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To Think That Morecambe & Wise Are Not Funny

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 00:33

Now that it's almost Christmas it reminds me that we watched Morecambe and Wise Christmas Specials every year when I was a child.

My parents thought they were funny but I always found them cringeworthy.
I just don't find them funny at all and I don't understand how anyone can enjoy them, not to mention wishing they were still around to make even more Christmas Specials.

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 14:00

stillvicarinatutu · 14/12/2022 03:28

What do you find funny op?

See I used to like Friday night live with Ben Elton but the recent come back was utter shite . (I do t find a man with tits and a dress playing piano with his cock so hung about how he's better than any women because he takes it up the arse very funny 🤷🏻‍♀️)

I do t like mrs browns boys .
I didn't like the mighty boosh.
I was t fond of peep show or little Britain , or league of gentlemen.

What comedy do you enjoy?

I love Mrs. Brown's Boys and Still Game. Also used to love Shooting Stars. Yes, Minister.

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 14:01

Gary, Tank Commander is hysterical.

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NeedToKnow101 · 14/12/2022 14:31

OP. You like Mrs Brown's Boys? Explains a lot! 🤪... only joking... I've only ever seen 5 minutes of it so can't comment..

Comedy before informs the comedy that comes after. Vic and Bob were influenced massively (I imagine) by Morecombe and Wise, as was Lee Mack, all hilarious according to me.

NeedToKnow101 · 14/12/2022 14:32

Also I used to do yoga with Des O'Connor's daughter. I was always very hungover .. it was on Saturday mornings so I didn't stick with it.

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 15:17

Vic and Bob were influenced massively (I imagine) by Morecombe and Wise

No! Vic and Bob are funny! They are probably as horrified by M & W as I am.

It is just cringeworthy and NOT FUNNY.

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LlynTegid · 14/12/2022 15:24

You like Mrs Browns Boys. It's foul mouthed transphobic and not comedy by any reasonable definition of the word.

Morecambe and Wise is of a certain era, tastes change, nothing wrong with not liking it.

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 15:28

LlynTegid · 14/12/2022 15:24

You like Mrs Browns Boys. It's foul mouthed transphobic and not comedy by any reasonable definition of the word.

Morecambe and Wise is of a certain era, tastes change, nothing wrong with not liking it.

Wel, by the same token, I do not consider that M & W is "comedy by any reasonable definition of the word."

Horses for courses, as they say.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 14/12/2022 15:50

TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 15:17

Vic and Bob were influenced massively (I imagine) by Morecombe and Wise

No! Vic and Bob are funny! They are probably as horrified by M & W as I am.

It is just cringeworthy and NOT FUNNY.

And you would be wrong.

www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/478651/Eric-Morecambe-30th-anniversary-of-his-death

Kazzyhoward · 14/12/2022 15:53

YABU - it's today's "comedians" who aren't funny.

oldperson1 · 14/12/2022 15:53

NumberTheory · 14/12/2022 00:41

I thought they were really boring when I was young. But watching them now I see the humour and find them really funny. I don’t think it’s because I’ve got boring as I’ve aged!

This for me also

EvilRingahBitch · 14/12/2022 16:07

ErrolTheDragon · 14/12/2022 01:31

Do you think people were sitting around watching 1920s silent movies in the 70s with the reverence we have for this?
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton? Er.... well yes actually. Maybe only on a Sunday afternoon but yeah.

Not to mention Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardt. Staples of weekend telly of my youth. I took the DC to see Keaton's The General at the cinema ten years ago and it went down very well, as did Some Like It Hot.

Lilyhatesjaz · 14/12/2022 16:22

I watched it last Christmas and thought that a lot of their jokes only work if you know the people the joke is about, a lot involve celebrities of the time and are really dated.
I prefer the two Ronnies they tend to have more sketches based on words and every day observation and I think they have aged better

UniversalAunt · 14/12/2022 16:25

Some Like It Hot! - time to roll this classic again.
Laurel & Hardy of course.

Dave Allen, so suave, so sharp, so funny.

Bob Monkhouse, I was indifferent to as a child as I associated him with The Golden Shot. Only later did I get the slick sharpness, the pathos of the tragic almost bitter undercurrent.

Are you being served? is well worth another watch as there is so much hiding in plain sight, very knowing & playful.

Plus the BBC radio comedy, particularly of the post-war variety ITMA et al generation. Where would we be now without Hancock’s Half Hour, Round The Horne, Julian & Sandy to name but a few?

pinneddownbytabbies · 14/12/2022 16:31

vera99 · 14/12/2022 01:27

RUBBISH !

ARSENAL !

CrownTheTurkey · 14/12/2022 16:34

Give me Dave Allen, Bernard Manning, Charlie Williams and Chubby Brown over today's so called comedians any day.

ErrolTheDragon · 14/12/2022 16:36

They did a few 'lost Hancock's' recently- I didn't think they were very funny and the scripts hadn't aged well. Quite a disappointment.

I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue remains a delight though.

ErrolTheDragon · 14/12/2022 16:37

CrownTheTurkey · 14/12/2022 16:34

Give me Dave Allen, Bernard Manning, Charlie Williams and Chubby Brown over today's so called comedians any day.

Bernard Manning? Urgh no, the past can keep him.

pinneddownbytabbies · 14/12/2022 16:40

KimberleyClark · 14/12/2022 07:29

Also someone above mentioned Dad’s Army. That was classic. I enjoyed it as a child but it wasn’t until I was older that I was able to appreciate the social comedy - that while Captain Mainwaring was Sgt Wilson’s boss at the bank whete they worked and his commanding officer he resented the fact that Wilson was still his social superior. And as a child I didn’t realise Sgt Wilson was Pike’s mother’s boyfriend and that was why he kept calling him Uncle Arthur even on parade. And of course “Don’t tell him Pike”.

Also Porridge. Brilliant.

I've got news for you - Sgt Wilson was Pike's dad, but Pike didn't know.

It was in a documentary I watched a while ago.

PuppyMonkey · 14/12/2022 16:40

Ha, OP, sorry but you’ve lost all credibility by proclaiming you think Mrs Brown’s Boys is funny. Best ask for the thread to be deleted. Wink

woodhill · 14/12/2022 16:48

I think you have a point

I prefered Dave Allen or the 2 Ronnies

Terribly dated 70s humour

I don't like MBBs either

woodhill · 14/12/2022 16:50

Mike Yarwood was quite amusing at the time

Tollumi · 14/12/2022 16:52

I love Mrs. Brown's Boys

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JudgeJ · 14/12/2022 16:53

TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 01:55

That is not funny. It makes me cringe.

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JudgeJ · 14/12/2022 16:59

Hillarious · 14/12/2022 10:11

The main attraction to M&W on Christmas Day was the element of surprise to their show. Dancing newsreaders were an absolute novelty!

That's the problem with old programmes, they're being discussed here by people who have no idea of what was available in the 60s and 70s, they can only be judged by the standards of the day otherwise it gets ridiculous, it's like saying the The Duchess of Malfi is too bloody.

barneshome · 14/12/2022 16:59

A few funny bits Andre Preview brilliant
Most not very funny now