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chim chim cha boo » 09 Sep 2024, 01:41Apparently like Harry H Corbett he was an unbelievable talent

Chim

Like the great Harry H Corbett, Rossiter didn't consider himself a comedian. They were both frustrated tragedians who could deliver funny lines brilliantly and completely straight.

Frustrating for them, but marvellous for the audience.

Bit before my time, but me and my grandad used to watch this - was delighted to find it on YouTube, still makes me chuckle:

Started watching the remake and it's funny, don't really see much point in comparing it to the original as they are 30 years apart so of course it's going to be different, but the plot is the same about a bloke pissed off with life and the daily grind, that's all you need really. Jug ears Clunes is good.

I like Martin Clunes but just couldn't get into his version of Perrin, has lot of familiar faces in the remake as well, but not a patch on the original.

This is a Rossiter short video from 1978, bit off beat and maybe not every one's cup of tea. You see a lot of the old London, well the London of the late 70,s i grew up in! 



 

Coincidentally, last week I started watching Rising Damp again. Barrelled through series 1 in about 3 days and onto series 2 now. Even as a small boy I recall seeing Rising Damp on TV and thinking it was grim and something about it intimidated me. Maybe it was an adult world I never understood and didn't like the look of. But, even then, something intrigued me about Rigsby. Then, when I got old enough and I understood the premise more and enjoyed comedy characters, I realised that Rigsby is a genius character. I mean, it's hard to know where to start. Is he likeable? I don't even know. In a harmless way, I suppose. He is a skinflint, greedy, self absorbed, egotistical, a liar, a trouble maker, argumentative, deluded, bitter, anti-social, racist, bigoted, sexist....But he is also quite lovable. How Rossiter pulled that off is beyond me. Just super talented. Genius I suppose. 

Once I have done Rising Damp, onto Reginald Perrin. 

Obviously it's not as good as the original, but I enjoyed the remake. I thought Martin Clunes did a good job with it and I liked the 'wellness lady'. It doesn't try to closely replicate the original. It's more sort of 'inspired' by the original. 

I've downloaded the remake with Martin Clunes which I never knew about, but thanks to WHO..

I didn't get where I am today by everything smelling of Bolivian unicyclist's jockstraps!

It was a brilliant series Perrin with an excellent cast and some famous catchphrases 

Geoffrey Palmer as the ex army brother in law was one that sticks in the memory 

"Bit of a cock up on the catering front"

Rossiters Rising damp co star Richard Beckinsdale was another fine comic actor who sadly passed away at a very young age

Godber and Fletch in Porridge were a great double act.

Other favourites from that era 

Ever Decreasing circles and Dear John 
Both had a tinge of sadness about them in parts but very funny.

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I didn't get where I am today by talking about Leonard Rossiter 

 

 So different to everything else in British sitcom, both sad and uplifting at the same time, reckon whoever wrote it was some kind of manic depressive come bipolar type!

Syd - Yea it was superb. Agree, the third series wasn't so good. Nice theme tune too. I didn't know there was a remake with Clunes.

''Have a nice day - I won't''

Agreed on Reggie Perrin, superb series, they did a remake with Martin Clunes, but the original is by far the best.

Some great supporting characters as well, CJ, Joan his secretary the 2 guys who kept saying Great or Super and his brother-in-law in the Army.

Prefer the early series before he comes back and starts Grot though. 

So different to everything else in British sitcom, both sad and uplifting at the same time, reckon whoever wrote it was some kind of manic depressive come bipolar type!

Great facial expressions. I watched The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin for the first time a couple of years back after Surface on here reco'd it, thought it was brilliant and still holds up, unlike Rising Damp. ''I didn't get to where I am today..."
 

Apparently like Harry H Corbett he was an unbelievable talent.  Kubrick saw it at least and British Airways in that great advert he did with Joan Collins. 

I've got a pal who (mistakenly) thinks he comes across as a bohemian because he spends a fortune on vintage clothes and has socks with load of holes in them that he insists come from Jermyn St and 'will be repaired shortly'. Universally we all call him 'Rigsby'.

King of the 70s sitcom

rising damp - genius for the time

wont have aged well

Oh Vienna,,,,,,, the cat!!

Good squash player.

I will. But I'm not rushing it.

Leonard Hatred" wrote: ↑08 Sep 2024, 16:25 Talk to me 

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