Harry and Paul on BBC2 9:30pm Tue

It was a good, if not great, opening to the new series. I really laughed hard at the "queer" sketch - on paper it wouldn't seem very funny, but it's so simple and well performed it turns out to be hilarious. The Beatles sketch was charming, but a little light on laughs - always great to see Eldon though! I worked with him earlier this year!
 
More miss than hit for me.

They seem to let the sketches go on far too long. By the end you're thinking "ok I get the joke now, move on" but they don't.

However, I have to say that Parking Patewayo was genius!
 
Considering i loved the first season of H & P i think this is one major dissapointment.

Sorry but i'm missing the laughter track.........:cry:
 
see, for me, where i think the 'benefits' or whatever the characters are called, doesn't work is because you can't really parody chav culture without turning it on it's head.

for me personally, and yes I know comedy is subjective .. yada yada yada, what would have worked is if they had re-invented the two builder characters into the benefits.

that is, have them out and about being chavs and then when they get back home, taking off their "costumes" and becoming upper class twits.

i know with a lot of comedy you take one element of something and blow it out of all proportion to make it funny, but you can't really blow a chav out of all proportion because they're kind of already there anyway!
 
It's true that some sketches are repetitive (Patewayo and the barking dogs esp) but some sketches are brilliant (I saw you coming, 2 posh old gits etc).

It's a shame they've dropped some good ones, like the 2 educated and articulate builders who revert to being yobs whenever a piece of skirt walks past.

The Cafe Polski one last week was all the better for having skipped an episode or two.
 
I watched for the first time, I have never been a fan of Harry Enfield anyway, I have to say I didn't find it funny in the slightest, the sketchs are old hat and as for the French one that is somekind of car advert, am I missing something ?
 
I'm sure they've already done a version of the "pet northerner" sketch in another series. either way, i didn't find it funny then and didn't tonight.

Some of the stuff i did like though - the french car adverts were good and I did like the landlady sketch as well.

Parking Pataweyo was a bit of a letdown this week though.

The Dragon's Den stuff was the highlight though - very funny indeed.
 
Everyone seems to like the Parking Pateweyo sketch, notwithstanding the slating the show is widely getting.

Anyone else think the 'pet northerner' sketch is a bit tedious?
 
I used to love Harry Enfield & Chums. Such a shame that he just can't get up to that quality now.

There just aren't any memorable or likeable characters in the new and recent series. When you think back to Kevin & Perry, Tim NBD, Only Me, old git, Wayne & Waynetta, the old ladies etc, you realise just how much is missing these days.

Perhaps the omission of Kathy Burke is leading to a creative block.
 
They're sending up 1940s thrillers, and, irrespective of the specific punchline, I think they get the atmosphere beautifully, with that wonderful big band score.
 
That reminRAB me that probably the best part in last weeks episode was CS as Abbey Wogan.

And the week before that probably the best performance was by Sophie Winkleman in the Harry met Sally sketch.


Doesn't bode well for the main stars as imo the other actors are upstaging them.
(just remembered Simon Day as Blakey and also Laura Solon)
 
I watched it last night and thought it was absolutely dire. It was terrible. Not a single funny moment.

Not sure what happened to them. They used to be good at accents but now they are awful and seem to rely on ear and nose prosthetics for everything.


The British/Italian PM sketch seemed like a ripoff from a joke/discussion from Mock The Week when they were talking about Berlesconi being a pimp.
 
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