The Best of Smack the Pony DVD Cover, featuring (left to right) Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen and Sally Phillips.

Smack the Pony was a British sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4. Its title is derived from a euphemism for female masturbation; the working title was Spot the Pony. The main performers and writers on the show were Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. There were also regular appearances from Sarah Alexander and Darren Boyd. Image File history File links Smack-the-Pony_DVD.jpg‎ The cover of The Best of Smack the Pony DVD, featuring (from left to right) Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen and Sally Phillips. ... Image File history File links Smack-the-Pony_DVD.jpg‎ The cover of The Best of Smack the Pony DVD, featuring (from left to right) Doon Mackichan, Fiona Allen and Sally Phillips. ... For information about The Sketch Show TV programme, see The Sketch Show. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Channel 4 is a public-service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... A euphemism is an expression intended by the speaker to be less offensive, disturbing, or troubling to the listener than the word or phrase it replaces, or in the case of doublespeak to make it less troublesome for the speaker. ... Sitting woman, Drawing 1916 by Gustav Klimt Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation, particularly of ones own genitals, often to the point of orgasm, that is accomplished manually, by other types of bodily contact (except for sexual intercourse), by use of objects or tools, or by some combination of these... Fiona Allen (born in Bury, Lancashire on 3 January 1965) is a British comedian. ... Doon Mackichan Doon Mackichan (born 1962, Fife) is a Scottish comedian. ... Sally Phillips in Rescue Me. ... Sarah Alexander, as Dr. Angela Hunter in Green Wing. ... ...

Dusty Springfield's song In the Middle of Nowhere, sung by Jackie Clune, was played over the title credits. Cover of Springfields 1969 album Dusty In Memphis. ... female comedy cabaret performer/writer and broadcaster. ...

Among the show's regular themes were unsuccessful relationships, competition in the workplace and latent lesbianism, but sketches would also dip into the surreal; such as two women jumping from their car as they neared a parking space and brushing in front of the path of their car to allow it move forward further á la curling. Two regular strands involved a series of different women making dating agency videos about their general likes and dislikes, and a musical parody that would close the show. Curling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which they slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. ... A dating agency is a business which acts as a service for matchmaking between potential couples, with a view toward romance and/or marriage between them. ...

In 1999 and 2000, Smack the Pony won an Emmy Award for the Best Popular Arts Show. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... An Emmy Award. ...

The sketch Singing Match was number 22 in the 2005 Channel 4 programme, 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches, voted by members of the public. It was written by Marie Findley of the Mediæval Bæbes and based on them. The sketch, Saying Goodbye, was at number 39. The Mediæval Bæbes is an English ensemble of female musicians founded by Miranda Sex Garden member Katharine Blake in the 1990s, featuring some of her MSG cohorts as well as other friends who share her love of medieval music. ...

Video and DVD

In Britain, there is a Video and DVD of The Best of Smack the Pony, released in 2002 and 2003 respectively.

A petition to release all the episodes started in 2005, and currently has nearly one hundred signatures.[1]

The first and second series were released on DVD in Germany in January and June 2006 but there are only English and Deutsch subtitles.

See Also

• Green Wing

Green Wing is an award winning British television comedy, set in a hospital. ...

External links

• Comedy Guide - Smack the Pony at bbc.co.uk
• Smack the Pony at TV.com
• Smack the Pony at the Internet Movie Database