@@alan- and they do....and charge you for it even though,as I found out after 69 clean tears,that YOU do,nearly,all the work to prove your innocence,which I did...
Bob just cracks up even whilst telling true events! Man, he’s lived such an varied life… solicitor (lawyer) to comedian… he’s perfect for this show. Also, as kids growing up in the 60’s/70’s ***in a world without electronic game devices *** there would be gangs of kids playing out. I can remember ‘donkey derby’ which sounds similar ie running through peoples back gardens and clambering over fences - hopefully getting chased to add to the thrill!
Even as an eleven-year-old in 2005, my friends and I used to play a game similar to the one with the fruit described by Bob, only we used to play it with sticks and stones. We used to say there were three rules: firstly, no moving your feet. Secondly, no catching or blocking with your hands. Thirdly, if you get hit, tough sh*t. Somehow, there were kids from outside our group who always wanted to play. Looking back, I have no idea why. Kids are stupid.
TEESSIDE had nothing. There was very little to do and it was poverty centre. In 1975 my older sister and I both started University and so signed on the Dole between School and University, legal! When interviewed by the local "Evening Gazette" (Frank Bough first job) we were on the Front Page that evening, it was not common to have 3 children from the same family on a Council Estate to go to University, now it is uncommon. Bob brings back memories with a "twist" of exaggeration.
You gotta invent games as a kid. As a kid, i played "Chopping for Courage". Me and a friend would take turns hitting a well kept shrub with sticks trying to break it the most. And we'd chant "WE'RE CHOPPING FOR COURAGE!"
@cheman579 ...maybe. I'm just kidding, i absolutely am. I have to admit that because my Army taught me integrity. Of course, before that they had to look at me and say "We like what we see, and we will give you a bonus to sign up with us, because that crazy kid absolutely should be given a rifle and grenade launcher!". So yeah, i'm American. We have our own HIGNFY, but i always check the UK original because A) The American one doesn't let me see how my ally is doing, and B) The UK one will cover America and i enjoy a good outside opinion of our performance. We can get a bit unreasonable at times.
Yep we used to throw Rose buds at the windows and get chased across the front garden hedges. We called it 'Donkey Derby' . You'd get a clip round the ear if you got caught but was all about the chase. 😂
Ditto...late 70's early 80's cheap fun. Did get caught once and had the police called on us. To say my Dad was not impressed would be an understatement.
absolute classic, "we do beg you pardon, we are in your garden" feels like comedy genius, too funny, great reaction it cracked me up too when i first heard it
We all love Bob here in the UK, seen him out and about on a number of occasions as he's from my home town of Middlesbrough, actually quiet and reserved when on a night out which was surprising, plenty of characters like him but none to his level, has me creased laughing listening to all his stories, the man's a living legend 🤣😂
BoB is the GOAT. Do all of his clips - so funny. Also Greg Davies clips are awesome, and do one with Kevin Bridges about accidentally buying a horse, James Acaster has funny ones, and Henning Wenn clips are great too. 😊 Such a great show - whole episodes are always super.
Here in Liverpool UK, probably like everywhere in the UK we played a similar game. Here we went from one end of a rear row of houses hopping over fences and 'shrubbery' just to get to the other end, but without looking in windows and definately trying not to be heard or caught, we called if 'doing the gardens', simple.
I’m from Middlesbrough like bob and as kids we would play this like 15 years ago 😂 maybe not the chant but was no bigger rush than a chase through gardens. even though nobody was chasing us 😅
Great reactions again both of you. Bob on WILTY is always brilliant. As are others being mentioned in this thread. I think Claudia Winkleman is very good too. The games we played as kids were all a bit like this. Ie "knock down ginger" knocking on doors and running away or hiding in the garden and watching. It was all very funny as a kid.
Bob is the King of WILTY his stories are the stuff of legend, whereas James Acaster and Greg Davies are the crown princes of prevarication. It is worthwhile checking out these two comedians as well. Great reaction once again guys. Trying to figure out Bob Mortimers's tails is no easy task.
This is exactly why David Mitchel often has an air of desperation (even hatred lol) when trying to guess whether Bob Mortimer is telling the truth or not. It makes no sense! And that upsets David Mitchel even more than the rest of us. It's too funny. 🙂
When you get the chance to react to it, there is the best WILTY story of all time to watch, it is when Kevin Bridges claims to have "accidentally" bought a horse. Now, I will say that he is Scottish, from Glasgow I think, so his accent may be a little hard to follow, but it is absolutely 100% legendary viewing
When he was a young teen there were almost no video games or home computers, and few people had heard of D&D, so I completely believe that him and his friends had time on their hands after school for stupid outdoor games. We used to play outside all the time, before there was so much panic about abductors or getting run over or the idea they somehow sold us that you should drive your kids to a play center and pay for admission.
I’m from boro like bob and even 15 years ago when I was a kid we would play games like this 😂 ran like we were being chased even if we were not such a adrenaline rush
The thing about Bob is, the more insane a premise it seems the more likely it is to be true, the guy has lived and remarkable and bizarre life, also arguably one of the greatest comedians the UK has produced. Warp him back 50 years and he would be in Monty Python
As a kid on our street we used to do the "fox run".. which involved jumping the fences and running through the back gardens from one end of the street to the other, without getting caught. Dam kids!😆
Hey guys👍 Bob using his manipulation tactics from his days in the lagal profession 🤣 the man is completely nuts but clever and really funny with it, such a character. Nice one✌️
We used to play a very similar game here in Yorkshire. But we called it garden snooping and we didn’t do the chant. Just walked up to the window and if they didn’t see us we’d knock on the window and then run across all the other garden fences and walls
I knew this was true because i grew up not far from bob and these kind of games were common. The rules that you can't escape through their gate, so you have to jump over their fences or climb their sheds or jump over their hedges when you were caught. In my area we called it "hedge hopping" so you'd basically jump over people's hedges to escape them lol.
Saw Bob live years ago in stage version of Vic Reeves big night out, when dizzy was no.1, love him in Mortimer and Whitehouse gone fishing too, so funny
I think many of us in Britain played this game as children, and seeing Bob talk about it on this show and be ridiculed for it,makes me feel just as bonkers as Bob is!...
I love Bob! We're from the same area in the North East & my dad knew him when they were younger - although I've never met him. WILTY is great. Definitely check out other people too. Like Henning Wehn & Chris McCausland etc
Bob Mortimer has never really done any stand-up, he started with surrealist sketch comedy with Vic Reeves who he later became a double act with. The two were most famous for hosting the 90s panel show "Shooting Stars". In recent years Bob has gained a following as a solo act due to shows like Would I Lie to You and Taskmaster. When it comes to shows that he runs though he tends to always have someone else with him, whether that is a reunion with Vic Reeves or a fishing trip show with Paul Whitehouse (where the two comedians they just talk about life while fishing). Bob Mortimer is certainly a unique entertainer!
I knew it was right as we did a similar thing trying to get as close as possible to the windows as statues in Hartlepool which is 10 miles from Bob lived in Middlesbrough .
We called the game hedge hopping in the south west UK. We didn't knock doors,we just started at one end of a row of houses and just hurdle all the way to the other end!lol
We used to do something similar in the 70's when we were kids, it was a common game in the UK back then. We didn't have the "No escape through the front of the property" rule or the chant though.
He's a particularly difficult guy to read when you've grown up watching his early surreal comedy sketches with Vic Reeves you know what randomness he can imagine.
one of bobs tv shows was "shooting stars" if you watch it its like you are on drugs its absolutely mental in this day and age but at the time it was the best thing on tv
The best way to work Bob out is to ignore everything he says and just flip a coin when he finishes speaking. You should by laws of average get roughly half of them right. But allowing him to get in your mind is where most people fall down. Including David Mitchell who has at least two mental breakdowns trying to figure out Bob’s world.
In the UK we want a Bob statue in Trafalgar Square!!! He is just bloody brilliantly funny. There are the best of Bob Mortimer on Wilty but it maybe to long for onr reaction, however yiu vould do it in parts. I promise you, whole heartedly that you will not be disappointed.
so glad yous are watching the epic david vs bob . david is so methodical and logic and bob is well,, bonkers. both very intelligent people, as is lee mack and rob brydon. hope yous can do some blackadder and fawlty towers, the sarcasm is amazing.
You have to remember that when Bob was young there was nothing to do, you had to make your own entertainment, and there was obviously no internet etc. 😂
The more outlandish the tale, the more chance that is true with Bob. He was Jarvis Cockers legal rep after the run on stage and moon Michel Jackson at the Brit awards incident.
Honestly Bob is around my age, and grew up in the North of England, we really didn't have much to do, like 3 TV channels, no video games, so you played outside and we would do crazy shit like this.
"Fingerprints on an abandoned handrail" is one of the most poetic descriptions of how memories fade with age.....Bob is the GOAT. 😂
That and "pollen on a mouse's handkerchief"
Bob is a national treasure here in the UK
He's a hoot n a half! ❤❤❤❤😂
@@KITTHALL I would happily do a degree course in The life & times of Bob Mortimer
Bob is very smart, a little detail like pretending to forget the name of the game and having Lee remind him is so brilliant
He’s a lawyer, remember.
@@SvenTviking Which is why he can BS so effortlessly.
@@alan- and they do....and charge you for it even though,as I found out after 69 clean tears,that YOU do,nearly,all the work to prove your innocence,which I did...
@@SvenTviking Solicitor..slightly different...
Bob just cracks up even whilst telling true events! Man, he’s lived such an varied life… solicitor (lawyer) to comedian… he’s perfect for this show.
Also, as kids growing up in the 60’s/70’s ***in a world without electronic game devices *** there would be gangs of kids playing out. I can remember ‘donkey derby’ which sounds similar ie running through peoples back gardens and clambering over fences - hopefully getting chased to add to the thrill!
Exactly my thought
Even as an eleven-year-old in 2005, my friends and I used to play a game similar to the one with the fruit described by Bob, only we used to play it with sticks and stones. We used to say there were three rules: firstly, no moving your feet. Secondly, no catching or blocking with your hands. Thirdly, if you get hit, tough sh*t.
Somehow, there were kids from outside our group who always wanted to play. Looking back, I have no idea why. Kids are stupid.
TEESSIDE had nothing. There was very little to do and it was poverty centre. In 1975 my older sister and I both started University and so signed on the Dole between School and University, legal! When interviewed by the local "Evening Gazette" (Frank Bough first job) we were on the Front Page that evening, it was not common to have 3 children from the same family on a Council Estate to go to University, now it is uncommon. Bob brings back memories with a "twist" of exaggeration.
yes we had similar games in west yorkshire too, we called it hedge hopping
Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves (his comedy partner) are legends!! They're both mad as a box of frogs😂
You gotta invent games as a kid. As a kid, i played "Chopping for Courage". Me and a friend would take turns hitting a well kept shrub with sticks trying to break it the most. And we'd chant "WE'RE CHOPPING FOR COURAGE!"
Are you American by any chance?
@cheman579 ...maybe. I'm just kidding, i absolutely am. I have to admit that because my Army taught me integrity. Of course, before that they had to look at me and say "We like what we see, and we will give you a bonus to sign up with us, because that crazy kid absolutely should be given a rifle and grenade launcher!". So yeah, i'm American. We have our own HIGNFY, but i always check the UK original because A) The American one doesn't let me see how my ally is doing, and B) The UK one will cover America and i enjoy a good outside opinion of our performance. We can get a bit unreasonable at times.
As a kid we would sneak through gardens at night in England and called it 'garden creeping' ... just something to do for a laugh with mates 😁
We called it ‘hedge-hopping’. Simple pleasures.
@@kevinfriel6182 We used to race through gardens and called it "The Grand National".
Yep we used to throw Rose buds at the windows and get chased across the front garden hedges. We called it 'Donkey Derby' . You'd get a clip round the ear if you got caught but was all about the chase. 😂
We called it 'garden creeping' too
Ditto...late 70's early 80's cheap fun. Did get caught once and had the police called on us. To say my Dad was not impressed would be an understatement.
absolute classic, "we do beg you pardon, we are in your garden" feels like comedy genius, too funny, great reaction it cracked me up too when i first heard it
6:43 Even in the 90s there was sod all to do in the north when you were young. I can relate.
We all love Bob here in the UK, seen him out and about on a number of occasions as he's from my home town of Middlesbrough, actually quiet and reserved when on a night out which was surprising, plenty of characters like him but none to his level, has me creased laughing listening to all his stories, the man's a living legend 🤣😂
Fiddlesbrough
Before getting into comedy, Bob was a lawyer/solicitor. Could be part of the reason he is so good at this game.
He's lived a fascinating life that's for sure
BoB is the GOAT.
Do all of his clips - so funny. Also Greg Davies clips are awesome, and do one with Kevin Bridges about accidentally buying a horse, James Acaster has funny ones, and Henning Wenn clips are great too. 😊
Such a great show - whole episodes are always super.
Yep, echo this 👍🙏🏻🙏🏻😀🇬🇧
Plus some of Lee's, his keys one and royal wedding one are food
Here in Liverpool UK, probably like everywhere in the UK we played a similar game. Here we went from one end of a rear row of houses hopping over fences and 'shrubbery' just to get to the other end, but without looking in windows and definately trying not to be heard or caught, we called if 'doing the gardens', simple.
I’m from Middlesbrough like bob and as kids we would play this like 15 years ago 😂 maybe not the chant but was no bigger rush than a chase through gardens. even though nobody was chasing us 😅
Great reactions again both of you. Bob on WILTY is always brilliant. As are others being mentioned in this thread. I think Claudia Winkleman is very good too.
The games we played as kids were all a bit like this. Ie "knock down ginger" knocking on doors and running away or hiding in the garden and watching. It was all very funny as a kid.
Bob is the King of WILTY his stories are the stuff of legend, whereas James Acaster and Greg Davies are the crown princes of prevarication. It is worthwhile checking out these two comedians as well.
Great reaction once again guys. Trying to figure out Bob Mortimers's tails is no easy task.
This is exactly why David Mitchel often has an air of desperation (even hatred lol) when trying to guess whether Bob Mortimer is telling the truth or not. It makes no sense! And that upsets David Mitchel even more than the rest of us. It's too funny. 🙂
The egg one was HYSTERICAL.
When you get the chance to react to it, there is the best WILTY story of all time to watch, it is when Kevin Bridges claims to have "accidentally" bought a horse. Now, I will say that he is Scottish, from Glasgow I think, so his accent may be a little hard to follow, but it is absolutely 100% legendary viewing
Bob has lived an amazing life, his autobiography is a best seller. 📖
When he was a young teen there were almost no video games or home computers, and few people had heard of D&D, so I completely believe that him and his friends had time on their hands after school for stupid outdoor games. We used to play outside all the time, before there was so much panic about abductors or getting run over or the idea they somehow sold us that you should drive your kids to a play center and pay for admission.
As soon as I saw this up I clicked! May I also suggest another great clip from WILTY? Chris Mccausland and his rude neighbour? It's a real classic.
Me and my mates (in County Durham) used to play a similar game back in the early 80's. If you got chased it was a bonus 😃
I’m from boro like bob and even 15 years ago when I was a kid we would play games like this 😂 ran like we were being chased even if we were not such a adrenaline rush
Bob is a Pastmaster at telling tales his little embellishments that throw you off, Love your reactions and more Bob please!
The thing about Bob is, the more insane a premise it seems the more likely it is to be true, the guy has lived and remarkable and bizarre life, also arguably one of the greatest comedians the UK has produced. Warp him back 50 years and he would be in Monty Python
Bobs thinking was that standing in someone's garden in the the dark at night was in a sense stealing their privacy .❤.
As a kid on our street we used to do the "fox run".. which involved jumping the fences and running through the back gardens from one end of the street to the other, without getting caught. Dam kids!😆
I've done the same but only with front gardens. 😂
Hey guys👍 Bob using his manipulation tactics from his days in the lagal profession 🤣 the man is completely nuts but clever and really funny with it, such a character. Nice one✌️
We used to play a very similar game here in Yorkshire. But we called it garden snooping and we didn’t do the chant. Just walked up to the window and if they didn’t see us we’d knock on the window and then run across all the other garden fences and walls
I knew this was true because i grew up not far from bob and these kind of games were common. The rules that you can't escape through their gate, so you have to jump over their fences or climb their sheds or jump over their hedges when you were caught. In my area we called it "hedge hopping" so you'd basically jump over people's hedges to escape them lol.
Saw Bob live years ago in stage version of Vic Reeves big night out, when dizzy was no.1, love him in Mortimer and Whitehouse gone fishing too, so funny
I think many of us in Britain played this game as children, and seeing Bob talk about it on this show and be ridiculed for it,makes me feel just as bonkers as Bob is!...
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Bob Mortimer is a genius. Great reaction.
I love Bob! We're from the same area in the North East & my dad knew him when they were younger - although I've never met him.
WILTY is great. Definitely check out other people too. Like Henning Wehn & Chris McCausland etc
Was your name mentioned with bagga and cheesy? 😂
@@dave_h_8742 😂 macca, bagga & cheesy 😆😆
Another great reaction. Thank you for the laughs 😅
I think the whole point of the game is how funny it would be saying the rhyme, eccentricity starts early in English 🙂🇬🇧
Bob used to be on a show when i was a kid called Shooting Stars. Such a natural comedian, always been good at improvisation
This is absolute torture for David. It twists his mind. Bob is a genius.
If you keep watching Bob you will get used to his rambling on the way to the point he's trying to make ❤.
James Acaster also has some great stories on WILTY. Bob was never a stand up comedian, he was in TV series. He was also a solicitor at one point
You're gonna love this one guys
Bob is the best btw, but many folk excel on WILTY
Play Theft & Shrubbery in Amerikkka & you'd get shot, no?😮
Another great wilty to check out would be Kevin bridges I bought a horse… hilarious 🤣
Bob Mortimer has never really done any stand-up, he started with surrealist sketch comedy with Vic Reeves who he later became a double act with. The two were most famous for hosting the 90s panel show "Shooting Stars". In recent years Bob has gained a following as a solo act due to shows like Would I Lie to You and Taskmaster. When it comes to shows that he runs though he tends to always have someone else with him, whether that is a reunion with Vic Reeves or a fishing trip show with Paul Whitehouse (where the two comedians they just talk about life while fishing). Bob Mortimer is certainly a unique entertainer!
I knew it was right as we did a similar thing trying to get as close as possible to the windows as statues in Hartlepool which is 10 miles from Bob lived in Middlesbrough .
Bob is just wired differently, I heard this lots but live seeing others react to it ❤
We called the game hedge hopping in the south west UK.
We didn't knock doors,we just started at one end of a row of houses and just hurdle all the way to the other end!lol
Bob grew up 20 miles from me. He's legendary 😅
Bob is peak British humor.
We used to do something similar in the 70's when we were kids, it was a common game in the UK back then. We didn't have the "No escape through the front of the property" rule or the chant though.
Bob tells the best stories😂😂😂❤❤
You’ll love the WILTY episodes in with the guest Henning wehn on
He's a particularly difficult guy to read when you've grown up watching his early surreal comedy sketches with Vic Reeves you know what randomness he can imagine.
House of fools was another comedy series with Vic and Bob.
It’s so funny that you’re discussing whether it’s the truth or a lie!
one of bobs tv shows was "shooting stars" if you watch it its like you are on drugs its absolutely mental in this day and age but at the time it was the best thing on tv
" a sniper's dream " never fails to hit me lmao
Bob Mortimer is the King of WILTY. He's very hard to guess cause his stories are so ridiculous.
And on the flipside, a guy with one leg shorter than the other is called a Sniper's nightmare.
The best way to work Bob out is to ignore everything he says and just flip a coin when he finishes speaking. You should by laws of average get roughly half of them right.
But allowing him to get in your mind is where most people fall down. Including David Mitchell who has at least two mental breakdowns trying to figure out Bob’s world.
Claudia Winkleman is also very clever and funny on WILTY
In the UK we want a Bob statue in Trafalgar Square!!! He is just bloody brilliantly funny.
There are the best of Bob Mortimer on Wilty but it maybe to long for onr reaction, however yiu vould do it in parts.
I promise you, whole heartedly that you will not be disappointed.
In England on council housing estates houses gardens are separated by privet hedges which are like scrubs.
Remember, no-one cares particularly about whether or is true or not, it is the humour that make people enjoy WILTY clips, so focus on that.
David shouting is HILARIOUS. I actually looked up Bobs friends and they are real. Lol
so glad yous are watching the epic david vs bob . david is so methodical and logic and bob is well,, bonkers. both very intelligent people, as is lee mack and rob brydon. hope yous can do some blackadder and fawlty towers, the sarcasm is amazing.
The episode with Big Nasty is well worth a watch.
Sniper's dream has now entered my vocabulary as a direct result of this tale.
Use to work with a lad that had one leg longer than the other so he walked with a limp, we use to call him a snipers nightmare
I thought all kids played theft and shrubbery, except we called it sneak and hide.
Every one of his true stories could be a short film in and of itself.
"We DO beg your pardon..." XD
we used to call it garden hopping
The whole point of the game is saying we do beg your pardon, we are in your garden. It's hilarious
Like fingerprints on an abandoned handrail. A massive head, “we used to call him sniper’s dream”.
He's a Genius, born comedian
You have to remember that when Bob was young there was nothing to do, you had to make your own entertainment, and there was obviously no internet etc. 😂
Yeah that's just the way life was for us
i used to play a version of this as a kid, with me mate scott marley, who was a born anarchist....
Bob is a comedic genius
Chech out Bob with his comedy partner Vic, as the characters Mulligan and O’Hare, singing, “Rose”.
Didnt she go to Kenya, with the bloke from Allied Carpets
If you want to see him at his absolute weirdest, look for things that he did with Vic Reeves.
Hey guys!! Just rewatching thus 😂 please please watch the one where bob looked after a sick owl, 😅
Hello folks.
Please take a look at "Would I Lie To You, Kevin Bridges, I accidentally bought a horse."
Thank you.
Brilliant clip
Doing stuff like this is a very Middlesborough thing, there's absolutely nothing to do as a kid growing up there
Bob dont do standup, he has done alot of surreal sketch shows. And yes, he is a comedian
Hi, new subscriber here ' loving the wilty vids, have you done Kevin bridges' I once accidentally bought a horse 😂
We just recorded it today, but we are weeks ahead so it will be a little while until we post that one. Thanks for subscribing.
Important thing to remember in this game, Bob Mortimer was a lawyer before going into comedy...
You should always make sure to watch to the end of these videos as theres often some funny moments after 'true or 'false' has been declared
The more outlandish the tale, the more chance that is true with Bob. He was Jarvis Cockers legal rep after the run on stage and moon Michel Jackson at the Brit awards incident.
❤ great reaction esp Jodi 🎉
Sniper’s dream 😅😅😅. Sniper’s nightmare is a guy with a limp
Honestly Bob is around my age, and grew up in the North of England, we really didn't have much to do, like 3 TV channels, no video games, so you played outside and we would do crazy shit like this.
Bob Mortimer is THE most delightfully functional lunatic you'll ever come across. Period.
Perhaps you didn't realise it would be very unusual for households to have firearms in the UK when assessing Bob's tale.
It was called the Grand national where i lived. Lol its thing.
I actually live on the estate where he said he used to do this
Please react to the Would I Lie To You segment about Richard Osman "I buried a badger with the banker from Deal or No Deal." Another hilarious story.
I do beg your pardon 😂
Loving your wilty reactions. More please.
You need to watch the episode with henning wehn and Interpol! So very funny!!! 😂
Bob Mortimer is a surreal comedian, you should what shooting stars, vic reeves big night out etc.
"Sniper's dream, they used to call him"
Should be sir bob mortimer the one about digging a hole 😂😂😂
This is like watching a dog listen to classical music.