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Ruddy Hell - It's Harry And Paul : Complete BBC Series 1
All six episodes of the first series of Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul! are collected in this set, and you’ll meet plenty of new characters along the way. Take Jose Arrogantio, a football manager who clearly has no real-life equivalent, American tourists Pam and Ronald, ‘I Saw You Coming’ and overweight teenagers Jamie and Oliver. Setting up so many characters does mean that Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul! does take some time to get up to speed, but it soon starts delivering a fair few laughs. Sure, it’s crying out in places for Kathy Burke, who starred with Whitehouse and Enfield in the outstanding Harry Enfield and Chums, but the pair nonetheless layer enough good work in here to make a second series a worthwhile venture. For now, this first outing is a mixed bag, with a lot that doesn’t work, but a fair amount that does. Fortunately, there’s enough within Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul! to nonetheless make it worth your time. --Jon Foster
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
After many, many years apart, it’s genuinely great to see comedy heroes Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield reunited for a brand new sketch show. And while Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul! doesn’t really come close to touching the brilliance of their work in the 1990s, there’s still quite a lot to enjoy.
Editorial
Synopsis
Comedy chums Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse reunite for this hilarious sketch show, populated by all-new characters.
Real Comedy Ho He Hu Hi Ha.........See.
Review date: 2008-03-30 Rating: 10 out of 10
Who would have thought that the return of these blokes in 2007 would have resulted in such glorious stuff.
Being so very old usually means diluted and lacking ideas and it also means apathy and resting on your laurels.
This series walks all over Peep Show (awful) Green Wing (awful) well lets face it endless people trying to be funny and not getting there because they really are trying too hard.
Comedy, like all art comes from the desire to rebel or to feel so outraged or put upon that a reaction comes spilling out and that reaction can be to give up and die or go and moan to yourself or in some cases to write or create fine comedy.
Comedy does not come from sitting down in a nice chair with a malt whisky and a cigar and hoping for the best.
If you watch these sketches closely you may feel and see what I reckon is some real anger and venom, directed at the subjects concerned, for thier idiocy, and realised through comedy. To spell it out as it is would get you sued, after all.
Neil.......
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Reviews
A nice return for two old mates.
Review date: 2007-12-04 Rating: 8 out of 10
The series which joins old messers Harry and Paul again goes from strength too strength. It starts weakly (but with a few stunning sketches) and gets better and better with each episode.
The comedy is both more mature and more childish. New catchacters like the Posh builders, 'I saw you coming', José Arrogantio (Mourniho micky take), Pik the South African (so ture) and the divorcing couple just ome of the great sketches which get better as the series progresses'. You probably have to be an adult to see the brilliance of many of the observations but if you get it then you will gradually love it. Not as stunningly great as their original series but a more subtile and clever one here.
Amazing............that the BBC release this poor effort instead of his earlier work
Review date: 2007-10-22 Rating: 4 out of 10
I'm surprised that Harry Enfield has been off the tv for so long, in the 90's he was probably Britains biggest comedy tv star, then dissapeared. I was curious if he'd still be able to cut it after all this time and after watching this series, the answer was no.
In simple terms the material just isn't that funny. A lot of the best comedies now are very different from the stuff he does, Peep Show, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd are where it's at now, and Harry can no longer appeal to the younger audience the way he used to, and to return after this amount of time with mediocre material makes you ask why he bothered coming back, but more puzzling why the BBC has some great series of his in their vaults which have gone unreleased; the series the fans actually want, yet release this, that is vastly inferior.
Ruddy Funny, Fantastically Brill...
Review date: 2007-10-08 Rating: 10 out of 10
The first review at the bottom is wrong. This is hilarious, and I agree, the 'I saw you coming' sketch is brilliant. It was a real treat to see Endfield and Whitehouse together again on the beeb. Dying for this to come out, can't wait!
Fantastic
Review date: 2007-09-23 Rating: 10 out of 10
One of the funniest sketch shows ever. We are still shouting "Oi Dean" at each other. The other review is wrong - the show gets better and better and better. The "I saw you coming" sketches are outstanding. Cannot wait until Nov 26!!!
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Paul Whitehouse
Harry Enfield
Creators:
Harry Enfield (Primary Contributor)
Paul Whitehouse (Primary Contributor)
Recording label: 2 Entertain Video
Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
EAN: 5014503250621
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2007-11-26
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 170 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)