Four Candles: lulz/no lulz?

Certainly not in the same ballpark as Sammy Davis Jr rollerskating under Alf Garnett. "I don't believe it!"

"Del Boy mentioning the war"?

As I just said elsewhere Ronnie Barker's notes for this sold for £485000.
http://www.tomcl.co.uk/ShowDetails.asp?id=415

The notes to the auction are definitely lolz.

The script contains various minor amendments throughout and is complete with the original 'BILLHOOKS' ending that was subsequently rewritten by Ronnie Barker in later years.

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Some pisspronunciation going on there.

In a Two Ronnies sketch poll it would come way down my list, behind the likes of the Mastermind sketch http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8ZnQ95cKk

Not a par on CJ seeing the Queen on Christmas Day and fusing her with some Waldorf salad shit.

daniel otm

"To say this is the television equivalent of say, Lennon’s lyrics to 'Imagine' would not, in our opinion be an unreasonable comparison."

oh fuck off.

Yeah, that's what I said, very unfair to Mr Barker that.

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The tension builds...

Hurts me to say no, because I love the Ronnies, but the sketch is actually a fantastic opener followed by quite a lot of dross. I have barker's complete works and am almost tempted to transcribe the whole thing here, if only for posterity. But it's late and I'm tired and it's probably youtubable anywya.

Daniel definitely OTM re Mastermind sketch. Also: FUNEX.

Four candles in dub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3il0c4Wx04

Did anyone ever find those closing extended musical numbers on The Two Ronnies funny?

David Renwick wrote the Mastermind sketch, didn't he?

Either David Renwick or David Nobbs - I always get the two mixed up.

Did anyone ever find those closing extended musical numbers on The Two Ronnies funny?

Me!

Shit closing extended musical numbers are an integral part of British comedy, it's just whether The Real McCoy or Smack The Pony had the least funny ones.

Lenny Henry in drag as Tina Turner singing "what's love but a can of white emulsion" = golden memory of my youth.

How many vicars were there in Pitts anyway?

yeah ronnies songs = funny. sometimes hillarious. top of the pops pisstakes = less so and sometimes (although no-one ever seems to remembers this or if so doesn't say as much) flat out racist.

the sketch is actually a fantastic opener followed by quite a lot of dross

Yes.

I quite liked Big Jim Jehosophat and Fatbelly Jones, actually.

Ronnie B wrote all the musical skits, didn't he?

Yes, including the pisstake one he wrote for Not The Nine O'Clock News.

TS: Lenny Henry as Tina Turner vs Eddie Large as Tina Turner

Both preferable to Tina Turner as Tina Turner

Doesn't Eddie Large live in Portishead?

Little and Large doing Portishead would have been something else.

Eddie Large lives in Clapton in Gordano, not far from Portishead but probably closer to Pill.

I am now racking my brain to think who Little and Large did on Harry Hill's TV Show.

Four Candles isn't all that but I'm fucked if I'm voting for Del Boy.

It's very funny if you don't watch it too often.

That dub version is great!

still, mastermind. or any of the dinner parties.

Man with guitar: "Nobody Loves me, it's true.."
Other man wearing Dog ears: "OK MUSKIE!!"
Man with guitar: "Not like you do.."
Other man now not wearing dog ears: "Friends, if you love him, mail your vote on the back of a postcard and I mean that most sincerely..."

Is Englebert Humperdinck his real name?

Is Englebert Humperdinck whose real name?

Tom Jones

Poster officially falls off office chair in hysterics at Mark's L&L do Portishead routine.

All ILxors under 45 spend rest of week scratching heads in bafflement...

The optician sketch where Ronnie B puts a teaspoon in the lens holder is another classic

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The people have spoken

Ronnie B wrote all the musical skits, didn't he?

-- Tom D., Tuesday, 12 February 2008 13:21 (Yesterday) Link

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Yes, including the pisstake one he wrote for Not The Nine O'Clock News.

-- Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 13:21

pretty sure that's a myth, no?

one Barker moment that always jars: the reference to Blancmange (the band) at some point in Open All Hours.

I know the series was still going when they were around, but it's still a harsh reminder of something you might otherwise easily forget: it was then, but it certainly wasn't there. the extra piquancy comes from the fact that they came from a very similar town to that where OAH is supposed to happen, in its own timeless region.

anymore context re that Blancmange reference? only the singer was from Lancs tho.