OFF: Humourless:Was Donnington Question

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Derek & Clive and pretty much anything original by Peter Cook, Spike
Milligans Q, Seinfeld, Larry Sanders (and The Garry Shandling Show), Phil
Kay, Bill Hicks, Jerry Sadowitz, Tony Blair, Harry Hill, Mark Thomas, Robin
Williams when he was still a cokehead etc.

Z

At 18:01 24/10/1998 +0100, you wrote:
>Please.......speak your mind.....don't hold back on account of us!!
>
>So what *does* make you laugh?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: zeitgeist-scot [SMTP:xzx28 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM]
>> Sent: 24 October 1998 17:42
>> To:   Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
>> Subject:      Re: OFF: Humourless:Was Donnington Question
>>
>> At 02:02 25/10/1998 +1000, you wrote:
>> >> And nothing can convince me that the Comedy Strip were anything but
>> >> unfunny, middle class, university graduates who should never been
>> allowed
>> >> in front of a camera.  It may have been funny in front of 100 other
>> >> undergraduates, but please!
>> >
>> >Are you saying you didn't like:-
>> >Comic Strip Presents
>> >The Young Ones
>>
>> Puerile and juvenile
>>
>>
>> >Bottom
>>
>> Sporadically amusing toilet humour
>>
>>
>> >Absolutely Fabulous?????
>>
>> Complete and utter tripe.  In jokes for overpaid, undertalented luvvies.
>> >
>> >Were they any different from the Oxbridge Footlights crowd when they
>> >started out?, i.e. Monty Python, Goodies, etc.
>>
>> Who were also undertalented and overvalued.  Although, to be fair some of
>> the individual Pythons have had some hilarious moments, and the films in
>> general were excellent, but the original TV series were dire.  The Goodies
>> were unmitigated shite and no number of midlife crisis ridden forty
>> somethings claiming otherwise will convince me otherwise.
>> >
>> >Patrick
>> >
>>
>> Z
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