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''Only an Excuse?'' is an annual Scottish football comedy sketch show that airs each Hogmanay. Starring actor and comedian Jonathan Watson, the show features impressions of some of Scottish football's great characters such as Denis Law, Tommy Burns, Barry Ferguson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Frank McAvennie, Walter Smith and Graeme Souness, as well as caricatures of the "typical" Celtic and Rangers fan. == History == ''Only an Excuse?'' was first broadcast as a one-off special on BBC Radio Scotland, prior to the 1987 Scottish Cup Final. It was a parody of the five-part BBC Scotland television documentary ''Only a Game?'',〔("Scotzine.com - The Home of Scottish Football" )〕 which had aired in Scotland prior to the 1986 World Cup Finals and comprehensively documented the history of Scottish football. The documentary was written and narrated by Scottish novelist William McIlvanney. Jonathan Watson expertly mimicked McIlvanney's distinctive voice as narrator of the radio spoof. After further occasional radio specials including ''Only Another Excuse?'', ''A Tale of Two Seasons'', and ''Only a World Cup Excuse'', all of which were released on cassette by BBC Scotland, the show made the switch to television in 1993, retaining its original double act of Rangers fan Watson and Celtic fan Tony Roper. The first episode replaced Rikki Fulton's long-running annual comedy sketch show ''Scotch and Wry'' in the Hogmanay television schedules. A new episode of ''Only an Excuse?'' has been shown every New Year's Eve since then. The increasing popularity of the programme has seen it transferred to the theatre, with the most recent performance of ''Only An Excuse?'' taking place at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, in September 2004. The scripts of the early theatre shows, written by Philip Differ, were published in the book ''Only an Excuse?: The Scripts'' by Mainstream Publishing in 1995, and DVDs of the programme are regularly released. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Only an Excuse?」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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