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West Ender · 01-03-2005, 20:42

I think Vicar of Dibley is good because all the characters are so well-drawn. I think the sex-mad (or maybe just mad) Owen is wonderful and Alice and Hugo are superb, especially Alice. I hated the ending of the last Christmas show, though, when Dawn French got all po-faced about the problems in Africa, no doubt due to her husband's influence. Yes, I'm right up there with the sentiment and the message and I do care, but this was not the right place for it.

Fools and Horses has been flogged to death and the only character I ever found funny in Last of the Summer Wine was Thora Hird's - the rest is abysmal. Phoenix Nights was good but Peter Kay's funnier as a stand-up. I loved The Good Life in the 70s, when it was relevant, but the point of it is lost after 30 years. Most American sitcoms leave me cold.

I still think you'd have to go a long way to beat the Monty Python sketch "Four Yorkshiremen". As my late husband was a Yorkshireman and my dad, though born in Darwen, was brought up in Yorkshire until the age of 10, I find this sketch absolutely hilarious, and it never "dates". It could even be translated to "Four Lancashiremen", couldn't it? Who hasn't listened to 4 middle-aged men from humble backgrounds, who've "made it" in the world, competing with each other about how awful their childhood was? My own dad, who "made it", would happily tell you how he (half) left school at 13 to be a part-timer at Steiners, "And I was so small I had to stand on a box......"

Pure genius, by the Pythons, there,

01-03-2005, 20:42	#72
West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 193	Re: Little Brtitain...... I think Vicar of Dibley is good because all the characters are so well-drawn. I think the sex-mad (or maybe just mad) Owen is wonderful and Alice and Hugo are superb, especially Alice. I hated the ending of the last Christmas show, though, when Dawn French got all po-faced about the problems in Africa, no doubt due to her husband's influence. Yes, I'm right up there with the sentiment and the message and I do care, but this was not the right place for it. Fools and Horses has been flogged to death and the only character I ever found funny in Last of the Summer Wine was Thora Hird's - the rest is abysmal. Phoenix Nights was good but Peter Kay's funnier as a stand-up. I loved The Good Life in the 70s, when it was relevant, but the point of it is lost after 30 years. Most American sitcoms leave me cold. I still think you'd have to go a long way to beat the Monty Python sketch "Four Yorkshiremen". As my late husband was a Yorkshireman and my dad, though born in Darwen, was brought up in Yorkshire until the age of 10, I find this sketch absolutely hilarious, and it never "dates". It could even be translated to "Four Lancashiremen", couldn't it? Who hasn't listened to 4 middle-aged men from humble backgrounds, who've "made it" in the world, competing with each other about how awful their childhood was? My own dad, who "made it", would happily tell you how he (half) left school at 13 to be a part-timer at Steiners, "And I was so small I had to stand on a box......" Pure genius, by the Pythons, there, __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.