🤣📺 Alas Smith & Jones – Stupid but Funny Gold 🎭 Sometimes the silliest sketches are the ones that stick with us forever. This clip — Antiques Roadshow visits Lewisham — is pure comedy chaos. Taking something posh and respectable, then smashing it with absurd humour 👏 Alas Smith & Jones first aired in 1984 and ran until 1998, bringing us 14 years of side-splitting sketches. Starring the brilliant duo Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, the show became famous for its satirical takes and its legend

📺 The first episode of 'Alas Smith and Jones' was broadcast. Tuesday 31 January 1984 ~ BBC2: 21:00 The programme's format borrowed elements from some of Britain's best known double act series, with each episode beginning with the duo appearing in front of the studio audience to introduce the show (a la Morecambe and Wise) before giving way to a succession of quick-fire sketches (The Two Ronnies). Perhaps the best remembered section of the show was the 'head-to-head' where Smith, the idiot who k

🤣🇬🇧 Alas Smith & Jones – The Tunnel Contractor Sketch 🛠️😂 Classic Mel Smith & Griff Rhys Jones, poking fun at the useless British workforce. The gag? They were given £2.5 billion to dig the Channel Tunnel, but only managed about 200 meters because… they “didn’t have a skip.” 🙄 😂 🪏 🪣 It’s sharp satire of that old stereotype — that in the UK it takes three men to dig a hole while one works and two watch. Brutal, but funny. 🇬🇧 📺 Alas Smith & Jones (BBC2, 1984–1998) was famous for lampoo

📺 'Alas Smith and Jones' Thursday 22 October 1987 - BBC2: 21:00 The Show They Tried to Ban! ... is not on tonight. They succeeded. So there's this instead. Derek Newark joins Mel & Griff for a quick police sketch. #alassmithandjones | Bernie Briffa

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