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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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CovertImage · 14/12/2022 16:59

I love Mrs. Brown's Boys

Jesus, you like that thick shite and have the cheek to call M & W and other stuff "cringy"?

blacksax · 14/12/2022 17:10

I've never much liked Mrs Brown's Boys, but I have always put that down to me being neither Irish nor catholic, so a lot of the references and 'in' jokes pass me by.

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 17:17

CovertImage · 14/12/2022 16:59

I love Mrs. Brown's Boys

Jesus, you like that thick shite and have the cheek to call M & W and other stuff "cringy"?

Yes. That's about the size of it.

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 17:19

JudgeJ · 14/12/2022 16:53

A true MNer, no sense of humour whatsoever, I would hate to spend time with a lot of the people on here, they sound so miserable, constatly looking for something to criticise to make themselves look soooooooooo caring!

The fact that I have never found Fools and Horses nor Hello Hello funny constantly amazes friends who think they're wonderful. Luckily, we are all differnt and long may it continue!

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I agree with you about those actually.
Does that make us both miserable?

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ErrolTheDragon · 14/12/2022 17:21

I would hate to spend time with a lot of the people on here, they sound so miserable, constatly looking for something to criticise to make themselves look soooooooooo caring!

I do hope that's intended as satire.

Tollumi · 14/12/2022 17:22

blacksax · 14/12/2022 17:10

I've never much liked Mrs Brown's Boys, but I have always put that down to me being neither Irish nor catholic, so a lot of the references and 'in' jokes pass me by.

Being an Irish Catholic doesn't help to make Mrs Brown's Boys funny, tbh. It's still an embarrassing, barrel-scraping pile of humourless shite.

ErrolTheDragon · 14/12/2022 17:24

woodhill · 14/12/2022 16:50

Mike Yarwood was quite amusing at the time

Like most impressionists and current events-based satirical comedy, pointless to watch later. I disliked him wasting time from the humour by singing at the end.

Parky04 · 14/12/2022 17:27

YABU - although not everyone is blessed with a sense of humour!

2bazookas · 14/12/2022 17:31

Ask someone to show you the OFF button on your TV zapper ?

IvysMum12 · 14/12/2022 17:37

Do you really believe that the plays what Ernie wrote were meant to be anything but complete nonsense?
The skills they demonstrated while making breakfast to The Stripper music were amazing.
YABVVVVVU.

NeedToKnow101 · 14/12/2022 18:01

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

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Crikeyalmighty · 14/12/2022 18:06

@vera99 Ooh sacrilege- he was amazing live !

Crikeyalmighty · 14/12/2022 18:07

I think 'humour' has changed . Surreal humour for instance is no longer fashionable .

newtb · 14/12/2022 18:30

Thank heavens no one has said Some mothers do 'ave 'em was funny. Used to make me cringe.

Used to love Red Dwarf 'lager kills a vindaloo' anyone?

Think M&W were a remnant of the music hall tradition of comedians.

maddiemookins16mum · 14/12/2022 18:35

My fave was Dick Emery, loved him (and Stanley Baxter).
Always found Russ Abbot funny too.

blacksax · 14/12/2022 18:35

Tollumi · 14/12/2022 17:22

Being an Irish Catholic doesn't help to make Mrs Brown's Boys funny, tbh. It's still an embarrassing, barrel-scraping pile of humourless shite.

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pinneddownbytabbies · 14/12/2022 18:39

Crikeyalmighty · 14/12/2022 18:07

I think 'humour' has changed . Surreal humour for instance is no longer fashionable .

My sense of humour does not follow fashion. Not unless it's Jesse's fashion sense.

the80sweregreat · 14/12/2022 18:47

Russ Abbott was amusing , especially the parody songs he did
It was like Harry Hill, surreal but harmless comedy

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 18:48

pinneddownbytabbies · 14/12/2022 18:39

My sense of humour does not follow fashion. Not unless it's Jesse's fashion sense.

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Yes, yes. I loved the Fast Show.

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TheShellBeach · 14/12/2022 18:51

Do you really believe that the plays what Ernie wrote were meant to be anything but complete nonsense?

FFS I do not believe that at all. My problem is the way they used that tired old piece of shit sketch at least twice in every "show."

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NooNakedJacuzziness · 14/12/2022 19:02

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?

Yes to the radio stuff - especially Rambling Syd Rumpo and his cordwangling!

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 14/12/2022 19:10

It was the Perry and Croft band of comedy - and that Frank Spencer thing - that were really cringeworthy, albeit I really liked Ruth Madoc and was so sad to read of her recent death. She made a character who by rights should have been insufferable very likeable.

The comedy duos didn't do much for me, but Ronnie Barker whilst of his time was admittedly ingenious. I remember this meta-mini series they did called 'The Worm That Turned', a mock-dystopia where all the women put men in dresses, gave them women's names and subjugated them. There were roars that it was sexist even at the time, because of the bin-liner hot pants worn by the secret police. In fact, it was a viscous and much-needed satire of the appalling sexism women in TV were subjected to. Absolutely brilliant.

The one I really miss is Rik Mayall. My 'Comic Strip Presents' box set is still my go-to remedy for a bad day.

ginghamstarfish · 14/12/2022 19:11

I grew up watching them. It was funny at the time, and some of it still is. I do think age affects your taste in comedy too. When Radio 4 'comedy' programmes come on at 6.30 after the news, I can't turn it off quick enough. I can't think of any present day comedian who i find funny in the slightest - maybe Ricky Gervais in parts, but it seems to rely on a lot of insults and swearing (showing my advanced age here!)

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 14/12/2022 19:11

Oh yes, and The Mary Whitehouse Experience! The Robert Smith skit killed me every time.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 14/12/2022 19:16

newtb · 14/12/2022 18:30

Thank heavens no one has said Some mothers do 'ave 'em was funny. Used to make me cringe.

Used to love Red Dwarf 'lager kills a vindaloo' anyone?

Think M&W were a remnant of the music hall tradition of comedians.

THAT's the Frank Spencer thing whose name I couldn't remember. Absolutely dire.

As for Red Dwarf, 'The Polymorph' must be one of the funniest things screened on TV. Ever.

Fast Show: Densil Dexter, Louis Balfour AKA Jazz Club and Dave Angel, Eco Warrior are the stuff of legend.

I'm going all nostalgic.