kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I could never laugh at him - it was too real, and too tragic. My old next door neighbour was like that, old man, on his own in the pub with a booze nose trying to catch someone in conversation.
The Fast Show
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I could never laugh at him - it was too real, and too tragic. My old next door neighbour was like that, old man, on his own in the pub with a booze nose trying to catch someone in conversation.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
kyser_soze said:
I know what you mean. It's what Paul Whitehouse does very well, though, skirting that boundary. He did similar with Rowley Birkin in the end, with a bit more verbal knockabout.
I disagree about Python dating badly. I remember when the Beeb repeated it in the early 90s and my Dad, who'd been at Uni and a big Python fan in his youth, told me to try watching it when I was about 9. I did and I've loved it ever since. The attraction is that you simply don't know what's going to be thrown at you next, the direct opposite of catchphrase comedy.
I agree that Ted and Ralph were quite good characters, but did no one else think they were wasted on that show and deserved half an hour at a time to really construct stories? This is why I use the accusation of laziness with catchphrase character sketch shows; why not properly explore them in a sit-com? They can be slower and subtle, like Partridge, or instantaneous and chaotic like The Young Ones.
I agree that Ted and Ralph were quite good characters, but did no one else think they were wasted on that show and deserved half an hour at a time to really construct stories? This is why I use the accusation of laziness with catchphrase character sketch shows; why not properly explore them in a sit-com? They can be slower and subtle, like Partridge, or instantaneous and chaotic like The Young Ones.
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
The two films by the Pythons are the Life of Brian, the Holy Grail and the Meaning of Life...three, the three Python films are the Life of Brian, the Holy Grail, the Meaning of Life and Live at the Hollywood Bowl ...RenegadeDog said:
Amongst the Python opus are such films as the Life of Brian, the Holy Grail, the Meaning of Life, Live at the Hollywood Bowl, and And Now For Something Completely Different.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
stavros said:
Nah. It would have required too much characterisation around the subject - when they took Ted and Ralph and put them in their own TV special, it was funny in lots of places - but lacked the swift punch of emotion, repression and hilarity which made the show.
Which is what The Fast Show was all about.
The drainage in the lower field wouldn't have been a tenth as funny over half an hour on a Thursday night as it was for three minutes on a Friday over a month or fews.
loved the one after they'd switched from food to cloathes and he got a bit confused and something like
This week I have been mostly wearing yogurt
The one that sticks in my mind was him proudly proclaiming that that week he was manly dipping his nob in blanmange.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
From wiki.
An American journalist called Ed Winchester was part of NBC's team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. BBC reporter Jon Inverdale got him to say 'Hi, I'm Ed Winchester' during rowing coverage on 11th August.
Eleven YEARS after the last series, it holds up. And Ed Winchester probably got twenty minutes in three series'
Oh, collected series' for 35.99 or individual 3 series' for 6.99 each. Oh the choice.
An American journalist called Ed Winchester was part of NBC's team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. BBC reporter Jon Inverdale got him to say 'Hi, I'm Ed Winchester' during rowing coverage on 11th August.
Eleven YEARS after the last series, it holds up. And Ed Winchester probably got twenty minutes in three series'
Oh, collected series' for 35.99 or individual 3 series' for 6.99 each. Oh the choice.
I really loved the Fast Show. Just bumping the thread because Nipsla brought to my attention that there are some new online episodes on the Fosters website. Shame it is not the BBC but I am happy to sell out to see two more of these
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
I still agree with myself on this.
The first of two Fast Show 20th anniversary specials
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b044jzs8/the-fast-show-special-episode-1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b044jzs8/the-fast-show-special-episode-1
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I've not seen the Fast Show for a couple of years, so will have to dig out the box set.
cybershot
Well-Known Member
It's coming back.
www.theguardian.com
The Fast Show returns to TV for one-off special. Nice
Stars of 90s comedy favourite to reunite for ‘retrospective with a twist’
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
It's coming back.
The Fast Show returns to TV for one-off special. Nice
Stars of 90s comedy favourite to reunite for ‘retrospective with a twist’
"The “retrospective with a twist”, titled The Fast Show: Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases..."
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I always thought it was a bit crap. The original intention was for it to actually be very fast bits of weird randomness and not repeated sketches or characters. . . .but of course that would be way too expensive. Maybe it would have been like watching a polished vine compilation? Ahead of its time. . . Even though they didn't do that, and just made a sketch show.
I think the only bit I liked was the intro to Dave Angel, to the sounds of moonlight shadow.
I think the only bit I liked was the intro to Dave Angel, to the sounds of moonlight shadow.
