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| Thread ID: 125539 | 2012-07-04 22:13:00 | Comedian Eric Sykes dies aged 89 | goodiesguy (15316) | PC World Chat |
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| 1286079 | 2012-07-04 22:13:00 | www.bbc.co.uk Wrote quite a few of the Goon shows and had success by himself with his series "Sykes" and silent films like "The Plank". |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1286080 | 2012-07-04 22:36:00 | I liked old Eric! | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1286081 | 2012-07-04 22:50:00 | He sure was a funny guy...especially "The Plank" www.youtube.com Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1286082 | 2012-07-04 23:05:00 | Who is left now worth watching or listening to? Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Hattie Jacques, now Eric Sykes - all has gone, and we will probably not see their like again. I see in a Guardian article that Sykes reckoned we won't get any decent comedians and script writers back until there is conscription again: Sykes, who described his career as "... living in a world that doesn't exist", believed that the only way Britain would get another crop of writers like Milligan, Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Speight and himself would be through the reintroduction of conscription: "Take 'away the necessity of earning a living," he said, "provide food and bed so that you can just sit on your backside for two years and you will find that the violinist will practise his violin, the language student will learn a language and the comedian will create comedy. It's no good expecting it to come from people who are in boring, undemanding jobs, for they have already half-settled for what they've got. Conscription is an obvious staging post. A war is even better if you can keep alive." |
John H (8) | ||
| 1286083 | 2012-07-04 23:20:00 | Why do the modern comedians resort to sex and bad language to raise a laugh? These old comedians were funny without being vulgar. Possible exception being Frankie Howard. At least John Cleese is still with us. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1286084 | 2012-07-04 23:28:00 | Why do the modern comedians resort to sex and bad language to raise a laugh? These old comedians were funny without being vulgar. Possible exception being Frankie Howard. At least John Cleese is still with us. Well, Frankie Howerd, Dick Emery, and Benny Hill always seemed to focus on double entendre and busty babes in (or out of) bikinis, but I don't think they were ever in the same rank as Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Hattie Jacques, and Eric Sykes. Just my taste; others will strongly disagree. And you are quite right to remind us of Cambridge Circus and Monty Python. I hadn't thought about it until you raised it mzee, but there was very little sex and bad language with them, was there? Apart from the full frontal of Brian's mother in Life of Brian, and the John Cleese schoolmaster sex lesson in (?)... Cambridge Circus is still the funniest thing I have ever seen - I thought the woman next to me at the theatre was going to die. My ribs and stomach were aching for hours afterwards. And of course we have lost Graham Chapman from CC/Monty Python as well. Sigh... |
John H (8) | ||
| 1286085 | 2012-07-05 00:56:00 | And don't forget the late Peter Cook. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1286086 | 2012-07-05 01:02:00 | Clive Dunn is still with us. I remember seeing him at The Cambridge Theatre in 1960 with Michael Bentine and others in a Goon type show...he looked just as old then as he does today :) www.google.co.uk |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1286087 | 2012-07-05 01:13:00 | Ronnie Barker, Tony Hancock, absolute legends. | B.M. (505) | ||
| 1286088 | 2012-07-05 01:21:00 | but there was very little sex and bad language with them, was there? Apart from the full frontal of Brian's mother in Life of Brian, You need to watch Life of Brian again with your glasses on. Brian's mother was played by Terry Jones so it's just as well that the full frontal was by Judith Iscariot, one of the People's Front of Judea rebels. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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