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I've got the Raymond Glendenning's commentary of the 60/61 Final. Sounds like he thinks he's at the Epsom Derby.With all the match commentators I've heard over the years,I still rate Brian Moore "simply the best!"

 

Dave Mackay ranked 23rd? **** off
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/53132194

 

Jayne Mansfield at the lane 1959 ( where's bigsmithy ) we beat Wolves 5-1

 

As there's two blokes on the right with the rapiest of rape faces, hopefully somewhere in the middle...

 

RIP Carl Reiner...a comic genius.

 

The films he made with Steve Martin are some of my favourites, the Jerk is overlooked

 

Trust me. I was at the opposite side! Anyway,Bobby Smith was much prettier!!!!!!!

 

Dipsticks. Did the BBC ever leave Old Trafford to watch Dave anywhere. His skills were so delicate,his shooting so hot and his tackling so fierce.....he must have played with "bagpipes in his ears! (Danny Blanchflower)"

 

I love all his stuff but have a particular obsession about Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

I don't even think it's his best work but I keep going back to it.

 

Must admit I didn't know Reiner was the Director of the Jerk and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. Absolutely love those films. I see from his wiki entry, also Directed Man with Two Brains, another really funny film. Can still remember being in literal pain watching the last one, so hard was I laughing.

 

He really wasn't and I think a sprint across the pitch would have been justified to see her close up.

 

Reiner and Martin made great comedies. Since they stopped working together...well, Dennis Pennis had it right...

 

Now there's a character with a limited shelf life!

 

Ah mid-90s-to-mid-2000s comedy, where it seemed everyone watched Brass Eye and thought "Hey, I'll make a career out of making celebrities look stupid" without realising that they could only do it until the initial broadcast date

See also
* Daisy Donovan from The Eleven O'Clock Show
* Sasha Baron Cohen, somehow failing to notice he had to change his schtick
* Mr Shake Hands Man from Banzai (both of them...)
* Olivia Lee from Balls of Steel...who was simply ripping off Daisy Donovan
* Little Friends, which was based on the premise of having kids swear while interviewing people was funny (can't think why it's not available anywhere online...)

 

He realised that you could continue to get away with it, as long as you used a different character every couple of years.
No idea how people fell for his Mossad agent with obvious prosthetic makeup in Who Is America?, but they did.

 

The thing is that, while the character changes, the schtick never does as it always unfolds the same way

1.) Try and embarrass them
2.) If that doesn't get a response, try and annoy them
3.) If that doesn't get a response, try and insult them
4.) If that doesn't get a response, try and offend them

That's why the least unwatchable Ali G skit is the one where he tried his schtick on Tony Benn, only for Benn to shut every attempt to get a reaction down and left Cohen looking nonplussed and clueless because he simply couldn't get a rise out of him

 

The family stayed in the New York Hotel that part of Borat was filmed in and every time we got in the lift I had to embarrass my teenage kids with my best Borat Impression

 

I looked up his films and completely forgot that he was in one of my all time favourites " It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World " so many of my comedy heroes in this film

 

Carl Reiner was a genius with a brilliant son,but it's funny how one man's meat is another man's poison.....I just couldn't stand watching Steve Martin.Then I did not like Fred MacMurray and Tom Hanks!!!!
I guess my comedy likes are strange!!!!!?

My funniest evening in a cinema was one Sunday night near Winchmore Hill. The first film was "A House of Our Own". A British silent comedy where everything that could go wrong while building a house,did go wrong! Me and the packed house were laughing our heads off....leading to the main feature,Peter Sellars,"Shot in The Dark." When Sellars got out of the police car and fell into the fountain,the audience were off again.....and the laughs continued to the end. A great night!

When I was a kid,mum let me go see Ronald Shiner in Reluctant Heroes. My first taste of a comedy film. I went 4 more times to see it before the year was out! I loved it. I've been trying to buy the movie but it is impossible for some reason.