Harry and Paul on BBC2 9:30pm Tue

I think that's what some people don't like about this series, that Harry is now more subtle instead of just shouting 'it's so unfair I hate you!' and 'Oi, Armstrong, nooo!!' from the old days. Yeah, there was some more clever stuff in the old shows (plenty of sketches were written by other writers) but a LOT of it was just shouting in a stupid voice. Not that that was bad, it was really funny at the time, especially stuff like the Self-Righteous Brothers, but it definitely belongs in the past.
 
No. He is right. You have really really missed what this sketch is about.

As Phoenix Lazarus says, it is mocking the old men not "Quars". Old men in a club who the modern world has left behind.
 
I have given up on this series. I'm so sad. I actually bought the dvd's of the last two series but this is just dreadful in comparison. I think Paul Whitehouse is extremely funny and clever, and the last two series completely changed my view on Harry Enfield, who I previously found to be a bit broad and tacky in his humour. This series is just either lazy rehashes, or something that just isn't amusing, like the Mr Bean sketch.
 
I still love The Beatles stuff. They have got the humour and music from the Hard Day's Night era bang on.

'I was drunk' was good. I was worried it was a re-hash of Armstrong & Miller's Jeeves & Wooster stuff, but the payoff was very good.
 
I don't get all the moaning .. I've enjoyed all three episodes so far. Harry and Paul seem to be doing exactly the same kind of thing, to a similar quality, as they've been doing for a decade or more.
 
The show is a bit of a hit and miss. It does enough for me to still keep watching every week. Parking Patawayo is pretty funny, and it was nice to see the return of the coffee shop girls. The football sketches always make me laugh being a football fan.

One bit that unexpectedly made me laugh was during the Church scene when Paul Whitehouse's character told the woman that the dog has human rights.:D
 
Oh yes, Enfield is streets ahead of contemporaneous performers such as Walliams and Hill.


But if he came into my garden, larking around and scaring the cats with his subtle yet biting satire and at the same time launched into a surreal character-driven sketch with his comedy buddy Paul Whitehouse I
 
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