The League Of Funnymen 10: Lee & Herring’s Fist of Fun Series One DVD

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LEE & HERRING’S FIST OF FUN: COMPLETE SERIES ONE

£25 (Go Faster Stripe)

It’s remit-tweaking time here at BrokenTV towers, as our list of stand-up DVDs from 2011 makes room for a sketch comedy from the mid-1990s. Ah, d’you remember the mid-90s, viewers? Trance Europe Express compilations in Our Price, Roy Evans’ swashbuckling Liverpool side never quite winning anything apart from the League Cup, the 3DO being resolutely ignored on the shop shelves of electronic goods retailers, and BBC Two playing host to all manner of excitingly offkilter comedy. Shows like the The Glam Metal Detectives, Is It Bill Bailey?, The Ghostbusters of East Finchley, The High Life, Pulp Video, Fantasy Football League, The All-New Alexei Sayle Show, The Fast Show, In The Red, Does China Exist?, The Saturday/Friday Night Armistice, London Shouting… some good, some bad, some even strangled at the pilot stage, but you have to feel that they’re all precisely the kinds of comedy that wouldn’t be allowed to happen on the BBC in 2011.

Arguably the most popular of all cultish mid-1990s comedy shows – at least if you polled a certain type of comedy fan who has spent way too much time on the internet since about 1997 – featured a tall-but-not-that-tall man called Stewart and a shorter-and-fatter-but-not-really-that-much-shorter-or-fatter man called Richard.

And it’s now out on DVD.

Finally.

And it is good.

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Hello! We’re too busy <<DRINKING/CRYING/BEING STUCK DOWN A WELL/WATCHING OUR NEW FIST OF FUN DVD>> to do a proper update today. Never fear, because in mind of that we bring you an excellent YouTube video of <<A HISTORY OF FAMOUS DRUNKS/THAT BIT IN TOY STORY 3/WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE STUCK DOWN A WELL/THE ENTIRETY OF LEE & HERRING’S REASONABLY SCARY MONSTERS FROM BBC TWO’S MONSTER NIGHT IN 1999>>.

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Hurrah! That was <<EMBARRASSING/TRAGIC/DARK/FUN>> wasn’t it? Our favourite bit was when <<WE GOT DRUNK ON THE VERY GIRLIEST OF ALCOPOPS ON OFFER BUT WE’RE SECURE WITH OUR MASCULINITY SO IT’S OKAY/WE STOPPED CRYING/CLAMBERED OUT OF THE WELL/LEE AND HERRING SAID FUNNY THINGS WITH THEIR MOUTHS>>.

Don’t forget to join us again at the same time tomorrow, when we’ll have a much bigger update, almost definitely the next instalment of The World Cup Of TV Comedy, yes, definitely, we wiSYNTAX ERROR UNRECOGNISED STATEMENT
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