Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted August 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 29, 2019 This could go in the stupid things you say or do thread, but as it's from a sitcom I'll leave it here. I've just googled the phrase "Just the one Mrs Wembley" as it is something we say regularly when having a drink but I could not remember for the life of me where it came from. To my surprise it comes from a sitcom called On The Up, which starred Dennis Waterman, I imagine he also sang the theme tune. I remember absolutely nothing of this programme. Google tells me that Joan Simms played Mrs Wembley, but I didn't remember that. There are some episodes on YouTube, and it takes very little imagination to see me watching some later. Does anyone remember anything about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted August 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: Yeah, the Bills of Mortality routine is obviously great, but it's also about as easy to get laughs as you can get in stand-up. He almost had to do no work on that, it just speaks for itself Yep, absolutely agree that it's an easy laugh. It blew my mind when I first saw it on a poundshop comedy video though. I was an easily impressed ten year old. That same VHS had the classic Rowan Atkinson 'Register' routine, so I was led down the better path with that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted August 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 29, 2019 My only memory of My Family is of Robert Lindsay repeating the name "Mikey", in various inflections. I have no idea if that was a recurring bit, or just happened once, but it's literally the only thing I remember from it. Two Pints Of Lager and A Packet of Crisps at least once featured the phrase "locomotive horse pornography". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted August 29, 2019 Moderators Share Posted August 29, 2019 In general, we just have to accept that almost all comedy which isn't 'gentle' stuff aimed at retirees, and at least 15 years old, is going to be appalling to modern, socially-conscious eyes. Frank Skinner's great, but I remember his 90's stand-up as being all about arse-sex, with a routine about having a teenage girlfriend who was revising for her GCSE while he was fucking her. I've been meaning to take a look at Game On, which was super, super laddy, and I imagine has aged worse than anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted August 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 29, 2019 I think this thread should be renamed Shitcoms. But Sky had this ambition at the turn of the millenium of being the hub for comedy. They poached Harry Enfield and his new show there was shit, and they gave Al Murray a pub landlord sitcom. Later on Stella and Trollied were both alright, though once I gave up Sky I never bothered to find those shows elsewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Quote Al Murray a pub landlord sitcom. Time Gentleman Please, which was mad fun. Richard Herring wrote it with Al Murray. It got repeated quite a lot on Comedy Central. Had like 40 episodes or something mad over 2 seasons. I remember BBC 1 having a run of really bad comedies in the early 2000s using the My Family model. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT with Adam Faith and Gillian Taylforth being a barmy one. Also there was a terrible one with Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston where they both sung the theme tune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted August 29, 2019 Moderators Share Posted August 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said: I think this thread should be renamed Shitcoms. See you in court. When I was looking for something else yesterday, I came across this extraordinary thing. Turn Out The Lights was an ITV sitcom which ran for 6 episodes in 1967, starring Arthur 'Captain Mainwaring' Lowe, where he plays a former store manager who starts working as a paranormal investigator, going to seances and stuff. What's amazing is it's a spin-off from Coronation Street, and he's playing the same character he played in Corrie. It's actually a double-spin-off, as a sequel to a previous sitcom, where his Corrie character left Gamma Garments to manage a department store in his own series for 36 episodes. I so desperately wanted to watch and write about it, because it's such an oddity - a Corrie spin-off where Capt Mainwaring chases ghosts in the 60s - but it appears there's no surviving footage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Did you know that Frank Skinner doesn’t drink anymore? I’m not sure if he ever mentions it. Baddiel's live show from a couple of years ago, “My Family, Not The Sitcom”, about his dads dementia and his mums affair with a golf memorabilia salesman was supposed to be brilliant but I never saw it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 29, 2019 6 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said: Baddiel's live show from a couple of years ago, “My Family, Not The Sitcom”, about his dads dementia and his mums affair with a golf memorabilia salesman was supposed to be brilliant but I never saw it. That sounds like it falls under this category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 KD Lang has let herself go. seems like they were giving every non-actor their own sitcom around that time Davina McCall got one. Remember Johnny Vaughan’s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Haha 'Orrible. One of my friends and I always bring this up! Utter shite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted August 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 29, 2019 35 minutes ago, Astro Hollywood said: Frank Skinner's great, but I remember his 90's stand-up as being all about arse-sex, with a routine about having a teenage girlfriend who was revising for her GCSE while he was fucking her. I remember that so well. The punchline was that he said "God, I cant put you in my act. They'll lynch me" and the girl we've been told is only 16 said "well, you can always put my age up a few years." Falls into that "you cant say that now" category. Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned seemed to be 30 minutes of Skinner saving Baddiel from going down a comedy cul-de-sac every week. Baddiel would say something that kills the crowd and Skinner had to come in and hoof the ball away from danger with a quick gag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted August 29, 2019 Moderators Share Posted August 29, 2019 (edited) 17 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said: seems like they were giving every non-actor their own sitcom around that time Davina McCall got one. Remember Johnny Vaughan’s? Remember it? I sat through the fucking thing a few weeks back (the write-up hits Patreon next month, mod-power-abuse fans). It absolutely reeks of Lock, Stock era Britain, when the media was obsessed with Cool Britannia-type criminals. It might be the worst thing I've seen yet. There's a weird 55 minute episode, which isn't even the finale, but is obviously a movie script Vaughan couldn't get made and repurposed for the series. That in itself is hilarious. Too much thrilling story and laffworthy jokes for 30 minutes, but unable to conjure an extra 5 to make up the full hour. Anyone seen Brassic on Sky? I love Joe Gilgun (who created and leads in it), but it's really disappointing. There's a huge Lock, Stock feel to it too, in some weird hybrid of that, Trainspotting, and Last of the Summer Wine. It's getting great reviews though, so maybe it's just me. It really feels like something from a different era, and not in a good way, playing really broad where people are throwing dildos at each other, but trying to balance it with serious bits where characters are crying. There's probably a Shane Meadows influence there, because that's right in his wheelhouse, and Gilgun obviously did the This is Englands. Edited August 29, 2019 by Astro Hollywood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 29, 2019 56 minutes ago, Astro Hollywood said: A Jewish old lady ghost, which was the entire joke. I've not seen an episode of that since it first went out, but far too much of it is taking up valuable brain space, still. I'll regularly go to bed at nights realising I've forgotten to drink any fluids all day, but can recall her name was Yetta Feldman, and they could tell when she was around, because the room would smell of ghostly chicken soup. According to Wikipedia, it's got the same creator as May to December. 39 episodes about a widowed soliciter played by Anton Rogers dating a younger woman, and the young Astro lapped it up every week. I should've been bullied a bit harder tbqhwy. Feel like I need to start revisiting this middle of the road shit I sat through back then in monstrous essays. Sun's out, better stay indoors and write 5,000 words about After Henry. Good god, I'd almost completely forgotten about this. I only vaguely remembered it because it was the first time I'd ever heard the name "Yetta". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted August 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted August 29, 2019 48 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said: Did you know that Frank Skinner doesn’t drink anymore? I’m not sure if he ever mentions it. I'm not sure why you've mentioned it to be honest, it's not something he goes on about that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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