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Morecambe And Wise On Bbc Now.
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The BBC are joking,surely,so dated,just turned it off.
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Morecambe and Wise, the Two Ronnie's, Little and Large, Cannon and Ball... etc all seemed much of a muchness when my parents used to watch them. Repetitive and predictable.
If people enjoy it now, fair enough, but maybe we should give the year that "comedies" were filmed to avoid a lot of waste of time.
If people enjoy it now, fair enough, but maybe we should give the year that "comedies" were filmed to avoid a lot of waste of time.
We went to see the Eric n Ern show two months ago in the lakes theatre. Two impersonators touring the country with the most convincing act you will ever see. Mannerisms, looks, sketches and audience interaction as the genuine Morecambe and Wise would do. I was crying with laughter at the paper bag sketch. If you're a fan you will be amazed guaranteed. They received a standing ovation. We came away feeling we'd just seen the real thing.
Comedy is necessarily of its time, and some of it wears better, some of it does not.
A feeling of nostalgia will carry vintage comedy over a lot of genuine detached analysis of how of its time it was, and is, but often, it serves as something of a social experiment, showing us what we found funny then, and which is less amusing now.
I have pointed out previously on threads like this, an unbelievable pointless series called "It Was Alright In The Seventies", where a series of vintage clips are shown to modern comedians not born at the time.
They are routinely aghast at the casual racism and sexism that formed the basis of comedy forty years ago, and why wouldn't they be?
It's as informative and revealing as showing a sociology class pictures of boys going up chimneys - and as about as funny and entertaining as well.
Humour dates, it's a fact, and not something you can hang thirty minutes of incredulity on, and pass it off as entertaining television.
A feeling of nostalgia will carry vintage comedy over a lot of genuine detached analysis of how of its time it was, and is, but often, it serves as something of a social experiment, showing us what we found funny then, and which is less amusing now.
I have pointed out previously on threads like this, an unbelievable pointless series called "It Was Alright In The Seventies", where a series of vintage clips are shown to modern comedians not born at the time.
They are routinely aghast at the casual racism and sexism that formed the basis of comedy forty years ago, and why wouldn't they be?
It's as informative and revealing as showing a sociology class pictures of boys going up chimneys - and as about as funny and entertaining as well.
Humour dates, it's a fact, and not something you can hang thirty minutes of incredulity on, and pass it off as entertaining television.
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