Two Ronnies Star Wars parody musical number.

[Glebe]

John Landis apparently became a Two Ron's fan whilst in the UK filming An American Werewolf in London... of course Ron C would later appear in Landis' Burke and Hare.

Anyway apparently Landis offered Barker the butler role that Denholm Elliott played in Trading Places, but he said he'd only do it if they filmed it in London.

[George White]

I think Barker had been put off Hollywood by his experiences on Robin and Marian, where he fell out with Richard Lester during ADR, who instead got his nephew David Jason to come in to redub Barker's voice, doing an impression of Barker.

[Glebe]

I think Barker had been put off Hollywood by his experiences on Robin and Marian, where he fell out with Richard Lester during ADR, who instead got his nephew David Jason to come in to redub Barker's voice, doing an impression of Barker.

Crikey! Must have been especially weird considering he and Jason were great friends.

[checkoutgirl]

3:00 in

"surely this can't go on much longer.

2.39 for me and that's enough surely. 7 minutes looks like an eternity. It's odd how Barker has such a vaunted reputation when the overlap with Little and Large is quite extreme at times.

[George White]

Crikey! Must have been especially weird considering he and Jason were great friends.

I presume that's why he got Jason, someone who knows him well, but can do voices.

[Glebe]

Seems like they didn't do a huge amount of film work... aside from the aforementioned Robin and Marion, Barker also had the Porridge movie spin-off and did a couple of TV movie roles late in life after coming out of retirement. Wiki lists a few film appearances mainly from early in his career.

Aside from Burke and Hare I knew Corbett was in No Sex Please We're British and Fierce Creatures, his Wiki page also credits him with a role in the original comedy version of Casino Royale which I didn't know about.

As for working abroad, there were the two Australian series of Two Rons and one of those TV movies Barker did, My House in Umbria, was apparently filmed in Italy. Oh and Corbett was apparently in Little Britain Abroad which rings a bell... presumably that was filmed overseas!

[George White]

My House in Umbria - there's a trailer online where you have a US trailer guy going 'Starring Maggie Smith... Chris Cooper.... RONNIE BARKER..."

Corbett is a cyborg butler in Casino Royale IIRC.
Barker is in a crappy 1960s spy movie, The Man Outside with Van Heflin, where he plays a Greek agent in London. Serious role.

Little Britain Abroad was mostly in-studio with a few bits shot in Spain.

[jobotic]

I remember one line from Corbett's monologues, about being at a party that was so boring that they were opening and closing the fridge door to see the light go on and off for something to do.

[jamiefairlie]

Corbett should have been in The Great Escape but they got Shuey McPhee from off of Crossroads instead.

[Glebe]

I remember one line from Corbett's monologues, about being at a party that was so boring that they were opening and closing the fridge door to see the light go on and off for something to do.

The one I remember is Corbett talking about the "gay mafia. They come around your house and criticise your curtains."

[Glebe]

Apparently Barker used to deal with being famous by saying "Yes, it's him off the telly," when he was out and about.

[Glebe]

There is absolutely no point to them doing Chas and Dave though.

They actually did Chas and Dave twice and C&D themselves also guested on the show!

The Grease sketchthe Rons did is Saturday Night Grease, part of that weird thing where they'd do a Saturday Night Fever parody but conflate it with Grease, so would sing rock and roll rather than disco.

Just stumbled across it! 'Saturday Night Fervour'... I'd searched for 'two ronnies grease':

No, it was in the one with Steamy Winder and Status Who?, hosted by Dave Lav Trellis.

Francis Rossi on that Status Quo parody.

No full clip of that sketch on YT or owt it seems. Think I've seen that 'Steamy Winder' Tina Turner skit before.

Ron C rather amusingly played an aging rocker in a The One Ronnie sketch:

From approx 11mins (WARNING: JAMES CORDEN ALERT):

[famethrowa]

Might mention the Gondoliers thing, where they just dodged saying "far canal", quite brilliant.

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Anyway apparently Landis offered Barker David Jason the butler role that Denholm Elliott played in Trading Places, but he said he'd only do it if they filmed it in London.

[Glebe]

Jason was also offered Eddie Murphy's role of course!

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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps was originally supposed to be wall-to-wall David Jasons

[Glebe]

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps was originally supposed to be wall-to-wall David Jasons

[TheMonk]

Jason was also offered Eddie Murphy's role of course!

True. Also the Ackroyd and Lee Curtis roles.

Someone recently stuck up on the Tubes the short lived Ronnie Corbett variety show he did in Australia in the 80's.
 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOIrQbtkjIG0tGuvsQvEl1FNk33VzXu9c

[famethrowa]

Someone recently stuck up on the Tubes the short lived Ronnie Corbett variety show he did in Australia in the 80's.
 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOIrQbtkjIG0tGuvsQvEl1FNk33VzXu9c

When was this filmed? The videos say aired 1987, but it looks much older, some of the musical acts were only around in the mid-70s, but the opening features a completed Sydney Tower (built 1981). What gives?

[Bennett Brauer]

When was this filmed? The videos say aired 1987, but it looks much older, some of the musical acts were only around in the mid-70s, but the opening features a completed Sydney Tower (built 1981). What gives?

The incorrect info on the youtube upload comes from the Australian DVD release in 2013, but omits the year of production, 1979: https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/products/ronnie-corbett-show-the?pr_prod_strat=description&pr_rec_id=9381bb3f2&;

The Two Ronnies did some Australian TV in towards the end of their tenure at the BBC (1987), so either the confusion with the dates arises from that, or the RC show was either shelved and resurrected to coincide with The Two Ronnies show, or maybe repeated at the same time. https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/products/two-ronnies-in-australia-the?pr_prod_strat=description&pr_rec_id=d69a6d923&;

[Jittlebags]

There was quite an amusing piss take in Not the Nine o Clock News entitle The Two Ninnies.

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There was quite an amusing piss take in Not the Nine o Clock News entitle The Two Ninnies.

Yes I wonder if it has already been mentioned three or four times in this thread.

[Jittlebags]

ooopsie...

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ooopsie...

You obviously need to go back and read all of CaB from the start.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

You obviously need to go back and read all of CaB from the start.

If you go back far enough you'll unearth unironic praise for Ricky Gervais and unironic death tributes for Jimmy Savile.

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If you go back far enough you'll unearth unironic praise for Ricky Gervais and unironic death tributes for Jimmy Savile.

They were such different times.

[Glebe]

If you go forward far enough you'll unearth unironic praise for Jimmy Savile and unironic death tributes for Ricky Gervais.

[Jittlebags]

I've just started. How far in are the Lisa Stansfield ones? Maybe I'll jump forwards to those.

[McDead]

The one I remember is Corbett talking about the "gay mafia. They come around your house and criticise your curtains."

If that's not a Barry Cryer line, I'll eat my own eyes

[beanheadmcginty]

Just want to pop in and say RIP to Michael Redfern, who played the barman in what I consider to be the greatest Two Ronnies sketch of all time: