Those of you who have known me for more than five minutes
know that I’m a huge fan of the British comedy “Are You Being Served?”—heck, just look at
the url of this blog for goodness’ sake: “Looking for Grace Brothers’”—clearly
an AYBS reference.
Well, what you may not know is that my love of this
series—indeed, of all British comedy—comes by way of my friendship with my best
friend growing up, William West (a.k.a. “West-Man”). Over the years, we spent
many hours staring at PBS’ reruns of AYBS, and I’ve never forgotten that. I’d
be lying if I said it hadn’t played a role in developing my own sense of humor,
and defining the type of things I find funny.
At any rate, I was reading over William’s blog
yesterday—which you can find here,
by the way; it’s amazingly funny, and, as he points out in the header, “he’s
forgotten more about pop culture than you’ll ever know”—and he mentioned a
series I had never heard of, but absolutely should have!
The series was called “Take A Letter, Mr Jones,” and it starred Mr.
John Inman (who played Mr Humphries on AYBS) as a male secretary working for
Rula Lenska.
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Now, a second ago I declared that I absolutely should have
heard of it. But, then again, maybe not. Having learned of its existence, I
immediately went to the YouTube store and watched the first episode. (If you’re
so inclined, you can also watch the first episode courtesy of the embedded
videos below.)
I have to say, I was less than impressed. I mean, aside
from possessing a theme song that was more irritating than pubic lice (or so
I’ve heard—I wouldn’t know personally), it just plain wasn’t funny. Such a
shame, too, because I have always adored the late Mr Inman.
Perhaps seeing one of his other little-known, albeit funny roles would help us un-see the above...
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