The Fast Show: Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases
- TV factual
- U&Gold
- 2020
- 2 episodes
A "retrospective with a twist", celebrating the iconic 1990s sketch series The Fast Show. Features Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Arabella Weir, John Thomson, Simon Day and more.
Episode menu
More Blooming Catchphrases
Further details
Celebrating even more of the comedy magic that made The Fast Show a roaring success in the 90s, The Fast Show: More Blooming Catchphrases takes a deeper dive into the archives and unearths a mixture of hidden gems and the stories behind classic sketches.
Join Charlie Higson as he visits The Fast Show archives in the vaults of the University of East Anglia library and reveals old scripts, forgotten characters, and just how the team put the shows together.
With clips from Louis Balfour's 'Silent Jazz' to office joker Colin Hunt meeting his match in a man called Keith Uckyourself and even the mysterious "Owl Man", terrorising a fully experienced rambling hiker, The Fast Show: More Blooming Catchphrases is an entertaining look into even more of the sketches that made the series a TV comedy phenomenon.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 30th August 2020
- Time
- 10:40pm
- Channel
- U&Gold
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Paul Whitehouse | Self |
| Charlie Higson | Self |
| Arabella Weir | Self |
| John Thomson | Self |
| Simon Day | Self |
| Mark Williams | Self |
| Tony Way | Self |
| Bob Mortimer | Self |
| Paul Whitehouse | Writer |
| Charlie Higson | Writer |
| Simon Day | Writer |
| John Thomson | Writer |
| Arabella Weir | Writer |
| Mark Williams | Writer |
| Brendan O'Casey | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Paul Young | Scripted Director |
| Victoria Thomas | Producer |
| Matt Crook | Executive Producer |
| Adam McLean | Executive Producer |
| Charlie Higson | Executive Producer |
| Paul Whitehouse | Executive Producer |
| Iain Coyle | Executive Producer |
| Angus McIntyre | Producer/Director |
| Chris Heath | Producer/Director |
| Miles Clennell | Editor |
| Adam Bokey | Editor |
| Drew Seymour | Director of Photography |
| Philip Pope | Composer |
| Alex Rook | Graphics |