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Hale & Pace

Started by madhair60, July 12, 2018, 03:58:05 PM

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madhair60

I have ten series' of this on my hard drive. Worth a watch or shift-delete the lot?

biggytitbo

I really loved Hale and Pace at the time, but I suspect it was because I was 14 as it was aimed at that level most of the time.


I suspect the earlier series might still hold up in a sub Smith and Jones way, but they did hit diminishing returns as they went on, with the shock value sketches.

BeardFaceMan

The shock value sketches were always there, in the first sketch of the first series there are naked breasts on show.  The first 2 series still hold up if you like that sort of sketch comedy, decline started in the 3rd series for me and it declined pretty fast. Fuck knows how they made it to 10 series.  And the less said about the BBC show the better.

Influential isnt the right word but they were definitely respected in their day (Vic & Bob appeared in a later series H&P sketch lampooning themselves). Got stolen from a bit over the years too, they did the original version of the 'movie censored for tv' sketch, before Harry Enfield or Mr Show. And the bit in Father Ted with Mrs Doyle and her mate getting into a scrap over who pays the bill is a lift from a H&P sketch.

In summary then, not amazing (although Gareth Hale does do the best cheeky chappie face ever done) but nowhere near as shit as people would have you believe.

hedgehog90

The sketch where the window cleaner gets torn in half by the automatic doors made me cry, there was also a sketch where one of them ate a tarantula and that was pretty upsetting too.

Now I can finally do the '28 years old' joke, I can't quite bring myself to do it properly, it's suddenly lost all its charm.
*sigh*
I was 4 at the time when all of this happened, not 28... I'm leaving now.

Malcy

I don't remember a lot of it but this is my favourite

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wPjJFv1NDBg

And their Doctor Who cameo where they advised the Doctor on which foods cats liked the best...



Might download the lot so I have them there for watching.

Sebastian Cobb

The best thing they done was appear in a shoe shop on TAIS

DrGreggles


Brundle-Fly

They were well in with all the alternative brigade of the early eighties but went in a more mainstream direction. I've rather a soft spot for them nowadays because I thought they were a Happy Shopper Smith & Jones at the time.

Look at all their little foetus faces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEjXYS8UXFU

Brundle-Fly


BeardFaceMan

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4uc0wCckghk

I nearly laughed myself into a coma at this when it first went out. I had bronchitis and it was Hales face when he cottons on to the "one skin, two skin, three skin" bit and what it means that did it for me, I had a full on coughing and laughing fit that left me unable to breathe, I had to turn the tv off. Fuck me, there used to be an hour of genuinely great scripted comedy on a Sunday night on ITV, why did that have to go away?

kalowski

Both Pushing up Daisies and Coming Next were good. I remember a great "children's TV" sketch, parodying Play Away.
"What am I?"
"You're a dwarf milking a cow"

Bhazor

They popped up in Benidorm a couple years ago. I was oddly endeared. Same episode as a Mark Heap and Selina Griffiths. Shite show but a nice retirement home.

non capisco

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on July 12, 2018, 06:55:24 PM
And quite frankly this sketch is bloody brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihe9tFuEWEU&frags=pl%2Cwn

Flippin' 'eck, it actually is!

"A-GIVE US YOUR WALLET!"

Fabian Thomsett

The privatised dustmen sketch is pretty funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epBwZdBsSDY

Probably about as political as they got

Phil_A

Does anyone remember their turn as the prototype Dalziel & Pascoe in the short lived "A Pinch Of Snuff"? That was a slightly odd move.

Then there's their cameo in The Armando Iannucci Shows of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQxiVUjQgk


Andy147

According to John Finnemore, two separate people told him that Norman Pace was the nicest celebrity they'd ever met, which is why he's described as a lovely man in Cabin Pressure.

biggytitbo

Another thing of theirs I liked was when they would spend 2 weeks learning a difficult job then would have to do it in a real situation, some of those were crackers, especially the one where they became horse racing commentators which they found extremely gruelling.

Sgt. Duckie

Don't forget when they stonked to the rhythm of the honky tonk, and got to number one in the charts. There are no decent quality versions for the music video to Let's Stonk on Youtube but The Mary Whitehouse Experience seemed less than enthusiastic to be in it, from memory.

Rolf Lundgren

Quote from: biggytitbo on July 13, 2018, 08:52:39 AM
Another thing of theirs I liked was when they would spend 2 weeks learning a difficult job then would have to do it in a real situation, some of those were crackers, especially the one where they became horse racing commentators which they found extremely gruelling.

'Jobs for the Boys' and then there was 'Jobs for the Girls' with Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson. Those were good shows.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Rolf Lundgren on July 13, 2018, 09:33:54 AM
'Jobs for the Boys' and then there was 'Jobs for the Girls' with Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson. Those were good shows.

I always thought 'Jobs For The Boys' was Hale & Pace learning how to present 'In At The Deep End'. It would have been meta-tastic if they'd had Chris Searle and Paul Heiny as their on screen advisors.


checkoutgirl

The tea sketch is pretty good and holds up but I can't remember much about the show even though I watched it as a bairn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_gN4qZwBE

I also remember a song and dance number about faxing in the office, the innuendo being fax sounds a bit like fucks "I fax you, you fax me" which is complete rubbish so might have been from a later series.

Barry Admin

"I'll fax you, you fax me, we're fax mad in the company.
I'll go down on bended knee, if you will fax me."

Amazed I still remember that. One that comes to mind more commonly is the scouser one. "Dey do do dat dere don't dey."

Barry Admin

Ahh here it is "Ked Dodd is a demigod, stashing cash in Knotty Ash." Fucking great stuff.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1txa-k7-r_4

You often see familiar faces like Doon Mackichan in their stuff too.

I'd say it's well worth at least watching the last five minutes of each episode for the songs. Anyone know the credits on those? All Peter Brewis, or who else?

petril

you're never gonna get this song out of your head

I was born early 80s, so Hale and Pace was probably perfectly timed for me. Just after Spitting Image, on a Sunday when you've not quite gotten tired enough. Being rude and doing rude things. Stuff of the playground at the age of 10 or 11.

By the time of secondary school, they were one of those things that got pushed out of the way as shit because you liked it when you were in primary school, what with adolsescence being what it is. I remember finding (probably their) last sketch series flung out in midweek during the summer holiday and finding it ropey oul' shite. You didn't expect much of summer weeknight comedy fayre (I discovered Room 101 in its imperial Hancock-actually-arguing-back phase pomp on summer,) but they'd gone. Punchline for newer acts is one of the worst endings for a comedian.

Absorb the anus burn

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on July 13, 2018, 01:00:50 PM
I always thought 'Jobs For The Boys' was Hale & Pace learning how to present 'In At The Deep End'. It would have been meta-tastic if they'd had Chris Searle and Paul Heiny as their on screen advisors.

I wanted Chris Searle and Paul Heiny to be given an offensive late night Channel 4 comedy show.

Quote from: Sgt. Duckie on July 13, 2018, 09:26:05 AM
Don't forget when they stonked to the rhythm of the honky tonk, and got to number one in the charts. There are no decent quality versions for the music video to Let's Stonk on Youtube but The Mary Whitehouse Experience seemed less than enthusiastic to be in it, from memory.

Victoria Wood's Smile Song on the flip side was pretty good too...... "No Kylie. No Jason. No toothpaste around the basin."

Ant Farm Keyboard

Quote from: hedgehog90 on July 12, 2018, 04:43:34 PM
The sketch where the window cleaner gets torn in half by the automatic doors made me cry, there was also a sketch where one of them ate a tarantula and that was pretty upsetting too.

Curly and Nige, at the Pet Store. That was my favorite series of their sketches. The kitchen one was great, especially the bit with the slicer and the batter.

Brundle-Fly


Shit Good Nose

Always watched and enjoyed it as a kid, but remember very very little from it.  A few stick in my mind - Du Management, of course, a Russian cop show parody (that would no doubt be wiped from history under (Ex poster)' rule), an epic table tennis game, and the two nerdy fellas from the later series.

Even at the time, though, when the media portrayed them as dangerous and edgy and all the complaints they got nearly every single week, I always thought they were quite tame and, were it not for the occasional mild swear and regular blatant (I mean more blatant that the Two Ronnies) sexual innuendo, they could easily have been on pre-watershed.

Jackson K Pollock

Flip me!

I was about to pass off the received opinion (around my way, anyway...) that they were generally terrible but once made an uncharacteristically well observed R.E.M. spoof, when I stumbled down a rabbit hole of largely amazing musical pastiches.

This Proclaimers parody is not only spot on, it's actually a brilliant song to boot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3c57Ac_xrc


Barry Admin

Two more that come to mind: their Simon and Garfunkel:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ye_q7nPFvmg

And "Days of Black and White":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCrMD6ubic4