Not the Nine O'Clock News

[Badger]

I love the Game for a Laugh sketch too.

"We went round to his house and cut his wife's head off"

 

[Norman Potting]

Rowan Atkinson as a green alien was one if my favourite childhood memories. My brother and I used to cry with laughter at that sketch! Probably very unfunny now but at the time it was priceless!

Fond memories of seeing him do this live at the Dome in the early '80's when he toured as a solo performer, with a couple of "straight" men to help with a few of the sketches (anyone recall who they may have been?). I recall that the show was spectacularly and trouser wettingly funny, he was inducing (genuine) hysteria with just a twitch of the face or his pronunciation - remember the "calling the register" sketch?

 

[Badger]

Fond memories of seeing him do this live at the Dome in the early '80's when he toured as a solo performer, with a couple of "straight" men to help with a few of the sketches (anyone recall who they may have been?). I recall that the show was spectacularly and trouser wettingly funny, he was inducing (genuine) hysteria with just a twitch of the face or his pronunciation - remember the "calling the register" sketch?

I used to have a video of one of those shows, Angus Deayton was one of the "straight" men.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Being repeated on Gold. Wonderfully dated, but god it had it moments.

Cut off their goolies.

On now.

Appears to be the first series without Gryff Rhys Jones full time. Gets better in later series, climaxing with Gerald The Gorilla.

It was very clever, very funny and ahead of its time. Gerald The Gorilla was genius: 'Wild, I was livid'

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I remember having a Not The Nine O Clock News lp with some of the sketches and songs on it. Used to play it relentlessly as a teenager. I think there was a follow up to.

Yes, yes, so did I. I had two.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Is it still an offence to be in possession of curly black hair and think lips?

And what about T Suter the schoolboy who kept writing about a parrot owned by his aunt who he lived with?

"You arrested him for wearing a loud shirt in a built up area."

 

[The Large One]

Fond memories of seeing him do this live at the Dome in the early '80's when he toured as a solo performer, with a couple of "straight" men to help with a few of the sketches (anyone recall who they may have been?). I recall that the show was spectacularly and trouser wettingly funny, he was inducing (genuine) hysteria with just a twitch of the face or his pronunciation - remember the "calling the register" sketch?

Was that a Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch? I've only ever seen Rowan Atkinson do it in The Secret Policeman's Ball.

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[LamieRobertson]

Was that a Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch? I've only ever seen Rowan Atkinson do it in The Secret Policeman's Ball.

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I'm pretty sure i never saw it on NTNON

 

[Billy in Bristol]

I'm pretty sure i never saw it on NTNON

It was material from his Solo Tour...Live From Belfast was the comedy tape I remember from our youth!

Great thread...

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Will we have Pamela Anderson doing her American Express advert on the big screens at the Amex?

In the same show there was also Griff Rhys-Jones in the ticket Office, whose reply was "American Express? What, ain't you got no money?

How times change.