One of the funniest stories from the past

[rosalan]

 

[Jaws]

Must be 40 years since I heard this... Thank you for posting it !

 

[pappajohn]

Jeez, don't you just hate canned laughter.
Either that or the audience would laugh at anything.

 

[pappajohn]

Nah, it's no good. I can't find the slightest thing funny in this drivel.
If he's supposed to be pissed while telling this he's obviously never been drunk before.

 

[Emmit]

The Corries have a song on UTube singing about the same set of circs;

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[pappajohn]

The Corries have a song on UTube singing about the same set of circs;

That's better. Still not funny but I could hear it without that incecent canned laughter.

 

[tribalbrit]

And that;s why we have all the bloody health and safety bollocks now.

 

[rosalan]

Pappajohn
Re canned laughter... Gerard Hoffnung gave this talk live to the Oxford Union students debate in around 1958. This is just a snippet from a much longer speech.

 

[pappajohn]

Oxford students union....
They probably went on to be politicians, they laugh up their sleeves at us.
I never found Benny Hill, Morecombe & Wise or the two Ronnies the least bit funny either but I suppose many did.

 

[Vipar]

PappaJohn What made you laugh then I loved all you posted above.

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[Jim]

pappajohn Come on then John. Now we know what you don't like, make us laugh with what you do yy

 

[Jim]

Hey John, saw this and thought of you. . Made me smile

 

[Scotch mist]

Oxford students union....
They probably went on to be politicians, they laugh up their sleeves at us.
I never found Benny Hill, Morecombe & Wise or the two Ronnies the least bit funny either but I suppose many did.

Ba humbug , we might have fun’s very own Scrooge ?