R&M 'v's M&L Posted Tue Aug 15 18:17:34 BST 2000 by Joe

Has anyone noticed the similarities between characters and voices done by mark and lard, and by reeves and mortimer?
There's Councillers Cox and Evans, who have the same sort of voice as shit agent, and numerous other mark 'n' lard creations, as well as mulligan and o'hare who sound strikingly similar to rev. lionel blair, and some song that m&L played today.
Who did the voices first? , is there any references to each other? - i can remember mark and lard once talking about cox/evans.
Any ideas?

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Posted By Nik on Tue Aug 15 21:35:14 BST 2000:

And Radcliffe used to (maybe still does, for all I know) use "only joking - or am I?" as a catchphrase, as did Reeves in the introductions to That's Justice.

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Posted By Ewar Woowar on Wed Aug 16 09:10:25 BST 2000:

In The Smell of... there's a weird Barry White dream sequence ("urrrrhhh...show us yer knickers...") which is not dissimilar to M&L's Fat Harry White.

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Posted By Ailie on Wed Aug 16 09:24:08 BST 2000:

The similarities, generally are incredible, although M&L have never (to my knowledge) hit one another with frying pans.

I think M&L are funnier, although I love the insanity of R&M.

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Posted By Anonymous on Wed Aug 16 18:46:13 BST 2000:

Vic Reeves was on M&L's show not to long ago. Think it was during the build up to Randall and Hopkirk (decreased).

I think they're both influenced by the same kind of thing (ie. life up't North), rather than them copying each other.

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Posted By Sam D on Thu Aug 17 08:58:33 BST 2000:

>Vic Reeves was on M&L's show not to long ago. Think it was during the build up to Randall and Hopkirk (decreased).
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>I think they're both influenced by the same kind of thing (ie. life up't North), rather than them copying each other.

Us Northerners just live in our own zany, semi-surreal slap-stick world.

You lying get.

Fancy a brew, our kid?

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Posted By Jon on Thu Aug 17 09:20:45 BST 2000:

Clog-dancing, leaving school at 14, working in a factory for 50 years...

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Posted By Ailie on Thu Aug 17 09:46:22 BST 2000:

Jon, do you drink shandy?

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Posted By Jon on Thu Aug 17 10:06:02 BST 2000:

Pourquoi?

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Posted By Ailie on Thu Aug 17 10:12:51 BST 2000:

You just srike me as a shandy drinking kind of guy.

So do you?

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Posted By Jon on Thu Aug 17 10:30:39 BST 2000:

No, my favourite tipple is something else...

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Posted By Ailie on Thu Aug 17 10:41:42 BST 2000:

Are you a gin man?

I like a bit of meths, myself.

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Posted By Sam D on Thu Aug 17 10:56:39 BST 2000:

I don't mind what I drink, as long as I can have a nice bit of tripe with it.

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Posted By Anonymous on Sat Aug 19 08:12:28 BST 2000:

I like Tolstoy imperial Vodka-style spirit, for people who think drinking vodka is an affectation, but feel they're too good for meths

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Posted By Peter Ohanraohanrahan on Sat Aug 19 08:15:32 BST 2000:

Mine's a severed foot.

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