O/T - Best Comedy Sketch

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A bit random I know but You Tube just directed me to Four Candles and I always like watching it every now and again.

I don't think there has ever been a better comedy sketch and I don't think there ever will be one.

What is the finest ever comedy sketch ?

Please spare me the Dead Parrot.
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Two Ronnies Mastermind is better than Four Candles in my opinion, and possibly one of the best performed sketches ever done.

All time favourite sketch though would be Morcambe and Wise in the bedroom where Eric gets up to investigate blue flashing lights outside the window and says “He won’t sell many ice creams going at that speed!”
 
I loved the Absolutely series yonks ago, especially Denzel and Gwynedd sketches...but you can't beat the Fast Show sketches like the Jazz Club.

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bigdavebamber said:
So many it's difficult to produce a shortlist but one I never tire of watching is Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn - "I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order"
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Eric Morecambe was another comedy genius.

I'd put Barker ahead of him myself, his delivery was just amazing but the thing with Andre Previn was just brilliant and I'm going to You Tube it now.
 
I loved the late Rik Mayall's appearance as Lord Flashheart in Blackadder Goes Forth, a performance that (sadly) wouldn't get past the PC censors today
 
We don't know we are born with the quality of our comedy TV programmes ,impossible for me to pick one quote or sketch (liked the one on Blackadder where he was in the chair being tortured ,with the feather under the armpits ,then the ball screw )** hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
 
4 Candles was ace, does anyone remember the 2 Ronnies Swedish made Simple sketch? F.U.N.E.X - hilarious.
Fawlty Towers the Germans and American visitors were great.
 
Kingscoatkiwi said:
We get to watch both are you being served and it ain’t half hot mum down here, John inman was hilarious and as camp as a row of pink tents. And Sargent shut up ( oh dear, how sad never mind) you bunch of puffs, were awesome. But the pc brigade cannot see the wood for the trees.
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No-one can seriously take offence at these characters - they're pure panto.
 
Saw 4 candles on a management training programme, best bit of the course.

RB was a wonderful comedian, but someone I knew went into his shop in Chipping Norton and said he was a right miserable git.

Del Boy and the bar, Batman and Robin, never get old.
 
Some great suggestions but as they haven't come up how about Not The Nine O'clock News. The Union Negotiation and Gerald The Gorilla " back when I caught him in 68 he was completely wild". "Wild!! I was livid"😂
Some of Rowan Atkinson's sketches were brilliant, The Indian Waiter and Welcome to Hell, "athiests, I bet you feel a bit silly now?"
 
The French!

A couple more 2 R favourites. The one where they're both on adjacent payphones, RC is calling his wife with the shopping list, RB is on to his mate about a girl. Rolls for 50p, she doesn't!

And an opticians where neither of them could see. Plus anything where RB had to say a long list of items, like ice cream flavours.
 
Back to Faulty Towers. I was in Halls of residence at Leeds when the second series aired. The whole common room burst out laughing in the one with the Australian guest doing stretching exercises whilst Bazil was trying to fix the bathroom light.
 
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The Harry Enfield sketch of 'Scousers trip to London,' is absolutely hilarious.

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The Laurel and Hardy short film,
'Men O' War' is another classic.
 
Judging by age group response, trust me -

Best Fry & Laurie - Hardware Store
Best Mitchell & Webb - Brain Surgery
Best 2 Ronnies - Swear Box ( Better than 4 Candles - never played on re-runs)
 
I always remember soccer am playing a clip of an old show. The sketch was set outside a marriage counsellors office. Waiting outside in reception a bloke and a woman are passionately kissing, all over each other. The therapist comes out, says ‘Mr and Mrs Smith?’ and the camera cuts to the man and woman. He stops kissing her, then looks to a different woman to his other side and slaps her knee and says ‘right, c’mon love!’

I thought it was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. So simple and stupid and probably 10 seconds long but just perfect. I haven’t been able to find it online, I think it might have been Little and Large?
 
bigdavebamber said:
So many it's difficult to produce a shortlist but one I never tire of watching is Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn - "I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order"
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The remarkable thing about that sketch is that Andre Previn was so busy at the time that he didn't have time to get to any rehearsals.
Eric & Ernie were perfectionists and were worried that AP would fluff his lines, but on the night he was word perfect and his comic timing wowed Eric & Ernie.
"I'll go and get my baton....it's in Chicago" 😆
 
Another one for Four Candles, and Mastermind ......brilliant .
and from our friends north of the border....
Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Lift. E L E V E N !!!
 
O4tonygreen said:
I know its a film and not a sketch, but the football scene in Kes is absolutely brilliant.
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It's better than brilliant.

After diving to win the penalty in the first place - "Who do you think you are lad, Bremner ?" - and then having his first penalty saved perfectly legally by the young lad in goal, Brian Glover scores with his retaken penalty and then pronounces to the young lads, "That boys is how you take a penalty kick".

They just don't make 'em like they used to.

"We'll be Spurs Sir to avoid a colour clash".
 
eastsider said:
Another one for Four Candles, and Mastermind ......brilliant .
and from our friends north of the border....
Burnistoun - Voice Recognition Lift. E L E V E N !!!
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And whose shoe is that from Burniston. Also Widdenpallets is addictive ly bizarre again from Burnistoun
 
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