Old School Comedy Yes Or No

[jon1959]

Re: Old School Comedy Yes Or No

A 2004 'Top 50' of UK television comedies based on a BBC poll (so skewed). Probably Radio Times subscribers:

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/top/

A strange mix of the good, the bad and the ugly.

[the other bob wilson]

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it is interesting how some comedy ages better than others though.
Tommy Cooper was one I never found remotely funny, painfully unfunny- you couldn't have paid me to watch him when I was a teenager, yet I really liked the earlier work of someone like Harry Hill who I can imagine being just as unfunny to someone else if they weren't feeling it.

I can’t imagine anyone thinking Eric Morecambe was not funny, but I get that some would feel like you do about Tommy Cooper.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Old School Comedy Yes Or No

A 2004 'Top 50' of UK television comedies based on a BBC poll (so skewed). Probably Radio Times subscribers:

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/top/

A strange mix of the good, the bad and the ugly.

I see what you mean. One thing that jumps out at me from that list is that I think you have to go to number 27 before you find something that was on ITV and it’s the only one out of the fifty that was.

[jon1959]

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I normally don't like slapstick - but The Plank (1967) is a work of genius.

Norman Wisdom was big in Albania.

[bobh]

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I normally don't like slapstick - but The Plank (1967) is a work of genius.

Norman Wisdom was big in Albania.

Along the same lines as The Plank, but not quite as good, was A home of Your Own, set on a building site

[Rjk]

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I normally don't like slapstick - but The Plank (1967) is a work of genius.

Norman Wisdom was big in Albania.

I guess like any form of comedy there are good examples and bad ones, the bast slapstick can be as cleverly set up and well executed as any word play or bon mot. But the laziest setups or poorly executed examples of slapstick are just afwful aren't they?

I still enjoy this charlie chaplin scene from 92 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9NfXIXzgnA

The original Mr Bean episodes are mostly physical comedy too but really well written with usually a big payoff at the end that has been thought about. Yes they've been done to death, but there's a reason they're so popular

[Rjk]

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I remember enjoying "game on" as a teenager and it was pretty popular amongst my friends - stumbled across an episode on some random channel recently and gave it a watch and my god it was awful - really depressing, not at all funny, a thoroughly miserable experience

[Wales-Bales]

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Rising Damp ......Great comedy actors , superb scripts

My favourite episode, but he would probably be cancelled today!

[bobh]

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Rising Damp, Love thy Neoghbour, Mind Your Language - racist as hell!

[Mr Soul '68]

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Les Dawson .....bit dated but a talented guy

Dick Emery .....cross dressing superstar

One Foot In The Grave ......absolute crap

Rising Damp ......Great comedy actors , superb scripts

Only Fools And Horses .....never thought much of that

Keeping Up Appearances .....shoot anyone involved in that nonsense

Bread ......unfunny scouse cobblers

Porridge ......top stuff

Two Ronnie's........could drag on but had their moments , mastermind and hardware shop being the best

Man About The House ......rubbish but Paula Wilcox was worth watching

Til Death Us Do Part -Awesome

Steptoe & Son - Awesome

[splott parker]

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Not quite old school but The League of Gentlemen was darkly hilarious.

[Rjk]

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Not quite old school but The League of Gentlemen was darkly hilarious.

yeah, could be a bit hit and miss, but at its best it was incredible

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Rising Damp, Love thy Neoghbour, Mind Your Language - racist as hell!

Rising Damp showed the stupidity of Rigsbys ignorance but the other two were shocking

[BLUETIT]

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I normally don't like slapstick - but The Plank (1967) is a work of genius.

Norman Wisdom was big in Albania.

It was post 10

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[BLUETIT]

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It was post 10

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=th...id:aUbcaE44cSw

My bad, just noticed this is a later version, here’s the original

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&q=the+plank+(1967+full+movie)&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjM9-LsrbH_AhVqQEEAHdBvDsMQ1QJ6BAgeEAE&biw=375&bih=548&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8aca2d96,vid:kKJcR24njrs