I have seen a number of promotional advertisements relating to a supposed comedian named Lee Evans. Comedian ? Really ?
Evans act is a simple, with emphasis on the 'simple', copy of the earlier generation's star, Norman Wisdom. While Wisdom was a true genius of comedy, Evans is a pathetic example of the modern mania for attempting to make money out of 'remakes'. Every old film of any note is recreated with the use, of course, of cgi rather than acting; the results have been almost universally hopeless. Now we have Evans trying to pretend that he is Norman - worse than hopeless.
Trying to copy genius is always going to be impossible and stupid. Sadly, there is always an audience that didn't actually experience the original genius and that will be tricked into believing that the modern parody with which they are presented is real. This audience simply misses the point that the likes of Lee Evans is not, and can never be, anything remotely like the original, nor anything like as good.
Evans seems to believe that falling around the stage and being moronic is, itself, funny; how wrong he is. While his audiences, mostly as moronic as himself, might laugh uncontrollably at his cretinous antics, Norman Wisdom must be crying into his heavenly nectar as he sees the pathetic depths to which his successors have now sunk in pursuit of a few laughs.
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