"Are you interested in French cinema, at all, Ted?"
For those who don’t get the reference, it is a nod to the Fast Show Ted & Ralph sketches in the 90’s
The sketches usually involved excruciating attempts by a painfully shy & lonely impoverished aristocrat, Ralph, to strike up a conversation with Ted who worked on the estate.
The Ted and Ralph sketches were always poignant, but none more so than the 1997 drinking game sketch, one of the high watermarks of 90’s British sketch show comedy.
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“It’s that balancing act between tragedy & comedy. If you can get them balanced right in the middle, it makes the tragedy that much more tragic & the comedy that much funnier” @monstroso
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“And on the branches spread out wide
All the tears I’ve ever cried”
In life, as in drama, a balance must be struck between comedy & tragedy, joy & sorrow, light & dark.
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