Because dad humour stopped being funny in 1986
and those of us that don't remember it don't like it.
( Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:50, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Look, when you've got a load of celebrities sticking their fingers in you, you take your laughs where you can get them.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:53, Reply)

Yeah edgy alternative comedy is like loads funnier that the Two Ronnies andhas aged brilliantly

'see an unfunny prick?'
'that's you that is'

Just hysterical.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:54, Reply)

'milky milky'
I think not.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:55, Reply)

HAHAHAHAHAH

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:59, Reply)

no, sorry. The other one. Stony-faced silence.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:59, Reply)

Fucking terrible.
The Mary Whitehouse Experience = a load of middle class Oxbridge wankers trying to be all edgy & cool.

Give me Tommy Cooper, Ronnie Barker, Frankie Howard, etc. anyday.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:01, Reply)

I don't like Ben Elton anymore than I like Bob Monkhouse.

( Kroney, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:55, Reply)

Bob Monkhouse's standup was really good

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:58, Reply)

I used to really dislike Bob Monkhouse
Until I saw him do "An Audience with"
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 15 May 2013, 10:59, Reply)

same here, he did some dreadful shit
but in his later years when he'd packed in all the shit gameshows etc he was really good.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:01, Reply)

Apparently very good as an after dinner speaker.
Not now obvs.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:02, Reply)

I have a signed Autograph of his from an after dinner thing back in the 60's

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:05, Reply)

there's a fascinating 'secret life of bob monkhouse' documentary which is well worth tracking down
He was an obsessive archivist and had a treasure trove of otherwise-lost stuff apparently, thousands of hours of it
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:06, Reply)