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In the final 'Not The Nine O'Clock News', Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones famously put the boot into 'The Two Ronnies' with 'The Two Ninnies'. It wasn't an affectionate parody, more a savage attack. They cruelly berated Barker and Corbett for doing the same sort of jokes twenty years later ( inaccurate as 'The Two Ronnies' had only been on for ten years at that point ). How hypocritical for Smith and Jones then to front this show, which features them doing exactly the same thing! 'Alas Smith & Jones' was one of the best sketch shows of the '80's, but this 'tribute' series did it no favours. 'The Two Ronnies' compilations featured uncut material, here we got only excerpts interspersed with weak links. Are today's viewers so dim they need to have a joke explained before they see it? Even Mel and Griff looked embarrassed, as well they might. Fortunately, the 'head-to-head' sketches stand up well even now. After 'Morons From Outer Space' and now this, a little humility from Mel and Griff would not go amiss.
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