Dan and Dan

In which Dan is slightly alarmed about Dan’s festive plans for a “Santa’s Grotto” in their living room.

Merry Christmas folks!

Here’s a belated blogging for our latest video.

I’m glad Dan got this out of his system. He seems more relaxed now.

It was a shame that Dan missed that opening ceremony, but he assures me that his book is very good and that the inside of his wardrobe is very comfortable.

Hello folks! Excited? We are. Here’s some background on this trailer.

For the last year or so Dan & I have been collaborating with some lovely people at the BBC. We’ve been making a taster for a Dan & Dan sitcom.

A taster is a bit like a pilot, but shorter. If the people in charge like the taster, they might commission a pilot… and then if they like the pilot, the next thing could be a series. But it’s early days at the moment – one step at a time.

The taster is about 10 minutes long, so this one-minute long piece is a trailer for the taster. So, to recap (pay attention): this is a trailer for a taster for a pilot for a series. I know it’s a little confusing, but stick with it…

Enjoy this little appetite-whetter. Hopefully you’ll get to see the full ten minutes soon, but in the meantime, if you like it, then please do share / rate / tweet / Like / comment, and generally spread the word like an 19th century cholera pandemic. And maybe – just maybe – you’ll help make Dan & Dan pop up on your telly.

Cheerio till soon!

D + D

Dan’s got a new dog. It’s not what he ordered though.

Here’s our response to the whole Kony 2012 thing which, depressingly, already seems like a very long time ago. It should be fairly obvious for our regular viewers that this isn’t a massively positive response. We only mention that because various Youtube comments have, alarmingly, appeared to take it the wrong way.

Here’s some relevant links:

If you’ve not already seen it, here is the original heartstring-tugging video by Invisible Children.

Now as a crucial corrective, watch this sense-talking from Hank Green:

And this is the website that Hank links to, a beautiful and brilliant idea which everyone should definitely sign up to. It involves helping those in the developing world by providing affordable loans to get their businesses off the ground. Sign up and make your first $25 loan completely free. Ace, eh?

Or you could simply Like and Tweet and Share a video. In which case, can you make it our one please? Ta.

Cheerio til soon

D+D

p.s.: I knew I recognised that melody: Dan & Dan in “Song of Hope”

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Cheerio til soon

And here’s our festive video, which we posted on December 24th.

Here’s a little something we did for the TV channel “Dave” just before Christmas. It is our attempt to have our cake and eat it.