It's back on the tv- yesterday comedy zone! I loved this watched it as a kid and made like a mannequin towards the end as the credits meant bed time! Funny how it brings back certain memories
If we are comparing old comedy gold repeats, I am much enjoying Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister which still seems fresh after 35 years.
My missus goes mad. Where she always has some kind of soap rubbish on, I tend to have a plethora or comedy Gold on Favourite channel. LOTSW a real favourite, as Wally is the spit of my dear old granddad not not only in looks but attitude
Although it is now "only" 20 or 25 years old, I still think that The Fast Show is the funniest programme there has ever been. It hasn't aged remotely.
Bono Estente! Viva El Presidente! Falia hele, falia hela. Scorchio heh, heh. Nio dudopus sminki pinki dos problematico tecnica Chris Waddle. Boutros boutros Ghali!
My old dad liked Dad's Army, mainly because he actually served in the Home Guard during WWII. I think he thought it was a documentary.
Some interesting factoids about Arnold Ridley who played the deferential and doddery Private Godfrey in the show. In one episode Godfrey's platoon-mates shunned him when they discovered he had been a conscientious objector in WW1, only to be embarrassed later when it emerged he had served as a stretcher-bearer for the Red Cross and had been decorated for rescuing injured men from no-man's-land under fire. In real life Ridley was an educated and courageous character with a formidable military record. He signed up as a private in 1914 and survived the Somme with multiple bullet and shrapnel wounds. He experienced fierce hand to hand fighting during which he was bayoneted in the groin and suffered severe head injuries when a German soldier beat him with a rifle butt and left him for dead. He ended the war as a Captain and was medically discharged with shell shock which plagued him with flash-backs for the rest of his life, recurrent black-outs from his head injuries and a left hand which he never recovered the full use of after it was shattered by a bullet. At university he had been a talented rugby player and could have had a professional career. He couldn't have been more different from the character he played. He was awarded an OBE for an acting career in which he was most famous for playing a pacifist in a sit-com but the war record, courage and sacrifice of the real man went largely unacknowledged during his lifetime.
