I've always hated hand puppets. From the early days of TV we've been subjected to low-brow humour and unskilled manipulations of silly glove puppets like Sooty (and Sweep). Lamb Chop, Mr Punch, Basil Brush and a host of other childish anthropomorphisms.
There's something deeply disturbing about an adult with his or her hand up a stupid character that 'voices' his or her observations, peeves, objectionable opinions and wants and desires. I can do without that thank you.
Recently Richard (of RBB) has created an alter ego he refers to as a pet and is busy playing with himself - or Ruby the pet and has made some video recordings. These are right up there (or down there) with those I mentioned which probably suggests that they would be successful with people of diminished comedic critical abilities - aka the general public. He's already got one follower who fits that criteria:
3 comments:
Thanks for the advertising grumpy.
Lots of hand puppets. Have you been going through young girls' bedrooms too? (See Robert's post.)
Yes, I thought that was a bit dodgy too.
TC
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