I would say that many people aren't even aware of his comedy past, game show hosting is the comedy equivalent of teaching

Hadn’t thought about it that way, but bugger me, your so right..!

He does Pointless for the money - it’s very well paid. There will come a time when he won’t be working, so he needs to make as much dosh as he can while he can. See also Bradley Walsh

Frightfully lucrative though

Yes!

Mike Whiting WOULDN'T YOU?

I'm pleased it finally clicked Zeta , they're wonderfully talented ; as you now know !

Kevin Bower Prior to Brabbins and Fyffe I had never heard of Flanders and Swann. Now I am so glad to to have both of them!

Kevin Bower. This is not keeping Flanders and Swan alive. This "tribute actors nothing of the sort. It lacks any of the intelligent humour. All it really is,is low grade porn . DISGUSTING.

Firstly it’s ‘Swann’ not ‘Swan’. I would have thought that an obvious expert such as yourself would have known that. And secondly - if you can’t see the humour and intelligence shown in the writing and performing of this and you do truly think it’s disgusting porn - then you’re either a religious bigot, or you truly have no hope of a life filled with amusement or joy, my friend. Have a nice day.

@@simonwinter8839 wrong.

@@graemestarkey7524 Why is it wrong to have an opinion that is different to yours?

I spilt tea down my shirt... ROLLS WHEELCHAIR FORWARD Mind you, I'm quite old, so I do that a lot anyway ROLLS WHEELCHAIR BACK

Down his shirt... *imagine that*.

Same here, without the tea

He’s doing a variation of a suicide shot

I know! Armstrong and Miller were brilliant. They had a real affection for Flanders and Swann, I believe.

Excelsior Entertainments Imagine that! Into cheese.

CaptainLumpyDog *Rolls forward* "They've no idea" *Rolls backward* The ominous lighting too, 10/10

myasmate The talky bits are the second best part after the sudden cuts!

Michael & Donald got away with a great deal of innuendo. They were much more subtle with it. The A&M parodies are very funny: Great use of the old Test Card C.

It was as far as you could go at the time. I have a Flanders and Swann performance program.

Don't be ridiculous. They would never have stooped to this disgusting level. I don't mind smut if it's original smut - let's say Jimmy Carr. But to take the wit of Flanders and Swan and turn it into low grade porn just shows the depth of depravity this country has sunk to.

@@simonwinter8839 oh dear. Sad and ignorant comment.

@@graemestarkey7524 Why is that?What's sad and ignorant about my comment?

Keith Jellis *EYEBROWS*

ujustgotpwned2008 They've no idea!

Nope you aren’t the only one. Personalities, mannerisms, and voices are somewhat similar too, though Armstrong’s speaking voice is obviously somewhat deeper than Harris’s is.

"Another pint for the bender, please!"

​@@319metresMWlegen ...... ..... ..... ..... Wait for it... ..... .... .... Dry

Never you mind whose army. And never mind which courthouse we surrendered at..

Comedy was never clean, but they got past the censors by double-intendre and innuendo. Shakespeare had some pretty cheeky gags in there. I think, double-intendre is kind of played out, and Miller and Armstrong have here turned it on it's head, by using the sixties format of Flanders and Swann to be incredibly rude. It is kind of like the Regency Dance sketches, which is 18th century ladies and their suiters talking dirty to each other. Or the Victorian Piano sketches, which is about a pianist playing modern songs, like Horny and Take Me To The Gaybar, to victorian ladies and gentlemen. Or even their RAF airman using modern chav-slang. They do love to contrast the perceived cleanliness of polite society through history with bawdiness.

Flanders and Swann were often very knowingly filthy.

You can't say oly-ma-kitty-luca-chi-chi-chi isn't blatantly sexual.

@@markheywood8236 "pee po belly bum drawers" springs to mind. A clever swipe at the dramatists if the day who grabbed publicity for themselves by putting four letter words into otherwise incomprehensible scripts. If these words come into common usage, we shall have nothing left for special occasions.

Not sexual? Apart from their song about date rape, that is... (I'm a big fan of F&S but that is one song that hasn't aged well, even in a satirical sense.)

You piece of shit.

Not a song about date rape. It is a song involving a dirty old man and a 17 year old who makes a dubious decision after a few glasses of wine but after having a few drinks with him she leaves his flat and the building, having remembered her mother's warning, before later going back. She's shown in the song to be both physically and mentally capable of rejecting his advances and does so during the song (he does not stop her leaving) before returning at the end and wakes "with a smile on her face". It's not a song that would be written these days but is not about date rape. Still one of my least favourite F&S songs though. I much prefer their more whimsical stuff like Ill Wind, British Bedstead Men and Slow Train

dusty0608. How wrong you are. When Flanders and Swan sang about the English being the best they were ridiculing the English. Why do you say this is apt today? Could it be because of your own racism? If you think this is apt you have completely missed the humour.

Simon Winter Have you never heard of Brexit?? The comment was aimed at the prevailing mindset of a sizeable proportion of the UK populous, the underlying (and indeed generational) mindset that led to what is seen as tragic isolationism by the remainder of the population. Oh, I am British by the way and have every right to that opinion and the particular sketch by Armstrong and Miller I detailed was produced many years prior to the whole Brexit situation and the version of the Flanders and Swann material is humorous in todays context not just when it was aired on TV and this applies to the originators as well. Nothing racist there but then again maybe I should pre-qualify every post I make with context expanding narrative to avoid being called a racist in the future. How dare you Sir, project your own bias and prejudice on to a stranger and accuse them of racism.

​@@dusty060828© isn't a sizable portion

No A &M have talent

They are "recreating" the duo Flanders and Swann, whom they passingly resemble. Look them up :)

Yes: "Armstrong was educated at Mowden Hall School in Stocksfield, Northumberland and St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh, where he was a chorister at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral from the ages of 11 to 13.[4] He attended Durham School and Trinity College, Cambridge on music scholarships.[5][6] He played the piano"

So, you're the one who left the faecal mountain..

Don’t suppose you have any friends ?

F &S funny not . What is funny about singing about a hippopotamus ?

@@tonywright8294 F &S are whimsical, not funny in the sense of having punchlines that are designed to trigger laughs at specific moments. It's a very British thing, and most Americans don't care for it.

Have some Madeira m'dear. :D

@@Sheerwater909 Only if you're buying. Quite a witty response though !!

I love Flanders and Swann and find this pretty unfunny, but they were absolutely capable of being smutty