Quote: Aaron @ 29th March 2014, 2:17 AM GMTHercules: It's a good idea to put threads in the correct forums if you want people to see them!
Yup, thanks for that and the re-title - normally try and do that but what started as a thread about JS under Gen.Com. somehow drifted............. 
If it was supposed to be about John Sullivan rather than the specific show, it should have been in the People & Stand-Up forum, and probably have introduced discussion on other titles too! 
Quote: Aaron @ 29th March 2014, 1:51 PM GMTIf it was supposed to be about John Sullivan rather than the specific show, it should have been in the People & Stand-Up forum, and probably have introduced discussion on other titles too!
I'll get me coat........
Anyway!
Sitting Pretty. I've got recordings somewhere but have never watched it. One would've thought Sullivan's shows to all be good candidates for DVD release.
I tried it and was disappointed.
JS was a genius at one point but, strangely, his talent deserted him when Fools and Horses finished the first time in 1996. Some of Heartburn Hotel is hilarious - though he did write it with someone else - but some of it was bad. The Green Green Grass, of course, was diabolical.
On the plus side, Dear John, Just Good Friends and Only Fools (I thought Citizen Smith was just okay) were brilliant. Great comedic twists (for example, in JGF, Penny bitterly scissors Vince's clothes from his wardrobe but it then transpires they weren't his clothes at all). With such output as that, anybody can forgive him for going off the boil, I think.
I got round to seeing this. My files of it are in broadcast quality so I take it you could properly download stuff from BBC Store while it was still going.
There's quite a few good one-liners in it, and the main character (Annie) in particular is inspired. Heather Tobias played her less outgoing twin sister, though if her performance as a posh eccentric in Mike Leigh's film High Hopes is anything to go by she could've done justice to the lead role.
Something about the story / dynamic doesn't always work but overall I like it.
Yes, not a riot of fun, but I enjoyed it.
Pretty much. There's parts where it's more driven by her character and those are very good, but there's too much filler with the rest of her family.
