History Series / TheFastShow

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jazz Club features a Nigel Kennedy lookalike, and a character called Jeremy Kwee singing about chocolate on his Ferrari, who in no way resembles Jamiroquai. Jazz Club's host's voice was also inspired by that of radio DJ "Whispering" Bob Harris, and his suit and interview style are based on that of Jools Holland.

** The two jive turkeys talk to each other in ghetto slang which is completely incomprehensible, until Colin McFarlane's character declares that he has had enough and starts talking in standard English.

!!This TV show provides examples of:

* "Just a tiny amount", in which Whitehouse is apparently interviewing Higson, who's playing a parody of Creator/NickPark, and who painstakingly demonstrates how he does claymation by moving the clay figure's fingers "just a tiny amount" ''over and over again'' for each individual finger. The interested expression gradually drains out of Whitehouse's face and he eventually turns to the camera crew and whispers "Anyone fancy a pint?"

* SubvertedCatchphrase: Mark Williams' "I'll get me coat" guy is constantly finding the wrong thing to say in any social situation, eventually coming up with some terrible faux pas, such as telling a room full of foodies that he really likes frozen Mini Kievs[[note]]Mini Kievs are a frozen breaded chicken product stuffed with garlic butter, produced by the legendarily unhealthy poultry processing company Bernard Matthews[[/note]]. Whatever he says, there's always a paralysingly embarrassed silence, whereupon he says "I'll get me coat," and leaves. In one sketch he finds himself in the Regency period, sitting in a circle with a group of men and women who are conducting an impossibly arcane conversation about their complicated relationships with each other in a pastiche of the dialogue of Creator/JaneAusten. Williams' character sits and watches all this, and when everyone has spoken except him, they all turn to him. He opens his mouth, pauses and then resignedly says "I'll get me cloak," and leaves.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jazz Club features a Nigel Kennedy lookalike, and a character called Jeremy Kwee singing about chocolate on his Ferrari, who in no way resembles Jamiroquai.
** Jazz Club's host's voice was also inspired by that of radio DJ "Whispering" Bob Harris.

Lots of regular characters, and ''lots'' of regular catchphrases. "Suit you, Sir", "Does my bum look big in this?", "I'll get me coat" (which was used a lot on Website/OutpostGallifrey), "I'm a little bit wooh, a little bit waaay", "...which was nice", "I'm afraid I was very, very drunk" and so on. [[FountainOfMemes Singlehandedly]] added several StockBritishPhrases to the language.

* WhatYearIsThis: This is spoofed in ''The Last Fast Show Ever'' with a recurring character wearing a space suit running into random places and yelling "Where I am? What year is it? Who's the president?", but running away again before he can get a reply.

** Ted and Ralph can be this in general as their sketches are played pretty straight and very different in tone from the rest of the show.

* MushroomSamba: The Offroaders, on a survival expedition, go half-arsed on the survival part and agree to a compromise by ordering a plain pizza but will top it with the wild mushrooms they have just found. Next time we see them, one of them is tripping out, referring to himself as "The Mushroom God".

** One of the Ted & Ralph sketches involved a long shot of Ralph walking all the way from the house to the fence Ted's fixing... and then [[CannotSpitItOut standing there in awkward silence for a few seconds]], and walking back.

** '''Ted and Ralph:''' Sort of; while the storyline was a lot more naturalistic and down-to-earth than most of the other characters, and based less on catch-phrases, several of Ralph's fumbling and awkward encounters with Ted would inevitably end with one or the other babbling or muttering something about "the drainage in the lower field".