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I’m a doctor and I want my sausages and that scene where Basil has a kipper sticking out the top of his jumper.
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Eric the Half a Bee
It felt like it! :hehe:
How’s Olive? Still as stunning as ever?:yikes:
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splott parker
How’s Olive? Still as stunning as ever?:yikes:
Sludge would.
I used to know an old musician who reckoned she was one of the most talentless people he'd worked with.
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I still laugh everytime I see the scene where Basil realises that the dead guy wasnt killed by eating the kipper and starts jumping up and down shouting hooray as the doctor walks in.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
a lot of comedy dates
Only fools and horses , one foot in the sodding grave etc
But Fawlty Towers , Porridge etc are so well written they still seem fresh
Fawlty Titties
This is still one of the funniest scenes I have seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Rh...=SeanDelahunty.
This isn't far behind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5u...channel=Nemspy
I've seen a couple of episodes of One foot in the grave in recent years and still find much of it just as funny
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Elwood Blues
Superbly written sitcom. All the little, seemingly unlinked threads are there at the start of each episode and it all pulls together like a tapestry. It's not difficult to spot that David Renwick also wrote Jonathan Creek.
I'll raise you this attempt to escape from Ronnie and Mildred.... https://youtu.be/Daw9v3wIhNY?t=524
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Eric the Half a Bee
Superbly written sitcom. All the little, seemingly unlinked threads are there at the start of each episode and it all pulls together like a tapestry. It's not difficult to spot that David Renwick also wrote Jonathan Creek.
I'll raise you this attempt to escape from Ronnie and Mildred....
https://youtu.be/Daw9v3wIhNY?t=524
Ah good old Ronnie and Mildred.
Yes you are right. Renwick is a clever writer. Haven't seen all the Jonathan Creeks but some of them are excellent. Must try and see some more sometime.
Richard Wilson gives me the excuse to segue to another of my favourite old series......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAuD...annel=HatTrick
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now come on, you're being silly.
https://youtu.be/NGXDQsfFuNM
could have been made yesterday
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Someone who doesn’t date is Groucho, obviously brilliant in The Marx Bros films but the ‘50s show ‘You Bet Your Life’ (catch it on YouTube) is superb television. The man was a genius in any era.
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the other bob wilson
My Dad especially only had to see Tommy Cooper walk on to a stage and he’d be laughing. I wasn’t as bad as him, but I could see why he reacted like he did - Tommy Cooper was genuinely funny man. I’m definitely in the camp which thinks that he had to be a good magician to look as bad as he did (like Les Dawson’s piano playing really). Tommy Cooper’s jokes would have me laughing despite me also thinking that’s one of the most feeble things I’ve heard - it’d be interesting to see the reaction of a young audience to his act, I really don’t know what they would make of it.
Tommy Cooper was a good magician. He was a member of the Magic Circle
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Elwood Blues
Tommy Cooper was a good magician. He was a member of the Magic Circle
..so is Debbie McGee
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Watched some old clips of Dave Allen recently, still found them very funny indeed.
like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVPUIRGthI
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kendoddsdadsdogsdead
..so is Debbie McGee
Yes she is also a trained magician. First female member of the Circle in 1991
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Elwood Blues
Yes she is also a trained magician. First female member of the Circle in 1991
Wikipedia says it was founded in 1905. That's a long time to refuse to admit women, especially as Prince Charles, who I'm quite sure is not an experienced stage magician, was allowed in in 1975.
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Elwood Blues
Yes she is also a trained magician. First female member of the Circle in 1991
but which one would sludge hypothetically do ?
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kendoddsdadsdogsdead
..so is Debbie McGee
She was a sort in her day
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SLUDGE FACTORY
She was a sort in her day
I was followed by every ****ing whore
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kendoddsdadsdogsdead
I was followed by every ****ing whore
I went into the city to show my private parts
I went into the festival hall and they began to fart
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SLUDGE FACTORY
I went into the city to show my private parts
I went into the festival hall and they began to fart
ere what we got here..a pair of enormous balls
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SLUDGE FACTORY
herds of wildebeest!
Hanging gardens of Babylon
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kendoddsdadsdogsdead
ere what we got here..a pair of enormous balls
by christ all feking mighty they could fill the Albert Hall
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splott parker
Hampshire won
Did it?
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I Know we've moved a bit away from the sitcoms
But I know likes Pete and Dud in the Derek and Clive personna's.
Here though is one of my favourite sketchs from their 60's show Not Only But Also
Sadly in common with many shows of the period a lot have been wiped.
However this gloriously silly sketch is one of those that survives
I think I have put it on here before but it is good enough for a second showing
I present The Leaping Nuns of Norwich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TLL...hannel=PigHead
Oh and a bonus the Art Gallery Sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejN...l=COOKandMOORE
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I've just seen this bit Of Cook and Moore Genius on you tub for the first time in 55 years ( I saw it when it was first broadcast in 1966
Pure genius
Superthunderstingcar is go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UemT...annel=anthonyc