Harry & Paul

Description: BBC / Sketch Comedy starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse.

Newest Review: ... of brain power, Harry Hill style... The BBC is quick to lose its best talent and slow to get rid of its old talent. Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, on the other hand, have bucked the trend here and managed to blend in that middle-class/age angst and conformity into their sketches in their stuff without getting you reaching for the remote. The balding guy Enfield plays in the Polish ... more

... coffee shop sketch, desperate to repel his mid-life crisis by trying to date the young foreign girl behind the counter, is a well observed piece and in its own way an example of how this genre can work. The trouble is you always get hit n miss sketches on...more

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Harry & Paul: Loads of funnyyyyy.... (1258 words)
by - written on 20/10/08 (Very useful, 322 readings)
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To be honest I was dreading this series, especially as it was in the prime-time Friday night slot and so had to deliver to that core and expectant audience. But that doesn't mean it has to be very funny these days as the BBC and other channels as they continue to dumb down to the lowest common denominator. After a hard weeks work and the 'credit-crunch' conations racing through your brain you don't want anything too challenging on telly but you do want to at least laugh during that comedy hour. It does deliver when 'Have I got News for You' and 'Little Britain' fill it but when those two shows are absent for most of the year it's a grim slot. C4 and BB2 have long since ... Read the complete review

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