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John Finnemore has also written what has been described as the perfect sitcom for the BBC, Cabin Pressure, in which air steward Arthur Shappy, played by John Finnemore himself, plays a game called Yellow Car Which if one sees a yellow car, one says, "yellow car." And that's it He recorded the rules of the[...]

Cabin Pressure is one of the greatest sitcoms ever created, written and starring John Finnemore, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephanie Cole and Roger Allum I talk about it a lot Maybe little too much You can listen to a little of it here Finnemore also recently wrote for and appeared in, HBO's Avenue 5 and even[...]

And John Finnemore decided to add a family tree between this character and Arthur Shappey, the character he played (and wrote) in one-of-the-greatest-sitcoms-ever Cabin Pressure. Turns out that in the future, Arthur's grandson has a surprisingly brilliant job… https://t.co/AWo4uPI9iU — John Finnemore (@JohnFinnemore) March 5, 2020 If this also happened to you, the answer is 'He is flying[...]

All good? Good. So if I was to talk about a sitcom in which he starred that ran for six years with a truly great cast and written by probably Britain's finest comedy writer of the spoken word, you'd have thought more people might have heard of it. Cabin Pressure was a sitcom about the smallest airline in the[...]