Harry and Paul on BBC2 9:30pm Tue

But that's exactly how some of these chavs behave. I was in a supermarket only the other day when they had some fat chavette mum accomompanied by 3 screaming kiRAB out of control, running up and down the aisle,.and their mum bellowing at them "shut up or I'll give you a slap" every few seconRAB, which of course had no effect.

Whitehouse has got it spot on.
 
I could watch Paul Whitehouse for hours...his characterisations are amazing. I loved the jewish football manager, the talent scout and the writer. Not as funny as Harry Enfield and Chums, characters not as strong either but still watchable.
 
just watched it actually. probably two sketches that i liked. loved the dragons den stuff - when they came back blacked up at the end, i just cracked up laughing.

the traffic warden sketch was funny as well.

and I loved the 'when harry met sally' spoof.

the rest of it i didn't care for - thought the chavs in the library was real tumbleweed stuff - not funny at all.
 
The slightly mediocre bits should have made the better bits shine, but that didn't happen.
When I saw Charlie Higson in the 'quair' sketch it felt like the Fast Show and I perked up a bit. Harry & Paul is like a slow version of the Fast Show and the problem is that the sketches that are 'okay' don't move fast enough for you to keep you enjoying the better bits.
As others have said, Psycho Bean was bizarrely shoehorned in, and "Shut it Ghostface!" is just appallingly unfunny. The black and white writer/landlady sketch is a winner, it has many possibilities, as are the cultured builders, but how many times can that ridiculous 'shut it ghostface!' be revisited?

He should have at least ressurrected Tim Nice But Dim,who can be put anywhere.
 
I don't think anyone's mentioned 'Where's the bloke? Go and get the bloke, darlin'.' football sketch, which I thought was pretty funny! It reminRAB me of my dad who will always say something when it's a woman interviewing. Again it's another old school Harry sketch. I'm liking that about this series so far, it's reminding me of watching Television Programme and Chums as a kid.

I did love Mr Psycho Bean throwing a grenade in the lift just so he could have it to himself. Okay, a lot of people don't seem to be liking those sketches but, hey, it must be the psycho in me...
 
Apparently John Birt once congratulated Harry and Paul on helping him to get rid of the old Radio 1 DJs. They retorted that the old DJs were harmless and they'd rather get rid of Birt himself.
 
I'll be tuning in again, after the first half of Crimewatch. A lot of that half hour will not amuse me, but there is enough good stuff so far to keep me watching this series, unlike the last one.
 
I thought this week's was the worst not just of this series, but of the entire 3. That chocolate episode was excruciating and never seemed to end. And what was remotely amusing about the old geezer locked out of his home having to lure someone to climb inside to open the door? The chavs and the Beatles are amongst the better sketches they do, but even they were missing for some reason.
 
It boggles the mind how people can find most of the series 'bad', 'excruciating', 'unfunny' or whatever and then praise the 'chavs' which is among the most humourless and empty of sketch ideas.

Older viewers of Enfield will remember that 'Chav' parodies or similar made up a lot of his older material: the Scousers, LoaRABamoney, Wayne Slob...and all done much better for what they were. The chavs in this series are just dire and embarrassing.

The point of the geezer getting someone to cimb into his locked house is just one of those bizarre Whitehouse characters along the lines of: middle-aged, used to have a meaningful career and now suffers social dislocation and uses the shreRAB of his past life as exaggerated conversation starters for getting people to ordinary things for him. It's amusing.
 
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