Comedy, Chaos – and Cowboys!

I’m interested in that book but that publisher really needs a better cover designer. 

I’m interested in that book but that publisher really needs a better cover designer. 

It has “cover of a VHS tape of steam trains going through a train station in the Midlands that you had to order from a man called Neville with a geocities website” vibes.

I only got the original 90s book fairly recently and thought it was good enough already, with lots of nice, moody VI pics. Hoping Nazzaro has a Piggate-level revelation about someone in the cast or crew to boost the show’s profile in 2025.

Yeah, the original book was this one (which is mainly focused on Gunmen specifically).

I haven’t read it in years but I remember it having a lot of photos but being fairly light in terms of deep detail, so maybe this new book will redress the balance. I’ve ordered it so we’ll see.

It’s cool how they made Cat’s legs into a 3D stand though.

That was actually part of the early prototype work for Booky, an AI tool to assist Making-Of writers.

It’s cool how they made Cat’s legs into a 3D stand though.

Do you like that one? Gunmen?

Okay but can we just take a moment to appreciate that the photographer openly trades under the name Nobby?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobby_Clark_(photographer)

In 2005 he was production photographer for the 7th series of cult UK television comedy Red Dwarf.^[5]

Someone needs to update that

Interestingly though, there’s a Nobby Clark who worked as a technical advisor on London’s Burning.  Which really confused me when all the Nobby Clark memes started.  Unfortunately not the same person as the photographer

https://londons-burning.fandom.com/wiki/Brian_Clark 

This has all reminded me of a news story from the 2000s (can’t find it, sadly) about a bloke who got so over excited after Nolberto “Nobby” Solano scored for Newcastle that he pulled his trousers and pants down and ran around the house pointing at his knob and shouting “NOBBY!!! NOBBY!!” to such an extent that his wife called the police on him.

Ahhh, I love this forum so much

I’m really enjoying the book. Re-reading the old book as well alongside it.  It starts by referencing the film “Almost Famous” which I love too, about a young writer wanting freedom in their writing style. 

It’s great to read this extensively about series VI in 2025. I do think I understand why Rob & Doug would have wanted a making of book to be edited down from this longer notes & interviews presented here. It’s too long and dull for a more general audience so they were aiming for a more glossy concise coffee table book of the times, rather than a beat by beat account of hanging around all of series VI. I’ve not found any huge controversy in it yet, but there are a few small comments they might have wanted to protect people from at a time when they were still actively making dwarf. We know from some of the DVD documentaries that Doug at least never shied away from more controversial topics about troubles in making of’s. At this distance of time, after the first published book was a sucess, it’s a wonderful double deeper dip.  I find myself reading short interviews with Clare CP Grogan and Anita Dobson. and im transported to the set because my imagination knows what all these deleted and behind the scenes moments look like from the DVD extras world etc. So as a result im imagining new takes, Smeg ups and on set tom foolery as if im there. 

It is amusing that the writer seems to spot things fans might have said, about rimmers costume or the appendix etc.

SPOILERS:  From the writers Interview.  Talk of an episode idea about parasites, I wonder if this went into Epideme? and mind editing – sounds very like they could have written eternal sunshine of the spotless mind a decade earlier as a sitcom, but then they kind of had done in thanks for the memory in a different way before. 

Got this now. Spotted a factual error in the first clause of the first sentence of the back cover blurb.

I think you’ve got a dodgy print, mine is fine on those counts.

Page 119 quotes Rob on the set of Emohawk joking to Craig that there will be. Lister-Rimmer kiss in episode six of VI.

So… Rob wrote a bit of Blue for VII. Sort of. 

We can poke a tiny bit more scorn at those people who post “Rob was the funny one” when they watch and didn’t like VII.