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The Fast Show - Series One [DVD] [1994] starring: Louise Brill, Rory Jennings, Rosie Fellner, Tony Way, Nicolas Le Moignan

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Publisher: 2 Entertain Video
Release date: 5th August, 2002
Media: DVD

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The Fast Show, like Viz comic and Private Eye magazine, is one of those comedic institutions whose principal appeal is its utter predictability. The jokes in every episode are exactly the same, every sketch an only slightly different path to one of a few familiar punchlines ("I'll get me coat", "Where's me washboard?", "Scorchio!", "Suits you, Sir," and so on): once the viewer or reader is in with the jokes, they feel part of the club. This sort of reductive comedy is extremely easy to do badly: it is testament to the writing and acting of Paul Whitehouse and his team that not only are most of the set-pieces funny every time they reappear (the overly prurient tailors, the pub know-all, the Trevor Brooking-esque football pundit Ron Manager), but that each individual sketch is funny more than once.

This first series of The Fast Show does not include a couple of characters who became well-loved mainstays; neither the licentious car salesman Swiss Tony, for whom everything was "like making love to a beautiful woman", or the incomprehensible raconteur Rowley Birkin QC, had been developed at this stage. However, aficionados will regard this collection as indispensable for the beginning of the saga of awkward young aristocrat Ralph and his unrequited passion for his gardener, Ted: a funny yet oddly affecting rendering of love thwarted by circumstance.

On the DVD: The Fast Show--Series 1 on disc includes interviews with the cast, and English subtitles. There is an episode selector and an individual scene selector, though the latter is confusingly laid out. --Andrew Mueller

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Rating: - Brilliant stuff!

The Fast Show really is brilliant, once you get past the rather bizarre opening titles piece. After that you get introduced to a whole plethora of fascinating characters, all in a format deliberately designed to keep moving along and keep you interested. Apparently Paul Whitehouse is Johnny Depp's favourite actor, and it is not too difficult to see why when you experience the versatility and range he shows through the various Fast Show series.

A fantastic ensemble cast, who flit in and out of various skits throughout the series. Charlie Higson, Arabella Weir and Mark Williams are all especially brilliant.

Rating: - Excellent comedy but very disastrous delivery

Well, I watched this on telly and wanted to buy this for my collection.

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Rating: - tody ill mostly be eating..

i recently bought series 1-3 as i loved the show when it was first aired.on watching the first season however my attention wained after the 3rd episode, because of the repetitiveness of the sketches and characters. so if u want to fully enjoy the show i would watch it in small doses. it unfortunatley has a lack of extra's which was a disappointment. however a funny show in general

Rating: - The begining of a comedy legend!

What more can I say? Brilliant character acting (Especially Paul Whitehouse), brilliant writing and very very funny.

Rating: - Watching this show is very much like...

...no, mustn't mention Swiss Toni, they haven't thought of him, roight?

But this is still as funny now as when it was broadcast, which, if you haven't seen it, is very funny indeed. In fact, the first shows are parhaps funnier on re-watching as this time you know the characters, so you don't spend the first couple of shows getting to know them, instead, you can chuckle at the catchphrases before they arrive. There may even be niche in the market for a karaoke version of the show...

Bono Estente. Nuevo Chanel 9 DVD gizmo - karaokos muchos, oooh! Chris Waddle! Boutrous Boutros Ghali.

...but until then you'll have to make do with this.

I bought it, and watched it and found it very funny, so I watched it again. Which was nice.

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