‘When Were We Funniest?’ public vote show to determine the funniest decade of British comedy, this episode being the 1970s. Two clips from Rising Damp made the Top 30, with interviews from Eric Chappell and Don Warrington included here. Visit the authorised Rising Damp site: www.leonardrossiter.com
I have them all on DVD. The quality of the writing, the acting and even the mood of the show still astounds me.
I played the DVD for my neice who is 19 and she was rolling around laugh and then remarked “the world was a more happier place years ago…even when people were poor and sad life seemed more full with emotions and experience or something…”
She was right.
my mate is related to rossiter
this show is still so funny.
she obviously sensed the latent charm
British comedy is the best
Rising Damp was brilliant, but there are a hundred funnier clips than these two that could have been shown.
Pure genious
what a show nothing comes close to it
Im so glad I lived in the 1970′s, was a brilliant decade for all sorts of reasons, especially TV sitcoms and the like…
ooooh miss jonessss!
Rupert Rigsby
Legend
shit this is on the bbc right now ]
ohh miss jones ohh rigsby ha classic writing
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what? she said yes? damn i missed that one!
I know, there will never be an actor like him again. He was one in a million.
Rossiter was a god.
I started crying when Rigsby realised that Miss Jones had said yes. I thought they were perfect for each other.
EleanorRigsby: Professional bullshitter or ex trade unionist
sartrian lol its funny if you got your head out of your rectum and stoppped reading a dead concept of todays zeitgist you might appreciate it for what it was a good well written well acted piece of comedy genius
all comedy is inherently a bastard child of what has been , it maybe your inability to accept this that makes you so closed
hey even benny hill was the third level of dante if you look at it that way
Rising damp.CLASSIC!!.
what a classic comedy
it’s Sartrian in it’s uncompromisising depiction, a la Huis Clos, of a hell that is undeniably these particular other people, never mind the Camusian echos of pistols at dawn with strangers on the shore , not to mention the suggestions of infamy, infamy, they’ve all bleedin’ got it in for me that seem to urgently coalesce in an essentially French melange of existential sensibility and Kenny Williams, duckie!!
“Please extinguish your stick!” still cracks me up, LOL!!
Very good. Thanks for putting this on You Tube! I had never seen the “Love Wood” episode before – or I don’t remember if I did see it many years ago!