M.Kahn

[DavidXBrunt]

Still bent after all these years.

[McNulty]

And only those who watched that episode of "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" will know what DavidXBrunt is talking about.

[rc]

Did that show have that cock Baddiel in it?

Or was it Julian Clary?

[Rio De Fideldo]

That's you that is.

[Priv8eye]

I remember the show but I need a memory jogger before I know what your on about

[Wils]

It's all getting a bit tricky!

An *excellent* programme and up there with Absolutely! as one of my favourite programmes of all time.

Hang on, though. I thought 'M. Kahn is bent' had been painted over. Has someone done an updated edition?

[Art]

Recently Heather has discovered "The Smell Of Reeves and Mortimer" on UK Gold, and really digs it, which I find a bit of a weird retro-meets-new experience... God knows what she'd make of Big Night Out.

[Quirkafleeg]

It's strange how their careers went: two vanished, one became a tortured novelist and green activist, one ended up sat on a sofa next to another tosser



Oh and I'm a 'it was much better on the radio' snob

[Rio De Fideldo]

Mark Thomas used to be on with them when it was on the radio.

He used to be overly earnest and unfunny even then.

[Slippery PD]

The other two are always popping up on things which looks odd especially on other sketch shows.  I always disliked Baddiel, when he started with Skinner, I really began to hate him.  

As an Absolutely tie in Baddiel and Morwenna Banks are married (or at least cohabiting as husband and wife)

Favourite sketch is the pub sketch where the barman corrects everyone and they go on to talk about couples who arent in the same division when it comes to the looks department.

Yer "Its troo, Its Troo" Slips

[rc]

It was his discovery of football after Euro 96 that really cemented Baddiel's dislikeability.

And the way he sits on the sofa with that other smug little prick.

[therev]

"Hello my name is Jarvis...I'm the worlds most dispicable man but I took in a young boy from the street recently. I don't want to come over all Mother Treasa...Hmmm,oh my GOD that would make me dispicable wouldn't it?...#grin#"

I loved it.

[Quirkafleeg]

The 'coming home in the morning on public transport in the same clothes you went out in the night before' monologue is one classic comedy moments of all time.

[Tiplodocus]

I always blame Mary Whitehouse and/or Harry Enfield for the death of the British comedy sketch show.

I'm not sure which of them did it first but they seemed to make each show like an issue of the Dandy or Beano. You knew the same characters would pop up week in and week out, they'd repeat the catchphrase and then execute the same joke as last week except in a slightly different context.  

This was honed to a fine art with THE FAST SHOW where people walk on, say the catchphrase, all the cans laugh and then it's on to the next character's catch phrase.

So I liked the first episode of each show and then got increasingly bored until they got to the episode where they thought they'd be clever and "reverse the audience expectations".  So "Brilliant" guy becomes "Terrible" and the guy who can only say things in a sarcastic tone of voice suddnly finds he can say sarcastic things in a normal tone of voice.

How much do they pay these people?

(I'm probably being harsh here and will find out that it was along tradition of british comedy shows to behave like this)

Any fans of Armando Ianucci and the Friday Night Armistice out there? (But I only saw a few episodes of this - maybe he repeated the gags as well...)

[rc]

In response to the last post, I reckon BIG TRAIN sorts out the men from the boys when it comes to sketch shows. It's surreal without descending into campus-stupidity.

People seem divided into "love it" or "hate it" groups - a bit like SOUTH PARK in fact.