Well do you remember "Bread" that reminds me of being young. I don't know how old I was but I used to go to Brownies then...Ohhhh and also Fawlty Towers because I used to watch that on a tuesday night after Brownies. I hated Brownies!!!
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It's odd because i never actually used to find Bread funny but I really liked it. I think I was too young to understand the humour but I really liked the characters. I'd love to see it again.
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'Bread' seems to have been 'the thing' to watch at the time! I never really *liked* 'Bread' either, but I always used to watch it!
Now 'Fawlty Towers' is a different matter, but I'm suprised you are old enough to have watched it first time round Catpee!!! My dates are getting very mixed up here!!!
Oh no, I didn't see it first time round. I saw it on a tuesday. I don't think it was shown first time round on a tuesday. I imagine it would have been a friday.
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Comedy that reminds of being an age. The most poignant for me is "The young ones" Series 1 I was a student in halls of residence & found it well funny. Series 2 and I was then living in a house share with 3 other blokes and it didn't seem so much funny as the way we lived. That is the unwashed up washing up, dodgy landlord, house falling down and not bothering to go to lectures rather than the talking hampsters or Madness playing in our lounge. Motorhead did do a rendition of "Ace of Spades" in the kitchen though...
All this 'Memory-lane-ing' ...and copious amount of 'Christmas-prezzie' white wine (that I don't usually drink) has made my mind take strange turns...
Does anyone remember a programme from my childhood called 'A Kick Up The Eighties'??? It had a pre 'Young Ones' Rick Mayall as 'Kevin Turvey' and a character called 'Shadwell' Pronounced with (as I remember it) a Welsh accent! If I remember correctly, he was killed and appeared as a ghost in the final programme!!! (Don't know why it's come back to me, but it has!!!)
There is also a programme springing to my booze-addled brain, about perhaps an advertising agency...I remember it because I'd just split up with a boyfriend that night...I don't know who was in it, but I remember they were filming 'big Brother' style in a set-type bedroom and as the guy in it was geting up in the night, he banged his head straight onto the set wall!!
Well it was funny at the time!! Wish I knew hat it was called! It must have been 'middleing' at best!!!
isnt it ironic how a non-topic thread has found a topic. so i suppose this isn't off-topic technically. anyway, please continue. i dont really have anything to add to this reminiscing; i'm not really old enough to remember anything before about two years ago. well, actually i think i just have a terrible memory. i must have senile dementia already
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but 'youngster' we are talking about (at the moment...this thread is subject to change when other people take over!!!) comedy that reminds us of a time in our lives!! Thats not to say it can't be 2 years or even 6 months ago!!!
it felt more like general reminiscence to me. er, well, no comedy reminds me of any time in my life. so there we go.
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comedy reminds me of the time I tripped over one of those plastic things postmen use to keep newspapers together, in front of load of spides (hoods, millies, chavs) standing outside a shop.......and they all laughed heartily at me.
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Why do postmen use those things? They are dangerous. They talked about them on That's Life...... does anyone remember that? .......and the dog that said "sausages"??
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Originally posted by Catpee: You still laughed though!!
Why do postmen use those things? They are dangerous. They talked about them on That's Life...... does anyone remember that? .......and the dog that said "sausages"??
...I remember thinking as a child that Esther Ranzten was quite scary! She was a kind of forerunner to Anne Robinson, wasn't she? Don't know about your plastic postmen, though!!
She used to wear some scary dresses as well!! And there used to be lots of "funny" shaped vegatables. Tomatoes that looked like ET, that sort of thing. But the dog that said sausages has lived on in the memory of us old folk. Even now, if I ever get to play with a dog's face I always get it try and say "Sausages". Then everyone of a certain age will fall about laughing! They don't make tv like that any more. (Thank goodness!!)
