At long last, the page you’ve been waiting for!
The original version of Quintessential Comedy featured the first in a series of articles and essays about comedy. Kicking it off was a piece on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, which finally (!) I’ve reproduced here…
[singlepic=56,320,240,,right]Dipping back to the past, remembering the things we saw and did is [...]
Are they the greatest?
Commercial Breakdown Returns…
[singlepic=50,320,240,,right]Flatfaced moonman and quickfire comedy expert Jimmy Carr is set to star in a new BBC series of Commercial Breakdown.
Aha - the comedy graveyard beckons, eh Carr?
If you have never caught a Commercial Breakdown (previous recipients of its unique career-damaging magic are Jasper Carrott and Jo Brand) then you’re very lucky. It claims to [...]
Fawlty Towers Iconic
[singlepic=11,320,240,,right] A recent online poll has declared Fawlty Towers the most iconic comedy show of all time.
The show, which starred John Cleese as on-the-edge hotel owner Basil Fawlty, Prunella Scales as his wife Sybil, Connie Booth as waitress Polly and Andrew Sachs as Spanish waiter Manuel, received almost a third of the 3,000 votes cast [...]
Comedy Dialogue of the Week
[singlepic=11,320,240,,right]Fawlty Towers – Communication Problems:
Mrs Richards: I asked for a room with a view!
Basil: [muttering to Manuel] Deaf, mad, and blind…
[He goes to the window and peers through it.]
Basil: Ah, this is the view as far as I can remember, madam… yes, yes, this is it.
Mrs Richards: When I pay for a view, I expect [...]
