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It tells the story of the end of an era, the last time when watching television was a shared experience for the family and the nation, before the internet meant everyone watched different things at different times on different devices, headphones on to make absolutely sure no one else could watch it with them. This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. For my generation television was the one thing that united everyone. There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque, however, we all loved Gladiators, Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these).
Admittedly we only the one outing of Paul McGann's incarnation of the Time Lord that instantly made me a fan of the show, I felt that it could have been included in The X-Files chapter. What is The Last Leg’s greatest legacy? Widdicombe gives it deep thought, before deadpanning: “Well, Alex has bought a big house in Huddersfield.” “It’s not that big,” says Brooker. “Although it has got a pool table. I can’t even play.” I’m most proud of what it’s done for the Paralympic movement,” says Hills. “It’s the Games which really change perceptions. This isn’t disability sport to be patronised, it’s elite competition between athletes who’ve spent years busting their arse to get here. The Last Leg is us shining a spotlight on them. They’re the stars here.” Using a different television show of the time as it's starting point for each chapter Watching the Nineties is part-childhood memoir, part-comic history of 90s television and culture. It will discuss everything from the dangers of recreating Gladiators in your front room, to Josh's belief that Mr Blobby is one of the great comic characters, to being the only vegetarian child west of Bristol.
It's not the television that terrifies you, it's the whole world of social media, and phones. You see TikTok and all these negative things you didn't have as a child."
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This pretty much features all the recognisable shows of that decade, whilst other televised events like the Euro '96 tournament and the funeral of Diana.
We’re speaking the week after a joke made by Jimmy Carr about the Holocaust reignited the debate about cancel culture stifling comedy. It’s an argument that has been made by swathes of comedians in recent years, from Billy Connolly to Shaparak Khorsandi. Do the pair worry about being “cancelled” for a joke – or at least held accountable for anything inadvertently problematic they say? a b c d "Josh Widdicombe". British Comedy Guide. n.d. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022.In 2015, Widdicombe was a contestant on the first series of the Dave game show Taskmaster and won the series. For one of the tasks, Widdicombe got a tattoo of host Greg Davies's name on his left foot. [3] He then returned for a team task in series two where he was partnered with Richard Osman and Jon Richardson. [36] [37] In it, they highlight their own real parenting dilemmas and disasters - Widdicombe has two children, Pearl, three, and four-month-old Cassius - and interview celebrities about their own parenting techniques and terrors.
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