Comedy Double Acts
 

There is no "other" option, because there are no others.

reeves and mortimer are a more surreal version of morceombe and wise when you look at it.

lee & herring?


and for the sake of pedantry, hale & pace.

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, for A Bit of Fry and Laurie (I watch them regularly) and for the whole Jeeves and Wooster thing, which was fantastic too. And for being so beautifully English. It was nice to see them together on QI a while back.

My three favourite A Bit of Fry and Laurie sketches:

'Marjorie's Fall' (two chaps talking about a woman who has fallen off a horse)
'PAss the Marmalade' (hearing problems)
'Countdown to Hell' (Countdown skit)

You know, Noel Fielding and Julian BArret are too good to dismiss.

I considered Lee & Herring but decided you can't have a comedy double act with two straight men.

And I FORGOT Flanagan & Allen for pity's sake!!! Oi!

Apart from Fry and Laurie (and Barret and Fielding), I'd say Smith and Jones, plus Morecombe and Wise.

I have to say, I'd completely forgotten how good Smith and Jones were until that compilation series was on recently. Very funny indeed.

Hm.

Hm. No.

where's Abbot and Costello?

You're kidding, right? Three words: "Who's on first"

French and Saunders

pookie is right, there are no others

Ah, too bad. When I was a kid, they used to make me laugh like crazy. Haven't watched them in a long time, but they were the first duo I thought of.

LAurel and Hardy were very funny at their best.

There's a LAurel and HArdy museum in Ulverston, in the Lake District.

Bob And David

Actually I love L & H. I meant to call the poll British comedy double acts. If not, then L&H would have been the ONLY choice for me.

Abbott & Costello are the pits though.

Pookie, as maker of the thread, given your 'there are no others' comment, can I press you on the Noel Fielding and Julian BArret issue?

I thought they were just paired together in films by the studio, at the start at least. I think they were in the same film a couple of times before there was a offivcial 'Laurel and Hardy' flick.

I think Stan Laurel came over from England on the same ship as Charlie Chaplin and worked in silent films on his own before teaming up with Hardy.

From the god Wiki:

The first film encounter of the two comedians (as separate performers) took place in The Lucky Dog, produced in 1919 by Sun-Lite Pictures and released in 1921. Several years later, both comedians appeared in the Hal Roach production 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926). Their first "official" film together was The Second Hundred Years (June 1927), directed by Fred Guiol and supervised by Leo McCarey, who suggested that the performers be teamed permanently.

Words can't express how unfunny I found The Mighty Boosh. It's one of those things. It's not so much that I don't find it funny, I just don't understand WHY it's even supposed to be funny. There, I've said it. I've been keeping that in until now.

Fai enough. It makes me laugh more than anything else in existence, so that just goes to show that it takes all sorts, eh?

But I'm still flabbergasted.

lee was the straight man, herring was whatever you call the one that isn't the straight man is called.
i can't believe half the people who made the list over these two, i mean joe pasquale & bradley walsh?

anyway, for this glaring ommision i leave my ballot blank!

I once had Stewart Lee stood behind me bleating on about Pink Floyd while I was trying to watch Yo La Tengo. For that alone, they're not included. And they're not funny.

As for Pasquale & Walsh? Have you not seen Corrie and The Price Is Right? Their pairing may have been brief, but being apart can't hold them back.

joe pasquale has a reputation for stealing jokes from small time comedians. he allegedly employs people to go out and watch lesser known comedians and write down all their jokes, he then incorporates what he finds suitable into his act.

anyway, stewart lee is one of the best stand ups i've ever seen, if not the best. i've never seen another comedian with such a grasp of what makes humour work as he does.

He didn't steal the squeaky voice did he?

Couldn't knock Bradley Walsh though could you?

You're not related to Stewart Lee are you?

no, he's just one of my favourite comedians. one of my friends used to work with him though and apparently he a very decent chap.

baddiel & skinner?
punt & dennis?

We've almost left out Punch and Judy.

Shit. How the hell has it happened that I'm the only person to have voted for Morecambe and Wise? What's with you people?

I can't see Lee & Herring there Spookie.

Joe Pasquale makes me puke.Why people find him funny or 'A national treasure' is unknown.

Too damn right.

Chris morris or Armando iannucci are even better than Stewart Lee and in a way scarier if such a thing can be said about comedy.Stewart Lee is definately one of the nicest men who ever worked here at the National.

I take it that you're watching the new Armando Iannucci thing on BBC2? Excellent stuff.

Nah i've missed that as i tend to watch very little tv at the moment.Have you ever seen the armando iannucci show?It should be out on dvd this year but i got it on ebay from someone who converted vhs to dvd.Insanely surreal.Oh and what about Julia Davis(i'll never get tired of promoting her)?

french and saunders.
classic.

love bob mortimer, vic reeves kinda annoys me. loved shooting stars mind.

Is anyone exited about nikki re-entering the big brother house?hehe

The early shows, and the Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, I love (especially the docu thing in the nightclub). And I liked Catterick a lot too - thought it kept getting better as the series went on. But Shooting Stars and that recent sketch show leave me cold.

They're both very funny though especially Bob.

French and Saunders are awful.So unfunny it's unbelievable.Almost as unfunny as Peter Kay.

Victoria Wood and Julie Walters. An excellent double act for those of us approaching our pipe and slippers age.

Julie Walters is the female comedian of choice for a huge amount of gays.