What was with those sketches? I didn't get those at all (partly because I couldn't hear what they were saying most of the time). Even the laughter track didn't find it that funny, so I'm left clueless. Was there nothing to get? Just two doctors talking rubbish? What are your ideas on these sketches?
shareIt was a classic case of a comedian becoming so removed from his audience and his roots as to disappear up his own arse. Enfield probably meets people like this regularly now, thinks they're funny and ridiculous and thinks we'll find them equally so. Unfortunately we're not as in the know as him with the toffs and are left with a huge question mark over our heads, reaching for the King of Queens dvds.
My body makes no moan
But sings on:
All things remain in God.
I disagree, the doctors were some of the strongest characters for me (even though they don't do anything particularly 'Whacky'). The crud they talk about and their arrogance and manner just cracks me up. Horses for courses!
"Good for you, so it should be. Good for you, so it should be. Good for you, sooo... it should be."
I get what's supposed to be funny about it but I just think it's from such a rarified area it's not really meaningful to the audience actually watching the show. It reminds me of a sketch on Spitting Image years ago where Prince Edward does a stand-up routine (I think they were skitting, none too subtly, his search for a role in life);
"Ok, ok, observational comedy...don't you just hate it when you go to the theatre and the person in front of you has a huge crown on and you can't see...?"
My body makes no moan
But sings on:
All things remain in God.
Anyone who has ever had a session with an NHS consultant (that's quite a few people actually - at 200 guineas an hour) will get the two surgeons sketches. They're a type; brilliantly caricatured by Enfield and Whitehouse.
kasca
Agreed, but to the others criticising?
Haven't you ever asked yourself
"I wonder what they're like away from the public?"
Or
"Oh, to be a fly on the wall with that lot!"
(Not to be taken literally with the surgeons in an operating theatre).
It was two doctors mumbling and talking gibberish. Just like the real thing!
Its that man again!!