On the subject of The Fast Show, I've been watching it again on DVD, and I was reminded how funny the "I'm sorry, I've just cum" sketches are with Charlie Higson.
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Yes, I liked that too. I can only remember the one set in a library though.
The Fast Show is my favourite sketch show ever. I hope it's bettered one day as it would be something truly special to do that.
Has anyone seen the 1998 special "Ted and Ralph" based on those characters? I've been trying to find it online, as I'm not sure it's worth getting the DVD for, if I don't like it.
Wasn't it Brian Bewildered?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV8KfpE3BA
Just found that genius.
Quote: Winterlight @ May 30 2008, 7:14 PM BSTYes, I liked that too. I can only remember the one set in a library though.
The Fast Show is my favourite sketch show ever. I hope it's bettered one day as it would be something truly special to do that.
There was a follow up sketch set in a resturant in which Charlie Higson and Maria McFarlane both cum. And it is easily one of the best sketch shows ever, if not the best. I think one reason for this is the breadth and depth of the talent involved. How many shows today could boast a roster of talent that matches the likes of Charlie Higson, Paul Whitehouse, John Tompson, Caroline Aherne, Simon Day, Mark Williams, Arabella Weir and Rhys Thomas. They also had amazing writers such as Graham Linehan, Craig Cash, Dave Gorman, David Quanntick and the cast. Sketch shows today are outgunned even before they begin.
Quote: chipolata @ June 2 2008, 10:16 AM BSTThere was a follow up sketch set in a resturant in which Charlie Higson and Maria McFarlane both cum. And it is easily one of the best sketch shows ever, if not the best. I think one reason for this is the breadth and depth of the talent involved. How many shows today could boast a roster of talent that matches the likes of Charlie Higson, Paul Whitehouse, John Tompson, Caroline Aherne, Simon Day, Mark Williams, Arabella Weir and Rhys Thomas. They also had amazing writers such as Graham Linehan, Craig Cash, Dave Gorman, David Quanntick and the cast. Sketch shows today are outgunned even before they begin.
Absolutely agree with all of that. Sums it up perfectly.
Quote: chipolata @ June 2 2008, 10:16 AM BSTThere was a follow up sketch set in a resturant in which Charlie Higson and Maria McFarlane both cum. And it is easily one of the best sketch shows ever, if not the best. I think one reason for this is the breadth and depth of the talent involved. How many shows today could boast a roster of talent that matches the likes of Charlie Higson, Paul Whitehouse, John Tompson, Caroline Aherne, Simon Day, Mark Williams, Arabella Weir and Rhys Thomas. They also had amazing writers such as Graham Linehan, Craig Cash, Dave Gorman, David Quanntick and the cast. Sketch shows today are outgunned even before they begin.
Except the vast majority of those writers and performers were not really known as "talent" to such an extent when the Fast Show was made. Maybe there are sketch shows being made or planned by relative unknowns in 2008 that we will look back on in 10 or 20 years and say: "yeah, but it couldn't fail with that roster of talent".
Quote: Badge @ June 2 2008, 10:12 PM BSTExcept the vast majority of those writers and performers were not really known as "talent" to such an extent when the Fast Show was made. Maybe there are sketch shows being made or planned by relative unknowns in 2008 that we will look back on in 10 or 20 years and say: "yeah, but it couldn't fail with that roster of talent".
Fair point. We've all got twenty-twenty vision in hindsight. However, I think they were known as talent at the time. Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse had worked with both Harry Enfield, Vic Reeves and Jonathon Ross on TV shows. John Thompson had done extensive work with Steve Coogan both on stage and TV. And at the time the Fast Show came out, Caroline Aherne had already been on local radio with Mrs Merton and the TV show was well in development. And Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews (writers of the Ted and Ralph) sketches were less than a year away from launching Father Ted on an unsuspecting public. In other words, these weren't a bunch of relative unkowns, although clearly The Fast Show was the career defining show for many of them.
That said, I would dearly love a new sketch show to come out of nowhere and blow us away. The talent's out there - both writing and performing - but I've lost faith in TV companies ability to know how to use it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8f7MD6wVGs
haha!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rj1SFtxRTg
Even more haha-er!
Oh my god.
Actual genius.
(the first one, that is.)
I used to think the Fast Show was overrated, when it first started. It was all "Cheesy Peas" and "Brilliant!" back then. Thankfully, it got a lot better, as the years went by, and some of the sketches were works of comedy genius.
So did we decide that it wasn't the Fast Show but Harry Enfield's Brian Bewildered or not?
It was Harry Enfield.
Quote: Winterlight @ June 4 2008, 6:55 PM BSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8f7MD6wVGs
haha!
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