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Old 21st June 2018, 03:28 PM
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Next you'll be tell us you don't like only fools and horse's!
Must admit that 'Only Fools And Horses' has never appealed to my sense of humour. I must have smiled maybe half a dozen times over it's 22 year run, but on the whole, it leaves me cold

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But Abbot and Costello is truly awful and expect it appeals too the same people who like Mrs Brown's boys
Don't understand the love for 'Ms. Brown's Boys' either. That made me laugh even less than 'OFAH' did!!

All the people who are stating how unfunny and poor Abbott and Costello are, have fallen into a huge trap - that of looking at them through 2018 eyes instead of looking at them in a historical context. During the 1940's and 50's, their work on radio film and television made them the most popular comedy team in America, if not the world. They were the highest paid entertainers during WW2

In 1942, Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon unit produced a number of animated features depicting the duo as cats, named 'Babbit and Catstello.' One of these cartoons, 'A Tale of Two Kitties,' is famous for introducing the character of Tweety Bird to the world


Their routine 'Who's On First' was named as the routine 'best comedy sketch of the 20th Century' by Time Magazine in 1999

and has been parodied numerous times, including (but not limited to) Johnny Carlson, The Animaniacs, The Simpsons and Family Guy. It seems that even Alexa knows the routine

Bud and Lou may not be as popular as Stan and Ollie, or Chaplin, Keaton, Lewis etc, but no one can really take away their place in comedy history
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Old 21st June 2018, 03:53 PM
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Who's on first

I thought it was dead parrot sketch or two Ronnie's four candles that where voted best comedy sketch of 20th century
Mrs Brown boys I do get and see why its not everyone cup of tea and why people don't like it and I don't think it's that great just enjoyable nonsense .
And a lot of people think Only fools and horses is voted best British comedy of all time it isn't its Fawlty towers , I think a lot of the appeal with only fools and horses is it just plain simple humour that doesn't rely on swearing crude rude smutt (yes a little here and there eg the blow up dolls ) that most comedies ( like or dislike ) rely on these days.
Define comedy everyone sense of humour is different, me personally apart from games night I barely raised a chuckle at any comedy film over last 10yrs or so
Its the same with comedians most comedians I don't find funny and a lot of people don't like Peter Kay either, me I prefer Kevin bridges these days
I think the punchline in this about government getting people back to work and working in Poundland had me in stitches


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Old 21st June 2018, 04:17 PM
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I thought it was dead parrot sketch or two Ronnie's fork handles that where voted best comedy sketch of 20th century
Dead Parrott - Digital Spy was voted the UK's favourite Monty Python sketch

Four Candles - Wikipedia:
  • It was voted by the British public as the funniest comedy moment of the seventies in UKTV Gold's When Were We Funniest?.
  • It was placed fifth on Channel 4's list of the fifty greatest comedy sketches of all time
  • It was ranked sixth most memorable television event in a survey of 2,000 viewers on behalf of digital TV service Freeview

Time Magazine Best Of The 20th Century
Best Comedy Routine
"Who's on First?"
by Abbott and Costello (1938)
It's such a simple premise, and Abbott and Costello drive it about 20 ft. into the ground, but "Who's on First?" is not only the century's most famous comedy bit; it's also the best. It's absurdism mixed with the easy pleasure of confusion, and Bud Abbott plays the perfect cool logician to Lou Costello's frustrated inquisitor in this Beckettian farce.

RUNNERS-UP "Dead Parrot," Monty Python; "Rope Tricks," Will Rogers
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Dead Parrott - Digital Spy was voted the UK's favourite Monty Python sketch

Four Candles - Wikipedia:
  • It was voted by the British public as the funniest comedy moment of the seventies in UKTV Gold's When Were We Funniest?.
  • It was placed fifth on Channel 4's list of the fifty greatest comedy sketches of all time
  • It was ranked sixth most memorable television event in a survey of 2,000 viewers on behalf of digital TV service Freeview

Time Magazine Best Of The 20th Century
Best Comedy Routine
"Who's on First?"
by Abbott and Costello (1938)
It's such a simple premise, and Abbott and Costello drive it about 20 ft. into the ground, but "Who's on First?" is not only the century's most famous comedy bit; it's also the best. It's absurdism mixed with the easy pleasure of confusion, and Bud Abbott plays the perfect cool logician to Lou Costello's frustrated inquisitor in this Beckettian farce.

RUNNERS-UP "Dead Parrot," Monty Python; "Rope Tricks," Will Rogers
Lol I realised its come up fork handles instead of four candles tut predictive text eh .
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Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
A reporter goes to the amazon with a museum guy after a lunatic eats a nurses breast. They look around the woods and find cannibals.
Was this a horror or porn?
Either way I felt this was just a pile of garbage that I should smash with 100 bricks personally.

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Awful isn't it. I couldn't wait to get rid of my 88 release when i'd watched it.
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Old 21st June 2018, 06:21 PM
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Awful isn't it. I couldn't wait to get rid of my 88 release when i'd watched it.
What about Miss Gemser au naturel? Didn't that at least appeal to you?
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Old 22nd June 2018, 09:19 AM
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Seven Blood Stained Orchids (1972).

Giallo about a black gloved maniac, aren't they always , on a killing spree and leaving a silver half moon amulet with each victim.

When a woman is attacked on a train, played by Uschi Glas, the killer doesn't count on her surviving her ordeal. And she alone may hold the clue to the series of murders.

Though not as accomplished as Argento's or Fulci's gialli, this is still a stylish, solid and entertaining film. Although, maybe a little slow and pedestrian at times.
And eventhough there's not an awful lot of violence in this one, there does feature a rather nasty death by power drill.


Also co-starring the delectable Marisa Mell, who looks as attractive as always.


Directed by Umberto Lenzi. And proof that he was capable of a lot more than just Cannibal films. 7/10.
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Happy Death Day

Lots of fun with this Groundhog Day inspired slasher, a student sleeps with a lot of people & spends most of the movie wondering why anyone would want to kill her.....and reliving the day of the murder until she finds said killer.

It matches Groundhog day note for note (she's confused, then she hates it, then she has fun), but it's not quite as memorable.
Blumhouse pictures is a genre staple all it's own, almost original, very good but not groundbreaking horror like this & Get Out, it's good to see someone trying hard with mainstream horror, if only to feed it to tweens.

A good 6/10
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Old 22nd June 2018, 10:44 AM
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Awful isn't it. I couldn't wait to get rid of my 88 release when i'd watched it.
Such a shame, as it looked like a lot of goofy fun but was very slow.
Another trip down nostalgia lane which reminds us how bad a lot of the nasties were lol!
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens A.K.A. A New Hope Redux (2015)

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