Selected sketches written by myself for Series 21 of Dead Ringers on Radio 4, which aired during the Euros in 2021. Basically football, covid and a pinch of Love Island.

Sketches - 

0.00 - Euro 2020 horror trailer
1.24 - Love Island 2021 new contestant reveal
3.10 - Euro 2020 studio on the tournament's confusing Covid regulations
5.07 - Trailer for ITV's 'The Masked Shopper'
6.58 - A new documentary from the makers of Framing Britney - Free Andy
8.19 - Euro 2020 studio are too terrified to preview the Euro 2020 final

James Bugg Sketches - Dead Ringers Series 21 (2021)

RIP Newsjack

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Michael Owen hates films

Selected sketches written by me for Series 22 of Dead Ringers on Radio 4, plus a few from the subsequent Christmas specials.

Sketches -

0.00 - David Attenborough's new series trailer (cold open Ep. 6)
1.20 - Jacob Rees-Mogg on The Martin Lewis Money Show (Ep. 1)
2.58 - Kate Bush/Billie Eilish voicemail (Ep. 2)
3.52 - Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys - train strike edition (Ep. 2)
5.17 - David Attenborough/Alan Shearer BBC pay voicemail (Ep. 5)
6.06 - Trailer for the latest reveal-all, Royal Family Netflix series (Xmas Specials Ep. 1)
7.13 - World Cup in Qatar Round-Up (Xmas Specials Ep. 1)
9.17 - Kirstie's Handmade Christmas (Xmas Specials Ep. 2)

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James Bugg Sketches - Dead Ringers S22 & Xmas Specials (2022)

Late to upload and can't remember them all, but here's some of mine from S23 of Ringers.

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James Bugg Sketches - Dead Ringers S23 (2023)

Three sketches about Geoff, Banter's biggest fan, written for Show What You Wrote in 2015.

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Show What You Wrote - Geoff Trilogy

The Jean-Claude Juncker sketches from each Christmas episode of Dead Ringers 2018, as Brexit dragged on... and on... and on...

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James Bugg Sketches - Dead Ringers Christmas 2018, Juncker Trilogy

James Bugg Sketches - Dead Ringers Christmas 2018

All the sketches I wrote for 2019's Summer Dead Ringers series.

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0.00 - Ep 1 - Juncker episode 1
1.55 - Ep 2 - Anne Widdecombe on Queer Eye (written with Lewis Cook)
3.58 - Ep 2 - Juncker episode 2
6.16 - Ep 2 - Farage on Love Island
8.04 - Ep 3 - Farage on new Top Gear
9.39 - Ep 3 - Murray pre-Wimbledon
10.36 - Ep 3 - Corbyn on PM
11.44 - Ep 4 - Years and Years
12.53 - Ep 5 - Juncker Ep 5
14.58 - Ep 5 - Farage BBC Salaries
16.00 - Ep 5 - Jeremy Hunt/Murray
16.34 - Ep 6 - New Ambassador to USA (written with Sara Gibbs)

James Bugg Sketches - Dead Ringers Series 19 (2019)

Sketches written by James Bugg for Series 20 of Dead Ringers - the first series without a studio audience, due to COVID.

Sketches -

0.04 - Matt Hancock on Newsnight (Ep 2)
1.27 - Andy Murray's Cheeky Chappy Funtime Banter Show (Ep 4) (written with Simon Alcock)
2.40 - BBC News visits Wetherspoons (Ep 4)
3.59 - Raving Rishi Sunak (Ep 2)
5.22 - Joan Bakewell explains Tik Tok (Ep 3) (written with Simon Alcock)
6.50 - No Time To Die: Post-Lockdown cut (Ep 3)
7.55 - Nicola Sturgeon conference (Ep 3)
8.10 - Morrissey/Trump voicemail (Ep 4)
8.50 - Rishi Sunak eats out to help out... a lot (Ep 6)
10.00 - Mark Drakeford on Peston

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James Bugg Sketches - Dead Ringers Series 20 (2020)

Sketches written for the Dead Ringers Christmas Specials, 2020. As Laura Kuenssberg said about her sketch in an interview on Radio 2 'the less said about that the better'.

0.00 - Mark Drakeford Christmas Day Pt 1 (Ep 3)
1.49 - Ursula von der Leyen on Andrew Marr (Ep 1)
3.40 - Laura Kuenssberg and Huw Edwards on Christmas Day (Ep 3)
5.11 - Mark Drakeford Christmas Day Pt 2 (Ep 3)
6.02 - Michael Gove on Newsnight (Ep 2)
7.33 - Tim Martin and Nigel Farage on Christmas Day (Ep 3)
10.23 - Mark Drakeford Christmas Day Pt 3 (Ep 3)

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James Bugg Sketches - Dead Ringers Christmas Specials 2020

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