Reeves & Mortimer return to the box with House of Fools. If you enjoy Miranda and Mrs. Brown's Boys type of productions, you may enjoy this one too.
House of Fools
Nixon's The One, starring Harry Shearer, originally aired as part of the first series of Sky's Playhouse Presents. As with the episode PsychoBitches, it was extended into a series. (Harry was also in last night's episode of Outnumbered.) Based on selected conversations from the Watergate Tapes, it comes across as funny now....at least to those of us that were around at that time and can appreciate Nixon's delusions better than someone that didn't live it. Each episode runs the end credits with a good ol' song from about 42 years ago - Moody Richard by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks with Maryann Price and Naomi Eisenberg....as I recall. Striking It Rich was the LP. Harry's been around forever, of course, and is well known for Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap, several voices on The Simpson's, etc., but was also the Eddie Haskell character in the 1957 pilot of Leave It To Beaver. He was offered the part but his parents refused it because they wanted him to have a normal adolescence.
Uncle is new series from Steve Coogan's Baby Cow Productions starring stand-up comic Nick Helm with Daisy Haggard (Episodes, Parents, Psychoville, The Persuasionists, Man Stroke Woman). It is supposed to be returning next year with another series.
Uncle
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