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« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2018, 11:28:06 AM »
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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« Reply #26 on: April 12, 2018, 11:52:09 AM »
 Victoria Wood's 'Acorn Antiques' was the best soap parody.
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« Reply #27 on: April 12, 2018, 02:19:11 PM »
The Mary Whitehouse Experience.
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Re: what's your favourite comedy or comedy act??
« Reply #28 on: April 12, 2018, 03:59:22 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on April 12, 2018, 11:28:06 AM
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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« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2018, 04:01:56 PM »
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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« Reply #30 on: April 12, 2018, 04:13:19 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on April 12, 2018, 04:01:56 PM
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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« Reply #31 on: April 16, 2018, 02:28:33 PM »
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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« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2018, 02:50:45 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on April 16, 2018, 02:28:33 PM
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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« Reply #33 on: April 17, 2018, 10:20:03 PM »
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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« Reply #34 on: April 17, 2018, 11:49:46 PM »
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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« Reply #35 on: April 17, 2018, 11:51:56 PM »
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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« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2018, 11:54:26 PM »
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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« Reply #37 on: April 18, 2018, 12:07:48 AM »
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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Re: what's your favourite comedy or comedy act??
« Reply #38 on: April 18, 2018, 08:49:45 AM »
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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« Reply #39 on: April 18, 2018, 02:51:40 PM »
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).

Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 12, 2018, 04:13:19 PM
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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Re: what's your favourite comedy or comedy act??
« Reply #40 on: April 18, 2018, 03:00:46 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on April 18, 2018, 02:51:40 PM
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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« Reply #41 on: April 18, 2018, 05:21:58 PM »
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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Re: what's your favourite comedy or comedy act??
« Reply #42 on: April 18, 2018, 07:56:48 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on April 18, 2018, 05:21:58 PM
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 which was an adult themed Richard and Judy parody that went out on a Sunday lunchtime.

Lee also co wrote Jerry Springer the Opera.
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