RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted July 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2013 Can't believe we've lost a great man of British comedy at a young age.Only last night I was watching a rerun of Not The Nine O'clock News.A fabulous series.Him and Griff's Alas Smith & Jones head to head skits were magnificent and very funny.A great bloke. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23390982 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 What a shock. One also asks why dear BBCis spending more air time on Frankie Boyle's diet than covering this event in which a much more popular and respected performer has left us. NTNON and Alas Smith and Jones were clever humour, not constructed from the abusive arrogant style more common today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 A great loss indeed, RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Wow, that's a shock... Thanks Mel. One of my comedy heroes. RIP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 One of my comedy heroes. Mine too. Liked Mel in "Muck and Brass". RIp Mel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2013 Sad news indeed I am convinced that this is a major ..... loss to british comedy Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted July 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2013 When people like him die it ranks with "policemen looking younger" to really make you feel old and mortal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisis Rail Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Yes - was doing some modelling in the back room and the missus was watching tellty in the front (as per) - I was listening and laughing as I remembered the sketches from the first time around. Ironic. A sad loss. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted July 20, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2013 I've just seen this news on the BBC website. Something of a shock, bearing in mind he was only sixty. I remember being in my teens with NTNON and Alas Smith and Jones as the comedy follow on from The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise of my childhood. They were quite different in style, but still outrageously funny in a way only we Brits seem to nail down quite so well. RIP Mel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted July 20, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2013 Very funny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted July 20, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2013 Alas - Mel Smith Well that came as a shock when I was driving home and the five o'clock news announced this - didn't hear about it in work, even though there's a news ticker tape on an RSS feed on the information screens - shows how often I look at it! Sad news indeed, and my first reaction was that this was a great loss, and my second that he was younger than me - which made me think a lot. You gave me pleasure Mel - though I sometimes had to think about the humour, but in the end, I always "got it" - RIP, and please join the great comedy act in the Sky where Eric, Tommy, and many others are waiting to stand aside to let you in to add your contribution. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcm@gwr Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Great vids, Yep, the memory 'kinda lingers'! Jeff (sorry, but someone had to say it) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Sad news indeed I am convinced that this is a major ..... loss to british comedy Phil Yep, agree totally. What a one off. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted July 20, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2013 mel was big Queen fan what a shock I had when a read this news Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted July 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2013 A very sad loss (On the road) "You must be brave and tireless" Hedgehog sandwich anyone ? R.I.P Mel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
branchie Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Shocking news. RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanks522 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Terrible shame, the man was a genius, RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted July 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 20, 2013 very sad news i've been watching the reruns of NTNON on gold (i was too young to watch them first time round!) and there were some great "cut away" sketches involving railway news footage such as people on the "vomit comet" aircraft being thrown around only to cut to the APT rounding some reverse curves on the WCML another one was griff rees jones as a school govener asking a child what he wanted to do when he grew up.... "well i want to sit around all day, drinking and smoking, playing cards, reading the paper and get away with doing as little work for as much money as possible" "ah yes.... i wanted to be a train driver when i was your age too" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock_2007 Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Very sad he'll be missed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiderHead Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 This is a great gag, but its the look on Mel's face at the end that kills me every time: RIP ("He bloody does eat daffodils!" ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 I'm having difficulty getting this one out of my head. "I live on the 14th floor Of a tower blockAnd when I get boredI call coo-ee to the passersby And when they look up I gob in their eyeGob on you....etc" And all the other brilliant musical parodies from NTNON. Sad news but a marvellous legacy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted July 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2013 This is a great gag, but its the look on Mel's face at the end that kills me every time: RIP ("He bloody does eat daffodils!" ) One of the best - brilliant! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5 C Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Every time I use a filling station, I think of this sketch: http://youtu.be/KK22exg07IU?t=9m28s Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 21, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2013 It's probably a bit lost on today's generation as the names involved in the politics have changed, though the politics themselves haven't. I always thought the Ayatollah song was inspired, and in the traditions of the best loved bits of TW3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
auld_boot Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Yet another great talent taken away too soon. Please don't think this link as inappropriate, it's one of my favourite sketchs and to me it shows Mel at his best in a number of ways for example the expression on his face when his foot gives way under him is simply brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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