[Humour] Comedy's that have aged well and those that haven't

[studio150]

Rising Damp, really? Still extremely watchable.

Sorry no, watched a few episodes a couple of weeks ago, and gave up. Just didn't find it as enjoyable as it was in my memory.

But all comedy is down to the individual, some people even find Mrs Browns Boys and Miranda funny.

 

[Weststander]

Mash 'was' special but having seen a couple lately I don't think it has aged well, maybe it's the annoying canned laughter!

Agree though about Ripping Yarns.

Good point. A plus with the MASH movie.

I wonder if they can digitally remove the canned laughter and a comedy retain its essence?

 

[lawros left foot]

Are we still talking about what aged well and what didn’t, or are we talking about what we’ve always liked, on a personal basis, and what we never liked.

I loved The Likely Lads and the follow up, but I haven’t watched it in 40 ( ?) years since it finished, so, in my mind it is still funny. I also liked Steptoe, bu, again I haven’t watched it since it finished on the BBC. Would I still find them funny( and acceptable) I really don’t know

The memory of these, and other ‘classic’ sit coms are still good ones, and I really think they were funnier than, off the top of my head, Citizen Khan, Miranda, and the vast amount of more recent comedy.

I very rarely laugh out loud at sit coms now, not that I watch many , anyway.

Edit: Rereading this after I posted it, there was also some vert very bad sit coms when I was younger, Bottle Boys, The Dustbin men, Terry and June, Only when I laugh, Mind your Language, absolutely dire.

 

[drew]

Good point. A plus with the MASH movie.

I wonder if they can digitally remove the canned laughter and a comedy retain its essence?

Agree, the movie is still a great watch.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Love it!

Great to see the deaf being catered for here by these real characters in anoraks.

 

[Skaville]

I watched a few episodes of the Mighty Boosh the other day. Thought it had aged well.

On another note, Shrinking, which is very current, is bloody brilliant.

 

[chip]

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore still make me laugh

 

[clapham_gull]

Check out Terry and June on Britbox.

 

[Littlemo]

Aged badly - On the buses.

 

[jcdenton08]

Great to see the deaf being catered for here by these real characters in anoraks.

A couple of youngsters there, fooling around. Let's hope that tomfoolery doesn't escalate into blind, ugly violence. Which, lets face it, none of us want to see.

 

[Silverhatch]

Very much of it's time

Still very much - essential middle England with a nod to a modernity tweak

 

[TugWilson]

aged brilliantly :

Shelley

Red Dwarf

Yes Minister / Prime Minister

aged badly :

Keeping up Appearances

Birds of a Feather

Home Sweet Home

 

[Pevenseagull]

Next week I'm going to be the same age as Richard Wilson was when Victor Meldrew first appeared on T.V.







I don't f***ing believe it.

 

[METALMICKY]

Not aged well

Rising Damp
It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Love Thy Neighbour


Aged well

MASH
Tommy Cooper
Ripping Yarns

The essential problem with It Ain't Half Hot Mum even back then was it was simply so unfunny. Bit harsh on Rising Damp.

Loved Ripping Yarns particularly the Curse of the Claw. Was not that keen on Tommy Cooper and today's random fact about him is that contrary to local lore he never lived in Eastbourne!

 

[Klaas]

Aged badly: The Young Ones

Feels like blasphemy but I agree. Incredible at the time, I have tried watching it again in recent years...

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Aged well - Love thy neighbour

I cant understand for the life of me why it hasn’t been re-run.

 

[anygivensunday]

Interesting what we mean by aged well. Names keep popping up for both aged well and badly. Aged well based on how society has changed? Or if it's still funny? Or if today's youngsters would find it funny?

Something like the Young Ones I would argue has aged badly, not cos it isn't funny but because it's so of it's time. I don't think any of today's students would even understand it.

As a teacher I 've showed some of the 'yout' clips of the likes of Blackadder, The Office, Harry Enfield etc. Blackadder got a few chuckles. Harry Enfield they didn't get at all. Mind you, if you've seen the level of humour the teenagers are exposed to today on tiktok etc perhaps not surprising..

 

[Dick Swiveller]

The essential problem with It Ain't Half Hot Mum even back then was it was simply so unfunny. Bit harsh on Rising Damp.

Loved Ripping Yarns particularly the Curse of the Claw. Was not that keen on Tommy Cooper and today's random fact about him is that contrary to local lore he never lived in Eastbourne!

He had a holiday home in Motcombe so depends on your definition of "lived"

 

[METALMICKY]

He had a holiday home in Motcombe so depends on your definition of "lived"

That's correct it was purely a holiday home and yes on occasions he did visit the Hurst Arms. That does not count as lived and similarly Roger Moore never lived in South Cliff Tower.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Has Little Britain/Come Fly With Me not aged well because that's what the wokerati want us to think?

I still remember that first episode of CFWM on Xmas night, just before the start of the Ashes Boxing Day test, whilst we all thought it was brilliantly written, we all sat at my Brother In Laws wondering how Walliams and Lucas got it made given the content?

14 years on, they'd be escorted out of the BBC

Returning to Watford Zero's original question.

Porridge has stood the test of time, now 50 years old and still laugh out loud funny.

And Barker, like Gervais and Cleese, went for quality not quantity, 18 episodes, 2 Xmas specials.