Underplayed Gems

Canned Carrott (1990)

Canned Carrott poster
Directed by
Ed Bye
Genre
comedy television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2 seasons, 12 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Jasper Carrott hosts a comedy sketch show with stand-up segments. The series features recurring sketches like Wiggy, which is a silent slapstick comedy about a man in a bad wig, and The Detectives, which follows two bumbling police officers who try to imitate TV detectives.

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What happens

Canned Carrott is a comedy stand-up and sketch-show by Jasper Carrott. It gave rise to a spin-off series, and made the names of regular contributors Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. Two of the regular sketches were "Wiggy" and "The Detectives". "Wiggy" followed the adventures of a man with an unconvincing wig (played by Carrott). It was a slapstick comedy in which the characters were silent except for the narrator, similar in style to Mr. Bean or The Benny Hill Show. The most popular sketch segment was "The Detectives", featuring two mediocre police officers, Briggs and Louis (played by Carrott and Robert Powell), who tried unsuccessfully to emulate the actions of television detectives. Such was the popularity of this sketch that it became the basis of another television comedy series, The Detectives. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis subsequently joined the cast of The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and later got their own sketch show, called The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, which ran for two series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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