Somehow, James Corden and Mat Horne have been voted the greatest comedy duo of all time (!) in a poll by SeeSaw.com.
The Press Association writes that 16% of the 3000+ entries concluded that Horne and Corden were more worthy of the accolade than Morecambe and Wise who came second with 15% and as predicted, the world is on the brink of collapse - well, to many a comedy blogger it has.
Out of the three projects the guys have actually worked on, only one has been a success – that being Gavin & Stacey - and as two actors in an ensemble cast, they could hardly be classed a ‘double act’.
…and the less said about Horne & Corden and Lesbian Vampire Killers the better.
Heckler Spray writes: ‘The idea that Horne and Corden – the most critically-panned comedy duo that ever walked a planetary body, the twosome whose best effort at a joke was to place anything between one and four quivering buttocks in the way of a camera and wait for the cretinous laughter – are the best comedy double act of all time is so ridiculous, it makes a mockery of all statistics ever done.’
Chortle went for a less acidic tact: ‘Horne and Corden made a single series of a BBC Three sketch show which attracted at best 800,000 viewers. Morecambe and Wise had a career that spanned 43 years, peaking with the 28 million viewers who tuned in to their 1977 Christmas special’.
In the poll Little Britain’s Matt Lucas and David Walliams placed third while Peter Kay and Paddy McGuinness of Phoenix Nights came fourth. No mention of Laurel and Hardy, Reeves and Mortimer or Fry and Laurie…
But before the lynch mob begins perhaps someone, somewhere will remember at some point, that it was just a pointless poll….
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