John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett: Class.

A friend of the family who used to know Ronnie told me some years ago that Ronnies wife had an affair with Alan Minter (the boxer) so Ronnie paid to have Alans fingers broken.
Can anyone confirm this?

i hav this video 'golden years of british comedy' :)

I wonder - is this still the case today? Has the class system really gone away?

we were showed this in sociology
it was very relevant to the 1960's theory of class system

I'm doing work in my sociololgy class at the momment, and i'm doing about 'Upper, Middle, and the working class'. I found the very relivant.

i am currently writing an essay on class structure and how it has changed so i find this sketch genius and relevant ! i love john cleese and the two ronnies they are extremely funny ! i like there depiction of class i suppose it did reflect peoples attitudes at tht period in time .

I believe that this was originally on "The Frost Report." Since I've never seen an entire installment of this show, I can only guess. When Frost came to the US, his writers attempted to do an American version of this sketch. It wasn't as funny because it made the Upper Class (thru Vincent Price, I think) look snooty and superior, the middle class desperate but bland, and the lower class crude and dumb. Accurate, I guess, but not as funny as The Original.

Bravo. I cannot help thinking there's a tiny bit of Samuel Beckett here.

Lol I saw a parody of this but I never saw this, very funny! John Cleese rules!

Brilliant!