yorolpal


Brilliant.



And I shore do miss it.  Especially Paul Whitehouse...possibly the greatest living actor on the planet.

Johnny Depp agrees with you apparently. 

The first I remember of Paul Whitehouse was on the Harry Enfield show in the late 80's/early 90's. I always thought he was way funnier than Enfield. Their portrayal of Smashie and Nicey, the cheesy transatlantic radio DJ's, was classic. 

Simon Day of the Fast Show, who plays Billy Bleach in that clip, is an underrated actor. He's brilliant in everything he does. This is him and Paul Whitehouse in one of my favorite FS sketches, cracks me up every time (has a short Jessie's Diets sketch before it in this vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAj7S7lyHdA --gratuitous language warning!

Lawd gawd how I love Rowley Birkin. 

I had found not too long back on YouTube most all the episodes of Paul and Chris Langham's show "Help".  Paul's multitude of characters were quite simply breathtaking.  I was completely crushed when I learned that due to Chris's dreadful and very disturbing downfall that the show ran only one season.  I've been trying in vain to find a DVD of all episodes but due to the nature of Chris's troubles it seems that no one sells it anywhere on planet Earth.  If any of you British chaps has any idea where such a thing might be available I would be forever in your debt.

Thanks again to all for the links!!  As they say at McDonalds, "I'm Lovin It!"

Yeah, looks like 'Help' is all but obliterated. I did find this though, which I'd forgotten about;

Happiness

The Ted and Ralph sketches were also brilliant. Paul Whitehouse was a master of that very special kind of comedy which is both hilarious and touching. There was one where they buried groundskeeper Ted's wife and Ralph made a poignant although awkward speech about the circle of life before walking Ted back to the house. In the last scene they're walking away from camera, Ted stumbles a little and Ralph supports him, all the while Vaughan Williams' Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis is playing -- chokes me up every time, even though it's a comedy sketch. 

That's what makes a great comedy sketch show...great writing and brilliant acting.  Some of Paul's characters in Help (the old taxi driver who cared for his ailing wife for instance) made me cry like a baby. 

This is the weridest thread I have read in the coffee house, really.
Some people seem really stiff, others pointless. 

A chubby man lives in a bucolic setting where it rains a lot. He always keeps his rubbers handy for protection. No need to make a mess in the truck...

HTH,

J

yorolpal


What if someone had posted a picture of a penis that looked like a sausage? Would that have been less offensive?  It might've been just as funny.

GET THAT DAMN CAMERA OUT OF MY SHOWER NOW!!!
 

foxwolfen

I find this thread oddly comforting. Perhaps it is a demonstration of consistency in a rapidly changing world that makes it so. Knowing that every couple of months, when I get the urge to see what is up down here, I will find that within the first ten thread will be a thread just like this. It is like a comfortable old shoe.

I have you blocked, but I had to take a peak at this because of the subject at hand.

I'm not going to sugar coat this ...

The atmosphere here today is a direct result of you and John.

The two of you destroyed this forum.

There's some newcomers like Sharke and Beepster that weren't here when it happened, or maybe they were just observers at the time, but let me tell you guys, this was a completely different place until this guy and John came down here one time and started a thread that totally ruined this place.

And then ... to top it all off ... when the forum changed the way they wanted it to, the only time they come back here is to dig at people, like with this post.

I remember that time Bub. I'm not as regular down here as some and while Foxwolfen, John, and a couple of others IIRC caused quite a stir I think it's the people that actually do the posting that make the place what it is rather than those who comment on it. A place can only change if those using it change.

If those named above caused that to happen maybe they struck a chord somewhere. One of the real problems is still here as has already been commented on by myself and others.

Anyway don't take too much notice of me, I'm just a cowardly troll who is about to disappear back upstairs to a much calmer atmosphere.

What cheeses me off, ever so slightly, is that I am seeing strangeness from peeps who have been helpful to me in the past and I wonder now why I ever bothered coming into the coffee house. It could sour the whole experience, if I let it.

I think the wisest thing to do, for me at least, would be to ignore all this, pretend it never happened and move on. And in future, just lurk around, and post when I feel I can help, in the music specific forums.

I've hardly had anything to do with anything in here anyways, just adding a comment here and there in an attempt to fit in and be funny :-)