[TV] ‘Ave you seen it? Eh? ‘Ave you seen it?

[essbee1]

I remember when Arthur Askey passed away there were some awful jibes about Arthur Ashtray etc etc.
Disrespectful in the extreme.

 

[Brovion]

I'm with @jcdenton08, Arthur Atkinson and entourage were the funniest thing on the show.

Caroline Ahern's "what did I say, Roy?" character was also quality. Ted and Ralph, Unlucky Alf, the fruit machine know-it-all, the bloke in the pub who's opinion changed with the slightest bit of pressure. Actually it was all absolute quality really.

Also it has, unlike a lot of comedy, aged really well. It's what, 30 years since the series started and as this thread has proved it's still funny today. A lot of classics from the 70s were all but unwatchable in the 2000s, and not just the more obvious racist/sexist ones. Monty Python's Flying Circus for example, has large sections which really aren't funny at all. (Although the good bits still are really good).

 

[Stato]

Monty Python's Flying Circus for example, has large sections which really aren't funny at all. (Although the good bits still are really good).

That's not ageing. Even on first showing Python had lots of bits that didn't work. I suppose that's the nature of making experimental stuff.

 

[boik]

That reminds me, I bumped into and said hello to Charlie Higson in the bar before Only Fools musical at the Dome. There to see his mate Paul Whitehouse in the show I assume. Told him I loved the Fast Show and he was very gracious and polite.

I saw The Higsons at Dingwalls in the early 80s. I thought they were great. Surprised me when I saw him on TV later.

 

[Lankyseagull]

It was brilliant, wasn’t it? Dragged myself out of bed for that one to take my elderly Mum who’s a big fan. We’d previously seen it in town with a mostly different cast (except Trigger, Whitehouse and Cassandra/Marlene).

Slight shame the van was cut though, and no idea why unless there’s no space for it backstage.

Yes, we wondered why the van wasn't in it. I guess you're right, too big for the space backstage.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Really? I thought "Hi, I'm Ed Winchester", and "You ain't seen me, right?" were easily the two worst things. Swiss Toni was great - but then appreciating Swiss Toni is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman ...

I'd add to that Jesse's Diets "This week I have been mostly eating...taramasalata". Not for me, Clive.

However, the bulk of the show was brilliant and I bet there's hardly anyone who watched it back in the 90s who isn't still using a catchphrase or two in everyday life.

I still use "Scorchio!", "Black!", "Nice!", "Suits you, sir", "...which was nice"

 

[Man of Harveys]

Except that, all these decades later, surely I’m not the only one who will still occasionally attempt to entertain with the odd “this week I have been mostly wearing…Lacoste”. To much ensuing general hilarity, obviously. So Jesse’s Diets does have longevity.

 

[dazzer6666]

Billy Bleach







….and the best of all

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

I still tell my other half to 'put her knickers on and get me a cup of tea'

She usually tells me to fu(k off however

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Always loved the Fast Show. As said above, it hasn’t aged. As a teenager I loved it and we would quote it all the time at school and today, I can still appreciate it on another level. Paul Whitehouse is a genius.

Great thread, thank you

 

[ROSM]

I love how the fast show came about.

Some of the cast worked on the harry Enfield and chums show. They were all attending a press preview showing which was basically all the characters in short 2 min sketches ending with their punchline. It was known as the fast edit

Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse turned turned to each other and said it was funnier than the series and decided to film a pilot show in a similar fashion which then became the series known as the fast show

 

[jcdenton08]

“But that was Arthur, a bully and a cheat.”

 

[Weststander]

Milligan, Cooper (the jokes, not the ITV prog in his later years) and Whitehouse, all geniuses imho. Love their work. Complete nuts.

Much of the Palin, Cleese, Chapman stuff too.

 

[Weststander]

My family don't particularly get that one, but laugh at my laughter (or at me ).

 

[Beach Hut]

Ted and Ralph were amazing characters. Paul Whitehouse does poignancy incredibly well. These two scenes particularly:





Also Rowley Birkin

The vegetable drinking game with Ted and Ralph would easily be in the top 10 all time British comedy sketches.

It is simply magnificent

 

[jcdenton08]

The vegetable drinking game with Ted and Ralph would easily be in the top 10 all time British comedy sketches.

It is simply magnificent

The writing and the performances are just sublime. Higson’s… “dead” is just magnificent

 

[dazzer6666]

I'd add to that Jesse's Diets "This week I have been mostly eating...taramasalata". Not for me, Clive.

However, the bulk of the show was brilliant and I bet there's hardly anyone who watched it back in the 90s who isn't still using a catchphrase or two in everyday life.

I still use "Scorchio!", "Black!", "Nice!", "Suits you, sir", "...which was nice"

‘Channel Nine‘ was probably my least favourite sketch of the whole lot………

Ridiculous when you think how many different characters there were. Really liked Johnny Nice Painter, Competitive Dad, ‘Anyone fancy a pint’ etc as well as the more obvious favourites. Still regularly watch the shows and, and if anyone is thinking of going to the live show do it, it’s a walk through all the best catchphrases - like you loads still used in our social group.…..’ohhh bugger, I knew that were gonna happen’

 

[Jaxie]

Loved the Fast Show, absolute favourite was the Jazz Club….
Nice