Best UK Comedy Double Act

Cook & Moore vs Two Ronnies.

Bugger, I missed out Cannon & Ball, oh dear, how sad, never mind.

http://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/media/images/t/c/PuntandDennis2007_lg.jpg

lol

Milky milky.

Smith and Jones!

That "anyone I've missed out" vote's going to get a boost and a half.

How could I have forgotten sidesplitting Punt & Dennis? Agree that missing out Smith & Jones is inexcusable, however.

You just want me to embarrass myself in front of Dom by noting Fry and Laurie's absence (or Lee and Herring, if you'd rather, or Adam & Joe, again). Which might be needless carping as I might go for Morecambe and Wise anyway, while suspecting that if I'd actually seen as much of their output as some of the other entries here and not just the endlessly repeated highlights I'd change my mind.

Taking Sides: Adam and Joe vs Lee and Herring

I'm just worried about how many Americans are gonna vote for the fucking Boosh, tbh

Trouble with Fry & Laurie is that I now think of them as Kingdom & House.
As for Lee & Herring - see Punt & Dennis.
Adam & Joe - see Lee & Herring but at least the dad was funny.
The carousing cavalcade of Britpop-era comedics.

Britpop egg-ra comedics, like an egg.

Trouble with Fry & Laurie is that I now think of them as Kingdom & House.
As for Lee & Herring - see Punt & Dennis.
Adam & Joe - see Lee & Herring but at least the dad was funny.

easier to swallow if you hadn't included baddiel and skinner.

or lucas and walliams, or half these acts

I paid actual money to see Baddiel & Newman at the Hammersmith Odeon as was so felt obliged to provide a complete profile.

Apart from the Krankies has there ever been another male and female double act in modern times?

Cooke & Moore. Most of these are awful.

Certainly can't think of any recent British ones (xp).

Also criminally omitted: Hope & Keen.

Dud and Pete, you cunts.

Mr Don and Mr George

And where oh where were Lennie & Jerry?

dom and quitney?

Les and Dustin?

no rod & emu (not that i'd have voted for them anyway)

Cook & Moore vs 2 Ronnies, not sure which to choose. Most of the others are pretty mediocre.

has there ever been another male and female double act in modern times?

Macgowan and Ancona? hmm
Vaughan and Van Outen lol

Monkhouse & Goodwin!
Mel & Sue!
Slattery & McShane!

(But, yeah, omission of Lee & Herring is a big deal for quite a few people I think. But it's Dingo's poll).

Les Denniss and Dustin Gee.

Had a "Morecambe and Wise" style TV series. Dustin dies, Les was all Windsor Davies...

http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2003/01/13/obituary-les-dennis.html

Actually, more than that: Les Dennis added another character to his range of impersonations: Kevin Turvey, a lad from Redditch. Lasted two weeks, then, presumably, Rik Mayall had a word...

Monkhouse & Goodwin - they briefly appeared as a double act on ITV in the mid-fifties but the non-photogenic Goodwin soon returned to writing so I wasn't sure they really counted as performers.
Mel & Sue - should have been included.
Slattery & McShane - did this coupling actually exist outside WLITA?
Rod Hull & Emu - belongs in the "human plus non-human" category (since RH never actually ventriloquised as such, or if he did I must have missed that episode).
Les Dennis & Dustin Gee - should have been included.
Victor & Barry though!

Fish & Cushion ftw

Slattery & McShane - did this coupling actually exist outside WLITA?

Yes, they had their own semi-improv sketch show called S&M. Quite poor.

I imagine I like Mel & Sue better than anyone else on ILX and I wouldn't vote for them by a long way, so no need I'm guessing

(The only thing I remember about it was McShane aborting one sketch where he was being ridden like a horse by Slattery because he was "getting hard". Cue mirth from crew.)

What was that unfunny C4 comedy where Mike McShane shares his gaff with a woman but they're not a couple but he would like them to be? Theme song was "I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten."

Ah, Mel and Sue. Yes I would.

And I'm pretty sure the woman was Sandi Toksvig (self xp).

The Big One, 1992.

What I found most amazing about Mel and Sue is that every single episode of Light Lunch had a title.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118386/episodes#season-1

I'd have gone Fry and Laurie if it was there. Their show was pound-for-pound as good as Python. Linguistically they eclipsed Python for me (unless a clever fellow can direct me to Python sketch as awesome as Fry's barber sketch) and often forgotten is Stephen Fry's skills as a physical comedian. On some days his Michael Jackson impression >>>>> Ministry of Silly Walks.

went for anyone else MC had missed out, for the same reason as you. because they riled inverted snobs/extreme cultural Marxists and Tories, those two twin evils who think they're opposites but are in fact sheer mirror images, at the same time, and nobody else has ever done that (or ever could). because they made it so easy for fools and pseudo-rebels to damn them as young fogeys, when in fact they were the angriest of their generation, the truest renegades. and because they even made Alliance & Leicester seem likeable.

and anything outstrips the ministry of silly walks, tedious old-world reference point that it is. Python peaked in 1974, without Cleese.

went Vic & Bob because The Smell Of... and about a third of everything that happened in Shooting Stars is great enough to make up for their many misses

i read the first 8 choices and thought this was a parody thread. having seen the rest i realise you're serious. i can't decide between the two ronnies or reeves & mortimer. seeings as they mean more to me personally, i'd prob have to go with r&m.

As for Lee & Herring - see Punt & Dennis.
Adam & Joe - see Lee & Herring but at least the dad was funny.

This is BOLLOCKS. Punt and Dennis were prematurely middle aged nerds who made rubbish, smug jokes about Black Wednesday and computer dating. Lee & Herring and Adam & Joe were superlolz and down with the kids, maaaan.

I'd just like to point out that Francie and Josie were teh fucking biz.

Dud and Pete, you cunts.

-- Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 5 March 2008

Yeah.

Start again.

No Cannon and Ball?

Could probably make a case for Armstrong and Miller if they were there, since they make the only sketch show I can actually be arsed watching these days.

i do like adam & joe, they may be number 3. and then a classic vote for morecanbe & wise. love mitchell & webb in peep show but the sketch show is rubbish. there, i said it.

When Mary Whitehouse Experience was big, sure I liked Newman best and probably Baddiel second but I didn't think of Punt & Dennis as particularly weak links. I liked them and laughed at Dennis a lot. What was their own show after that called? Something For The Weekend?

The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show

i must admit to never having seen to much of the mary whitehouse experience but from what i've seen of them since and archive material i know i could never love them. hugh dennis, for example, is terrible on mock the week and baddiel always came across as a cnut on fantasy football league. rob newman seems the only one touched by a bit of comedy genius but maybe that's cos you never see much of him anymore.

"hugh dennis, for example, is terrible on mock the week"

Everyone on MTW is terrible, it's dogshit.

hugh dennis, for example, is terrible on mock the week

oh, come on, how can you fail to love someone who trades on saying "showaddywaddy" in the style of Sir Jimmy Savile as a punchline to jokes about everything...

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Apart from the Krankies has there ever been another male and female double act in modern times?

"The Tall Droll with the Small Doll"

http://www.greenock-town.co.uk/images/chic_maidie_murray.jpg

Chuckle Brothers.

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