After Penn And Teller

[poliphilo]

Penn and Teller have completed their run and their place has been taken by one of those programmes in which comedians talk about how funny other comedians are-  especially the dead ones. In an early sequence Ronnie Corbett was eating lunch with Miranda Hart and having a conversation that went something like this.

"But Morecambe and Wise were so funny weren't they?"

"I know I know- and did you notice how funny they were?"

"I know I know."

Then Ronnie took Miranda on a backstage tour of a theatre in Croydon- "the hallowed ground"- where Morecambe and Wise had once played a gig in the 70s.  

Comments

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I hate that kind of circle jerking. And I never thought any of the comedians of that style and generation were particularly funny. Probably because I hate humour based on farce. The exception being Frank Spencer, occasionally. (I can't remember his real name.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Michael Crawford- later (implausibly) the phantom of the opera.

I think those old comics are best remembered at arm's length. Whenever I go back and revisit the shows I'm disappointed. I watched the better part of a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special recently and it was terrible.