Line #9 Series/DickAndDomsFunnyBusiness


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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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