What's your favorite comedy duo?

[terrya]

Like Cheech and Chong, Burns and Allen, Stiller and Meara, etc.

[nytemare]

1. Laurel and Hardy

And French and Saunders.

[Richardo]

4. I see your Laurel and Hardy, and raise you a Bob and Ray.

Plus a Kathy and Mo.

[Auggie]

23. Bob and Ray -- I forgot about them. They were great.

[Auggie]

2. Same -- Laurel and Hardy

[Felix Mala]

16. Laurel and Hardy 4-Ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8tKfvKhysY

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Say goodnight Gracie...

There was a sweetness there that you really never see anymore.

[mitchum]

5. Martin and Lewis

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. The Smothers Brothers...

"Mom always liked you more".

[Richardo]

8. Yes!

:thumbsup:

[Joe Fields]

11. yes, yes!

[EFerrari]

15. "Manja la porta!"

The punchline is "Eat the door!" - one I remembered after so many years and after Kid ate the inside of the bathroom door in protest. :)

[1gobluedem]

17. Another vote for the Smothers Brothers

Best comedy duo ever.

[Frank Cannon]

38. And I also vote for the Smothers Brothers

The combination of funny as hell, musically talented, and FEARLESSLY progressive/liberal is just impossible to beat.

[Common Sense Party]

55. I love the Smothers Brothers.

Boil That Cabbage Down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgwH-XngXKo (Pumas in the crevice.)

Hangman, Slack Your Rope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSqGtRou448

They Call the Wind Mariah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRxs8p8Is0

Muleskinner Blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsLT9eNXekY (Crossbreed with no sex)

[texas1928]

7. Abbott and Costello

My all time favorite.


Martin and Lewis are right behind them.

[usaftmo]

58. Who's on first?

Somewhere I've got a poster that has that entire dialog on it.

I also really liked the part where they join the Army, and trying to hold the weapon properly/facing movements/march correctly.

[TommyO]

59. Susquehanna Hat....

Slowly I turned,
step-by-step,
inch-by-inch...

Yes, it's an old bit, but watching the endless reruns every Sunday morning was a tradition in our household.

[BOSSHOG]

9. Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters

[XNASA]

10. Cook & Moore

[dolo amber]

26. YES!

:thumbsup:

[IntravenousDemilo]

35. One Leg Too Few

PETER: Miss Rigby! Stella, my love! Would you send in the next auditioner, please? Mr Spiggott, I believe it is... (ENTER DUDLEY, HOPPING ON ONE LEG) Ah, Mr. Spiggott, I believe...

DUDLEY: Yes, Spiggott by name, Spiggott by nature. (KEEPS HOPPING)

PETER: Yes... if you'd like to remain motionless for a moment, Mr Spiggott. (DUDLEY TAGS PETER)

DUDLEY: You're it!

PETER: Please be stood. (DUDLEY PROPS HIMSELF UP AGAINST A CHAIR) Now, Mr Spiggott, you are auditioning, are you not, for the part of Tarzan?

DUDLEY: Right.

PETER: Well, Mr Spiggott, I couldn't help noticing almost at once that you are a one-legged person.

DUDLEY: You noticed that?

PETER: I noticed that, Mr Spiggott. When you've been in the business as long as I have you come to notice these things almost instinctively. Now, Mr Spiggott, you, a one-legged man, are applying for the role of Tarzan -- a role that traditionally involves the use of a two-legged artiste.

DUDLEY: Correct.

PETER: And yet you, a unidexter, are applying for the role.

DUDLEY: Right.

PETER: A role for which two legs would seem to be the minimum requirement.

DUDLEY: Very true.

PETER: Well, Mr Spiggott, need I point out to you where your deficiency lies as regards landing the role?

DUDLEY: Yes, I think you ought to.

PETER: Need I say without overmuch emphasis that it is in the leg division that you are deficient.

DUDLEY: The leg division?

PETER: The leg division, Mr Spiggott. You are deficient in it to the tune of one. Your right leg I like. I like your right leg. A lovely leg for the role. That's what I said when I saw you come in. I said "Hello -- lovely leg for the role." I've got nothing against your right leg, Mr Spiggott. The trouble is - neither have you. You fall down on your left.

DUDLEY: You mean it's inadequate?

PETER: Yes, it's inadequate, Mr Spiggott. And, to my mind, the British public is not ready for the sight of a one-legged apeman swinging through the jungly tendrils shouting "Hello, Jane."

DUDLEY: I see.

PETER: However, don't despair. After all, you score over a man with no legs at all. Should a legless man come in here demanding the role, I should have no hesitation in saying "Get out. Run away."

DUDLEY: So there's still a chance?

PETER: There is still a very good chance, Mr Spiggott. If we get no two-legged actors in here within the next, oh, say, eighteen months, there is still a very good chance that you'll land this vital role. Failing two-legged actors, you, a unidexter, are just the sort of person we shall be in some way attempting at some time to contact telephonically.

DUDLEY: Well...thank you very much.

PETER: So my advice is, to hop on a bus, go home, and sit by your telephone in the hope that we will be getting in touch with you. (SHOWS DUDLEY OUT) I'm sorry I can't be more definite, but as you realise, it's really a two-legged man we're after. Good morning Mr Spiggott.

[enigmatic]

40. Hysterical

Thanks for this!:thumbsup:

[Common Sense Party]

54. You have to see it to thoroughly enjoy it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMomkX0w03E

[ceile]

12. Ackroyd and Belushi.....

if you can call them a "duo"

[Little Star]

13. Laverne and Shirley.

What a good show that was.

[Felix Mala]

18. Laverne's Opus to Shirley

If in Heaven we don't meet,

Hand in hand, we'll bear the heat

And if it ever gets too hot

Pepsi-cola hits the spot!

[Little Star]

21. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Schlameel, Schlamazel, Hassenpepper Incorporated

Back atcha.....

[EFerrari]

14. Nichols and May.are a treasure. If you've never heard them

do it TODAY. :)

[IntravenousDemilo]

42. "Gauze." "Gauze." "More gauze..." "More gauze..." "A little more gauze..." "A little more gauze..."

Mike Nichols & Elaine May were brilliant together, and they've done OK separately, too. Nichols has directed a lot of my favourite movies.

[Mojambo]

19. Bob and David

[enigmatic]

20. Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo

Nothing better:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hQ1CC1JGyAI

Duke's Godly homage to The Godfather:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2007/02/duke-mitchells-executioner.html


http://www.hermancohen.com/interviews/interviews-cohen3.html
http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/21/petrillo.html

[ronnykmarshall]

22. Lucille Ball & Vivan Vance

Not really a comedy duo, but they were two of the best sitcom teams of all time.

[Initech]

24. Tenacious D!!!

[Z_I_Peevey]

25. Wayne and Shuster.

Not really, I just wanted to see if anybody remembers them. Although I liked them well enough. They were no Burns and Schrieber, though.

[u4ic]

43. I did a double take there!

:rofl:

[trof]

27. Rowan & Martin were pretty good on Laugh-In.

[sarge43]

28. Dating myself beyond redemption

The Bickersons: Don Ameche and Frances Langford

[Orsino]

29. Fry and Laurie, lately.

Thanks to YouTube.

[Connonym]

57. ditto

They're brilliant

[GOPisEvil]

30. Shields and Yarnell

Just kidding.

How about The Smothers Brothers? :thumbsup:

Edit - French and Saunders as well.

[Forkboy]

31. Tom and Jerry

:)

Or maybe Fry and Laurie.

[philosophie_en_rose]

32. French & Saunders

or Fry and Laurie

[enigmatic]

33. Another one: Derek And Clive

To say they were filthy is to say that The Aristocrats is an off-color joke. But they were also screamingly funny:

http://www.phespirit.info/derekandclive/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_and_Clive

Streams of their stuff (which of course, ARE filthy):

http://www.backpacknuke.com/derek.and.clive/

[IntravenousDemilo]

36. ...which, for those who are unfamiliar, is Peter Cook and Dudley Moore...

...very, very drunk (see XNASA's post 10). It was at about the time of their last outing, "Derek and Clive Get the Horn", that they had their final falling out. Cook was a fucking genius, but also an unhappy man who could get extremely nasty.

[enigmatic]

Absolutely

Peter was incredibly nasty when he was drunk (which in the latter stages of his life, was more often than not), and he could weild his cutting wit at anybody that got in the way. But the first 2 Derek and Clive records were about as funny (and filthy) as it gets...

What do you think of the new avatar? If you want a copy, I'll send it along:D

[enigmatic]

39. Absolutely

Peter was incredibly nasty when he was drunk (which in the latter stages of his life, was more often than not), and he could weild his cutting wit at anybody that got in the way. But the first 2 Derek and Clive records were about as funny (and filthy) as it gets...

What do you think of the new avatar? If you want a copy, I'll send it along:D

[IntravenousDemilo]

41. Oh, yes, please!

Actually I was able to drag the same-size version over to my Mac desktop, but if you have a larger one, that would be lovely.

You've seen Bedazzled, I suppose? I mean the original Cook/Moore one, not the unnecessary remake with Brendan Fraser. Terry got me the DVD when it came out, and I also have their gloriously awful version of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Oh, this is my favourite Derek and Clive sketch:


CLIVE (COOK): What was the worst job you had?

DEREK (MOORE): The worst job I ever had? Yeah -- (SNIFFS AND CLEARS HIS THROAT)

CLIVE: What, was just that? Coughing?

DEREK: Well, I had to collect up-, it was a very difficult job. I had to collect up every year -- financial year, you know, April .....

CLIVE: Every ear? Whose ears did you collect up?

DEREK: ..... Apr --, no, wait, no, "year". April to April.

CLIVE: Yeah.

DEREK: (BELCHES) Pardon... All the phlegm what Winston Churchill had gobbed out into his bucket by the bed.

CLIVE: Oh, God, yes, I was offered that job .....

DEREK: And .....

CLIVE: ..... but I said, "No," I said, "I'm not going to collect all that phlegm 'cause he has so many cigars, so much brandy, I am NOT, as a human being, going to go round with buckets collecting that fucking phlegm."

DEREK: Well, I'll tell you .....

CLIVE: I said, "I'm not going to touch it." I said, "I won't touch it, .....

DEREK: No.

CLIVE: ..... I'd rather be a destitute."

DEREK: The trouble was he used to take bogies in secret, you see.

CLIVE: What, he had them in a cupboard .....

DEREK: He had .....

CLIVE: ..... which no-one could see?

DEREK: He was a secret bogier. He used to have bottles of the stuff. I used to collect it up for him, I never realised that he was, in fact, taking it of a night.

CLIVE: And then just blowing it out.

DEREK: And then blowing it out in the fucking morning! I mean .....

CLIVE: And it-

DEREK: You didn't know where you fucking were. I came in the morning, there was the same fucking bogie on the bedspread. I thought, "Fuck me! I only collected this one last night and there's the cunt lying on the fucking bedspread again," you see. And you know, I thought I was seeing things. I had a feeling of deja vu.

CLIVE: Well, it must have been tricky for you 'cause I remember hearing stories about Winston's bogies which were unbelievable because, erm, you know, he could produce a bogie as big as, er, the Titanic. Ohh, it was dreadful .....

DEREK: You know -- you know why?

CLIVE: He threatened Hitler with it, didn't he?

DEREK: You know what happened?

CLIVE: He threatened Hitler with it.

DEREK: Well, the bogie that was as big as the Titanic .....

CLIVE: Yeah.

DEREK: ..... was in fact the Titanic! Did you know that?

CLIVE: Well, this is -- this is what I heard!

DEREK: Yeah. The trouble -- no .....

CLIVE: But I've never had it confirmed!

DEREK: Well, this is -- now keep it -- keep it, like, very quiet .....

CLIVE: Keep it very quiet.

DEREK: ..... but the bogie that Winston had that was like the Titanic was, in fact .....

CLIVE: ....was the Titanic!

DEREK: ..... there was no such fucking thing as the Ti-fucking-tanic.

CLIVE: So people went to sea .....

DEREK: People went, no, people thought it was the Titanic but it wasn't! They were .....

CLIVE: They went to sea on Winston .....

DEREK: They went to sea on -- on Winston's bogie.

CLIVE: ..... Winston's bogie, yeah.

DEREK: And the fucker sank! And fucking why not!

CLIVE: And, and they -- they played on. They played on.

DEREK: They fucking played on. Well .....

CLIVE: The violinist kept playing while the bogie sank,

DEREK: The trouble is, you see, bogies are not really seaworthy.

CLIVE: Well, I've always .....

DEREK: Winston was a cunt!

CLIVE: I've always said this, I've always said this: you cannot float on a bogie. Don't try to cross the ocean on a bogie otherwise you're sunk. And who took any notice? Fucking nobody took any bloody notice!

DEREK: Right, and all those .....

CLIVE: I'LL TELL YOU WHO TOOK NOTICE!!

DEREK: WHO?

CLIVE: FUCKING NOBODY TOOK NOTICE!!

DEREK: Right!

CLIVE: That's who I'll tell you took notice!

DEREK: You're fucking right, mate!

CLIVE: Yeah, nobody took fucking notice!

DEREK: Fucking no one!

CLIVE: No one took notice!

DEREK: All those cunts!

CLIVE: All those cunts .....

DEREK: Trooping onto the fucking bogie!

CLIVE: ..... went out to sea on Winston's bogie and what happened to them?

DEREK: S.S. Fucking Bogie!

CLIVE: They fucking sunk, didn't they?

DEREK: Right, fucking cunts!

CLIVE: Yeah.

DEREK: Right.

CLIVE: So, the next time you see a travel brochure saying: "Go to Majorca on weekends .....

DEREK: On a bogie!

CLIVE: ..... on a bogie" -- forget it, mate! FORGET IT! Because that is the FUCKING END OF THE WORLD!!

(AND THEN DUDLEY MOORE GOES INTO AN INCREDIBLE FIT OF DRUNKEN, OUT OF CONTROL LAUGHTER)

[enigmatic]

46. Yes!!

Oh man, I should play that on my show tonight:D

I'm going to send you a pm in a sec!

[IntravenousDemilo]

48. When's your show?

I must tune in.

[enigmatic]

52. It's on 1-8am every night

I have run-over from some nights from the shows before mine; it's pretty much a gumbo of whatever I feel like playing. And I do take requests, and I play everything:D

Here's our webby:

http://www.radioenigma.com

[jobycom]

34. That's easy, eh. Bob and Doug McKenzie.

[havocmom]

37. MATCOM & ZombieWoof

:headbang:

[Catshrink]

44. Carol Burnett & Co.

Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vickie Lawrence. I laught 'til I pee when I see them.

[u4ic]

45. French and Saunders, the two Ronnies

Fry and Laurie...it's a toss up. Depends on the skit.



A favourite two Ronnies sketch: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zIFx_GQIfSk

[Bryan]

47. Currently active or all-time?

The pair I like most at the moment is Mitchell & Webb:

"Nazi realization"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_90aSXkP5Q

"Sir Digby Chicken Caesar"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QACSo5xk3dE

"The Green Clarinet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekx3unEYYWg

"Numberwang"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

[bridgit]

49. AbFab...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely_Fabulous :rofl:

[Wetzelbill]

50. I am partial to Kurovski and Howard Dean

[Dem4truth]

51. I gotta go with Cheech and Chong. n/t

[pokerfan]

53. Cheech and Chong rules

(Soft knocks at the door)
CHONG: Who is it?
CHEECH: It's me, Dave. Open up, man, I got the stuff.

(More knocks)
CHONG: Who is it?
CHEECH: It's me, Dave, man. Open up, I got the stuff.
CHONG: Who?
CHEECH: It's, Dave, man. Open up, I think the cops saw me come in here. (More knocks)
CHONG: Who is it?
CHEECH: It's, Dave, man. Will you open up, I got the stuff with me.
CHONG: Who?
CHEECH: Dave, man. Open up.
CHONG: Dave?
CHEECH: Yeah, Dave. C'mon, man, open up, I think the cops saw me.
CHONG: Dave's not here.
CHEECH: No, man, I'm Dave, man.

(Sharp knocks at the door)
CHEECH: Hey, c'mon, man.
CHONG: Who is it?
CHEECH: It's Dave, man. Will you open up? I got the stuff with me.
CHONG: Who?
CHEECH: Dave, man. Open up.
CHONG: Dave?
CHEECH: Yeah, Dave.
CHONG: Dave's not here.
CHEECH: What the hell? No, man, I am Dave, man. Will you...

(More knocks)
CHEECH: C'mon! Open up the door, will you? I got the stuff with me, I think the cops
saw me.
CHONG: Who is it?
CHEECH: Oh, what the hell is it...c'mon. Open up the door! It's Dave!
CHONG: Who?
CHEECH: Dave! D-A-V-E! Will you open up the goddam door!
CHONG: Dave?
CHEECH: Yeah, Dave!
CHONG: Dave?
CHEECH: Right, man. Dave. Now will you open up the door?
CHONG: Dave's not here.

[eauclaireliberal]

56. Cheech and Chong

Which was hysterical when I was 14 and smoking a lot of reefer. In adulthood, it bores the piss out of me.