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Black Adder taught an entire generation about wit and sarcasum. The second black adder series was the best, my other half as a collgoue who is married too a women who is the spitting image of queenie…
maybe more and more comedy is aimed at one sex or the other, I never found Men Behaving Badly funny.
Me neither. Certainly a classic sitcom format, but boorish and unappealing as far as I was concerned.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
was it at the start of each episode of Black Adder that he fell off his horse; every week I watched out for it and every week I laughed when it happened…..but it was so sad at the very end when they went over the top. Watched a film on BBC 4 the other night called Les Visiteurs in which the ‘hero’ had a Black Adder haircut, so it got me thinking of it again. The lady who played a witch in our village panto one year based her character on Queenie; it worked very well….and I had a cat called Baldrick, but thats another story [he didn’t have 9 lives; in fact he barely had one…]
Did anyone watch Hugo Blick’s ‘Sensitive Skin’ with Joanna Lumley last year? It was on quite late at night and probably didn’t register on a lot of people’s radar screens..it had a wonderful balance of humour and pathos.
Saw most of it and enjoyed the gentle wistful humour.
Succour and solace for careworn ladies and gentlemen of a certain age
Regarding Blackadder Goes Forth, the scene of them going over the top and meeting their makers is a scene which you would never see in a comedy as the first 20 minuites or so you are watching and laughing along at the brilliant scripts and acting then right at the very end you get to see what it was all about in the end and even now whenever i watch it i still go very silent when the whistle blows and they charge out into No Mans Land.
That was inspired, brilliant writing and had more impact than any documentary could have.
I can watch that as many times as they care to show it, but I was so mad the other day when they showed it on UK Gold. Did anyone else see that? Just as the guys were going over the top and the bangs and smoke started, they split the screen and a cheery voice started telling us about Victoria Wood coming up next. By the time he’d shut up, the whole thing was over. It was such bad timing I couldn’t believe it.
How dim can a telly channel be, BH? Absolutely extraordinary lack of judgement by UK Gold there.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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