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Oooh, you are awful
This morning in Sainsburys' cereals aisle. They've been messing about with the layout and you can't find anything. So what was I to say when a nice young lady came up to me and asked me where I'd got my nut clusters? Oh, how I wish I'd been a bit quicker on the response. Not that a black eye would have suited me, mind you.
Back in my schooldays, I had a saturday job in a Watford department store where I attended the needs of the town's DIY-ers. Many of the staff there were 'resting' actors - the local theatre was run by Jimmy Perry, who was later to co-write Dad's Army, Allo Allo and It Ain't Half Hot Mum - and the level of dodgy banter around the place was considerable. Indeed, Are You being Served? was very largely based on memories of that store. (We had our very own Captain Peacock, pinstripe suit, moustache and carnation buttonhole, the full works.) There were Mrs Slocombes in every department.
So when Janet Mullen (she of Dr Finlay's Casebook) confided in me that a lady had come up to her one day in haberdashery, asking where she could get felt?, she had been less than professional in her response. We weren't supposed to giggle at the customers, but fortunately this one was prepared to make an exception for her because she was famous. Happy days.
BJ
Back in my schooldays, I had a saturday job in a Watford department store where I attended the needs of the town's DIY-ers. Many of the staff there were 'resting' actors - the local theatre was run by Jimmy Perry, who was later to co-write Dad's Army, Allo Allo and It Ain't Half Hot Mum - and the level of dodgy banter around the place was considerable. Indeed, Are You being Served? was very largely based on memories of that store. (We had our very own Captain Peacock, pinstripe suit, moustache and carnation buttonhole, the full works.) There were Mrs Slocombes in every department.
So when Janet Mullen (she of Dr Finlay's Casebook) confided in me that a lady had come up to her one day in haberdashery, asking where she could get felt?, she had been less than professional in her response. We weren't supposed to giggle at the customers, but fortunately this one was prepared to make an exception for her because she was famous. Happy days.
BJ
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Changed times?
I was served in Sainsburys yesterday by a perfectly efficient woman at the checkout till. But why did she have a moustache?
I was served in Sainsburys yesterday by a perfectly efficient woman at the checkout till. But why did she have a moustache?
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Was that Dick Emery who said that? Dressed up as a Woman and then shoved them in the chest? Takes me back.
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nimnarb wrote:Was that Dick Emery who said that? Dressed up as a Woman and then shoved them in the chest? Takes me back.
"Mandy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkLRZzukcJc
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Great stuff. Thx. Only the English can giggle non-stop at that ridiculous tosh, so funny. Which reminds me. Anyone been to see Fawlty Towers being played in London? It appears to be a three course dinner show that totally re-creates the series. You go to have a proper meal and the fun and games begin. Interested to hear how they pull this off and if anyone has seen it, your comments?
http://www.torquaysuitetheatre.com/
http://www.torquaysuitetheatre.com/
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nimnarb wrote:Great stuff. Thx. Only the English can giggle non-stop at that ridiculous tosh, so funny.
Not necessarily. I recall that Benny Hill was a 1970s megastar in Germany, where the national sense of humour used to revolve very much around beer, farting, short skirts, brass bands and big boobies. So he was right up their street with that kind of stuff. He made a lot of money out of it.
A tiny minority of very avant-garde Germans was attuned to Monty Python from the very start, but the general German taste for TV satire had hardly developed before the mid-1980s. A bit like America, then?
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Didn't know zee Germans had a sense of humour(spelt right), possibly just a dirty mind.(sorry if I offended any Germans here, not intended )
Americans have no humor as can't even spell it right.
Americans have no humor as can't even spell it right.
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nimnarb wrote:Didn't know zee Germans had a sense of humour(spelt right), possibly just a dirty mind.(sorry if I offended any Germans here, not intended )
As the Monty Python Papperbok declared very early on, it is (or was?) extremely hard to insult a German. Their best suggestion was to try calling his Mercedes a Volkswagen.
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nimnarb wrote:Great stuff. Thx. Only the English can giggle non-stop at that ridiculous tosh, so funny.
Well the Germans love this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVd_VLO9xcc and are often amazed that we Brits don't know it.
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Seen that before, couldn't watch it all. Suppose in its day was considered funny.
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Monty Python. Far to avant garde for my taste. Dead parrot? More of a dead sketch. Four Yorkshire men marginally passable for humour.
You reckon. From memory here's a selection, of the ones I can recall that I avidly watched and followed that cracked me up.
Jack Benny Show
Amos & Andy Show
Phil Silvers Show
Burns & Allen Show
I Love Lucy Show
Dick van Dyke Show
Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Beverley Hillbillies
Hogan's Heros
McHale's Navy
Gilligan's Island
My Favourite Martian
The Munsters
The Adams Family
The Flintstones
Mr. Ed
M.A.S.H.
Rowan&Martins Laugh In
Richard Pryor
Soap
Happy Days
Taxi
Welcome Back Cotter
Barney Miller
The Bob Newhart Show
The Odd Couple
Archie Bunker
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Roseanne
Seinfeld
The Wonder Years
Home Improvement
3rd Rock From The Sun
Spin City
Coach
Everybody Loves Raymond
Cheers
Friends
Frazier
The Big Bang Theory
Having written that list I now realise where half my life went!
Own up time. I have never watched The Simpsons.
nimnarb wrote:Americans have no humor as can't even spell it right.
You reckon. From memory here's a selection, of the ones I can recall that I avidly watched and followed that cracked me up.
Jack Benny Show
Amos & Andy Show
Phil Silvers Show
Burns & Allen Show
I Love Lucy Show
Dick van Dyke Show
Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Beverley Hillbillies
Hogan's Heros
McHale's Navy
Gilligan's Island
My Favourite Martian
The Munsters
The Adams Family
The Flintstones
Mr. Ed
M.A.S.H.
Rowan&Martins Laugh In
Richard Pryor
Soap
Happy Days
Taxi
Welcome Back Cotter
Barney Miller
The Bob Newhart Show
The Odd Couple
Archie Bunker
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Roseanne
Seinfeld
The Wonder Years
Home Improvement
3rd Rock From The Sun
Spin City
Coach
Everybody Loves Raymond
Cheers
Friends
Frazier
The Big Bang Theory
Having written that list I now realise where half my life went!
Own up time. I have never watched The Simpsons.
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I have seen the show you mean in Edinburgh. Very funny although it does depend on the participation of the audience. Probably worthwhile but I would not guarantee it.
For the rest of this stuff? You English are welcome to it.
Dod
I have seen the show you mean in Edinburgh. Very funny although it does depend on the participation of the audience. Probably worthwhile but I would not guarantee it.
For the rest of this stuff? You English are welcome to it.
Dod
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Slarti wrote:nimnarb wrote:Great stuff. Thx. Only the English can giggle non-stop at that ridiculous tosh, so funny.
Well the Germans love this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVd_VLO9xcc and are often amazed that we Brits don't know it.
Slarti
Yes, they watch it every New Year's Eve. I've seen it twice but it reminds me of those 30 minute Carry-On spin-offs that were shown on ITV many years ago with the canned laughter and the same gags every minute.
Having said that, I can watch comedies like Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and Red Dwarf over and over again.
I'm sure that Psychologists could get quite a few PhD theses out of this.
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panamagold wrote:Monty Python. Far to avant garde for my taste. Dead parrot? More of a dead sketch. Four Yorkshire men marginally passable for humour.nimnarb wrote:Americans have no humor as can't even spell it right.
You reckon. From memory here's a selection, of the ones I can recall that I avidly watched and followed that cracked me up.
Jack Benny Show
Amos & Andy Show
Phil Silvers Show
Burns & Allen Show
I Love Lucy Show
Dick van Dyke Show
Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Beverley Hillbillies
Hogan's Heros
McHale's Navy
Gilligan's Island
My Favourite Martian
The Munsters
The Adams Family
The Flintstones
Mr. Ed
M.A.S.H.
Rowan&Martins Laugh In
Richard Pryor
Soap
Happy Days
Taxi
Welcome Back Cotter
Barney Miller
The Bob Newhart Show
The Odd Couple
Archie Bunker
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Roseanne
Seinfeld
The Wonder Years
Home Improvement
3rd Rock From The Sun
Spin City
Coach
Everybody Loves Raymond
Cheers
Friends
Frazier
The Big Bang Theory
Having written that list I now realise where half my life went!
Own up time. I have never watched The Simpsons.
Ok, a few goodies there, but I give you and in no particular order, class, brilliance, humour, intelligence and total stupidity and rate us a cut above (most) of that lot and always will. Yes, pro-British and proud of it, so "shut that door" as showing my age.
Keeping up appearances
Absolutely fabulous
Mr Bean
Auf Wiedersein Pet
Only fool and Horses
Blackadder
Fawlty towers
Monty Python
Are you being served
To the manor Born
red dwarf
Allo allo
As times go by
Porridge
Dads army
Open all hours
Steptoe and sons
hi-de-hi
Black adder
The two ronnies
Billy connolly
Sykes
Detectorists
Minder
Terry and june
On the Buses
Some mothers do have em
Rising Damp
Till death us do part
Vicious
Yes prime minister
Dave allen show
Lary Grayson show
Tommy cooper. Not like that, like that.
Morecambe and Wise show
Peter Sellers, the goons and gang
Peter cook and dudley
Benny hill show
harry enfield..loads of money.
I will get my coat now.............................rule Britannia. At least I didn't mention, listen with mother and the flower pot men. Anyone go back that far? A few of us left I believe.
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Oh dear.
[cringemode] Hi de Hi, On The Buses [/cringemode] to name two.
Conspicuous by their absence from your list must be.
Q - Spike Milligan
The Young Ones
Rik Mayall (who could forget Kevin Turvey)
Alan Partridge
However, I will be spending my twilight years watching repeats from my list Whereas, I'm afraid, a great number of your your choice would best be dealt with by These people.
[cringemode] Hi de Hi, On The Buses [/cringemode] to name two.
Conspicuous by their absence from your list must be.
Q - Spike Milligan
The Young Ones
Rik Mayall (who could forget Kevin Turvey)
Alan Partridge
However, I will be spending my twilight years watching repeats from my list Whereas, I'm afraid, a great number of your your choice would best be dealt with by These people.
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nimnarb wrote:I will get my coat now.............................rule Britannia.
And more recently (in no particular order) -
Father Ted
The IT Crowd
Drop the Dead Donkey
The Inbetweeners
Spaced
Black Books
Trigger Happy TV
Coupling
The Thick of It
Green Wing
Crackanory
W1A
Bluestone 42
Episodes (although that falls in both camps)
Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish
Taskmaster
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Perhaps showing my age, may I add Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, Much Binding in the March, Round the Horne, Max Miller and many more.
The grandfather of one of my daughter's school friends was Uncle Mac from Children's Hour. Larry the Lamb in Toytown and all that. We used to get the Welsh Home Service at home, so got Awr Plant instead. The only words of Welsh I knew were Newyddion and Nos Da. Fortunately we got the Light Programme and AFN from Stuttgart.
Then came television with Animal, Vegetable or Mineral, intervals in the plays with kitten and ball of string, or a cruise up the Thames.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
TJH
The grandfather of one of my daughter's school friends was Uncle Mac from Children's Hour. Larry the Lamb in Toytown and all that. We used to get the Welsh Home Service at home, so got Awr Plant instead. The only words of Welsh I knew were Newyddion and Nos Da. Fortunately we got the Light Programme and AFN from Stuttgart.
Then came television with Animal, Vegetable or Mineral, intervals in the plays with kitten and ball of string, or a cruise up the Thames.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
TJH
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nimnarb wrote: At least I didn't mention, listen with mother and the flower pot men. Anyone go back that far? A few of us left I believe.
I remember them well Bill and Ben with Littleweed, Andy Pandy, The Woodentops. Picture Book, Rag Tag and Bobtail and Tales of the River Bank.
The last one was after my time but I remember my nephews watching it.
My favourite programme was Four Feather Falls.
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No mention of the Office?
Or more recently two of my favourites, Mum and Fleabag.
John
Or more recently two of my favourites, Mum and Fleabag.
John
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thanks to all who have posted their favourite/favorite comedy shows. Bookmarked for future viewing suggestions!
I'd just like to add:
M.A.S.H
How I met your Mother
Mork & Mindy
Soap
Robin Williams
Billy Crystal
Richard Pryor
Gabriel Iglesias (stand up, not sit com)
Anything by Woody Allen
But as others have said, Amercans have no sense of humour...
VRD
I'd just like to add:
M.A.S.H
How I met your Mother
Mork & Mindy
Soap
Robin Williams
Billy Crystal
Richard Pryor
Gabriel Iglesias (stand up, not sit com)
Anything by Woody Allen
But as others have said, Amercans have no sense of humour...
VRD
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