Excellent point, well stated.
Here is one of my favorite comedy sketches, which works so well because of the characters & interactions of Pete & Dud - if you were to try plugging others into those roles, I doubt it would be so funny.
The Three Stooges.......Best Comedy Team Ever ?
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Excellent point, well stated.
Here is one of my favorite comedy sketches, which works so well because of the characters & interactions of Pete & Dud - if you were to try plugging others into those roles, I doubt it would be so funny.
Not being familiar with them i did some reading and it sounds like they were a blast.
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I never was a fan of the British Comedy. I simply never laughed when I saw their acts. Especially Monty Python. I guess I just didn't "get" their humor. However, I thoroughly enjoyed A Fish Called Wanda.
My faves are:
The Three Stooges
Abbott & Costello (Who's On First?)
Ralph Kramden & Ed Norton
My faves are:
The Three Stooges
Abbott & Costello (Who's On First?)
Ralph Kramden & Ed Norton
This is true. As for myself, i laugh my butt off watching the stooges more than when i would watch other comedy teams. For me, The Three Stooges never get stale. Maybe Adele could belt out some metal vocals.
Maybe it's my age, my upbringing, or just my puerile sense of humour, but for me it's Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson in anything they've written and performed in together.
Wrongly derided as mere cock 'n' fart humour, their stuff also had some very intelligently scripted dialogue and clever wordplay. My favourite exchange between the pair might have been completing the crossword in Bottom episode "Culture" but I think it's narrowly pipped by (also from Bottom) the post-looting conversation about the duck from "Carnival."
Eddie: Still, at least we got the duck. [holds up a small yellow rubber-ducky]
Richie: The duck?
Eddie: Yeah! It's made out of plastic!
Richie: Eddie, what, in the name of Greek Buggery, is the use of a plastic duck?
Eddie: It floats in the bath. ['floats' the duck up to Richie] Hello!
Richie: But why?
Eddie: It's hollow!
Richie: No... (exasperated) I mean : why the duck??
Eddie: It came free with the telly.
Richie: (angry) Eddie, everything came free with the telly!! We were looting! Why didn't you get a free telly with the telly?!
Eddie: Well it'd sink in the bath!!
OK the live shows were a bit ropey, but the three series of the tv show were golden. And the Young Ones was possibly better still. Possibly my favourite bit of TV ever is the argument between Rik and Vyv about who gets the bedroom, Vyv throwing all his clothes on the floor as if to prove it, Rik throwing the clothes out of the window, and Vyv's characteristically violent response.
"Neil, your bedroom's on fire!!"
Just the look they give each other before sprinting out of the inferno and shouting in unison creases me ; as much as they hate each other, they unite in an instant in the opportunity to offload their problem on Neil.
Who are these people? What's wrong with them??
As i'm not familiar with these groups, i do remember watching The Goodies back in the day. Is the first group them ?
They count, and yes, Thread Over.
Although i'd like to throw these gents in for consideration:
Stooges rock. I feel that both the Shemp and Curly years are pretty equal in laughs.
First picture is The Young Ones.
The three gentlemen in that photo are Bill Corbett, Mike Nelson, and Kevin Murphy of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" fame, but they have continued doing hilarious riffing on movies, under some different titles.
I don't really have a "best" team, because I think they were all different. I personally get a little tired out on the Stooges, but absolutely LOVE the Marx Brothers- because it's the right combination of razor wit, physical humor, pantomime, and at times, a brand of humor that seems to have eventually made its way into the Zucker/Abrams films.
I thought Shemp was underrated and even though i liked Curly, i enjoyed Shemp a bit more. Both were great ! I liked the Stooges in the short 20 minute clips and not the movies.
Also, the others you have named were all good too. The local PBS station here years ago showed some of the British acts like The Goodies, Red Dwarf. I loved ''Nelson's Column'' but only 2 seasons were shown here i think.
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Before I forget to mention, I don't put Lucy and Rickey there. She was a star before Castro was born. Her best stuff was done alone.
Shemp was great. He got a call from Moe about Curly. Got out of his movie contract and died as a Stooge.
Somebody mentioned Gleason and Carney. Great but I'd settle them down to fourth or sixth.
Shemp was great. He got a call from Moe about Curly. Got out of his movie contract and died as a Stooge.
Somebody mentioned Gleason and Carney. Great but I'd settle them down to fourth or sixth.
The Goodies were shown here years ago on the local PBS tv station and I thought they were hilarious. Never heard of The Goon Show but remember Peter Sellers. Glad you posted it !
Forgot about them.............i had and maybe still do, albums and cassette tapes of them and their movies were great !
Pretty funny. Like that blond woman in the second one.............A young Rowan Atkinson in the third ?
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