Odd things you didn't know Rob and Doug wrote for

>But a proper account of their early sketch-writing days should really be written at some point.

Seconded. It’d be interesting — wouldn’t it? — to track the growth of that partnership.

Also, please explain the following term for the ignorant U.S. residents (by which I mean me):

Comedy Police

It’s in my “big list of articles I need to write”. But it’s easier tossing off a shitty opinion piece than doing proper research. I will have a go at some point, though.

The “Comedy Police” is what the cast used to call Rob and Doug - it’s mentioned in Robert’s The Man In The Rubber Mask.

Ah. That explains it. See, I’ve only ever been able to read things of Robert’s that he’s posted on his [expletive deleted] website. Seriously, I’ve tried getting books of his from the library; I think the librarian had to ask for an inter-library loan from British Columbia, in Canada. (And it never did arrive, either.)

Rob stopped publishing TMITRM on his website at Chapter Two.

I have no idea why.