Quote: Afinkawan @ November 17 2008, 5:05 PM GMTI've just been told that one of my sketches was "a bit - and I mean this in a nice way - Two Ronnies".
This has come up a few times in Critique, that I remind people of the Two Ronnies.
I can't work out how good or bad that is. Maybe it's quite good but just 20 years too late.
I think the key thing is "and I mean this in a nice way".
That's much better than "It's a bit, y'know... (WHISPERS) Two Ronnies."
Ramsay's Gastropub in Putney is really nice too. And reasonably priced. It's not in the most salubrious area, as you're convinced you're going to get mugged walking down there and the one outside wall not shown in the photos is actually covered in graffiti, but the food was nice.
Dan
Griff are you being stalked by famous chefs?
Does Jamie Oliver ride around your house on his moped at night revving his engine?
You do realise you are living a particularly exelent sketch?
Ramsey the abusive publican, Jamie Oliver the hoodie, Nigella as the sultry waitress at the cafe?
I am blessed with low tastes.
I remember when the Highwayman used to be a great old pub back in the seventies/ early eighties. They used to serve these bloody fantastic humungous sausages on skewers from behind the bar.
When did MPW take it over and is he still in charge?
Back to seething anger then 
Would make a great food critic!
Calm down dear calm down!
Such terrible cyncicism I will write a rude letter to your Sunday Times column.
That said Death Wish was ace.
n.b. If any one wants to borrow Skippy the paedophile kangaroo for RFTP you're more than welcome to him.
I've never met any famous chefs. There's a famous one runs a restaurant near us (I can't remember his name). We were going to go along to some sort of special evening but they ran out of tickets really fast so we got offered the backup theme evening - a Night With Sheila's Wheels.
We didn't go.
And yes, I get to send my sketches direct to the script editor, so I actually get some feedback occasionally. I just thought it was odd that the Two Ronnies thing seems to keep coming up. Maybe I should stick with that and pitch a completely inoffensive Saturday evening BBC1 sketch show.
Quote: Afinkawan @ November 18 2008, 9:44 AM GMTI just thought it was odd that the Two Ronnies thing seems to keep coming up. Maybe I should stick with that and pitch a completely inoffensive Saturday evening BBC1 sketch show.
Are they quite clever, word-play, type sketches?
Quote: swerytd @ November 17 2008, 10:49 PM GMTRamsay's Gastropub in Putney is really nice too.
Dan
What's it called and where is it in Putney?
Quote: Griff @ November 17 2008, 10:40 PM GMTHe took over a gastropub near where I live (the Highwayman in Checkendon) and turned it into the most ridiculous place imaginable.
Ha, I didn't know you lived in that neck of the woods. Are you originally from that area?
You do have a knack for Ronnie Barker man-from-the-ministry type stuff, which is not easy to do.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 18 2008, 9:57 AM GMTWhat's it called and where is it in Putney?
Chiswick! Not Putney. No idea why I said Putney. It's The Devonshire. The side of the chicken pie is actually a ceramic bowl; don't try to eat that like I did...
Quote: Griff @ November 18 2008, 10:08 AM GMTNo, I grew up in South Wales. Lived in quite a few places since then - Sheffield, London, Swindon, and Australia - but now settled in Oxfordshire, which I love. (Worst place I ever lived was definitely Bracknell.)
I wasn't keen on Abingdon.
Quote: swerytd @ November 18 2008, 10:11 AM GMTChiswick! Not Putney. No idea why I said Putney. It's The Devonshire. The side of the chicken pie is actually a ceramic bowl; don't try to eat that like I did...
I wondered why I hadn't heard of it! Chicken pie. Yum. Ceramic bowl. Yuk.