Percy Dalton
10:24 Sun Dec 25
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Anyone for Oliver.
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Far Cough
9:05 Sun Dec 25
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As many have said Morecambe and Wise was a must see on Christmas day
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Manuel
4:03 Sun Dec 25
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Has to be OFAH, folk use to look forward to it coming on the whole day. And as said the Royle Family did some good ones.
Not for everyone, but I'll throw in The vicar of dibley, thought they had a couple of decent specials.
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ironsofcanada
1:36 Sun Dec 25
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I still have a soft spot for some I saw as a kid.
The claymation Rudolph
An animated one about a clock called The Night Before Christmas by the same company
Yogi [Bear's] All-Star Christmas Caper
A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
And of course (I didn't actually see this as a kid, too young) The Star Wars Christmas Special.
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jfk
1:17 Sun Dec 25
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Never got m & w just always found their humour childish probably me.
Royal family Christmas specials were memorable along with (dare I say) Vicar of Dibley and Father Ted.
Late nineties/ early 2000’s had some cracking comedy Christmas specials.
Enjoyed tonight’s Mortimer and whitehouse fishing Christmas Nordic episode,best duo on the box at the moment.
Helps a bit if you’ve ever been into holding a rod.
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RBshorty
1:05 Sun Dec 25
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I’m playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.
I’ll give you that Sunshine. I’ll give you that.!
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Athletico Easthamico
12:03 Sun Dec 25
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Royle Family always had good ones.
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Lovejoy
8:42 Mon Dec 26
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Seinfeld - Festivus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX55AzGku5Y
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fred flinstone
4:54 Sun Dec 25
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zico 2:00 Sun Dec 25
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It is baffling to me too mate but just consider yourself lucky that you get such enjoyment from them, I know I do
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yogib
3:48 Sun Dec 25
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Zico- I watched a program on M&W, C5 Thursday eve and you're right about the bed sketch.
The 1973 special was on afterwards - so if anyone wants an M&W fix have a look at 5 OD
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Darlo Debs
2:46 Sun Dec 25
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Royle Family .. Some of them were brill.
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cornish
12:22 Sun Dec 25
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John candy,uncle buck.
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zico
12:14 Sun Dec 25
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I think a lot of credit has to go to the late Eddie Braben as well as the writer. In their early days they had different writers I think that quit after Eric had his first heart attack and that brought the swap to the BBC and hiring Eddie Braben as the writer. He just seemed to smooth out their on screen persona a bit more and they ended up these lovable characters.
I seem to remember a story around Braben's suggestion of the two of them in the same bed in sketches and I don't think they were over keen but Braben said something along the lines of "If it was good enough for Laurel and Hardy it's good enough for you".
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Crassus
10:56 Sun Dec 25
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Takashi Miike 11:22 Sat Dec 24
Cheers mate, cleared that up
Thing about M and W was as said below, Ernie was the straightest of straight men and Eric just plain naturally funny combined with instinctive and masterful timing
Its all about comic timing they say and those two had it
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zebthecat
10:46 Sun Dec 25
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Father Ted (the lingerie dept. one)
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COOL HAND LUKE
10:21 Sun Dec 25
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Saw Ernie in the West End (Criterion iirc), in the Ray Cooney farce Run For Your Wife, would've been circa 1988, a few years after Eric had died. He was the detective DS Porterhouse, and at one point in the show he is questioning the bigamous cabby (John Quayle).
Aimi McDonald and others, behind them on stage, start to corpse... Quayle loses it completely and begins to guffaw, 2000 people in the audience are roaring with laughter, Quayle gets worse, has his hands between his knees, genuine tears rolling down his face...
And there's Ernie, straight as a poker, almost nose to nose with Quayle, eyebrows raised in that quizical little way he had, looking at Quayle, looking out at the whole theatre in uproar. Not a twitch. Absolute fucking legend.
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Tony Gubba
9:39 Sun Dec 25
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Jim'll fixit
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Grumpster
3:17 Sun Dec 25
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The previn sketch is genius.
I mean fair play to him as well, as I would have been cracking up being made to film that. Eric morecombe had the gold touch like Ronnie Corbett and what most can only dream of.
Hilarious to 99% of humans and unfunny to 1% of cocks.
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zico
2:00 Sun Dec 25
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Morecambe and Wise every time for me along with any OFAH really.
Can't believe there are actually people out there who don't think Morecambe and Wise were funny?! Was having a heated discussion with one such anti fan last night and gave up in the end. I mean how can anyone not find The Previn Sketch, The Bassey Sketch, The Breakfast Sketch, - "He's not going to sell much ice cream going at that speed, is he" and hundreds of other classic M&W moments not funny?!?!?
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HairyHammer
1:46 Sun Dec 25
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If I just get a glimpse of Morecambe & Wise on Christmas day I know I will have smiled and felt warmth at least once.
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