[HN Gopher] The Young Ones changed comedy
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The Young Ones changed comedy
Author : mellosouls
Score : 79 points
Date : 2022-11-13 08:46 UTC (1 days ago)
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| mrob wrote:
| And if you like The Young Ones, you will probably also like
| Bottom. The surrealism is toned down somewhat, but the crude
| slapstick is the same, and Rik and Ade play very similar
| characters.
| LocalH wrote:
| In the same vein, I'd also recommend Filthy, Rich, and Catflap.
| Comedically, it feels very much like a bridge between The Young
| Ones and Bottom, rightfully so.
| Freak_NL wrote:
| And don't forget the film Guest House Paradiso (1999).
|
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202381
| jl6 wrote:
| Time to share this masterful piece of audience interaction from
| the Live show:
|
| https://youtu.be/NjQD9zpAcGk
|
| RIP Rik.
| CharlesW wrote:
| That was amazing, thank you for posting!
| ThinkingGuy wrote:
| I always felt like The Young Ones was aimed at people like me,
| who didn't feel intelligent or cultured enough to appreciate
| Monty Python.
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| What about Python felt intelligent to you? I thought it was
| just a bunch of dudes in dresses being weird for weird's sake
| tanseydavid wrote:
| The Philosopher's World Cup is a pretty good example.
| PebblesRox wrote:
| Link: https://youtu.be/92vV3QGagck
|
| And an homage that I was just reading earlier today:
| https://existentialcomics.com/comic/35
| JohnBooty wrote:
| I'm not saying Python was rocket science, but while it had a
| lot of broad humor (Ministry of Silly Walks, etc) there were
| also a lot of subtler jokes. I thought it
| was just a bunch of dudes in dresses being weird for
| weird's sake
|
| A lot of the jokes might have been misfires for you because
| of subtlety, cultural differences, references that are
| completely obscured by time 50 years later, etc.
|
| Or maybe just not your brand of humor! Certainly lots of
| people think much of Python was funny.
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| I wasn't implying I didn't find Python funny. Watch
| documentaries about Python and the members all say they
| were just trying to come up with the silliest thing they
| could to make each other laugh
| mikrl wrote:
| They were all from Oxbridge and the weirdness specifically
| satirized British culture of the 60s and 70s. It just so
| happened to be universal enough for an American audience to
| appreciate "a bunch of dudes in dresses being weird for
| weird's sake"
|
| Compare to something like SNL which would be unfunny to a
| Brit unless they had some specific interest in American
| culture.
| dekhn wrote:
| To me, the epitome of Python (outside of the movies) is the
| series of sketches making fun of upper-class twits.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Class_Twit_of_the_Year
| which is just devastating and I'm american
| randomcarbloke wrote:
| correct me if I'm wrong but isn't SNL unfunny to most
| Americans too?
| fragmede wrote:
| that's just your online bubble where loud complaints that
| substitute for intelligent discourse go. if you think
| it's funny you don't have a reason to go online and say
| only that
| mikrl wrote:
| I watched it in my teens and had high expectations for student
| life.
|
| My first place (2012) wasn't a disappointment, I lived with a
| hardcore feminist arch-hipster, effervescent gay couple and an
| overworked everyman grad student.
|
| This was in Canada, and lacked much of the zaniness of the show
| (of course) but it was still a riot for the wide-eyed 20 year old
| me.
| dekhn wrote:
| The Young Ones ran on MTV in 1985. It was hilarious. There's one
| episode... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_(The_Young_Ones)
| which really stands above and beyond.
| MisterTea wrote:
| While Bambi is amazing one of my favorites is Sick where they
| unintentionally start a massive riot on their street while
| Madness plays "Our house" in the middle of it all, then cut the
| song to join in the rioting and violence.
| gw98 wrote:
| That was a top one. I rather liked "cash". They think Vyvyan
| is pregnant so they make Neil join the police to make some
| money.
|
| Ending: https://youtu.be/mhxkY9adDCg?t=146
| andybak wrote:
| I can still recite Neil's letter from that episode.
| [deleted]
| issa wrote:
| A friend with MTV made VHS copies for those of us without cable.
| So good. And Madness!
| drumhead wrote:
| Watched it again recently and its aged very badly. At the time it
| was the funniest thing I'd ever seen, but now its not at all. The
| bands that came on it were maximum nostalgia though.
| JohnBooty wrote:
| Purely subjective, of course, but it's lost none of it's
| hilarity for me!
| yamazakiwi wrote:
| As a person who hasn't seen the show, do you have an example of
| a joke that you found funny but no longer has any humor due to
| a change in you or social groups in general?
|
| In my experience sometimes there are usually a few
| contributors, like a voice that only represents a moment in
| time or a style of humor that has fallen out of fashion.
| Joeboy wrote:
| Quite possibly not the sort of thing they're talking about,
| but there's a slightly notorious scene that was presumably
| intended to portray the police as racist and stupid, which
| _in_ _theory_ is probably a much more acceptable message now
| than then. Except it depicts the cop coming out with a stream
| of very OTT racial insults, played for laughs, and doesn 't
| fit the current zeitgeist at all.
| klelatti wrote:
| I remember seeing the first episode when the series started. I
| can still remember things that made me laugh - top of the list
| the hamster called Special Patrol Group - the name for the
| police's notorious rapid response group at the time. It was so
| different to the sitcoms that dominated TV comedy in the U.K.
|
| Rik Mayall was also very funny at that time as Kevin Turvey. [1]
| RIP Rik.
|
| [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yaG6oiSdHpo
| narrator wrote:
| The only thing since the Young Ones that really got that zany
| vibe just right is Aqua Teen Hungerforce.
| jancsika wrote:
| Have you watched the Eric Andre show?
|
| In one episode he gets frustrated with the direction of the
| show and inserts a betamax tape to play a previous episode,
| sped-up and overlaid with partial opacity atop the ongoing
| episode.
|
| In another episode the host and one of the members of NSYNC
| literally jump out of the way of a motorcycle that runs over
| the host's desk.
| JohnBooty wrote:
| In a more general sense, the "main cast made up exclusively of
| irredeemable characters" trope really blossomed in the
| subsequent decades. You see it in _Seinfeld_ , _It 's Always
| Sunny_, etc.
|
| I think it existed before The Young Ones but that's where I
| first saw it.
| KineticLensman wrote:
| I had just moved into my first shared student house in Headingly,
| Leeds Uni in 1982 and The Young Ones perfectly captured the
| feeling. My basement room had snail trails on the floor,
| extensive damp and while unpacking I found a stolen road sign
| under the bed.
|
| Luckily we were able to afford a TV and this was our goto TV
| programme that was watched every week, regardless of which band
| were performing at the student union that week. Awesome, life-
| affirming comedy.
| gw98 wrote:
| When I was at university we put snails in someone's room for a
| joke when we were all drunk and he was unconscious. Woke up to
| snail trails all over his room. Wasn't Leeds though :)
| davisoneee wrote:
| I remember watching the show when I was very young and loved the
| pure anarchy of it.
|
| This documentary is a really great coverage of the young ones,
| including interviews with all the main cast. Not sure quite how
| much of it is in overlap with the article, but fun bit of
| background watching.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4reFlDsnGM0
| mxmilkiib wrote:
| Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar on BBC Radio 4 is
| exceptionally funny.
| olivermarks wrote:
| 9/11 Scene from 'One by One' Rik Mayall's last film release
| before his sudden death https://youtu.be/MW-oXuJTdjI
| aidenn0 wrote:
| For those wondering about this: the towers obviously _weren 't_
| knocked over by the planes since the collapses started more
| than a half-hour after the planes collided with them.
|
| The collapses were due to thermal stresses caused by the fire;
| as each floor heats up it expands, pushing the supporting beams
| outwards, then when the floor buckles, the beams snap back.
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