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Post by CAEF on Mar 28, 2022 21:54:34 GMT
They do sometimes show Monty Python episodes on That's TV and I find the sketches/episodes quite unfunny, and as if the group are trying too hard to be funny but failing.
Like the two most overrated Only Fools And Horses "funniest" scenes. Chandelier and Del falling through the bar.
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Post by wallis on Mar 28, 2022 22:09:17 GMT
Monty Python was one of my favourite shows.
A certain kind of humour is needed to appreciate it.
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Post by butterball on Mar 29, 2022 11:46:16 GMT
Watched Robin's Nest on one of the channels, totally ridiculous. A one armed Irish washer upper was obviously deemed hilarious in those days. But I can still watch Fawlty Towers, having seen them about 200 times, and still laugh out loud.
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Post by CAEF on Mar 29, 2022 12:02:35 GMT
Fawlty Towers is brilliant, even though only 12 episodes were made.
I guess Monty Python has humour that is quite complex.
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Post by Teeks on Mar 29, 2022 12:18:05 GMT
I agree about the chandelier scene in "Only Fools and Horses" being overrated. Why do they always mention this scene?!
There's so many other great comedic scenes to choose from...
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Post by CAEF on Mar 29, 2022 13:02:00 GMT
Despite its scant number of episodes, Fawlty Towers remains the best sitcom ever and the most popular. I think John Cleese had planned more eps but he was going through marriage problems with his wife Connie Booth and the series only made 2 series. Only Fools made about 65 episodes yet there were several dud episodes as well. The episode where Del is obnoxious at the dinner table at the royal house was abominable.
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Post by Charley Says... on Mar 29, 2022 17:12:20 GMT
I like Monty Python but I didn't laugh at everything...
My brother used to Guffaw at every sketch...
And I was sat there in bewilderment...
Take Life of Brian...
Absolutely great film,story and comedy...
But as soon as the cartoon bits came in I zoned out...
Didn't see the point or feel the need, ruined it for me...
As for sit-coms...
I'm trying hard to think of a bad one...
But that maybe because if I thought they were shit...
I just didn't watch them...
Friends is an example...
And not because it's American...
I absolutely adore Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm...
Just didn't get the set up...
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Post by wallis on Mar 29, 2022 21:47:00 GMT
I like Monty Python but I didn't laugh at everything... My brother used to Guffaw at every sketch... And I was sat there in bewilderment... Take Life of Brian... Absolutely great film,story and comedy... But as soon as the cartoon bits came in I zoned out... Didn't see the point or feel the need, ruined it for me... As for sit-coms... I'm trying hard to think of a bad one... But that maybe because if I thought they were shit... I just didn't watch them... Friends is an example... And not because it's American... I absolutely adore Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm... Just didn't get the set up... I never got into Friends either and couldn't understand the hype. |
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Post by CAEF on Mar 29, 2022 21:47:51 GMT
John Cleese is 82 but has aged well and looks much younger, he is tall and athletic, which can explain why he looks much younger. I think David Jason, who is the same age as Cleese, looks his age. He is shorter and stockier and has much of his hair gone, and looked a bit frail last year.
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Post by LouP on Apr 6, 2022 9:07:14 GMT
I agree about the chandelier scene in "Only Fools and Horses" being overrated. Why do they always mention this scene?! There's so many other great comedic scenes to choose from... Apparently this actually happened to the writers father. |
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Post by roverman on Apr 7, 2022 8:01:42 GMT
Most people find the later episodes of OFAH funnier, but I believe the style of comedy altered as the personnel changed. Ray Butt walked and Gareth Gwenlan took over. They pushed for longer episodes as they felt 30 mins wasn’t enough and they broadened the appeal by spending more time on Del, Rodney and Albert’s interactions with their friends and their partners.
I showed someone the first episode “Big Brother” and they barely recognised it as the same show such as it’s difference from the later episodes.
Del in Episode One reminds me an awful lot of Mike in The Young Ones.
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Post by CAEF on Apr 7, 2022 20:20:59 GMT
Del Boy's attitude in the 1986 Xmas episode almost finished the series as he was so nasty in that episode. That is probably partly why Ray felt the show should end but Sullivan wanted it to continue so Ray left as producer.
David Jason could carry on dying his ever greying hair for the role then.
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Post by butterball on Apr 15, 2022 9:40:35 GMT
Another series that I am re-watching on Now TV although I think its also on BBCI Player, is The Royle Family, and its absolutely hilarious. Ricky Tomlinson is excellent as Jim and its very sad and quite uncomfortable to see Caroline Aherne, who was also a co-writer, as Denise Royle lighting up constantly when she died of lung cancer.
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