Ok, I'll give this a shot-

*I like Jean Claude Van Damme films up to and including Timecop. I think Timecop is awesome fun. I also like Sudden Death but there is that awful Street Fighter movie between those.
*I think Quantum Leap is the best Sci-Fi show of all time.
*I have never watched Breaking Bad, The Shield or The Wire and I have absolutely no intentions to. I think they'd bore me. Give me fun shit like Leverage and Castle any day of the week.
*My favourite Bond films are Live and Let Die and Tomorrow Never Dies.....
* I unashamedly love the following films- Willow, Short Circuit, Die Hard 2, Labyrinth, The Faculty, Commando, Red Heat, The Running Man, Big Trouble In Little China, Demolition Man, Tango & Cash and Face/Off (and more).
* I  don't care about the Lord of the Rings films and I don't think Star Wars is all that great either. I do appreciate the legacy of the films, though.
* Kids shows from the 80s and 90s are 100% better than anything made now. Batman The Animated Series from the 90s is the best animated kids show of all time.
* I hate live music, I don't get the appeal. I want to hear a song I like the way that made me like it in the first place. Listening to it amongst loads of people singing along and the band/singer straying away from it (making it longer or changing lyrics or whatever) is just not for me.
* I like Phil Collins. I think he was an excellent drummer.
* I don't think The Muppets (2011) was all that amazing. It was ok but nowhere near as good as the early Muppet films. The Muppet Movie is one of the best films of the 70s......
* I don't think Toy Story is all that great. It's a technical marvel and has its place in movie history but I prefer the second film.

So.....yeah.......

That photo makes more sense now!

American politics is mental......

Bugger all else to do, mate

I plan to do ten in total an it looks as though I am focusing mostly on sketch comedy for now. It is easier for clips.

The Two Ronnies
In the UK and especially during the 80s and 90s, Saturday evening television ruled all. Both the BBC and ITV had their share of hit shows ranging from sketch shows, dramas and game shows. A lot of it was must-see-TV and one duo earned that title for 16 years, Ronnies Corbett (the tiny Scottish one) and Barker (the chubbier English one). Already known from starring in The Frost Report in the 60s, they got their own show on the BBC from 1971-1987. Despite being good friends, the show was the only work they did together (as well as some car ads) the rest of the time they worked alone. Barker made hit sitcoms Porridge and Open All Hours during the run of their sketch show while Corbett played mummy’s boy Timothy in long running 80s show, Sorry. The Two Ronnies show had a great pedigree, early shows boasted sketches written by John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Spike Milligan as well as Barker himself under the guise of Gerald Wiley. It is with this pseudonym that Barker wrote one of the duos most popular sketches-

One of the things that set The Two Ronnies apart from other sketch shows was the inclusion of a serial sketch. The series long stories ranged from comedy murder mysteries to a popular parody of Jack The Ripper, written by Barker and Spike Milligan called The Phantom Raspberry Blower. Another regular occurrence would be the duo having their own segments of the show, Corbett would do a stand up routine……sitting on a chair….and Barker would do a segment which often involved clever wordplay such as this mispronunciation sketch-

By the end of the 70s, the pair were so popular they even made a series in Australia called, somewhat lazily, The Two Ronnies In Australia. Also, around this time,  due to the departure of Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies became the BBC's main double act comedy show and even took over the role of ratings winners with their Christmas specials. Once it hit its stride, the basic set up of a regular show ran like this- the Ronnies introduce themselves/news stories, Barker's spoonerisms, a dinner party sketch, musical guest, serialised sketch (the longest part of the show, usually), couple of quick sketches, Corbett joke, musical parody number, more joke news, 'And it's goodnight from him....' It remained that way for the majority of the shows run but somehow, it worked, giving the show a comfortable feeling as the viewer knew what they were going to get. The interplay between the Ronnies and funny routines seemed to keep it watchable longer than it probably should have been.

By the mid-eighties, The Two Ronnies, while still bringing in the viewers were sadly becoming a bit of a joke. They started to get mocked by new up and coming comedy acts such as the crew from Not The Nine O’Clock News in a rather mean sketch called The Two Ninnies. By 1987, Ronnie Barker had had enough and by the end of that year’s Christmas special he retired. He made a very limited amount of appearances until he reunited with his diminutive friend for a run of clip shows celebrating their time together. In 2002 he was persuaded to play Churchill’s butler in the TV movie The Gathering Storm. Barker’s health was deteriorating by now and the Christmas special of the Two Ronnies Sketchbook clip show they recorded in 2005 was the last time they’d appear on camera together as Barker passed away that October.  Corbett still worked away, making guest appearances in Little Britain and appearing in The One Ronnie, a special in which he performed sketches with other comedians such as Catherine Tate and Harry Enfield.

I was too young to watch Morecambe and Wise when they originally aired, catching them only in repeats growing up but The Two Ronnies were my childhood double act. I grew up watching their show as well as the sitcoms the actors appeared in and both men still hold a special place in my heart.

Yeah, he shags Solitaire four times, doesn't he? Lucky bastard.

I only know of them through repeats, I'm not that old

Next entry up later today

No pressure then,lol.

Next double act will be up soon

Well, yeah, you'd expect 'The Director' to have been written as a man, really, wouldn't you? Silly me. My point still stands though, Joss is clearly a fan of Weaver and didn't want anyone else to play the role.

Well, this post just made my day

*liked back*

Fine work, Mr Teague but Bieber and Perry given first and second billing? I know if by some chance that pigs grow wings and that actually happens, that is exactly how it'd be done but it's still disheartening.

(really bloody impressed by that poster by the way- damn!)