Originally published at: The Young Ones and the Fifth Housemate | Boing Boing
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i always thought that it was just one of Neil’s passed-out hippie friends, not a fifth roomate O_O
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Can’t begin to express how much this show and 120 Minutes meant to a high school kid growing up in 80s Shelby County AL. That block of programming was my main regular exposure to sanity in that region of cultural privation.
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I hope you’re not being sarcastic
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Ben Elton is a warning to us all that you may turn into that which you profess to destroy.
And he’s threatening to go back to stand-up. Farty.
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Apparently because this got the show classed as light entertainment, for which there was available budget, rather than as comedy, for which there was not.
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Cor, that looked just like a negative reality inversion, didn’t it?
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I mean, what with the wardrobe Vyvyan hides in and finds the portal to Narnia, there’s potentially lots of roommates, eh?
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I think all I know of this show is the Bank Manager bit.
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Cos we may not
Be the young ones
Very long
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Fifth occupant
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He’s been claiming that image was forced onto him for years now.
At least Alexi Sayle has consistently been left wing for all this time. Christopher Ryan also left the socialist a cappella group The Flying Pickets to do the Young Ones and missed getting to UK number one with Margaret Thatcher’s favourite song (seriously).
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She liked picket lines so I guess it checks out.
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Anyone had success with this or similar so this is watchable? GitHub - jeffgreenca/laughr: Recurrent neural network audio manipulation tool to mute "laugh track" audio segments found commonly in sitcoms.
It was a live audience - Part of the “variety show” stamp that got them a bigger budget.
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So they had Motorhead on one time, which totally blew us away.
I was watching it with some mates and I distinctly remember one of them saying something along the lines of “Wow, Motorhead’s on TV, now I’ve seen everything”.
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The point is that The Young Ones was a brilliant, surrealist situation comedy
Errr, heavy-handed artless farce, maybe? For non-discerning Yanks? Yep.
