Monday 6 October 2008

Pepamill hero #5 and #6..Two Rons make it right.




Big Ron Pepamill hero # 5
Ronald William George Barker, OBE (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005), was an English actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Norman Stanley Fletcher in the British comedy television series Porridge, as various characters in the British comedy television series The Two Ronnies and as Albert Arkwright in the British comedy television series Open All Hours.

Barker had success on his own and formed one hell of a team with little Ron, Barker was funny and a very clever guy, he did a lot of writing of sketches under pseudonyms as he was wary of what people thought of his scripts.
His skills as a character actor, his love for and facility with the English language, and his gift for comedy made him a much-respected performer and was someone I cracked up as a kid, he also still makes me laugh to this day.
He was voted amongst the top 20 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders in a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian.


Little Ron Pepamill hero # 6
Ronald Balfour "Ronnie" Corbett, OBE (born 4 December 1930) is a British actor and comedian, born in Scotland, best known for his association with Ronnie Barker in the popular British television comedy sketch series The Two Ronnies. He also played Timothy Lumsden in the sitcom Sorry! and Ronnie in No, That's Me Over Here!
His BBC television comedy sketch show with Ronnie Barker, The Two Ronnies, lasted from 1971 to 1987. This show saw both Barker and Corbett performing various comedy sketches and musical numbers. Additionally, in the middle of the show, Corbett would present a lengthy monologue. Sitting in a large leather chair (emphasising his small size), and usually wearing a Lyle & Scott golfing V-neck sweater, he would tell a simple joke over the space of several minutes, often deliberately allowing himself to lose his train of thought. Although seemingly improvised, these were tightly scripted affairs.

Corbett is perhaps best known as the comedian's straight-man and achieved a unique cult status in this way – a relatively small individual who loves to play golf, he often became the butt of other comedians' jokes, even when he was not present and even if there was no obvious connection between him and the comedian in question. However, his own skills as an outright comedian were never doubted and his peers thought extremely highly of him.
Little Ron was great in Sorry and had a number of film roles to his credit too, Little Ron is still active and some of the new school comedians still bring him in now and then.


Two Rons Gold

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