Harry and Paul - Funny or Not?

[Dr Cheese]

Anyone seen the last series?

I'm torn between my man-love for Harry Enfield and a sneaky suspicion that it's a bit bobbins. However, the football manager who talks to each of his multi-national players in their own language is genius and I also find the posh family with a "pet northerner" quite amusing. The two old dj's who are into hip hop and rap also make me smile.

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[Kounelaki]

The football manager is genius.

[tonywojo]

Anyone seen the last series?

I'm torn between my man-love for Harry Enfield and a sneaky suspicion that it's a bit bobbins. However, the football manager who talks to each of his multi-national players in their own language is genius and I also find the posh family with a "pet northerner" quite amusing. The two old dj's who are into hip hop and rap also make me smile.

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they are both brill

saw enfield when he was unknown and he was great then doing the old twit / upper class routines which he excels at.

football manager great and PW is also very good.

[fat cherry]

bit hit and miss I'd say, posh scaffolders, old surgeons, old rap djs and the old foreign bloke telling you whats on telly without actually telling you whats on (bit of a pattern there I think) all good, some of the others less so. The kids really like the shop (old shit/modeern wank) sketch, but thats mainly because they say words like shit and wank frequently, but not so sure myself, and the american tourists was funny once.

[fat cherry]

oh and the one in the pub in black and white where whitehouse is a salesman or suchlike and enfield is the landlady who just says things like 'not that i recall' i think is really good though I'm not sure why.
this one:

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5a0odh8ro08[/youtube]

probably things like tuppenny butterquims do it.

[fat cherry]

though the U2 sketches from the last series were quite good:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=e236WjdLBcE&feature=related[/youtube]

[Dr Cheese]

probably things like tuppenny butterquims do it.

That would do it for me every time.

[guitarplayer on here too]

What about Wibbly Kingdom?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGei8dmaVw

[withahip]

Okay, I did not think there was anything worse than American laughtracks - but the British have us beat by a mile. Why not flash a sign across the screen saying LAUGH NOW!!!!

[black francis]

I thought someone said they were filmed live?

The absolute worst laugh track ever is on the Pink Panther cartoons.

[fat cherry]

What about Wibbly Kingdom?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGei8dmaVw

they've done a few sketches this time around where unless you know a certain program then you're just not going to get it. Since Kingdom goes out at about 11 o'clock on a wednesday night on ITV 4 or something then (i know, I'm stretching it a bit here) then you've no chance. Similarly with the on the buses sketch the other week, nobody under 35 would have got it I imagine. who knows.

[fat cherry]

I thought someone said they were filmed live?

... entirely on location according to this, though has been in the past.

http://www.britmovie.net/britforum/british-television/4283-harry-paul-laugh.html

The new series is a fast sketch show filmed entirely on location. Its predecessor, Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry & Paul, had studio inserts, but both men decided that this was holding them back.

“You can put on a slightly more disciplined performance,” says Whitehouse, “when you are not worrying about the studio audience. You get conscious of them, and that’s not the best way for us now we are old and nervous.”

[Scouser]

Harry and Paul are great and I think their strength is playing up stereotypes...my parents had a friend over to stay with them recently who has lived in the US for about 30 years and married an American bloke. They are in their mid 60's and I was "told" to come over and say hello. I had to keep leaving the room in tears of laughter as they were JUST like these two...even down to showing me hundreds of photos of their grandchildren...

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[guitarplayer on here too]

they've done a few sketches this time around where unless you know a certain program then you're just not going to get it. Since Kingdom goes out at about 11 o'clock on a wednesday night on ITV 4 or something then (i know, I'm stretching it a bit here) then you've no chance. Similarly with the on the buses sketch the other week, nobody under 35 would have got it I imagine. who knows.

Probably true, but my thoughts would be that few people under 35 may know much about either Harry Enfield or Paul Whitehouse (maybe more with the Fast Show though) and I don't think the show was really aimed at a younger audience. The last episode of this series also featured a village show dog trials with various stereotyped people (the Geordie, coal miner, etc) that included that shell-suited Scouser "Calm down, calm down". That goes even further back.

I have never seen Kingdom, but I thought that was a funny sketch as nobody seems to send up Stephen Fry anymore, even himself. Ahh, the days of Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie. I quite liked the Polish coffee shop girls as well (largely as it reminds me of a mate of mine) and a few of the Dragon's Den sketches, but the rest of the show was pretty lame in places.

[withahip]

I thought someone said they were filmed live?

The absolute worst laugh track ever is on the Pink Panther cartoons.

Ok, the absolute worst micing of live audiences.

Pink Panther second runner up.