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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Grace of God on April 10, 2018, 07:17:09 PM
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I have always loved Morecambe and wise..
the two Ronnies...
Porridge..
Only fools and horses...
you can't beat a good laugh... :) :)
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I have always loved Morecambe and wise..
the two Ronnies...
Porridge..
Only fools and horses...
you can't beat a good laugh... :) :)
oops I forgot all the carry on movies and hale and pace...
black adder..
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I approve of your taste in comedy, if not much else.
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Yes so do I.
Loved 'The Young Ones' and 'Whose Line is it Anyway'. Reeves & Mortimer always had me in stitches & I still remember some of their sketches.
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Ronnie Barker for me was the best comedy actor with David Jason coming in a close second. The Two Ronnies, Only Fools And Horses, Porridge, and Open All Hours. There were others I liked too, such as The Fast Show and Men Behaving Badly.
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I approve of your taste in comedy, if not much else.
thank you.. :)
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Our favourites are 'Dad's Army', 'Hi di Hi' and 'The Vicar of Dibley'.
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Yes so do I.
Loved 'The Young Ones' and 'Whose Line is it Anyway'. Reeves & Mortimer always had me in stitches & I still remember some of their sketches.
they were all great. :)
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Our favourites are 'Dad's Army', 'Hi di Hi' and 'The Vicar of Dibley'.
all absolute classics, the episode the vicar had Christmas dinner at several houses was brilliant..
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Ronnie Barker for me was the best comedy actor with David Jason coming in a close second. The Two Ronnies, Only Fools And Horses, Porridge, and Open All Hours. There were others I liked too, such as The Fast Show and Men Behaving Badly.
classic comedy is timeless,... MASH was pretty good too..
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Why han't anyone mentioned Dave Allen?
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Why han't anyone mentioned Dave Allen?
Seconded. Funniest stand up (sit down) man I can think of.
In addition Victoria Wood. Funniest woman stand up I can think of.
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Les Dawson.
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We also liked 'Allo Allo' and 'Waiting for God'.
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My son has spent the rainy part of the Easter hols binge-watching Frasier. I’d remembered how funny it was (and is) but the passing of time has also made me appreciate the warmth of it, even the wisdom in places.
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Why han't anyone mentioned Dave Allen?
good point... "and may your God go with you"... :)
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We also liked 'Allo Allo' and 'Waiting for God'.
I loved the police man in allo allo getting his words mixed up trying to speak French... :)
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I'd put in a mention for Rikki Fulton as well.
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Been enjoying Cunk on Britain
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Fawty Towers.
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Fawty Towers.
Good shout.
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Fawty Towers.
Fawlty Towers was one of the very few things my dad and I shared a taste in. The Tuesday evenings we spent watching it together were a bonding experience for us. There weren't that many (episodes or bonding experiences). I knew he loved me but we had little in common. I now struggle to watch them as they are like 30 minute black holes of meaning, the comedy overwhelmed by the pathos. It's near 40 years ago we watched the last one, and I can still hear his laugh.
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Yes, Fawlty Towers is a favourite here.
Last of the Summer Wine; The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; The Big Bang Theory....
and Norman Wisdom..
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Seconded. Funniest stand up (sit down) man I can think of.
In addition Victoria Wood. Funniest woman stand up I can think of.
Both were extraordinary and lovely. In addition as performers for me
Robin Williams
Bill Hicks
Richard Pryor
Billy Connolly
Dylan Moran
For shows
Bilko
MASH
Frasier
Screenwipe
Father Ted
Black Books
Community
Brass Eye
Yes Minister
Inside No 9
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Been enjoying Cunk on Britain
Brilliant! Someone posted her piece about Sir Francis Drake on Facebook: "...the Golden Hinde, which is Tudor for the Arse of Gold...".
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Does anyone remember, "Soap"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_(TV_series)
Very popular when I was a teen,not jut amongst teenagers. So funny, I remember a lot of it to this day.
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Victoria Wood's 'Acorn Antiques' was the best soap parody.
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The Mary Whitehouse Experience.
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Does anyone remember, "Soap"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_(TV_series)
Very popular when I was a teen,not jut amongst teenagers. So funny, I remember a lot of it to this day.
Yes. Remember it well. Created by Susan Harris who went on to produce the even better imo Golden Girls.
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I never saw the Golden Girls. 'Soap' was wonderful though, "Let Jessica Live!". Bert believing he was invisible. Benson.
Marvellous stuff.
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I never saw the Golden Girls. 'Soap' was wonderful though, "Let Jessica Live!". Bert believing he was invisible. Benson.
Marvellous stuff.
Jessica i.e. Katherine Helmond is still alive
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Stuart Lee is the best stand up comic working today IMO.
You can find on Youtube a stand up show in Glasgow he did in which he spends half an hour or so taking the piss out of Scots and William Wallace Braveheart (as he calls him) and he doesn't lose the audience. It's genius.
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Stuart Lee is the best stand up comic working today IMO.
You can find on Youtube a stand up show in Glasgow he did in which he spends half an hour or so taking the piss out of Scots and William Wallace Braveheart (as he calls him) and he doesn't lose the audience. It's genius.
He is brilliant.
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I really enjoyed 'Outnumbered'. It was so typical of a chaotic London family and very clever. Loved those kids - & the poor parents :).
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I think my favourites are pretty much most people’s. Blackadder, Father Ted etc. Got into the Mighty Boosh not so long ago.
Recently we’ve got into Upstart Crow. I like comedy where the writers think you will get the references. Frasier is like that too.
I love improvised comedy. Loved Whose Line Is It Anyway in its heyday. Josie Lawrence, Tony Slattery, Paul Merton, John Sessions, Greg Proops, Mike McShane... great stuff.
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Loved all of those people, used to 'do' 'Whose Line is it Anyway' at home.
Blackadder of course & Father Ted is classic.
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When my iPod dies in the car we entertain ourselves by singing My Lovely Horse. We’ve been known to sing it in the supermarket too. Both versions of course.
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Oh I love that too!
My favourite Fr Ted episode was when he had to prove he wasn't a racist after putting a lampshade on his head and pretending to be Chinese. Stephen Hawking was in that episode.
Also the one with Fr Dougal's hamster.
Father Ted was a Marmite programme, my husband couldn't bear it. He also doesn't like 'Mrs Brown's Boys' which I do and actually belly laugh through it - he tries hard not to smile. Just thinking about Mrs Brown trying to resuscitate a robot baby is making me chuckle - but I must retire to bed.Thankfully my first appointment is at 10 tomorrow & I'm gping straight there.
Night all (I've enjoyed this forum today).
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Ooh Robbie, admitting to liking Mrs Browns Boys. Very controversial.
However, I like you, find it very hard not to laugh.
Even when the joke has been flagged & flogged, signalled, spelt out and used before, I still laugh.
I can only put it down to a singular lack of malice in the comedy and a genuine warmth that seems to emanate from the cast. This may, of course, be entirely engineered; but however it is achieved it certainly tickles me.
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Very glad you like it too Trent! I am laughing now just thinking about Mrs Brown (have to go to the loo quickly- that actually sounds like a Mrs Brown joke).
Jessica i.e. Katherine Helmond is still alive
Well I did mean Jessica Tate, the character, not Katherine Helmond but glad she is still alive. Soap was wonderful.
I've never heard of Stuart Lee who has been mentioned on this thread, will look him up later but have to go off now.
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Very glad you like it too Trent! I am laughing now just thinking about Mrs Brown (have to go to the loo quickly- that actually sounds like a Mrs Brown joke).
Well I did mean Jessica Tate, the character, not Katherine Helmond but glad she is still alive. Soap was wonderful.
I've never heard of Stuart Lee who has been mentioned on this thread, will look him up later but have to go off now.
It's Stewart Lee (to be precise) and here is the piece Jeremyp was referring to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHA1ufmLZQY
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Thanks for that, still don't recognise him, will watch the youtube clip when I get home.
Another one who has been mentioned is Lee Francis but when I googled I saw he was Keith Lemon. Don't care for him much. Could just be my taste.
When I was at school Python was very popular & the popularity went on to the next generation, lots of young people quote bits of it. I loved it as I did Fawlty Towers later.
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Thanks for that, still don't recognise him, will watch the youtube clip when I get home.
He used to be one half of Lee and Herring with Richard Herring. They had a BBC show in the 90's I believe and also This Morning with Richard Not Judy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Morning_with_Richard_Not_Judy) which was an adult themed Richard and Judy parody that went out on a Sunday lunchtime.
Lee also co wrote Jerry Springer the Opera.