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Joking Apart, the Glossary

Joking Apart is a BBC television sitcom written by Steven Moffat about the rise and fall of a relationship.^[1]

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British stand-up comedy television series
Works about divorce

Adultery

Adultery is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds.

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André Ptaszynski

André Ptaszynski (7 May 1953 – 29 July 2020) was a British theatre and television producer.

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Anne, Princess Royal

Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is a member of the British royal family.

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Appreciation Index

The Audience Appreciation Index (AI) is an indicator measured from 0 to 100 of the public's appreciation for a television or radio programme, or broadcast service, in the United Kingdom.

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Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.

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An audio commentary is an additional audio track, usually digital, consisting of a lecture or comments by one or more speakers, that plays in real time with a video.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Studios Home Entertainment

2 Entertain Video Limited, trading as BBC Studios Home Entertainment, is a British video and music publisher founded in 2004 following the merger of BBC Video and Video Collection International by BBC Worldwide & Woolworths Group respectively.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in January 1995.

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BDSM

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics.

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Bimbo

Bimbo is slang for a conventionally attractive, sexualized, naïve, and unintelligent woman.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Bob Spiers

Robert Alexander Spiers (27 September 1945 – 8 December 2008) was a Scottish television director and producer.

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British Satellite Broadcasting

British Satellite Broadcasting plc (BSB) was a television company, based in London, that provided direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom.

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British sitcom

A British sitcom or a Britcom is a situational comedy programme produced for British television.

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Chalk (TV series)

Chalk is a British television sitcom set in a comprehensive school named Galfast High. Joking Apart and Chalk (TV series) are 1990s British sitcoms and BBC television sitcoms.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area in West London, England, due south-west of Charing Cross by approximately 2.5 miles.

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Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea (born 4 March 1951) is an English rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist from Middlesbrough.

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Colin Gibson (musician)

Colin Gibson (born 21 September 1949, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland) is an English bass player and composer.

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Comedy club

A comedy club is a venue where a variety of comedic acts perform to a live audience.

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Coupling (British TV series)

Coupling is a British television sitcom written by Steven Moffat that aired on BBC Two and BBC Three from 12 May 2000 to 14 June 2004. Joking Apart and Coupling (British TV series) are BBC television sitcoms.

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Cross-dressing

Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format.

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Dean Street

Dean Street is a street in Soho, central London, running from Oxford Street south to Shaftesbury Avenue.

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Digital photograph restoration

Digital photograph restoration is the practice of restoring the appearance of a digital copy of a physical photograph that has been damaged by natural, man-made, or environmental causes, or affected by age or neglect.

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Double act

A double act (also known as a comedy duo) is a form of comedy originating in the British music hall tradition, and American vaudeville, in which two comedians perform together as a single act, often highlighting differences in their characters' personalities.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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DVD authoring is the process of creating a DVD video capable of playing on a DVD player.

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Dysphemism

A dysphemism is an expression with connotations that are derogatory either about the subject matter or to the audience.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Ensemble cast

In a dramatic production, an ensemble cast is one that comprises many principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.

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Estate agent

An estate agent is a person or business that arranges the selling, renting, or managing of properties and other buildings.

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Farce

Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.

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Featurette

In the American film industry, a featurette is a kind of film that is shorter than a full-length feature, but longer than a short film.

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Film frame

In filmmaking, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many still images which compose the complete moving picture.

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Fiona Gillies

Fiona Gillies (born 19 June 1966) is a British actress who has appeared in feature films, on television and the stage.

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Fool (If You Think It's Over)

"Fool (If You Think It's Over)" is a popular song originally released in 1978 by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea.

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The Cambridge Footlights, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, is a student sketch comedy troupe located in Cambridge, England.

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Freeware

Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.

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Front Row (radio programme)

Front Row is a radio programme on BBC Radio 4 that has been broadcast regularly since 1998.

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Fulham Road

Fulham Road is a street in London, England, which comprises the A304 and part of the A308.

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Groucho Club

The Groucho Club is a private members' club founded in 1985 and located on Dean Street in London's Soho.

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Hotel Café Royal

The Hotel Café Royal is a five-star hotel at 68 Regent Street in Piccadilly, London.

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House sitting

House sitting is the practice whereby a person leaving their house for a period of time entrusts it to one or more "house sitters", who by a mutual agreement are permitted to live or stay in the property temporarily, in exchange for assuming any combination of responsibilities.

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Incidental music

Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical.

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Indecent exposure

Indecent exposure is the deliberate public exposure by a person of a portion of their body in a manner contrary to local standards of appropriate behavior.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME.

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ITV Central

ITV Central, previously known as Central Independent Television, Carlton Central, ITV1 for Central England and commonly referred to as simply Central, is the Independent Television franchisee for the Midlands.

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Jack Davenport

Jack Arthur Davenport is an English actor.

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Julia Sawalha

Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968) is an English actress.

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Kenny Craddock

Kenny Craddock (18 April 1950 – 30 May 2002) was a British musician, composer and producer.

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Kerry Shale

Kerry Shale (born 4 June 1952) is a Canadian actor, narrator and writer, based in London, England.

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Legal instrument

Legal instrument is a legal term of art that is used for any formally executed written document that can be formally attributed to its author, records and formally expresses a legally enforceable act, process, or contractual duty, obligation, or right, and therefore evidences that act, process, or agreement.

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Living room

In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English), lounge (British English), sitting room (British English), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.

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Mark Lawson

Mark Gerard Lawson is an English journalist, broadcaster and author.

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Mark Phillips

Mark Anthony Peter Phillips (born 22 September 1948) is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman for Great Britain and the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children.

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Michael Jackson (television executive)

Michael Richard Jackson (born 11 February 1958) is a British television producer and executive.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Mother Love (TV series)

Mother Love is a 1989 BBC British television drama.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Nonlinear system

In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system (or a non-linear system) is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input.

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On the Up

On the Up is a British situation comedy written by Bob Larbey, about the failure of a millionaire's marriage, and his relationship with his assorted live-in staff. Joking Apart and on the Up are 1990s British sitcoms and BBC television sitcoms.

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Paul Cornell

Paul Douglas Cornell (born 18 July 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield.

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Paul Mark Elliott

Paul Mark Elliott is a British actor who has appeared in several television comedies and dramas.

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Paul Raffield

Paul Raffield (born 19 June 1957, London) is a British academic, director and actor.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Pebble Mill Studios

Pebble Mill Studios was the BBC's television studio complex located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, which served as the headquarters for BBC Birmingham from 1971 until 2004.

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Phone-in

In broadcasting, a phone-in or call-in is a programme format in which viewers or listeners are invited to air their live comments by telephone, usually in respect of a specific topic selected for discussion on the day of the broadcast.

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Polo neck

A polo neck, roll-neck (South Africa), turtleneck (United States, Canada), or skivvy is a garment—usually a sweater—with a close-fitting collar that folds over and covers the neck.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Press Gang

Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of 43 episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993.

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Punch line

A punch line (also punch-line or punchline) concludes a joke; it is intended to make people laugh.

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Regent Street

Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London.

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Richard Herring

Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian and writer whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring (alongside Stewart Lee).

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Robert Bathurst

Robert Guy Bathurst (born 22 February 1957) is a British actor.

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Rose d'Or

The Rose d'Or ('Golden Rose') is an international awards festival in entertainment broadcasting and programming.

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Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of 180 episodes.

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Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)

Sherlock Holmes is the overall title given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by the British television company Granada Television between 24 April 1984 and 11 April 1994.

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Simon Schatzberger

Simon Schatzberger (born 1968) is an English actor, known for his role as David Klarfeld on the BBC soap opera Doctors and for appearing in the iconic "French Polisher" TV advert for Yellow Pages in the 1990s.

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Soho Theatre

The Soho Theatre is a theatre and registered charity in the Soho district of the City of Westminster, in London, England.

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Solicitor

A solicitor is a legal practitioner who traditionally deals with most of the legal matters in some jurisdictions.

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Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical acts.

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Steven Moffat

Steven William Moffat (born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer, television producer and screenwriter.

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Sue Vertue

Susan Nicola Vertue (born 21 September 1960) is an English television producer, mainly of comedy shows, including Mr. Bean and Coupling.

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Television Centre, London

Television Centre (TVC), alternatively BBC Studioworks Television Centre, is a building complex in White City, West London, which was the headquarters of BBC Television between 1960 and 2013.

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Television pilot

A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) in United Kingdom and United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distributor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joking_Apart

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See also

British stand-up comedy television series

Works about divorce

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