British Dopers: "Can I have a P please Bob?" - Was it ever funny?

Blockbusters often features in “blooper” shows because there were numerous stupid/inappropriate answers given by the contestants (orgasm instead of organism, Kama Sutra instead of Kamakaze etc.). So I’m sure we would have been reminded exhaustively if anyone had made such a faux pas. It doesn’t seem to have happened.

You can count me as someone who didn’t find the P thing remotely funny, first time or fifty thousandth. There were plenty of other irritating things about the show too:
[ul][li]the fact that many of the prizes were extremely generous, yet most of the contestants were upper middle class kids who could obviously afford their own flying lessons, round-the-world trips on a square rigger etc.[/li][li]the overabundance of cheesy, stuffed animal mascots with prissy names and “amusing” stories behind them (even the boys had 'em, fercrissake)[/li][li]the stupid hand jive routine they used to do at the end[/li][li]plenty more crap along those lines[/li][/ul]It seems harsh to say a quiz show could be enough to encourage a rational person to attack the studio with an automatic weapon, but it came closer than most as far as I’m concerned. Apparently it was first shown in the USA.

When I was 7, the funniest joke evah went thus: This Frenchman is hitchhiking and the Englishman stops and he says “Do you want to go to London” and the Frenchman goes “Oui oui” and the Englishman goes “not in my car you don’t” and drives off.

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Oh, I didn’t hear that one till I was 8.
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When I was seven the funniest joke in the world was:

“What’s brown and sticky?”
“A stick.”

Actually, that’s still one of the funniest jokes I know.

Cruesoe, that is one of the ultimate classics.

What a bunch of sourpusses in the thread, “Can I have a pee please Bob?” is the funniest thing ever seen on telly!
I nearly fell off my chair when I read the “No there’s a Q” add-on up there, it’s fantastic, did it really happen? Sounds like a bit of a set up in that case, but funny none the less.

The prizes they won were stunning, I remember somone won a wristwatch with a calender in it! faints and has to have smelling salts wafted around