COVID-19 RESOURCES
LIT CAMS (200 Free Tokens)ADULT TOYSVOD MOVIES

Free Association Thread 5

Status
Not open for further replies.
Handley_Page said:
There was a new 'place' in Leeds, called "the Hoffbrauhaus"; all very Germanic and lots of Oompah etc.. But the Beer wasn't bad.
So one night we got Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen.
It was great. Chimes Blues, by request!
Click to expand...

Unfortunately, the video was 'unavailable', but by way of 'free association' it led me to Maynard Ferguson's 'Conquistador' to another tune of the same name, to another tune by the same band (my favorite of theirs):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOj3kJKy-_U
 
Handley_Page said:
This one had all my mates roaring with laughter (it has to be said that there's a lot of references to English things & people).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcrUuCDFLOQ
Click to expand...

Hahaha - that's where I learned who Val Doonican was! So funny, but my favorite is 'Roy Rogers on Trigger'. I considered posting this a while back when we were talking about Jazz. That slow hesitant break still has me rolling on the floor laughing (shades of Spike Jones):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcNAwytrOY
 
HBergeron said:
Hahaha - that's where I learned who Val Doonican was! So funny, but my favorite is 'Roy Rogers on Trigger'. I considered posting this a while back when we were talking about Jazz. That slow hesitant break still has me rolling on the floor laughing (shades of Spike Jones):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcNAwytrOY
Click to expand...

I remember this album; it was fabulous.
I went and had a look for Spike Jones and found this absolute classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iXI8OpY4ZQ
 
JKendallDane said:
I've always enjoyed this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtDX1Vl-Jxk

.
Click to expand...

This guy used to visit the UK and do some sort of show on the London stage - usually televised.
Those in possession of a TV (at that time, possession of a TV was not guaranteed) would quite whatever they (and their family) were doing - and watch with rapt attention to one of the cleverest funny men in Europe.
 
Handley_Page said:
This guy used to visit the UK and do some sort of show on the London stage - usually televised.
Those in possession of a TV (at that time, possession of a TV was not guaranteed) would quite whatever they (and their family) were doing - and watch with rapt attention to one of the cleverest funny men in Europe.
Click to expand...

The problem with the Victor Borge type of comedy is it too easily lost to the sands of time.

Mark Twain and Will Rogers were both superb with getting people to laugh at otherwise serious social and political commentary, much the same way Bob Hope and Johnny Carson could do decades later. But those who pulled it off so well get forgotten, as does their messages, to new generations.

Television has gone the same route. Sure, we can look back at clips of Archie Bunker on "All in the Family" and laugh but do we actually see that just under two generations later he is living in the White House? I'm sure your British comedies from the same era often provides a similar "How did we not see this coming?" moments.

On this side of the pond, at least for the present, I am so thankful for the comedians because more often than not they are simultaneously providing a more balanced look at the news than the "real" news media while also giving us a reason to laugh until we get through the latest mess-of-the-day.

.
 
JKendallDane said:
The problem with the Victor Borge type of comedy is it too easily lost to the sands of time.

Mark Twain and Will Rogers were both superb with getting people to laugh at otherwise serious social and political commentary, much the same way Bob Hope and Johnny Carson could do decades later. But those who pulled it off so well get forgotten, as does their messages, to new generations.

Television has gone the same route. Sure, we can look back at clips of Archie Bunker on "All in the Family" and laugh but do we actually see that just under two generations later he is living in the White House? I'm sure your British comedies from the same era often provides a similar "How did we not see this coming?" moments.

On this side of the pond, at least for the present, I am so thankful for the comedians because more often than not they are simultaneously providing a more balanced look at the news than the "real" news media while also giving us a reason to laugh until we get through the latest mess-of-the-day.

.
Click to expand...

You've raised an interesting point.
On this side of the Pond, we do not seem to have the real funny stuff that we did (doubtless my Grandkids would disagree, mind!). It has been said that no network would make something as good as MASH, for example.
Flanders & Swann (very intelligent and polite jokes, but hysterically funny), or " 'Allo, 'Allo" with its innuendos, "Get Some In" which is a very good humorous thing about life in Initial Training in the 1950s RAF. "It ain't 'arf 'ot, Mum" is another brilliant military thing. There's no chance of another like it.

There was an attempt to put some "Alternative humour" on the Radio. I was travelling home late one day and heard one; In the half-hour of the programme, I think I smiled; once.

Strangely enough, very little American Humour gets over here (Sgt Bilko being one exception); it does not seem to translate very well.:)
 
Handley_Page said:
There was an attempt to put some "Alternative humour" on the Radio. I was travelling home late one day and heard one; In the half-hour of the programme, I think I smiled; once.
Click to expand...

I am occasionally tempted to dig out some of the radio comedies from my younger years - 'Take It From Here', 'The Navy Lark', 'Brothers in Law', 'Round The Horne', 'The Men From The Ministry'. But then I wonder if they would still be funny. Better just to remember that they once were perhaps?

:)
 
SamScribble said:
I am occasionally tempted to dig out some of the radio comedies from my younger years - 'Take It From Here', 'The Navy Lark', 'Brothers in Law', 'Round The Horne', 'The Men From The Ministry'. But then I wonder if they would still be funny. Better just to remember that they once were perhaps?

:)
Click to expand...

Some of the "Men from the Ministry" are still damned funny, as are many of the "Navy Lark". "Round the Horne" might well depend upon which series you choose.

The original film of the Navy Lark is on You Tube (with Ronald Shiner as the Chief).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRrnnOxuac4.
And I reckon i t is worth watching.
 
Handley_Page said:
Some of the "Men from the Ministry" are still damned funny, as are many of the "Navy Lark". "Round the Horne" might well depend upon which series you choose.

The original film of the Navy Lark is on You Tube (with Ronald Shiner as the Chief).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRrnnOxuac4.
And I reckon i t is worth watching.
Click to expand...

Please don't post links like that. Every time I check out a Brit comedy on You Tube I end up getting sucked into binge watching clips of "Are You Being Served?" :D

.
 
JKendallDane said:
Please don't post links like that. Every time I check out a Brit comedy on You Tube I end up getting sucked into binge watching clips of "Are You Being Served?" :D

.
Click to expand...


Another of the superior humour, I'm thinking.
How Mollie Sugden kept a straight face is one of the eternal mysteries.

Heard this one ?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

oggbashan
Free Association thread 6
13 14 15
Replies
356
Views
22K
Handley_Page
Handley_Page
S
My short introduction and not so short thoughts and questions as a newbie writer
2
Replies
34
Views
3K
DoctorSmith8
DoctorSmith8
Sammael Bard
  • Locked
Free Association Thread 4
199 200 201
Replies
5K
Views
280K
MichaelinChina
MichaelinChina
Sammael Bard
  • Locked
Free Association Thread 3
205 206 207
Replies
5K
Views
300K
AH_Mod
AH_Mod
A
  • Locked
Free association thread 2
204 205 206
Replies
5K
Views
580K
Laurel
Laurel
Back
Top