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Stuart Millard posts
REUPLOAD: House Party Hell #1
Too Hot for YouTube! Since Patreon got its own video hosting, I've been meaning to start putting these up after they got purged. There's 11 in total, and now that someone's uploaded every episode of House Party to archive.org, I'll be able to make some more.
2025-06-23 09:26:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Stay Lucky
Dennis Waterman is an iconic figure; a lean slab of ham topped with rusty hair, wrapped in a brown leather jacket, and secure enough in his masculinity to let loose both wolves which dwell inside every man; punching wrong'uns and grabbing the mic for a bloody good sing-song. Nostalgic trawls through his body of work place him as real throwback, not of performance but of casting. A bloke like...
2025-06-07 19:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Big Night Out
“Seen Millard's new post? He's finally tackling Big Night Out.”
“Ooh, Vic and Bob?”
“No, not that Big Night.”
“Bruce Forsyth's?”
“I think you'd better sit down.”
One of the legendary showbiz heckles was said to have livened up a performance by Mike Winters, at the moment Bernie poked his head round the curtain, inciting a with...
2025-05-08 19:11:33 +0000 UTC View Post
A Black Country Night Out
Britain is so weird. I don't mean Page 3 or the inexplicable rise of Paddy McGuinness, but specifically that it's a tiny country with no two places you couldn't drive between in a day, yet inside its imaginary borders, a vast variation of accents, language, and culture. Look at that response-farming meme which crops up on the socials every other week, asking 'where you're from, what do you cal...
2025-04-08 18:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Owt Good On, Mam? – Rude Videos
For anyone who grew up in the pre-internet days, there were few forbidden thrills like that of the rude cartoon. Have you seen Fritz the Cat?! He takes it out! The Magic Roundabout were all on drugs! If either literally or just mentally of school age, the novelty of swears and mucky behaviour in a children's medium is a magical combination, which is why the famed 'rude Rainb...
2025-03-09 19:50:40 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Repost: The Banned Video (Notes Inside)
Now Patreon have their own video hosting, I can start resharing stuff which got taken down from an external host. This is just a bonus post and doesn't count as one of your three monthlys, and I've made it accessable for all paying tiers.
'Geraldo vs. the Satanic Panic' went up here briefly on Halloween 2022, but quickly got banned from YouTube and never made it to the general public. They don't tell you why, but I presume it was a mistake from their AI algorithm, as I lost the appeal...
The Earth Day Special (Exclusive Video, Notes Inside)
Traditionally, the first post of the month is a written piece, but this month I'm doing an extra video instead; a three video month, with your two scheduled videos for February still on the way. Also, it'll be exclusive to here and won't ever appear on YouTube.
This has been sat in my YouTube drafts for about 18 months, as I couldn't get it past copyright (banned altogether in some territories!), and it comes from the period I was still getting over Covid, struggling with both my voic...
The Melting Pot
Imagine, if you can, something so racist it was considered too racist to be shown on British telly in the 1970s. Then imagine Spike Milligan made something even worse – even more racist – than Curry and Chips. The Melting Pot's pilot – written by Spike and regular collaborator Neil Shand...
2025-01-08 21:44:02 +0000 UTC View PostChristmas Selection Box IV & End of Year Business
Hello there. A bit of extra business as this is the final post of 2024.
When we pick up again in the New Year, it'll be time for the annual calendar reset (on an every-10-day schedule, any month with 31 days pushes the posts a day earlier, and if I don't reset, they'll eventually end up creeping into the previous month). This means the first $3 post will come on January the 9th.
Most importantly, the Merriest of Christmases to all my beloved Patrons, or if it...
2024-12-22 19:08:42 +0000 UTC View Post
[FREE REPOST] The Holly Bears a Berry
[NOTE: members of the Fiction Tier may have read this last year, but I thought I'd do a repost for everyone, to spread a bit of festive cheer]
Boots crunched on frost down five stone steps. He gripped a gloved hand to the rail, pulling a scarf tight around his face against the bracing air when he reached the bottom. Barely four o'clock and already dar...
Night Fever's Millennium Eve Party
The final few hours of December 31st 1999 was likely television's most consistent night of weirdness, with everyone gone mad at the satisfying rounding of some numbers, and each main channel hurling itself into full celebration. While doom-sayers huddled in their duvet forts from Y2K raining jumbo jets onto their heads, telly was going full Caligula. Perhaps the most fitting; the most real...
2024-12-03 20:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The Comedy Backrooms of Three of a Kind
The BBC's Three of a Kind hails from that enormous pantheon of shows from the eighties – an era packed to the gills with sketch shows and sitcoms – which had a huge audience, but vanished further into the mist with each passing year. Historically, it's an early showcase of two people who went onto far greater success, and David Copperfield. At the end of its three-year ...
2024-11-03 19:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post