Top 5 Limmy's Show Sketches

Limmy's Show, one of the best TV programmes of the last few years, and one of the funniest Scottish shows ever, returns for a third and final series this month. I've selected the choice cuts from the first two series, in no particular order.

Dee Dee Goes To Yoker

One of Limmy's most beloved characters is Dee Dee, the stoner layabout with a hyper-active imagination. In this outing, probably his finest, he takes a bus journey to an area of Glasgow called Yoker - somewhere he knows only from the signage on a bus.

This sketch works well because most people will have their equivalent 'Yoker' - a place on the other side of town from where they live, and which they know nothing about. Mystery breeds an active imagination, and Dee Dee, as per his character, allows himself to be carried away with his thoughts.

"Wrong Way Down A One Way Street!"

Limmy's cry of 'Wrong Way Down A One Way Street!' has, like many of his catchphrases, taken on a cult status in Scotland. When police evicted student protesters from the Free Hetherington occupation in Glasgow Uni last year, a huge number of supporters turned out for the occupiers. At one point, the crowd became so large the police were forced to retreat back up the road that led to building, prompting a chorus of "Wrong way down a one way street!" from the protesters. That alone merits it a place amongst his best sketches, but it's also a great example of a continuing theme of Limmy's comedy - the surreal extension of everyday, mundane life.

Eckied Dad

Eckies are a big part of Glasgow culture. Everyone associates it with heroin, but ecstacy is heroin's likeable cousin. You can make jokes about the affects of ecstacy much easier than you can about the affects of heroin. More than anything, eckies just a funny word. Some of Limmy's best sketches are short ones like this, filmed in front of green screen. It's basically just a man dancing as fast as he can in a club to bring on a heart attack, because he misses his late wife. Bring heroin into the situation, it quickly becomes depressing. Eckies saves it, and this is probably my favourite sketch.

Shout on a bus

In a recent interview with the Scotsman, Limmy said that he found everyday life painfully boring, as a result, he suspects, of having Attention Deficit Disorder. Sketches like this continue the theme seen in above in 'Wrong Way...', but move the action away from fictional characters and to the 'real' Limmy focuses this idea even more. His need to shout on the bus is a literal cry for help, a vain attempt to make things interesting again. As a bonus video, have a watch of 'Piss Yourself,' which continues with the same idea.

"She's Turned the Weans Against Us!"

Not much to say with this one, actually. Just watch it, and remember you can walk down any high street in central Scotland see this happening.