Tragic emotional scenes in British comedy
The Wizard
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One thing I love most about British comedy and sitcoms is our ability to combine some of the most funniest moments with the most endearing, heart warming/heart wrenching scenes of sadness and empathy.
These have to be some of my all time favourites. Hope you can share yours...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM&itct=CDUQpDAYASITCLfP8Z6SmcACFVQDwgod0VMAnFIWYmthY2thZGRlciBmaW5hbCBzY2VuZQ%3D%3D&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&gl=GB
Sorry can't find a clip but the final scene in Goodnight Sweetheart where he gets trapped in the past and also same actor in Only Fools & Horses where Rodney and Casandra lose the baby.
Pretty sure there was many more OFAH moments and Porridge too. Maybe you can think of some others. I'm sure Gavin & Stacey had the odd sad scenes too.
These have to be some of my all time favourites. Hope you can share yours...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM&itct=CDUQpDAYASITCLfP8Z6SmcACFVQDwgod0VMAnFIWYmthY2thZGRlciBmaW5hbCBzY2VuZQ%3D%3D&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&gl=GB
Sorry can't find a clip but the final scene in Goodnight Sweetheart where he gets trapped in the past and also same actor in Only Fools & Horses where Rodney and Casandra lose the baby.
Pretty sure there was many more OFAH moments and Porridge too. Maybe you can think of some others. I'm sure Gavin & Stacey had the odd sad scenes too.
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What about Fools and Horses when grandad died? So much sad and funny, when they spread his ashes.
One Foot In The Grave had a lot of tragic and emotional scenes as well
I'd nominate the one where they go on a day out in the country and Victor somehow gets lost. He finds a house, which turns out to be a care home (for the elderly) where he discovers they are abusing the residents. The first time I saw that (as a kid) it quite shocked me, though the boss/staff members do get their comeuppance.
When I first saw that, having laughed my way through the series, it was really upsetting. I'd just come back from a trip to Flanders and I blubbed big time.
As a fan of OFAH I liked how it seemed to get a perfect balance between emotional and comedy during the sad scenes. Grandads funeral couldn't have been nothing but one liners but for a comedy show it couldn't end on a sad note either so of course there was the thing about the vicars hat which wasn't hilarious but just enough to make you chuckle and finish an otherwise emotional scene.
Ken - You only get one Dad
Melanie - And you're mine
Every time I see that I cry.
E2A...I haven't worded that very well but anybody who's seen it will know what I mean.
Oh God, don't start me off....
The final episode tugged at my heartstrings too, when Derek's dad passed away and was being driven away by the private ambulance and Derek appears in shot riding a push-bike after it, having only just learnt to ride a bike.
That'd be my choice as well. One of the most remarkable pieces of acting I've ever seen.
I don't remember seeing that before. Its quite something, that look down the lens.
I agree, very good. What drama was it taken from?
The chap was a regular in a sketch show called The Fast Show, as I remember.
Very funny and clever.
Thanks, I'll look that up. But, that scene in the link, was it a part of a drama or just a one off?
A recurring sketch in the Fast Show.
The chap appeared in a short sketch most weeks. Just sitting in the chair drinking and telling some story or other. He always ended his often incomprehensible stories with 'of course I was exceedingly/ awfully/ terribly drunk'.