Harry and Paul on BBC2 9:30pm Tue

It's not good, not a patch on their previous series. The white van song was too long and lost its shock effect after the first verse. Wasn't the white van driver at the back smoking, the bloke who is Heather in TV Burp?
 
The only thing I have laughed at was the pyscho Bean sketch when he threw a bomb in the lift.....PMSL..

apart from that, the show is very tired already, and boring, all the sketches have been done before. They repeat themselves so much too, the Queer sketch is not even remotely funny yet they spend a good portion of the episode going on and on about it!!

maybe just maybe, the BBc could pay some up and coming (funny) actors to do a new sketch.
 
I'm really liking this series, you can't compare it with the stuff they did in the 90s as it's now a different era completely and this should be judged in its own right.

I love the Beatles sketches, very original and funny, Parking Patawayo, queer, dragons' den, benefit chavs, all hits for me. I'm not overly keen on Pyscho Bean but you can't win em all.

Also I've seen a lot of praise for Paul Whitehouse for his character acting and saying Harry should just give up, but I think Harry is actually getting better the older he gets, plus his impersonations were great, (Dragons' Den, Jonathan Ross, Harry Hill)
 
I agree the writing just isn't as good & as I said they are far too repetative it's gone little britain flogging a dead horse with the same gag.
 
The Silver Haired Beatles was excellent, along with the library chavs ("shut it! shut up! shut it! shut iiitttt!" pmsl) but the rest was mostly rank. Shame really as Harry was an absolute genius back in the day.
 
Sadly H&P have become a bit of a car crash. I don't really want to continue with watching it, but I have it in my mind I may get a piece of their former genius eventually. Can't see it happening.
 
It's a crying shame some of these sketches are not expanded into a series.

That B&W thing with the landlady is a perfect set-up for a comedy horror series, "Tales of Moderate Horror"

Of course, it could never scale the heights of "My Family" or "Two Pints.."...
 
I am starting to get the bit with Paul Whitehouse as the chav telling his dog to shut up, over and over. At first I found that irritating, but now I see the humour in the fact that the character wastes all that time and energy to no avail, and never learns that the dog just takes the phrase as a vocal habit rather than as a command.
 
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