plantfit 7,635 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Which is the best, Monty Python or The Goodies? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Which is the best, Monty Python or The Goodies? The goodies were as funny as Benny Hill Benny Hill was as funny as toothache! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lynmee 38 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 The best comedy shows were the non-politically-correct ones like the Kenny Everett Show, Love thy Neighbour,Steptoe and Son etc. Lynmee Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 AND Complete this line? "Never mind the quality..." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Don't be dirty Mick... Best comedy is the Blue Collar Comedy Show On the Road! Now there's no PC stuff with Jeff Foxworthy and Larry The Cable Guy!! Just good to honest down south hill billy humour! Those guys bring tears to my eyes! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob237 89 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 .......just feel the width" Jewish [self inflicted!] humour, which today's PC prats would get taken off air. Cheers Robt P. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/ Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width UK, ITV (*ABC · Thames), Sitcom, 19 x b/w · 21 x colour, 1967 Starring: John Bluthal, Frank Finlay, Joe Lynch For 15 years, Irish-Catholic trousermaker Patrick Michael Kevin Aloysius Brendan Kelly has been working for Emmanuel (Manny) Cohen, a Jewish jacketmaker, in their back-street workroom in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. Then the two decide to combine forces and form a partnership, recognising that each requires the other's skill. More than ever before they become argumentative sparring partners, needling each other as well as the cloth, each being incapable of understanding the other's religious beliefs, his patriotism (Cohen is for Israel, Kelly for Ireland) and philosophies about life in general. Rabbi Levy and Father Ryan often visit to separate the quarrelling pair (and while they're at it, order new suits). Written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, this was a clever idea for a series: despite their many differences the two main characters need each other, just as a suit-jacket needs a pair of trousers, and vice versa. Powell, a churchgoing Catholic, had been a tailor for a while and once heard an Irishman say the words in the title. Driver, although agnostic, was brought up in a Jewish area of Manchester and had worked for Marks & Spencer. So both were well qualified to write about the twin topics of religion and the rag trade, producing scripts that crackled with good lines yet stopped short of arousing religious controversy. (One episode was shown to the World Council Of Churches as an example of unity and then entered into a religious TV festival, only to be beaten by porky puppets Pinky And Perky - even a rabbi would have to concede that there might have been a message in there somewhere!) The first screening of NMTQ occurred as a single comedy-drama in the Armchair Theatre strand, at which point its potential was recognised and a series commissioned. The first episode of the first series reprised the storyline of the Armchair Theatre premiere but - with the exception of John Bluthal as Manny Cohen - sported a different cast. During its four-year run a number of guests appeared in single episodes of NMTQ, among them Leslie Noyes, Dennis Price, Fred Emney, David Kossoff (appearing as himself), Rupert Davies, Dick Bentley, and Chelsea footballer Peter Osgood. Bernard Stone, David Kelly, Yootha Joyce and Bill Maynard were among the actors supporting the main TV cast in a 1972 Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width feature film, directed by Ronnie Baxter. *Note. NMTQ was originally made by ABC, and was then taken over by the new London ITV franchise, Thames. The second series is particularly curious - ABC produced six episodes but none was screened before the company left the TV business; three were shown soon after Thames took over, and these were erroneously ascribed to the new company in records of the period. Of the remainder, two were screened in August 1970, incorrectly announced as repeats. The one remaining episode ('And A Yarmulka To Match') appears never to have been shown. Researched and written by Mark Lewisohn. Cast John Bluthal - Emmanuel Cohen Frank Finlay - Patrick Kelly (pilot) Joe Lynch - Patrick Kelly (all series) Christopher Benjamin - Rabbi Levy (pilot) Cyril Shaps - Rabbi Levy (series 1-5) Denis Carey - Father Ryan (pilot) Eamon Kelly - Father Ryan (series 1-5) Bernard Spear - Lewtas Crew Vince Powell - Writer (38) Harry Driver - Writer (38) Dick Sharples - Writer (2) Patrick Dromgoole - Director (pilot) Ronnie Baxter - Director (26 & both specials) Stuart Allen - Director (7) Alan Tarrant - Director (4) Leonard White - Producer (pilot) Ronnie Baxter - Producer (26 & both specials) Stuart Allen - Producer (7) Alan Tarrant - Producer (4) Transmission Details Number of episodes: 40 Length: 20 x 30 mins · 18 x 30 mins · 1 x 60 mins · 1 x short special *Pilot (60 mins · b/w) 18 Feb 1967 · Sat 10.30pm *Series One (6 x 30 mins · b/w) 25 Nov-30 Dec 1967 · Sat mostly 7pm *Series Two (5 x 30 mins · b/w) 3 Sep-17 Sep 1968 · Tue around 8.30pm; 6 & 20 Aug 1970 · Tue around 7pm Special (30 mins · b/w) 26 Dec 1968 · Thu 6.30pm Series Three (6 x 30 mins · b/w) 21 Aug-25 Sep 1969 · Thu 9pm Short special (colour) · part of All-Star Comedy Carnival 25 Dec 1969 · Thu 6pm Series Four (6 x 30 mins · colour) 25 June-30 July 1970 · Thu mostly 7pm Series Five (7 x 30 mins · colour) 15 Dec 1970-26 Jan 1971 · Tue 8.30pm then around 7pm Series Six (7 x 30 mins · colour) 3 Aug-14 Sep 1971 · Tue 6.55pm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Caz 25 Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Couldn't stand either programme sorry. And Benny Hill what a sad excuse for a comedian he was. My favourite was Only Fools & Horses. David Jason was excellent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Brush Strokes was a good comedy as was Porrage and it's spin offs.. I saw Brush Strokes while I lived in Oz, and a mate of mine took me to a pub, his local near Barry, he said the landlord was a perfect for the one in Brushstrokes, he talked the same acted the same and yet hadn't heard of the tv show!! I wonder if the scriptwriters had visited the Barry pub!! Was his name Elmo?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted October 29, 2009 Report Share Posted October 29, 2009 Python for me - lets haggle alright... we call it a draw - i'll bite your legs off !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 NI !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Yes Benny Hill was a total failure, the fact he only left £10,000,000 in his will proved that !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,635 Posted October 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Monty Python's Bicycle repair man, or Arthur Putie wanting to be a lion tamer Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours and Porridge...absolutely brilliant. But stuff he wrote himself in the Two Ronnies was mostly crap...maybe a dozen funny sketches...but the rest,dressing up as women and singing daft songs in sketches that seemed to go on forever.....can't compare with his other work which was brilliant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 should have struck to that instead of ripping off old ladies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted October 31, 2009 Report Share Posted October 31, 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fivestarkeg 0 Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Rising Damp, for me, is up there with the best. Rossiter was a genius, almost every line he delivered was a gem. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 agreed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
funnyhaha 14 Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 what about norman wisdom,a very funny mam. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 mostly, but at times made me cringe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 what about norman wisdom,a very funny mam. Never seen the good lady...but I like her son. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
funnyhaha 14 Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 her son looks just like norman,poohbear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tich 0 Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 AND Complete this line? "Never mind the quality..." Feel the width lovely show Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tich 0 Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 What about on the buses Bless this house Please sir they were all good ones Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted November 3, 2009 Report Share Posted November 3, 2009 Morcambe and Wise used to keep millions of us entertained Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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