Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 24: Bruce And Ronnie, 1988

This has been online since April 2017, why didn't we feature it last year? Surely not just because it's missing the last three minutes or so? Anyway... Forsyth and Corbett had hosted that year's Royal Variety Performance together so were given a BBC1 Christmas special, to give it its full top of the bill-averting title Bruce And Ronnie In the Corbett and Forsyth Show. However, according to Brucie's autobiography producer Marcus Mortimer entered the rehearsal room in tears one day and told the pair "I don't know how to tell you this - I've just had the schedules and we are to follow Lenny Henry who's on at ten o'clock on Boxing Night". Unless Eastenders special Civvy Street and the TV premiere of Beverley Hills Cop really were that urgent appointments to view there's no reason this shouldn't have been key to prime time, featuring as it does the classic structure of sketches (including one with Fiona Fullerton), crosstalk, hoofing, Bruce singing and Ronnie sitting. Enjoy this quintessential slab of LE, and a merry Christmas to you all!