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The Fast Show - Live [DVD]
 
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The Fast Show - Live [DVD]

Paul Whitehouse , Charlie Higson , Bob Spiers , Roxana Silbert    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
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  • Actors: Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Arabella Weir, Simon Day, John Thomson
  • Directors: Bob Spiers, Roxana Silbert
  • Writers: Charlie Higson, Arabella Weir, John Thomson, Mark Williams, Bob Mortimer
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Nov 2002
  • Run Time: 80 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006JY8K
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 37,292 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Recorded live at London's Hammersmith Apollo in 1998, The Fast Show Live features all of the original cast of the highly successful sketch series (Caroline Aherne excepted) including Paul Whitehouse, Simon Day, Charlie Higson and Arabella Weir and practically all of their myriad characters and catchphrases. This live show effectively marks a last hurrah for The Fast Show team, with routines like the Coughing Bob Fleming singalong reworked from the series. However, as a feat of inventive stage management and quick costume changing, they do manage to maintain the Fastness of the TV series live.

It was the catchphrases which earned the series its immense popularity and they raise large, predictable cheers of recognition when wheeled out at the Apollo, from Unlucky Alf's opening "Oh, bugger!" to the "Suits you, sir!" of the intrusively camp boys in the menswear department. The show's reliance on these might have been annoying if it weren't for the fact that they were built on such esoteric, peripheral and complex sketch and character material. Who but the Fast Show team would have thought of taking the mickey out of bad European TV, even inventing their own mock-Esperanto to do so? Or similarly, lampooned all those old 1930s music hall comedians whose risque jokes are incomprehensible to modern audiences? These, mixed in with modern archetypes like Ron Manager or the endlessly poignant Ted and Ralph made The Fast Show at once comfortingly familiar yet endlessly surprising viewing. They were influential also: Colin Hunt is surely a crude prototype for The Office's David Brent.

On the DVD The Fast Show Live has no special features on this edition, disappointingly. --David Stubbs

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
BRILLIANT 19 Jan 2003
Format:VHS Tape
This video is excellent. Including all the favorites Colin, Unlucky Alf, The suits you men etc. You will roar with laughter after seeing this. It is only disapointing that it dosent last longer. It is all Xmas orrinantated so the 'does my um looking big in this' woman is a fairy on top of a Christmas tree asking 2 kids if see her bum looks big with the tree up her bum. A must buy, you will not regret it.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
If you can believe it, the Live Show is better than the series. I had my doubts when I bought it, not thinking that the characters would come across well in a live setting. I was wrong. It's brilliant!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
In my opinion this is the best Fast Show compilation to buy if you are looking for the best. Most of the classics from the TV show are included in here for your viewing pleasure.
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