Kev Hunter
Member
The only difference between a rut and a groove is the depth
Posts: 609
|
Post by Kev Hunter on Mar 31, 2016 11:29:51 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by williammcgregor on Mar 31, 2016 16:25:44 GMT
R.I.P.
|
|
|
|
Post by tom rogers on Mar 31, 2016 22:17:24 GMT
One of my comedy heroes. Was introduced to him in the 70s here in the States when PBS ran The Two Ronnies. It has been 40 years but I still break into laughter whenever I hear "fork handles." He and Ronnie Barker made my teenage years a lot more fun. Sad day, but what a great career!
|
|
Simon Collis
Member
I have started to dream of lost things
Posts: 536
|
Post by Simon Collis on Mar 31, 2016 23:28:31 GMT
RIP Ronnie. Another national treasure who can delight us no more...
I always thought he never really had the chance to show how good he was as an actor - I think he suffered a little (though he never would have said as much) from being in Ronnie Barker's shadow. And, yes, "Sorry" was not the greatest of sitcoms (although I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time), but Barker had a complete gift handed to him with "Porridge", and again with "Open All Hours". I'd have liked to Ronnie C get a few like that, too.
|
|
|
|
Post by richardwoods on Apr 1, 2016 17:14:41 GMT
Nice to see Snowy & co signing off C4 news last night with "And it's goodnight from me and it's goodnight from him". Couldn't be a more fitting tribute really. It would be nice to see The Phantom Raspberry Blower and the Charlie Farley & Piggy Malone shorts again sometime. Didn't Spike write the Phantom Raspberry Blower?
|
|
|
|
Post by Alan Scott on Apr 2, 2016 11:34:13 GMT
|
|
RWels
Member
Posts: 2,863
|
Post by RWels on Apr 2, 2016 15:42:20 GMT
Which is the other? The one with modern / renaissance / medieval man? |
|
|
|
Post by David Barron on Apr 3, 2016 7:19:56 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Alan Scott on Apr 3, 2016 14:00:20 GMT
Perhaps I should have fully explained:
The class sketch at the start of the BBC tribute has Corbett with a moustache and Cleese has a newspaper under his arm.
|
|
RWels
Member
Posts: 2,863
|
Post by RWels on Apr 3, 2016 20:03:35 GMT
Perhaps I should have fully explained: The class sketch at the start of the BBC tribute has Corbett with a moustache and Cleese has a newspaper under his arm. There is a perfectly logical explanation:   |
|
|
|
Post by Alan Scott on Apr 4, 2016 20:29:40 GMT
Thank you!
|
|
RWels
Member
Posts: 2,863
|
Post by RWels on Apr 6, 2016 6:57:22 GMT
Sorry, wrong name... Make that second one "Frost Over England".  I hadn't noticed until now myself that they'd re-recorded the sketch. |
|
