If the film hadn't ended there..

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Lee & Herring once had this feature where they would imagine how films might have turned out if they hadn't ended at the point they had. The one I remember, and one of the funniest things they ever did, was for 'Planet of the Apes'. Charlton Heston gets up from the ground, scratches his head, moves on and sees various other decaying landmarks but still doesn't click. Eventually, he comes across a bunch of apes with synths and guitars singing Duran Duran's 'Planet Earth'.

Last night I watched 'The Wicker Man' for the first time (bit rub I thought) and imagined it carrying on with the police wondering where Sgt Dowie had got to and sending in more police for an investigation that ultimately results in the entire population being sentenced to prison for a long long time. Not very funny, but didn't Christopher Lee think of this before he went ahead with his crackpot plan?

Anyway, does anyone want to take the baby and run with it?

― N., Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh all right then don't. I'll tell you something else about The Wicker Man instead. I was not remotely scared because it was all so daft and British 70s clunky until I realised that the second half of the film TAKES PLACE ON THE DAY I WAS BORN. It didn't properly click till I actually saw the 1973 calendar on the wall with May 1st circled in red.

I AM THE REINCARNATION OF SERGEANT DOWIE.

― N>, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worst thread ever?

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the big red bits but otherwise, yes.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It can never really recover from the first three words.

― Tom, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ach, Lee & Herring get too much stick. You're just scared cause they're the comedians you'd be if you were ever one (cf. Baxendale)

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

so many haters. i miss their sunday morning TMWRNJ show, (featuring the actor Kevin Eldon).

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete once returned from a barbecue buying expedition and claimed he had seen Stuart Lee on the bus. I said he should've got him to sign our barbecue & we did consider faking his signature on the box to dazzle our chums. But we didn't as we got so engrossed in the whole barbecue assembling vibe.

― Emma, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I friend of mine once saw Richard Herring on a train. Clearly, this is an extraordinary coincidence.

― N., Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick is probably right but I just don't like them. Maybe it is because they make money off the kind of things we do in the pub, or so it seems. My brother is a big fan.

― Tom, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

haha i once was presenting a radio debate for lmc (swank swank except its radius = abt 10 feet and its listernship = ppl ion the panel if that) and i had to segue between stuart lee's show and ours and i FORGOT HIS NAME ON AIR. He was v.pissed off, but as i was chairing the "debate" on air for the next hour he could say nothing and got bored and left long before we finished, so no nosebiff for mark s THAT day...

― mark s, Thursday, 14 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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