First viewed : September 1993
I never saw The Mary Whitehouse Experience , mainly because I thought Punt and Dennis were crap on Canned Carrott. I did see some of this spin-off series featuring the more feted half of the quartet. The series of seven episodes was not well received and I didn't think much of it either. The only sketches I really recall are the ones featuring the duo as two history professors slinging playground insults at each other which worked because of the sneaking suspicion that their mutual antipathy was not entirely feigned.
The pair haven't worked together since.
This was something I really enjoyed as a kind of private secret, it being my first real dip into late Friday night viewing. Newman's existential angst spoke far more to me than Baddiel's more laddish approach - and the "History Today" sketches were some of the very rare moments in the series the two were on screen together.
ReplyDeleteThough I've followed Newman's subsequent career far more closely, Baddiel's presence in his next TV project was what tempted me to check it out.
The pair were spotted together last year - Newman has aged considerably better than his former comedy partner. Must be all the cycling he does!