Finnish Ironing 10:34 Wed Feb 4
Norman Wisdom would have been 100 today
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Happy birthday!
You left a lot of good memories.
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Joke Whole
3:10 Wed Feb 4
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Anyone can be a bumbling fool, but it takes talent to know what makes a fool bumble and how to use that talent at the appropriate moment.
He made me laugh. A lot.
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Takashi Miike
2:30 Wed Feb 4
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very funny man and still love watching his films
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Lily Hammer
1:18 Wed Feb 4
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Hoss 12:56 Wed Feb 4
BIG :-)
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Hoss
12:56 Wed Feb 4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3PcN9yveXQ&list=RD_3PcN9yveXQ#t=87
From 1.15
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stoneman
12:28 Wed Feb 4
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I buy my cricket bats from his sons sport shop.
True fact!
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Admiral Lard
12:25 Wed Feb 4
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He used to deliver sausages to my Grandmother at her home at Deal, Kent.
He became a "favourite son" of what would have been a remote seaside town. Granny was very fond of him.
He was an extraordinary character always standing up for the little guy against the bully.
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Lily Hammer
12:20 Wed Feb 4
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66
Agree completely.
I loved the 70s.
It wasn't like back in the epoch when you could club them over the head and drag them by the hair back to your cave.
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Sxboy_66
12:17 Wed Feb 4
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Lily Hammer 11:46 Wed Feb 4
Again, in today's context, that's true. But at the time it was acceptable. It was the 70's, when you could slap a girl on the arse without being put on a register.
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Mr Polite
12:14 Wed Feb 4
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As much as I liked the bloke he has to take a large amount of blame for Lee Evans and so for that reason he can never be a true great
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Lily Hammer
12:09 Wed Feb 4
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The rapey element I was thinking of, and I can't name which film or films, but I have a general impression of some dirty old sod with a young bit of talent, hands all over over them; girl giving it "Oooer, stop it, get orff!" and the bloke continuing to grope and going "Come on darling, gizza cuddle.".....kind of thing.
Naughty (.....but nice).
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Far Cough
11:58 Wed Feb 4
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Sactly
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Lily Hammer
11:57 Wed Feb 4
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One lump or two, Mr Cough?
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Coffee
11:56 Wed Feb 4
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Like Carry On Westhamonline
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Far Cough
11:56 Wed Feb 4
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Carry On films was largely all down to double entendre
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Lily Hammer
11:46 Wed Feb 4
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Actually, the Carry On films could be a bit rapey at times, but the point still stands for the most part.
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Lily Hammer
11:44 Wed Feb 4
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Sxboy_66 11:33 Wed Feb 4
Spot on.
I watched the original Ladykillers with my nippers just the other day. They loved it. For kids, who haven't yet had the chance to disappear up their own backsides, the comdies you mentioned are timeless.
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Sxboy_66
11:33 Wed Feb 4
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An incredibly funny and talented man was Norman.
As with Laurel & Hardy, Carry On films, Ealing Comedies, etc. if you watch then today without allowing for the context of the time they were made they will seem corny and unoriginal. At the time these films were groundbreaking and set the standard.
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HairyHammer
11:29 Wed Feb 4
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He was born to entertain.
May he rest in peace.
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worm
11:25 Wed Feb 4
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Tommy Dickfingers 10:58 Wed Feb 4
Perhaps it was all new then, bit before my time really.
But lets be honest, there was a fucking war on. People were desperate for something to laugh at.
*does comedy fall off swinging gate*
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Lato
11:21 Wed Feb 4
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Funniest man ever, got a box set of his films, he still has me in stitches every time I watch them
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Far Cough
11:10 Wed Feb 4
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Even when getting his knighthood, he made the Queen smile by doing an "accidental" trip
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