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terry and june is so much betterer than people admit!
terry and june is so much betterer than people admit!
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Terry and June didn't start before 1979, but if you look in IMDB they were in a series as Terry and June Fletcher called Happy Ever After from 1974 to 1979 and before that Scott had a series called Scott On... which ran from 1964 to 74 which June Whitfield was in as well. So though it feels like they were on forever ever they were in a way as well, it's not just a bad dream.
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Sorry I got confused I mistook Happy ever After for Terry and June
I still stink comedians and situation comedies have only so many jokes in them, which can only be told so many times I think Tony Hancock made that mistake, he was mega in his day, particularly on radio But he made the mistake of becoming jealous of his co stars and dropping them and going on too long He then became completely confused and committed suicide in an Australian Hotel room I think, very sad He did not see that comedy is like a baton, it has to be passed on at some time |
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Wasn't Happy Ever After,the same script with a different name attached to it?
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propably...it definitely went on too long
I remember laughing at it in the 70's, but even then there were funnier, it filled a hole I suppose Terry Scott was funny, but I have forgotten what he started in |
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Hmm, I think back then, like now, some people will just watch any old sh1te. Around the same time porridge, fawlty towers, till death us do part and dads army, ony fools and horses were on. You would have thought theyd have learned that comedy can actually be proper good.
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everybody has different tastes rob
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yes I probably watched any old sh1te, if was on before I went up the pub
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Gery my favourite Likely Lads episode was the famous one where they spent the day trying to avoid hearing the scoreline of the england game...a classic. I did like Monty Python, the movies especially are genius, but i think spike milligan and the goon squad deserve as much if not more credit...truly groundbreaking stuff at that time.
Comedy is a highly personal thing of course, one mans piss can be another's porter. Whatever the attraction of Mrs Browns Boys is totally beyond me, Brendan o carroll has been doing the same joke for 30 years at least now and its made him a multi millionaire finally, good luck to him but i think you'd need to do a deep psychological study to find out why people like it....cant be the "comedy" surely because on no level is it funny....i am certain about that! Flower i dont see any direct link between Bilko and Car 54 beyond the writer but i love them both, just for the theme tune alone Car 54 will always be dear to my heart. And staying on a nostalgia theme i recently hired the first series of Taxi from my local library and am pleased at how well it holds up - for the sheer acting talent alone - danny de vito, chris lloyd, andy kaufman, judd hirsch - it stands up with the best imho |
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Those Hancock shows were often great, but while the ones with Syd James were good, the ones with Kenneth William, Hattie Jacques and Bill Kerr were terrible, imo. So he was right to ditch some of the cast, but it was near perfect with just Syd and a cast of regular support actors, Syd and Tony's relationship was like a Bottom of its time without the frying pans. And yeah it was a shame that he started to believe that he was the star and everyone else was holding him back. Did you see his stand up routine from about 1966? It was terrible to see him reduced to awful Robert Newton impressions, which I always thought was the worst thing about him.
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Was Terry Scott in something with Hugh Lloyd called:
The Gnomes Of Dulwich ? |
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According to IMDB again, yes, ran 1 season 1969
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Bloody hell, Galton and Simpson are both still alive, well after most(all?) of the actors in steptoe and hancock are long gone.
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terry scott was in a fair few carry on movies. the one that springs to mind is carry on up the jungle where he was the tarzan type character.
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Carry on up the jungle was one of the better efforts of that lamentable enterprise imo
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He was actually quite good as Cardinal Wolsey in one.
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He was good in Carry on Camping, where the farmer thought Terry had got his daughter pregnant.
Though Terry and June was not really funny it did have a homely feel to it like Good Life and Sykes at least we made early evening comedy back then |
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I liked Sir Dennis, I mean he just got bellow "Medford!" every now and then, must have been fun to act that stuff, no strain and years of work.
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Women are not into comedy that much...with a few exceptions
I can attest to that from trying to live with some of them...they have little sense of humour |
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Though Terry and June was not really funny it did have a homely feel to it like Good Life and Sykes at least we made early evening comedy back then
I agree with that steamship....I suppose society has changed My Dad loved Sykes and his constant battle with Richard Wattis, his posh neighbour, and of course there was Hattie Jacques a comedy star in her own right |
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Terry and June did have some funny moments, even if too few for some
but it could not have been that bad, because the viewing figures must have been there, for the BBC to keep showing it The only program I know who ignores viewing figures is Channel 4 racing  |
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Yes ebul Eric Sykes was a great actor who perhaps never got the credit he deserved...a truly funny man and in a different league to the people referred to as comedians these days.
A mid 1980s sitcom that made me laugh was Brush Strokes but whether i'd still find it funny some 30 years later is a different matter. |
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To be fair if you compare it to badults or uncle it is a comedy classic,
And the commisioning editor for bbc comedy should have their tits/knackers put through a mangle For the steaming pile of sh!te that is jaime private schoolgirl or jonah from tonga ,i can only assume they are distant relatives of chris lilley because both are fecking dire. |
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Terry Scott and Huw Lloyd were a long-running double act, with Hugh And I Spy and Hugh And I back in the 1960s. If there was ever a funny moment in either of them, I can't recall it now.
But I did like Scott in the Carry On films. He looked to be having a great time playing Tarzan and I had a great time watching him. And he was perfect as the frustrated husband in Carry On Camping. Whatever else he did, he could be proud he had a role to play in perhaps the most widely loved film ever made in this country. |
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yes flushgordon, BBC comedy is dire now
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script writers are so important
eve though I said we are sometimes watching the same joke the characters themselves must have fresh lines, fresh things to do, fresh situations they cannot literally tell the same joke I don't know how they do it? |
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Badults is from a group of performers called Pappys. The Pappys live show is far superior to their TV programme. I see excellent comedy performers every year at the Fringe yet they either do not make it to Tv or get let down by writing.
If yopu get the chance to see a 4 piece comedy group called Mixed Doubles then do I think they are doing Radio 4 at the moment. |
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the trouble with the BBC is they aint got no money to employ anyone decent
and they filled with feminists...who are humourless I would find in hard to find anyone with less humour than a feminist, except maybe a Muslim Fundamentalist Preacher neither are a barrel of laughs |
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A lot of humour nowadays is aimed at young people
we don't see the family situation comedies much anymore perhaps we have done them to death...or our society don't think much of families anymore |
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Citizens feckin khant
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they should do a catholic version of citizen khan, called power to the papal
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But anything like that would only be a pale imitation of father ted one of the best comedies ever.
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