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5/10
The one Ronnie
studioAT17 November 2011
Ronnie Corbett more than deserved this one off tribute last Christmas and it was good to see so many of todays big name comedians getting involved to join in the fun.

Not all the sketches as classics but there are more laughs in this half an hour show than there is in most of the BBC's sitcoms. The blackberry sketch in particular is this shows equivalent of the famous fork candles sketch.

It is quality family entertainment as well and goodness knows there isn't enough of that at the the moment.

Congratulations to all involved in the making of this festive treat that reminds us what a great talent Ronnie Corbett is.
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10/10
Happy Memories
bspahh-3272530 December 2018
I was in the audience for the recording of this at the BBC Television Centre. On the same night, there an episode of Miranda was recording in another studio. Miranda Hart had pre-recorded a sketch for the One Ronnie, but she passed by me in a queue to go in, half an hour before it started.

In the recording of the game show, Ronnie Corbett was supposed to skip down a flight of stairs and onto a podium. On one take, he tripped up and ended up flat on his face. There was a moment's silence when it wasn't clear if this was a stunt, followed by gasps when it became clear that it was an accident. Thankfully he was OK and carried on after a few minutes.

Ben Elton watched most of the show from the sound gallery, but came down to the stage at the end. I was sat near June Whitfield. I was there on my own, which meant that I got to sit on the end of a row near the front, in the middle of the audience shots during RC's monologue.

Ronnie Corbett was a fine comic actor. He was able to read from an autocue, but make it sound like a natural conversation. He was also funny enough to be able to keep going off script, so you wouldn't notice a big difference, between the two. I went to a similar recording a few months later, with another comic actor, who was fine speaking from the autocue, but changed completely off camera.
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6/10
''My blackberry is completely frozen!''
Rabical-9125 June 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Ronnie Corbett decided to celebrate his 80th birthday in style by heading this one off special dedicated especially to him - 'The One Ronnie'. No one could have thought for a second that the show was going to be brilliant. In fact, I very nearly did not tune in due to the fact that I am in all honesty not a great Ronnie Corbett fan, as well as the fact that some of Britain's most overrated comedians such as Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Miranda Hart were among the supporting cast.

However, against my better judgement, I decided to watch. Now, it wasn't quite as bad as I had anticipated but all in all it wasn't far away from being awful. One annoying sketch had Catherine Tate as a barmaid not letting her customer finish sentences to a story he is trying to tell her. Corbett's armchair monologues ( used in 'The Two Ronnies' ) were also unwisely retained.

There were some decent supporters though such as Robert Lindsay, Lionel Blair, Rob Bryden and Harry Enfield. Enfield did a good sketch with Ronnie in which Enfield was a greengrocer whilst Ronnie was a customer who complains about the quality of his fruit and veg as though they were electrical goods, for example.

RONNIE: My apple isn't working!

HARRY: Well, let's try booting it up. ( He kicks the apple up in the air, to which point we hear the sound of crashing ) Sorry, it's crashed!

Not great stuff in any way but still better than what was on offer at the time. Ronnie Corbett died in 2016.
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