Sort of - they came to hate each other, over maybe a decade. It wound up with them on tour together, but only appearing on stage together *as* the History Today professors. But they did start out as flatmates and good friends.
OMG, Yaasss! I'm in my mid-40's and I STILL do this with my friends when we see anything dodgy or unflattering: "You see that? That's your dream house / soul mate / favourite or best ever !" Never gets old! 🤭 -x-
"you see that comment on utube. That one that blurts out that they still perform such 1990s BBC nostalgic humorous nonsense in their mid 40s., implying they long for the past " "I did see such a comment" "well, thats your nan, that is. Scratching away at the flux capacitor of her De Lorean, which doesnt work".
The greatest trivia fact about this is that David Baddiel said that the suits were fished out from the BBC wardrobe stores and when they tried them on they found labels inside saying that they were originally made for John le Mesurier and Arthur Lowe in "Dad's Army"
@@WinstonSmith19847 Fun fact: The Mary Whitehouse Experience started out as a show on BBC radio 2 (for those in the UK). All the original line-up appeared on the subsequent TV series as well.
Oh good God, I'm so happy you've found Newman and Baddiel! Especially "History Today"! I've been suggesting this to you for as long as I have been aware of your channel! You know that, ahem, online content creator who we both appreciate? I am peripherally aware of the person to who you refer. Are you aware he has had several suggestions to watch our discussions ? It has been mentioned, but I have paid little attention, as he clearly has not paid attention yet to what we might think could be important. Yes, he's not paid attention to anything important. ... That's you, that is! That's your mum!
This was still popular when I went University at the turn of the century. We went through a stage of making up our own insults along the lines of "See that dog poop on the path? Yes I have noted its location. That's your favourite food that is." and so on.
I played these sketches for my girlfriend’s young granddaughters , and they concluded that they were funniest thing in the universe. When I told them that the duo had broken up acrimoniously many years before they were born, the girls were adamant that Newman and Baddiel needed to get back together asap and make more History Today sketches.
It's very curious, but 'Newman & Baddiel' as they were known, were _the_ pinnacle of British TV comedy for a coupla years. They were the rock stars of comedy. Oddly, though, their TV show comprised sketches mainly done individually. Clearly each comedian wrote sketches for themselves without inclusion of the other. The rare exception was the History guys (above) where they both parried childish insults. Later it turned out that this wasn't by accident - the pair actually hated each others' guts and _didn't_ want to work together - especially when they took their show on tour.
Newman and Baddiel (that's how it is spelt .. sorry) were seen as the rock and roll guys of modern comedy in the 1990s. Their stage show sold out Wembley Arena. 12,000 people came to see their show there, unheard of for early 90s comedy.
This skit was first started on the Show 'The Mary Whitehouse experience' which contained many great skits like the Milky Milky guy and the permanently sarcastic man.
@@bcfc2947 when the grandson asks for a bottle of milk when he’s tired, I tell him it’s ’milky milky’. In the voice. He now does the same. Mummy is not impressed. Lmfso!
Great choice Tricky!! My god did I have the hugest crush on Rob Newman. Particularly when he was in character as Jarvis - my god- such a naughty boy! Hope you catch more of the lads. Hilarious show I was always home for. "That's you, that is", was an overused catchphrase in our house 🙂
I'm so glad you found this. my sister and I loved this back in the day. Pissed ourselves laughing and I could still watch this any time. I also sold Rob Newman a guitar once.
I remember my head of year at school, Mr Devaney, showed us this sketch show in assembly. For no other reason than because he'd heard someone say "Who let your Mum out" to the tune of "Who let the dogs out". I remember very few assemblies but that one was memorable. He wasn't even mad, just amused.
To fully appreciate this, it helps to know there really were serious television discussion programs like this on the BBC in the 1970s and 80s. This sketch inserts adolescent banter into one of those programs in a similar way that Armstrong and Millar used 70s/80s teenage repartee in the WW2 RAF pilot movies.
Rob Newman went on to concentrate more on political stand up work like his Apocalypso Now show, sort of stand up comedy crossed with a lecture - never going to get him a gig on some panel show but great nonetheless.
Newman was definitely tipped to be the star, but he seemed to suffer from crippling insecurity, and a big ego, and the two really don't mix. I saw him at a small gig in my home town when he was trying a comeback, and he refused to do an encore because the crowd weren't enthusiastic enough. He actually came over to the PA booth, where the guy had said something like "if we cheer enough, maybe he'll do some more", and shouted "No! If they have to be told to ask for it, I'm not doing it!" like some emotional schoolboy.
Ohhhh Daaaaamn! I was hoping this would turn up on your channel eventually. Me and my mates had been smoking weed before we saw this on TV in the early -mid 90s. I couldn't get my breath I was laughing so hard. Absolutely classic run of sketches.
I saw them doing this live in Edinburgh many moons ago. It was the encore to their show and the place went into an absolute uproar of cheering and clapping as soon as the lights came up to find the pair of them sitting there. Loads of local references made it even better. "That's you that is" became a bit of a catchphrase back in the day. Fantastic to see them again.
The characters that fuelled a load of playground banter for anybody who was in school, college or uni in the UK in the early 1990s. Would also recommend their sketches featuring their character "Jarvis"
Oh wow... you pulled this one out the bag!!! This was a classic back in my 'yoof'. Newman & Baddiel in Pieces The Mary Whitehouse Experience Both incredible comedies from the early '90s
An American with a ponderous expression on his face put to his non-American friend ‘We have the Stars and Stripes, there should be a flag that represents the rest of the world”, “oh there is” his friend responded “ours looks pretty much identical to yours.. but ours is on fire”. Rob Newman.
The joke was that these two septuagenarians were imitating the pattern of playground insults of the time, which would go something like: See that dog's muck by the wall? That's your mum, that is."
This is fantastic news ! This is a cracking series of sketches from the 90’s .. the background to this is by the time they were doing this series of sketches they HATED each others guts 😅 There’s 6 - 8 sketches and they’re all hysterical 😃 👍🏴
It's Newman and Baddiel, btw. It's very strange that I hadn't thought about this series in many years, and was chatting about it with a friend a few days ago. The catchphrases like "That's you, that is..." were used a lot amongst family and friends in the 90s. lol
Newman & Baddiel. Mary Whitehouse Experience. Happy memories from my teens. Welcome to my church! There are more of these. There are some earlier ones from The Mary Whitehouse Experience on You Tube. I find them slightly funnier, although these ones are great.
These 2 started on a sketch show called the Mary Whitehouse Experience which is where History Today started. I went to a couple of the stand up shows back in the early 90's and it was the first time I've seen stand up almost like a rock concert. FYI Mary Whitehouse was a campaigner in the UK who was an anti-obscenity activist a bit like the US Terry Lynn Rakolta who tried to cancel Married with Children in the late 80's and only succeeded it making it more popular
Many years ago a friend of mine and myself were sat with a bunch of Americans we knew at a restaurant. We had arranged beforehand that at some point during the meal we would slip into the characters from History Today and repeating the insults word for word without explaining the context for our American friends. They couldn't work out whether we were serious or not; alternating between laughing and looking shocked. "Your bike, is a girl's bike". "I don't have a bike". "Oh yes you do....AND it's a girl's bike". And, yes, we had a book each on us so we could do "My Life As A Prostitute by your Mum" and "Pepys' Diary".
BCG, is a vaccine mainly to combat against tuberculosis (TB). It was for many years, given to all children mostly between 10 and 14. General vaccination in the UK was stopped around 20 years ago, as tuberulosis had become nearly non-existant here.
That's interesting, cos 20 years ago I had to go to St George's hospital in Tooting to have a chest scan, cos a classmate of mine in Wandsworth had contracted TB and we all had to go and get checked out. I think we were all OK.
For a brief period, these guys were like rock stars having shows like concerts etc. Then, like rock stars, they probably let it go to their heads, got drunk and fell out. My sister saw them live when she was about 16.
I was about to look up what it actually stood for. I remember we all got this vaccination at school in the late 1970s. The one thing everyone knew about it was that it leaves a small scar. I can still see mine on my upper arm around 45 years later.
I saw them live in Dublin in 1993, supported by Sean Lock, from memory. It felt like they were the apex of that British "lad" culture, with a dotted line to Brit-pop of the mid 90s. I liked David Baddiel but he was the weaker of the two. He went on to become a successful author and TV presenter, and also co-wrote a number one single. Rob Newman's punchline "Oh, hi Rachel" remains one of my favourites. Although they had a very poor relationship, I believe fences were mended in recent years and all is well with the world.
Another fantastically funny sketch from the same show was Rob Newmans fantastic portrayal of Jervis the pervy guy who haunts all the red light areas of London .. it’s pants wettingly funny 😅 👍🏴
Loved this when it was part of the Mary Whitehouse Experience, and then later in Newman & Baddiel. Never really had much of a roast culture in the UK, so this really breaks down to two old highly educated men, arguing about highbrow subject matter until it degenerates into school yard level insults. Truly a genius idea. Oh and BCG vaccine is one for tuberculosis that had at school. Often a source of ribbing in high school. I still remember going for mine and seeing my mate limping past, obviously in pain, as he came from his. Asked why he was limping and he told me they inject the vaccine in your arse cheek. They don’t, it’s your arm and still got the scar to prove it, but he got me.
Any other brit on here reached the same pinnacle as me here, where KB is introducing us to a British comedy we didn't know?! This has also explained why my mum says "that's you, that is" in a creepy voice - never made this association 😂😂😂
He had Rickets and Scurvy and festering sores all over his body, all in all he was the most ghastly apparition of a man I had ever seen. Who was this poor unfortunate? That’s you that is, that’s the nicest thing he could think of saying about you. The History Today from the Mary Whitehouse Experience were better. And Rob Newman doing an impression of Robert Smith from the Cure is also brilliant.
When you found out how much they really disliked each other, you looked forward to how venomous these characters could be to each other and know the insults were real.
the characters started off on a comedy show called the mary whitehouse experience which also had hugh dennis who was on mock the week and Steve Punt, it was very funny, especially terminator 3 sketch
I’d forgotten these - and just how contagious the 'see that … … … that’s your … … … that is' form of insults became for a while 😊 Long old time ago now!
My dad and I used to watch loads of comedy shows together, Monty Python, Harry Enfield, Newman and Baddiel and loads more. On the rare occasions that we were out together and saw something really stupid or crap one of us would simply say to the other "that's you that is!"
99% of all of these insults are in some shape or form, originally playground insults between school mates. I have used the insult about "That's your trainers, that's your fancy rebok pump up's, that is!" I have used on multple occasions. One that they missed off (must have been in another episode) which my dad still occasionally references "You see, when someone gobs on the ground, that's your swimming pool that is"
Try a video called "the games excerpt". Its from a tv series called the Games which was a satirical take on the Sydney Olympic games. Better yet, try Roy and HG's "The dream" - especially their commentary on the gymnastics events.
New to your channel… love this. I used to have to watch this as a kid with the sound right down so my Nan wouldn’t catch me watching - it would have me howling laughing
Sean Locke done a few gigs with them back in the day. Also, check out "Mister Wobbly Tickle" by Newman and Baddiel - it's an absolutely insane parody of Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs"
British TV Sketch shows going back 20 to 30 years ago: Titty Bang Bang (2005-07) Little Britain (2003-06) Bruiser (2000) Smack The Pony (1999-2017) Big Train (1998-2002) Goodness Gracious Me (1998-2015) We know where you live (1997) The Fast Show (1994-2014) Newman & Baddiel (1993) Mary Whitehouse Experience (1990-92) Reeves and Mortimer (1990 - ) Who Dares Wins (1983-88)
Wow remember watching this first time around. Brings back some great memories. ?6 best friend and i used to sometimes spend hours trading insults in the style of These sill old f''ers . Thanks for the memories Boom KANG
The Mary Whitehouse experience was a comedy sketch show that basically spawned two separate comedy duos but Newman and Baddiel are often the ones best noted. The other two were Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis (of Outnumbered and Mock the Week host fame) Imo Dennis has been the most successful if you think about it. I particularly remember the ‘milky milky’ sketches but Rob and David were arguably known as the first rockstars of comedy and I think were the first comedians to fill an arena rather than theatre’s etc
Omg !This is legendary. So glad you've got to Newman and Baddiel! Rob Newman lives near my Mum. He had a lot of mental health problems and has basically left the entertainment industry. Depression has been the scourge of so many great comedians.
25:20 in the 80s and 90s British school children routinely got a test for tuberculosis antigens at age 13ish, followed by vaccination with a BCG vaccine if positive.
King boomer hers a little bit of trivia you will love. Thea guys were the first people to sell out Wembley arena and they had the one and only Sean lock as the opening act which means he technically was the first person to play a sold out Wembley arena.
I remember this from my late teens, King Boomer as you are a fan of Father Ted, I don't know if you know but in the mid 80's Frank Kelly (Father Jack) had a hilarious Christmas cover of 12 days, It's hilarious, well worth a listen
Rob Newman and David Baddiel formed The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the 1990s with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, before getting their own show, Newman and Baddiel in Pieces. It was hugely successful and led to them doing a tour. Newman & Baddiel became the first comics to sell out Wembley Arena, which was unheard of before 1993. David Baddiel went on to work with Frank Skinner and in 1996 they had a Number 1 hit with Three Lions
Newman and Baddiel was also one of the first appearances on TV of the late great Sean Lock. Worth having a look for his "Disappearing World with Shenley Grange" sketches from the show.
Used to laugh my head off to these when I was a kid! I must've been 12 or 13 when it was on. Haven't seen it since and it's still funny now. I'm sure there's more of them. I remember "see that massive pile of goz on the floor? That's your paddling pool that is" Or something like that 😂
I went to see them live at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings. I remember they told either a joke or a true story that had me and the entire audience on the floor, literally falling out of our chairs with the punchline at the end. Brilliant comedians.
Hope you can find the early ones. There's a line about a smelly book that I won't spoil because it is STILL funny and my wife and I still catch each other out with an occasional version of it 30+ (OMFG!!) years later.
I only vaguely remember catching some of these. I did long hours then. I think that was absolutely fabulous (no, not the show).The delivery and writing was top notch. So glad you helped me find these in my sixties. (I'm still going out with your Mum. That;s me, that is.) David Baddiel has appeared occasionally on WILTY and/or 8 CatsDown or Mock the Week. I honestly don't know who Newman is, despite everyone here saying how popular these two were; but he is excellent and both are more than a match for Mitchell and Webb or Armstrong an Miller.
I saw the mary whitehouse experience, live, and they were brilliant. loved history today, and rob newman as jarvis. the best line from history today..."your mum does it for money". prof sg lewis: "your mum does it for free"
BCG is a vaccine against tuberculosis given to children around the age of 12. I got mine at school - the kids who went first came back to the classroom holding their arms pretending to be in agony.
Their characters in these sketches really hated each other, whereas in reality Newman and Baddiel really hated each other.
Sort of - they came to hate each other, over maybe a decade. It wound up with them on tour together, but only appearing on stage together *as* the History Today professors. But they did start out as flatmates and good friends.
I was 13 when this first aired on TV. School the next day was hilarious, the teachers didn't know what hit them.
I would have been about 15 or 16 and can confirm it was all over my school as well :)
OMG, Yaasss! I'm in my mid-40's and I STILL do this with my friends when we see anything dodgy or unflattering:
"You see that? That's your dream house / soul mate / favourite or best ever !"
Never gets old! 🤭 -x-
"you see that comment on utube. That one that blurts out that they still perform such 1990s BBC nostalgic humorous nonsense in their mid 40s., implying they long for the past " "I did see such a comment" "well, thats your nan, that is. Scratching away at the flux capacitor of her De Lorean, which doesnt work".
Newman and Badiel invented the Mom joke
Lol me too. That's exactly the right age to get this joke. XD
The greatest trivia fact about this is that David Baddiel said that the suits were fished out from the BBC wardrobe stores and when they tried them on they found labels inside saying that they were originally made for John le Mesurier and Arthur Lowe in "Dad's Army"
"Haircuuuuuuuuut, haircuuuuuuuut" hours spent in the playground shouting that at each other 😄 takes me back
My favourite mum joke from this whole series is -
"Your mum does it for money"
"YOUR mum does it for FREE"
Yay! You found the 'Mary Whitehouse Experience' from the 90's 🇬🇧👏
Hugh Dennis became well known on that show also.
@@WinstonSmith19847milky milky
@@TheAsrgrant A milky blast from the past 😀
@@WinstonSmith19847 Fun fact: The Mary Whitehouse Experience started out as a show on BBC radio 2 (for those in the UK). All the original line-up appeared on the subsequent TV series as well.
@@richardevans2954 Hugh Dennis was my favourite I loved him in Outnumbered that was a great show.
Oh good God, I'm so happy you've found Newman and Baddiel! Especially "History Today"! I've been suggesting this to you for as long as I have been aware of your channel!
You know that, ahem, online content creator who we both appreciate?
I am peripherally aware of the person to who you refer.
Are you aware he has had several suggestions to watch our discussions ?
It has been mentioned, but I have paid little attention, as he clearly has not paid attention yet to what we might think could be important.
Yes, he's not paid attention to anything important. ... That's you, that is! That's your mum!
See that muppet over there? That’s you that is…
That’s your mum
This was still popular when I went University at the turn of the century. We went through a stage of making up our own insults along the lines of "See that dog poop on the path? Yes I have noted its location. That's your favourite food that is." and so on.
You must have had a wild time.
You know those Victorian toys where you tip a tin upside down and you hear a moo?
That's your stereo that is.
I played these sketches for my girlfriend’s young granddaughters , and they concluded that they were funniest thing in the universe. When I told them that the duo had broken up acrimoniously many years before they were born, the girls were adamant that Newman and Baddiel needed to get back together asap and make more History Today sketches.
The presidential debates comment was spot-on 😂
It's very curious, but 'Newman & Baddiel' as they were known, were _the_ pinnacle of British TV comedy for a coupla years. They were the rock stars of comedy.
Oddly, though, their TV show comprised sketches mainly done individually. Clearly each comedian wrote sketches for themselves without inclusion of the other.
The rare exception was the History guys (above) where they both parried childish insults.
Later it turned out that this wasn't by accident - the pair actually hated each others' guts and _didn't_ want to work together - especially when they took their show on tour.
They were the first comedy act at Wembley I think.
@@THC-TheHereticalcomplainerfirst people to sell out Wembley
This sketch takes me back and sums up what my English lessons were like for quite a while - we'd sit there all lesson doing this😂
AT LAST a reactor found these two!!!🎉
Newman and Baddiel (that's how it is spelt .. sorry) were seen as the rock and roll guys of modern comedy in the 1990s. Their stage show sold out Wembley Arena. 12,000 people came to see their show there, unheard of for early 90s comedy.
I was there. Fantastic show!
Yes, they were a much better comedy duo than Baddiel & Skinner.
They with puny and Dennis are the Mary Whitehouse experience sort of money python for the 90s
Lol - I commented above that it was the old Wembley Stadium. Can't be arsed to change it now!
I saw the in Manchester. Never seen anything like it at the time. Nothing like other standup
You see that ceiling fan up there?
That's your helicopter that is.
That's your Air Force One, and you stand under it saying "weeee I can fly", you do.
OOOH MY GOD!!! Yeah. I remember this sh*t from back in the day. Thats YOU that is!
This skit was first started on the Show 'The Mary Whitehouse experience' which contained many great skits like the Milky Milky guy and the permanently sarcastic man.
they're the other ones to do next! Milky milky!
@@bcfc2947 when the grandson asks for a bottle of milk when he’s tired, I tell him it’s ’milky milky’.
In the voice. He now does the same.
Mummy is not impressed. Lmfso!
Mr Strange
Great choice Tricky!! My god did I have the hugest crush on Rob Newman. Particularly when he was in character as Jarvis - my god- such a naughty boy! Hope you catch more of the lads. Hilarious show I was always home for. "That's you, that is", was an overused catchphrase in our house 🙂
I'm so glad you found this. my sister and I loved this back in the day. Pissed ourselves laughing and I could still watch this any time. I also sold Rob Newman a guitar once.
I remember my head of year at school, Mr Devaney, showed us this sketch show in assembly. For no other reason than because he'd heard someone say "Who let your Mum out" to the tune of "Who let the dogs out". I remember very few assemblies but that one was memorable. He wasn't even mad, just amused.
To fully appreciate this, it helps to know there really were serious television discussion programs like this on the BBC in the 1970s and 80s.
This sketch inserts adolescent banter into one of those programs in a similar way that Armstrong and Millar used 70s/80s teenage repartee in the WW2 RAF pilot movies.
David Baddiel went on to fairly big things, while Rob Newman pretty much disappeared from TV....a shame, as he was always the funnier of the two.
By a long way. Baddiel was in two respected comedy duos and was the weakest link in both.
Rob Newman went on to concentrate more on political stand up work like his Apocalypso Now show, sort of stand up comedy crossed with a lecture - never going to get him a gig on some panel show but great nonetheless.
@davidmannion7333 - That format worked for Stewart Lee though...
Newman was definitely tipped to be the star, but he seemed to suffer from crippling insecurity, and a big ego, and the two really don't mix. I saw him at a small gig in my home town when he was trying a comeback, and he refused to do an encore because the crowd weren't enthusiastic enough. He actually came over to the PA booth, where the guy had said something like "if we cheer enough, maybe he'll do some more", and shouted "No! If they have to be told to ask for it, I'm not doing it!" like some emotional schoolboy.
It is a fact that history Professors are famously bitchy about each other's work
OMG yes, they didn't make them historians by accident.
Ohhhh Daaaaamn! I was hoping this would turn up on your channel eventually. Me and my mates had been smoking weed before we saw this on TV in the early -mid 90s. I couldn't get my breath I was laughing so hard. Absolutely classic run of sketches.
I saw them doing this live in Edinburgh many moons ago. It was the encore to their show and the place went into an absolute uproar of cheering and clapping as soon as the lights came up to find the pair of them sitting there. Loads of local references made it even better. "That's you that is" became a bit of a catchphrase back in the day. Fantastic to see them again.
The characters that fuelled a load of playground banter for anybody who was in school, college or uni in the UK in the early 1990s.
Would also recommend their sketches featuring their character "Jarvis"
You remember Jarvis?
That's you, that is! 🤣
@@El_Smeghead Oh god...
I saw these guys live. They were absolutely hilarious. I still quote them to my kids to this day. They have no idea what I’m on about. 😂
That’s …. a tragedy! 😂 I mean who apart from those of us of a certain age will know what the hell we’re on about now? 😮
I was obsessed with this in my late teens
same
Omg I totally forgot about these guys!
Who ever suggested them deserves a fucking medal!
Oh wow... you pulled this one out the bag!!!
This was a classic back in my 'yoof'.
Newman & Baddiel in Pieces
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
Both incredible comedies from the early '90s
I believe they were the first comedy act to play the old Wembley Stadium and they did so to full capacity. They were like rock stars back in the day.
How many times at work we used to say 'that's you that is'...
🤣🤣all the time and about anything🤣👍
@@martindunstan8043 😆
"I find myself judging their insults now..."
You've never sounded more like you're british 🤣
An American with a ponderous expression on his face put to his non-American friend ‘We have the Stars and Stripes, there should be a flag that represents the rest of the world”, “oh there is” his friend responded “ours looks pretty much identical to yours.. but ours is on fire”.
Rob Newman.
For a period, Newman and Baddiel were the indie rock stars of comedy, with gigs packed with students
The joke was that these two septuagenarians were imitating the pattern of playground insults of the time, which would go something like: See that dog's muck by the wall? That's your mum, that is."
This is fantastic news ! This is a cracking series of sketches from the 90’s .. the background to this is by the time they were doing this series of sketches they HATED each others guts 😅
There’s 6 - 8 sketches and they’re all hysterical 😃
👍🏴
It's Newman and Baddiel, btw.
It's very strange that I hadn't thought about this series in many years, and was chatting about it with a friend a few days ago.
The catchphrases like "That's you, that is..." were used a lot amongst family and friends in the 90s. lol
Newman & Baddiel. Mary Whitehouse Experience. Happy memories from my teens. Welcome to my church!
There are more of these. There are some earlier ones from The Mary Whitehouse Experience on You Tube. I find them slightly funnier, although these ones are great.
I did put this on Patreon for you to react to so happy you finally did, it's some of the best comedy ever
These 2 started on a sketch show called the Mary Whitehouse Experience which is where History Today started. I went to a couple of the stand up shows back in the early 90's and it was the first time I've seen stand up almost like a rock concert. FYI Mary Whitehouse was a campaigner in the UK who was an anti-obscenity activist a bit like the US Terry Lynn Rakolta who tried to cancel Married with Children in the late 80's and only succeeded it making it more popular
Many years ago a friend of mine and myself were sat with a bunch of Americans we knew at a restaurant. We had arranged beforehand that at some point during the meal we would slip into the characters from History Today and repeating the insults word for word without explaining the context for our American friends. They couldn't work out whether we were serious or not; alternating between laughing and looking shocked. "Your bike, is a girl's bike". "I don't have a bike". "Oh yes you do....AND it's a girl's bike". And, yes, we had a book each on us so we could do "My Life As A Prostitute by your Mum" and "Pepys' Diary".
Bad eel is how fellow comedian Richard Herring pronounces his name to take the piss
BCG, is a vaccine mainly to combat against tuberculosis (TB). It was for many years, given to all children mostly between 10 and 14. General vaccination in the UK was stopped around 20 years ago, as tuberulosis had become nearly non-existant here.
I kind of thought it was some old exam. Baseline collage graduate??? Nah, that's dumb. OK, I had no idea.
That's interesting, cos 20 years ago I had to go to St George's hospital in Tooting to have a chest scan, cos a classmate of mine in Wandsworth had contracted TB and we all had to go and get checked out. I think we were all OK.
For a brief period, these guys were like rock stars having shows like concerts etc. Then, like rock stars, they probably let it go to their heads, got drunk and fell out. My sister saw them live when she was about 16.
Do any Americans know that M KHAN IS BENT...?? 🤣🤣
M Khan? I am aware of the fellow. That's you that is. You're bent!
@@DavidUKesb - You're not quite got the premise of this - Typical Unreformed Virtue Signaler... 😜🤣🤣
That was on a long gone bridge over the north circular if I remember!
BCG Bacillus Calmette-Guérin it is a vaccine primarily used against Tuberculosis (TB).
I was about to look up what it actually stood for. I remember we all got this vaccination at school in the late 1970s. The one thing everyone knew about it was that it leaves a small scar. I can still see mine on my upper arm around 45 years later.
I saw them live in Dublin in 1993, supported by Sean Lock, from memory. It felt like they were the apex of that British "lad" culture, with a dotted line to Brit-pop of the mid 90s. I liked David Baddiel but he was the weaker of the two. He went on to become a successful author and TV presenter, and also co-wrote a number one single. Rob Newman's punchline "Oh, hi Rachel" remains one of my favourites. Although they had a very poor relationship, I believe fences were mended in recent years and all is well with the world.
You know when you're watching a video on TH-cam... and you enjoy it so much that you hit the 👍?
That's you, that is!
I like the way Boomer put this on thinking it might be serious. With us knowing otherwise lol
Another fantastically funny sketch from the same show was Rob Newmans fantastic portrayal of Jervis the pervy guy who haunts all the red light areas of London .. it’s pants wettingly funny 😅
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Wow i wasn't expecting this. I used to love The Mary Whitehouse Experience when i was a kid.
Loved this when it was part of the Mary Whitehouse Experience, and then later in Newman & Baddiel. Never really had much of a roast culture in the UK, so this really breaks down to two old highly educated men, arguing about highbrow subject matter until it degenerates into school yard level insults. Truly a genius idea.
Oh and BCG vaccine is one for tuberculosis that had at school. Often a source of ribbing in high school. I still remember going for mine and seeing my mate limping past, obviously in pain, as he came from his. Asked why he was limping and he told me they inject the vaccine in your arse cheek. They don’t, it’s your arm and still got the scar to prove it, but he got me.
I had mine in my arse and the whole process took about 45 minutes!
Any other brit on here reached the same pinnacle as me here, where KB is introducing us to a British comedy we didn't know?! This has also explained why my mum says "that's you, that is" in a creepy voice - never made this association 😂😂😂
One of Sean Lock's first appearances was on Newman And Baddiel playing a violent conservationist called Shenley Grange.
He had Rickets and Scurvy and festering sores all over his body, all in all he was the most ghastly apparition of a man I had ever seen. Who was this poor unfortunate? That’s you that is, that’s the nicest thing he could think of saying about you. The History Today from the Mary Whitehouse Experience were better. And Rob Newman doing an impression of Robert Smith from the Cure is also brilliant.
You just have to do the Jarvis sketches Rob Newman did on this show.
When you found out how much they really disliked each other, you looked forward to how venomous these characters could be to each other and know the insults were real.
Wow..this brings back some memories..great post KB.
the characters started off on a comedy show called the mary whitehouse experience which also had hugh dennis who was on mock the week and Steve Punt, it was very funny, especially terminator 3 sketch
Milky milky.
Also, they couldn't stand each other in real life either.
I’d forgotten these - and just how contagious the 'see that … … … that’s your … … … that is' form of insults became for a while 😊 Long old time ago now!
My dad and I used to watch loads of comedy shows together, Monty Python, Harry Enfield, Newman and Baddiel and loads more. On the rare occasions that we were out together and saw something really stupid or crap one of us would simply say to the other "that's you that is!"
99% of all of these insults are in some shape or form, originally playground insults between school mates.
I have used the insult about "That's your trainers, that's your fancy rebok pump up's, that is!" I have used on multple occasions.
One that they missed off (must have been in another episode) which my dad still occasionally references "You see, when someone gobs on the ground, that's your swimming pool that is"
The swimming pool one is the one I always remembered! I was disappointed it didn't show up here.
If we're on to this show.....Jarvis, anyone?
The idea that two seventy-something year olds, acting like two twelve year olds, could be funny is stupid, but it works. Classic.
Try a video called "the games excerpt". Its from a tv series called the Games which was a satirical take on the Sydney Olympic games. Better yet, try Roy and HG's "The dream" - especially their commentary on the gymnastics events.
New to your channel… love this. I used to have to watch this as a kid with the sound right down so my Nan wouldn’t catch me watching - it would have me howling laughing
Great reaction as always king Boomer!!
I would have said you would have gotten more laughs though out of Bill Burr roasting Jon Lovitz and vice versa😁
Can't tell you how much you heard these catchphrases down the pub in the 90s
Sean Locke done a few gigs with them back in the day.
Also, check out "Mister Wobbly Tickle" by Newman and Baddiel - it's an absolutely insane parody of Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs"
British TV Sketch shows going back 20 to 30 years ago:
Titty Bang Bang (2005-07)
Little Britain (2003-06)
Bruiser (2000)
Smack The Pony (1999-2017)
Big Train (1998-2002)
Goodness Gracious Me (1998-2015)
We know where you live (1997)
The Fast Show (1994-2014)
Newman & Baddiel (1993)
Mary Whitehouse Experience (1990-92)
Reeves and Mortimer (1990 - )
Who Dares Wins (1983-88)
Loved this! Me and my husband used to copy this all the time 😂
Wow remember watching this first time around. Brings back some great memories. ?6 best friend and i used to sometimes spend hours trading insults in the style of These sill old f''ers . Thanks for the memories Boom KANG
The Mary Whitehouse experience was a comedy sketch show that basically spawned two separate comedy duos but Newman and Baddiel are often the ones best noted. The other two were Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis (of Outnumbered and Mock the Week host fame) Imo Dennis has been the most successful if you think about it. I particularly remember the ‘milky milky’ sketches but Rob and David were arguably known as the first rockstars of comedy and I think were the first comedians to fill an arena rather than theatre’s etc
Awesome, so glad you're watching this 😂
Omg !This is legendary. So glad you've got to Newman and Baddiel! Rob Newman lives near my Mum. He had a lot of mental health problems and has basically left the entertainment industry. Depression has been the scourge of so many great comedians.
He is literally touring at the moment.
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@@johngreen7619 Ah. Good to hear. 👍
Oh, GOD I have tears in my eyes! I'd forgotten about these guys.
25:20 in the 80s and 90s British school children routinely got a test for tuberculosis antigens at age 13ish, followed by vaccination with a BCG vaccine if positive.
King boomer hers a little bit of trivia you will love. Thea guys were the first people to sell out Wembley arena and they had the one and only Sean lock as the opening act which means he technically was the first person to play a sold out Wembley arena.
Loved Mary whitehouse experience belly laughing experience - hope there are more of their other stuff available for you 😂
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was outstanding for it's time. Milky, milky!
Lovely...
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was excellent - but the TV show never reached the heights of their radio days.
I remember this from my late teens, King Boomer as you are a fan of Father Ted, I don't know if you know but in the mid 80's Frank Kelly (Father Jack) had a hilarious Christmas cover of 12 days, It's hilarious, well worth a listen
Rob Newman and David Baddiel formed The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the 1990s with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, before getting their own show, Newman and Baddiel in Pieces. It was hugely successful and led to them doing a tour. Newman & Baddiel became the first comics to sell out Wembley Arena, which was unheard of before 1993. David Baddiel went on to work with Frank Skinner and in 1996 they had a Number 1 hit with Three Lions
Newman and Baddiel was also one of the first appearances on TV of the late great Sean Lock. Worth having a look for his "Disappearing World with Shenley Grange" sketches from the show.
beat me to it!
The mary whitehouse experience, a blast from the past.
Used to laugh my head off to these when I was a kid! I must've been 12 or 13 when it was on. Haven't seen it since and it's still funny now. I'm sure there's more of them. I remember "see that massive pile of goz on the floor? That's your paddling pool that is" Or something like that 😂
I went to see them live at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings. I remember they told either a joke or a true story that had me and the entire audience on the floor, literally falling out of our chairs with the punchline at the end. Brilliant comedians.
Hope you can find the early ones. There's a line about a smelly book that I won't spoil because it is STILL funny and my wife and I still catch each other out with an occasional version of it 30+ (OMFG!!) years later.
Amazing..
Used to love this so much
They were superstar comedians of early 90 s seen them in 91 on tour
Rob Newman was a comedy colossus.
Oh I wanted the one where one says "I have here a copy of your most recent book"
See that rusty roller skate? That's your car, that is.
Theres more of these, including one about UK strongman Geoff Capes and one featuring a bicycle "look at me, im Eddie Kidd!" (UK's Evel Knievel)
I only vaguely remember catching some of these. I did long hours then.
I think that was absolutely fabulous (no, not the show).The delivery and writing was top notch.
So glad you helped me find these in my sixties. (I'm still going out with your Mum. That;s me, that is.)
David Baddiel has appeared occasionally on WILTY and/or 8 CatsDown or Mock the Week.
I honestly don't know who Newman is, despite everyone here saying how popular these two were; but he is excellent and both are more than a match for Mitchell and Webb or Armstrong an Miller.
I saw the mary whitehouse experience, live, and they were brilliant. loved history today, and rob newman as jarvis. the best line from history today..."your mum does it for money". prof sg lewis: "your mum does it for free"
The Mary Whitehouse Experience was very funny
BCG is a vaccine against tuberculosis given to children around the age of 12. I got mine at school - the kids who went first came back to the classroom holding their arms pretending to be in agony.
🤣🤣true,I remember it well,along with the sleeves being rolled up to show the 'injury'👍
@@martindunstan8043 Yes, I still have my BCG scar, as I'm sure we all do.