Name: Velvet Soup
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2001-06-10
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Steven McNicoll, Mark McDonnell, Gavin Mitchell

This Scottish sketch comedy show has fallen into obscurity, which is a crying shame because it's as good as much better known contemporaries such as "Big Train", "The Sketch Show" and "Dead Ringers". It had some classic sketches including the depressed (and potentially murderous)hitchhiking clown, the wistful Dirk Bogarde style monologist who haunted rundown seaside towns,the baby eating father in law, the horny mother continually trying to seduce her daughter's teenage boyfriend and many others. There were only six half hour episodes ever made. It was shown a couple of times on the ABC in Australia but hasn't been repeated recently. Surely it's worthy of a DVD release.

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