It just wouldn't work. Just for starters the subjects they couldn't include would be huge - drugs,prostitutes,cheating,infidelity,3 somes,tabloids,hotels.pregnant wife/girlfriend etc etc. Can you imagine the opening from either Hislop or Merton..." So,what happened to you then Angus...?"
That’s why it’s so funny. Paul will always be aggressive but ignorant and Ian submissive but informed. Multiply that dynamic by 30 years and you have the greatest comedy duo to grace the small screen.
@@owenfitzgerald3219 She immediately retracted it and only said it as a demonstration of when a thought should not be expressed. More importantly, why is it that when a woman makes the tiniest error it is dragged up forever and ever? I'll tell you why: some men just cannot stand women having any agency so just attack attack attack - i.e.they're scared of them.
You can returns on busses. I know because I've done it many times myself. What's Paul talking about? Is this from a different time when bus returns didn't exist?
You could definitely get returns on a bus in the area I live in at that time. Perhaps you couldn't in London at the time, but it doesn't seem very likely (I know they were available in the 60s).
Never known returns to be available on London buses in my lifetime. Allowing for me to become old enough to be aware of bus fares, that's at least 50 years.
aw, the 90's, when most of you were just starting load your diapers, we Oldies look back with nostalgia to a kinder gentler time when you could tell jokes and poke fun without getting canceled. aw, nostalgia.
You know he plays up the old fogey act for the camera, just like Jeremy Clarkson plays up the Tory bigot act? They take a slight tendency of theirs and exaggerate it for the comedy value. Ian Hislop picked up the out-of-touch judge routine from the late Peter Cook, who referred back to the Private Eye story in the 60s of a barrister who explained to the judge that the Beatles were "a well known beat combo", using an even then obsolete term for a pop group.
