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Olde English Looks Back at 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'

by | June 12th, 2013

Splitsider is thrilled to offer our first digital download, The Exquisite Corpse Project, a fantastic film from the former members of legendary sketch group Olde English. I recently sat down with the guys to look through some of their classic Olde English sketches. Here, the group looked back at their take on a 90s classic.

Ben: On the theme of music videos that are also by Raphael, I really liked one of our sketches called Breakfast at Tiffany's. It started as a live sketch, and it's a really fun live sketch because the first minute, minute and a half?

Raphael: No comedy.

Ben: Is no comedy. It is literally Adam [...]

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'A Christmas Story,' 'A League of Their Own,' 'Slacker' Selected for Preservation by the National Film Registry

by | December 19th, 2012

Today, the titles of 25 films selected to be preserved in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry were announced by the Librarian of Congress (yes, that's a real job/person), and a few well-known comedies made the list. Six of the 25 films this year were comedies (or comedy-dramas), and they are A Christmas Story (1983), A League of Their Own (1992), Slacker (1991), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Sons of the Desert (1933), and Born Yesterday (1950). Also, a bunch of non-comedies like The Matrix and some other stuff made the list too, but that junk doesn't concern us here because this is a comedy website, and we [...]