What Comedy Records do you still find funny?

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Alan Esdaile… Canyons Of Your Mind by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and Yin Tong Song by The Goons.

Allyson Breeds… Any thing by The Beatles <running away>

Peter Thomson… The Goodies – Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me (highly inappropriate, insensitive, sexist and just plain wrong; but still funny), Sister Josephine et al – Jake Thackeray and Quantum Jump – The Lone Ranger.

Judy Struys… I quite like Ernie the fastest milkman in the West

Phil Gill… Derek and Clive. And Ernie

Chris Giles… Not politically correct but….Bridget the Midget

Peter Fairless… The Goodies – Black Pudding Bertha

Tim Anderson… Peter Sellers – Balham, Gateway to the South and Aunty Rotter (of the Balls Pond Road).

Steve Cooke… Derek and Clive, always!!!

Julie Morris…  Funky Moped!

Sarah Harvey… Benny Hill Ernie.

Jim Breeds… Anything by Bob Newhart – sadly not the sort of thing that gets radio airtime these days.

Mandy Wright… Laughing Gnome xx

Sheila Maile… My brother.by Terry scott

Will Cornell… Rodney Dangerfield No Respect……and any of the first few Firesign Theater albums. From your Department of Redundancy Department in Sector R…….

John Wilde… Charlie Drake “Oh please Mr Custer”

Jan Warren… Billy Connelly and “Spit the Dog”

Paul Huggett… Mr.Apollo – the Bonzos. And Star Trekking by the Firm.

Chris Meachen… Matching tie & handkerchief…

Mark Gilham… Derek & Clive and The Mothers Live at Fillmore East featuring Flo & Eddie

Graham Belchamber… My Boomerang Won’t Come Back – Charlie Drake

Keith Cowper… Julian and SAndy I!!!!!

Rob Grain… Peter Cook’s brilliant satire of the Jeremy Thorpe trial.

Wendy Weaver… Gerard Hofnung at the Oxford Union and “The Bricklayer”. Bet lots have never heard it, it an old one

Rob Grain… I have the Hofnung Oxford Union on double cassette !!!

Jeanette Jones… Cheech & Chong! Some one took our complete collection!

Clifford Rose… Sick-Man Blues by the Goodies [B side of Funky Gibbon]

Mark Randall… “Bangers & mash’ – Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren: its her genuine giggle that tickles me so.

Mick O’Dowd…  Bonzos: I Left My Heart in San Francisco, She Moved The Dishes First: Supercharge, Elmo & Patsy: Grandma’s Got Run Over By A Reindeer, Binky Baker: Toe-Knee-Blackburn for starters.

Dave Valentine… I have a record by Joan Rivers and there’s a good gag every 20 seconds. She was fantastic.

Rex Thinderbolt… Derek and Clive, Bad News.

Amanda Brooks… Mr Slaters Parot – Bonzo Dog Doo da Band, It’s a Bloke” – Trevor Wishart

Tony May… The Laughing Policeman and ‘Ernie’ by good old Benny Hill!

Peter Thomson… Sister Josephine et al – Jake Thackeray

Simon Page… Ivor Cutler – Jammy Smears

David Miller… All of Buster Keaton’s albums

Janet Rennie… Still sing All I want for Christmas is a Beatle – Dora Bryan

Paul Morfey… Hole in the ground- Bernard Cribbins, Still relevent today!

Sue Salmon Holmes Mock… the Goon show albums

Mark Randall… Does the laughing version of Elvis’s ‘Are you lonesome tonight?’ count?

Flanko Fin Barr… Derick and Clive live

Michael Wilson… Brought from Flyright record shop Sackville Road Bexhill. Before they moved across the road. Early seventies.

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Chris Sambrook… Listening to Cheech and Chong albums were I suppose a hoot for the after pub entertainment on Saturday nights, can’t listen to them now. Although the album cover of Up in Smoke was quite interesting. All a distant memory now . Knock knock who’s there , Dave. Dave’s not here. No man i’m Dave. Dave’s not here. American stoned humour meaningless drivel if truth be to told. Great band to listen to after especially Com on Live track from the Greasy Truckers album with Man. The Bonzo’s have been mentioned quite a bit, Can the Bluemen sing the Whites. Quite an interesting twist and rather clever.

Daryl Perkins… Hole in the ground…Bernard Cribbens, Joyce Grenfall, Terry Scott..My Bruvver, hello mudder hello farder..Alan Sherman, hole in my bucket….and I could go on and on!

Terry Pack… Devil Gate Drive, Wig Wam Bam and Paranoid for starters.

Steve Cooke… Derek & Clive of course, plus Ivor Cutler, Jake Thackray and Jasper Carrott.

Peter J Brazier… The Viper by Fredy and the Dreamers, or anything by the Baron Knights.

Paul Huggett… Peter Sellers – Balham, Gateway to the South. Most things by the Bonzos.

Jim Hobbs… Check out Blaster Bates.

Nick Shute… Bonzo dog’s “canyons of your mind”…defy anyone to listen to the guitar solo without cracking up!! Xx

Martyn Baker… Steve Martin doing stand-up.

Rob Grain…Peter Cook – Here Comes The Judge.

James Johnson… Derek and Clive anything by them

Lorna Brazier… Tizwaz, Bucket of water song, and Neil, hole in my shoe , (b side), hurdy, gurdy, mushroom man.

Janine Anne Scott… Bernard Cribbins

Perri Ann Haste…  3 wheels on my wagon – can’t remember who it was, but loved it as a kid & My Bruvver, Lily the pink, Any Derek & Clive, Monty Python cheese shop & Parrot sketch the list is endless – Love a good chuckle

Sue Salmon Holmes Mock… the Goon shows

Rex Thinderbolt… Derek and Clive as nauseam. Bad news and bootleg

Darren Johnson… Not The Nine O’Clock News, Monty Python. Never play them any more. I just remember the sketches in my head and smile to myself.

Russel Field… Ernie who drove the fastest milk cart in the West… “When she saw the size of his mince pies it damn near turned her head! ”

Roland Clarke… Me too!

Phil Gill… “I’ll be happy if it comes up to me chest.” That tickled old Ernie…

Amanda Brooks… “Mr Slaters Parrot” – Viv Stanshall Bonzo Dog Doodah Band

Jan Warren… Here’s a nice crazy one for ya from 1966, “They’re coming to take me away ha haha” by “Napoleon Xiv” – and if I remember rightly the b side was the same song as the a side but recorded backwards…. it sounded sort of Russian?! Crazy stuff though, haha

John Coleman… Ernie NO1 ! NO2! Hole in my Bucket dear Liza

Terry Corder… The laughing gnome, Bowie.

Andy Maby… Flash, bang, whallop! (T.Steele)

Terry Huggins… Frank Zappa, Dumb All Over (A Little Ugly On The Side).

Gin Genie… the best job i ever had…

Tim Phillips… So Charlie and me had another cup of tea and then we went home

Paul Morfey… Charlie Drake- My boomerang wont come back/ Mr Custer. Terry Scott- My brother

Tim Moose Bruce… Judge dread.

Rick Pentecost… The Laughing Policeman

Paul Crimin… Jasper Carrot.

Graham Bourne… Ernie,the fastest milkman in the west

Jane Cranfield… On The Buses

Jacquie Hinves… Monty Python live at Drury lane.

Roger Carey… I remember with some affection the “Barron Knights” medleys of pop hit pastiches in the late 60’s that would be based on a theme e.g. The Olympics (“An Olympic Record”) or politics (“Under new management”) They were funny, musically accurate, and I would listen to them repeatedly, AND, I still can recite/sing some sections!

Chris Meachen… Jump through any window yeah, into the street, there’s smoke & flames in there, we’ve overdone the meat…..

Alan King… Where’s Me Shirt – Ken Dodd

Alan Parker… You have a listen to ‘Show them to me by Rodney Carrington or ‘It’s hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long’ by The notorious cherry bombs. U Tube.

Terry Hardwick… The laughing policeman. Right said Fred . Gossip calipso ? Tiptoe through the Tulips

Chris Meachen… The ‘b’ side of ‘They’re coming to take me away’ which was called ‘Little red tricycle’…. “thirty days have septober, April June & no wonder. All the rest have peanut butter………”

Terry Huggins… Come Outside by Mike Sarne and Wendy Richard.

Liane Carrol… Ha! Chris, Roger still sings that!! Xxx

Phil Gill… Lydia The tattooed Lady – Groucho Marx.

Roger Carey… Being pedantic here Chris, but “Little Red Tricycle” was the Napoleon X1V follow up to “They’re coming to take me away” equally rejected by Juke Box Jury for being in appalling taste! B side of Tricycle was “Doing the Napoleon” a slightly more regular offering! B side of Take me was same effort backwards! I recall us listening to Tricycle as I had that single at one time , not sure if I still do!

Chris Meachen… I bow to the fact it was you that played me the records in the first place… !

Martin Richter… Effie the eagle’s ?

Terry Huggins… There was a reply to ‘They’re Coming To Take Me Away’ sung by a girl. Josephine something or other. Prefer the version by the Butcher Babies.

Tim Moose Bruce… Jasper Carrott.

Kev Towner… Tommy Cooper – Don’t Jump Off The Roof Dad

John Beeching… here’s a hole in my bucket dear Liza, Harry Belafonte

Matt Thomas… The hysterics

Jim Breeds… Back in the 1970s, Tim Rice (now Sir Tim), was a DJ on Capital Radio. I could just about pick it up in Hastings on FM. Anway, he played this one day and was swamped with letters asking for replays, so he often played it in his show. What a load of sh..aving cream!

David Francis… Hole In The Ground. Bernard Cribbens. Loved it s a kid and still makes me smile to hear it now. Happier days when we were less passive and squeamish in how we dealt with management. Where did it all go wrong?

Ralph Town… Anything by Judge Dread

3 thoughts on “What Comedy Records do you still find funny?”

  1. Bonzos: I Left My Heart in San Francisco, She Moved The Dishes First: Supercharge, Elmo & Patsy: Grandma’s Got Run Over By A Reindeer, Binky Baker: Toe-Knee-Blackburn for starters.

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  2. Listening to Cheech and Chong albums were i suppose a hoot for the after pub entertainment on Saturday nights can’t listen to them now. Although the album cover of Up in Smoke was quite interesting. All a distant memory now . knock knock who’s there , Dave. Dave’s not here. No man i’m Dave. Dave’s not here. American stoned humour meaningless drfivel if truth be to told. Great band to listen to after especially Com on Live track from the Greasy Truckers album with Man. The Bonzo’s have been mentioned quite a bit, Can the Bluemen sing the Whites. Quite an interesting twist and rather clever.

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