The Royle Family Special

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I've been looking forward to it all day. Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash are fantastics writers.
 
Brilliant. Haven't laughed and cried so much in ages. Nannas nails and hair extensions :lol:
 
I was really looking forward to this, but it was just too close to home, coming very close the anniversary of my own mother's passing away in '89 - I had to turn over :(
 
Absolutely hilarious, particularly the bit about the soup of the day - think I missed the next 10 minutes as I was laughing so much :)
 
Phew... I thought no-one was going to own up to the same opinion as me. I was going to lurk quietly behind the tasselled standard lamp, fiddling with the doily on my tea-plate, eating a Hob Nob, unless someone also 'fessed up to missing the point of this show completely. Thanks, DG, I can come out now!
 
It was ok, and i laughed a couple of times, but it was a bit ham-fisted in comparison to something like Curb Your Enthusiasm. I got the feeling watching it that every gag had been painstakingly thought through and analysed until it was given the go ahead whereas Curb is very off the cuff in comparison.
 
I saw it on and off before, Gareth, which is why I swerved the 'special'. I didn't 'get' it, I'm afraid. I felt you could've encapsulated it as a running sketch of caricatures within the context of a show like 'Little Britain' or similar grotesqueries. But each to their own.
 
Originally posted by Ardross@Oct 29 2006, 11:05 PM
Excellent and very moving. Great shame the tabloids hounded her off to Australia.
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You should be elevated to the bench so that you can be one of those judges who asks things like "What are the Arctic Monkeys?"

Caroline Aherne announced her retirement from TV and emigrated to Australia in 2002. While out there she got involved with television again and wrote and produced a sitcom called Dossa and Joe. She returned to Britain in 2002 and has been here ever since.
 
encapsulated it as a running sketch of caricatures within the context of a show like 'Little Britain' or similar grotesqueries.
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Nothing like LB at all. You certainly have missed the point of the show

These arent just grotesqueries for the hell of it. The characters are very recognisable, but instead of the sneering at them (I do like LB btw) there is enormous affection and empathy for the real love and loyalty that the characters show to each other. At the same time, they have cleverly avoided sentimentality. There is a also (like in the office0 a beautiful attention to detail

LB is belly laughs. Royles is true great comedy drama
 
That was a busy year emigrating ,a TV show and returning all in the same year.

She attributed emograting to the tabloids - she has certainly kept a low profile since returning if she has been back that long
 
Selective quoting Ardross?

Anyway, before PDJ nips in, I should point out that's it emigrating - not emograting
 
Originally posted by Bobbyjo@Oct 30 2006, 05:26 PM
I should point out that's it emigrating - not emograting
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I don't know, some people do find him grating...

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Thank you for telling me about the show, clivex, but as I said, I'd given the original run a few goes, during which I had enough time to note the characterisations. I didn't say it was 'like' Little Britain. It's a comedy sitcom, for a start. It has a set number of characters, second. I said I thought it would've done as a sketch in part of a series like Little Britain, not that it was itself like Little Britain. Little Britain does make fun of its characters, but then so did and do Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, Rob Brydon, Ricky Gervais et al. I don't think that they sneered about them, they just exaggerate (since comedy is the art of exaggerating for comedic effect) the types they're portraying.

I didn't see The Royle Family as much different in genre to Alf Garnett and his household, or even 'Bread', several years ago. More politically correct, different accents, but the Gran has to be half-barmy (because she's old, see) and there has to be a layabout, a glamour puss, and a loud head of the house, and so on. It didn't appeal to me, but it obviously has its appeal, so there it is. I'm not telling anyone off for enjoying it, it just wasn't up my street.
 
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