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4 | One series, 2011. Sitcom-cum-variety show, set backstage at a theatre; Creator/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 Creator/DickAndDom via video messages. |
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6 | The acts who appear in the show-within-the-show are actual up-and-coming sketch troupes like Pappy's and the Penny Dreadfuls. |
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8 | 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 Creator/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. |
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12 | !!Tropes used in the show: |
13 | * 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. |
14 | * AttractiveBentGender: Dick dresses as his twin sister, Dixie, in one episode; the special guest promptly falls in love with her. ([[ComicallyMissingThePoint Dick rather misses his sister at the end of the episode]], so Dom dresses up as another sister to console him.) |
15 | %%* BottleEpisode: Bottle series, in fact. |
16 | * CandidCameraPrank (Phone Scam version): One of their guests is an impressionist, and phones them up in character as DavinaMcCall to catch them out in one of their schemes. |
17 | %%* CaptionHumor: done by holding up signs |
18 | * ChekhovsGun: It's fairly obvious when a bunch of mousetraps are introduced that someone will end up snapped... |
19 | * 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]]). |
20 | %%* TheDitz: Kelly-Anne |
21 | %%* DisguisedInDrag: Dick, as Dom's wife Dixie. |
22 | %%* DumbMuscle: The Devastation Brothers. Not actually that muscly. |
23 | * EasyAmnesia: Dom loses his memory of how to put on a show and has to be reminded, in clip-show format. |
24 | %%* HardHead |
25 | %%* HeterosexualLifePartners: The hosts (on- and off-screen) |
26 | %%* Homage: To many famous comedy moments- for example, the [[Series/TheAdamAndJoeShow Adam and Joe]] Toy Movies. |
27 | %%* {{Improv}}: The rap improvsers, Abandoman, end each show. |
28 | %%* InstantHomeDelivery |
29 | %%* 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.”) |
30 | %%* MediumAwareness |
31 | * MeritBadgesForEverything: The Cubs sketches- there is a “Building A Starship” badge and a “Cleaning My House” badge, among others. |
32 | * MistakenForGay: Kelly-Anne, passing garbled messages between the boys when they're not speaking, manages to conclude that they are in love. |
33 | %%* MouseTrap: WarwickDavies manages to get caught in about twenty of them. |
34 | %%* NewJobEpisode: Dick becomes a lackey to the Queen. |
35 | %%* NoFourthWall |
36 | %%* OncePerEpisode: several running gags work on this- a book falls on Dom's head, Dick mentions a forbidden topic to the guest |
37 | %%* RealityShow (a parody) |
38 | %%* ReversePsychologyBackfire |
39 | * RunningGag: Each episode has %%one, and there are also ones running all the way through, like a book falling on Dom's head. |
40 | * SavingTheOrphanage: Raising money to save Funny Business from being closed down by the theatre owner. |
41 | %%* SinkOrSwimFatherhood: The first episode- a baby is left on their doorstep. |
42 | %%* Slapstick |
43 | %%* SpecialGuest: Every week. |
44 | %%* StereoFibbing |
45 | %%* StudioAudience |
46 | %%* SueDonym “I'm Dick... sie. Dixie.” |
47 | * TakeThat: The first episode features Madonna's arm, as a gnarled, clawed thing grabbing for a baby. |
48 | %%* TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim |
49 | %%* ToiletHumor |
50 | %%* TwoForOneShow |
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