Comic Relief - Oops!

A friend of mine lived in the same road as Tommy Cooper when we were at school and we always found him rather scary.
I loved both the Brian Rix farces and Fawlty Towers, don't know if this makes me odd or normal?

Does anyone remember Humphrey Lestoq? I used to love him when I was little.

As a child, I absolutely loved Norman Wisdom - and Mr Pastry. My granddad ("Papa") was the manager of a shoe shop and "Mr Pastry" came in one day. Papa said he was the most rude and objectionable customer he'd ever had - so that put me off.

As ginny says we're all different. Somebody I worked with in Blackburn really loved the old Brian Rix farces (which I though were awful) and loathed Fawlty Towers (which I still think is brilliant).

I watched almost none of Comic Relief but, from what I've heard described, I think much of the material was unsuitable for both young and older people. So much of comedy these days seems very childish - saying "rude" or swear words or making graphic sexual comments, with nothing really funny attached. Billy Connolly can swear a lot and be pretty risque but I find his observational sort of comedy very funny.

Adored Morecombe and Wise. Especially Morecombe. Fancied the socks off of him.

Thanks whenim64 Oh bless him. I must say you probably had to be 8 to enjoy Norman Wisdom, he drove my mother mad.

Have to say that we switched off comic relief on Friday evening. But then again I never saw anything funny in Norman wisdom and even less so in Tommy Cooper. I suppose we all see humour in different ways.

Sadly, Norman Wisdom died in his nineties some time ago Lully

I don't mind risqué jokes in their place, late at night, but sadly these weren't even funny. I did enjoy the Simon Cowell wedding, but get so fed up with people like Dawn French and David Tennant doing the (supposedly) shocking or same sex snogs, which are getting boring and predictable. When they've been done a few times, something new would be appreciated. Same with the anti-charity skits - no more now, that's enough!

Jack Whitehall is clever and witty, but his cruel, obscene jokes leave me cold. He can do better than that. I wonder who decided that the viewers would think it ok to hear silly 'shagging' talk from a clergyman? Or anyone for that matter! It was like listening to silly kids doing 'poo' jokes. Most of the comedy came across as ill-judged and lacking in effort, especially Peter Kay's self indulgent slot.

Good job the rest of it was well done! Let's have more funniness next year.

Glad we decided not to watch it. We shuffled our DGch to bed at the usual time with out mentioning the TV.

All the above were funny Soop and amongst my favourites. I used to love Norman Wisdom, I believe he is still alive albeit ancient. I suppose he was the Justin of his time {I also remember Mr Pastry}.

Comic relief will have to address suitability as so many children were involved raising money in the day and keen to watch in the evening.

Sadly, it appears that gifted comedians such as - Morecombe and Wise, Ronnie Barker, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom, to name a few, are irreplaceable.