to still be smiling at this ages after I heard it?

[Baileyscheesecake]

A trailer for the tv comedy Gameface had the line which went something like "Don't pick up the cat. He's just eaten a kebab." This was on tv weeks ago and I still break into a smile when I think of it. AIBU to ask this or just slightly doolally but what other one liners from comedy programmes do people still find funny no matter how many times they hear it or how long ago it was last on tv? Another one that springs to my crazy mind is Basil Fawlty saying "Is this a piece of your brain" to the annoying woman who wouldn't turn her hearing aid on because it used up the batteries.

[WendyMad]

Another Spike Milligan one, though not a one-liner.

Some time ago I saw on TV an old film clip taken in a radio studio where a Goon Show was being recorded. It must have been mid-1950s I suppose. There was a surprising amount of visual humour for radio - I suppose it was to keep the studio audience laughing.

At one point a phone rang - and Spike took it out of his pocket and answered it. The 1950s studio audience thought this was hilarious!

Maybe it was so funny because even long before mobile phones were invented, it looked so natural, like just what you'd want to do ... which is probably why they did eventually get invented ...

[Choccyhobnob]

Pretty much all of the inbetweeners:

Will: YES LAUREN IT'S A FUCKING FISH! NOW GIVE ME A MINUTE!!
"What is happening here!?"
"What have they done to you?!"
"I need you to call me an ambulance, or failing that, my mummy. I really want my mummy because, and I'm not being dramatic, but I think I might be dead."

Or Gavin and Stacey

when Bryn gets an instruction from his sat nave "Thank you very much!"

Smithy contemplating suicide "How many Nurofen would I need to finish me off?" Gavin: "You? You'd need hundreds." Smithy: "Can't afford that can I? Not if I'm gonna have an holiday this year"

[CaveMum]

I'm assuming you all know the story of Spike Milligan and the noise in the boot of Peter Sellers' Car?

[GabsAlot]

lov that chocy

poor will is stoned and his arm is randomly goin up and down

and th late doris-heres your f-ing salad!

[ptumbi]

CaveMum - ? Do tell!

Talking of Peter Sellers, the scene of him in the lift is classic and just thinking about it put a smile on my face!

[CaveMum]

ptumbi There’s a video of him talking about it somewhere (probably on Parkinson or the like), but the story goes something like this:

One Christmas Peter Sellers was bought a Rolls Royce by his wife as a gift .

Sellers noticed there was a strange sound coming from the rear of the car when driving over bumps, so he phoned Spike for assistance in tracking down the problem.

He turned up at Spike's late in the night, told him of the problem and his plan ..... Spike was given a torch and a piece of chalk and instructed to get into the boot of the car (still in his pyjamas) and whenever he heard a noise to mark where it was coming from with the chalk.

Sellers proceeded to then drive the car, up and down the kerbs of the pavements, trying to illicit the mystery noise.

The police saw this car "drunkenly" mounting the pavement and swerving all over the road.

They pulled Sellers over, and suspicious of something weird going on, searched the car.

When opening the boot, they were presented with the sight of Spike eerily illuminated by the torch and still clutching the chalk.

"Oh it's you" said one of the policeman, and they left!

[Andromeida29]

Not a phrase but the old anti piracy adverts with a dog eating a sausage role off a pirate DVD. Had me in hysterics when I first saw it and makes me giggle now! I think it's the absurdity of it.

The beat phrase for me has to from Morecambe and Wise. "All the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order". Perfect for so many occasions.

[Nervousrex]

@CaveMum - I know!

One of my favourite lines is when they're listening to the German opera singer on the radio. Something like, "I'll never forget his name - Ernst Strainz! And that vibrato - he sounded as though he was driving a tractor across a ploughed field with weights tied to his scrotum..."

[OlennasWimple]

I only have to think about Del Boy falling through the bar and then Trigger's response to start chuckling

[crikeycrumbsblimey]

Spike and the dustbin dance - makes me grin

[PinkAvocado]

Love this thread! Only got to page 5 but thought of (a very childish) one and I’m adding it before I forget. I’m an episode of Peppa Pig (I know ) Peppa calls her best friend to see if she can whistle. When she does she just hangs up. It’s not at all funny written down and I suspect it wouldn’t be funny if I had had a full night’s sleep in the last three years but I laugh every time I think of it!

[josbd]

Further Blackadder:

Edmund: This is THE Jane Herrington?
Percy: Yes.
Edmund: Jane - bury-me-in-a-Y-shaped-coffin - Herrington?
Percy:I think maybe there are two Jane Herringtons...
Edmund: Tall, Blonde..Goes like a privy door when the plague's in town?

[vladsryder]

Most of scotch and wry!

[MrsHathaway]

Pink there's lots of jokes for grownups in PP. I've just enjoyed a Christmas episode in which the children go to the panto. The actors are doing a classic "where is he?" "He's behind you" etc and Suzy remarks to Peppa "They're not very observant, are they?"

A little later the actors sang "... and the fun of Christmas never ends. The end!"

[QueenThisTime]

Yes I remember that bit where she slams the phone down! There's a running theme in which Peppa's arch frenemy Susie Sheep always steals her thunder and is a total smug PITA. I always think the writers must have based Susie on one of their own kids' friends!

I LOVED the PP where they go to Daddy Pig's work and he's dealing with a load of impossibly complex equations while his colleagues all have these mind-numbingly simple repetitive tasks :o And there's one where they have to get across a river in Daddy Wolf's boat and Daddy pig ends up in the boat with Daddy Wolf and is crapping himself :o

Ah I miss the Peppa / Ben and Holly days.

[Nervousrex]

@crikeycrumbsblimey

Thanks for that - I've just sat here watching Spike Milligan YouTube clips while the dog paws at my leg wondering why he's not getting his walk!

[wildbuttercup]

"I've watched Grand Designs with you. That smile when some eco-glass gets delayed on its way from Antwerp and the nice couple gets pushed over budget. That's the real you" - Peep Show

[MrsHathaway]

This thread on Twitter.

It doesn't sound like much but it's how to make your Rebel Fighter name using the first three letters of your surname and your favourite onomatopoeia.

[StrangeLookingParasite]

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