Comedy Connections
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Topic: Comedy Connections
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Comedy Connections
Date Posted: November 08 2024 at 06:59
SHOOTING STARS The most anarchic panel game on British TV, hosted by comedy double act Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer, and throwing the typical panel game format completely on its head in a quiz show which apparently has no rules, or by simply inventing new rules on the night of filming as the mood takes them. Either way, it's a bundle of laughs. Eranu Uvavu.  |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 09 2024 at 03:53
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Queen - A Crazy Little Thing Called Shooting Stars. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 10 2024 at 05:09
SLADE INFLAMED It's not such a Merry Christmas for everybody in the Slade household when Little Lord Le Bon gatecrashes the Christmas party.  |
Posted By: Argos
Date Posted: November 10 2024 at 17:08
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Shooting Stars was a chaotic gem! They were absolute masters of making the panel game unadulterated madness. I always gave me fits day in and day out with the random antics and hilarious guests. "Eranu Uvavu" is always a part of me.
------------- "All the iron turned to rust; All the proud men turned to dust And so all things, time will mend So this song will end" |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 25 2024 at 19:02
It's all aboard the cross-channel ferry for Dancing on the Sealink with Vic & Bob and Ulrika-ka's Christmas extravaganza. |
Argos wrote:Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 28 2024 at 15:13
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THE TWO RONNIES The masters of saucy seaside postcard innuendo, and who can forget the classic "Four Candles/Fork Handles" hardware store sketch. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 06 2024 at 12:46
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Four Candles/Fork Handles - consistently voted the funniest Two Ronnies sketch of all time. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 08 2024 at 17:06
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Hi, Can we change the tittle of this thing away from "comedic connections"? I like the connections ni The Goons (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe) and Peter and Spike played 5 or more characters in each episode! But, I think that we believe that radio was crap and not important to the artistic value of the idea. And later, Richard Lester ripped off The Goons ridiculously and we wouldn't even care! BTW, Spike and Peter (and Harry) met during WW2 in Algeria and a lot of it is in Spike's books ... including a gun falling off a hill with Spike on top of it cleaning it up! And when everyone went to look to where it fell they found Spike ... "anyone seen a gun?" ... many of the stories are around the time of the desert fox, btw. Harry's singing shaving act, had been a part of the entertainment in the barracks in Algeria ... and was updated by The Goons ... "we all have dark moments in our past ... " The American version of this is different, as TV immediately blew up radio here, but it was more of an individual thing, than it was anything else ... but several interesting things did take place. In the 50's in England, it was all radio just about. In the USA, TV was already king and was taking down radio badly and all the radio dramas, just about died ... but then, they died the day that Orson Welles scared the nation and the FCC immediately shut him down! (War of the Worlds) The Firesign Theater has many albums and they are very good ... and their early material all the way to "Not Insane" has a lot of very nice and far out things. Probably their best known is "Don't Crush That Dwarf Paul, and Hand Me The Pliers!" But I think the conceptual nature of that album will confuse many folks that profess the annals of the top 25 and its formatting.  Stan Freeberg was great. Ernie Kovacs even better, though his surrealism will blow many folks away. Jonathan Winters is another that is not always appreciated, but he was truly a crazy guy ... and even doing stuff later with Robin Williams, only shows how nuts he was! And they were!!!
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 22 2024 at 15:29
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^ To be honest, I've never been a fan of The Goons, but I do like Peter Sellers. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 15 2025 at 07:38
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The Fast Show - Comedy Connections, 2006 documentary The Fast Show - A Load of Blooming Catchphrases, 2020 documentary |