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Title: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 May, 2008, 06:40:44 pm
Buy it.  Now.

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/4969676/Absolutely-Absolutely-Everything-/Product.html
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: redshift on 16 May, 2008, 10:33:19 pm
Directed by the late, great Phil Chilvers.  A man sorely missed in the TV world.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: rogerzilla on 17 May, 2008, 07:23:12 am
"By Swindon, this is an inspiring tale!"
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Bollards on 17 May, 2008, 08:26:58 am
Is that the one with "Stoney Bridge" in it?
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: rogerzilla on 17 May, 2008, 08:54:24 am
That's Stoneybridge.  With its stoney bridge.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: eck on 17 May, 2008, 09:09:29 am
That's Stoneybridge.  With its stoney bridge.

...and a bus shelter.  8) :thumbsup:
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: microphonie on 17 May, 2008, 09:47:46 am
That's Stoneybridge.  With its stoney bridge.

...and a bus shelter.  8) :thumbsup:

What do we want? The Olympics!
Where do we want 'em? Stoneybridge!
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: rogerzilla on 17 May, 2008, 10:43:04 am
What about the Commonwealth Games?  They're crap.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: bomber on 18 May, 2008, 08:47:00 pm
What's Absolutely?
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Noodley on 18 May, 2008, 08:49:36 pm
What's Absolutely?

Oh dear..........
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Torslanda on 18 May, 2008, 08:58:40 pm
What's Absolutely?

You, Sir! Should be taken out and whipped repeatedly with ancient, worn, non-indexed 6 speed chain until you have seen the error of your ways!

luv'n'stuff

J
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Mike J on 18 May, 2008, 09:02:06 pm
That's Stoneybridge.  With its stoney bridge.

...and a bus shelter.  8) :thumbsup:

What do we want? The Olympics!
Where do we want 'em? Stoneybridge!

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Noodley on 18 May, 2008, 09:04:55 pm
What's Absolutely?

Ok, since you asked...

Stoneybridge:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jqheysKKvDc&feature=related

McGlashan:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=csCexYYUhow&feature=related

Gilhooley:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZOe-nkYPg&feature=related
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Thor on 19 May, 2008, 10:47:03 am
That's Stoneybridge.  With its stoney bridge.

...and a bus shelter.  8) :thumbsup:

Stoneybridge - City of Discovery!!

And then there was Bert Bastard - don't have YouTube access at work, but there are one or two clips of him on there.

The thing with women is to stimulate the clematis  ;D

And Frank Hovis.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 May, 2008, 10:48:13 am
Frank Hovis is my favourite comic creation ever.  Toilet humour done perfectly.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Thor on 08 August, 2013, 10:32:58 am
Yesterday, 6:30pm on Radio 4, Absolutely was back  :thumbsup: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037v4g6/Sketchorama_Absolutely_Special/

Calum Gilhooley, Frank Hovis (not sure if he was On the Lavatory or not), Stoneybridge, Denzil and Gwynedd, the Little Girl, all featured.  Worth a listen.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: clarion on 08 August, 2013, 12:01:54 pm
I was half asleep, and thought I'd dreamed it, because Sketch-o-Rama normally features a number of new acts, and I expected them to have some of the Fringe acts, until Andy Gates tweeted about it.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: clarion on 08 August, 2013, 12:03:02 pm
Btw, it was interesting to hear why London, rather than Stoneybridge, had hosted the Olympics.
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Post by: Steph on 08 August, 2013, 12:29:23 pm
Frank Hovis, indeed, on the toilet.
Stage direction:
"Frank looks around for toilet paper. Seeing none, he sighs and begins to undo his tie"
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Riggers on 08 August, 2013, 12:41:29 pm
"I do apologise Ladies 'n' Gentlemen"
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Steph on 08 August, 2013, 03:28:33 pm
"...but after I had had my bath, I had to have a shower"
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: citoyen on 08 August, 2013, 04:21:04 pm
Yesterday, 6:30pm on Radio 4, Absolutely was back  :thumbsup: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037v4g6/Sketchorama_Absolutely_Special/

Calum Gilhooley, Frank Hovis (not sure if he was On the Lavatory or not), Stoneybridge, Denzil and Gwynedd, the Little Girl, all featured.  Worth a listen.

Damn, completely forgot that was on. Thanks for the reminder - I'll have to catch it on iplayer.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Pedal Castro on 08 August, 2013, 06:05:37 pm
Yesterday, 6:30pm on Radio 4, Absolutely was back  :thumbsup: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037v4g6/Sketchorama_Absolutely_Special/

Calum Gilhooley, Frank Hovis (not sure if he was On the Lavatory or not), Stoneybridge, Denzil and Gwynedd, the Little Girl, all featured.  Worth a listen.

I caught that yesterday, always listen to Tuesday comedy on R4 if I'm in the car at the right time. However, I must say I was somewhat underwhelmed by this offering.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Arch on 08 August, 2013, 08:54:38 pm
One of my favourite moments was from the episode where they were planning the annual Stoneybridge Jamboree, and trying to find a celeb to open it. They discuss writing to various people, including Tom Cruise, and then one of them points out that Tom Cruise is quite short, and people at the back won't be able to see him.

"Well, we could build him a wee podum..."
"Aye... or we cud all stand inna ditch!"

I can't see a podium, without thinking of those two lines. ;D
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Steph on 09 August, 2013, 04:32:57 pm
On Thatcher:
"...an' she have fangs what drip POISON JUICE and it's TRUE!"
Title: Re: "Absolutely" now on All 4
Post by: Thor on 16 August, 2020, 05:38:48 pm

Series 1-4

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/absolutely
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Look Around You on 21 August, 2020, 10:57:31 pm
Why thank you, I watched this many many years ago and had mostly forgotten about it apart from a random phrase about being in the hoover Denzil which I must say every time the Hoover is in use. My many children are used to me repeating random comedy phrases so ignore me now.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: rogerzilla on 26 October, 2020, 09:30:07 pm
ITYM "in the hwaver"!

Frank Hovis was always my favourite, but the Wellses and Calum Gilhooley (especially the flight booking where he uses a slightly idiosyncratic phonetic alphabet) were also brilliant.
Title: Re: "Absolutely" on DVD
Post by: Mike J on 27 October, 2020, 06:51:33 pm
I liked Stoneybridge...