History Series / DickAndDomsFunnyBusiness

%%* TriangRelations: type 5

* AmusingInjuries: mostly but not all in the History of Funny Business segment, caused by a PlankGag, BananaPeel, RakeTake or ThePratfall. Kelly-Anne delivers the odd slap, too.

* BottleEpisode: Bottle series, in fact.

* CaptionHumor: done by holding up signs

* TheDitz: Kelly-Anne
* DisguisedInDrag: Dick, as Dom's wife Dixie.
* DumbMuscle: The Devastation Brothers. Not actually that muscly.

* HardHead
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The hosts (on- and off-screen)
* Homage: To many famous comedy moments- for example, the [[Series/TheAdamAndJoeShow Adam and Joe]] Toy Movies.
* {{Improv}} The rap improvsers, Abandoman, end each show.
* InstantHomeDelivery
* LampshadeHanging (“You know I've always wanted to work for the Queen?” “Have you?” “I must have done, otherwise this week's plot makes no sense.”)
* MediumAwareness

* MouseTrap: WarwickDavies manages to get caught in about twenty of them.
* NewJobEpisode: Dick becomes a lackey to the Queen.
* NoFourthWall
* OncePerEpisode: several running gags work on this- a book falls on Dom's head, Dick mentions a forbidden topic to the guest
* RealityShow (a parody)
* ReversePsychologyBackfire
* RunningGag: Each episode has one, and there are also ones running all the way through, like a book falling on Dom's head.

* SinkOrSwimFatherhood: The first episode- a baby is left on their doorstep.
* Slapstick
* SpecialGuest: Every week.
* StereoFibbing
* StudioAudience
* SueDonym “I'm Dick... sie. Dixie.”

* TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim
* TriangRelations: type 5
* ToiletHumor
* TwoForOneShow

* AmusingInjuries: mostly but not all in the History of Funny Business segment, caused by a PlankGag, BananaPeel, RakeTake or ThePratfall. Kelly-Anne delivers the odd ArmorPiercingSlap, too.

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[[caption-width-right:300:The hosts.]]

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[[caption-width-right:120:The hosts]]

!!Tropes used in the show

One series, 2011. Sitcom-cum-variety show, set backstage at a theatre; DickAndDom play Dick and Dom, who run a comedy gig called ''Dick and Dom's Funny Business''; all the scenes are set either in the green room, the theatre office, or on the stage (the StudioAudience play the theatre audience.) Other recurring characters are Kelly-Anne, the theatre owner's daughter, who has a crush on Dom; the [[{{Crossdresser}} usherettes]]; and two terrible would-be wrestlers who carry out a long-distance feud with DickAndDom via video messages.

!Tropes used in the show

One series, 2011. Sitcom-cum-variety show, set backstage at a theatre; DickAndDom play Dick and Dom, who run a comedy gig called ''Dick and Dom's Funny Business''; all the scenes are set either in the green room, the theatre office, or on the stage (the StudioAudience play the theatre audience.) Other recurring characters are Kelly-Anne, the theatre owner's daughter, who has a crush on Dom; the [[{{Crossdresser}} usherettes]]; and two terrible would-be wrestlers who carry out a long-distance feud with DickAndDom via video messages.

The acts who appear in the show-within-the-show are actual up-and-coming sketch troupes like Pappy's and the Penny Dreadfuls.

Every episode features a foolish scheme on the part of either Dick or Dom, and a special guest who must absolutely not hear of the shenanigans... HilarityEnsues. Many, many homages and {{ShoutOut}}s to famous comedy routines and tropes- some of them contained in a “History of funny business” segment, which follows the MontyPython stage show “lecture on the history of custard pies” format, with “Subject A” (Dick) and “Subject B” (Dom) demonstrating slapstick routines while a voiceover explains the gag.

* BottleEpisode: Bottle series, in fact.

* ClipShow: The last ''three episiodes of thirteen''. There's a reasonable amount of original material in them, what with the frame stories (and some of the clips shown [[DeletedScenes weren't included in the original episodes]]).

* SinkOrSwimFatherhood: The first episode- a baby is left on their doorstep.

* StereoFibbing

* Homage: To many famous comedy moments- for example, the [[TheAdamAndJoeShow Adam and Joe]] Toy Movies.

* HoYay: [[BigYes There's a wee bit of this.]] Like the “”Dick and Dom pretend to be married” episode, for example.

Every episode features a foolish scheme on the part of either Dick or Dom, and a special guest who must absolutely not hear of the shenanigans... HilarityEnsues. Many, many homages and ShoutOuts to famous comedy routines and tropes- some of them contained in a “History of funny business” segment, which follows the MontyPython stage show “lecture on the history of custard pies” format, with “Subject A” (Dick) and “Subject B” (Dom) demonstrating slapstick routines while a voiceover explains the gag.

Every episode features a foolish scheme on the part of either Dick or Dom, and a special guest who must absolutely not hear of the shenanigans... HilarityEnsues. Many, many homages and ShoutOuts to famous comedy routines and tropes- some of them contained in a “History of funny business” segment, which follows the MontyPython stage show “lecture on the history of custard pies” format, with “Subject A” (Dick) and “Subject B” (Dom) demonstrating slapstick routines while a voiceover explains the gag.

One series, 2011. Sitcom-cum-variety show, set backstage at a theatre; DickAndDom play Dick and Dom, who run a comedy gig called ''Dick and Dom's Funny Business''; all the scenes are set either in the green room, the theatre office, or on the stage (the StudioAudience play the theatre audience.) Other recurring characters are Kelly-Anne, the theatre owner's daughter, who has a crush on Dom; the [[Crossdresser usherettes]]; and two terrible would-be wrestlers who carry out a long-distance feud with DickAndDom via video messages.