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Fast Show - Series 1 - Complete, The
Fast Show - Series 1 - Complete, The
Stars: Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Caroline Aherne, Simon Day, Mark Williams, John Thomson, Arabella Weir, John ThomsonDirector: John Birkin
Summary: The complete first series of the comedy programme.
This FAST SHOW release features the finest and funniest moments of the first season. Join the crew, including Paul Whitehouse, Caroline Aherne, and Simon Day, for their initial outings of total hilarity.
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The Fast Show, like Vizcomic and Private Eyemagazine, 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 Showdoes 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 1on 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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