Who are the best double act?

I vote for Laurel and Hardy myself.

However, Morecambe and Wise comes a close second for me.

the Krankies :clap:

Originally posted by littleboo
the Krankies :clap:

come on!!! be serious



ermm



the chuckle brothers :D

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whoops john!

Rik Mayall + Ade Edmunson....((BOTTOM)):D

I was just kidding:hihi: The Krankies...lol

it's got to be VIC AND BOB

this double act has had me laughing since the late 80's
they have done some crazy things but great things,


Laurel and hardy were great too, I remember watching them when I was younger. the best acts are the ones which can be enjoyed by all. no smut etc...



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Originally posted by littleboo
I was just kidding:hihi: The Krankies...lol

it's got to be VIC AND BOB

this double act has had me laughing since the late 80's
they have done some crazy things but great things,


Laurel and hardy were great too, I remember watching them when I was younger. the best acts are the ones which can be enjoyed by all. no smut etc...
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I went to school with Vic Reeves's first wife Sarah Vincent...a friend of mine was actually invited to their wedding and said he wasn't funny....:hihi:

Don't suppose it was his job to be on his very own wedding day!
I like 'em to but prefer Bob!!

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Originally posted by Shiesh
I went to school with Vic Reeves's first wife Sarah Vincent...a friend of mine was actually invited to their wedding and said he wasn't funny....:hihi:

Don't suppose it was his job to be on his very own wedding day!
I like 'em to but prefer Bob!!

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Very strange that, my friend went to that wedding too.. She didn't actually know Vic or Bob but the lucky so and so got invited by one of the other guests.

She too said Vic wasn't funny, but she said Bob was, he was having a romantic moment with a cucumber on the dance floor!

and I agree Bob is the funniest, They make me laugh when they are doing a sketch and you can see them trying not to laugh at each other.:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

It has to be Laurel and Hardy.

For some reason, they seem to appeal more to men than to women. I read a biography of them last year and discovered a lot more about their lives off stage. Ollie was quiet and unassuming off stage. Stan was a bit of a ladies man and seemed to have had quite a few affairs. When Stan first went to the US, he was on the same boat as Chaplin, who apparently ignored him. I tihnk Stan is much funnier than Chaplin anyway.

As for Morecambe and Wise, i must be the only person alive who never found them funny. I thought their attmepts at humour were laboured and obvious and also a little twee.

Best comedy duo has to be the hilarious Bush & Blair.

You can catch their zany antics on most tv channels around 9-10pm.

For me it has to be Sheffields own......









































Kirky and Owdlad!!!

Originally posted by MTheo
come on!!! be serious



ermm



the chuckle brothers :D

The Chuckle Brothers?! WTF?! They're from bloody ROTHERHAM for a start never mind the fact that they're not even funny.. :lol:

No offense intended to Rotherhamites (is that the word?) who post on here.

its got to be acts such as laurel and hardy,abbot & costello,tony hancock & syd james (although they weren't really a double act in the true sense of the word)and of the more modern era only morecambe & wise stand out,they were great,as for the new breed of double acts---dreadful and very unfunny!!:gag: oh sorry forgot the chuckle bros--and i'm not kidding either i think they're ace--keep going paul & barry!!:)

IMO no-one can top Morecombe & Wise, but I used to like Peter Cook & Dudley Moore as a double-act....and, although they weren't a double-act, The Goons were brilliant. I don't think there's really any present-day acts that can match those.

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the two guys on the mighty boosh make me laugh, baddiel and skinner are funny too.

MAX & PADDY THEY ARE THE BEST!!:clap:

I agree with Lord Chaverly here; Laurel and Hardy are the finest double act ever. How nice to see that they are still very popular, judging by sales of dvds. Additionally, it is heartwarming to hear an ultra fashionable comedian and writer like Ricky Gervais cite them as his biggest influence and favourites. If you are ever feeling down, watch 'Blotto', 'Chickens come home' or 'Pardon Us'. You won't be miserable for long.

Runners up have to be Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The philistines who destroyed tapes of the bulk of their BBC shows should be hung for treason, or at the very least sent to a British version of the Gulag. I love their three 'Derek and Clive' records, which oddly [given their obscene content] remind me of my late father. I have fond memories of how he and I laughed like drains at 'Cancer', 'Alfie Noakes', 'Worse job you ever had' etc. Both Cook and Moore died much too young. Cook, in particular, changed the face of English satire. Perhaps he is the most important English satirist since Swift, with Evelyn Waugh,and his son Auberon just behind him?

Thirdly, I would place Reeves and Mortimer. They have been called a 'postmodern Morecambe and Wise'. I disagree.They are a Dadaist version of music hall, especially in their early 'Big Night Out' incarnation. They don't do cruelty, leaving that to League of Gentlemen [a sort of forensic Monty Python, if we are making comparisons]. Reeves and Mortimer are actually quite old-fashioned in style, influenced by Les Dawson as much as by 'cerebral' material like Milligan and Python. They are very 'Northern' too, and accessible to a wide age group. At their best, they go beyond Milligan, Python and other absurdists into a unique northern English Dadaist world where people are advised to paint 'a high fox', and music hall type catchphrases abound. Truly original, and often incredibly funny.

BARKER: Four Candles!
CORBETT: Four Candles?
BARKER: Four Candles.
(Ronnie Corbett makes for a box, and gets out four candles. He places them on the counter)
BARKER: No, four candles!
CORBETT (confused): Well there you are, four candles!
BARKER: No, fork 'andles! 'Andles for forks!


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Matt Lucas and David Walliams

Without a doubt, its got to be

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor

Rotherham's very own Chuckle Bros!!!

Agree with previous poster who've said

Laurel and Hardy.... Bought the box-set of DVD's t'other day!

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Itchy and Scratchy
Patti and Selma
Mr Burns and Smithers
Homer and Moe or Flanders or Barney or - you get my drift!


Bender and Fry

Stewie and Brain (the Dog)

morecambe & wise - fabulous.

Best double act?

Barney and Betty
Fred and Wilma
Pebbles and Bamm Bamm

Mmm, that Betty.. If only she were real, she's a total babe! :love:

Wilma's *ahem* a bit nice as well.. :love: Not as hot as Betty but still pretty darn fit.

Stan & Ollie, no question. They were so ahead of their time, yet are hilarious even today, generations later.

Some famous sage (I forget who) once said that every comedien of 'modern' times was either influenced directly by Stan Laurel, or was influenced by someone else who was.

Originally posted by John
Who are the best double act?

I vote for Laurel and Hardy myself.

However, Morecambe and Wise comes a close second for me.

Definitely Ronnie Dukes And Ricki Lee, does anyone have video material of these great club artists. I have their live lp

Got to agree with Timo re: 'Derek and Clive' and the CD recordings you can buy, picked one in Fopp - great value. I've always particularly liked 'Jump' - absolute class!! ;)