Great Comedy Sketches

[Bentley Bullet]

I'll go first seeing as it's my idea.

This one's a bit cheeky having a pop at our own Donny Rovers anthem, but it's hilarious just the same!

https://youtu.be/_oLWVfJhCQI?si=zU3a_sWjzpwoXBAX

[IDM]

Fork Handles

Andre Prevue

Parrot sketch..

[drfchound]

I saw a programme a couple of nights ago which was about old great British comedy shows.
The programme on the night featured memorable items from Morecambe and Wise shows.
Each show had a short sketch with Eric and Ernie sharing a bed.
On this one, Ernie was already in bed reading and Eric came into the room, got in bed and started faffing about with his pillow.
Ernie said “can’t you go and find a bed of your own”.
Eric shouted back at him and said “Find me a teddy that looks like you and I might consider it”.
IMO, really a very funny line and a classic Eric Morecambe line.

[Bentley Bullet]

Isn't it amazing how in those days it never entered anyone's head about the gay implications of two blokes sharing a bed?

[ravenrover]

He's not going to sell many ice creams going at that speed

[River Don]

Isn't it amazing how in those days it never entered anyone's head about the gay implications of two blokes sharing a bed?

It did and Eric Morecambe wasn't very keen on doing it for that reason.

The writer, Eddie Braben, convinced them to do it by reminding them that Laurel and Hardy did it.

[Bentley Bullet]

Isn't it amazing how in those days it never entered anyone's head about the gay implications of two blokes sharing a bed?

It did and Eric Morecambe wasn't very keen on doing it for that reason.

The writer, Eddie Braben, convinced them to do it by reminding them that Laurel and Hardy did it.

Yes, Eric said something like,  If Laurel & Hardy can do it, so can we, I suppose, as if realising he, like everybody else, didn't see any gay implications when L&H shared a bed. 

[River Don]

Isn't it amazing how in those days it never entered anyone's head about the gay implications of two blokes sharing a bed?

It did and Eric Morecambe wasn't very keen on doing it for that reason.

The writer, Eddie Braben, convinced them to do it by reminding them that Laurel and Hardy did it.

Yes, Eric said something like,  If Laurel & Hardy can do it, so can we, I suppose, as if realising he, like everybody else, didn't see any gay implications when L&H shared a bed. 

Braben changed their act. He knew that in the M&W world he created for them, it wouldn't be a problem. They were basically children in the shape of grown men. Laurel & Hardy did that too. In a way Father Ted did it as well. They didn't share a bed but shared  a bedroom, it's the same idea.

Whatever, it's not an example of more innocent times. Just good comedy writing.

[Bentley Bullet]

If I remember correctly, I think The Chuckle Brothers shared a bed in their Saturday morning TV series in the 70's.

Eeh, how pure-minded we all were in those pre-woke days!

[River Don]

The Chuckles were more 80s/90s weren't they?

There was a good scene in The Likely Lads where Bob and Terry have to share a bed. Bob dreams of playing for Newcastle away in Europe. "We're losing...

[drfchound]

The Chuckles were more 80s/90s weren't they?

There was a good scene in The Likely Lads where Bob and Terry have to share a bed. Bob dreams of playing for Newcastle away in Europe. "We're losing...

Was that the episode where they tried all day to avoid seeing the score so they could watch the late night highlights without knowing the score.
They managed to do so and turned the highlights show on only to find that the game had been called off due to a waterlogged pitch.

[IDM]

If I remember correctly, I think The Chuckle Brothers shared a bed in their Saturday morning TV series in the 70's.

Eeh, how pure-minded we all were in those pre-woke days!

Were they playing “pass the blow up doll”.??

To me, to you etc..

[belton rover]

Isn't it amazing how in those days it never entered anyone's head about the gay implications of two blokes sharing a bed?

It did and Eric Morecambe wasn't very keen on doing it for that reason.

The writer, Eddie Braben, convinced them to do it by reminding them that Laurel and Hardy did it.

Yes, Eric said something like,  If Laurel & Hardy can do it, so can we, I suppose, as if realising he, like everybody else, didn't see any gay implications when L&H shared a bed. 

Eric also insisted on smoking his pipe in bed (not Ernie’s, fnar, fnar) to emphasise the masculinity in the sketches.

[Bentley Bullet]

I wondered why he insisted on having a couple of puffs in the scene.

[turnbull for england]

Fish slapping dance MPFC

[drfchound]

Fish slapping dance MPFC

Very, very funny.

[colfromdonny]

Anything by MPFC

[ravenrover]

The Plank

[ravenrover]

DAN! DAN! - Alan Partridge

[Colin C No.3]

Del Boy in a bar full of yuppies thinking he’d caught the eye of a couple of girls saying to Trigger “Play it cool Trig, play it cool” then nonchalantly goes to lean on the bar just as the barman behind him opens the serving hatch. Classic.

A close second has to be the ‘catching of the glass chandelier’ as grandad turns the screw holding the chandelier only for Del & Rodney to have been holding the sheet under the wrong chandelier.

Apparently the director told David Jason & Nicholas Lyndhurst they had one & only one take so they must not corpse.

Can’t still today (knowing that) how they managed just to gawp into one another’s faces as the adjacent chandelier crashed to the floor then David Jason just taking a big gulp as the camera panned to him.

A cracking comedy series which stands the test of time right up there with Porridge.

[Bentley Bullet]

When Del Boy and Uncle Albert both had dates......
https://fb.watch/uoz0epeZGv/

[ravenrover]

Vicar of Dibley, Geraldine splashing in the puddles

[Nudga]

Probably quare


https://youtu.be/v80GFZKzlCE?si=TFJnTSoXUUxg1QG4