Harry and Paul...

[Titanic]

irredeemable shite? or am I missing something??

 

[Norman Potting]

It was ok but not a patch on their "classic" output or the "Fast Show".

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

It was ok but not a patch on their "classic" output or the "Fast Show".

Agreed but it had it's moments of mirth.

TNBA

TTF

 

[Titanic]

Agreed but it had it's moments of mirth.

TNBA

TTF

I sat through the whole benighted 30 minutes of excrescence, can you remind me of the 'moment of mirth' ?

 

[T soprano]

I was gonna start a thread on this after watching it on sunday night but didn't think anyone would of watched it because it was so bad the lamest jokes and characters (parking pataway ) I turned over with 10 mins left
Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse two of my favourite comics reduced to that shite

 

[The Brighton Buzz]

Used to like the fast show, but this was utter crap. Kept expecting it to improve and it did, when it finished.

 

[element]

Most comedies/formats have 'currency', and begin to wane quite quickly. Little Britain did one (?) mainstream series, then something about an airport, which wasn't much kop. It's just a human need for novelty, that seems to have been turned up several notches...

 

[T soprano]

I think The Catherine Tate show was the last good show of funny sketches, characters & catchphrases since then I can't think of anything that's come close shame after this country produced
The Fast Show
Monty Python
Harry Enfield & friends
Little Britain
And any others I've forgot to mention

 

[element]

It's Andy Warhols's 15 minutes of fame writ large. I suppose it's better than 30 years of Morecambe and Wise, and The Two Ronnies et al. And don't get me started on all the luvvies pitching up on TV these days for nostalgic looks back to the days of old

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I think The Catherine Tate show was the last good show of funny sketches, characters & catchphrases since then I can't think of anything that's come close shame after this country produced
The Fast Show
Monty Python
Harry Enfield & friends
Little Britain
And any others I've forgot to mention

Vic Reeves Big Night Out

 

[wolfie]

Vic Reeves Big Night Out

Little Britain suffered because every week it repeated the same joke (Bloke in wheelchair gets out behind carer's back / Transvestite insists he's a lady etc)

Python, at the time (69-72) was easily the funniest thing I had ever seen - but even they ran out of ideas eventually and, I believe, Cleese left at one stage because he realised it. Some sketches in their later shows were abysmal. The same happened to the films (Meaning of Life was rubbish)

Fawlty was the ideal model. Just 12 shows and they all become classics.

 

[wunt be druv]

Desperately disappointing, really wanted to enjoy it but it seemed to end up as self indulgent bollocks.

 

[OSRGull]

Should watch cuckoo !

Meanwhile I'm catching up on 'our war' which is very good and interesting.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

irredeemable shite? or am I missing something??

Nope, don't find them funny at all. Harry peaked with "loadsofmoney", downhill since.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

thought it was ok,never going to be as good as the classic Enfield and whitehouse stuff but better than most of the shit thats on.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

"Enfield and Whitehouse - REDEEM YOURSELVES..!!!"

 

[tottenhamseagull]

I thought this was a thread about Redknapp and Barber

 

[Moshe Gariani]

all of these characters are funny - not sure any others are

 

[Southern Scouse]

And I thought this thread was about Harry (Redknap) and Paul (Jewell)'s futures.
Oh well....

 

[Codner pharmaceuticals]

Talking of terrible comedy...does anyone find Count Arthur Strong on radio 4 vaguely amusing? It seems the whole premise is a man who gets words confused. My ears still haven't forgiven me for having it on on the way home last week.