Shark Bytes

Why oh why hasn't this been released on DVD yet?

I've heard rumours about the master tapes being lost but this seems to be the stock excuse when the BBC doesn't want something released.

Yes it was very 90s but it was also very funny!

And yes it relied heavily on catchphrases but so has virtually every sketch show through the years, so you can't really use that as a valid reason not to like it.

BBC get your heads out of your backsides and release this and Fist Of Fun while you're at it!

I was only 15 when it was on TV (didn't really know it as a radio show). Being 15 meant I thought I was significantly more intelligent and I thought I had a much more mature sense of humour than my mid-teens peers (except for the few who also appreciated TMWE and joined me in reciting sketch after sketch at school). The one-liners and catchphrases worked in the same way as on any other quality sketch show. Newman and Baddiel in Pieces was a bit of a let down. P&D were always the weaker link. Why it is has never made it onto make-me-rich DVD is a mystery to me and doubtless many thousands of would-be buyers...

This show jumped the shark when it ceased having bitter well crafted stand-up and just relied on catchphrases - the "that's you that is" characters were very funny once - but there were three sketches endlessly repeated and then reused for Newman and Baddiel In Pieces. Was very funny, but worked better on radio, however should be repeated if only to remind us that David Baddiel was once funny, and Rob Newman did once exist.

I very much enjoyed the Mary Whitehouse Experience, although I was a bit young for it at the time, and like other posters I don't really understand why it has now disappeared completely. Yes, it was based a lot around catch phrases - but damn, they were funny catch phrases. Rob Newman was brilliant - easily the funniest - and I'd love to know what he is doing now, if anything. As for Baddiel - he lost my respect for ever when he teamed up with that idiot Frank Skinner. PS For US viewers who might not know this, Mary Whitehouse was our very own 'moral voice' on the filth and vice that was broadcast on our screens. I'm sure she's dead now, but her descendants live on.

Punt and Dennis were usually very awful. Even as a ten year old I found their humour infantile rubbish. I worshipped Rob Newman as a boy. For some reason this funny programme is never repeated and is unavailable to buy. And yet there's always room in the schedules for Dad's Army and Are you being served? Plus, I rate Newman and Baddiel In Pieces though I must admit David Baddiel has long ceased to justify the oxygen he consumes and must now be destroyed for his own sake.

I am from the UK and I remember this rubbish. Its SO 1991. Punt&Dennis were too twee and Newman&Baddeil were too convinced that they were the saviours of comedy. Evidently neither pairing ever talked to the other. Every amateur clown on every college campus quoted this cack constantly for two years. Then something else came along and it was forgotten as quickly as a minor case of piles. A classic case of a flash in the pan sustained by fickle student fans. Remember how Big Night Out was all the rage before TMWE? And Jonathon Ross before that? The show relied upon catchphrases and nothing else, but the writing and performances weren't up to it. It was all too smug and cliquey and self regarding. Oh, and it featured David Baddeil. Dear viewer, mere typed words can never express the depth and strength of my loathing for David Baddeil. Just remembering his smug, greasy face and trendy urban goatey beard make me feel violent and nauseated. To hear his voice is to want it to stop. He is as funny as being maimed.

I have been looking for this. It never jumped, it was the back bone of my early 90's growing up. This and awful "Madchester" music always make me smile.

When the BBC saw they had a brilliant comedy on Radio 1 & needed more youthful comedy on TV. It then became apparent that these were 2 different stand-up teams instead of 1 great unit. Don't they realise the pictures are better on the radio!!!!

"Mmm, das ist ein gut beat". The best dad-dancing jokes ever!