When some Spaniards complained about Manuel's portrayal in Fawlty Towers, Cleese commented, "Well Basil Fawlty wasn't exactly a great advert for Englishmen was he?"
An absolutely brilliant skit. I've seen it many times and it still makes me laugh. Today's comedians could learn a lot from this wonderful pair. Humour without the necessity of continuous effing and blinding to put a joke across.
Like you sir, I still watch both skits, had a pal very similar to Ronnie Barker in the 4 candles sketch, shame to think neither are with us today. We need their sense of humour now,more than ever, bless them.
Milligan murmuring time and the inevitability of the endless either out of the 'Humour packing case of existence'- in a non- finger waggingly way. I reckoneth.
Irish space program was planing a manned shot to the sun .They were told you can't land on the sun it's 6000degrees ! Ah we thought of that ,we're going at night !
@@vodaredhill1704Please don't take offence to this and I'm sorry if I'm gonna come across as a self righteous do-gooder with this reply, because I'm not! So just because he told you that he wasn't offended by this sketch doesn't then give you the right to bombard him with every shitty joke you've ever heard about the Irish does it.! It's a bit like apologising to your mate for accidentally hitting his thumb with a hammer whilst he holds the nail for you, then proceeding to hit every finger on his hand thereafter.
Top man, good to hear these days. Although I actually don't think it's a slight on the Irish. The characters in this sketch could have had many other accents and the humour wound be the same eg Yorkshire, Cornish, Norfolk etc. As the Two Ronnies often did.
It's a surreal world of 2 madmen from another planet who are much madder than any madness that exists in the real world. Very funny & convincingly acted.
So you should Chris... it's just a laugh...that we all desperately need. I'm sure you have an array of jokes that poke the mick (no pun intended) at me and m,y kind....great... let's all have a gutsy laugh and revel in our perceived differences. It's a nonsense.... WE are the people that decide.... not those tossers! I raise my glass! Cheers.
incredibly funny classic, many of these classic one liners have stayed in my memory bank to this day. An utterly incredible sketch . You can't cancel funny , so GrMa agus Fe*k off to those who want to, Be Janey.
@@Tinker1950 it's called fork handles, barker goes into the hardware store looking for fork handles, Corbett thinks he's looking for 4 candles, name of that sketch is, Ronnie's Pub and wallpaper
@@morriscox1571 Nope - you still haven't got it. Dim as a toc H lamp (look it up). I'll give you a clue - it's your original remark, your unskilled grammar. What was this video about? Was it 4 candles?
Well said Peter, in one way or another we could all play the stereotype card and the determination to find it by those it doesn’t even represent and whose target would rather they didn’t, causes far more harm than good.
Their accents are really poor but the material is faithful to the kind of poetic, fanciful and absurdists flights of the Irish that the English used to designate them as stupid. I wonder who the writers where. Not hard to be funny with material this good.
The Irish have always had a creative relationship with the English language. That’s why so many of its finest writers are Irish. This sketch shows that.
Exactly, it is a demonstration of mutual respect. All decent, reasonable people know that. Only the so-called "experts" get offended in their lonely ivory towers.
Funny enough.a couple of good one liners..the accents aren't all that bad,I know a lot of real Irish accents that are worse (I'm from Cork😅)...their mastermind sketch is the pinnacle of comedy in my opinion.i forgot who wrote it but I can't get my head around how it was put together.pure genius
There is a depth of set theory and logic in this sketch as well as a play on meaning / semantics. The null set idea and logical operations on negation spring to mind. This formal language is then mixed in with the informal semantics of English phrases like " Lord knows" which can mean nobody ( whatever nobody is technically it should ne not any body) knows or can be the given name of a Lord.
@@stevetaylor7403 I was going to say something similar. He should either stop taking the pills or take more because something is not working in his head.
There was a time when comedians were funny without being 'edgy' or crude, creative without drawing on their 'lived experience', respected without being politically 'correct', and didn't try to make their audience critique themselves. I'd almost forgotten those golden years. I went to a comedy show recently, paid a fortune, travelled for hours, queued in the cold, watched it on TV screens because the arena was so vast that the performer might as well've been a galaxy in the night sky. If I'd watched it at home, the experience would've been better. I waited in anticipation for the funniest, most intelligent and hardest working comedian of our time, IMO. Well, I should have arrived 15 minutes after the performance started, because thatbtime was wasted with the obligatory left wing political satire. Bill Brydon, if you are reading this, it's been done to death by every comedian since Margaret Thatcher first became PM. Stop flogging a dead horse, it's not funny any more. I respect your opinions as much as anyone's, but it's time that comedians showed some respect for the majority that votes our governments in. I used to love satire, but it's had its day. Today, going to a comedy show is like going a random concert. Where once you got Beethoven or The Beatles, today you get grime or Adele swearing at you. Time to change the record...
In comedy today there is nothing innocent or funny. Insults, pc to not offend even a Mexican wearing Sombrero because it's harmful. The 2 Ronnies with lovely innuendo & wonderful timing when comedy was just fun. No offence taken either.
You will see from my name above that i am Irish. I found this extremly funny NOT offensive and after hearing this i do not need urgent counciling like many snowflakes. Then again i am 58 so come from a better time.
You're not offensive. Just an old prig. And I'm older. "Better time" indeed! No such thing. Eras are what we make them. "Snowflakes", though - that's original. 😄 PS You meant "counselling".
Alex.... "Old Prig"...that the best you can manage? Some of us have manners, decency and respect. But hey, do enjoy your life at the bottom of the pond.
When some Spaniards complained about Manuel's portrayal in Fawlty Towers, Cleese commented, "Well Basil Fawlty wasn't exactly a great advert for Englishmen was he?"
I’ve not laughed so much for a long time 😂😂.. absolutely brilliant as usual!
Seen it LORD KNOWS 😂 how many times
Still can't get enough
Pure genius and those accents!!It's all totally off the wall!!
Now that was a work of art.
New face? No I’ve always had this face.🤣
An absolutely brilliant skit. I've seen it many times and it still makes me laugh. Today's comedians could learn a lot from this wonderful pair. Humour without the necessity of continuous effing and blinding to put a joke across.
Like you sir, I still watch both skits, had a pal very similar to Ronnie Barker in the 4 candles sketch, shame to think neither are with us today. We need their sense of humour now,more than ever, bless them.
Milligan murmuring time and the inevitability of the endless either out of the 'Humour packing case of existence'- in a non- finger waggingly way. I reckoneth.
They are great aren't they?
But…one “bloody”!😊
Hysterical and still way better than anything else.
Bet he keeps an empty milk bottle in the fridge, for black coffee drinkers…..(heard that t’other day)
lol
Absolutely brilliant 👏 One of the best / God I miss the Two Ronnie's.
Im a yank but god i love British comedy,thank you for uploading this.
dntlss you must see 'Porridge' with Ronnie Barker - set in a British jail - it is absolutely brilliant.
Being Irish I take no offence at this, so please no righteous do gooders don't be offended on my behalf or try to cancel the Two Ronnies because of it
Paddy stole a calendar, he got 12 months.
Irish space program was planing a manned shot to the sun .They were told you can't land on the sun it's 6000degrees ! Ah we thought of that ,we're going at night !
Paddy and Murphy stranded on an ice berg in despair .Suddenly Murphy looks up and shouts PADDY WE'RE SAVED ,IT'S THE TITANIC ! 🛳
@@vodaredhill1704Please don't take offence to this and I'm sorry if I'm gonna come across as a self righteous do-gooder with this reply, because I'm not!
So just because he told you that he wasn't offended by this sketch doesn't then give you the right to bombard him with every shitty joke you've ever heard about the Irish does it.!
It's a bit like apologising to your mate for accidentally hitting his thumb with a hammer whilst he holds the nail for you, then proceeding to hit every finger on his hand thereafter.
Top man, good to hear these days. Although I actually don't think it's a slight on the Irish. The characters in this sketch could have had many other accents and the humour wound be the same eg Yorkshire, Cornish, Norfolk etc. As the Two Ronnies often did.
This skit and their "Four Candles" skit are wordplay at their best with these two. Funny stuff.
I agree.
I love this one. We need a good laugh
A new face. No I've always had it. Just got here. No I just walked through the door 🤣 Classic
That is the screwiest dialogue I've heard since "Who's on First"?. I loved it!😂
Hilarious. When we had talent on tv.
Dearly missed but never forgotten.
Brings back cherished memories of watching the Two Ronnies with my late parents when I was a child.
Well, in the spirit of this sketch, I guess it was a bit weird watching this sketch with folks who had passed on!!
This is Great ! It's like being back in 1985 and listening to my Grandmother's friends talk about the neighborhood and have tea with scones.
It's a surreal world of 2 madmen from another planet who are much madder than any madness that exists in the real world. Very funny & convincingly acted.
From one perspective, this is an excellent piece of surrealist performance art.
Make that from two perspectives. I second it.
From another it is crap
@@johnoneill4483 you say that like your opinion is worth a pinch of shit
@@johnoneill4483 And some they fell on stony ground
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm irish and love it!
So you should Chris... it's just a laugh...that we all desperately need.
I'm sure you have an array of jokes that poke the mick (no pun intended) at me and m,y kind....great... let's all have a gutsy laugh and revel in our perceived differences.
It's a nonsense.... WE are the people that decide.... not those tossers!
I raise my glass! Cheers.
And that makes it ok?
incredibly funny classic, many of these classic one liners have stayed in my memory bank to this day. An utterly incredible sketch . You can't cancel funny , so GrMa agus Fe*k off to those who want to, Be Janey.
What an extraordinary coincidence. Whenever I paper a room I'm always one roll short.
Damn! Been there....
I know where you can get 4 more rolls...
Their accents are hilarious 🤣
@@angrytedtalks At the bakers.
Absolute classic humour 👌 from a time when folks could hava a laugh and a joke without any nonsense.
True but the irony is the entire sketch is about nonsense!
Classic, love the sketch 4 candles
It wasn't the 4 candles sketch was it?
Try again.
@@Tinker1950 fork handles
@@morriscox1571
Keep trying.
You'll catch on eventually.
@@Tinker1950 it's called fork handles, barker goes into the hardware store looking for fork handles, Corbett thinks he's looking for 4 candles, name of that sketch is, Ronnie's Pub and wallpaper
@@morriscox1571
Nope - you still haven't got it.
Dim as a toc H lamp (look it up).
I'll give you a clue - it's your original remark, your unskilled grammar.
What was this video about?
Was it 4 candles?
Brilliant.
Well said Peter, in one way or another we could all play the stereotype card and the determination to find it by those it doesn’t even represent and whose target would rather they didn’t, causes far more harm than good.
Brilliant!
Never seen this before. Thanks..
Hilariously clever as always.
They’re the only comedians where I can watch the same sketch twice and laugh more the second time.
I love this
Pure comedy gold
A time when people were no offended by humour but accepted it as such
So simple yet so funny, and not one f-bomb to be heard.
You are talking fuckin nonsense. I prefer a so-called f-bomb to racism any day.
The Two Ronnies never did.
Way too & far too clever to appeal for cheap laughs.
This hurts my head. So surreal.
Lewis Carrol would have loved this
Now I get it...four CANDLES!!!!
As an Irishman this is a fine tribute to the Irish "craic" from two legends, dearly missed
Their accents are really poor but the material is faithful to the kind of poetic, fanciful and absurdists flights of the Irish that the English used to designate them as stupid. I wonder who the writers where. Not hard to be funny with material this good.
@@errcoche they wrot most of their scripts. Particularly barker.
Not so much the craic as the dangerous stereotype of the thick Irish. I've reported this. It should be taken down.
@@matthewphilip1977 dangerous? Reported for what?
@@matthewphilip1977 By the way are you Irish?
"Where was he stuffed in the first place?" "He's stuffed in every place!".
Brilliant comedy. Great writing.
Brilliant as always
Great stuff.
Genious this is
brilliant classic
The Bird is Dead, But it Still Had2Sit There, An Watch All That Fuss😂
Legends
I like the gag about the wife’s wooden leg…😅😂🤣
I once met a man with a wooden leg called Smith.
@@aqacefan What was his other leg called?
So he talked to a toucan and had a guiness 😂😂😂
The Irish have always had a creative relationship with the English language. That’s why so many of its finest writers are Irish. This sketch shows that.
Exactly, it is a demonstration of mutual respect.
All decent, reasonable people know that.
Only the so-called "experts" get offended in their lonely ivory towers.
Absolute sheer comedy genius 😂
Always loved these guys.
Evenin, marning !!!
I thought this was a documentary its so true to life
Very good
Every Irish joke, told in 5:42.
At least she'll float 😂
Pure class
Brilliant writing.
I've lived in this house 34yrs and still buy too many rolls for a room always had drawing paper then for the kids haha
My dad is Irish and he loved this sketch , but that's because the Irish don't carry victim cards , but this was all before woke .
Beautiful 😅🤣
Excellent
Funny enough.a couple of good one liners..the accents aren't all that bad,I know a lot of real Irish accents that are worse (I'm from Cork😅)...their mastermind sketch is the pinnacle of comedy in my opinion.i forgot who wrote it but I can't get my head around how it was put together.pure genius
It was probably written by Lord Knows. Sorry, couldn't resist that one.
At least you'll float.
There is a depth of set theory and logic in this sketch as well as a play on meaning / semantics. The null set idea and logical operations on negation spring to mind. This formal language is then mixed in with the informal semantics of English phrases like " Lord knows" which can mean nobody ( whatever nobody is technically it should ne not any body) knows or can be the given name of a Lord.
In other words it's funny!
Can I have a line of whatever you’ve been on.
@@stevetaylor7403 I was going to say something similar. He should either stop taking the pills or take more because something is not working in his head.
Wow and I thought I was watching comedy.
Well done Bart, you've made a brilliantly funny sketch as boring as hell.
_CLASSIC GOLD_
Just genius and nothing else.
So surreal
I'm Irish, but I enjoyed this skit.
Luv it
This is too good. M 😂
It's good night from me, and it's good night from him.
It's like we've stepped into Rose Nylund's mind from The Golden Girls, and it's hilarious!
The absurdity of the Irish's view on life captured in a caricature of a sketch.
Love this too and i am irish
This sounds like something Spike Mulligan might have written.
There was a time when comedians were funny without being 'edgy' or crude, creative without drawing on their 'lived experience', respected without being politically 'correct', and didn't try to make their audience critique themselves.
I'd almost forgotten those golden years. I went to a comedy show recently, paid a fortune, travelled for hours, queued in the cold, watched it on TV screens because the arena was so vast that the performer might as well've been a galaxy in the night sky. If I'd watched it at home, the experience would've been better.
I waited in anticipation for the funniest, most intelligent and hardest working comedian of our time, IMO. Well, I should have arrived 15 minutes after the performance started, because thatbtime was wasted with the obligatory left wing political satire. Bill Brydon, if you are reading this, it's been done to death by every comedian since Margaret Thatcher first became PM. Stop flogging a dead horse, it's not funny any more. I respect your opinions as much as anyone's, but it's time that comedians showed some respect for the majority that votes our governments in. I used to love satire, but it's had its day. Today, going to a comedy show is like going a random concert. Where once you got Beethoven or The Beatles, today you get grime or Adele swearing at you. Time to change the record...
@Evan Hodge Made me laugh 😄
@@AlexAlexon3897 Yes, that's the very effect.
Well at least you didn't have to put up with the not-quite-hysterical anti-Trump (zzzzzzzzzzzzz) nonsense.
I hope ?
Funny I remember this being much funnier at the time. I think there was another version of this. This must be a 'cleaner' version.
Lord Nose? surely
Im Oirish. This is Oisome!!
In comedy today there is nothing innocent or funny. Insults, pc to not offend even a Mexican wearing Sombrero because it's harmful. The 2 Ronnies with lovely innuendo & wonderful timing when comedy was just fun. No offence taken either.
To much glass 😂😂😂
the proverbial takin of the micky
LOLLLL
Classic 🖤💛❤️🇦🇺😅😂😅
which year is this recorded and broadcasted?
How did they do it?!!!
Irish master mind ocarrol magnuson 😂😂😂😂
I liked the pub part but I just don't get the wallpaper stuff, can someone explain the joke?
Don't they torque a load
Of rubbish 🗑 absolutely
Love everything they do
❤😂🎉😢😮😅
BLOODY FUNNY ❤I think they the best Comedians on the telly
❤😂🎉😢😮😅
This sounds very much like a 'Gerald Wiley' (Ronnie Barker) sketch. Based on wordplay.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well, I don't know. I thought that was really funny. Made me choke on my Guinness. Happy to report I'm not woke, so I'm going back to sleep.
Bet I'm asleep before you will be Eamon...&. I'll be watching yer...!
This makes me proud to be Irish hahahahahaha
And I to be your neighbour....albeit in South America.... Keep smiling my friend.
It's the one thing they cannot tax.
Shandy 😂😂😂😂
You will see from my name above that i am Irish. I found this extremly funny NOT offensive and after hearing this i do not need urgent counciling like many snowflakes. Then again i am 58 so come from a better time.
You're not offensive. Just an old prig. And I'm older. "Better time" indeed! No such thing. Eras are what we make them. "Snowflakes", though - that's original. 😄 PS You meant "counselling".
Alex.... "Old Prig"...that the best you can manage?
Some of us have manners, decency and respect.
But hey, do enjoy your life at the bottom of the pond.
Reported.
I wonder how much of that was adlibbed?
Some Spike Milligan has crept into this skit.
Half empty half full?