Perhaps younger people don't realise that Spike was born in India, raised in India, went to school in India and mixed with ordinary Indian people, he spoke several Indian languages fluently and had no hint of racism in his body, he did it because he was a comic writer and he thought it was funny - now put that in the curry!
If you wanted it to be a real Indian or Pakistani household he really needs to slap her on the head. People who know know. (open a can of warm expect hooks)
@@pauljordan4452 it's a stupid argument I mean some black people like to refer themselves as n****** but a lot don't so because of one person's f***** up view don't expect it's not going to offend at least a few people justifiably or don't bother getting into comedy. As someone with Indian blood I don't find it particularly offensive but I don't find it really that funny either if you're going to go cliche go all out or don't bother imo
So invariably it was often offensive, usually to some that think they know who should be offended and when those who 'should be' usually weren't😉....but this is brilliantly funny. Still, you can actually be funny without offending anybody. It's called talent.
I met him once, he was an absolute comedy genius. Who'd have thought a sketch about Pakistani Daleks would leave viewers in tears? Spike was all about fun and laughter. His humour wouldn't go down well today, especially with those who have made a career out of being outraged and offended. Show some of his sketches on TV now and 1000s of people would be having a touch of the vapours....!!!
A couple of weeks ago my 12 year old dropped some veg she was chopping onto the kitchen floor. She asked what to do with it and I found myself replying in a dalek voice, "put it in the curry". It has stayed with me all these years. Thanks Spike, you are missed.
Genius. I briefly met Spike as a kid and he quickly said 'Where have you been all my life'. Wonderful man who will not be understood by a lot of people.
Some people didn't realise Spike was a legend at the time, this sketch is one of the best bits of Brit comedy ever, I still use the words "PUT IT IN THE CURRY" when the occasion arises.
I think by nature the British are a bunch of piss takers rather than racist, we tend to laugh at ourselves and others, not take things too seriously and if its funny have a go at it.Nuff said.
I love both Spike Milligan and Doctor Who and I just love this sketch. Only Spike could make a Dalek sound hilarious. I cry with laughter every time I watch this. Pure gold.
As I remember this sketch made more sense with the full-screen caption that introduced it, which said something like "The living room of an ordinary working class Anglo-Pakistani family". So a big part of the joke was that it was exaggeration of British fears about the "alienness" of mixed marriages.
"Alien" can also mean "immigrant". Pakistanis were thus viewed as "alien" immigrants by many Brits at the time. So Spike Milligan portrayed them as literal "aliens" (Daleks), taking British fears to an outrageous level of absurdity.
I've got to applaud Spike for how progressive this sketch was for the time - portraying a diverse mixed relationship between a dalek male & human female.
@@sarahthegreat929 I do not think it will still be around to declare its gender and your thinking seems rather binary to tell the truth. I understand the UK civil services recognises 100 genders and probably will be spending time learning them under the eagle eye of their inclusivity commissars while the nation freezes. It is still permissible to broadcast this particular sketch as there is no white male present which minorities would of course find both highly offensive and unrepresentative of their culture.
@@joyfulzero853 well they could always return to their own planet and live in peace with other daleks who share their dalek customs and beliefs instead of going to an alien world and trying to change it to suit them
A dalek came round to mine the other week,it'd got a job as a TV licence inspector and wanted to exterminate me for preferring to go online rather than pay for a TV licence as I never watch tele. It followed me in to the house uninvited but I just ran upstairs and watched it bouncing continually off the bottom stair screaming "BUY A LICENCE OR BE EXTERMINATED" I just ignored it and eventually it went away. I looked out the window and saw it eventually turn into a 5ft 6 speccy turd with a clip board.
I'm only 27 but i absolutely love Spike Milligan, i thank my grandfather for it because of listing to the goon show tapes with him he had in the car when we use to go places. I've seen a lot of Spike's work and he was a comedy genius and he was indeed a mad bastard, but he done it in style. Old comedy was best comedy.
@@paulanthony5274 sorry if I came across as being agro. Wasn't meant to. Rick stein's india is a good series to watch regarding indian food in the UK. It's fascinating. Maybe mention of it for about 5 minutes but makes sense
Genius! This man broke all the rules even some that were not rules yet. His only motive was humour and the absurd but above all a huge dose of humanity and kindness. God Bless Spike!
He was a very complex person and character, his childhood and war experiences were eventful, to say the least. Reading all his war, post and pre-war books, and all the poetry, stories and small novels like "Puckoon" gives a glimpse of his mind thru' creativity. And a lot was the result of depression, like when he got finally shell-shocked and disfunctional i.e. 'twas busting up his head. He was able to write of FUNNY stuff as well as describing unfunny things in a clever/acidic/funny/ironic way.
said mother tern to baby tern, would you like a brother? Said baby tern to mother tern, yes one good tern deserves another. Don't know wht i always remembered that......Milliganimals
@@philipknight734 the one that always sticks in my head is A baby sardine saw her first submarine She gasped and looked through the peephole Oh come, come come said the sardines mum It's only a tin full of people
This is absolutely hysterical, and you can see where The Dangerous Brothers got a lot of their absurd violence. Just a hunch. Spike is the Great One in this kind of humor.
@@redpillnibbler4423 Whats changed is that people who are offended are given more power than they used to be, social media plays a big part in that and if social media had existed in the 70s you can gaurantee it wouldve been exactly the same, there were still lobby groups but thier reach was more limited to newspapers as that was the only social media back then. But your original statement that nobody got offended is still incorrect, you just didnt see the people offended cos they werent allowed the amount of publicity they are now. They were still there though.
That is brilliant!!! I was laughing so much that I was struggling to breathe! This is one of those videos that I will save to come back to time after time, when I’m feeling low.
In one! At last, someone with the intelligence to actually get it. Personally, I think it is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, possibly because it poignantly highlights the absurdity of people's perception of other races.
Because Spike Milligan seemed to have a bit of thing for racist jokes, I really don't know if it's at the expense of Pakistanis or those who think Pakistanis might put a dog in a curry, I just think it's funny because it's so silly and daft.
@@garycooper1886 no. they are talking shit. Spike talked about this sketch, and it's 'meaning' was nothing of the sort. it was a funny poke at pakistanis. that's it.
I have Pakistani and Indian friends they love a good joke they laugh at us English to People take offence Now days for the sake of drama not because they're actually offended.
Just watched this for about the third time but only today looked at the comments . Well Ive laughed every time Ive watched it - Does that make me bad ? No - Does that make me a Racist - No - Does that mean I have sense of humour Yes !!
No, it doesn't mean you are bad or make you a racist. There is nothing racist about it. I must disagree with you on the sense of humour comment though.. There is nothing funny about it.
Kwales66 it's only NOT funny if you've fallen victim to the curse of political correctness. Spike " Milligan was a genius. Today's comic's remind of 1940s comics where they are too heavily censored in a different way and I even fall asleep in some cases . My message to those that are offended :"Shut up! Stop whinning! And get a life you wankers!
This is an excellent sketch and so funny. Laugh at it while we can. I remember an Indian friend of mine in Belfast cracking Irish jokes. We Paddy's loved the guy taking the piss out of us!
I laugh my head off today, and I don't bloody well feel the slightest bit guilty. The PC brigade can shove their fascist crap back up their fat arses where it came from. There are still a lot of us Australians who call it like it is.
I agree, common sense has gone out the window! And is our society more inclusive now with all this PC nonsense? Absolutely not, if anything it has divided us even more. It's against the law to laugh at ourselves which I mean in the broadest sense.
eh? why should anyone feel guilty over this? i don't get it... i mean they are cyborgs not androids or i would see it as bigotry against the eventual synthetic life forms to come... really daleks are only paraplegic with death rays when you think about it...
In Italy we remember him principally for the Marty Feldmann's shows and movies. Today seems that you can't move/say/think (!) anything without being lynched by someone.
I just laughed at it. It's very funny. Some of the comments below it make me sigh wearily and remember when fun was still allowed. I don't do PCBS, and neither should you. Crack a smile, it'll be good for you.
I am old enough to remember that show and the reactions of my family in the 60s to watching it. It was total rubbish,I remember my grandad who was born in 1898 saying it was out of date ( old fashioned ) as he said. He said lots of things.
Absurdity! That's why Brit comedy was so funny. RIP the Brit sense of humour - if it's allowed to continue to be tasered to death word by word by the thought police.
Spike was a comedic genius. In many cases the humour was in the bizarre, mad and zany situation in which he enacted the sketch. I mean what could possibly be funny about a dalek returning home to his Mrs after a long shift????
I remember watching this the night it was broadcast and I couldn't move for nearly an hour afterwards; the tears were rolling down my face and my sides ached! The only other time I can recall laughing like that was whilst watching Monty Pythons 'The Oscar Wilde Sketch'
Nobody disallows finding something funny, but you can tell quite a lot from those that find old fashioned racism humorous. This needs the context of systemic and socially accepted racism to be passable, and the line "now you can tell what's wrong with the country" is quite telling about the comparison of Asians to Daleks. It's just not funny any more. People grow, mature and realise that this really shouldn't have been funny in the first place. The only excuse is that they were simpler times where the public were shielded from the vast majority of awfulness rather than having social media bring said awfulness to the door. Let's face it, this is the same era that Jimmy Savile was still a hero of the people. It's OK to realise that maybe we're laughing for very wrong reasons. I used to laugh at Spike Milligan, have lots of memories of laughing at his skits, and when I look back at his and other comedians at the time it's distinctly unsettling and cringeworthy based on more modern and enlightened views informed by the parties at the butts of the jokes. I know it's an awful feeling that we're being judged as bad people for laughing at something we enjoyed, I know *exactly* how that feels, being from the same generation and laughing at the same jokes at the time. But with a choice between realising, acknowledging the perpetuated hate it contributes to, or doubling down and defending the innocence in which we originally found it funny, doubling down just means you want to ignore the issues and still feel OK about it, which also means that colours the views of those that choose not to.
@@chromenewt to be fair I grew up with most of what your saying and it's true when I look back most of those old comedies are cring worthy to look at . I agree with you on what your saying ...I just woke up and saw this and it made me laugh because o used to love spike . Also I 100 % agree is that people grow and mature ...I'm a black soon to be 49 year old and it's funny that the ww2 generation struggle to understand that times have changed- move with them, alot of them refuse to accept it ....I see it all the time in Facebook nostalgia groups I just gotta laugh .
@@chromenewt Then came the self righteous humour police, who demand they know and deserve all because they have some distant relationship to something deprived or discriminated against. They have so greatly improved life as they float up the ranks of society, like turds among flowers. Milligan's generation had to actually work constructively, and experienced serious wars. Enabled many who shouldn't have to breed excessively, as did colonisation. But were funny, could laugh at themselves and others without being so much better as the button pushing influenced gender diverse woke entitled generation mostly can't. If it's funny it's funny, if it's a pain in the arse it's better somewhere else.
Apparently, the BBC were reluctant to let Spike use Daleks - so he went to Terry Nation (who first conceived them). Terry agreed, partly because Spike had helped keep him afloat in the pre-Dr Who days when Nation was a bit down on his luck.
My uncle Raymond Cusick actually designed the dalek’s getting the inspiration from the salt and pepper pots in the bbc canteen! I’m sure that he would have been thrilled seeing Spike make a side splitting skit with them center stage!
Most people forget that Spike Milligan was born in India and had a huge love for the people and their culture. Comedy shouldn't have concerns about offending anyone.
I remember seeing this skit once years ago, my old man was a fan of The Goons and SPike Milligan when I was a kid. I do enjoy seeing again the strange eccentric humour of groups like The Goons, or Monty Python. Pity people have to analyse anything thats posted on youtube, just enjoy it for what it is :)
Odd. Ealier today, when I was in our kitchen and I had my phone in my pocket and we were looking after next door's dog for a few hours, I said of the dog, "Put him in the curry". No one got the reference. But now a few hours later I check my YT recommended and this shows up for the first time in years...
Very encouraging to NOT see any namby pamby PC-ness going on in these comments. Great that everyone sees the humour in it. PC brigade and do-gooders can stick that up their arses!! Long live Spike Milligan. 😊 😊
Perhaps younger people don't realise that Spike was born in India, raised in India, went to school in India and mixed with ordinary Indian people, he spoke several Indian languages fluently and had no hint of racism in his body, he did it because he was a comic writer and he thought it was funny - now put that in the curry!
Well said
Great comment. We British never had a problem laughing at ourselves. Respectfully of course.
Sanjeev Bhaskar's character would have exclaimed: SPIKE MILLIGAN....INDIAN!
If you wanted it to be a real Indian or Pakistani household he really needs to slap her on the head. People who know know.
(open a can of warm expect hooks)
@@pauljordan4452 it's a stupid argument I mean some black people like to refer themselves as n****** but a lot don't so because of one person's f***** up view don't expect it's not going to offend at least a few people justifiably or don't bother getting into comedy. As someone with Indian blood I don't find it particularly offensive but I don't find it really that funny either if you're going to go cliche go all out or don't bother imo
This was from a time when having a laugh was more important than being offended
It's more than that. People just weren't offended. Not themselves or on somebody else's behalf...
So invariably it was often offensive, usually to some that think they know who should be offended and when those who 'should be' usually weren't😉....but this is brilliantly funny. Still, you can actually be funny without offending anybody. It's called talent.
Choosing to 'be offended' can be most convenient at times ..
It's crazy, you could laugh at something that was funny, now it is vetted & curated for you, by a nanny state.
And he was far from being a rascist. Very far from that.
I met him once, he was an absolute comedy genius. Who'd have thought a sketch about Pakistani Daleks would leave viewers in tears? Spike was all about fun and laughter. His humour wouldn't go down well today, especially with those who have made a career out of being outraged and offended. Show some of his sketches on TV now and 1000s of people would be having a touch of the vapours....!!!
"A touch of the vapours" Nice one,I like it.
Lucky you
Bet he was great
Some of my best friends are Daleks and they say they're not offended at all by this.
780 dislikes? nice try Davros.
Black Daleks matter.
"What are we going to do now?
Funny h ha ha including davros? Looks just like my lpal
@Riz Ahmed this is funy English humour I was raised on this so sad it's all gone
A couple of weeks ago my 12 year old dropped some veg she was chopping onto the kitchen floor. She asked what to do with it and I found myself replying in a dalek voice, "put it in the curry". It has stayed with me all these years. Thanks Spike, you are missed.
😂😂😂😂😂
oh yes, loved Spike and absolute legend!
Genius. I briefly met Spike as a kid and he quickly said 'Where have you been all my life'. Wonderful man who will not be understood by a lot of people.
As the dalek enters the room & destroys everything in sight she asks if he'd like a cup of tea! 😂. Brilliantly surreal, only in Britain.
Some people didn't realise Spike was a legend at the time, this sketch is one of the best bits of Brit comedy ever, I still use the words "PUT IT IN THE CURRY" when the occasion arises.
What about the comedian that literally killed it on BBCTV🕺 A performance to die for.
it's put HIM in
same here!
Who at the time had ever thought of having Daleks in a comedy sketch. Only Spike could.
True
Not true. I saw a great sketch where Daleks said they were going to take over the world and then realised they couldn’t even go up some stairs.
@@gweilospur5877- Yes. Jokes about the Daleks were quite common in the seventies and nighties 🙂
Absolutely hilarious, there will never be another spike, comedy gold.
I think by nature the British are a bunch of piss takers rather than racist, we tend to laugh at ourselves and others, not take things too seriously and if its funny have a go at it.Nuff said.
Exactly! That's why we love them.
everyone loves to cast broad statements. including me
@@OracleTheRonin not everyone. Just one or two.
I’m the other one
Excuse me bigot, Spike was an Indian born in India. He's as Indian as Pakistanis are British.
Spot on , we take the piss and expect the piss to be taken, this is how we endear ourselves to others, others don’t get it and cry
I love both Spike Milligan and Doctor Who and I just love this sketch. Only Spike could make a Dalek sound hilarious. I cry with laughter every time I watch this. Pure gold.
Brilliant Spike Milligan. I still remember his epitaph, "I told you I was ill".
@@stevenmiller4840 I think they did. And it's gone off.
He wasnt allowed to have that put on his grave by a council run by people with poles up their arse.
@@kiskaloo6843 I believe he also wanted to be buried in a fridge and they wouldn't allow that either
@@kiskaloo6843 His daughter had it written in Gaelic and it is still there. True.
What are we going to do now?
What are we going to do now?
As I remember this sketch made more sense with the full-screen caption that introduced it, which said something like "The living room of an ordinary working class Anglo-Pakistani family". So a big part of the joke was that it was exaggeration of British fears about the "alienness" of mixed marriages.
+TheGarnt glad to note. the youtube commenters as usual are proud of the political incorrectness, but there's a reason....
TheGarnt I'm sure that was the intention
Humour is born of contradiction. All power to intelligent commenters.
"Alien" can also mean "immigrant". Pakistanis were thus viewed as "alien" immigrants by many Brits at the time. So Spike Milligan portrayed them as literal "aliens" (Daleks), taking British fears to an outrageous level of absurdity.
This sketch made absolutely no sense until I read this. Thank you.
I've got to applaud Spike for how progressive this sketch was for the time - portraying a diverse mixed relationship between a dalek male & human female.
Did you assume that dalek's gender?
Is the dalek identifying as a cyberwoman ?
He paved the way for the thoughts from the likes of Elon Musk.
P E A C E : )
It could be a dalek female and a human female
@@sarahthegreat929 I do not think it will still be around to declare its gender and your thinking seems rather binary to tell the truth. I understand the UK civil services recognises 100 genders and probably will be spending time learning them under the eagle eye of their inclusivity commissars while the nation freezes. It is still permissible to broadcast this particular sketch as there is no white male present which minorities would of course find both highly offensive and unrepresentative of their culture.
This is NOT racist ,it`s spot on , I knew a family of daleks and they were just like this.
I knew another family of Daleks who were really p**sed off about being stereotyped.
@@joyfulzero853 well they could always return to their own planet and live in peace with other daleks who share their dalek customs and beliefs instead of going to an alien world and trying to change it to suit them
Lived with some Daleks in a flat, Christ they were screamish
Daleks cannot masterbate, so they are going to be very very angry.
Some of my best friends are Daleks
Seeing one of Britain's greatest comedians tackle one of sci-fi's greatest aliens makes me so happy.
And performed by Marti Cain who was also a good comedienne.
A dalek came round to mine the other week,it'd got a job as a TV licence inspector and wanted to exterminate me for preferring to go online rather than pay for a TV licence as I never watch tele. It followed me in to the house uninvited but I just ran upstairs and watched it bouncing continually off the bottom stair screaming "BUY A LICENCE OR BE EXTERMINATED" I just ignored it and eventually it went away.
I looked out the window and saw it eventually turn into a 5ft 6 speccy turd with a clip board.
He was born in India to British, Irish parents
@@stephenc8 My stepdad looked like him his mother was Irish and father English and he was the double of spike,he looked like spike with no neck 🤣
@@michellebyrom6551 Where is Marti Caine?
I'm only 27 but i absolutely love Spike Milligan, i thank my grandfather for it because of listing to the goon show tapes with him he had in the car when we use to go places. I've seen a lot of Spike's work and he was a comedy genius and he was indeed a mad bastard, but he done it in style. Old comedy was best comedy.
"Put him in the curry" - brilliant.
I wonder if Spike was ?
Now you know what is wrong with the Curry
@@MrDaiseymay if he was what?
@@MrDaiseymay oh I see, you mean...
way on earth did they have say that? it sounds like a good natured insult to Indian cooking.
You can tell the operator of the large Dalek went out of his way to be as kinetic as possible and destroy ALL the dishes, mess everything up.
That was me : )
It's not even politically incorrect... it's just funny 😂
Brilliant Spike Milligan
I feel pretty offended by this. As an animal lover🙄
I'm offended. It's my day job to be. Biggest industry in Britain today.
You mean, it's not even racist. It's just shit!
Can't see how anyone can be offended by this, unless you're a dalek 😂
Spike - outstanding. kills me with laughter. God bless ya Spike.
The sketch was supposed to be against racism.
@@robinhyperlord9053 HOW?🤔
After a hard day's exterminating it's good to know daleks have wives to come home too
First time I saw this I was drinking a cup of coffee. I had to redecorate the room after.
You've had this place redecorated, haven't you? Hm, don't like it.
But brown and green splatters are very "on-trend" this season.
So do they everytime he comes home
Those are the wee moments in life where redecorating was worth it......
Me to David I have never laughed so hard before in my life 😄😄
My dad still quotes this. When I making a curry and I ask what veg to put in he'll nearly always say "Put it all in the curry"
I read somewhere that hot Curry's were first invented by the British in India to hide the taste of slightly off meat. Not sure if any truth in that.
thats correct
@@paulanthony5274 no it's not. They invented the name "curry" as indians have different names for the dishes
@@pliv1 ok,like I say I read it,I wasn't sure if it was true 👍
@@paulanthony5274 sorry if I came across as being agro. Wasn't meant to. Rick stein's india is a good series to watch regarding indian food in the UK. It's fascinating. Maybe mention of it for about 5 minutes but makes sense
"Did you do your homework?"
"YES. I HAVE DESTROYED IT."
I should have tried that line as a kid.
Genius! This man broke all the rules even some that were not rules yet. His only motive was humour and the absurd but above all a huge dose of humanity and kindness. God Bless Spike!
Here here
A round of applause to Mr Milligan!
Now throw it in the curry
He was a very complex person and character, his childhood and war experiences were eventful, to say the least. Reading all his war, post and pre-war books, and all the poetry, stories and small novels like "Puckoon" gives a glimpse of his mind thru' creativity. And a lot was the result of depression, like when he got finally shell-shocked and disfunctional i.e. 'twas busting up his head. He was able to write of FUNNY stuff as well as describing unfunny things in a clever/acidic/funny/ironic way.
said mother tern to baby tern, would you like a brother? Said baby tern to mother tern, yes one good tern deserves another. Don't know wht i always remembered that......Milliganimals
@@philipknight734 the one that always sticks in my head is
A baby sardine saw her first submarine
She gasped and looked through the peephole
Oh come, come come said the sardines mum
It's only a tin full of people
A genius.
By the way,....he WOSHIPPED Benny Hill,.... as he should !
SPIKE, the master of surreal comedy - There'll never be another - Rest in peace, Spike old friend.
I agree too.
This is absolutely hysterical, and you can see where The Dangerous Brothers got a lot of their absurd violence. Just a hunch. Spike is the Great One in this kind of humor.
I know where I get my sense of humour from now.
My grandad adores Spike Milligan.
Only Spike Milligan could do this... brilliant.
Back when everybody laughed at everybody ... and nobody got offended!
Er no, you clearly never heard of Mary Whitehouse, offence is not a new concept pal...
@@theyellowlightsaber3193 Idiots ALWAYS got offended - back then nobody cared what IDIOTS thought! I was there ... Pal
@@theyellowlightsaber3193
Well it’s impossible not to offend someone - law of averages.
People did get offended but it wasn’t blown out of all proportion.Being offended is part of life,in other words “Tough titty !” 👍
@@redpillnibbler4423 Whats changed is that people who are offended are given more power than they used to be, social media plays a big part in that and if social media had existed in the 70s you can gaurantee it wouldve been exactly the same, there were still lobby groups but thier reach was more limited to newspapers as that was the only social media back then. But your original statement that nobody got offended is still incorrect, you just didnt see the people offended cos they werent allowed the amount of publicity they are now. They were still there though.
Probably the best and funniest comedy sketch that Spike has ever performed.
I'm Pakistani myself, and I think this is hilarious
Thats good to know
I am a dalek and I am slightly offended. We are not as violent or destructive as this sketch implies.
@@portcullis5622 there's a high instance of schizophrenia amongst Daleks from radiation.
You are right. You are never alone with a dalek.
Well said mate , this is just comedy .....there was no offence intended from Spike .
Doctor Urd(who)
East is who
Doctor Kaun
I ain't ever urd of him.
Hahaha
Genius
That is brilliant!!! I was laughing so much that I was struggling to breathe! This is one of those videos that I will save to come back to time after time, when I’m feeling low.
"John! Have you finished you're homework?" "yes I have destroyed it!" XD
Rads - MY favourite line in this.
+neoperseus. What a sterlingly empathetic teacher of English you would be!
*your
how's Mr Bannergee?
He's not very well
why not?
I exterminated him XD
I tried that excuse and all I got was lines or detention with lines.... :/
Spike was a comic genius. This series was just totally crazy.
What was the series called?
'Q" series numbered from 1 onwards.@@jonathancooper4914
"PUT HIM IN THE CURRY!" 😁😁
I think the humour here comes more from sheer absurdism than racial stereotypes.
+Gwasgray I agree. A very poor impression of a Pakistani Dalek.
+Gwasgray Agreed ... like the Python sketch about aliens turning people into scotsmen .... get on with it then!
Wimbledon???
In one! At last, someone with the intelligence to actually get it. Personally, I think it is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, possibly because it poignantly highlights the absurdity of people's perception of other races.
Because Spike Milligan seemed to have a bit of thing for racist jokes, I really don't know if it's at the expense of Pakistanis or those who think Pakistanis might put a dog in a curry, I just think it's funny because it's so silly and daft.
@@garycooper1886 no. they are talking shit. Spike talked about this sketch, and it's 'meaning' was nothing of the sort.
it was a funny poke at pakistanis. that's it.
I have Pakistani and Indian friends they love a good joke they laugh at us English to
People take offence Now days for the sake of drama not because they're actually offended.
gundam fan fo sho!
And there's nothing more offensive or condescending than someone taking it upon themself to decide what offends others on the others' behalf.
Correction: for the sake of nothing.
And you're doing it now, cloth-head! (see what I did there)
Ace 😁
Spike Milligan. Sadly missed. But, always remembered.
GENIUS! Your sadly missed Mr Milligan.
You're
@@simongleaden2864 ..yeeees well......!!
Why do so many people not know the difference between your and you're?
...yourll never know......@@timfly767
Beautiful. Well done posting this gem. Remember this from many years ago.
I remember this skit when it first aired. The put him in the curry line was priceless. Milligan was quite brilliant.
Just watched this for about the third time but only today looked at the comments . Well Ive laughed every time Ive watched it - Does that make me bad ? No - Does that make me a Racist - No - Does that mean I have sense of humour Yes !!
No, it doesn't mean you are bad or make you a racist. There is nothing racist about it. I must disagree with you on the sense of humour comment though.. There is nothing funny about it.
Johnny Jabsco
James Preston What??? Why do people do that? So annoying? Why just type somebody's name like that? What does it even mean?
Johnny Jabsco
Kwales66 it's only NOT funny if you've fallen victim to the curse of political correctness. Spike " Milligan was a genius. Today's comic's remind of 1940s comics where they are too heavily censored in a different way and I even fall asleep in some cases . My message to those that are offended :"Shut up! Stop whinning! And get a life you wankers!
133 dislikes! Put them in the curry!!
First ex ter min ate them!
That could of been someones nahn
@@liamhollin8265 - love that comment 😂
They mght end up in a" corma"
6 years on and this is still the best comment!
I like to think Spike was actually in that Dalek suit at the time.
Dalek's comedy timing is impeccable.
Being Pakistani is largely incidental to the normal manic chaos of a Spike sketch
Back when Britain had a sense of humour.
This is an excellent sketch and so funny. Laugh at it while we can. I remember an Indian friend of mine in Belfast cracking Irish jokes. We Paddy's loved the guy taking the piss out of us!
We still have a sense of humour, just don’t be a racist dick and it’s all fine.
@Ray Burton - I don't think Roy Chubby Brown is offensive, he's just embarrassingly un-funny.
@@paulos272 - Exactly! It's easy. :-)
They still do.
Back when you could laugh without feeling guilty!
I laugh my head off today, and I don't bloody well feel the slightest bit guilty. The PC brigade can shove their fascist crap back up their fat arses where it came from. There are still a lot of us Australians who call it like it is.
I don't feel guilty.
I agree, common sense has gone out the window! And is our society more inclusive now with all this PC nonsense? Absolutely not, if anything it has divided us even more. It's against the law to laugh at ourselves which I mean in the broadest sense.
eh? why should anyone feel guilty over this? i don't get it...
i mean they are cyborgs not androids or i would see it as bigotry against the eventual synthetic life forms to come...
really daleks are only paraplegic with death rays when you think about it...
lockudlad oh,yes🕊️
classic the white turban on the daleks head cracks me up
There will definitely never be anyone like Spike again. What a genius.
Techinically, isn't a Dalek costume a burkha ?
Toracube - Nice one ! Made me laugh almost as much as the sketch.
Yes it's an armoured burkha
Yeah, a stab proof, tooled-up burkha!
No.
Yes
''Now you know what's wrong with the curry'' --- Oh, how I needed the belly laugh that ending line gave me!
In Italy we remember him principally for the Marty Feldmann's shows and movies. Today seems that you can't move/say/think (!) anything without being lynched by someone.
You Tube comes to mind. 🌚🌚🌚
This is so dalek-ist
I just laughed at it. It's very funny. Some of the comments below it make me sigh wearily and remember when fun was still allowed. I don't do PCBS, and neither should you. Crack a smile, it'll be good for you.
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Can you imagine if the “Black and White Minstrel Show” was shown today, the PC World would spontaneously combust!.
I am old enough to remember that show and the reactions of my family in the 60s to watching it. It was total rubbish,I remember my grandad who was born in 1898 saying it was out of date ( old fashioned ) as he said. He said lots of things.
@k halliday I went to school in those days and got a great education, and could certainly spell properly before I left primary school
i hope they do
"What are we going to do now?
@k halliday I think he meant Currys PC World, which is quite apt, given the content of this video.
Great stuff, Nothing and nobody should be safe from comedy!
I almost suffocated watching this... :D :D :D
- Johnny, have you finished your homework?
- Yes, I have destroyed it!
Caterpie15 ...What were you doing to almost suffocate?😳
@@plerpplerp5599 laughing one would assume...
"Have you finished your homework?"
"YES! I HAVE DESTROYED IT!"
One of the first sketches that made me laugh so hard I was crying and unable to function.
A lot like your first bumming, eh Cuthbert?
There needs to be a comedy relief episode where the doctor meets this dalek xD
sega616 yes!!
@@violenceisfun991 And exterminates her and put her in the curry
There needs to be a Doctor Who we can enjoy watching! (or is that Whom?)
@@andyclayton9204 Doctor Whom
Absurdity!
That's why Brit comedy was so funny.
RIP the Brit sense of humour - if it's allowed to continue to be tasered to death word by word by the thought police.
Calm down there a plenty of great comics now.
Namely You Tube.
I'm an American and I can't really see why people like this sketch so much.
I love when the little Dalek comes in. "Have you done your homework?"
Its not widely known but this was filmed in Jallalabad in the seventies as part of the Real Lives documentary series.
Do you mean 'Jalalabad'? Seems unlikely to have been filmed there as Jalalabad is in Afghanistan, not Pakistan. Just sayin . . . .
Many movies set in Afghanistan are actually made in Morocco or Jordan, I don't get your point?
As a Dalek I am deeply offended by this stereotype that continues our negative portrayal in the fascist media
Go back to your own planet then :)
How dare you talk like that, young man. Wash your plunger out with soap, then go upstairs to your room!
There's the stairs if you want to leave.
If we put it in a curry, would you feel better?
I would not let a human live
Spike was a comedic genius. In many cases the humour was in the bizarre, mad and zany situation in which he enacted the sketch. I mean what could possibly be funny about a dalek returning home to his Mrs after a long shift????
Just one word: Brilliant 👏
I remember watching this the night it was broadcast and I couldn't move for nearly an hour afterwards; the tears were rolling down my face and my sides ached! The only other time I can recall laughing like that was whilst watching Monty Pythons 'The Oscar Wilde Sketch'
Found myself belly laughing!!! Can't remember the last time I did that? God, we live in a joyless society now
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When we were allowed to find things funny. Pure original genius.
I still laugh and will continue to
🤣🤣🤣good ole British comedy
@@michaelmcmanus108 I have to admit this shit is funny hahahaha...put him in the curry 🤣🤣
Nobody disallows finding something funny, but you can tell quite a lot from those that find old fashioned racism humorous. This needs the context of systemic and socially accepted racism to be passable, and the line "now you can tell what's wrong with the country" is quite telling about the comparison of Asians to Daleks.
It's just not funny any more. People grow, mature and realise that this really shouldn't have been funny in the first place. The only excuse is that they were simpler times where the public were shielded from the vast majority of awfulness rather than having social media bring said awfulness to the door. Let's face it, this is the same era that Jimmy Savile was still a hero of the people. It's OK to realise that maybe we're laughing for very wrong reasons.
I used to laugh at Spike Milligan, have lots of memories of laughing at his skits, and when I look back at his and other comedians at the time it's distinctly unsettling and cringeworthy based on more modern and enlightened views informed by the parties at the butts of the jokes. I know it's an awful feeling that we're being judged as bad people for laughing at something we enjoyed, I know *exactly* how that feels, being from the same generation and laughing at the same jokes at the time. But with a choice between realising, acknowledging the perpetuated hate it contributes to, or doubling down and defending the innocence in which we originally found it funny, doubling down just means you want to ignore the issues and still feel OK about it, which also means that colours the views of those that choose not to.
@@chromenewt to be fair I grew up with most of what your saying and it's true when I look back most of those old comedies are cring worthy to look at . I agree with you on what your saying ...I just woke up and saw this and it made me laugh because o used to love spike . Also I 100 % agree is that people grow and mature ...I'm a black soon to be 49 year old and it's funny that the ww2 generation struggle to understand that times have changed- move with them, alot of them refuse to accept it ....I see it all the time in Facebook nostalgia groups I just gotta laugh .
@@chromenewt Then came the self righteous humour police, who demand they know and deserve all because they have some distant relationship to something deprived or discriminated against. They have so greatly improved life as they float up the ranks of society, like turds among flowers.
Milligan's generation had to actually work constructively, and experienced serious wars.
Enabled many who shouldn't have to breed excessively, as did colonisation.
But were funny, could laugh at themselves and others without being so much better as the button pushing influenced gender diverse woke entitled generation mostly can't.
If it's funny it's funny, if it's a pain in the arse it's better somewhere else.
Apparently, the BBC were reluctant to let Spike use Daleks - so he went to Terry Nation (who first conceived them). Terry agreed, partly because Spike had helped keep him afloat in the pre-Dr Who days when Nation was a bit down on his luck.
My uncle Raymond Cusick actually designed the dalek’s getting the inspiration from the salt and pepper pots in the bbc canteen!
I’m sure that he would have been thrilled seeing Spike make a side splitting skit with them center stage!
This is really funny. As a Desi person myself, I see no reason why this could offend, especially when an Indian-born comedian has written this sketch!
The real world is becoming more and more surreal than even Spike Milligan could've imagined.
Most people forget that Spike Milligan was born in India and had a huge love for the people and their culture. Comedy shouldn't have concerns about offending anyone.
You missed the point.
Which part of India is Pakistan in?
@@supercraggle What part of Pakistan are Daleks in?
Volo Daleks aren’t real. Weird question.
@@supercraggle So is social justice.
"Jerry have you finished your homework?" "Yes I destroyed it" that is so honest
The world is a much sadder place without the troubled comedy genius that was Spike Milligan.
I remember seeing this skit once years ago, my old man was a fan of The Goons and SPike Milligan when I was a kid. I do enjoy seeing again the strange eccentric humour of groups like The Goons, or Monty Python. Pity people have to analyse anything thats posted on youtube, just enjoy it for what it is :)
I'm Pakistani, and I love Dr Who.
So this is the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while. ^_^
It'll be the funniest thing you'll see FOR quite a while.
I think this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen! Sheer brilliance!
Not PC, but that was Spike Milligan, it was a type of comedy of it's era.
Personal computers hadn’t been invented then.
U tube algorithms!! Didn't search for this but, daft but bloody funny😄😄
I laughed out loud when the little Dalek came in xD
I remember seeing this years ago. Brilliant sketch. Completely insane.
'this sketch is one of the best bits of Brit comedy ever, I still use the words "PUT IT IN THE CURRY" when the occasion arises'
Agreed!!!.
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One of the funniest things I have ever seen. I'am glad some one just had the good sense to save it.
Odd. Ealier today, when I was in our kitchen and I had my phone in my pocket and we were looking after next door's dog for a few hours, I said of the dog, "Put him in the curry". No one got the reference. But now a few hours later I check my YT recommended and this shows up for the first time in years...
i think you know exactly what that means.
So couldn’t get away with this today!
Ye because back then people had a scence of humour
My local takeaway can't get as good as this! Oh, Spike, I miss you mate. Mad as a brush, sharp as a tack.
Following the events of the Timeless Children, I declare this to be canon.
Spike Milligan makes such a very convincing Dalek! xD
I can remember hiding behind the sofa watching this i was 27 at the time...
I've never seen this I'm crying so funny
The brilliant madness of Spike.
If anyone is interested, this dalek was in Genesis, and is now residing in Merlins in Coventry
Very encouraging to NOT see any namby pamby PC-ness going on in these comments. Great that everyone sees the humour in it.
PC brigade and do-gooders can stick that up their arses!!
Long live Spike Milligan. 😊 😊
oh yes there was, but they were exterminated. every thumbs up exterminates a 'downer'