RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted March 10, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2018 Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko, comic genius. Supported by a wonderful ensemble cast the Phil Silvers show remains unsurpassed as great TV comedy IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 David Jason's finest role has to be Dangermouse. He's amazing, he's fantastic... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted March 10, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2018 Totally agree 100% Any movie that has "Mxxxxxker" in the first line of dialoque gets instantly switched off in our house no matter who's in it, or how promising it may look. It seems that most US movies today rely too heavily on this disgusting phrase to make any impression at all. Depends on cast and crew Good point, I agree with you on that... Mrs Browns Boys (or whatever its called) falls into that category, though I suspect I will now get lots of people saying that it's brilliant... Different tastes, eh! I don't like it, just not that funny. Best sitcom at present I think is Not Going Out VERY WELL WRITTEN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted March 10, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2018 I enjoy Mrs Brown's Boys, am ambivalent towards Harry Hill, could never get Spike Milligan and never enjoyed Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's fraightfully middle clarse graduate humour. Above all that though I utterly detested Little Britain, the most unfunny, repetitive over-rated so called comedy of the recent past. It was a true Emperor's New Clothes type programme where if you wanted to be on trend you had to find it funny and talk about it in the office. Oh, and that was another so called comedy I couldn't stand, Ricky Gervaise is someone I would be glad if he never surfaced on any entertainment media ever again. On bad language it doesn't really bother me for the most part, if the situation in which it is used is entertaining me. It's when some pretentious let's shock everyone pseudo-comedian (Simon Brodkin, I have you in my gunsights...)whose material is pathetic, lord-mayors his way through his set, that it becomes tedious. You can have good and bad clean humour, and you can have good and bad sweary humour. It's the quality of the material around the sweary bits and context that counts. Nobody but nobody will ever convince me that Peter Capaldi's bravura delivery of Armando Iannucci's Baroque swearfest scripts as Malcolm Tucker in "The Thick of It" was un-necessary. Peter Capaldi is an excellent actor with good comic presense. (And good as the Doctor) Armando Iannucci is an excellent writer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted March 10, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2018 https://youtu.be/N_JQDfuMZi0 Priceless! Jim I like the Mole story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 OK as this is about the best as well as worst, in my opinion, the best new stuff on TV in the recent past by an absolute MILE, has to be 'Inside no 9'. Intelligent scripts, imaginative storylines, and twists you can't see coming. I think they're an absolute delight as well as being amazing, thought provoking and sometimes terrifying. Oh, and that Christmas special a couple of years back from the same stable, 'The Beast of Christmas', was the only stand out program that year amid the usual dross. I do hope they get some recognition for their clear and obvious talent. Yeah, a brilliantly imaginative and creative series. The two standout episodes for me were ‘The Beast of Christmas’ for the way they captured those 70’s TV drama production values, just spot on, and The Harrowing. The young house sitter told not to go upstairs whatever she hears and she certainly comes to wish she had heeded that instruction, an ending as horrific as the very best horror movie. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 Watch out for the all new series of "Hornblower " Here's the new captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 ^^^RMWeb definitely requires a 'puke' smilie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 (edited) Peter Snow and his faux posh voice and his son Dan can be very off pi$$ing when they co-host shows together. Edited March 11, 2018 by Baby Deltic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 Ben Fogle. Unoffensive enough but oh that over posh Eton voice does my head in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted March 11, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2018 Changing to presenters you like Martine Croxall seems rather nice to me and quite witty and even called Kings cross a railway station Mind with all the late shifts she does probably a right grumpy cow on a morning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko, comic genius. Supported by a wonderful ensemble cast the Phil Silvers show remains unsurpassed as great TV comedy IMO. Top Cat the Hanna-Barbera version takes some beating too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Top Cat the Hanna-Barbera version takes some beating too! Top Cat was good, but Tom and Jerry are in another league altogether Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Top Cat was good, but Tom and Jerry are in another league altogether Absolutely - but I have to qualify that by saying that only the original Fred Quimby ones are true classics, some of the later production was nowhere as good. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Absolutely - but I have to qualify that by saying that only the original Fred Quimby ones are true classics, some of the later production was nowhere as good. Jim Indeed. There is a marked difference in the quality of both the animation and the humour between the early material (1940s, early 50s) and the late stuff (1960s?), the former being very good and the latter a bit cringeworthy really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 Scrapyard Challenge could have been good had they only scrapped this over excited twit. Suggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 If you want decent drama or comedy, I'm afraid we largely have to look to the US, I can't remember the last 'funny' UK comedy I saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith George Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 If you want decent drama or comedy, I'm afraid we largely have to look to the US, I can't remember the last 'funny' UK comedy I saw. I just do not like or understand American comedy. I just keep watching the older UK sitcoms. Still fantastic to watch. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I just do not like or understand American comedy. I just keep watching the older UK sitcoms. Still fantastic to watch. Keith Unfortunately some of the older TV sitcoms are totally unsuitable for modern broadcasting, e.g. Till Death us do Part, Love thy Neighbour and Mind your Language. Oh yes and my mother and fathers favourite variety programme- The Black and White Minstrel Show Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62613 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Unfortunately some of the older TV sitcoms are totally unsuitable for modern broadcasting, e.g. Till Death us do Part, Love thy Neighbour and Mind your Language. Oh yes and my mother and fathers favourite variety programme- The Black and White Minstrel Show Jim Don't forget 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2018 I think American TV in general, not just comedy, has left ours behind. At least at the hih end, there is also a lot of junk on US TV but at its best the US TV shows are superb. One of my favourite TV comedies is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation For anybody that hasn't seen it I'd recommend having a look, there is a character on it called Ron Swanson who is almost like a hero of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzy280472 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Absolutely - but I have to qualify that by saying that only the original Fred Quimby ones are true classics, some of the later production was nowhere as good. Jim Absolutely right , superb animation and humour , particularly "Tee for Two"... A masterpiece of a cartoon .....still has me doubled up with laughter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) I don't knock 'em all you know and here's one guy that I find really cool, laid back and inoffensive. Paul Martin, presenter of "Flog it " Edited March 12, 2018 by allan downes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 But However. NOT THIS LOT ! also from "Flog It " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatofludham Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Unfortunately some of the older TV sitcoms are totally unsuitable for modern broadcasting, e.g. Till Death us do Part, Love thy Neighbour and Mind your Language. Oh yes and my mother and fathers favourite variety programme- The Black and White Minstrel Show Jim It's funny, but when I was much younger and these shows were on the TV I never liked them. That was before I became "politically aware" and was more interested frankly in the buses taking me to school but I found Till Death Us Do Part too shouty, too common and too Cockney (I admit, I'm a Cockneyist), we seldom watched ITV comedy but when I did catch the odd episode of Love thy Neighbour I found it unfunny and too confrontational, and Mind Your Language was again too repetitive and in my view tried to hard, plus I thought the lead actor was a bit of a knob. Strange to relate that as my politics evolved I didn't find offence in these programmes as, rather like the bum'n'titty Carry Ons and On the Buses, they demonstrate clearly the attitudes of the time which thankfully we've moved on from, for the most part. As such they have their value in showing how casually racism and sexism were tolerated in the 1970s mass culture and how it enabled some very nasty behaviours to be carried on in society in an atmosphere that couldn't see how these behaviours could cause upset and longer term issues. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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