It was actually a very popular (and funny, imho) program and, as is often the case with British humour, quite self-deprecating (as were Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister, It ain’t half hot, et al).
I don’t see why a Frenchman would be expected to appreciate our humour as it never (with the honourable exception of the Commonwealth nations), travels very well.
Time for everyone to pull their heads in here chaps. You’ve all had your little tool waving.
That’s because it’s not funny. It never was, and it’s even less funny now.
I saw it was on british tv during 10 years, 9 seasons. Perhaps today it’s too dated and old.
When young I was watching regularly Mr Bean and Bennie Hill in France. But could no more watch it today. Even Monty Python today.
The only comic serial movie I can watch from time to time is Malcom, us serial movie.
Few things date as quickly as humour.
This thread should curl up and die.
You are a bit severe, not? You don’t share most humor here?
Personally I will not persevere. There are too many Cerberus here.
I admire your persistence, FR. But what’s been going on here is distasteful, and uncomfortably close to bullying.
I have probably enough self confidence in myself. A lot of friends in France say I am funny and with a lot of imagination. They are doctors, engineers, or some with more modest jobs.
However I will not persist more because I respect those here who want to relax and have some fun, not reading negative comments.
But I wanted first to respond to some nasty inflated brains.
The other reason is the barrier of the language. Difficult to translate french jokes.
A gnome is in the garden busily destroying some bushes when a house cat appears.
“What are you?” asks the cat.
“A gnome,” comes the reply. “I steal food from humans, I kill their plants, I make annoying music at night to drive them crazy, and I love mischief. And what, may I ask, are you?”
The cat replies, “Um, I guess I’m a gnome.”
An apple pie costs £2.50 in Jamaica and £3.00 in the Bahamas.
These are the pie rates of the carrabean.
Do you know Viazac?
No, what’s that?
It’s Viagra and Prozac in one. You don’t get hard anymore but you don’t care.
The man who invented the double entendre died last week.
His wife’s taking it hard.
That’s a coincidence because the man who wrote the Hokey Cokey died last week. All was going well until they tried to get him into the coffin…They got the left leg in…the left leg out…
A man is walking through a forest when he comes across a strange looking little man wearing a pointy hat sitting on a stump slumped forward with his head in his hands.
“Are you a Goblin?” the man asks.
“No I’m not” came the indignant reply “I’m a gnome and I’ve got a headache”
In french , double entendre means « double sens », which means both or double directions.
In English idiomatic usage, a “double entendre” is a phrase that can be taken in two different ways, one of which is smutty and the other of which is respectable. It all depends in that example how you understand the word “hard”.
My son is taking part in a social experiment: He has to wear a Tottenham Hotspur top for two weeks to see how people react.
So far he has been laughed at, spat at, punched and verbally abused.
It will be interesting to see what happens when he leaves the house.
I can’t find it funny either and I’m British.
steve
I have quoted from Mike-B’s post above which I consider provides an excellent summary of 'allo 'allo.
Obviously not everyone’s cup of tea. I happened to find it amusing, but not rib-tickeling funny.
