The Comic Strip - A Retrospective (2005)
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2020
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A look back at The Comic Strip and their long-running TV series "The Comic Strip Presents..." which started back in 1982. The group started in the '80s and include some of the greats of alternative UK comedy. Includes interviews with its members and the many actors, writers and comedians to appear throughout them. Includes interviews with Dawn French, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle, Nigel Planer, Peter Richens, Lenny Henry, Leslie Philips, Julie T Wallace, Gary Beadle, and Phil Cornwell. It aired back in 2005. - Розваги
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My Dad passed away four days ago, he was an extra in several comic strip episodes, enjoying the experience a great deal and he appears a couple of times here,brought a smile to my face!
Sorry for your heavy loss. That's a lovely visual memory to have! Glad his experience with these legends was enjoyable.
My deep sympathies for you and your family.
Sorry to hear that... Was he Robbie Coltrane ? I am very sad to hear that he passed on.😔
May he rest in paradise and forever live on in comic strip
Mr jolly lives next door is genius comedy !!!
A brilliant and unique comedy series wish we had something as good today!
I remember the launch of C4. It was groundbreaking. "5 Go Mad in Dorset" was hilarious, and it really felt like we had evolved culturally. It was a massive deal. You had to be there, basically!
I know what you mean, I was there too. C4 has gone downhill since then don't you think?
We were burping out so many lines for months/years afterwards. Meeting up in the pub - "I say, Dick", "I say, Ju". Still terrific (as was the ginger beer!).
I know Dirty Movie word for word, it's my favourite. I moved to Surrey years ago and met the woman who became my wife. One of the things we used to talk about was the cinema she used to go to when a girl. Years later Dirty Movie was on TV so I said she should watch it and then she said “That’s the cinema I've been talking about...”
RIP ROBBIE. 👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻
Detectives, Cheques and the 5s - still addictive and hilarious viewing. Thank you. Thank you. Oh - THIS train will stop at Tucumcari....
Remember watching the very first one Five Go Mad in Dorset on the opening night of Channel 4, as a student. So nostalgic if those days, along with the Young Ones. My personal favourites: Bad News Tour, Beat Generation and Fistful of Traveller’s Cheques. Genius.
Surprised you have Beat Generation in there. It was good but the other two are clear classics.
@@raretvmovieclips Would have to watch them again now to really compare (which I’ll try to do soon). I think it’s just that they’re connected in my memory, as I guess we had them on the same video tape in my student house and watched them over and over again, and those 3 stand out in my mind, particularly Bad News & Fistful, classics as you say. Perhaps Beat Generation stands out just because it was in B&W? Mr Jolly also up there.
Never forget that Bad News Tour pre-dated Spinal Tap
True. I love Bad News.
One of the most underrated series ever. The Comic Strip is ageless.
the Beat Generation is one of my top 10 funniest things ever
That Jimmy Hill impression kills me every time
Impression by Phill Cornwall went on to do Stella Street
Phil cornwall.. Total genius
I had the episode WAR on a vhs, my father having recorded it the day it aired. I didn't really understand what was going on when I first saw it but the darkness and cynicism of those scant 30 minutes have informed the character of my humour ever since.
Got the box set on dvd. It’s a must. All the comedians who put these together are legends.👍🇬🇧🏆
BlackAdder, The Young Ones, Not The Nine Oclock News, The Comic Strip, Filthy Rich & Catflap, Saturday Live, Bottom, and everything else all these guys were involved in.. We were incredibly lucky..
Cheers for that. Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door my personal favorite (*
A masterpiece LOL
I agree.
Escorts Bescorts! Come in if your saucy!
Wonderful memories with lashing of lemonade :)
fabulous, forgotten about the comic strip. they were brilliant in their day.
I was a runner in Soho in the early 80's. The Comic Strip had an anonymous door on Berwick Street with the "dropping bomb" logo roughly cut out from a black and white sheet of photo copy paper sellotaped to the safety glass on the door.
Used to see Robbie and the guys all drinking in the now demolished King of Corsica in Berwick Street Market.
Thanks for uploading. What a fabulous catalogue they produced. Watching it took me back to being a young teen and loving the absurdity they created.
"No soft-a toilet paper in Hotel Bastardos..."
Proud to be the only Peter Richardson fan in America.
You really are a brick!
Private Enterprise and the wedding episode with fecking KATE FECKING BUSH ARE PURE COMEDY GOLD❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤A show sadly we will never see again 😢😢😢
Thanks for the upload! 👍🇬🇧
Mr Jolly lives next door. Magnificent !
I saw the comic strip live in a small theatre near Newcastle. The bit that sticks out in my mind was French and Saunders scetch. They played two American woman talking over the fence. Pure genius
The Comic Strip was a sardonic, whimsical slice of British anarchy on comedy.
This series stapled The Young Ones along with Filthy, Rich and Catflap.
Pure Gold....
Beautiful, and brilliant.
Remember seeing this Retrospective on original airing in 2005 and thinking the same thing then, as I do now: How the hell can they leave out almost all of the first three series of Comic Strip Presents and keep a straight face?
Bad News On Tour, WAR, A Fistful Of Travellers Cheques, Gino, The Bullshitters, Summer School, More Bad News, Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, The Strike, Funseekers, The Yob, Eddie Monsoon.
Comic Strip up to 1988 was largely brilliant. After that it really wasn't very good.
Mr Jolly lives next door. Pure genius.
Used to love watching this. When comedy was great.
Nice. But I'm sorry they essentially skipped the early stuff, which is too bad; my favorites are Summer School, Five Go Mad in Dorset, and the Slags vs the Hawaiians.
Remember 5 go mad in Dorset on the opening night of S4C. The night before the opening of Channel 4 - most people forget C4 showed the repeat! Brilliant
S4C?
Dad sent me to my bedroom with a TV ban.
later 9:00 C4 my Mum bless her defied him let me out my room and we watched five go mad in Dorset. a beloved memory.
Without my Mum I'd be a very angry person.
i didn't know Lenny Henry was a comedian.
From Chaplin and Stan Laurel to Benny Hill, Monty Python and (to some extent) Rowan Atkinson, British comedy gathered a huge and lasting fanbase around the world.
Then in the 1980s came 'alternative comedy' such as this, dedicated to avoiding some traditional subjects for mirth bc they were said to be played out or reactionary. And in 2022 this kind of comedy- so heavily pushed by commissioners and fulsomely celebrated by its makers- is utterly forgotten even in the land that birthed it. Peter Richardson's career sputtered out in labored, repetitious parodies. Rik Mayall fell off his bike. Ade Edmondson became a character actor. French and Saunders got cozy. The normal pattern is for comics to run out of self-generated inspiration after not many years, but this crop did not renew their careers as hired hands.
Contrast, for example, the rich harvesting from Saturday Night Live's early era: Chase, Belushi, Murray, Martin. They went on to be international stars. Mayall did one Hollywood film, like the much-touted Lenny Henry, who got bigger viewership before he went 'alternative' and wed Dawn French. Never mind crossing the pond, the Comic Strippers could not gee up UK films. When they were cast in a new Carry On entry, they killed the cycle.
Some of 1980s new-wave Britcom is mildly amusing*, and it was not as hidebound by cancel-culture as today's wokery; but it never got anything like as big an audience as what it elbowed aside in Britain, and it never exported. Today Fawlty Towers, The Two Ronnies and Dad's Army are endlessly regurgitated and even discovered by young Americans, thanks to YT clips. Not so the Comic Strip.
This documentary is a monument to failed hopes- the least productive era of UK humor on screen since the movies were young.
At least Richardson kept Ben Elton out of it.
*Personal favorite: Mayall's and Edmondson's 'Bottom', though it intentionally cut out the 'alt' trappings and reached back to the great days of 'Steptoe and Son'. Others would champion 'Absolutely Fabulous', but it was a one-joke idea endlessly protracted, and has no international renown. Nor has Steve Coogan, whose failure to take off abroad is more unjust; he seems to have been tarred with the same brush as his less versatile predecessors.
Your sentence - the least productive...is just ridiculous. Regarding their budgets & the fact they did it as friends with huge energy & fun one might think you're envious for some reasons! People who were young at the time when TV & video were young can tell you how important these comedians had been to them! The Young Ones - how more productive do you wish them to be?? Rik fell off his bike - that's all you can contribute to his fame, really? Each of them made the best of their career & most of them stuck to their ideals! & I love them as much as 1000s of other fans!❤❤❤
Can't stop arguing as Dirty movie/ A fistful of Travellerscheques/ 4 men in a car/ Mr Jolly lives next door/ BeatGeneration & many more, they were just brilliant, experimental, rewatchable, psdtiches, parodies, comedies with tiny details all over - maybe it wasn't just your genre, but they were excellent, just gems!! The strike! ...
Supergrass? Bad News was half a year before Spinal Tap &it's so much funnier- but not American & with a low budget, it's a shame!!❤
All of this is genius…. Investigate if you are not familiar..👍🏻
five go mad in dorset was the best one for me, likely because i read every one of those 'famous 5' books and other, very similar series .
'5 find-outers and dog' i shit you not, was another set by blyton as was 'the secret 7'.
RIP Mr Coltrane!!!
Got the box set on DVD.
All those funny and talented people, how on earth did Lenny Henry get involved?
As a fan of the alt. comedy scene I taped and watched these religiously but the quality diminished quite rapidly unfortunately and it all became quite self-indulgent after a while.
Yeh they were very hit and miss but when you look at what was coming out in the 80s for comparison, those eps were pretty impressive.
Mr Jolly lives next door was a fave , and bad news .
Mr jolly lives next store! The best!
There was Monty Python and then there was The Comic Strip, brilliant watched every episode back in the day and probably still have them on VHS 😂 somewhere 🤔
Does anyone know the name of the episode where there was a song called ‘ok you’ I think? I remember they walked around the street singing this and kicked a beggars takings away from his hat. I can’t find it
why does lenny henry list everyone apart from Rik ?
Why is Lenny Henry in a documentary about comedy? Is the bigger question.
Funny as an snap shot of the times.
They left the best one out.. Supergrass.
Yeh I think that was because Supergrass was a movie, even if it seemed like an extended episode.
and eat the rich.
Comic strip were the new Pythons GreaT ! 👍🏼
I loved a lot of these, but Detectives and GLC they did for the BBC were the pinnacle for me.
I believe I saw “Space Virgins from the Planet Sex” at a very young age, definitely Primary School age. I found it … interesting. Surprisingly I never grew up being into BDSM.
how the fuck they're not going to talk about Bad News?
Bought the book of scripts for the first series and really enjoyed them all. Think Summer School and War were my favourites, and the unfilmed Back to Normal With Eddie Monsoon (which was obviously the precursor of Jennifer Saunders’ Edina Monsoon from Ab Fab) Did they resurrect that original character in a later season? Anyway, definitely the product of a different era.
Eddie monsoon was Ade’s character based on his surname Edmondson 😀
Rik Mayall
Some of them were masterpieces.....but let's be honest some of them were dreadful
Every one of you guys has a complete movie production studio in your pocket by way of a cellphone, WTF R U WAITING 4?!.
Gary Beadle was great in JerUSAlem.
MELODIES…..!
Lenny Henry in a comedy is like having Susan Boyle as the love interest in a romantic comedy.
Harsh......but probably true!
Wow a slam on Lenny Henry. How edgy
I wonder why Rick wasn’t part of this.
I wondered that. I checked if he was dead at this time. He had had an accident by this time.
What, no Rik ??
Bad news was the U.K. spinal tap…
It pre dated it too.
They talked about Les Dogs with no mention of Kate Bush ?
I like the box set bug ig was far from com p late.i like the candy davis ep.
i lost my best friend who was a comedian some years ago .Any comediians i could meet up with.
😎
In the words of "Ken Livngstone": Get those gays out of the closet". Haha.
Could've sworn I'd seen all the Comic Strips. Clearly not.
All those comedy legends and then there's Alexei Sayle.
Genius, and still providing entertainment with his cycling videos.
He's more legendary in retrospect
I struggle with Politics Today because as they demonstrated, The Conservatives stood for Authority back then . Today the Tories are claiming the ‘ Freedom to do what we bloody well like and sod what you think ‘ . That’s how it looks to me . ❤️
Ci Miguel Give Me Druger Petes
why is Lenny Henry on here?
Wae Robby, too much pop, how dare you deny us of thou.
Been watching Cracker for the first time and enjoying it. Saw National Treasure when it came out. The lad could act.
This is so funny. Especially when Lenny Henry said he was a comedian! Damn near pissed myself And his American accent is terrible!
22:28 Kate Bush?
Yeah, she was in that one "Les Dogs". She also did the theme for the "GLC" one.
Bit hit miss wasn’t it.
Its stunning how the brightest young talent could be broght together to create something as dreadful as The Comic Strip
It makes perfect sense that I’ve never heard of any of this. It’s all crap, it’s not funny.
Different opinions. Satire is not understood by some people, especially Americans.
Was not funny, was never funny and has never been referenced outside of anything made in the 80s and even then only as an, "oh god remember that awful TV show..." . It is the televisual experience of laughing at someone shitting in a bucket... Anyone who tells you this was funny does not have a sense of humour.
It was very hit and miss (and experimental) but Big Bang Theory and Birds of a Feather are referenced a million times more than this show too. Not much of a point. If you say the same thing about The Young Ones and Filthy Rich and Catflap, then we will have to agree to disagree (big time)!
Why are watching this video then? Go and watch something else, billions of other vids to see.
I watched Americans looking at British comedy with no comprehension who then laugh at mediocrity childish garbage from Hollywood
Zzzzzz
What they all forget to mention is how f*cking unfunny it was.
Peter Richardson means nothing in the history of British comedy.
I absolutely love The Supergrass! Unfortunately, the version in the "Complete" box set has been butchered by about 10 minutes. I had to hunt down the original VHS release to get the original cinema version! And yes, there isn't a good Comic Strip after "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door".
God knows why lenny henry is in anything tbh,completely unfunny ( even though he seems to think he is!)