Kombat Opera - BBC2

Anyone else see Kombat Opera: The Applicants tonight on BBC2.


It's basically the BBC's response to the 50,000 morons who complained about Jerry Springer - The Opera.

Commission six mini-operas from the makers.


Basically all spoof TV shows, this week being The Applicants with Sir Alan Prentice played by John Thompson - brilliant!


And the news geek in me especially liked the line:

"Day two and disaster. However it's in a foreign country and no English person died so it's of no importance"

Damn, I missed it.

Is it Jon Culshaw playing David Dimbleby?

Loved 'Jerry Springer - The Opera' but thought this was awful. Disappointing.

I enjoyed it. Was amused by the bloke who got fired being beheaded by an axeman, and the play on the word 'Applicants' right at the end.

I wanted to watch The Applicants last night, however it clashed with Recovery on BBC ONE and I forgot to tape it...

Quite funny. 'This is ****.... from a cows arse'

Does anyone know what other shows they're going to be spoofing? Does this include the long-awaited Newsnight opera?

From: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/kombatopera/

Sunday 25 February: The Applicants (TA)
Sunday 4 March: Spouse Change (SC)
Sunday 11 March: Question Time Out (QTO)
Sunday 18 March: The South Bragg Show (SBS)
Sunday 25 March: Manorama (M)


Jon Culshaw is David Dimbleby, Kevin Eldon is Melvyn Bragg and Hugh Dennis hosts Manorama.

It was very good and funny but it was hard to see the connection betwen it and the apprentice at some points

Just a reminder episode 2 in half an hour or so... Spouse Change.


I do think they should have mixed up the order a bit though so we'd have something completly different to the reality TV piss take like Question Time or Manorama this week.

Spow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, se, se, se, change, a!

Just a reminder- Question Time Out has started