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Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Shoe Shop


I like nutty comedy and this is surely nutty comedy at its nuttiest.

3 comments:

Scrobs. said...

Absolutely brilliant! We could laugh for ages after any sketch by those two fabulous performers - or three, with Celia Imrie, especially Acorn Antiques!

A laugh like this is a superb start to the day!

A K Haart said...

Scrobs - yes, Acorn Antiques was a hoot too. That shoe shop sketch could have been expanded too, but there's nothing like it now.

Macheath said...

For complicated reasons, back in the late 1980’s I ended up trying to buy shoes for my wedding in Romford shopping centre.

I found a style I liked in cream and, explaining that I was trying to match a swatch of my ivory-coloured wedding dress fabric, asked if they had it in size 3. The assistant slouched off with a heavy sigh and, after a seemingly interminable wait, returned with a pair of size 5s in bright red.

“I’ve got it in a 5 in red…” has been the family phrase for unhelpful shop staff ever since, commemorating one of my favourite instances of life imitating art.