Harry Enfield and Chums C/D?

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For some reason I've been thinking about Harry Enfield's shows recently.

CLASSIC
1. Julio Geordio
2. Mr Chomondley-Warner (but not Enfield as Grayson)
3. The Old Gits (the early years)
4. The Self-Righteous Brothers
5. The Nouveau Riche Brummie Couple ("I've got conseederably more money than yowwwwww")
6. The German Tourist Who Couldn't Stop Ranting About the War
7. The Gay Dutch Policemen
8. Tory Boy
9. That sketch spoofing Lynda La Plante: "Divvies"
10. That sketch about dubbing American movies ("Did you duck my wife?" "Whaddaya mean, did I duck your wife, whassa matter wit' you?" "Did you duck my wife, you muddy funster!")
11. "She Woman Cat Type Thing"
12. "Man in pub said..." "Ah well, man in pub..."
13. Kathy Burke
14. Paul Whitehouse
15. The first time you saw The Scousers

DUD
1. The second time you saw The Scousers
2. The Double Take Brothers
3. The Two Old Ladies who said "Young man!"
4. Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke as toddlers (excruciatingly unfunny)
5. Mr. Dead
6. Flogging characters to death
7. Flogging catchphrases to death
8. Sketches that were over 5 minutes long
9. Almost all of the later series
10. Harry Enfield

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty much spot-on I think except Considerably Richer Than Yow wasn't that good really.

I can't decide whether Lee & Lance were C or D...maybe it was that Lance was C but Lee was D.

The Slobs were Classic. Kevin and Perry were mostly Classic.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I missed out a few of the more famous ones 'cos i just got bored of seeing them eventually

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

The Kevin & Perry film successfully killed the Kevin & Perry sketches.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

What I liked about the Brummie couple is that allowed Enfield to do the same sort of barely concealed, totally unhinged rage thing he did as one of the Self Righteous Brothers

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

There was something nice about Mr Dead even if it wasn't LOL material.

Don't know if you remember Enfield and Whitehouse as the two teenage Eastern European kids ("Hendrix is dead? FREAK OUT! "). That was playground gold round my way for several weeks. What mugs we were.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

i prefered Lil Bruvva to teenage Kevin by MILES.

― the kit! (g-kit), Friday, 3 March 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Classic: the 30Something pisstake sketch.

Dud: Enfield's 1988 #4 novelty hit "Loadsamoney (Doin' Up The House)" which I note was co-written and produced by young William Orbit and uses a (presumably) legitimate Abba sample 17 years before "Hung Up."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

But, classic: Loadsamoney's Smash Hits singles column in the week of its release...

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Classic: Norbert Smith: A Life

Dud: Stavros

― robster (robster), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

haha 'Hendrix is dead' -- my playground too.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

The Self-Righteous Brothers

but somehow i can't remeber this at all.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Classic: The Aliens. "Tree..."

The SelfRighteous bros, as in "I'd say.. EDMONDS! NO!! While you may well be entertaining...(etc)"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's the two guys sitting in a pub having a stupid discussion about something totally banal and getting totally intense and angry about it - it's a bit like you and Momus

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oi, Momus, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh right "oi! currie! no!". i do remember that.

xpost

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

if he came in this thread, and started advocating brechtian distanciation and trotskyist entyrism in the pop sphere, and talked up the fragmentation of self under postmodernity, i'd say, etc.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

2. The Double Take Brothers

they were brilliant!

me and my mate woose used to do them all the time at school. "waugh! a maths book! WAUGH!" [jump up and down frantically etc.]

christ. me and my mate woose were pricks.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

can't think of a waugh/maths book joke but I tried

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

God I fucking hated the Self Righteous brothers so much. Dud, dud dud. Otherwise I agree with Dada's list.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

The Gay Jockeys were pretty dud too.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

The Smashy and Nicey documentary, on the other hand, was AWESOME. Nicey's pronunciation of "Mo-other" with that haunted choke in his voice a la Psycho is a standard catchphrase in our house.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Enfield comedy show ideas stolen

* supply you own jokes here *

― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago)

Well you're going to have to, because Enfield never does.

― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:36 (fifteen years ago)

i think the thieves read the material and thought "we'll never get more than £750 for this"

― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 19 October 2009 12:03 (fifteen years ago)

unless they run an online "everyone send money or we GIVE IT BACK!!!"

― Mark G, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:38 (fifteen years ago)

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