The Two Ronnies
 The
Two Ronnies firmly placed Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker on
the same level of popularity as that other great 70’s comedy duo
Morecambe and Wise.
From The Phantom Raspberry Blower Of Old London Town and
Charley Farley & Pigsy Malone to the ingenious word-play of
Pisspronunciation of Worms, the pair included humour based on
Music Hall, word-play, lunacy and even blatant winding up of the
fairer sex.
The Worm That Turned was a misogynistic mini-drama within The
Two Ronnies, about a world where women had taken over the
world (Featuring Diana Dors as a woman Prime Minister - a concept
we found laughable at the time!).
It was a fairytale world where men were made to do the washing
up and wear dresses, whilst the women walked around in tight
leather shorts, thigh length boots and peaked caps and generally
did the dominatrix thing - A mixture of reactionary political
polemic and male sexual fantasy.
However, all of the Rons' humour was very British in style and
really very gentle. They didn’t go out of their way to offend
and used subtlety to get their laughs.
Favourite segments included;
- The cocktail party sketches
- The Village Idiots/ Country Bumpkins
- The two blokes in the pub (one of whom would try to finish
the sentences of the other)
- Ronnie Corbett's waffling monologues - usually one (rather
poor) joke spun out to 5 minutes by endless repetitious
references to the Producer drinking too much, the BBC canteen
and Corbett's own slight stature.
The series ultimately ran for 17 years.
"If I were as rich as Rockerfeller, I'd be richer than
Rockerfeller"
"How's that?"
"I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side"
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