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Post by jk on Aug 27, 2021 5:47:29 GMT -5
And to round off this trilogy of Sean Lock panel show appearances, this is arguably the most outrageous!
Sir, you have given me (and millions of others) so much to laugh about over the years. R.I.P..
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Post by jk on Sept 14, 2021 14:20:21 GMT -5
As Sean Lock's The Tiger Who Came For A Pint went down so well, let's follow it up with his children's book about a prison guard, Cyril the Screw: Actually, I watch everything on this page almost daily these days. It's the most wonderful pick-me-up.
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Post by jk on Sept 22, 2021 6:10:59 GMT -5
How about this karaoke version of Santana's gorgeous "Waves Within"? The compilers of this stuff (of which this is Vol. 608!!) were evidently unfazed by the fact that "Waves Within" is an instrumental.
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Post by jk on Sept 29, 2021 4:03:25 GMT -5
I may have mentioned this before, but one classic film sequence that destroys me every time is that of the “eating machine” in Chaplin’s Modern Times. (It’s on YouTube.)
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Post by jk on Oct 14, 2021 14:43:15 GMT -5
Some more Sean Lock in here as well. (Some fragments can be found elsewhere in this thread.) This particular post is all about the section beginning at 7:02. Incredible! Sean, you are so missed.
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Post by jk on Nov 1, 2021 15:09:35 GMT -5
I didn't know it when I first watched this hilarious imitation by Sean Lock but James Corden is big in the US with a thing called The Late Late Show. And not only in the US -- he was also awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to drama! Here he is as ace session drummer Clem Cattini in the trailer for Telstar, the 2008 biopic about tortured genius Joe Meek:
Here's where I first saw him and thought, "Who's this unfunny schlemiel?!" Check out Sean Lock's imitation of Michael Jackson's voice. He's as much surprised by it as anyone! It's important to know that MJ was alive and well when this was broadcast:
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Post by pendlewitch on Nov 8, 2021 11:41:47 GMT -5
"Steve Goldman’s first rule is ‘it has to make me laugh’ "
Most of these certainly made me laugh too :-D
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Post by jk on Nov 8, 2021 13:26:07 GMT -5
"Steve Goldman’s first rule is ‘it has to make me laugh’ "
Most of these certainly made me laugh too :-D
Hello, pw. You mean the ones I posted on this page? I only really discovered the comic genius of Sean Lock after he died. Channel Four was unavailable in NL at the time... That Jim Post record cover is hilarious!!
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Post by pendlewitch on Nov 19, 2021 4:51:06 GMT -5
Hey, jk , hope you're doing well. Yep, Sean Lock was v good (on a par with Bob Mortimer on WILTY), plus the album covers were v v funny! Went to see Henning Wehn in real life a few weeks ago; he was about 20% funny - could have been better!
"The English are too polite to be honest; the Germans are too honest to be polite", he said. Hmm.
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Post by jk on Nov 19, 2021 8:13:04 GMT -5
Hey, jk , hope you're doing well. Yep, Sean Lock was v good (on a par with Bob Mortimer on WILTY), plus the album covers were v v funny! Went to see Henning Wehn in real life a few weeks ago; he was about 20% funny - could have been better!
"The English are too polite to be honest; the Germans are too honest to be polite", he said. Hmm.
Hi, pw. Yes, I'm doing fine thanks, as, I hope, are you. I think Henning is fine in small doses. He seems to work better with others, as on WILTY and Nine out of Ten Cats. Ha, that's a good one. I like his remark about only learning the goose-step after coming to the UK and seeing John Cleese do it in Fawlty Towers.
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Post by jk on Dec 1, 2021 7:11:41 GMT -5
With thanks to Head Gardener at Hoffman: ^ back in the USSR ^
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Post by Mikie on Jan 4, 2022 10:04:49 GMT -5
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Post by carllove on Jan 5, 2022 6:08:56 GMT -5
With thanks to Head Gardener at Hoffman: ^ back in the USSR ^ Haha - Sparks makes the list! For neofascism and racism? Must be Ron’s mustache and the cover of Kimono my House that are to blame for that assessment! Also - when I hear the B-52’s, I always think, “Gee, What violent punks”. 🤣
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Post by jk on Jan 5, 2022 9:08:10 GMT -5
Haha - Sparks makes the list! For neofascism and racism? Must be Ron’s mustache and the cover of Kimono my House that are to blame for that assessment! Also - when I hear the B-52’s, I always think, “Gee, What violent punks”. 🤣 To say nothing of those violent Village People:
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Post by jk on Jan 25, 2022 16:43:00 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Feb 4, 2022 4:46:57 GMT -5
Is this funny? I was never quite sure what to make of this show... In November 1968, [The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, born Norman Odam] managed to follow in the footsteps of Tiny Tim by appearing on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. SPIN proclaimed the Ledge's performance of his "hit" single among the "25 Greatest Musical Moments in TV History." It could have been -- and in certain ways was -- a celebratory experience. But some of Odam's friends watching back in Texas were disgusted at what they considered the coast-to-coast humiliation of their guileless chum.
"Paralyzed" was accompanied by Dan Rowan's snide remarks and Dick Martin's slapstick mimicry. Norman just wanted to play his song, and seemed visibly irked at the revelry taking place at his expense. Amid this hilarity, Martin asked his guest to perform another song. Odam kicked into the single's B-side, "Who's Knocking On My Door" -- just as the zany Laugh-In cast emerged from the wings and began clowning on-camera, imitating the Ledge's spastic dance moves and making a mockery of his performance (well, it was a comedy show).
"I was confused," the Ledge told [the essay's author Irwin Chusid] in a phone interview. "I finally got mad and ran off the set. That wasn't part of the act."[ Source]
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Post by jk on Apr 5, 2022 12:32:54 GMT -5
Danish national composer Carl Nielsen clearly had a skittish side... …and so did the Surrealist painter Yves Tanguy, one of whose party tricks was swallowing live spiders:
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Post by Mikie on Apr 15, 2022 17:43:18 GMT -5
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Post by Rick Bartlett on Apr 16, 2022 0:15:28 GMT -5
<button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Ahahahha!
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Post by jk on Apr 20, 2022 8:41:36 GMT -5
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Post by sneakypete77 on May 3, 2022 8:08:48 GMT -5
Having been laid up for the best part of six weeks I've been revisiting some vintage 70s and 80s British TV comedy shows, where political correctness was thankfully decades away. Norman Collier was a stalwart on the North of England Workingmens' Club circuit, and this routine was probably his most memorable:
Liverpudlian Stan Boardman almost based a career out of gags involving Germans bombing his local fish and chip shop. But this guest slot on the Des O'Connor show, which went out on live TV at 7.30pm proved to be his last. He was subsequently banned for many years from TV appearances, and going by the way Des is holding his head in his hands towards the end of the joke, he probably believes that his own career will soon be history too (he survived with a warning from ITV bosses):
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Post by jk on May 7, 2022 6:38:54 GMT -5
Reading Rick's birthday posts in the Shoutbox rather irreverently reminded me of this family of sleepy horses peacefully farting and snoring:
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Post by jk on Jun 15, 2022 9:31:59 GMT -5
One more fart, this time by an adorable wombat:
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Post by jk on Jun 27, 2022 6:28:00 GMT -5
On a similar note..
This is disgusting, but very funny all the same:
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Post by jk on Aug 5, 2022 14:22:19 GMT -5
More Sean Lock:
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