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Might be dumb humor, but its undoubtedly classic.

The car that splits in half......

The missing engine..

The dog...

anymore...
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― Wil, Friday, 6 June 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

It brought jeremy beadle to the attentipon of the world, it is evil, I rest my case

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 June 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know how you can possibly compare it to beadlism.

got my last exam today.

― Wil, Friday, 6 June 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

But Beadle was just a British version of CC - what do you mean?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 6 June 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

CAndid camera was the pre beadle, beadle show in the UK, it 'dicovered' beadle, they then gave hime his own show.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 June 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Well after watching old cc clips last night it is superior

1. Its in black and white
2. They just didnt get the jokes back then
3. Denial of people that were had
4. Presenters werent greasy middle aged wankers

― Wil, Friday, 6 June 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw a really old clip of an old CC show once where they pretended to eat the goldfish out of a fishtank in some office reception area. They didn't really eat the fish - they used slices of carrot or something. It made me feel sick though.

― C J (C J), Friday, 6 June 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

CAndid camera was the pre beadle, beadle show in the UK, it 'dicovered' beadle, they then gave hime his own show.

What?? Are you thinking of Game for a Laugh?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 6 June 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, maybe, its all false beards and beadlism to me, i hate fun.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 6 June 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

he was christened alan funt = what else could he do for a living?

did anyone else see bob monkhouse defending beadle to ann robinson on monday night? the core of his defence = in real life JB is a triple-teired saint of loveliness and the only reason the nation as a whole hates him is that he allowed caught-out punters to swear and have the swears bleeped

use other facts please, i know, but isn't monkhouse's skin preparation derived from the lost mystic arts of egyptian mummification? he looks as if he's made of polished wood!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

teired = tiered

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the "do you hate funt?" joke is already implicit in mark's post, but i'm going ahead and making it anyway.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm so tiered, i haven't slept a wink

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 6 June 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Once when I was living in India, I went to this magazine stand and bought some stupid music magazine. Then the stand owner was like, excuse me sir, can I see that magazine please? When I handed it to him, he ripped in half. Then he was all like, what do you think about that? I think I shrugged or something. Then he revealed I was on some Indian rip-off of Candid Camera and I had to give my permission to be on the show or something. It was a pretty fucking lame Candid Camera stunt.

― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow that stunt must have been really ~~crap~~ amusing to watch NA!! I bet you were proud to be part of it.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

my favourite is the golf ball made of plaster. When the golfer hits it, it powders to nothing but the golfer assumes he's hit it and wonders where it's gone.

wonder if Beadle got called Alan Cuck pre-Beadle?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(see also Diana Dors).

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I used to fancy Sarah Kennedy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

but you're not sure, huh? Do you mean you might have just been mildly fond of her, or that it could've been someone else?

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, that's about the size of it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I associate this show so much with the seventies. Somehow I can't see something like this working anymore. There are plenty of gullible ppl still around, to be sure, but the explosion in the amount of info available to ppl, eg via the interweb and the fact that someone might leak details of a series that was being made (coz the revival of the show would generate a lot of interest as a result of nostalgia alone) would mean that it wouldn't work anymore.

also many of the tricks employed seemed to be fixed in an age that is now gone, eg when there were far more door-to-door salespeople. I remember two which involved milkmen - and so few ppl are in during the day now and/or have milk delivered to their homes! One was when the milkman announced that white milk was no longer available and so ppl would have to have coloured milk instead and the other was when the milkman brought round a goat and told ppl they would have to use it as the source of their milk from then on.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 7 June 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone ever seen any of those old Playboy Candid Cameras? The weirdest TV I have ever seen.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 7 June 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone seen "Just for Laughs" (sadly Saturday prime-time shit, with apologies (or heartfelt jealousy) to non-UK viewers)

It is like a k-rub Candid Camera / Trigger Happy TV but SO MUCH MORE STAGED IT'S UNBELIEVABLE? Do people WATCH this shite? (apart from me, obviously, and that was only once)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 7 June 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to watch this all the time as a kid. The presenter always seemed kind of unsavory. Who was his female sidekick?

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 7 June 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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