Links to other sites
If you look closely at the cast list, you’ll see lots of links to pages with information on the stars, and pages for the programmes they’ve been in.
These links are my recommendations of sites that may be of interest.
Please email me if you know of a deserving site. I am looking at keeping this page constantly updated. Also let me know if any of these sites stop behaving themselves. The banners load from the sites’ servers, so an absent banner may mean a site isn’t working.
BBC
Official World of Pub site This very funny site was written by Tony
Roche and has much information on the series, with downloads,
quizzes and all the rest of that sort of thing. You really should
go here. And it isn't porn. It's not. No. Let’s just say it
fell off the back of an articulate lorry ;) Unofficial
Crazy World of Pub Site The third website about Pub is this page
which attempts to have “fun”. It works. David Quantick and Jane Bussman are two
talented writers who have been involved with the Chris Morris/Armando
Iannucci school of comedy since On the Hour. They have contributed
to The Day Today, Blue Jam, Jam and Brass Eye. They decided to write
and film a sitcom, broadly sending up the Friends oeuvre, to be
distributed over the Internet. The show is called The Junkies
and is about the antics of three stupid heroin addicts. Not an easy
subject for comedy (indeed, there are several moments where the
Brass Eye/Drugs episode is recalled), but the stars Peter Baynham,
Sally Philips and Peter Serafinowicz (from Pub) deliver the
witty script with sufficient aplomb to overcome the possibility
of a depressing 22 minutes. The show is available as a low-quality
RealPlayer download, or a high-quality DivX download. Whether The Junkies will ever be commissioned
by a TV network remains to be seen, but there is no question that
Quantick and Bussman's wit shines through. Technical note: these files are currently
hosted on Cook'd and Bomb'd (infra). Unfortunately, this
means they are temporarily unavailable for download at present. Chris Morris is one of the greatest living
satirists and media commentators. His works have included On the
Hour, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Blue Jam and Jam, and Brass Eye
Special, one of the most important television programmes so far
this millennium. This web site provides a factfelch of information
and hours of free downloads of the material that is not commercially
available. Technical note: no it doesn’t.
All the downloads have gone due to threatened legal action. The
forum is still functional, though. From the people who brought you web of
pub comes this page for the classic impressions show starring Phil
Cornwell. Excellent and comprehensive authorised
site for the glossy generation-defining and very funny sitcom. There is a site known as Comedy is Dead
but Some of the Corpses are Amusing. It is actually too appalling
to link to, and I only do so now with that proviso. Yuck.
The trouble is, apart from comedy not being dead, FFS, the so-called
“corpses” (we don’t know their real names) over-analyse
everything, reaching some uncomfortable conclusions, and usually
just backing up their own prejudices. Maybe something can be gained
by reading their reviews (they do make some good points,
and edit news is useful), but generally, they can be dismissed as
childish and “spiteful” (thanks Brass
Eye Mailing List), whilst stressing that they are not seeking
careers in comedy just that little bit too often and being cruel
to contributors to their forum. Fortunately, their demise has been announced,
as their webmaster will stop providing his services to them. But what is to take the Corpses’
place? Well, the guys on the aforementioned Brass Eye Mailing List
decided to establish their own site, which would welcome differing
opinions, but more importantly, its approach can be summed up in
its anti-Corpses tagline “because comedy can be funny”.
Why not be in at the start of what has the potential to be a valuable
Interweb resource? A comprehensive (until the updates stopped)
encyclopædia of British radio comedy since 1980.
Please support web of pub—help me to pay for the web space! If you’d like to buy a video, search the catalogue from the search boxes below. Thanks.
This site is an associate of Blackstar.co.uk and Amazon.co.uk. This means that I receive a small commission (5%) of the value of your purchase. Your purchase does not cost you any more because of this. But, why do you need to make money, I hear you cry? Well, domain names all cost money, as does web space.
Ring of Pub
World of Pub is infused with some of the cream of British comedy, drawn from Radio 4 and BBC2, floating on the top like a talent-rich scum. The ring of pub is a web ring (i.e. a collection of sites) dedicated to those who have helped make this programme what it is: full of people. This is now in addition to this links page. Do please join if you have a relevant site.
Linking back
Reciprocal links are of course appreciated. You may like to place this specially created “banner” on your site, and link it to http://www.worldofpub.co.uk/:
The URL for the banner is http://homepage.mac.com/elliottday/worldofpub/images/pubbanner.gif. Just to be clear, the name of this site is “web of pub” and it is a fan page, not run by the BBC.
You may also copy this HTML and paste it into your page:
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