Carry on Hypothetically

[magicbeatle]

Hi, I have a hypothetical question for you to ponder. All the great carry-on's that have been made in the past had classic cast like Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor etc. I know they cannot be replaced, but if you was to make the next carry-on who would you choose as their nearest modern equivalents. For instance I think Denise Van Outen would make a great substitute for Barbara Windsor. She's sexy, Naughty, and has the right kind of accent and sense of humour. Any others?

[johnny5]

how about

mike reed as sid james

rowan atkinson as kenneth williams

frank skinner as an other younger sid james

[pixi]

I think Richard E Grant would make a good Kenneth Williams

[ursula62]

Believe it or not, out of all the Carry on Films, Barbara Windsor only featured in 8 of them.

[jno]

Well, Carry on Columbus did try that - using the newest line of comedians, 14 years after the previous one, Carry on Emmannuelle, was made. Alexei Sayles, Martin Clunes, Julian Clary. Bit of a disaster, though. (So was Emmannuelle, that's why they stopped.)

[seal!]

I would never remake those terrible terrible films, they should be burned and forgoten about.

[magicbeatle]

And why's that Seal. Does it offend you? Do you find it sexist? Your pathetic. Your the one who should be burned and forgotten about!

[jno]

at the risk of having you magic me out of existence magicbeatle I have to agree with seal, it's not that they were sexist (I don't think they were), just that they weren't really very funny. I've reseen a lot of them in recent years, and I think the only ones that deserve rescuing from the scrapheap of history were Cleo, Spying, Khyber and maybe a few individual scenes from a handful of others. But this is all a matter of taste, of course; I know most people revere them on a par with Wogan and the late Queen Mum.

[magicbeatle]

Thats fair enough jno!  

[rooftrouser]

Let's not start burning films! Nearly as bad as burning books...
Well I wouldn't die in a ditch to defend the Carry Ons really but I do have a soft spot for Khyber and one or two others. Particularly the scene where the Ruff-Diamonds(?) are formally dining amidst a bombardment - stiff upper lips all round. There are lots of more recent examples of film and TV I would put a match to before that was consigned to the flames. ...and did you ever see any of the "Confessions" series. Dear lord they *were* awful.
I think it has been proved that they cannot be remade but if something similar was done now it would probably have to include the Fast Show, Spaced and League of Gentleman gangs with parts for Peter Kay and Bill Bailey. Just as rude but a bit darker.

[rooftrouser]

jno, the Queen Mum (gawd bless 'er), yes of course but, dash it all man, that Wogan chap isn't even English! ;-)