"Spatchcock"

[Mark Steels Stockbroker]

This name suddenly came in to my mind this morning, with the strong sense that it's a "comedy" name. Is it from Python? Or a Fry&Laurie sketch? Or a recurring character in something else? It's bound to be something really obvious, but I can't make the connection right now.

[Beep Cleep Chimney]

Charlie Higson says it in Catterick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF83sfca20U

[marquis_de_sad]

I will forever associate it with Adam Buxton's impression of Zane Lowe. Can't find a video online (been taken down it seems), but the last comment on this page quotes it. Spatchcock.

[Catalogue Trousers]

Yeah, I think that Adam and Joe were the first to use it in a comedy context. It's the name of a telly series involving a hard-case detective in the Adam and Joe Book.

[JesusAndYourBush]

This name suddenly came in to my mind this morning, with the strong sense that it's a "comedy" name. Is it from Python? Or a Fry&Laurie sketch? Or a recurring character in something else? It's bound to be something really obvious, but I can't make the connection right now.

The first time I heard that word was in "I'm A Calebrity Get Me Out Of Here" the one Biggins was on, they kept giving them a "spatchcock" for their dinner which turned out to be some sort of flattened chicken.  For that reason, the word will forever be associated in my mind with Christopher Biggins.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

Yeah, the fake TV listings in the Adam and Joe Book was my first exposure to the wonderful world of Spatchcock.

[Steven]

A guy I used to be friends with had a channel on YouTube called Spatchcock, I think cos he worked in a kitchen in that there London. He did do some funny videos taking the piss out of conspiracy shite like Alex Jones.

Alex Jones Eats Child was another one I remember finding funny.

[kidsick5000]

Yeah, I think that Adam and Joe were the first to use it in a comedy context. It's the name of a telly series involving a hard-case detective in the Adam and Joe Book.

Did not know that. When I first came across the word (2011 going off the timestamp) I imagined it as a Sean Connery film/character from the 70s.[nb]this should be taken as a criticism of Adam & Joe's obvious line of thinking :P[/nb]. Main reason being itsh a very shir shean word to shay...Shpatcshcork!

[weekender]

All well and good, but I bet it's because of spatchcock chicken.

[samadriel]

Grant Spatchcock's Gourmet Pizza was a sketch on Get This, repeated at the start of the show a couple of times.

[Bhazor]

I'm pretty sure spatchcock  was one of the pg swear words suggested on A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Along with Pimhole.