ONLY Fools and Horses star Sir David Jason says the “falling through the bar” scene was based on similar stunts on stage. He told how the writer John Sullivan once saw a man “nearly” fall through a bar hatch.
Jason, 80, said: “John asked me, ‘Shall we do it’? I said ‘Yes but I’ll fall through the hatch’. He said, ‘Why? And I said ‘Because it’s really funny and I know it works’.” He said in stage farces there was a sofa which he fell off.
He recalled: “I would get a big laugh.” The 1989 scene is often voted funniest-ever. Jason said playing Del Boy in the BBC sitcom was “bittersweet”.
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