I'd have been about 16 when it aired. I remember my old Dad and me crying laughing! Des O'connor's reaction was hilarious. It did though sadly, end Stan's TV appearances. Despite that, it is to this day one of my top ten TV moments.
It doesn’t matter how many times you watch this, it’s always funny. It’s timeless and one of the best moments ever on tv. Absolute genius and I think Des knew what he was doing too
Still brilliant no matter how many times I've seen this It's the look on Des's face, but you can also see the cheeky looks in Stan's eyes as he starts the story, can clearly what he's thinking.
Yes, mate. I watched it at the time as a kid, never missed his shows. I was in stitches at this but loved the way he dealt with it. Old-School family entertainer. May he RIP
Yeah. And the people who banned him were probably pedophiles who were mates of Jimmy Savile's and probably visited Epstein Island. Got to cover up what your doing by sacrificing someone decent and innocent. Great joke Stan.
@@philipbrougham6360 To be honest, yes, I've known a few in my years, at home they have much the same sense of humourtc as us, and in Spain, they are the same louts we are!
Unreal. How can they cancel a show because some guy told a joke on tv. Jesus how Fckin vanilla where they back in the 80’s. Glad I was too young for all that crap!!!
No it's not ! Boardman only had this joke and the chipshop joke and his constant prattle about the Germans. He was shite ! How do you make a living from that ?
'These fockers were mescherscmits" silly fockers, ya got to hand it to Stan, one of the best and in front of a national audience on tv. Brilliant to watch on youtube.
I remember the fuss this made - yet not that many years later, a "mainstream" film "Meet The Fockers", and a follow up "Little Fockers"! Perhaps Stan was simply too far ahead of his time?!
you may be right ,but it's cost Stan a lot of TV work and a lot of money. i'm sure he had other material to choose from.On the other hand,look how many times Billy Connoly doesn't pull any punches ,and yet gets away with it.
This joke cost Boardman his TV career. Yet, if he uses Fokker in every sentence - then he was unfairly screwed. I remember it when I was younger. I always liked Stan as he had the most infectious smile. I was young, so if he was un PC, I didn't know. Years later, we have a movie 'Meet the Fockers'. Sort of puts it into perspective. People saying this isn't funny are too harsh. It's brilliant word play and a great joke, delivered perfectly. If you want to be indignant about about something - get angry about celebrities on the same channels - later discovered to be raging paedophilies. How does that put it into perspective. This was a different era. Press fucked him for this - yet most of the UK thought it was hilarious.
You miss the point. This was a different era which Stan was part of. He cut his teeth in working men's clubs not X factor facetwitter. This was a joke of word play. What's wrong with word play. What are you the Word Play police? This is over 30 years old! Stan was part of the people who really had to work to get where they were. humour changes...and look what we are left with. Comedy is in dire straights now. Thank God for Curve your Enthusiasm.
@@benrichards399 Des mentions this in his biography, the TV director was going mad at the time mainly cos the show was live at family viewing time, had it gone out later it would have been OK...
Saw Stan with The Comedians at our local theatre last night - cried laughing!! Brilliantly funny - shame they don't do comedians like this any more - y'know, funny ones!!!
I don't watch, listen to or read the news. I didn't know he'd passed; it's a shame!! This was certainly a career highlight; his [Des'] reactions as the joke went on are almost as funny as the joke itself!!! >XD
for the people of now who don't get this, comedy has changed,therefore the mentality of what people find funny now is different,but you've got to remember that at the time,this was hilarious.I was only 13 when this was shown and i remember my dad falling off the sofa with laughter! Great days!! For me,this defines LOL!!! Thanks Stan!!!!
It's still funny, especially if my image of this scenario is correct in that this joke works as a way to swear on TV where otherwise it might be considered "inappropriate for public audiences". Which by that I mean it's funnier to me because I imagine he's using "fukker" as a stand-in for actually saying the f-word and there's nothing the studio can do about it because he's not technically swearing, until you get to the end of the joke and learn that he *was* swearing the entire time because they're not fukker planes he's talking about. I don't know if that's *actually* part of the joke, but it makes me love it more, so I choose to accept that as reality.
That's the hypocrisy of it all, stuffed shirts feigning disgust while probably all the time getting up to things much worse themselves. Ruined it for everyone who's normal, including many great 'real' comedians, about time we ignored the snowflakes and got back to normal.
I was one of them, I can remember watching this when it was aired. Just like now, there was small but highly vocal group of people pretending to be more offended than they were.
A very controversial joke, or is it? Stan Boardman was a boy when his Chip Shop really did get bombed by the Luftwaffe, and he is an inspiration on behalf of all Liverpudlians .... Simply because he holds no grudges nor hate for both Germans, and their Luftwaffe doing their jobs, just like we do today. ... 'Scouser's (Liverpudlians) are very much a 'get on with it' breed that will laugh and joke to get through the day or sad times to lighten the loads. .... Until Political Correctness steps in yet again. The killers of life ....
IS right lad Stanley lost his younger brother in that bombing. I have seen his brothers little grave stone in the cemetery in Fazakerley, I think its part of a mass grave with the other victims of the air raid shelter blast. TRUE BRITISH STIFF UPPER LIP are STANLEY who never stops smiling and loves to take the PISS, no matter what misfortune may happen is the best BRITISH tradition ever, LAUGHTING at your mates and family, or banter as it's called nowadays is why this Tiny Little Island has punched above it's weight throughout history, God help anyone if we stop taking the PISS, It means you've upset us so you best go and hide
Des's face @1.35 is priceless! ha ha! also the way stan looks at des @ 1.07..... it was like he was askin " am i ok with sayin this"! lol, classic british comedy / chat show! . i LOVE THIS!
The objections at the time to swearing on TV were nothing whatsoever to do with "political correctness", they were a kind of Victorian morality about "rude words", which (thankfully) we have now thrown off. Bringing "political correctness" into a discussion where it's not relevant shows you are simply pursuing a right wing agenda even though it's not relevant to this situation.
Rip Des, a real entertainer and crooner. Always made me laugh when you lost it laughing. We don’t have many or any like you these days. Thanks for the good times.
I watched this joke live when it was Des O'Conner Live around 30 years ago. Stan got banned from TV for this joke and Des was not allowed to be live after that! Thank you for posting this! I am so happy it's on here.
This is the GREATEST joke... EVER! When you take into consideration the utter garbage we have today, is far worse and far, far more vulgar, this is tame in comparison!!! The audience and anyone who has a modicum of intelligence, knows this is a play on words and the Liverpool accent; we know the joke before it is even spoken, it is pure genius!!! Anyone that knows anything about World War II history knows the Fokker Wolf WAS a German Fighter plane, and a damn good one at that. But why do censors and so called do gooders have to spoil what was, is and always will be... a damn good joke!!!
This is a very funny joke but the point is that he was saying fucker over and over, not Fokker, which is the basis of the joke. There is no way that they would have let him carry on if they knew he was actually saying fucker lol
Neil Neil He was not saying fucker! Stan was clearly saying Fokker to make it sound that way, and then saying fokker more clearly to clarify it! They knew what he was doing and let it carry on because it was a LIVE show and they could not do anything about it! And I now the basis of the joke. It was a play on the Scouse/German/Polish accents, using the Fokker/Fucker word. Let's stop analysing and enjoy what is a great joke!!!
Did you not listen to the punchline? "These fuckers were Messerschmitts!" The basis of the joke is that you think he is saying Fokker, when the punchline tells you he was not, regardless of the accent he let us know he was always saying fucker. But I am not disagreeing with you on the fact it is a good joke :-)
@@tutts999 It depends on the context. People swear in everyday life all the time, to the point where most profanity is considered normality in any conversation. Schoolkids throw around the 'n-word' like a fashion accessory, and we live in a world with almost limitless choice when it comes to what to be entertained by. When British television only had three channels, no home video etc, there was a captive audience and the powers that be could dictate the rules around what could and couldn't be broadcast. It isn't controversial to swear, it's what comics had done in their live performances going way, way back.. It's just they weren't allowed on television.
I'm old enough to remember this. I didn't see it live (in bed), but I remember the outrage the day after on TVAM and whatever shite the BBC produced in the mornings back then. It's still one of the greatest live moments on TV!
I'm not German but i feel its my business to be offended on behalf of them . How dare that man be so mean with his word play . Signed : Cunty McCuntery . Spokesman for the left.
It's a complete myth that Boardman was somehow banned from TV after this - he kept making appearances like he'd always done. The incident is covered in Des O'Connor's autobiography, in which Des states that they knew he was going to that joke, but perhaps weren't aware of just how many times he was going to say "Focke".
The "comedians" you see today would not last two minutes in front of the audiences people like Stan appeared in front of.Working mens' clubs in the North of England with boozed up crowds who wanted to laugh,god help you if they didn't,that's a hell of a way to learn your trade.
Complete bollocks. I don't know why you assume a comedian that performs to drunk/inebriated angry men makes them the best comedian. Seems simple to me. It's just a completely different genre. So, really, what you meant was. "I prefer this guys standup routine to others I have seen in this day and age".
Yes, because he,s better. Political correctness and comedy do not mix well. You rarely hear an audience give such a good reaction today, unless the comedy is more edgy. Lee Mack for example. Have a look at Bill Burr ( American) and Jim Jeffries ( Australian) too.
Peter Kay started out in working mens clubs. So did a bunch of other modern comedians. Johnny Vegas and Jason Monford for example. Most comedians start out in comedy clubs (some of them *gasp* are in the north) where the audiences are drink and tear them to pieces. Where do you THINK comedians usually start out?
A lot of people dont know this but this joke was originally made by sir douglas bader. The RAF pilot who was a double amputee and flew with two prosthetic legs. He was shot down but lost a prosthetic leg when he bailed out. But the germans respected him so much they allowed an RAF plane to drop a replacemant leg at the prison camp. After receiving this leg he escaped 3 different prison camps
@leyburnhealeyman I probably have seen it many years ago, but I don't remember doing so. It was just so funny, and seeing Des O'conners face clasped in his hands, you just cant help but laugh... absolute classic golden TV Thanks for sticking it up here, and Im glad I came across it. You just brightened my day up... :-)
I remember stan boardman with page 3 model linda lusardi on the james whale radio show which was on the tv and linda said to james whale she was doing a photoshoot i think it was in a jacuzzi and quick as a flash stan said i used to have one of those Japanese motorbikes too it was called an itchyfanny utter classic
I'd have been about 16 when it aired. I remember my old Dad and me crying laughing! Des O'connor's reaction was hilarious. It did though sadly, end Stan's TV appearances. Despite that, it is to this day one of my top ten TV moments.
It doesn’t matter how many times you watch this, it’s always funny. It’s timeless and one of the best moments ever on tv. Absolute genius and I think Des knew what he was doing too
Lol. 'Genius.'' Don't make me laugh!
Bloody funny 😂
Never ages 😂
@@nickslick75 Eddie izzard fan here
@@christophersavill4785 : Woke AF. 😂😂😂
Never seems to get old, Des played his part perfectly, rest in peace mate - you're immortal through your body of work.
Anybody else come here as their favourite Des moment? RIP Des ♥️
Yes. Brilliant. And just shared it with my 12 year old.
Yes 👍
Still brilliant no matter how many times I've seen this It's the look on Des's face, but you can also see the cheeky looks in Stan's eyes as he starts the story, can clearly what he's thinking.
Yes, mate. I watched it at the time as a kid, never missed his shows. I was in stitches at this but loved the way he dealt with it. Old-School family entertainer. May he RIP
Remember watching this when it actually aired!!
The good days of British television...... long-gone...... Thanks for uploading 👍🏼
RIP Des. This was arguably his finest moment
From the look on Des' face, I think he must have thought he was saying RIP to his TV career!
Only Des could have dealt with this with such professionalism and survived
One of the greatest jokes I've ever heard. Great delivery too
One of the finest English type of jokes ever spoken on television, listen to that audience
Even the Americans used it now in meet the fockers.
Obviously not the plane but similar joke
This is a gem I watch this once a week to cheer myself up
I hope you give it a thumbs you every time! :)
@@leyburnhealeyman Is that a British self-gratification reference?
This still makes me laugh, no matter how many time I hear it.
How Boardman managed to keep a straight face when telling that is a feat in itself. Cannot believe they banned him for that
He'd probably told it in a million Working Men's Clubs up and down the country by the time he got onto this show.....
I can. Puritan tossahs.
Yeah. And the people who banned him were probably pedophiles who were mates of Jimmy Savile's and probably visited Epstein Island. Got to cover up what your doing by sacrificing someone decent and innocent. Great joke Stan.
itv and bbc can talk about banning people knowing what saville done...the irony
@@andymerrett The only taboo here is the awful accents.
I first saw this when I was a kid and many years later, it's still one of the best jokes I've ever heard. So glad I stumbled across it.
And now you can hear it every day forever. Well a long while I hope! :)
Some how this joke gets funnier over the years! 🤣
Especially when you read that the guy who started building the planes was A .Fokker.
The punchline is absolute class!
@@philipbrougham6360 When I first heard it I was at an age when I knew the bottom line before the joke hardly started, its a generation thing!
@@leyburnhealeyman I wonder if a german would see the joke ,or not ?
@@philipbrougham6360 To be honest, yes, I've known a few in my years, at home they have much the same sense of humourtc as us, and in Spain, they are the same louts we are!
One of the greatest moments in British TV.
I love Des O` Connor's face he's like "that's it, my career is over, I'm done, my show's gonna be cancelled" xD love it
Eric Blade yeah he knows he's fucked lol
Unreal. How can they cancel a show because some guy told a joke on tv. Jesus how Fckin vanilla where they back in the 80’s. Glad I was too young for all that crap!!!
Strange how they say in 2022 that “you can’t say anything anymore” yet in the 80s stan was nearly ‘cancelled’ for a joke like this...
Played this to some Germans on holiday, who liked British humour, they were in tears of laughter, not offended one bit.
its 2019 its still funny
This will always be funny. An absolute classic piece of comedy.
Not only the joke but when ollie reed came out with a glass of orange juice totally pissed as a fart made it worse for des
No it's not ! Boardman only had this joke and the chipshop joke and his constant prattle about the Germans. He was shite ! How do you make a living from that ?
Boardman was NOT funny.
@@peteb8556 Looks like you're in the minority though, even in the likes/dislikes ratio. Good job you don't control TV/humour for us all, eh?
Still hilarious in 2020.
And in 2021
And in 2022
Same time next year guys for 2023?
And 2023..forevermore..
Still hilarious in 2024
'These fockers were mescherscmits" silly fockers, ya got to hand it to Stan, one of the best and in front of a national audience on tv.
Brilliant to watch on youtube.
*Messerschmidts
How you gonna correct him and get it wrong? XD
@@bradleyst7539 TBF Messerschmitt is a Fokker to spell; and Messerschmidt flies under the autocorrect radar!! :D
*Fockes... You're mixing Focke from Focke-Wulf (made a famous WWII plane) with Fokker (made most famous WWI plane). Common mistake.
I remember the fuss this made - yet not that many years later, a "mainstream" film "Meet The Fockers", and a follow up "Little Fockers"! Perhaps Stan was simply too far ahead of his time?!
you may be right ,but it's cost Stan a lot of TV work and a lot of money. i'm sure he had other material to choose from.On the other hand,look how many times Billy Connoly doesn't pull any punches ,and yet gets away with it.
@@paulkersey7564 because billy connolly is funny. This guy is second rate.
Nearly 150 Polish pilots who escaped the Nazi invasion of Poland flew for the RAF in WWII.
Killed Stan’s career stone dead!
No, it's just that more of us swear and the word has very little shock factor now a days
This joke cost Boardman his TV career. Yet, if he uses Fokker in every sentence - then he was unfairly screwed. I remember it when I was younger. I always liked Stan as he had the most infectious smile. I was young, so if he was un PC, I didn't know. Years later, we have a movie 'Meet the Fockers'. Sort of puts it into perspective.
People saying this isn't funny are too harsh. It's brilliant word play and a great joke, delivered perfectly. If you want to be indignant about about something - get angry about celebrities on the same channels - later discovered to be raging paedophilies. How does that put it into perspective.
This was a different era. Press fucked him for this - yet most of the UK thought it was hilarious.
You miss the point. This was a different era which Stan was part of. He cut his teeth in working men's clubs not X factor facetwitter. This was a joke of word play. What's wrong with word play. What are you the Word Play police?
This is over 30 years old! Stan was part of the people who really had to work to get where they were. humour changes...and look what we are left with. Comedy is in dire straights now. Thank God for Curve your Enthusiasm.
David Coxon it wasn't the joke, it was the time of day (early evening), on itv live that was the problem, hence why they recorded the show after this.
You sir deserve a medle. No but you are right.
@@benrichards399 Des mentions this in his biography, the TV director was going mad at the time mainly cos the show was live at family viewing time, had it gone out later it would have been OK...
@@davidcoxon4710 you can't even bloody spell it correctly!
Watched this back in the day, Stan you're as funny as FOKK!! This Fokkers a legend
Best joke on tv ever. It just doesn't get old.
Saw Stan with The Comedians at our local theatre last night - cried laughing!! Brilliantly funny - shame they don't do comedians like this any more - y'know, funny ones!!!
Another comedy moment that will be viewed forever.
Des a talent hugely underrated and greatly missed.
Exactly, life as it was and still should be, thanks for the comment and the like!
Bring back Stan.
I needed that laugh!! Thanks for this! 😃
I don't care who says what. That joke is the best play on words in comedic history.
RIP Des. One of his finest moments , if only for the reactions on his face.
Des's face is an absolute picture. A moment I will never forget.
Still makes me piss my self even now.Well in Stan .Liverpool love ya
I remember seeing this, I was about 12/13 and I laughed until I cried, it's still hilarious 30 years later.
Yes it appeals to school childrens level of intelligence.
My God pete, you are one boring Focke.
I watched it with my dad I must have been about the same age
@@peteb8556 over your head then Pete.
@@andrewh5457 ; yes, a real intellectual indeed. My God, the dumbing down policy has worked. Let me guess ? You are about 20 ?
The best joke ever, I can never watch this without laughing.
Absolutely brilliant, I remember laughing my socks off at the time.
Harmless fun!
Des face is a picture. Absolutely brilliant 👍
Stan you’re a kin legend could listen to that joke all day long never gets old absolutely love it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
He tells the joke with perfect timing. Brilliant.
Classic moment. :) This never gets old.
This really is the funniest clip I've seen. I only came across it because Des O'Connor died yesterday.
I don't watch, listen to or read the news. I didn't know he'd passed; it's a shame!!
This was certainly a career highlight; his [Des'] reactions as the joke went on are almost as funny as the joke itself!!! >XD
2021 its still bloody funny...
2.22 seconds of this is better than a whole year of jokes from the so called comedy shows now.
So true!
You mean 2'22 seconds, or 2m22s. 2.22 seconds would cover maybe one sentence.
for the people of now who don't get this,
comedy has changed,therefore the mentality of what people find funny now is different,but you've got to remember that at the time,this was hilarious.I was only 13 when this was shown and i remember my dad falling off the sofa with laughter! Great days!! For me,this defines LOL!!! Thanks Stan!!!!
Still funny. If something is funny, it's funny. Nothing to do with now or then. No such thing as outdated comedy
It's still funny, especially if my image of this scenario is correct in that this joke works as a way to swear on TV where otherwise it might be considered "inappropriate for public audiences".
Which by that I mean it's funnier to me because I imagine he's using "fukker" as a stand-in for actually saying the f-word and there's nothing the studio can do about it because he's not technically swearing, until you get to the end of the joke and learn that he *was* swearing the entire time because they're not fukker planes he's talking about.
I don't know if that's *actually* part of the joke, but it makes me love it more, so I choose to accept that as reality.
RIP Des O'Connor, you were loved and you will be missed... by all!
He just looks like a naughty schoolboy doing the joke. Class.
99.9% of the public would've laughed there heads off at this joke when it was first aired and yet it pretty much ruined stan's t.v career!!
That's the hypocrisy of it all, stuffed shirts feigning disgust while probably all the time getting up to things much worse themselves. Ruined it for everyone who's normal, including many great 'real' comedians, about time we ignored the snowflakes and got back to normal.
I could watch this clip over and over again its absolutely hilarious
Sad really . When theres to sides to a,story
Sadly you are right. Nice bloke, it was just banter
I was one of them, I can remember watching this when it was aired. Just like now, there was small but highly vocal group of people pretending to be more offended than they were.
A very controversial joke, or is it? Stan Boardman was a boy when his Chip Shop really did get bombed by the Luftwaffe, and he is an inspiration on behalf of all Liverpudlians .... Simply because he holds no grudges nor hate for both Germans, and their Luftwaffe doing their jobs, just like we do today. ... 'Scouser's (Liverpudlians) are very much a 'get on with it' breed that will laugh and joke to get through the day or sad times to lighten the loads. .... Until Political Correctness steps in yet again. The killers of life ....
IS right lad Stanley lost his younger brother in that bombing. I have seen his brothers little grave stone in the cemetery in Fazakerley, I think its part of a mass grave with the other victims of the air raid shelter blast. TRUE BRITISH STIFF UPPER LIP are STANLEY who never stops smiling and loves to take the PISS, no matter what misfortune may happen is the best BRITISH tradition ever, LAUGHTING at your mates and family, or banter as it's called nowadays is why this Tiny Little Island has punched above it's weight throughout history, God help anyone if we stop taking the PISS, It means you've upset us so you best go and hide
100% correct. I lived near Liverpool in the 70 's for 5 years. Still love scousers. Quick witted and the Funniest people on earth. Also very generous
brilliantly funny! absolutely bleeding hilarious!
Don't you just love this. Pure comedy! I remember at the time my family were crying with laughter. It was rather naughty for that period.
Des's face @1.35 is priceless! ha ha! also the way stan looks at des @ 1.07..... it was like he was askin " am i ok with sayin this"! lol, classic british comedy / chat show! . i LOVE THIS!
Thank you for posting .
Just fantastic entertainment.
Des O'Connor doesn't know whether to laugh or go mad.
I remember the first time I saw this. I laughed almost to the point of asphyxia. Amazing.
Thanks for posting this. Stan Boardman was one of the best from a time before pc killed comedy!
He was shit
@@bobharristhebag he was funny .
@@bobharristhebag ; yep Boardman was NOT funny, with his TWO jokes.
The objections at the time to swearing on TV were nothing whatsoever to do with "political correctness", they were a kind of Victorian morality about "rude words", which (thankfully) we have now thrown off. Bringing "political correctness" into a discussion where it's not relevant shows you are simply pursuing a right wing agenda even though it's not relevant to this situation.
"Iconic" This is so funny, my late Wife, Loved this.
Rip Des, a real entertainer and crooner. Always made me laugh when you lost it laughing. We don’t have many or any like you these days. Thanks for the good times.
Des was like....not involved!! ...This is going to be my last gig on TV..EVER!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The joke that got Stan barred from the telly
@TheMadScotsman mckay Brilliant play on words.
Hahaha I've never heard or seen this b4 but I got the joke and it was hilarious 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Welcome to real comedy. Search YT for The Comedians, you'll have hours of fun. Also Mike Reid, afew more hours! Have fun.
I remember seeing this when it was broadcast originally. The F word was almost never on TV then so this had massive impact.
When comedy was edgy. Still laughing with this after all these years.
i can remember this live it was fantastic then and now
Brilliant .... Stan Boardman was so funny on this Des O'Connor show and you could see Des trying not to laugh, ... R.I.P. Des you will be missed.
I watched this joke live when it was Des O'Conner Live around 30 years ago. Stan got banned from TV for this joke and Des was not allowed to be live after that!
Thank you for posting this! I am so happy it's on here.
Had the absolute pleasure of sitting with Stan at a charity bash and he was the star guest. Gentleman!!!!!
Spot on! Brilliant comedian.
Des O’Connor’s face
Bet he’s thinking I’m gonna get taken off air n get the sack
This joke invented cancel culture 20 years before anyone else.
So fokking true
I literally am crying 🤣
Des O’Connor - “that fokkers going to ruin my career”
Crying with laughter. ..
I'm 28 and was raised on good comedy I still love this after seeing it for the first time when I was 7
This is the GREATEST joke... EVER! When you take into consideration the utter garbage we have today, is far worse and far, far more vulgar, this is tame in comparison!!!
The audience and anyone who has a modicum of intelligence, knows this is a play on words and the Liverpool accent; we know the joke before it is even spoken, it is pure genius!!!
Anyone that knows anything about World War II history knows the Fokker Wolf WAS a German Fighter plane, and a damn good one at that. But why do censors and so called do gooders have to spoil what was, is and always will be... a damn good joke!!!
This is a very funny joke but the point is that he was saying fucker over and over, not Fokker, which is the basis of the joke. There is no way that they would have let him carry on if they knew he was actually saying fucker lol
Neil Neil He was not saying fucker! Stan was clearly saying Fokker to make
it sound that way, and then saying fokker more clearly to clarify it!
They knew what he was doing and let it carry on because it was a LIVE show and they could not do anything about it!
And I now the basis of the joke. It was a play on the Scouse/German/Polish
accents, using the Fokker/Fucker word.
Let's stop analysing and enjoy what is a great joke!!!
Did you not listen to the punchline?
"These fuckers were Messerschmitts!"
The basis of the joke is that you think he is saying Fokker, when the punchline tells you he was not, regardless of the accent he let us know he was always saying fucker.
But I am not disagreeing with you on the fact it is a good joke :-)
All I can say about Neil Neil, is , you can't win them all! :)
billyc2010 Where?
I never get tired of that joke - probably the best I've heard on TV ! Brilliant !
That joke nearly screwed Stans career. Nowadays every second word on some programmes is f...! Makes you think doesn’t it?
And much much worse is on now, most of it unfunny and vulgar, and often blue. 8 out of 10 cats was on tonight, and it was like a dockers reunion.
You can swear and it can work. Now a days modern comics just effin and blind to be controversial.
@@tutts999 It depends on the context.
People swear in everyday life all the time, to the point where most profanity is considered normality in any conversation.
Schoolkids throw around the 'n-word' like a fashion accessory, and we live in a world with almost limitless choice when it comes to what to be entertained by.
When British television only had three channels, no home video etc, there was a captive audience and the powers that be could dictate the rules around what could and couldn't be broadcast.
It isn't controversial to swear, it's what comics had done in their live performances going way, way back.. It's just they weren't allowed on television.
You could swear in TV bsck then too. The problem withnthis was that it was broadcast before the watershed, not that it featured some clever swearing.
It does indeed make you think.
Few modern comedians match Les Dawson, Bob Monkhouse, Frank Carson and the other greats.
I'm old enough to remember this. I didn't see it live (in bed), but I remember the outrage the day after on TVAM and whatever shite the BBC produced in the mornings back then. It's still one of the greatest live moments on TV!
And I was so lucky to have recorded it, still brings tears to my eyes, not just the joke, but the situation as well!
30 odd years ago and we still remember this... Watched this again and it was outstanding..
RIP Des - they don't make em like you anymore ! Thanks for the laughs and the memories.
I was flying my Spitfire and there was a Fokker behind me.
What then? I must shoot the Fokker down!
Des is thinking that's me off air next week 🥴
fantastic . seen him live and he was brill
Stan Boardman at his best, I've seen this loads of times, and it still cracks me up when i watch it now.
That is perhaps the funniest "war joke" of all time!
The best joke I’ve ever herd when I was growing up priceless😂
Ah, those were the days when we were allowed to have a sense of humour.
I'm not German but i feel its my business to be offended on behalf of them .
How dare that man be so mean with his word play .
Signed : Cunty McCuntery .
Spokesman for the left.
The point is, that we weren't allowed have a sense of humour. That one joke pretty much killed off two careers.
@@johnc3403 You don't get it do you?
@@bigbarty8648 Maybe you just didn't explain it very well.
Its humour, we laugh at everyone including ourselves and anyone finding offence in that must be a very dull sad person .
R.i.p thank you for my childhood was nice watching u wen I was a kid
You wouldn't believe it with some of the fuss that's been made here! :))
Best joke ever told
It's a complete myth that Boardman was somehow banned from TV after this - he kept making appearances like he'd always done. The incident is covered in Des O'Connor's autobiography, in which Des states that they knew he was going to that joke, but perhaps weren't aware of just how many times he was going to say "Focke".
Just so funny,Stan you were a comedy genius. LOVE HIS CHIPPY SONG.
Great to see such appreciation, thanks.
@leyburnhealeyman your more than welcome, he's just so funny.
The "comedians" you see today would not last two minutes in front of the audiences people like Stan appeared in front of.Working mens' clubs in the North of England with boozed up crowds who wanted to laugh,god help you if they didn't,that's a hell of a way to learn your trade.
Complete bollocks. I don't know why you assume a comedian that performs to drunk/inebriated angry men makes them the best comedian. Seems simple to me. It's just a completely different genre.
So, really, what you meant was. "I prefer this guys standup routine to others I have seen in this day and age".
Yes, because he,s better. Political correctness and comedy do not mix well. You rarely hear an audience give such a good reaction today, unless the comedy is more edgy. Lee Mack for example. Have a look at Bill Burr ( American) and Jim Jeffries ( Australian) too.
Peter Kay started out in working mens clubs. So did a bunch of other modern comedians. Johnny Vegas and Jason Monford for example. Most comedians start out in comedy clubs (some of them *gasp* are in the north) where the audiences are drink and tear them to pieces. Where do you THINK comedians usually start out?
Yeh, I'd like to see Alan Carr try to make that sort of club audience laugh. They'd kick his head in, that would be most enjoyable.
Jayfive276 don’t forget roy chubby brown
A lot of people dont know this but this joke was originally made by sir douglas bader. The RAF pilot who was a double amputee and flew with two prosthetic legs. He was shot down but lost a prosthetic leg when he bailed out. But the germans respected him so much they allowed an RAF plane to drop a replacemant leg at the prison camp. After receiving this leg he escaped 3 different prison camps
You're right, I knew that, but I'm sure many people don't, and sadly many of them won't even care!
The fokker's bombed our chip shop, lol
Anybody seen any repeats of Ben Elton who was slightly funny for a few years and criticized the older comedians!!
I genuinely can't stop laughing at this.
Justv think of it every time someone pisses you off, they'll think you're laughing at them, well...!
I'd love to know the name of the fokker that got him banned
He was a Messerschmidt.
@leyburnhealeyman I probably have seen it many years ago, but I don't remember doing so. It was just so funny, and seeing Des O'conners face clasped in his hands, you just cant help but laugh... absolute classic golden TV
Thanks for sticking it up here, and Im glad I came across it. You just brightened my day up... :-)
The P C brigade ruined this mans carrier 👎👎👎
Priceless.
noone tells jokes like them scousers....theyre faces make u laugh before they even speak...love the place...
Exactly why it just has to be here, thanks for the appreciation.
I remember stan boardman with page 3 model linda lusardi on the james whale radio show which was on the tv and linda said to james whale she was doing a photoshoot i think it was in a jacuzzi and quick as a flash stan said i used to have one of those Japanese motorbikes too it was called an itchyfanny utter classic