The Kevin Bishop Show
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Following on from his collection of spoof celeb bios Star Stories, Kevin Bishop returns with his own Friday night sketch show.
As you'd expect, it's still pretty sleb-based - Simon Cowell's brother Brian (complete with matching super high-waisted trousers) running the fourth largest convenience store in Rotherham; Jonathan Ross introducing "my special guest... Wicky Gervais!!"; Sienna Miller's elegant new parfum Publicity; a Daily Mail DVD giveaway with alternate outtakes for films like Bruce Forsyth in The Shining and Al Pacino in Superman etc.
It's shot like you're watching someone flipping though the Sky EPG for you, at an ADD speed that keeps it moving fast enough to not let the duffers get in the way of what's mostly a pretty decent Friday night LOLathon; for once it's a sketch show where you feel like they're struggling to get all the ideas crammed into half an hour, rather than pad them out to fit.
Bonus fact: Kevin Bishop was Jim Hawkins in Muppet Treasure Island
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Clips from Comedy Showcase
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