Monty Python on Hitler

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Good sketch and proof that some Americans can understand and have and enjoy the British sense of humour.

Here is one of my favourite sketches from Fawlty Towers

http://youtu.be/yfl6Lu3xQW0

Most episodes are on you tube, dated but hilarious

Hi Queens men. I love British humor especially the Goon Show. My mothers family all emigrated from Britain after the war. Some came from London area some from Northumberland. Lost a great grandfather to a V2.
 
Hi Queens men. I love British humor especially the Goon Show. My mothers family all emigrated from Britain after the war. Some came from London area some from Northumberland. Lost a great grandfather to a V2.

The Goons were my favourite as a lad. Spike Milligan met Harry Secombe in North Africa during WW2. Milligan was a gunner in the Royal Artillery. Apparently Milligans gun crew sited a gun on top of a hill, when the gun fired it jumped out of the gun pit and rolled down hill followed by Milligan. Milligan opened the canvas tilt of a Bedford 3 tonner where Secombe was sitting and said those famous words, ""Anyone seen a gun??"" Hillarious. :mrgreen:
 
Hi Queens men. I love British humor especially the Goon Show. My mothers family all emigrated from Britain after the war. Some came from London area some from Northumberland. Lost a great grandfather to a V2.


Do you ever get to download old british sitcoms? I can recommend quite a few, a couple of them quite controversial in today's climate.
 
Do you ever get to download old british sitcoms? I can recommend quite a few, a couple of them quite controversial in today's climate.

Sure please do, I can only image the controversy. They wouldn't involve women would it?
 
The Goons were my favourite as a lad. Spike Milligan met Harry Secombe in North Africa during WW2. Milligan was a gunner in the Royal Artillery. Apparently Milligans gun crew sited a gun on top of a hill, when the gun fired it jumped out of the gun pit and rolled down hill followed by Milligan. Milligan opened the canvas tilt of a Bedford 3 tonner where Secombe was sitting and said those famous words, ""Anyone seen a gun??"" Hillarious. :mrgreen:

I loved Spike Milligan's war memoirs, I remember picking up my first one in the school library by accident and couldn't put them down until I had read them all.

The wife thought I was crazy but I also used to play the audiobooks to the kid at times, figured you are never too young to appreciate good literature.
 
Sure please do, I can only image the controversy. They wouldn't involve women would it?


'Love thy neighbour', which is about a black family moving in next door to an intolerant guy and his long suffering family, there is a message in it and the black guy always comes out on top, but it's something that would never be shown today.
' mind your language'
'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' a sitcom based in the Burma jungle, again some depictions and language could cause offence.
Some of the best shows though are
Only Fools And Horses
http://youtu.be/LFuYIi5-igc


And two shows featuring the late rik mayal
The young ones
http://youtu.be/z3HvchF49AM

And Bottom

http://youtu.be/5kYJSd2h1tw

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Love this guy. Dave Allen.
 
No the best land mine skit on TV was the Blackadder goes Fourth episode where when asked by George what he should do if he steps on a landmine Blackadder replied the normal procedure is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter yourself all over a wide area.

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I loved Spike Milligan's war memoirs, I remember picking up my first one in the school library by accident and couldn't put them down until I had read them all.

The wife thought I was crazy but I also used to play the audiobooks to the kid at times, figured you are never too young to appreciate good literature.

While in Italy, Milligan fell in love with an Italian lady of the night. He wrote in one of his books "I knew she loved me, she only charged me half price."

Hilarious.:mrgreen:

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Milligan in a TV interview
 
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Another very funny fella was Les Dawson. Very dry humour.

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While in Italy, Milligan fell in love with an Italian lady of the night. He wrote in one of his books "I knew she loved me, she only charged me half price."

Hilarious.:mrgreen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWlJtLRkYw

Milligan in a TV interview


Spike Milligan tried to keep his love life secret and used various legal threats to do so. He actually married a lady from Italy and had a son and daughter with her.
How do I know this?
His son used to hang about with me in the late 70's early 80's.
They had no contact with him whatsoever and at first I thought he was telling lies, however his mother confirmed it was true.
 
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