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What Are Your Favourite Old British Comedies?
I watched an episode of 'Allo 'Allo the other day and laughed just as much as I did when they were first screened. Brilliant! The writing is second to none. So clever!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I love Tom Sharpes books but never saw either of the above series. I were disapointed with 'Wilt' film with Mel Smith and Griff Ryes Jones.
Old films though Freddie Mercurys Favourite 'Some like it hot' is a classic.
TV. Fatty Owls, Blackadder II agree was the best, The Young ones, Porridge... off the top of my head.
Margo - Absolutely - Victoria Wood's ear for dialogue was second to none.
And as with all great comedy, it skated effortlessly between comedy and pathos.
How they got through the scenes with Julie Walters without laughing every minute I do not know.
It was so well constructed and acted, an object lesson in how television comedy is done - should be compulsory for any new budding writers.
sp1814 - // Scratch that - Everything about Are You Being Served (despite the laughter track) is still hilarious. //
Good situation comedy relies on strong well-defined characters.
If you place them in the minds of the audience, their interplay will follow on perfectly, because you know how each will react to certain situations and lines.
This is perfectly illustrated in the microcosm of the sixties Class System in AYBS.
Margo - // I also enjoyed a gentle comedy about a cricket club called Outside Edge probably because my son had just started playing and contrary to popular belief there's a lot of humour around a cricket club //
Did you see the original play the series was based on?
Paul Eddington and Prunella Scales - wonderful.
I'm a HUGE Victoria Wood fan, but I always though Dinnerladies wasn't her best work, and this annoys me.
Same with Vicar Of Dibley (Dawn French being a comedy God to me).
I think it's because both comedies seemed a bit old hat by the time they were broadcast.
In contrast, Ab Fab (Jennifer Saunders - another comedy God) felt 100% "of the now" at the time.
If you compare Acorn Antiques to Dinnerladies...one is gold, the other, tin.
...good quality tin, but tin nonetheless.
//Dinner ladies for me. Such clever writing and cast who went on to do great things//
Sash windows, the words always make me laugh. Her writing was so well observed and typical of the area where it was set
Yesterday the Breadman who fell of a diving board in Guernsey was a contestant on Pointless, Adrian someone !
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