Got lost wandering around England as a 17 year old and spent like at least 8 hours walking around and hopping on busses trying to get back to my nan's village, and this is fucking exactly how it felt
Can also relate to this. Got stuck in west London back in the 90s, if you know what Hounslow and Southall are like? they're pretty much full or Indians. Scary place for a lone white male, i got abuse just asking for directions, it was like been in a different country.
@@SoulOfJungle Granted, Hounslow is not completely overrun. but Southall on the other hand, i just checked, 73% are Asian, with just 7.5% been White. So yeah, it was like been in a different country.
I'm from West Lothian and don't know Glasgow well at all. Always thought Yoker was some fictional place. Driving through Glasgow recently and saw a bus with Yoker on it. Just about shat myself and crashed into it
Well if you lived in Nottingham you'd see buses for Gotham Actually having said that, can't remember the last bus I saw for Gotham, but I'm sure they exist
@@PiousMoltar Yeah, Wayne's manor in the dark Knight rises was filmed in Wollaton Hall in Nottingham. Used to live a 5 minute walk from there because of uni, lovely place
"is it really this easy? Is it really this easy to get the things you want in life?" I'm surprised at how often this line has crossed my mind after getting a thing I've wanted
This reminded me of a weird experience I had. When I was growing up me and my mother used to catch a bus home that carried on after our stop on to a place called Gillow Heath. There was something about the name that always intrigued me. 50 years later I had attended to some business in the area and found that I was actually within walking distance of Gillow Heath. So I got Google maps up on my phone and set off. It turned out to be a very ordinary suburb on the edge of farmland and countryside type stuff. Didn't see anyone about and was just having a bit of a wander around. Suddenly I got an overwhelming sense of danger, a deep, primal, dread that really unnerved me. There was nothing but bungalows and bungalowish paraphernalia there, but I just had to get away as quickly as I could. I've never felt anything like it before and I've never been back. Gillow Heath must be my Yoker.
The real nutter is the woman sat next to him reading a book. Half the seats are empty but she chooses to sit next to him and read. Not sit next to him for conversation but read. With all those spare seats. That's the sign of a real delinquent.
@@wowsuchhandle it's because she's FROM Yoker, she's never wondered what it's like because its all she's known so she'll never wonder what it's like like an outsider would, it's actually a really clever line 😂
What's funny is Limmy's said that when he feels lonely or depressed he'll get on a bus or train and just go visit some random little town he's never been to before. So this is semi-autobiographical.
Yoker is one of those places that kids in Glasgow grew up hearing about or seeing on a rail map or something. It's not until someone's grown up that they can decide for themselves on whether to seek these places out or not? There's nothing there worth talking about and you could pass through it on a bus without realising that you've passed through it (or by it). Truth of the matter is that nobody has any business going to Yoker unless someone lives or works there 😂😂.
@@robertmcmillan3638 Yeah I think any city of any size has those random nondescript suburbs that you've never been to unless you had a solid reason. I grew up in big cities on the US west coast and it's definitely the way there. Was just pointing out that Limmy's talked up how he likes to just get on a train sometimes and visit some boring little place that's not known for anything in particular and spend a day rambling around.
Aye if you’ve read his autobiography, he basically says the dee dee sketches are basically him in his early 20’s when he was out of work just sat in the flat doing fuck all with no money
@@Re-bl5sr surprisingly down to earth and very funny, would recommend the audiobook as Limmy narrates it himself. It’s very heavy and deep, goes into some very grim and sad times in his life so just a few trigger warnings pal
I am American but I find this the most hypnotizing and beautiful comedy sketch on TH-cam. Getting yourself this worked up over something profoundly mundane and keeping the magic intact after engaging with it is truly the dream of post-modernity.
Same. I'm from Oklahoma, and I've watched this almost a dozen times so far and it kills me every time. There IS something hypnotic about it, I can't put my finger on it, but I love it. I've even begun to understand the accent.
I think some people touched on it in other comments. Limmy's comedy is often about things that go on in your head without much acknowledgement, and are quickly forgotten, but that everyone thinks
the bus drivers acting is underrated in this sketch. also, les porters enthusiasm and friendliness when he says "aye" amuses me every time. little did he know...
@Memento Mori That's it, just keep your mind and body distracted, running away from your problems, never mind you still come home once again alone to these bad thoughts in your head. Just keep throwing yourself into the world and hope something happens, when 99% of the time nothing will happen and nobody will care.
This is a brilliant hyperbole of social anxiety. Dee Dee really captures depression, anxiety, and loneliness (and maybe being high) in all of his shorts.
It was interesting to read in the autobiography that the sunlight when Dee Dee gets on the bus was a continuity error that hopefully wasn't noticed by anyone. Well I noticed it, but assumed it was deliberate because it was a nice touch. It makes perfect sense, I mean _of course_ the sun would be shining in Yoker, and on the bus to that fabled land.
If any americans are watching, a 'Giro' is a unemployment check, which Dee Dee gets. He was planning to collect it at "the bru" or the unemployment bureau.
The Deedee skits are all miniture masterpiece sketches of stoner logic, anxiety, paranoia and depression. Funny as fuck too, but with an underlying reality that hits.
First Last yeah he’s for some reason been thinking about yoker for a while wonderin about it. But as someone who grew up there, they never would’ve wondered what it’s like.
@First Last If you're from somewhere, you never actually think about what it's like being there.. It's a really clever line, I like it. You can apply this to yourself... You've always been 'you' but did you ever judge 'you' without being biased because you're judging yourself? From the pov of an "other".
This character is the doppleganger of a guy I shared a student digs with in Scarborough in about '98, he was from Glasgow. He used to do hotknives all day on the kitchen hotplate. The place wreaked of soap bar. My cousin shared the same flat. I remember him because my cousin hates him still because after we all moved out the landlord kept my cousins deposit. It turned out the electric meter had been emptied, all the 50p coins stolen from it. My cousin was raging about it when he told me, he still rages about it every now and again. Since the guy had moved back to Scotland I thought: "Well, he's made his mind up." I've kept that secret for 25 years. Good to come clean. I was proper skint man.
Dude this is about my depression, even going to the local park after being in isolation for years was like the best day ever, but also a really scary day because of all the people around me and feeling alien to the world in my own mind.
In the weirdest ways this is so relatable. I had this almost exact line of thinking once when I got on a tram in South London to New Addington. And much like Yoker, I left almost as swiftly as I arrived.
There's something strangely mystifying about Limmy's Dee Dee sketches. Dee Dee always finds a way to to make the most mundane things really interesting
As a filthy Australian, I'm just glad to have understood more than 50 percent of Dee Dee's inner monologue. Almost cried laughing when he talked to Porter
@@magsec5 I love how Aussies can understand the incoherent babbling of a Scottish doll bludger as well as terribly accented foreigners trying to speak English. We just understand.
I typed it fast, I have more than likely made a couple of mistakes but here is a transcription: Fucking, heading into the bru(unemployment office). I went to get my giro (unemployment check) and I passed a couple of busses on the side of the road. Everybody's pilling out of the front one, and going into the one behind. The Old folk were like "This is ridiculous, it never used to be like this with the corporation busses". I was like, I see. They've got themselves a breakdown. I went to see where they were all heading: "Yoker". And I just pissed myself laughing. "haaaa". Because Yoker is one of those places I only know from the front of the bus, never been there. Don't know what it's like there, just that it's some pure like mad fabled land that sounds like a pure mad egg yolk. So I was watching everyone getting on, trying to show their tickets to the driver, but he wasn't having it. He was just waving them on like that. "Like I know where yous came from I can see the bus - what do you think I am, daft(stupid)". And a wee(little) voice man, he says "Dee Dee, I know you've got to get your giro but the brew's always going to be there - this on the other hand is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Go for it". So I just went like that "Fuck it" and I joined the queue. The second I do it, the driver starts checking people's tickets. I was like "Oh just forget it" but I just got pure caught up in the slipstream building towards the moment of truth at 100 mile per hour. Heart pounding. Pulse racing. (Dee Dee, to driver) "What it is, is-" (Driver) "On you go mate" (Dee Dee) "Cheers (Thank you)" I did it. So there I was, birds eye view. Whizzing by the brew. Ta Ta(Goodbye) giro, maybe some other day eh. Because I'm on the bus - to Yoker. I couldn't believe what I was hearing in my head man. Seriously, this was actually happening. But then I thought; hold on - don't get too excited. There could be someone looking at you at the back right now thinking "Here, who is he, he's not from Yoker. He's got no business on this bus - get his head kicked man". I turned around to see if anyone was looking. Nobody. Got away with it. Just pure got away with the lot of it. So I loosened up and started chatting with folk to get a wee bit of local knowledge before I get there. (Dee Dee, to woman) "So is this bus for Yoker?" (Woman) "Aye (yes)" (Dee Dee) "I've just moved here, is it any good?" (Woman) "Aye, it's a lovely place - I've lived here all my life. Yoker born and bred." (Dee Dee) "So you've never once wondered what Yoker's like?" (Woman gives confused look) (Dee Dee) "Mind boggling" Half an hour later I started seeing the signs. Yoker news agents. Yoker post office. Yoker F.C (football club). Yoker everything! They even had a barber that rhymed with Yoker: "Hair by Les Porter". What are the chances of that? (Dee Dee, to woman) "Here, what's to bet his name used to be Smith or something and he changed it to fit in" (Woman, confused) "What?" So the bus gets to the terminus, everybody starts piling off. I hit the driver with my charms, "Driver, when do you leave?". "Five minutes" "I conked out (fell asleep) and missed my stop, any chance you could print me out a ticket so I can nip out for a fag (cigarette)" (Driver prints out ticket) "Cheers". I put my first step onto Yoker soil. I was in Yoker, I thought this day would never come. Is it really this easy? Is it really this easy to get the things you want in life? You just need to hold out for it. All of a sudden I just had the urge to go "Right here, I'm not from Yoker I've got no business being here". I was like, calm it Dee Dee, that's no laughing matter - they'll tear you shreds. Now you've got 5 minutes, where do you want to go? What do you want to do - in Yoker? I knew exactly what. I had to, I had to find out. I couldn't leave without finding out what this is all about. The bus was a million miles away. I thought "Dee Dee you truly are on the outer reaches man. Middle of nowhere". And I went into the great unknown with a fucking ding. (Ding). To ask the one big question on everybody's lips... "Les Porter" "Aye?" "Has your name always rhymed with Yoker or did it used to be like Smith or something? Or..-?" And then I thought: Dee Dee, you've just blown your cover - big time. What the fuck are you playing at man. Go!, Go! I got my head out before they started chucking (throwing) their scissors at me like ninja stars. Before big Les scalped me and stuck my head in the water. Ten seconds to get that bus man. That's your lifeline. What does it do? it starts moving, I was like "no man". Felt like giving up. "I'm not from Yoker I have no business being in Yoker". Let them finish me off like a pack of mad wolves. But I just kept running for my life like I had Leatherface on my tail. I get to the bus but he won't let me in. I was like set-up, set-up. Them that were on that front bus - actors, the lot of them were actors. The door opens and I walk upstairs. Right under the seat. And I don't dare poke my head out for the next half hour. In case they were behind on a minibus, gasping to feast on me like a shower of mad zombie pirates. I pick my moment: up the road, up the stairs, in the house. Lock. Lock. Lock. Scary man, scary. But the best day of my life.
I find the few dee dee sketches I've seen weirdly... uplifting? Like he's an unemployed, probably drug-fuelled nobody living in a sketchy council flat, yet somehow he seems to be living his best life and extracting so much pleasure out of trivial activities.
This is the best sketch ever probably. Almost the same thing happened to me, except it was the 47 from Bootle to Sands, and I had to pay on the way back cos I'd crossed the merseyside/Lancashire border
The pure excitment when i was working in Glasgow, n I just happened to end up in yoker. got away with it, from Manchester to yoker, just pure got away with the lot of it.
This has to be the greatest stoner sketch of all time. Even dedicated weed comedians end up with a ham-fisted, exaggerated caricature. While nothing has captured the mentality like this one.
Limmy is truly a scholar of the human psyche. His deep understanding of how people think and how he just comes up with entire back stories and scenarios blows my mind. I realise this is probably just a real story from his past, I mean watching him on Twitch and the stuff he comes out with. Never change Limmy.
Man this is a contemporary scottish rhapsody. Limmy not only makes a story, he captures a moment in time. Love his sketches. This right here will be considered a classic years from now. Much love from Bulgaria - another place like Yoker.
3:00 jesus it's so accurate, I've talked to people like this, but I usually just smile, and half laugh and not my head a bit and go "yeah" make them think I've understood their gibberish.
"Scary, man.. Scary.. But the best day of my life.." I don't know why but that sorta resonates with me. Living day by day through agonizing mundanity and he gets to have one day where everything is exciting and new.
Jacqueline and mister mulveneys class too. He could easily pull off a few more belters, ats up to him but, ats nae my bizniz I have nae bizniz bein in yoker
I love it... in 2017 on myn45th birthday I FLED Guernsey island homeless got to Leicester sere I am from feet utter dred went to Lincoln cashncard in the machine ex misses had stolen the lot I then crushed 3 fingers I ended up I a flat with dossers I got yhe box bedroom window open 7 yrs door shut it was heaving with wild life and insects 😂 I had surgery on my hand and spent the next q2 months walking jogging hot bathing sweating out eating onion garlic and protein everyday lost 2.5 stone and got super fit as Amy hand healed didn't claim dole or sick I got the stolen money back from Nat west plus a bit extra put in my claim for the crushed hand and due to domestic violence laws was able to apply for a flat... I spent 12 months bussing around on a day ticket and walking jogging endlessly around Lincoln shire 😂😂😂 many times stoned as fk... I loved every single minute of it... I now have the flat and a job working now 3 yrs and a massive payout on the hand... but I long for those days I was weirdly depressed alone yet utterly happy
"Has your name always rhymed with Yoker? Or did it used to be Smith... or something?" 4:49 [[And then I thought, “Dee Dee, you’ve just blown your cover. Big time. ‘Fuck you playing at, man? Go. Go!” Got out of there before they started chucking their scissors at us like Ninja stars. Before Big Les scalped us and stuck my head on the wall. Ten seconds to get to that bus man, that’s your lifelife! What does it start doing? It starts moving. I was like that, “No, man!” I felt like giving up. “Here, I’m not from Yoker, I’ve got no business being in Yoker”. Let them finish me off like a pack of mad wolves. But I just kept running for my life like I had Leatherface on my tail. I get to the bus but he wouldn’t let us in. I was like that, “Set up! ‘Whole thing’s a set up. Them that were on that front bus? Actors. Actors! ‘Lot of them, actors.” Door opens and I bolt upstairs. Right under the seat. Didn’t dare poke my head up for the next half hour in case they were going by in a minibus. Gasping to feast on me like a shower of mad zombie pirates. Picked a moment. Up the road. Up the stairs. In the house. Lock. Lock. Lock. Scary, dude. Scary."Ten seconds to get to that bus, man, that’s your lifeline. What does it start doing? Starts moving. I was like that “Naw, man”. Felt like giving up." "Gets to the bus but he wouldn’t let me in. I was like that, set up, whole thing’s a set up." Picked a moment. Down the stairs. Up the road. Up the stairs. In the house. Lock, lock, lock. Scary man. Scary. But the best day in my life.
Had to watch this several times, its pure bloody genius. We've all come across people like this, I remember been a sales rep and bumping into someone like this in a pharmacy I was selling to, asked me where I was from, and when I told him where I'd travelled from, it being 80 miles away, he was literally mind blown like this character. Also big 'booooo' to bbc and bbc scotland. They are terrible for not promoting Scottish made shows outside of Scotland. England misses out on so much and so much Scottish talent doesn't get follow up series because of this as well.
This is the best sketch ever made in my opinion. I don't think I've ever cried so much with laughter at a sketch before this haha. I think it's the internal monologue that does me in, it sort of reminds me of The Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar but way funnier. "Dee Dee you've just blown ya cover big time' 😂😂
I'm a Mancunian, yet I've never been to Hazel Grove. I see it on the boards for the trains at Piccadilly Station and it sounds like some mad, fabled land where pixies and elves live.
@A stoned squirtle You sir clearly fail to grasp the absolute genius fundamentals of this skit but then again judging by your username you probably don't have much left upstairs with all that shit you probably smoke. I'm not trying to offend you or be facetious but I am merely just defending the sheer comical genius of this guy.
This is stunningly relatable, me in my late 20s, unemployed and measuring my days out in hash cookies, stoned hi-jinks alternating with deep paranoia - and very very funny. "Dee Dee, you've blown your cover"...laugh till you cry funny. I've just discovered Limmy, and must have watched every Limmy Show clip on youtube at least 4 or 5, in some cases probably more than 10 times in the last few days. The amount of detail! ...you can't get everything in one go. Best comedy actor I've ever seen, most varied writer, half a dozen all-time great characters. Apparently never shown outside of Scotland - the BBC are dicks, pure and simple. What chance do we have as a united land when our best comedian is hidden from the rest of us by those idiots? I'm emigrating to Scotland. Limmy has so many different gears, he makes most comedians look like the one or two trick ponies they are. Only Chris Morris/Blue Jam inhabits vaguely similar terrain, but I've never related to any of those characters...Limmy can be equally as dark and twisted, but there's everyday humanity there too, and he's just funnier. When Limmy makes me laugh, I don't feel like a part of me has just died, as I do with Chris Morris stuff. Fuck!
Most of Limmy's stuff is about taking mundane everyday things and then just adding a twist to them to take them in a whole other direction. Most of it is extremely relatable which is what keeps you coming back. He really hits the nail on the head about things like awkward social situations, angst, depression, silly daydreams, boredom and cynicism. A lot of things probably most of us deal with. Like, take for example the sketch where he puts the paper light shade on his head. I'm going to bet a good few of us have felt that impulse, and we don't even know why. But then Limmy takes that idea and goes over the top with it and it becomes a dark obsession. Or what's your 'hing? Who doesn't have some odd little hobby or thing they like to do that they're keeping secret from everyone? Limmy's got some brilliant observational skills to notice this stuff in himself in others and make it into hilarious sketch form that also makes you think a bit.
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“Just go on mate”
“Cheers”
*’I did it’*
😂😂👌🏽
2:59
Yeah, jahdbfkwjqbqvwvsjxjyg
What?
Install a Friend what does limmy say before the bus driver says “on you go mate”?
@@JamilThePimpLol "What it is, is..." he was about to give an excuse about not having a ticket
Haha that's was the perfect moment.
"Yoker born and bred."
"So you've never once wondered what Yoker's like... Mindboggling."
Such a poetic response
im telling my kids this is trainspotting
good lmao
It's better than Trainspotting. Couldn't stand that movie.
way better than that overrated pile
@@GooseGumlizzardqueer
aye tell the weans this ee trains pottin
Got lost wandering around England as a 17 year old and spent like at least 8 hours walking around and hopping on busses trying to get back to my nan's village, and this is fucking exactly how it felt
I have dreams like this.
I did that once and ended up in Elephant & Castle. I did not do it again.
Can also relate to this. Got stuck in west London back in the 90s, if you know what Hounslow and Southall are like? they're pretty much full or Indians. Scary place for a lone white male, i got abuse just asking for directions, it was like been in a different country.
@@Glenn7719 What are you talking about? White people live in Hounslow too.
@@SoulOfJungle Granted, Hounslow is not completely overrun. but Southall on the other hand, i just checked, 73% are Asian, with just 7.5% been White. So yeah, it was like been in a different country.
He so perfectly nails the way you think when you're not really thinking.
And how sometimes you think the first half of the sentence, and then say the second part out loud. Genius
@@88omair Just the fucking facial expressions, man, spot on
I'll bet he'd really appreciate that as a compliment. Limmy, not Deedee. Wait... Deedee, not Limmy?
Maximum Subtlety I like how you typed how you think in your head, we both liked it
He also perfectly captures the Scottish junkie. This has so many layers of accuracy that most people will never know 😂
I'm from West Lothian and don't know Glasgow well at all. Always thought Yoker was some fictional place. Driving through Glasgow recently and saw a bus with Yoker on it. Just about shat myself and crashed into it
West Lothian eeeeeeeeeee
Well if you lived in Nottingham you'd see buses for Gotham
Actually having said that, can't remember the last bus I saw for Gotham, but I'm sure they exist
@@PiousMoltar Yeah, Wayne's manor in the dark Knight rises was filmed in Wollaton Hall in Nottingham. Used to live a 5 minute walk from there because of uni, lovely place
Very good-I'm trying not to laugh as I type .
Haaaaaaaa...
"is it really this easy? Is it really this easy to get the things you want in life?" I'm surprised at how often this line has crossed my mind after getting a thing I've wanted
Same!
Dude the number of times I've just had to *ask*! That was it! We get in our own way so much sometimes man 😂
This reminded me of a weird experience I had. When I was growing up me and my mother used to catch a bus home that carried on after our stop on to a place called Gillow Heath. There was something about the name that always intrigued me.
50 years later I had attended to some business in the area and found that I was actually within walking distance of Gillow Heath. So I got Google maps up on my phone and set off. It turned out to be a very ordinary suburb on the edge of farmland and countryside type stuff. Didn't see anyone about and was just having a bit of a wander around.
Suddenly I got an overwhelming sense of danger, a deep, primal, dread that really unnerved me. There was nothing but bungalows and bungalowish paraphernalia there, but I just had to get away as quickly as I could. I've never felt anything like it before and I've never been back.
Gillow Heath must be my Yoker.
The real nutter is the woman sat next to him reading a book. Half the seats are empty but she chooses to sit next to him and read. Not sit next to him for conversation but read. With all those spare seats. That's the sign of a real delinquent.
What if she sat there when the bus was more full of people and didn't notice available seats as she's engrossed in her book?
She's in love
adam northwood because she’s on the outside seat. Normally she would’ve been closer to the window side if she was on before Limmy
how do you know he didn't push his way past the woman and steal the window seat
I don't blame her. He's cute.
this pure mad fable land that sounds like an egg yoak
pure mad egg yolk*
@@zerogbot23 *egg yoker
probably my favorite line in this sketch lol
sounds like a pure mad egg yolk
everyone correcting the spelling of yolk are stupid, he was clearly writing a scottish accent
This sketch creates an entire atmosphere, fleshed out character and backstory in like 6 minutes.
"an I jus pissed maself laughen"
*"heeeeeeah"*
The most underrated part of this whole sketch is the fact he talks about les porter to the woman on the bus as if she can hear the voice in his head
_”aye,I was safe._ _"but,the thing i didn't notice, the cheeky bat had stole me magic buds"_
10 likes and we'll sample dee dee
That's what I love about Limmy, is attention to detail is insane. I've done that myself
Dylan Blackstone les Porter doesn’t really even rhyme with yoker 😂
Dunno. Someone only recently pointed out to me the shoes.
“So you’ve never once wondered what Yoker’s like...”
Underrated line
Greedy Gamer maynd boggolin
Actual genius
I don't get it
@@wowsuchhandle it's because she's FROM Yoker, she's never wondered what it's like because its all she's known so she'll never wonder what it's like like an outsider would, it's actually a really clever line 😂
That's what had me lose it.
I have a friend from Yoker. He says that Limmy’s show ripped the heart out of that community.
That was a science in my day. Science was welding fooking ships together....
Thatcher!
Aye, Benny Harvey was a true Yoker man. RIP big man - gone but not forgotten
@@AliG-fd2ho
Huh, whatsaplawblem?
is it because he revealed that Les Porter's name used to be Smith?
Les was the soul of that Community and after the show aired he couldn't face anyone. Limmy turned the Yokers against him. For shame!
Music:
0:00 The Orb - Spanish Castles In Space
3:29 The Orb - Star 6 & 7 8 9
4:54 AFX - .942937
You're a legend mate
Yoker is indeed beyond the Ultraworld.
Do you know any other of the music limmy uses as I find some of it mesmerising
@@danielwilder7835 ~ check out The Orb's album Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, and their other album UFOrb, that's a good place to start.
ahh fuck i love you
What's funny is Limmy's said that when he feels lonely or depressed he'll get on a bus or train and just go visit some random little town he's never been to before. So this is semi-autobiographical.
Yoker is one of those places that kids in Glasgow grew up hearing about or seeing on a rail map or something.
It's not until someone's grown up that they can decide for themselves on whether to seek these places out or not?
There's nothing there worth talking about and you could pass through it on a bus without realising that you've passed through it (or by it).
Truth of the matter is that nobody has any business going to Yoker unless someone lives or works there 😂😂.
@@robertmcmillan3638 Yeah I think any city of any size has those random nondescript suburbs that you've never been to unless you had a solid reason. I grew up in big cities on the US west coast and it's definitely the way there. Was just pointing out that Limmy's talked up how he likes to just get on a train sometimes and visit some boring little place that's not known for anything in particular and spend a day rambling around.
Aye if you’ve read his autobiography, he basically says the dee dee sketches are basically him in his early 20’s when he was out of work just sat in the flat doing fuck all with no money
@twenty druids aye prime years of their fuck all happening and fuck all to do
@@Re-bl5sr surprisingly down to earth and very funny, would recommend the audiobook as Limmy narrates it himself. It’s very heavy and deep, goes into some very grim and sad times in his life so just a few trigger warnings pal
Les Porter’s silence at Dee Dee’s question speaks volumes. He’d been exposed.
Fuck you playing at man go go
Actors the lot of them, every single one of them.
Blown 'is cover. Big time. Wha t'fucks he playin at man?
Les Smith you mean
@@sauercrowder My mistake. Les is a crafty one. Makes you believe what he wants.
I am American but I find this the most hypnotizing and beautiful comedy sketch on TH-cam. Getting yourself this worked up over something profoundly mundane and keeping the magic intact after engaging with it is truly the dream of post-modernity.
Same. I'm from Oklahoma, and I've watched this almost a dozen times so far and it kills me every time. There IS something hypnotic about it, I can't put my finger on it, but I love it. I've even begun to understand the accent.
Obsessed with the accent lol
@@ThatFetcherFargoth its called heroin
I think some people touched on it in other comments. Limmy's comedy is often about things that go on in your head without much acknowledgement, and are quickly forgotten, but that everyone thinks
@@SpacePonder lmao
the bus drivers acting is underrated in this sketch.
also, les porters enthusiasm and friendliness when he says "aye" amuses me every time. little did he know...
The depression induced isolation caused by unemployment is nailed here. Quality.
You've never been this stoned then
Don't think Dee Dee is too bothered about finding a job in fairness!
nar nar i'm just really really high mate get fucked
Rory & the island Fuck you dae ye want him to be defeated ya Robot.
Any kind of employment is a cheat to mental okay-ness. Not a cure though, I know it too well.
This was me in uni. isolated, depressed, and simply leaving the house and going on long journeys was the greatest thrill.
i was depressed dude, go easy on me.
Very sad sketch actually... And very innocent... Kinda heart breaking
Oh shit this happens to other people? I had the same issue and walked across London.
I relate to this so hard.. I would literally walk around town aimlessly to escape it all.
@Memento Mori That's it, just keep your mind and body distracted, running away from your problems, never mind you still come home once again alone to these bad thoughts in your head. Just keep throwing yourself into the world and hope something happens, when 99% of the time nothing will happen and nobody will care.
This is a brilliant hyperbole of social anxiety. Dee Dee really captures depression, anxiety, and loneliness (and maybe being high) in all of his shorts.
It was interesting to read in the autobiography that the sunlight when Dee Dee gets on the bus was a continuity error that hopefully wasn't noticed by anyone. Well I noticed it, but assumed it was deliberate because it was a nice touch. It makes perfect sense, I mean _of course_ the sun would be shining in Yoker, and on the bus to that fabled land.
The sun always shines in Yoker.
If any americans are watching, a 'Giro' is a unemployment check, which Dee Dee gets. He was planning to collect it at "the bru" or the unemployment bureau.
Rey 1119 love you
He wouldn’t have the confidence to go to a bar .... it would of been a half oz of hash
Mackellar Mackellar was about to say that he would’ve got a bit a hash went home n got boogied watching jeremy kyle
J fucking right double banana bucket n the moon
scubapig Americans are actual weapons when it comes to understanding slang
I'VE GOT NO BUSINESS BEING IN YOKER
hahhaha
nae
They know..
The Deedee skits are all miniture masterpiece sketches of stoner logic, anxiety, paranoia and depression. Funny as fuck too, but with an underlying reality that hits.
and being broke as fuck and needing to amuse yourself in mundanity because you can't afford to do shit
"Nearly pissed myself laughing"
"Haaa..."
That part kills me every time 😂
Good to see Thom Yorke's still doing well for himself.
Immediately prior to Kid A
you mean Thom Yoker?
@@ch0kevonlouis400 this is a coincidence that cannot go unchallenged
You reckon his name's always been simlar to Yoker or it used to be smith or somethn
15 step is about the 15 steps to the bus stop
"So you've never wondered what Yokers like... mind boggling..."
@First Last I think it means she's never lives outside of it, so she's never had abother point of reference
First Last yeah he’s for some reason been thinking about yoker for a while wonderin about it. But as someone who grew up there, they never would’ve wondered what it’s like.
@First Last
If you're from somewhere, you never actually think about what it's like being there.. It's a really clever line, I like it.
You can apply this to yourself... You've always been 'you' but did you ever judge 'you' without being biased because you're judging yourself? From the pov of an "other".
@@Frownymonsta being from there, they just know
‘I just got pure caught up in the slipstream’
*standing in a slow moving line of pensioners boarding a bus*
The driver is the real hero of the story. Sees the state of him and let's him by
Watched this countless times and have just realised, when he steps off the bus he's wearing 2 different shoes
Watched this four times, only just noticed when the people are walking on the bus the driver is just watching him stand there as people file on
I tried wearing the same shoe on both feet once, had to jump everywhere.
Yeah please watch the orange peel episode!
I'm not sure they are
@@ShredCo they are two different textures with a very similar style. two different shoes
I love the way not one part was actually set in Yoker, even Limmy wasn't that stupid to go wandering round actual Yoker!
He got nae business in yoker
the bit when he gets off the bus is. no idea where the hairdressers is though
@@DannyEastes that not Clydebank College at the Titan he gets of the bus, and the hairdresser's is Dorchester Ave in Kelvindale if I'm not mistaken.
@@DannyEastes where is it mate? from yoker myself and didn't recognise it!
@@chrisgritton1959 you're from Yoker? You mean you've never wondered what Yoker's like?
This character is the doppleganger of a guy I shared a student digs with in Scarborough in about '98, he was from Glasgow. He used to do hotknives all day on the kitchen hotplate. The place wreaked of soap bar.
My cousin shared the same flat. I remember him because my cousin hates him still because after we all moved out the landlord kept my cousins deposit. It turned out the electric meter had been emptied, all the 50p coins stolen from it.
My cousin was raging about it when he told me, he still rages about it every now and again.
Since the guy had moved back to Scotland I thought: "Well, he's made his mind up."
I've kept that secret for 25 years.
Good to come clean. I was proper skint man.
Dude this is about my depression, even going to the local park after being in isolation for years was like the best day ever, but also a really scary day because of all the people around me and feeling alien to the world in my own mind.
"And I went intae the great unknown wae a fuckin ding..." is easily the most underrated line of this whole sketch!
"and ah gaed intae th' stoatin unknown wae a fuckin ding..." is easily th' maist underrated line o' this hail sketch!
Thom Yorke in the 90's....
Thom Yoker
😂😂😂
I couldn't believe it was happening... I was in Yoker... what the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here... cuz' I'm a creeeeppppppp
He wrote "Creep" the day he returned from Yoker
Hha
I love that Porter barely rhymes with Yoker, and the fact Dee Dee talks to the woman on the bus as if she can hear his thoughts 🤣
In the weirdest ways this is so relatable. I had this almost exact line of thinking once when I got on a tram in South London to New Addington. And much like Yoker, I left almost as swiftly as I arrived.
I once ended up there on the last bus of the night. Yoker is better.
I strongly related to this Addington is a mythical place 😂
@@jam202 Addington is very, very, very different to New Addington... 🤣🤣🤣
Is it really this easy to get the things you want in life?
Sometimes
Just smile
Nope.
I regularly come here just to see this exact quote, 3 mins 33 on. Inspirational.
@@kevvoucher alignment
The greatest sketch of all time.
eatlightning Too far
eatlightning you're talking shit.
Hello! I'm from 2019 and I agree. Don't listen to the others. It's a fucking stone cold classic.
Guys I'm from even further into the future and I say it's an A+ sketch, maybe the best
hey im from slightly further in the future and yeah this sketch is class
This is Limmy’s loose adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
There's something strangely mystifying about Limmy's Dee Dee sketches. Dee Dee always finds a way to to make the most mundane things really interesting
The sacred experience of existing
when you're doing nothing for so long - all that nothingness starts to feel palpable
As a filthy Australian, I'm just glad to have understood more than 50 percent of Dee Dee's inner monologue. Almost cried laughing when he talked to Porter
That's one of the benefits of being Aussie, we can somehow understand exactly what the Scotts are saying lol
ye wlillny once ye meet a true east end glaswegian
Aussies can understand any fuck off English
@@magsec5 I love how Aussies can understand the incoherent babbling of a Scottish doll bludger as well as terribly accented foreigners trying to speak English. We just understand.
Abstractivity Probs cause you’re descendants of us.
I typed it fast, I have more than likely made a couple of mistakes but here is a transcription:
Fucking, heading into the bru(unemployment office). I went to get my giro (unemployment check) and I passed a couple of busses on the side of the road. Everybody's pilling out of the front one, and going into the one behind. The Old folk were like "This is ridiculous, it never used to be like this with the corporation busses".
I was like, I see. They've got themselves a breakdown.
I went to see where they were all heading: "Yoker". And I just pissed myself laughing. "haaaa". Because Yoker is one of those places I only know from the front of the bus, never been there. Don't know what it's like there, just that it's some pure like mad fabled land that sounds like a pure mad egg yolk.
So I was watching everyone getting on, trying to show their tickets to the driver, but he wasn't having it. He was just waving them on like that. "Like I know where yous came from I can see the bus - what do you think I am, daft(stupid)". And a wee(little) voice man, he says "Dee Dee, I know you've got to get your giro but the brew's always going to be there - this on the other hand is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Go for it". So I just went like that "Fuck it" and I joined the queue.
The second I do it, the driver starts checking people's tickets. I was like "Oh just forget it" but I just got pure caught up in the slipstream building towards the moment of truth at 100 mile per hour. Heart pounding. Pulse racing.
(Dee Dee, to driver) "What it is, is-"
(Driver) "On you go mate"
(Dee Dee) "Cheers (Thank you)"
I did it.
So there I was, birds eye view. Whizzing by the brew. Ta Ta(Goodbye) giro, maybe some other day eh. Because I'm on the bus - to Yoker. I couldn't believe what I was hearing in my head man. Seriously, this was actually happening. But then I thought; hold on - don't get too excited. There could be someone looking at you at the back right now thinking "Here, who is he, he's not from Yoker. He's got no business on this bus - get his head kicked man". I turned around to see if anyone was looking. Nobody. Got away with it. Just pure got away with the lot of it. So I loosened up and started chatting with folk to get a wee bit of local knowledge before I get there.
(Dee Dee, to woman) "So is this bus for Yoker?"
(Woman) "Aye (yes)"
(Dee Dee) "I've just moved here, is it any good?"
(Woman) "Aye, it's a lovely place - I've lived here all my life. Yoker born and bred."
(Dee Dee) "So you've never once wondered what Yoker's like?"
(Woman gives confused look)
(Dee Dee) "Mind boggling"
Half an hour later I started seeing the signs. Yoker news agents. Yoker post office. Yoker F.C (football club). Yoker everything! They even had a barber that rhymed with Yoker: "Hair by Les Porter". What are the chances of that?
(Dee Dee, to woman) "Here, what's to bet his name used to be Smith or something and he changed it to fit in"
(Woman, confused) "What?"
So the bus gets to the terminus, everybody starts piling off. I hit the driver with my charms, "Driver, when do you leave?".
"Five minutes"
"I conked out (fell asleep) and missed my stop, any chance you could print me out a ticket so I can nip out for a fag (cigarette)" (Driver prints out ticket) "Cheers".
I put my first step onto Yoker soil. I was in Yoker, I thought this day would never come. Is it really this easy? Is it really this easy to get the things you want in life? You just need to hold out for it. All of a sudden I just had the urge to go "Right here, I'm not from Yoker I've got no business being here". I was like, calm it Dee Dee, that's no laughing matter - they'll tear you shreds. Now you've got 5 minutes, where do you want to go? What do you want to do - in Yoker?
I knew exactly what. I had to, I had to find out. I couldn't leave without finding out what this is all about. The bus was a million miles away. I thought "Dee Dee you truly are on the outer reaches man. Middle of nowhere". And I went into the great unknown with a fucking ding. (Ding). To ask the one big question on everybody's lips...
"Les Porter"
"Aye?"
"Has your name always rhymed with Yoker or did it used to be like Smith or something? Or..-?"
And then I thought: Dee Dee, you've just blown your cover - big time. What the fuck are you playing at man. Go!, Go!
I got my head out before they started chucking (throwing) their scissors at me like ninja stars. Before big Les scalped me and stuck my head in the water. Ten seconds to get that bus man. That's your lifeline. What does it do? it starts moving, I was like "no man". Felt like giving up. "I'm not from Yoker I have no business being in Yoker". Let them finish me off like a pack of mad wolves. But I just kept running for my life like I had Leatherface on my tail. I get to the bus but he won't let me in. I was like set-up, set-up. Them that were on that front bus - actors, the lot of them were actors. The door opens and I walk upstairs. Right under the seat. And I don't dare poke my head out for the next half hour. In case they were behind on a minibus, gasping to feast on me like a shower of mad zombie pirates. I pick my moment: up the road, up the stairs, in the house. Lock. Lock. Lock.
Scary man, scary. But the best day of my life.
I hope this gets a lot of likes
on the brew means unemployed and in this case means the place to get his giro
Like a shower (a crowd) of mad zombie pirates
thanks for the corrections guys. I'm not from scotland but from newcastle. we have surprisingly similar slag and our accents are pretty related
Ok
This is literally poetry. That's why it has so many views. Limmy is genius
"Even had a barber that rhymed with Yoker.." still gets me. I'll randomly think about it and burst out fucking laughing.
Hahaha yeah this one stays with you doesn't it
"just go on mate"
"Cheers"
*I Dit it*
Nice profile picture
My favourite part and probably the most underrated part is when he tries to explain himself to the driver "what it is is" "on you go mate" "cheers"
Driver was havin none of it
I did it
then has balls to ask for a return ticket :D
Everyone knows if some rando opens up with "what it is, is...", you're about to hear the most tortuous tale of shite you've ever heard in your life.
... Ah've come oot wi'oot mah bus-fare; an' Ah've goat a job-interview in an 'oor; an' Ah wiz wonderin' if you could spare uz...@@BrianM_3rd
I find the few dee dee sketches I've seen weirdly... uplifting? Like he's an unemployed, probably drug-fuelled nobody living in a sketchy council flat, yet somehow he seems to be living his best life and extracting so much pleasure out of trivial activities.
This is the best sketch ever probably. Almost the same thing happened to me, except it was the 47 from Bootle to Sands, and I had to pay on the way back cos I'd crossed the merseyside/Lancashire border
I just pissed myself laughing "haaaha"
me whenever I type lol
Fuckin...
Still makes me burst oot laughing
I waz lii tha
@@redeemerl5212 same here!
Because of this sketch, my colleague has relocated from the bad lands of Paisley, to the promised land of Yoker. He has not been disappointed.
milowagon He’s got no business being in Yoker
Why paisley mate? land of yoker cannae bother
Badlands of Paisley? That's naw relocation, that's evacuation.
Fockin...
Paisley is a dump full of brass monkeys
The dreamy music that starts as he "steps onto Yoker soil" is perfect
😂 🎶
Definitely.
"Yoker, born and bred"
"So you've never once wondered what Yoker's like..."
Genius...
New life goal is to travel to Yoker and loudly announce "I'm not from Yoker! ave no business bein ere!"
That's no joke man. They'd tear you to shreds. 😮
@Анна Кукава Анна Кукава hahaha, I was making a reference to Limmy's stoned-out-of-his-mind internal monologues at around thr 3:56 mark 👍
You’d be the 5789438743rd person to do that
Am ne fea Yoker
@@miniaturesandstuff5209 like a pack of med woowvz
Limmy was playing Geoguessr on twitch yesterday and they put him right next to Hair by Les Porter
what are the odds??
Not the first time he’s manifested a joke into reality. Did the same some time back on Cities:Skylines
you're kidding me
need source lads
Clip?
that it is English yet unintelligible from start to finish is utter mastery and genius.
"and I just pissed myself laughin"
>"haaaaahh"
I lost three years of my life in Yoker.
And another five in Milngavie tryin te get out of Yoker
Zulu Romeo HAHAHA
I lost 2 year of my life in Ballybean
You probably had nae business being in yoker
So you've never once wondered what Yokers like?
...Mind boggling
The pure excitment when i was working in Glasgow, n I just happened to end up in yoker. got away with it, from Manchester to yoker, just pure got away with the lot of it.
Is it that easy to get the things you want in life
But did you, it leaves a mark.
This has to be the greatest stoner sketch of all time. Even dedicated weed comedians end up with a ham-fisted, exaggerated caricature. While nothing has captured the mentality like this one.
"Just this pure mad fabled land that sounds like a pure mad egg yolk."
Jesus Christ, man. The auto-generated captions for this are from another reality.
i live for them .
Thank you
dude thank you so much
If I ever own a boat, I'm going to name it "SS ridiculous"
Oh my fucking god
It's a whole new layer of comedy on top of the genius of the sketch itself
"Even had a barber that rhymed with Yoker."
Only it didn't, and I laughed even harder
Limmy is truly a scholar of the human psyche. His deep understanding of how people think and how he just comes up with entire back stories and scenarios blows my mind. I realise this is probably just a real story from his past, I mean watching him on Twitch and the stuff he comes out with. Never change Limmy.
Man this is a contemporary scottish rhapsody. Limmy not only makes a story, he captures a moment in time. Love his sketches. This right here will be considered a classic years from now. Much love from Bulgaria - another place like Yoker.
Actors actors the lot of them ACTORS.
Breaking the 4th wall, love that line :) Cheers
A beautiful mad tangent in an already crazy world.
"And i went into the great unkown with a fucking *ding*"
That was a really fucking good line and i dont know why i enjoyed it so much
I love this so much. The references. The comedy. The acting and delivery. Pure art. Glesga art.
THOM YOKER
Spot on😅
the darker Scottish side of Radiohead
@Dave Hughes She's turned the Weans against us
Thom Yoker
He wrote the song Glass Eyes on A Moon Shaped Pool about his visit to Yoker.
I love the way she says "Yoker born and bred"
So lovely
Yeah, because Yoker is an impoverished shit hole.
Michael Burns I looked it up lol. Looks like a typical impoverished depression induced shite wipe.
@@thetoecurler6852 impoverished?
@@Serkong poor
3:00 jesus it's so accurate, I've talked to people like this, but I usually just smile, and half laugh and not my head a bit and go "yeah"
make them think I've understood their gibberish.
"The listening exam is easy. I'm expecting full marks from this class."
I think he says: "So you've never wondered what Yoker's like". Brilliant.
Dee Dee represents a lot of what I miss about living in Scotland.
Know the feeling. Nowhere like home.
You miss the junkies?
I was thinking exactly the same thing!!!
Me too
I miss Glasgow so badly
@Random Scottish Bloke A bit? Very stoned indeed.
"Scary, man.. Scary.. But the best day of my life.."
I don't know why but that sorta resonates with me. Living day by day through agonizing mundanity and he gets to have one day where everything is exciting and new.
"I just pissed mahself laughing.." "haaaaa..."
Dee Dee is the best character ever. Ever.
TheAtuocool cheer up
Dee dee Or mr mulvaney
Jacqueline and mister mulveneys class too. He could easily pull off a few more belters, ats up to him but, ats nae my bizniz I have nae bizniz bein in yoker
@@johnsmith-jj4pb BOTH!!!
@@thetoecurler6852 jacqualiN
The auto-generated subtitles on this are amazing. Just 18 seconds in and we have:
"Novel you Steve illustrate occultation, Buzzy's always lying"
Fucking Buzzy...
@@kevinm5940 Buzzy is so full of shit
I pass my cell often reading the subtitles
This is my all time favourite sketch. Perfectly paced and funny as fuck. Genius Limmy!
I love it... in 2017 on myn45th birthday I FLED Guernsey island homeless got to Leicester sere I am from feet utter dred went to Lincoln cashncard in the machine ex misses had stolen the lot I then crushed 3 fingers I ended up I a flat with dossers I got yhe box bedroom window open 7 yrs door shut it was heaving with wild life and insects 😂 I had surgery on my hand and spent the next q2 months walking jogging hot bathing sweating out eating onion garlic and protein everyday lost 2.5 stone and got super fit as Amy hand healed didn't claim dole or sick I got the stolen money back from Nat west plus a bit extra put in my claim for the crushed hand and due to domestic violence laws was able to apply for a flat... I spent 12 months bussing around on a day ticket and walking jogging endlessly around Lincoln shire 😂😂😂 many times stoned as fk... I loved every single minute of it... I now have the flat and a job working now 3 yrs and a massive payout on the hand... but I long for those days I was weirdly depressed alone yet utterly happy
I have anxiety and depression and constantly think like this. Constant constant Paranoid narrative. I desperately wish it would end.
Good bus driver
Saved his life even
he got hit by Dee Dee’s charm
Star
"Has your name always rhymed with Yoker? Or did it used to be Smith... or something?"
4:49 [[And then I thought, “Dee Dee, you’ve just blown your cover. Big time. ‘Fuck you playing at, man? Go. Go!” Got out of there before they started chucking their scissors at us like Ninja stars. Before Big Les scalped us and stuck my head on the wall. Ten seconds to get to that bus man, that’s your lifelife! What does it start doing? It starts moving. I was like that, “No, man!” I felt like giving up. “Here, I’m not from Yoker, I’ve got no business being in Yoker”. Let them finish me off like a pack of mad wolves. But I just kept running for my life like I had Leatherface on my tail. I get to the bus but he wouldn’t let us in. I was like that, “Set up! ‘Whole thing’s a set up. Them that were on that front bus? Actors. Actors! ‘Lot of them, actors.” Door opens and I bolt upstairs. Right under the seat. Didn’t dare poke my head up for the next half hour in case they were going by in a minibus. Gasping to feast on me like a shower of mad zombie pirates.
Picked a moment. Up the road. Up the stairs. In the house. Lock. Lock. Lock. Scary, dude. Scary."Ten seconds to get to that bus, man, that’s your lifeline. What does it start doing? Starts moving. I was like that “Naw, man”. Felt like giving up."
"Gets to the bus but he wouldn’t let me in. I was like that, set up, whole thing’s a set up."
Picked a moment.
Down the stairs.
Up the road.
Up the stairs.
In the house.
Lock, lock, lock.
Scary man. Scary.
But the best day in my life.
Thank you
F.
You forgot the "Actors, the lot of them, ACTORS"
Thank you, because I had no idea what «Smuff» was supposed to mean
"you never wondered what Yoker was like? mind boggling!" that had me cackling
Had to watch this several times, its pure bloody genius. We've all come across people like this, I remember been a sales rep and bumping into someone like this in a pharmacy I was selling to, asked me where I was from, and when I told him where I'd travelled from, it being 80 miles away, he was literally mind blown like this character. Also big 'booooo' to bbc and bbc scotland. They are terrible for not promoting Scottish made shows outside of Scotland. England misses out on so much and so much Scottish talent doesn't get follow up series because of this as well.
*awkward stare*
*printing noise*
*”Cheals”*
This is the best sketch ever made in my opinion. I don't think I've ever cried so much with laughter at a sketch before this haha.
I think it's the internal monologue that does me in, it sort of reminds me of The Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar but way funnier.
"Dee Dee you've just blown ya cover big time' 😂😂
I'm a Mancunian, yet I've never been to Hazel Grove. I see it on the boards for the trains at Piccadilly Station and it sounds like some mad, fabled land where pixies and elves live.
I've watched so much of this show that I'm starting to understand their accents
I might need to start doing it too. Almost a decade in UK and I understood like 5 lines of a dialogue from the whole thing ;)
The accent is half of the charm. Wouldn't be the same in any other accent. Love it
Why am i reading all the comments in Dee Dees accent?
fockin.. same.
@@ilikethisnamebetter "Pure got away with it"
Because you've lost the plot man
Going to Yoker next year just because of this skit,by a bus of course. This is how much I'm a fan of Deedee.
@A stoned squirtle Life is long as fuck, why not do things that make you laugh, life's ridiculous so I'm acting according to it!
vonpaldanius can I come tae yoker too?
@A stoned squirtle You sir clearly fail to grasp the absolute genius fundamentals of this skit but then again judging by your username you probably don't have much left upstairs with all that shit you probably smoke. I'm not trying to offend you or be facetious but I am merely just defending the sheer comical genius of this guy.
@@seanhitz6411 yes do come, sounds like pure mad egg yoke!
vonpaldanius we can go see Les Porter!
Used to live my life like this, unemployed, quarter of hash every week. Even posting a letter becomes a fucking adventure when you're baked 24/7
This is easily my favourite sketch from Limmy. Bloody brilliant.
This is stunningly relatable, me in my late 20s, unemployed and measuring my days out in hash cookies, stoned hi-jinks alternating with deep paranoia - and very very funny. "Dee Dee, you've blown your cover"...laugh till you cry funny.
I've just discovered Limmy, and must have watched every Limmy Show clip on youtube at least 4 or 5, in some cases probably more than 10 times in the last few days. The amount of detail! ...you can't get everything in one go. Best comedy actor I've ever seen, most varied writer, half a dozen all-time great characters. Apparently never shown outside of Scotland - the BBC are dicks, pure and simple. What chance do we have as a united land when our best comedian is hidden from the rest of us by those idiots? I'm emigrating to Scotland.
Limmy has so many different gears, he makes most comedians look like the one or two trick ponies they are. Only Chris Morris/Blue Jam inhabits vaguely similar terrain, but I've never related to any of those characters...Limmy can be equally as dark and twisted, but there's everyday humanity there too, and he's just funnier. When Limmy makes me laugh, I don't feel like a part of me has just died, as I do with Chris Morris stuff. Fuck!
The Velvet UnderSound it’s been on Netflix. I watched the whole lot on there.
They aired it in Ireland for a few years back when limmy show was in it's prime remember watching it a few times!
Most of Limmy's stuff is about taking mundane everyday things and then just adding a twist to them to take them in a whole other direction. Most of it is extremely relatable which is what keeps you coming back. He really hits the nail on the head about things like awkward social situations, angst, depression, silly daydreams, boredom and cynicism. A lot of things probably most of us deal with. Like, take for example the sketch where he puts the paper light shade on his head. I'm going to bet a good few of us have felt that impulse, and we don't even know why. But then Limmy takes that idea and goes over the top with it and it becomes a dark obsession. Or what's your 'hing? Who doesn't have some odd little hobby or thing they like to do that they're keeping secret from everyone? Limmy's got some brilliant observational skills to notice this stuff in himself in others and make it into hilarious sketch form that also makes you think a bit.
Honestly this is how I feel when I take a walk to the gas station at 4am after not sleeping for 48 hours.
4:36 this scene just gives me pure anxiety
5:20 "Running for my life like I had Leatherface on my tail." Dead by Daylight prediction. 😯