House Of Fools - Series 1
I am unspeakably excited.
Quote: the science eel @ 31st December 2013, 8:02 PM GMTI am unspeakably excited.
Me too!
It's about time they were back on TV.
Yes doesn't look too bad from the trailer but that could change when it actually gets shown, will have to wait and see. I have a feeling though, it may not be my cup of tea.
This looks like a good un! 
The trailer looks crap!
Quote: Charlie Boy @ 3rd January 2014, 11:27 AM GMTThe trailer looks crap!
Does it!
Quote: Charlie Boy @ 3rd January 2014, 11:27 AM GMTThe trailer looks crap!
Well, if you're a fan of what they do, it looks like they haven't ventured far. That's good news.
I think it'll be good but not great. The basic premise as judged by the title House Of Fools is promising.
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I don't mind Reeves & Mortimer and their shows but have always found them incredibly unoriginal, having nicked their slapstick act from Mayall & Edmondson and their compere act from Morecambe & Wise. It seems to me, that is. But it seems so blaringly obvious to me, I don't know how they've got away with it for so long. 
Funny at times without being very talented at all, imo, they've been very lucky.
I don't think they're anything like Mayall and Edmondson. Sometimes Vic reminds me of Eric, but mostly because of his looks and glasses rather than his comedy.
In fact Vic and Bob are the most original and unique current comedians I can think of. They've always existed in their own little world, not really influenced or worrying about what any other comedians are doing.
I'm not sure you can have watched all that much of their comedy if you really think they've nicked it off anyone?
Well I'm thinking of Bottom and before that The Young Ones, Dangerous Bros etc. It was a very well established double act that was a cartoony spoof of slapstick with saucepan and frying pan head bashing and the like. Then came R&M using the exact same routine in their various shows. Just different personalities giving it a new look. While M&E's double act career declined in line. That's how I've made my personal conclusion. Don't have a clue if it's commonly shared, but that's what I've generally noticed.
But on the Reeves/Morecambe thing it is an oft said comparison, not merely my thoughts. He's not the only one who's modelled himself on an earlier popular act though, quite a lot of comedians have done it to some extent. I think it should be a hotter potato than joke stealing, which seems to really rile modern comedians. I think they should be more worried about act or style stealing because it definitely goes on, almost uncontested. Reeves will know it, he may not want to confess to it yet but he knows it.
Lol, okay.
If you want to talk about debt, then I'd say there are ideas that they've pilfered from Monty Python and the Bonzos. You don't get so much surrealism in Bottom and next to none at all in Morecambe and Wise.
I find Bob Mortimer's verbal style owes a little to Laurel and Hardy, strangely. The intonation in, for example, 'Vic, what on EARTH....?' reminds me sometimes of lines like 'why don't you do something to HELP me?!' 