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• timw commented on Ronald Searle's original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian's comics
  The 50's films aren't great, but anything with Alistair Sim in is going to be worth watching... and George Cole is excellent as well. And those school uniforms and stockings... oh my......
• mattxb commented on High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman
  @tordelback: Unfortunately, I find the parody exactly as annoying as the real thing. I'd have the whole bloody lot of them locked up under the Trade Descriptions Act. Things are looking up....
• Kyle Armbruster commented on High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman
  Sorry, but I have to chime in: I adore Larry David. I loathe Sacha Baron Cohen. The difference? Larry David doesn't humiliate actual, real people. He humiliates characters. I will never, ever understand how getting someone to sign a waiver and then making them look stupid for all the world to see is funny. It's cruel. And this guy is making fun of people's dead relatives??? Spiritism is indeed total bunk, but you have to tread lightly when you're dealing with people who've lost loved ones. Not funny....
• BigFatChris commented on High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman
  Unfortunately I had the miserable experience of going to a recording of one of the High Spirits shows in London. No-one in the audience was fooled for a microsecond, it was just unfunny and embarrassing for all, if only it had been even close to Borat. Had he not re-shot his ‘wacky’ antics time and time again, perhaps he might have fooled a child. Maybe. I got in the quickly growing queue to withdraw permission to use my image and the producers actually rang me the next day to apologise. It was so bad, I’m still on the production company’s...
• RogerDaylee commented on High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman
  Nice posting Richard - Marc Wootton aka Shirley Ghostman has an official website and blog at: Fooling Nobody...