in Boyz Unlimited https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z52BM_RXa-I   Lesbian Vampire Killers trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug60BEOdrB4   Viz Comic’s “Which McGann Brother are you? https://twitter.com/PaulBurleyHQ/status/583366696766967808?t=KfzOgNHagjBQG3Pp1nssLA&s=08   I like You So Much Better When You’re Naked by Ida Maria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkVy2FeqIyc    Shout by James Corden and Dizzy Rascal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHq3vy_7cJQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the 17th Sep 25, an event happened of such earth-shattering proportions that it would shatter the earth to its very core. Yes, BritCom goes to the Movies, did a Smashie and Nicey: End of an Era mid-season special. Harry Enfield's beloved characters (well, not by Radio 1 DJs) were to be retired after a changing of the guard at the BBC's flagship music station rendered their very specific brand of satire almost irrelevant. Some of these new DJs coming through the door at the broadcasting house were so young they were still in their thirties. But messers Smash and Nice wouldn't go out without a fight, and what transpired was one of the greatest stand-alone pieces of British television comedy history. Using the Matthew Bannister-led cull of out-of-touch disc jockeys as a backdrop, End of an Era recounted the history of Smashie and Nicey's careers, poking fun at just about every real-life radio presenter ever to take the mic in the UK up to that point in the process. Joining Rob and Guy for this cultural high point, culturally-wise, in an English cultural high point sense, are two of the most popmongous former guests of the BritCom Goes to the Movies back catalogue and huge Smashie and Nicey fans, Rob Gilroy and Ricardo Autobahn. It promises to be Good. Clean. Family. Fun. Smashie and Nicey: End of an Era  https://youtu.be/UP67GQoII5M?si=fUIWsKg4nXHiWQ71 Blood on the Carpet: Walking with DJs https://youtu.be/D3R1Mcr7I0M?si=dgvjzlXfKWz3Vry1 A day in the life of Radio 1 https://youtu.be/UnKsDmDv6g8?si=g-ymC1m0F5beMIdq Smashie and Nicey fab commercial  https://youtu.be/13fbOp1qQDQ?si=GfgROowU2HxMi-hw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here we are at the end of our St Trinian's bank holiday treat. The final episode sees Rob and Guy tackle the reboot(s) of the mid-00s. A kind of back to basics, borrowing heavily from Belles but with an updated 00s sensibility, which depressingly probably means more sexism if anything. An embarrassment of riches of a cast. Early roles for the likes of Gemma Arterton and Juno Temple, plus old hands like Colin Firth and Rupert Everett. All tied together with the rather large elephant in the room of Russell Brand as Flash Harry, set to a malaise of Girls Allowed and Landfill Indie. Along with 2007's St Trinian's, we also briefly discuss the 2009 sequel: Legend of Fritton's Gold and any possible legacy and future for the IP. Guy had been waiting for the films to be more about the students, and on the face of it this reboot would deliver. Tune in to find out if it did. St Trinian's - Trailer https://youtu.be/JJQ1pAW4uU8?si=5Vw-kwNNwVNWCBBD St Trinian's - Premiere https://youtu.be/Rtx43qThERk?si=rtDofxBgOnJd3tDr St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold - Trailer https://youtu.be/9chVAXvsOcQ?si=qJCieDgWkLB1s7Td Pistol - Trailer https://youtu.be/-QtyfPxkBqs?si=G75tBV7RnbNuIkPz 4 3 2 1 - Trailer https://youtu.be/VL27h8b-K38?si=kB1NfMh3ZHmLZWfV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hot on the heels of the Belles for St Trinian's, Rob and Guy are back and have skipped through the next two movies of the franchise (Blue Murder at St Trinian's and The Pure Hell of St Trinian's) to 12 years later and the midst of the Swinging Sixties for The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery.  This just so happens to be a childhood favourite of Mr Film Stories Podcast Network A.J. Black, so Tony joined us once more to discuss a new breed of St Trinian's students, the new Headmistress, played by Dora Bryan, and the new villain played by Frankie Howerd.  Of its time, it includes jokes about the Wilson Government, James Bond, The Beatles, and some rather unfortunate use of boot polish.  Train Robbery is a new era for St Trinian's and a real departure from the 50s versions. But is that all for the bad, or will there be redeeming features? Tune in to find out.  ...and if that hasn't sold you...it has Reg Varney in it! The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery - Trailer https://youtu.be/DWVyGvMz8-g?si=tBSzd4JpfcMTgodp The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery - New Pupils https://youtu.be/a9und3QCBM8?si=ZdFELSkeWb2Bw8Zw Before Your Very Eyes - Sabrina with Arthur Askey https://youtu.be/1OsX-A4XZcg?si=trW8cETrSPsClnff Sabrina - 1956 https://youtu.be/NwjdnKQrUhg?si=U7ckWIfFswuf1DJS The Pretty Things - Midnight To Six (1966) https://youtu.be/w3qJ-KPlt4M?si=Ppvyn0nqb2JY_Ec- Peter Sellers in The Millionairess https://youtu.be/DZz4KfUfkQY?si=gX25sKRan0NYx-o9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The St Trinian's films were one of the first names on the long list when we first came up with the concept of this podcast, but even with the most tenuous and creative of thinking, we weren't able to link them to the small screen. So much like Carry On last summer, we decided a three-episode mini-series would be the best way to tackle the issue. We start at the very beginning with the first St Trinian's films, The Belle's of St Trinian's from 1954 with Alastair Sim popularising what could now be known as The Tyler Perry, playing both Headmistress Millicent Fritton and her no-good brother. This being the first time Ronald Searle's schoolgirl characters were brought to life, it was perhaps a surprise to see the grown-ups take centre stage, but not without plenty of chaotic school set pieces with the students and a surprisingly complicated plot for a family film! Join Rob and Guy as both of them start their St Trinian's journey with the O.G. of the franchise. Will this movie have aged like a fine wine, or a bottle of Flash Harry's gin? Tune in to find out. The Belles of St Trinians - Trailer https://youtu.be/VKzCKoO-K9I?si=HE3LCv-2ekTLEAaz The Belles of St Trinians - Best scenes https://youtu.be/0O__WLDjMNo?si=KB77PUBB_rnI6znk Hockey match at St Trinians https://youtu.be/uS4LLAKPwyk?si=fy3hkWtuOT2_e1sv Dad - Series 1, Episode 1 https://youtu.be/b0S1q1zyMn8?si=IH6RJGnfea1wGBXy Minder - Grass growing on the car https://youtu.be/01dXHywMMyE?si=hs-uQIBkHUFnuQUv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're at the end of series four already. Our second series as part of The Film Stories Podcast Network, so to celebrate we're joined by Mr FSPN himself, A.J. Black, to talk about one of the biggest BritCom institutions ever, Morecambe and Wise. The inimitable double act made three movies before joining the BBC from ITV, and we'll start at the beginning with the first instalment, the spy pastiche, Intelligence Men. It is hard to imagine Morecambe and Wise before the BBC series and Christmas specials that endure in the memories of all Brits of a certain age, but the pair had been going long before The Stripper, long before Andre Previn, Angela Ripon, and Glenda Jackson, and The Intelligence Men is very much part of a different era. As well as the film, we'll dive deep into Two of a Kind, the Morecambe and Wise ITV series of the 1960s. As if that wasn't enough, all three of us count down our top three British comedy double acts. All this, plus the culmination of the series four quiz. Join us for the first in a much lesser-known trilogy. Morecambe and Wise - Two of a Kind with the Beatles https://youtu.be/Qw9dJG8GnmY?si=5X1bUeXhjHpjRSZL Morecambe and Wise - Two of a Kind with Roy Castle  https://youtu.be/gC1XaYGGJVc?si=-0PD0oJrWfHZTNbu She'll Have to Go - With Bob Monkhouse https://youtu.be/BpvRcXADNXA?si=zPn8OD00B9yumRJu Morecambe and Wise on The Sweeney  https://youtu.be/yXuLlhOt1xk?si=mrI5ZcCGrKAFGsbr Two Ronnies - Mastermind  https://youtu.be/QRhyc56aVb0?si=bPoG9lMJf7p3cL08 Morecambe and Wise - Mastermind  https://youtu.be/HEjdJszBbY8?si=93WNU3b8bHYa-FCk Ellie and Natasia - Saturday Kitchen  https://youtu.be/XDVECscArVQ?si=G-CzJ9zFsuvI4fmF Adam and Joe - Room For Change https://youtu.be/b-d0RZKexNA?si=CJbwCMB1K5mRMvva Derek and Clive - The Pope https://youtu.be/RPcDREaxsu8?si=4ORwpEJdN5Pr_8cK Vic and Bob - Hernia Hotline https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdBSmt9v/ Vic and Bob - The Club https://youtu.be/LjjjVApPePw?si=YPZ-LIm6XiMkciJu French and Saunders Go to the Movies  https://youtu.be/BczGvH60a38?si=aGjHp-_h6orIQ-iY Derek and Clive - Cancer  https://youtu.be/KDerCtj3-RI?si=GqcvD16BqP8zUgvq The Intelligence Men - Full Movie  https://youtu.be/kGy5HRI8plg?si=NfDWYezPONaLSgYC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's only from 12 years ago, yet Powder Room is not a British indie that sticks in the memory. Indeed, it didn't exactly perform at the box office. Only 2,100 people went to see it in British cinemas, making it the least successful film we've profiled so far.  A micro-budget adaptation of a hit Edinburgh play, starring some big and up-and-coming names from British TV, as well as a pop star! But chief amongst Powder Room's cast was Sheridan Smith. Now a huge West End and television star, but at the time, she was known primarily for Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.  The early 21st-century three-camera studio sitcom has been the butt of many a sneering industry joke, but was incredibly popular and ran for over a decade. Its creator, Susan Nickson, was something of a prodigy. She started writing Two Pints at the age of 18, having already seen success in short film competitions. An unsung heroine of British comedy, episode nine will do its best to honour an undeniable and prolific talent. Susan Nickson on Channel 4's Lloyds Bank Film Challenge  https://youtu.be/iQ6qz4nyX0M?si=U7iSIUXz3_nOsTQi Two Pints of Lager - Biscuit Rap https://youtu.be/anRKT3hYz60?si=d5m5JoDntsBAN_5j Two Pints of Lager - Phone Messages  https://youtu.be/m8IM-MFeKvk?si=gaxjVJOHeLsI-JfA Newport State of Mind - Directed by MJ Delaney  https://youtu.be/Eijc2tGe-zM?si=MMhLXUeRLsqEPyhz That One Guy Who's Always Preaching - Key and Peele https://youtu.be/GrYbMbudILQ Powder Room Trailer  https://youtu.be/77Eb6NsLFqE?si=kY3j-hhxs3KYutwN Powder Room - Bad Night https://youtu.be/KlUG46H4W8o?si=iTee2ZuyYNIIIyfu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's another visit back to the old school this week. We go all the way back to 1970 for a rom-com...of sorts. The Jonathan Miller-directed Take A Girl Like You.  As it is directed by Miller, we're also going to talk about his comedy breakthrough Beyond the Fringe. A show without which we might not have any modern comedy. So for extreme old-school source material, it made sense to have a new school comedian on the show to discuss the origins of her craft. The hilarious Jain Edwards joined Rob and Guy to assess the lasting impact of Beyond the Fringe, as well as the, let's say, dated attitudes of Take A Girl Like You. A standout cast of Hayley Mills and Oliver Reed, as well as supporting roles of the British kings of satire John Bird and John Fortune, this sex comedy couldn't be all that bad... could it?! Oliver Reed on the Word https://youtu.be/EvCh6bbSQDg?si=6W7dHB7jmAqRkiCb Hayley Mills at Disney  https://youtu.be/zeAmQ2zmVoY?si=M1XVL-Jbll6_r3t1 Hayley Mills in Twisted Nerve - Trailer  https://youtu.be/BWoMM6-fpAA?si=dp1BF04ormKHe5aZ Beyond the Fringe  https://youtu.be/KUd1OxPbKk4?si=k4QDTCsOkVAgwYgJ One legged Tarzan  https://youtu.be/lbnkY1tBvMU?si=Tbv38-0BRHtOZzP4 Take a Girl Like You - trailer https://youtu.be/AZzpyfJZwMs?si=s-GiYaSW1UQn6qkb Take a Girl Like You - Dick Thompson  https://youtu.be/KF5pXwpwEH4?si=G4UVv8kutnrW_aao Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices