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Favourite comedy Christmas show.

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Bedford 1

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Now we are well on the way to Christmas, and all the repeats are coming back. Realised that I prefer the old shows, like The Two Ronnies or Morecombe and Wise. Do you prefer the older shows or the more modern ones?
 
Bedford 1 said:
Now we are well on the way to Christmas, and all the repeats are coming back. Realised that I prefer the old shows, like The Two Ronnies or Morecombe and Wise. Do you prefer the older shows or the more modern ones?
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To me The Two Ronnies is modern 🙄. The 'Good Life' Christmas special is my favourite <3.
 
the good life
 
A woman from Radio Times was on BBC Breakfast - apparently two of the most anticipated Christmas items are the new Wallace and Gromit, and the final episode of Gavin and Stacey.

Which I suppose are both new old ones, in a sense!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
A woman from Radio Times was on BBC Breakfast - apparently two of the most anticipated Christmas items are the new Wallace and Gromit, and the final episode of Gavin and Stacey.

Which I suppose are both new old ones, in a sense!
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This evening I re-watched the second Gavin & Stacey Christmas special: a tired re-tread of old gags. I'm afraid that I don't have high hopes for this year's one :(.
 
CliffH said:
This evening I re-watched the second Gavin & Stacey Christmas special: a tired re-tread of old gags. I'm afraid that I don't have high hopes for this year's one :(.
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Yes I never really connected with it, but it was quite a phenomenon in its day.

Mrs Brown’s Boys is another perenially popular show I’ve never ‘got’.

Wallace and Gromit, Murder Most Fowl though?

I cannot wait!!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Yes I never really connected with it, but it was quite a phenomenon in its day.

Mrs Brown’s Boys is another perenially popular show I’ve never ‘got’.

Wallace and Gromit, Murder Most Fowl though?

I cannot wait!!
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I really like the first two series of Gavin and Stacey - and the first Christmas special. However, it's had its day I think.
 
I like both old and new!
Morecombe and Wise
The Two Ronnies
Gavin and Stacy
Only Fools and Horses
The good life
Etc, etc
 
I'm looking forward to Gavin & Stacey myself.
 
All the old stuff has been on so many times, seen it so many times that im not interested any more
And just dont find most comedies from the last 10 years very funny
But i like stuff like QI, 8 out of 10 cats, taskmaster, etc
 
I am looking forward to Wallace and Gromit, never watched Gavin and Stacey, tried and just didn’t find it funny, whereas people at work found it hilarious, but of course that is why we need different types of comedy show as some size doesn’t fit all.

I also love some of the classics, but of course where I have watched them many times you know when the jokes are coming.
 
Some of the more modern ones are just cringe making but there again I expect the 'youngsters' find the old stuff just the same.
Vicar of Dibley, Only Fools and Horses and definitely Wallace and Grommit. Last of the Summer Wine was good as well but partly because I recognised the place it was filmed.
 
Have to agree with you on Last of The Summer Wine. My favourite show, have a daughter in law from that part of the country.
 
Leadinglights said:
Some of the more modern ones are just cringe making but there again I expect the 'youngsters' find the old stuff just the same.
Vicar of Dibley, Only Fools and Horses and definitely Wallace and Grommit. Last of the Summer Wine was good as well but partly because I recognised the place it was filmed.
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Yes - and of course we're allowed to change our opinions as time goes by! My mother still loves The Two Ronnies but many of the sketches make me cringe now, given how racist or sexist or homophobic they are.

It was an eye-opener for me in 1980 when 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' did a parody of The Two Ronnies ('The Two Ninnies'): I hadn't thought previous to that just how old-fashioned The Two Ronnies were even by 1980.
 
The last few years my favourite Christmas programme has been Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing Christmas specials. Gentle comedy, beautiful photography and music, and kind hearted friendship. And, of course, Ted the dog! Especially poignant for me because Paul Whitehouse was in my year at University. I don't remember ever meeting him (though I must have seen him in his band in the union bar!) but the fact he is so close to me in age makes me feel very aware of my mortality and my wrinkles!

Always happy to watch Christmas re-runs of Morcambe and Wise though :D
 
CliffH said:
It was an eye-opener for me in 1980 when 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' did a parody of The Two Ronnies ('The Two Ninnies'): I hadn't thought previous to that just how old-fashioned The Two Ronnies were even by 1980.
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I've got a nice pair of biniculoculars, you can stick them up on your tripod.
 
Blackadder's Christmas Carol is really good. Like Scrooge in reverse. Victorian Blackadder is a really kind and generous man, so much so that people take advantage of him rather. Enter Christmas ghost Robbie Coltrain who shows Edmund a series of flashbacks of his repellent ancestors and inadvertently turns him back to the dark side where he belongs.

Talking of Christmas Carol, we have an annual tradition of watching the Muppets on Xmas Eve. I like to read the book at Christmas too, it is relatively short and it's interesting to see how much of the Muppets dialogue consists of direct quotes from Dickens.
 
Chris Hobson said:
Blackadder's Christmas Carol is really good. Like Scrooge in reverse. Victorian Blackadder is a really kind and generous man, so much so that people take advantage of him rather. Enter Christmas ghost Robbie Coltrain who shows Edmund a series of flashbacks of his repellent ancestors and inadvertently turns him back to the dark side where he belongs.

Talking of Christmas Carol, we have an annual tradition of watching the Muppets on Xmas Eve. I like to read the book at Christmas too, it is relatively short and it's interesting to see how much of the Muppets dialogue consists of direct quotes from Dickens.
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I love Blackadder's Christmas Carol - partly because "Ro-land" plays one of the enormous orphans. I also like the Muppet Christmas Carol.

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Both parents would lol at Morecombe & Wise on Christmas day evening, for us it has to be Only Fools.

Every Christmas as family we watch Home Alone 1 & 2, classics in our home.
 
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