Chewin' the Fat

Chewin' the Fat is a telly sketch shaw pit oot bi BBC Scotland, screived bi an featurin Ford Kiernan an Greg Hemphill.

It wis oreiginally pit oot on BBC Radio Scotland, an later muived tae the telly. The first twa series wis pit oot on BBC Scotland juist, but series three an fower wis pit oot ower the hail o the Unitit Kinrick. The last series feinisht in 2002, but the'r a speecial programme ilka Hogmanay on BBC Scotland.

Baith Scots an Inglis wis uised in the sindry sketches i the programme. The programme introduced the phrase "Gaunae no dae that" — frae a sketch whaur a lichthoose keeper wad plaintively bode at his freend tae stop playin hunt-ee-gowk wi him — tae popular spaek.

An affshoot o the shaw wis Still Game.

The teitle o the shaw is screived wi the apologetic apostrophe.

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