First viewed : Autumn 1988
This comedy duo got their own show in the Spitting Image slot on ITV ( 10pm Sundays ) after a few years of making guest appearances as "The Two Rons" a pair of dozy bouncers on comedy shows. I thought they were quite funny in those small doses but once they had their own show their talents were exposed as wafer-thin.
The two ex-teachers' stock-in-trade was puerile jokes about bodily functions. I remember Q's Tom Hibbert asking them, "Why are you obsessed with your genitals ?". There was also a suspicion that they were recycling old jokes they'd heard down the pub. I remember hearing the one about Chris Rea joining up with Dire Straits at least two years before it surfaced on the show.
The show ran for a decade. The duo went their separate ways with Hale taking straight acting roles and Pace going into musical theatre ( I saw him in something at the Bolton Octagon about 12 years ago ) but they occasionally team up for one-off projects.
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