Comedy history.

[Big Dave]

Some names in this one you don't often associate

The original sketch.


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[007XX]

Some names in this one you don't often associate

The original sketch.

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Excellent! Got to love those classics...John Cleese is one of my favourite!:laugh:

[Macktheknife]

Good find BD, one of my favourites.

[janno]

Hey - great find!

Haven't seen Marty Feldman without a Mel Brooks movie before.

And weren't they all sweetly young and fresh-faced . . . :shit:

Must be getting old.

[Big Dave]

My word or the weekend - SWIVEL!


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[Big Dave]

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[Chisanga]

The Four Yorkshiremen has to be one of the best comedy sketches ever. Thanks for posting :)

[Big Dave]

The Four Yorkshiremen has to be one of the best comedy sketches ever. Thanks for posting :)

Ive seen 4 versions of it now

chapman cleese TBT & feldman - 1948 show

chapman cleese palin jones - python show

palin, jones, idle, chapman - live hollywood bowl

atkinson cleese palin jones - unknown stage.


corrections welcome.

[Chisanga]

Ive seen 4 versions of it now

chapman cleese TBT & feldman - 1948 show

chapman cleese palin jones - python show

palin, jones, idle, chapman - live hollywood bowl

atkinson cleese palin jones - unknown stage.


corrections welcome.

No that sounds right... I've seen all those versions too.

[Babelfish]

LUXURY!....so you havent seen this one?

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[Chisanga]

I love Eddie Izzard ...umm.. when it gets cold enough that is :)

[Chisanga]

LUXURY!....so you havent seen this one?

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I think if you look in the dictionary under "Hamming it up" you will find a link to this video :)

[Big Dave]

I think if you look in the dictionary under "Hamming it up" you will find a link to this video :)

I can't stand eddie izzard - he wears a dress ffs.

[Skyryder]

Any one remember THE PLANK Here's the cast.

Cast
Eric Sykes
Arthur Lowe
Lionel Blair
Henry Cooper
Harry H Corbett
Bernard Cribbins
Robert Dorning
Diana Dors
Charlie Drake
Jimmy Edwards
Liza Goddard
Deryck Guyler
Charles Hawtrey
Frankie Howerd
James Hunt
Wilfrid Hyde White
Joanna Lumley
Kenny Lynch
Brian Murphy
Kate O'Mara
Ann Sidney
Reg Varney
Frank Windsor

Classic sketch. I always thougt Roy Kinear was in THE PLANK but I don't see his name.

[Big Dave]

We were talking about it last night.

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The rest of it is in the related vids here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilsw_rRN4GM