Comedy Is ...: Recent Episodes

Simon Dunn

There was a time in the late 1990s when I would watch cable television into the small hours of the night. And more often than not, I was watching The Paramount Comedy Channel. Home to an eclectic mix of British, American, and Australian sitcoms, sketch shows, stand up, and panel shows – the channel’s strap-line is burned into my brain. Comedy. Is. Paramount.

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I didn’t watch everything the Paramount Comedy Channel offered up or course, most notably the early evening fare. So I

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During the heyday of those VHS rental years, where we would save our pocket money, then rush to the rental

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Is it possible for a sitcom to have a personality? Newsradio wasn’t given the most auspicious of starts. Although it

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A treat afforded by the Paramount Comedy Channel, was the opportunity to watch some shows that weren’t otherwise on offer

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Here’s the third installment of Comedy Is … an audio essay that uses a show from the late 1990s line-up on the Paramount

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Here’s the second installment of Comedy Is … a sort of audio essay that uses a show from the late

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There was a time in the late 1990s when I would watch cable television into the small hours of the