Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted July 7 Moderators Posted July 7 1 hour ago, gmoney said: Frank might be a worse actor than Harry Enfield. He's one of my favourite stand ups/radio hosts but fuck me Shane was appalling. Question is, is he worse at singing or acting? Fun time Frankie! Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted July 7 Paid Members Posted July 7 (edited) 2 hours ago, Just Some Guy said: Oh, I'm not dissing Gary Sparrow. It's just cheating on your wife with a 60 year time gap was presented as cute on prime BBC. Is the difference because Lydhurst was a family favourite and Skinner an edgy (for the time) alternative comic? It wasn't though. He was racked with guilt about it throughout. As much as you can tackle that in a light-hearted sitcom. The confession in the final episode tied all that up. It's obviously a ridiculous premise. In a "fuck, I'm old" moment, I realised it's been ten years since they brought it back for that one off episode. Edited July 7 by tiger_rick Quote
deathrey Posted July 7 Posted July 7 Desmond's and The Real McCoy were must watch comedy for me and some of my earliest TV memories that aren't a children's programmes. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted July 7 Paid Members Posted July 7 (edited) Desmond's was on Netflix a few years ago and I watched them all. It's a great show. I think I caught an episode of The Real McCoy one teatime and was shocked, but highly amused by the language in it. Must have accidentally stuck it on pre-watershed. EDIT: Dominic Keating, who would go on to play Malcolm Reed in Enterprise played Tony in Desmond's. Edited July 7 by Jazzy G Quote
davertfnewman Posted July 8 Posted July 8 7 hours ago, deathrey said: Desmond's and The Real McCoy were must watch comedy for me and some of my earliest TV memories that aren't a children's programmes. A lot of good stuff on The Real McCoy but Felix Dexter was especially good. There's a humour that's not initially known to but is made accessible to many in characters like Nathaniel. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted July 8 Paid Members Posted July 8 The Real McCoy was superb, and it was probably the first big "ethnic comedy" programme - a couple of the Goodness Gracious Me crew, Meera Syal and Kulvinder Ghir made appearances on it too. One of my favourites was the Chris Eubank piss-take. There was also the cash machine with the Caribbean voice: One thing that was quite notable was that they also had stand-up slots - I particularly remember Rudi Lickwood and Angie LeMar, who were both very good. Quote
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted July 8 Paid Members Posted July 8 14 hours ago, TheBurningRed said: Are we all forgetting Frank Skinners sitcom Shane? On ITV in the 2000s. They filmed a second series and never released it. For someone who’s meant the be main guy of the show and likeable, he ends up cheating on his wife. What a nice guy who we can all root for. I was going to mention Shane. As much as I love Frank, there's no defending this. Absolutely awful. Moving into the 2010s here rather than 80s/90s but I went down a 'shit-com' rabbit hole around 10-12 years ago and still think the worst I've ever seen is the Ben Elton-written health and safety comedy The Wright Way. Astoundingly bad. Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted July 8 Paid Members Posted July 8 The Real McCoy was the only thing I bought from BBC's online vault "BBC Store" before they shut it down. I did get a full refund so while I didn't own it, as promised, I did watch it again for free! Quote
Harry Wiseau Posted July 8 Posted July 8 I have fond memories of Frank Skinner's Blue Heaven, it had a naive charm and I used to like it because it was filmed in Birmingham and the Black Country so I recognised loads of the exterior locations The House That Jack Built with Adam Faith and Kathy from Eastenders was truly awful. Quote
davertfnewman Posted July 8 Posted July 8 A mate of mine who I hadn't seen in years had me over for the day and said he had a great show for me - Lab Rats, starring Chris Addison and Jo Enright. After two episodes of laughter-free non-fun I asked when there were going to be any jokes and he realised what had tickled him about it hadn't me and we turned it off. Quote
Paid Members John Matrix Posted July 8 Paid Members Posted July 8 Ever learned something and then was disgusted at yourself for not realising sooner? Since I first heard Christopher Cross’s Ride Like the Wind on a compilation tape in the mid 80’s, it was love at first listen and whilst old Chris’s silky vocals are glorious enough, I’ve always put my back into it when singing along with the backing vocalist during the chorus. I think I’ve probably declared this on here many moons ago, my favourite singer of all time is a tie between Billy Joel and Michael McDonald…and the backing vocalist is only Michael McFuckingDonald, isn’t it? I mean, it’s unmistakable and I can’t quite fathom how I didn’t pick up on it over the years and why it took stumbling across a Rick Moranis sketch from 1981 for the penny to drop. Enjoy! Quote
wordsfromlee Posted July 8 Posted July 8 21 hours ago, tiger_rick said: In a "fuck, I'm old" moment, I realised it's been ten years since they brought it back for that one off episode. I had forgotten all about that. I remember it being the best one of those 'reboot pilots' the BBC made (but thats not saying much). There was the Porridge one with Kevin Bishop and the Young Hyacinth prequel to Keeping Up Appearances with Kerry Howard. Not sure if there were any others. Quote
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted July 8 Paid Members Posted July 8 33 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said: I had forgotten all about that. I remember it being the best one of those 'reboot pilots' the BBC made (but thats not saying much). There was the Porridge one with Kevin Bishop and the Young Hyacinth prequel to Keeping Up Appearances with Kerry Howard. Not sure if there were any others. Around the same time but they did some based around scripts that had been found. Lost Sitcom season, I think it was. There was a Steptoe one, Til Death Us Do Part with Simon Day as Alf and a Hancock episode with a pretty decent cast. Quote
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted July 8 Paid Members Posted July 8 I magine they didn't tack too closely to the original script with the Til Death Do Us Part one given Simon Day is still allowed on television. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted July 8 Paid Members Posted July 8 Was the Hancock one the one with Paul Merton in the Hancock role? It was like a mini Galton & Simpson season. Quote
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