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Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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This is a book about growing up in the '90s told through the thing that mattered most to me, the television programmes I watched. For my generation television was the one thing that united everyone. There were kids at my school who liked bands, kids who liked football and one weird kid who liked the French sport of petanque , however, we all loved Gladiators , Neighbours and Pebble Mill with Alan Titchmarsh (possibly not the third of these).' Wild, Stephi (9 May 2018). "Josh Widdicombe, Milton Jones, Shappi Khorsandi Primed For Ealing Comedy Festival". Broadway World UK. Wisdom Digital Media. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022.

It reminded me of times at university watching Gladiators and Blind Date before heading to the bar on a Saturday night, and the double editions of Neighbours. The experiment was meant to end when the Paralympic flame was extinguished. But 23 series and 270 episodes later, it’s still going strong. Not even David “Weirwolf” Weir has this much stamina. Kalina, Paul (20 February 2013). "Risking laugh and limb pays off". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 12 December 2015 . Retrieved 8 November 2015. Widdicombe is a few years younger than me so I didn't know a few of the TV programs he writes about but I had watched the majority of them. And it's impossible to compete with someone with no sense of self-awareness. I will scream out loud in a shop just to get a laugh off the kids, where Lou just finds that embarrassing."NMP Live Limited is one of the UK's leading speaker bureaus and celebrity booking agencies. Booking after dinner speakers, motivational speakers and keynote speakers, awards hosts, presenters and conference facilitators. We book celebrities for personal appearances, headline musicians, stand up comedians and other entertainment. We also engage celebrities and media personalities for endorsements, PR campaigns and radio days, advertising campaigns and brand ambassador roles. Acaster, Helm and Widdicombe - Live at the Voodoo Bar". Edingburgh Festival. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009 . Retrieved 8 November 2015. RB: I’ll be constantly in the pub. The grandparents are desperate to see the kids and they’re so easy to look after now, so I can just leave them with them. It’s a completely guilt-free opportunity. McGuire, David (30 April 2014). "Podcast review: The Josh Widdicombe Show on XFM". The Times. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. JW: In terms of mental health and speaking about stuff, this has unknowingly really helped me deal with the last year. It is so useful to talk about these things. It’s provided an outlet and, I think, for listeners it’s the same.

a b c Jones, Alice (8 November 2015). "Josh Widdicombe interview: The Last Leg comedian on having his own BBC3 sitcom and making it to the top of UK stand-up". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022 . Retrieved 4 January 2022. Josh gets second series on BBC Three". RadioTimes. 17 December 2015. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016 . Retrieved 3 July 2016. We’re a dysfunctional family,” says Brooker. “Adam’s the dad, providing for me and Josh while we piss about like annoying toddlers.”

JW: Totally. It was the main thing getting me through. And I thought that other people would get some joy out of his pain.

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