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Post by Patrick on Feb 21, 2009 14:19:22 GMT
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Post by housesparrow on Feb 22, 2009 18:31:07 GMT
I have never, in my entire life, found anything remotely funny about Morecambe and Wise, yet I have been helpless with laughter over the Two Ronnies.
Please explain.
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Post by motorist on Feb 22, 2009 18:36:45 GMT
I have never, in my entire life, found anything remotely funny about Morecambe and Wise, yet I have been helpless with laughter over the Two Ronnies. Please explain. Because your head keeps moving side to side in your avatar, and you miss the best bits
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Post by housesparrow on Feb 23, 2009 6:12:29 GMT
Does it drive you all potty? My avatar, I mean. It does me, but then I don't have to look at it when reading my post.
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 23, 2009 9:52:33 GMT
Does it drive you all potty? My avatar, I mean. It does me, but then I don't have to look at it when reading my post. I like moving avatars. It doesn't drive me potty. I'm mostly there already . . .
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 23, 2009 9:53:22 GMT
I remember watching Morecambe and Wise as part of my childhood. I don't know if it was funny or not. You can't really tell when you're a child. Your parents/aunts/Gran all seem to be in your house every Saturday and you sit in front of the telly and watch it.
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Post by Patrick on Feb 23, 2009 10:51:59 GMT
I remember watching Morecambe and Wise as part of my childhood. I don't know if it was funny or not. You can't really tell when you're a child. Your parents/aunts/Gran all seem to be in your house every Saturday and you sit in front of the telly and watch it. When it was my Grandparents it was usually something like The Onedin Line and me being told to "Shut Up" or "Shhh" all the time. Put me off those for life. What is nice is when you laughed at something as a child then don't see it for years - but when you do you still find it funny but for different reasons That must be the secret of true comedy writing when that happens. I liked M&W and The Two R's but I can also understand why people don't. Must be the sort of disappointment that I used to experience when seeing the likes of the Godawful Cannon & Ball or Little and Large! By the time that lot came along, the double act was well and truly dead.
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Post by everso on Feb 23, 2009 23:06:26 GMT
I remember watching Morecambe and Wise as part of my childhood. I don't know if it was funny or not. You can't really tell when you're a child. Your parents/aunts/Gran all seem to be in your house every Saturday and you sit in front of the telly and watch it. When it was my Grandparents it was usually something like The Onedin Line and me being told to "Shut Up" or "Shhh" all the time. Put me off those for life. What is nice is when you laughed at something as a child then don't see it for years - but when you do you still find it funny but for different reasons That must be the secret of true comedy writing when that happens. I liked M&W and The Two R's but I can also understand why people don't. Must be the sort of disappointment that I used to experience when seeing the likes of the Godawful Cannon & Ball or Little and Large! By the time that lot came along, the double act was well and truly dead. I once went to a fancy dress party as Bobby Ball, complete with braces and moustache (the moustache was false, I might add)
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Post by chrislord on Feb 23, 2009 23:20:53 GMT
I never quite got Dick Emery. As a child I found him quite frightening. Many of the big name TV acts of the seventies were still entertaining many who grew up with music hall...hence their popularity back then.
Is Val Doonican still alive?
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Post by Patrick on Feb 23, 2009 23:21:39 GMT
You little tinker! ;D
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Post by trubble on Feb 23, 2009 23:30:32 GMT
Does it drive you all potty? My avatar, I mean. It does me, but then I don't have to look at it when reading my post. I like it.
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Post by trubble on Feb 23, 2009 23:30:51 GMT
I have never, in my entire life, found anything remotely funny about Morecambe and Wise, yet I have been helpless with laughter over the Two Ronnies. Please explain. Perhaps you have no taste. ;D
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Post by trubble on Feb 23, 2009 23:32:06 GMT
I watched a compilation of their Xmas Shows during my first stages of labour and they certainly made the pain very bearable.
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Post by chrislord on Feb 23, 2009 23:35:56 GMT
..and I even remember this....
...and this...
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Post by trubble on Feb 24, 2009 0:21:07 GMT
I once went to a fancy dress party as Bobby Ball, Why? I once went to a fancy dress party dressed as Guinevere, it was a fabulous party with the theme of 'great romantic couples' and we had all been given our characters and had to find our 'other halves' when we got there. I had 2 other halves of course. Unfortunately for poor Delilah, Samson (my friend) misunderstood the game and went as Little Miss Muffet. The moustache was real.
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Post by everso on Feb 24, 2009 0:28:27 GMT
I once went to a fancy dress party as Bobby Ball, Why? I once went to a fancy dress party dressed as Guinevere, it was a fabulous party with the theme of 'great romantic couples' and we had all been given our characters and had to find our 'other halves' when we got there. I had 2 other halves of course. Unfortunately for poor Delilah, Samson (my friend) misunderstood the game and went as Little Miss Muffet. The moustache was real.[/color] I was going to say that mine was but then I thought I'd never hear the last of it.
The reason I went as Bobby Ball was that it was in the early 80s for one thing and Cannon and Ball were all the rage on t.v. Also the party was a topsy turvey fancy dress party. I.e. the men dressed as women's characters and the women as men's. I have some photos somewhere which I might post on the Mantelpiece.
Mr. E. went as a pregnant pioneer woman, complete with poke bonnet and cushion up the front of his dress. And lots of lipstick, oh, yes, lots of lipstick.
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Post by trubble on Feb 24, 2009 0:34:55 GMT
Love it.
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Post by Flatypus on Feb 26, 2009 0:55:16 GMT
I've never found any of those traditional double acts and comics like Arthur Askey and Max Miller and their silly voices remotely funy. They just seem stupid. My himour starts with Spike Jones who inspired (and named) Spike Milligan and thereafter all the surrealists, from Ken Horne to Monty Python. I can't pretend to find a lot of modern 'alternative' humour funny either (more often an alternative to humour), though Andy Hamilton is. Our salesman in the 80s doubled as a disco doorman. Whoever's catch-phrase was Rock on Tommy (the tall one from Cannon and Ball?) gave him no end of trouble by knowing he could accost anybody in the place and touch any woman up because he was A Star, so only a moron could take offence and the disco did not want its name in the papers skewed to make it look as if their yobs had attacked him for being A Star. On the other hand, I once had the misfortune to avoid kneeing Frank Carson in the crotch when he came out of a stage door as I was running down the road late to meet my girlfriend. Had I recognised him sooner I would not have bothered to dodge
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Post by trubble on Feb 26, 2009 1:06:58 GMT
Rock on Tommy was said by the small one - the one with the braces and moustache - now you owe it to us to clarify which one of them was sex pest.
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Post by trubble on Feb 26, 2009 1:09:26 GMT
As you mention double acts... I've been wondering why there isn't a statue of both Morcky and Wise together? (Or is there one?) They were such a team, unbreakable, it seems cruel to have them apart.
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