I’m back again! Two entries so close together (oooerr), with my comedy babbles, I’m really spoiling you…or torturing, depends on your angle.
I feel I should take a bit more of a serious tone with this ere’ bloooog entry, because it’s something that’s really nutted me off!
I feel I should take a bit more of a serious tone with this ere’ bloooog entry, because it’s something that’s really nutted me off!
Can I just say….?
ALL THESE BLOODY REMAKES!!!!!
Classic comedies, ‘Are You Being Served?’, ‘Keeping Up Appearances’, ‘Till Death Us Do Part’, ‘Porridge’, ‘Steptoe and Son’…and that’s just to name a few, don’t tamper with the classics or anything? Dear god.
I mean, what exactly are they trying to achieve? This is just opinion, but to me, it’s just a lazy attempt at filling up their autumn schedule and passing it off as ‘tribute’ or ‘nostalgia’, well, it ain’t, it’s just plain lazy!!
These comedies are so well loved and are ‘classics’ for a reason, you can’t just throw a bunch of new actors together and expect it to work! A lot of them are ‘of their time’ and the jokes simply just wouldn’t work now, especially without the original talent to go with it. I am expecting major ‘cringe value’ and not much else.
ALL THESE BLOODY REMAKES!!!!!
Classic comedies, ‘Are You Being Served?’, ‘Keeping Up Appearances’, ‘Till Death Us Do Part’, ‘Porridge’, ‘Steptoe and Son’…and that’s just to name a few, don’t tamper with the classics or anything? Dear god.
I mean, what exactly are they trying to achieve? This is just opinion, but to me, it’s just a lazy attempt at filling up their autumn schedule and passing it off as ‘tribute’ or ‘nostalgia’, well, it ain’t, it’s just plain lazy!!
These comedies are so well loved and are ‘classics’ for a reason, you can’t just throw a bunch of new actors together and expect it to work! A lot of them are ‘of their time’ and the jokes simply just wouldn’t work now, especially without the original talent to go with it. I am expecting major ‘cringe value’ and not much else.
And to prove my point entirely…The only reason ‘Allo’ Allo’’ has escaped this tragedy is because they are scared that the Nazi officers are going to ‘offend’ people…jesus Christ on a bike with bells on, honestly! That just takes the biscuits with raisins on top!!! Classics like that wouldn’t get past the first stage of production now, because everyone is so f**king offended all the time! Get a grip! It’s 2016 and no one can say or do a fecking thing anymore!!! It’s infuriating…no one can just get on with anything anymore without being offended or being worried about offending others!
Well, now I’m offended…by the sheer patheticness (yes, that is a word) of it all.
And yes, I am aware that some have got a good cast lined up or they’ve got ‘lost’ original scripts…but please, if that’s the case, just PUBLISH THE SCRIPTS and then the rest can be left up to the imagination, whilst still appreciating the jokes and the clever writing…don’t bloody drive a tank all over it and ruin it forever….some things are better off ‘lost’ in my opinion (like, your marbles for example.)
Take an iconic character like Victor Meldrew, for instance( the hugest bestest of wishes to Richard Wilson by the way, after suffering a heart attack, get well soon fella, we don’t want to lose any more to the great big comedy god in the sky.) If David Renwick wrote an episode of One Foot In The Grave and got someone else to play Victor…would it be the same? Even though it’s the same writer? Of course it wouldn’t…wrong casting and it bombs anyway, just like a good performer won’t make bad writing any better, they have to complement each other and I’m afraid, that can happen only once in a blue moon…and it certainly won’t happen by people trying to be something they’re not.
All this PC stuff now, is not going to make it any better…it just won’t….see the Allo’ Allo’ example for a start. People have always been offended by Germans, what makes now any different?
And I’m sure if the Carry On films were done now, Sid James (or the so called equivalent) would be arrested for sexual assault 10 minutes into the film. End of Film.
The only one I’m kind of willing to give a shot is the Porridge remake, because Kevin Bishop is going to be playing Fletcher’s grandson, so it’s more of a sequel that way, rather than him actually playing Fletcher…which is okay for me, it’s bearable, it’s more of a tribute that way in my eyes. That’s how I felt with ‘Still Open All Hours’ , it felt like it was just catching up with Granville and it still (surprisingly) had a lot of the original cast around. So that was a nice tribute as well, it wasn’t other people trying to be them, it was just like catching up with old friends…and that’s okay.
Well, now I’m offended…by the sheer patheticness (yes, that is a word) of it all.
And yes, I am aware that some have got a good cast lined up or they’ve got ‘lost’ original scripts…but please, if that’s the case, just PUBLISH THE SCRIPTS and then the rest can be left up to the imagination, whilst still appreciating the jokes and the clever writing…don’t bloody drive a tank all over it and ruin it forever….some things are better off ‘lost’ in my opinion (like, your marbles for example.)
Take an iconic character like Victor Meldrew, for instance( the hugest bestest of wishes to Richard Wilson by the way, after suffering a heart attack, get well soon fella, we don’t want to lose any more to the great big comedy god in the sky.) If David Renwick wrote an episode of One Foot In The Grave and got someone else to play Victor…would it be the same? Even though it’s the same writer? Of course it wouldn’t…wrong casting and it bombs anyway, just like a good performer won’t make bad writing any better, they have to complement each other and I’m afraid, that can happen only once in a blue moon…and it certainly won’t happen by people trying to be something they’re not.
All this PC stuff now, is not going to make it any better…it just won’t….see the Allo’ Allo’ example for a start. People have always been offended by Germans, what makes now any different?
And I’m sure if the Carry On films were done now, Sid James (or the so called equivalent) would be arrested for sexual assault 10 minutes into the film. End of Film.
The only one I’m kind of willing to give a shot is the Porridge remake, because Kevin Bishop is going to be playing Fletcher’s grandson, so it’s more of a sequel that way, rather than him actually playing Fletcher…which is okay for me, it’s bearable, it’s more of a tribute that way in my eyes. That’s how I felt with ‘Still Open All Hours’ , it felt like it was just catching up with Granville and it still (surprisingly) had a lot of the original cast around. So that was a nice tribute as well, it wasn’t other people trying to be them, it was just like catching up with old friends…and that’s okay.
But I’m afraid all what’s coming up, isn’t okay, not for a huge, raving comedy geek like me, in fact, its three buses, a taxi ride and a 10 mile walk from ‘okay.’
However, one of my many brain squeezingly annoying traits is that, I always have to give something the benefit of the doubt, especially where comedy is concerned, even though I know that deep in my black hole of a gut, that it’s all going to be groin grabbingly excruciating for me to witness (I’m actually worried I may need a new TV in case it ‘accidently’ fires itself through my bedroom window), that I’m going to watch it all anyway, just to see, just to see if there’s any slight hope of any of it being good. I want to be proven wrong, that’s thing, and I just know I won’t, but we’ll see.
However, one of my many brain squeezingly annoying traits is that, I always have to give something the benefit of the doubt, especially where comedy is concerned, even though I know that deep in my black hole of a gut, that it’s all going to be groin grabbingly excruciating for me to witness (I’m actually worried I may need a new TV in case it ‘accidently’ fires itself through my bedroom window), that I’m going to watch it all anyway, just to see, just to see if there’s any slight hope of any of it being good. I want to be proven wrong, that’s thing, and I just know I won’t, but we’ll see.
I still want to give the new Dad’s Army film a go, even though I have it on good authority from someone who is just as much of a sad comedy noob as me, that it’s a huge steaming pile of shite…I still have to torture myself and eventually witness it for myself one day soon. But that’s a whole other annoyance for another day….
It’s actually surprising how manically angry all this has made me, you’d think I’d have more to worry about (and oooooh, believe me, I do…life is just…. wrong at the moment…*waves arms* all of this, it’s all gone bad now…all of *this*) but it really does…comedy means a lot of me (well, crush a grape, I bet you’d have never have guessed!) and a lot of these comedies are what caused me to be the way I am…(so you could say they have a lot to answer for anyway) and they’re very much loved and dear to me, like old friends….and I don’t want my friends to be strung up and kicked in the bollocks, because that’s how it feels…
There must be loads of new young comedy writers out there itching to get their ideas seen and developed *cough*me*cough*. No really, I have had an idea for a comedy series for a good number of years now and I’ve been told it’s a very good and a very feasible idea…but I also know myself and the chances of me actually getting it refined and written and ‘ready’ is anyone’s fecking guess…but there must be more people out there, like me (who aren’t lazy bastards) who has a good idea and are willing to do the work to get it out to the public…but no, obviously not.
And so, we have to put up with his oncoming comedy car crash instead…well, whoopee shit! I’m preparing myself, that’s all I’m saying…and if I’m like this now, imagine what I’m going to be like afterwards, after it’s all been witnessed? It’s just going to be a page of expletives and not much else….(what’s new?)
R.I.P Good old fashioned comedy…where germans didn’t offend people…. quite as much….
There must be loads of new young comedy writers out there itching to get their ideas seen and developed *cough*me*cough*. No really, I have had an idea for a comedy series for a good number of years now and I’ve been told it’s a very good and a very feasible idea…but I also know myself and the chances of me actually getting it refined and written and ‘ready’ is anyone’s fecking guess…but there must be more people out there, like me (who aren’t lazy bastards) who has a good idea and are willing to do the work to get it out to the public…but no, obviously not.
And so, we have to put up with his oncoming comedy car crash instead…well, whoopee shit! I’m preparing myself, that’s all I’m saying…and if I’m like this now, imagine what I’m going to be like afterwards, after it’s all been witnessed? It’s just going to be a page of expletives and not much else….(what’s new?)
R.I.P Good old fashioned comedy…where germans didn’t offend people…. quite as much….
Good post.
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