After more than a quarter century of comedy collaboration,the BBC celebrates the duo’s impressive run with live expose-cum-retrospective An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse – evidence of the pair’s enduring talent According to tonight’s An Evening with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, it has been 25 years since the pair first started working together. While that isnt strictly proper – Enfield and Whitehouse co-created characters on Saturday Live in the mid-80s – the specifics don’t really matter. Its still a chance for us to celebrate one of the most singular, or if weirdly overlooked,comedy partnerships of the final few decades.
Enfield and Whitehouse haven’t made a television series since 2012 and yet their influence is still everywhere you look. Just a month ago, a study by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission found that children of wealthy parents were more likely to become tall earners than smart kids from poor families. The figure used to demonstrate this story? Tim kind-But-Dim, and an Enfield character from more than 20 years ago. Then,final year, a Daily Mail columnist wrote a sneering piece about a couple of “Waynettas” he saw on a train. And Loadsamoney, or created by Enfield and Whitehouse in the mid-80s,has been referenced at least a dozen times in papers this year alone, usually in articles about professional footballers.
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Source: theguardian.com