On lost comedy classics
The news that national disgrace Nick Griffin is scouring Brussels for a flat for himself and fellow Nazi Party MEP Andrew Brons to share prompted an excellent Twitter follower to remark "This could be the best sitcom premise ever".
The sad fact is – it's already been done.
"Heil Honey, I'm Home!" was Sky forerunner BSB's 1990 spoof on the domestic life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, done it the style of a cheesy 1950s US sitcom set in an appartment block. Think I Love Lucy, only with Nazis and you get the picture.
Actually you're not quite there. Throw in three truckloads of spectacular bad taste – the main plot device happens to be the Hitlers' relationship with their Jewish neighbours – and I think you know where this is heading.
Still, rather better than Milligan's ill-fated "Melting Pot" sitcom, although quite a lot of things can readily make this claim.
Dragged from the air in a howl of outrage (although only about six people ever actually saw it going out), it has – YaY! – resurfaced on YouTube.
It is as tasteless as you'd expect, but surprisingly funny, with the late Patrick Cargill fantastic as Neville Chamberlain.
Give yourself thirty minutes to watch this lot. You'll either think it comic genius, or you will be after me with an axe asking for your half an hour back. Sorry, no refunds.
Part Two
Part Three
I LOLed. I LOLed out loud. Then I felt a bit guilty, remembered the bit in the Dadaist manifesto about laughing at the Nazis and felt a bit better.
Then: LOL.
10 comments:
Ooh first!
Sounds like that old comedy show we had called I think Mind your Neighbour? Where the black family moved in next door to a BNP type who was always calling him Sambo. They never seem to repeat that on UK Gold.
Actually it was Love Thy Neighbour. I am getting it muddled up with Mind your Language, which was similar but set in a language school for foreigners.
Wow. Took me a while to get into it, but I think it may well be comedy genius. The YouTube comments are great as well - 50% confused people thinking it's a non-ironic US sitcom.
I want my half hour back.
Like I said: Sorry, no refunds.
It's a documentary, right?
Woo to the Dada reference, as well!
(Or should that be: baaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrhumph! ChiChiChiChiChi p'tang!
MMmmmmMMMMMMmmmMMGrr!
E! E! E!
Posted to my German colleagues.
I used to have a copy of "The Jewel In The Crown, Lewisham" which was a very dodgy pilot for a comedy show written by Johnny Speight and starring Milligan (as an Irishman who opens a curry house, badly disguised as an Indian) co-starring Eric Sykes as his manager. Needless to say, it was extremely racist, and it was no surprise that it was never shown. My copy was black and white, with the telecine clock at the bottom.
What. The. Fuck? I thought that Heil Honey I'm Home was a bad Scaryduck joke, right up to the point where you provided video evidence.
A late friend of mine came up with the idea of a "Third Reich Pop-Up Book" for kids - a Siegfriedstag hosen-filler. Sad to say no publisher was interested. Not even the chaps who did Mein Kampf. It's political correctness gone mad.
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