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A garden shop sold out of fork handles after designing a special window display in tribute to a classic BBC comedy sketch. The Two Ronnies sketch starts with customer Ronnie Barker appearing to ...
The original 'Fork Handles' script from The Two Ronnies has gone up for auction. The classic sketch, written by the late Ronnie Barker, sees the comedian play a workman attempting to buy "fork ...
Barker wrote the sketch under his alias, Gerald Wiley, and it aired on The Two Ronnies on September 4, 1976. Its official original title, as shown on the script, was Annie Finkhouse (or ‘anything else ...
One memorable sketch involved Barker attempting by buy fork handles, and getting four candles from uncomprehending shopkeeper Corbett.
Possibly the most robust long-running sketch show ever made and certainly one of the most successful, The Two Ronnies, in its 17 years of regular programming, regularly dominated the schedules.
Some of the pairs more famous sketches included Fork Handles, The Sweet Shop and Mastermind. The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was another sketch which appeared on The Two Ronnies in ...
FOR 160 years Mogford & Son has been a trusty ­hardware shop just like the one seen in the Two ­Ronnies’ famous “fork handles” sketch. But running a small ­independent shop has become no … ...
Scottish comedian Ronnie Corbett, best known as one-half of British comedy television staple “The Two Ronnies,” died on Thursday at age 85. “Ronnie Corbett CBE, one of the nation’s best ...