Some comic characters were never natural fits for filming. And especially as live action characters. James Bolam as Andy Capp?
Hmm.
Andy Capp. Tip of my own flat cap to Seth Meyers broadcasting from home currently. Andy Capp! Oh dear. After a few minutes here - I wandered off to look at the output of "Al Capp" and via someone called Fearless Fosdick was thrown back to Bill Tidy's The Fosdyke Saga.
Brass. The wonderful series Brass. That was what the The Fosdyke Saga could have been. Happen! But was not.
But Fearless Fosdick a skit on that boring do-gooder Dick Tracy - and a police figure much under appreciated by his supervisors is a Real Find. Underappreciated or what? Fearless Fosdick.
Well I hope he is as real as "Joe BTFSPIK", Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae. As an Al Capp character.
But Andy Capp was a mistake if that 1988 TV series was real. No one ever made me laugh less than Reg Smythe's workshy layabout character. Poor Florence. Was Ruby's hubby any better than Andy?
Workshy layabout? Tautology? Reading the Daily Mirror cartoon character's daily strip was like looking in a mirror.
Now Popeye the live action film and The Flintstones. Heck Dick Tracy with Warren Beatty.
Marvel? Less!
Brass. The wonderful series Brass. That was what the The Fosdyke Saga could have been. Happen! But was not.
But Fearless Fosdick a skit on that boring do-gooder Dick Tracy - and a police figure much under appreciated by his supervisors is a Real Find. Underappreciated or what? Fearless Fosdick.
Well I hope he is as real as "Joe BTFSPIK", Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae. As an Al Capp character.
But Andy Capp was a mistake if that 1988 TV series was real. No one ever made me laugh less than Reg Smythe's workshy layabout character. Poor Florence. Was Ruby's hubby any better than Andy?
Workshy layabout? Tautology? Reading the Daily Mirror cartoon character's daily strip was like looking in a mirror.
Now Popeye the live action film and The Flintstones. Heck Dick Tracy with Warren Beatty.
Marvel? Less!