The On The Buses legend has died today aged 92.

RIP Reg.

Look I read the papers and don't need this kind of third grade post. On The Buses was in black&white for gods sake. Never mind you watching it, it was before father of PtT was born. What possible interest could you have in this second rate sitcom which by the way compared badly with a lot of the early cutting edge satyrical programmes of the day.

Not everyone reads the papers and quite a lot of people have fond memories on On The Buses. I sense it was the poster you were attacking rather than the post itself. This messageboard is for everyone, not just you.

So I can say what I please with your approval then.

Ah Leeds.....

Sad to hear that, massive fan of On The Buses (Which was NEVER in Black and White by the way...started in 1969 way after LWT had gone Colour in '67?).

Reg Varney also starred in "The Loveliest Legs In Showbusiness" which is a classic 60's comedy film and is often on TV in the middle of the night...excellent stuff.

"Get That Bus Out Of Here, Butler!!"

I thought the clip they showed on t'news last night was in B&W?

Look I read the papers and don't need this kind of third grade post. On The Buses was in black&white for gods sake. Never mind you watching it, it was before father of PtT was born. What possible interest could you have in this second rate sitcom which by the way compared badly with a lot of the early cutting edge satyrical programmes of the day.

Why compare On the Buses to satire, that's just plain silly. It was sitcom humour for those unfortunate enough not to possess your highly developed , finely tuned sense of humour.... or snobbery as some of us like to call it... a lot of the 'early cutting edge satirical programmes' were absolute cack, badly written by spotty graduates who believed they invented satire in the 60's.

I meant this post to be a means of offering Reg Varney's family our condolences in spirit and as a chance to reminisce, and not meant just as an announcement of a piece of news.

This was in fact a great British classic comedy. Seven series across the 1970s - one of the very few comedies I can remember from the classic British period of the 1960s/70s that was ITV-Made. Nowadays comedies on ITV are virtually non-existant and quite poor.

He was also the first man in Britain to use a cashpoint in Enfield in 1967. A great actor, whose comedy gave us a remarkabale catchphrase and who created history himself.

Each to his own eh. Never did like slapstick. Glad I gave you the opportunity to vent a bit of spleen.

I hardly class calling you 'just plain silly' as 'venting my spleen'..... Another thing I don't do is go around acting like Kenneth Williams looking down my nose at the people who got pleasure from a very benign comedy actor who gave pleasure to a lot of people ... not your sort of comedy obviously, but why sneer at simpler tastes...?
Will this be classed as a character assassination attempt or merely downgraded to a vitriolic outburst...?

Just letting you get it out of your system.

I still don't like the likes of Norman Wisdom but thought Bobby Thompson was great. I Like the wit rather than the physical comedy. Benign I don't like. Glad you don't act as Kenneth Williams, bit of a nutter him like.

To be honest, I thought On The Buses was one of the shittest things I've had the misfortune of watching. It's like watching an old folk's home where the elderly men stare up the nurse's skirt. Except nurses are female workers at the bus company.

Still, Reg Varney did some other funny things. Just give me a couple of years while I try to remember

I thought the clip they showed on t'news last night was in B&W?

PoK, I think your correct in putting the very sad message about Reg Varney death on the messageboard it's a very sad day for British comedy, he will join a all star cast in the comedy club in the sky.

Eric Morecambe, Spike Milligan, Warren Mitchell, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore just to name a few.

You really ought to upgrade your telly, Flo'.

Only When I Laugh with James Bolam who went to star in The Likely Lads.

You'll find that most comedy, even todays is based on the premise of old men or young men or any man staring up womens skirts or the equivalent, sex has been part of comedy since it was invented. Don't tell me you've gone all PC and are feigning moral outrage at the exploiataion of women and the Dickensian attitude to women that was prevalent at the time?etc,etc..
As for On the Buses being 'shiit', you're missing the point, we knew that, but it was so bad it was good, that was the whole point. The unlikely scenario of someone like horse faced Jack Harper winking at a young women and her allegedly 'gagging for it' would suggest that the joke was on the writers part, catching out those who took it just too seriously. The joke was always on the purists with this programme.