1. Thwarting an attempted hijacking 2. Reminding passengers, including the terrorist, of the importance of diet and exercise 3. Raising awareness of Spina Bifida in every customer exchange 4. Defending multiple disabled children from cruel and insensitive passengers 5. Discovering the perfect flowery perfume scent If that's not a successful day at the office, I don't know what is.
"We'll get you some sweets, and a bag (to put over your head), and some valium to help you shut up!" ... "Beef or cow?" This sketch never fails to make me laugh.
You eat pig. (Edit: I've realized that some minor ambiguity may lead to my comment being considered rude. The comment has no meaning beyond to state that the best alternative to eating beef or cow is to eat pork. :)
At the very start when they are standing at the entrance as passengers are boarding, the woman playing the FA on the left she is beauty overload, just wow.
This never gets old! A brilliant sketch, ha ha ha! Clare Thomson (Marla) and Alice Lowe (Jadine) are the two Air Afrikaans flight attendants, listed in order of their appearance at the start. Both British. Clare Thomson wrote much of the material. Sarah Kendall is the 'nervous flier'. She is an Australian comedian. Barunka O'Shaughnessy is the vegetarian. British.
So, so funny. Every single hostess comeback was a lol gem. The pointless choice of beef or cow was also a clever poke at the fact that South Africa is an obsessive steak producing and eating nation.
@@Avid_Fan British - just saying, as an Englishman who has lived in Scotland for most of his life and has a Scottish accent. In fact, the reason there is a United Kingdom is because Queen Elizabeth of England died childless so her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots' son, James the Sixth of Scotland inherited the English throne. Of course, Elizabeth did CUT OFF MARY'S HEAD, but James didn't let that stop him. Just saying!
Beehive is a British sketch comedy series which was broadcast in 2008. It stars Australian comedian Sarah Kendall and British comedy actresses Alice Lowe, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Clare Thomson, who wrote much of the show's material. Producer Siobhan Rhodes stated prior to production that the show would be about funny women, who do not feature regularly on TV.[1] The show also features Habib Nasib Nader and Jack Whitehall.[2]
I've just seen this for the first time, if this was broadcast in 2008 then it seems that Arabella Weir's 'Perfume Sample Lady' in The Fast Show was heavily influenced by it (stolen even)
Thank you. I'm South African and immediately knew that this is definitely not South African. I have no idea how some other people in the comments aren't picking that up. o_O Although the sense of humor is about the same - must be the English influence I suppose :D
This is brilliantly written. Some of the lines come so fast that they really hit you on the second viewing. Like the “Electronic slimming belts don’t work, you know” when disarming the hijacker - OMG 😂 I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe 😂😂. Really great.
To be honest, if you're going to have a moral objection to eating all meat, but you don't mind cows stuck in prison, eternally pregnant, hopped up on antibiotics, and getting their blistered udders sucked by vacuums, you don't have much of a point.
A dear departed friend of Mine was South African and a flight attendant and the stories she told me were hilarious and scarcely believable (and that was just the passengers)
I have worked in "the entertainment industry" most of my adult life. As a roadie I've had a few adventures and had some quite wild nights out.... However. I went out one night with a bunch of cabin crew (from a well know airline which I will not name here) ......and to be honest it was somewhere between a rugby club night out and fucking hammer of the gods! Those girls knew how to party!
Australian sign language. When the ladies stand in isle and point "your exits are here" then point down the isle and say "and here". If you were deaf youd see the lady saying "fuck you; fuck the lot of ya". Hilarious right! I got more funies too
I met an elderly Afrikaans lady. She lives in Northern Ireland. And was a farmer in South Africa near Johannesburg. She used to carry an Israeli uzi submachine gun for personal protection. It was hard to imagine this old lady running around with an uzi but nevertheless a true story.
@@raphaelklaussen1951 I have never voted for Trump, and I have seen obnoxious behavior on flights or even in waiting areas from people of all descriptions, although they often have excessive alcohol consumption in common.
@@ViolettaD1485 Sorry for misconstruing your comment's intent. Flights and airports don't give you an unbiased sample of people to judge their behavior. The reason is trumptards, being uneducated and working-class, are less likely to fly than middle class people. If you go to a place infested with trumptards you will notice their violence is not related to alcohol consumption but to their racism and stupidity. It surprises people to discover that trumptards don't consume much alcohol - their favorite drink is American beer, very low in alcohol and urine-tasking (Coors is their favorite thanks to the Coors company past sympathies with racism.)
Hahaha. I flew SAA from AUS to Johannesburg in the late 80's, I think it was. Apart from my knees pressing against the seat in front, I remember that the cabin crew had raised rudeness to the level of an art-form. When I didn't understand what the meal choices were, I was told "It's written on the menu!" which the guy tossed back to me.🤣🤣
The number of comments here from Afrikaaners who thought this is funny and get the joke is not only charming and disarming, but it gives you hope when you realize how many people can laugh at themselves and have a good time of it. I would love to see more parodies of Americans. God only knows we deserve it!
As a South African, I can confirm that we love poking fun at ourselves. There are so many different cultures here and humor is the best way to bring people together.
Beef or Cow? I'm a vegetarian. That's ridiculous; if you don't eat beef or cow how can you be alive? 🤣 if you're a vegetarian you don't get a chocolate mousse. 😂 ROFL
This is not so far from the truth. When I was a child on a long-haul flight, not only was the vegetarian meal disgusting and had to be pre-ordered during booking. We used to get really dry fruit cake or just a piece of fruit instead of the chocolate mousse or chocolate cake the other customers would get. As a child that was torture. They never used to have any extra desserts to swap either. So we just ate the sour grapes and wished we had packed more snacks.
This is a British comedy that was part of a show that ran from the 3rd of December 2008 to the 17 December 2008 the show was called Beehive and was screened on channel E4 , one of the actresses is English and the other is Australian.
I love this so much. Being South African born it strikes a chord. Their accents are very good considering they are actually English. Beef or cow?! Lmao got everyone I know saying that 😂😂😂
It's true! It's like they invented an accent that swaps countries so often, it's a metaphor for the white South African identity crisis! It's phonetic genius. I am in utter awe at their effortless execution. Truly effortless.
What identity crisis are u referring to? If I have one (being a white Safer) then so do the rest of the worlds Caucasian race. This video is an act.....omg I'm not even gonna bother to comment further.....I'd be wasting my timr
I cannot live without this video. It is on my desert island list. If I were stranded on a desert island, I certainly want this video with me. Bravo! To the two actresses.
To answer all the questions... This was a recurring sketch on _Beehive_, a British sketch comedy show that ran 5 episodes in 2008. Clare Thomson plays Marla. Alice Lowe is Jodine. They're left and right greeting the passengers. Sarah Kendall is the "nervous flier." She is really Australian; Alice and Clare are British.
@@pierreblignaut5859 I am not from South Africa, have hardly met anyone from there and don't really know much about these things and I can confirm these accents are spot on, consistent and hilarious.
@@theblueacorn That's a really weird statement. If you're not South African, and have met very few South Africans, how can you say the accents are spot on? I am South African, so while I agree with you that the skit is funny, the accents are not spot on.
I have worked with , and shared accommodation with South Africans , these flight attendants have definetly been to Charm School and passed with flying colours.
ummm... United personnel just beat and dragged a doctor off a plane a couple of months ago for refusing to give up his seat to a UA staff person. Broken teeth, bloody nose, cuts and bruises and the guy was 69 years old!
gtimny the not so funny yet funny thing is united airlines slogan is"The Friendly Skies" but I'm sure thats not what the doctor was thinking at that moment ...
Danielo I have, they are extremely nice people maybe just your experience with South African's is not a good one i have some close friends who are South African i guess its the same with many races and cultures there is good and bad :)
As someone who takes over 100 international flights per year, I can see the humour in this. Rest assured, it's not just South Africa, but it is mostly restricted to economy. This could be the Spinal Tap of the aviation industry.
I just came across this ... absolutely hilarious! The repetitive "What?" reminds me of Chappelle's Lil Jon sketch. About pissed myself with the "She gave me Spina Bifida " 😂
As someone who lived in South Africa and has roots there still, but now lives in Germany , I’d say the worst case is Luftwaffe (mean Lufthansa). The Afrikaans people have a fantastic sense of humour and also don’t mind laughing at themselves. Hence, this sketch is not a problem. Even funny.
You're just talking out of your ass. The only interaction you get with Ryanair is the flight safety drill and being offered food and drinks. Nothing wrong with that.
4:03 "Sir, you are only allowed 20 kg of hand luggage. So, if you're trying to get one over on us, you've picked the wrong Air Stewardesses!" Too funny 😅
This is from the sketch series BEEHIVE. It would've been nice if that was put somewhere in the description. And it's pretty much all as brilliant as this. Hugely underrated
I have a couple customers at work who wander through (over the road truckers, US) who are Afrikaans. The one couple are RV customers who come to our repair shop to have their "Land Yacht" serviced. The conversations they have are hilarious- breaking back and forth between English/Dutch Slang (Afrikaans). The other guy who stops by for parts has a bit more of a british/Afrikaans talk, and drives for a Canadian company. Living where I do, it's always fun to hear different ways people talk. Here people say we have an "accent", however we just say words differently I guess? Long story short- this sketch nails it head on, haha.
Mate mate mate. 1) It’s not Dutch Slang. It’s Dutch derived but it’s a language by itself. 2) Pronouncing words differently is the very definition of an accent. I really don’t get it when Americans say “xyz had an accent”. Everyone has an accent in comparison to someone else. Honestly, we all know there’s one (and only one) country where a domestic sports championships is called a “World Series” and that level of ignorance is something to not brag about
Well then, forgive me for being too American, lol. I'll agree with you on Baseball....The only other countries that have leagues are in Japan, South Korea, etc. We notice people's accent's here because we have so many regional ones- like in the UK. @@raymasraymas
I would say as an American this is stupid funny this is universally funny I could watch this over every day and laugh at it every single time hilarious course I worked with people from South Africa and known a lot of people from around the world so I can relate this is hilarious.
Still kak myself laughing whenever I seen this. Sure, the accents may swing from attempted(and sometimes exaggerated) Afrikaans lapsing back into English occasionally, but funny nevertheless. The" childless single" passenger is obviously Australian where the rest are English. It's good to see some Afrikaners seeing this skit for what it actually is - a joke. Nothing more. Nothing less.
@@DanDownunda8888 Every Afrikaans person I have worked with displayed idiocy. I think it is the fact that Afrikaans people are so aggressive that makes them come across as dumb. I've talked to a few Afrikaans people about this and they said it's because South Africa is so violent, you have to always assume the worst and display aggression so people are less likely to target you. Also, their culture is 80 years behind European cultures, so that makes them look dumb and backwards.
There is nothing offensive about this skit. It’s not making fun of any ethnic group, or spreading any negative stereotypes. The same can’t be said about Many skits about non-white ethnic groups.
@@dewilew2137 as a matter of fact, the same can't be said about many skits about ethnic groups _in general..._ kind of strange you singled out "non-white" when there's certainly examples of comedy that propagates stereotypes offensive towards ethnic groups considered white.
True story; I was on a SAL flight once when one of these "new S A flight attendants kept on asking me " beef or tekkie?" I honestly didn't know what she meant. Eventually I asked "what do you have "Adidas or Nike" This is when my wife elbowed me in the ribs and said " she means 'TURKEY', you idiot!!
@Daniel Coetzee Kind of like my mother. English is her secondary language. Waitress: "Super salad?" Mother: "Yes please." Waitress, again, much slower: "Soup... or... salad?" Mother: "Oh... salad please." She was kind of disappointed. Super salad sounded interesting.
Reminds me of a Pink Floyd song. "If you don't eat yer beef, you can't have any chocolate mousse. How can you have any chocolate mousse if you don't eat yer beef?"
This is NOT a correction, It IS a salute! I watched 'The Wall', with a great bunch of mates, when it was released, in a Leicester Square cinema. Cinema audiences do not give standing-ovations very often. "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding!" th-cam.com/video/n5diMImYIIA/w-d-xo.html
Anyone who thinks this is not funny has no sense of humor,,,this is best comedy ever!! I love these two!! Reminds me of all the lazy flight attendants I have endured in the US all these years.
Howard Fortyfive -- You clearly have no clue what Afrikaans is. It's a language derived from Dutch, and spoken largely by Afrikaners, who are the white people of South Africa of European (Dutch and Huguenot) descent.
H45 & Selki: First Afrikaans, then Dutch, then English. - Hierdie sin is in Afrikaans geskryf. - Deze zin is in het Nederlands geschreven. - This sentence is written in English. Now, just for fun, same sort of thing in Zulu: Lo musho ubhalwe ngesiZulu.
Hassan Shaikh Actually 13.5% of the SA population speak Afrikaans(mostly Coloured) making it the 3rd largest language group in the country after Xhosa at 16% and Zulu at 22.7%. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_South_Africa Though I've seldom heard a Coloured man call himself black there is this article as well: www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2017/04/28/afrikaans-language-black-white/
Reminds me of the service on Air Kuwait. Flying low over the Rann of Kutch - breathtaking views of flights of flamingos over the salt-flats. "Now you will close the blind sir, and watch the film". "I prefer to look at the view". Attendant repeatedly closes the blind every time I open it. Made these ladies look positively service-oriented. Don't fly Air Kuwait...
but if we are real for a minute it's vegetarians and vegans who think like that... ;) (I once didn't eat any plants under any form for 18 months, no health issues at all...)
@@Ri57490 Our ancestors in Europe ate only meat for hundreds of thousands of years... There are no essential nutrients you get from plants that you can't get from meat.
This is just a few moments of very light hearted humour that just happens to show two people with a (possibly over simplified) south African accent. Zero negative comments about south Africa or its culture. But WoW, the comments on here are amazing and the personal offence taken is astonishing. Since television came to the masses in the late 60's we have had 100's of TV shows and thousands of skits from the UK, USA and Australia (to name just a few) that have parodied themselves and each other. Never before have i seen such offence taken. Lifes far too short, get a sense of humour and move on.
+Mr2at Well it does suggest that white South Africans are still racist, does it not? I let them off for that though as it is generally quite true in my experience.
Mr2at I agree... it is funny. En ek is n boer. Mostly I feel they are typical Trolly Dollies, not specifically South African. I liked it, gave me a laugh. I wonder how many of my fellow countrymen who are so vocal about the accent not being perfect would like to upload vidoes of themselves doing British or Aussie accents. Geezlike... the video is ok, the uptight SAffers commenting are an embarrassment.
1. Thwarting an attempted hijacking
2. Reminding passengers, including the terrorist, of the importance of diet and exercise
3. Raising awareness of Spina Bifida in every customer exchange
4. Defending multiple disabled children from cruel and insensitive passengers
5. Discovering the perfect flowery perfume scent
If that's not a successful day at the office, I don't know what is.
Those ladies are truly wonderful
@@caesarss9018awful yet wonderful 😂
@@rainbowlady1532 I don't know about you but they are my ideal girls
@@caesarss9018British way of doi'n things...
Most south african answer I have ever heard.
"and some valium to help you shut up" that line still gets me to this day.
That lesbian!
_Don't be difficult._ 🤣
I know, right. I cracked up the first time I heard it hahaha 😂
These women are too friendly to be South African.
Ye...they are tans
THere are lots of lovely white South African girls, there are some real shots too. Pretty much like the rest of the world.
Jou poes is too friendly
@@erwin8335 :D:D
Jou gat man too friendly se moer ons is nice
"We'll get you some sweets, and a bag (to put over your head), and some valium to help you shut up!" ... "Beef or cow?" This sketch never fails to make me laugh.
''Well, *IF* you *DON'T* eat beef and you don't eat cow, *HOW* can you be alive?'' LOL
That's definitely my question as well lol
@@audrablue515well you’re a fool
@@audrablue515 eat lamb and sheep instead
chicken
@@Tathanic Mutton, the meat of kings!
“If you don’t eat beef and you don’t eat cow, how can you be alive?” 😂😂
You eat pig.
(Edit: I've realized that some minor ambiguity may lead to my comment being considered rude. The comment has no meaning beyond to state that the best alternative to eating beef or cow is to eat pork. :)
I’m and actual Afrikaner and I agree with this sentiment 100%!😂😂😂
Bro straight savage
Scientists still have not provided a believable answer to this fundamental question by today.
I take the cow!
That was so funny.
The show is called Beehive. It's a British series from Channel 4 :)
Thank your for letting us Americans know about it.
@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq And us Canadians, also.
At the very start when they are standing at the entrance as passengers are boarding, the woman playing the FA on the left she is beauty overload, just wow.
thankyou i'm going to look for it cuz that's the most entertaining thing i've seen in a while!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣🤣😅
is air afrikaans service that bad?
This never gets old! A brilliant sketch, ha ha ha!
Clare Thomson (Marla) and Alice Lowe (Jadine) are the two Air Afrikaans flight attendants, listed in order of their appearance at the start. Both British. Clare Thomson wrote much of the material.
Sarah Kendall is the 'nervous flier'. She is an Australian comedian.
Barunka O'Shaughnessy is the vegetarian. British.
Sarah won season 12 of Taskmaster! I’ve seen this sketch so many times & I never recognized her.
I knew i recognised her! That oddly delicate way she pronounces things. It's Liz from Darkplace!
They must have overheard some flight attendants to inspire this. It's too dead on.
Alice low is a leg end
The show is Beehive
"We'll get you some valium.... to help you shut up" 😂🤣
They're gonna need a bigger bottle.
Valium , mmm, yummy.
😁💯
Can I have some?
Hey, that's what mum used to say ! 😅🤣😂
So, so funny. Every single hostess comeback was a lol gem.
The pointless choice of beef or cow was also a clever poke at the fact that South Africa is an obsessive steak producing and eating nation.
No fish? I wondered how they would've reacted if I asked for Plomeek Soup?
@@virginiaconnor8350 what's that, is what I'd say.
Beef is Braai
Cow is not Braai.
🇿🇦🍻👍😎
I mean, onecoukd asteak wheres the other onw is a different form,
@@virginiaconnor8350 Beef or cow?
I'm Afrikaans and a pilot at an airline. And this clip is BRILLIANT!
Why did I read that in a heavy Afrikaans accent
No , you are not.
@@neanicu86 how would you know?
@@tinusblaauw4092 I'm God.
@@neanicu86 No, you are not.
Alice Lowe (the very blonde one) is a British national treasure. Glorious!
Aryan International Treasure.
English treasure.
@@Avid_Fan British - just saying, as an Englishman who has lived in Scotland for most of his life and has a Scottish accent.
In fact, the reason there is a United Kingdom is because Queen Elizabeth of England died childless so her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots' son, James the Sixth of Scotland inherited the English throne.
Of course, Elizabeth did CUT OFF MARY'S HEAD, but James didn't let that stop him.
Just saying!
Stop ✋
Think 🤔
Disabled child ♿
Lol
I don’t even get what’s so funny about it #britishcomeflywithmeisthebest
is that literally on the manual
I'm Afrikaans and this is bloody hilarious ! Haha, more of these two please!
You are a star and will go far. Have you ever seen the Fast Show?
This is horse manure & offensive, you real dutchman... Also the Khoisan helped invent Afrikaans you silly Boer!
The script is like pizza with every topping on it. Mmm.
@@OmenAkumaru20223 I don’t see how that’s relevant lol
@@OmenAkumaru20223 and get your historical and cultural facts right before you blow your bomb here stupid
Beehive is a British sketch comedy series which was broadcast in 2008. It stars Australian comedian Sarah Kendall and British comedy actresses Alice Lowe, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Clare Thomson, who wrote much of the show's material. Producer Siobhan Rhodes stated prior to production that the show would be about funny women, who do not feature regularly on TV.[1] The show also features Habib Nasib Nader and Jack Whitehall.[2]
Yorkshire Airlines
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Thanks!!
I've just seen this for the first time, if this was broadcast in 2008 then it seems that Arabella Weir's 'Perfume Sample Lady' in The Fast Show was heavily influenced by it (stolen even)
Thank you. This should be in the description of this vid. Comments section doing the hard lifting.
Thank you. I'm South African and immediately knew that this is definitely not South African. I have no idea how some other people in the comments aren't picking that up. o_O Although the sense of humor is about the same - must be the English influence I suppose :D
This is brilliantly written. Some of the lines come so fast that they really hit you on the second viewing. Like the “Electronic slimming belts don’t work, you know” when disarming the hijacker - OMG 😂 I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe 😂😂. Really great.
"If you're a vegetarian you don't get a chocolate mousse"
Oddly this sums up my entire life.
if you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding!!!!
To be honest, if you're going to have a moral objection to eating all meat, but you don't mind cows stuck in prison, eternally pregnant, hopped up on antibiotics, and getting their blistered udders sucked by vacuums, you don't have much of a point.
A lot of chocolate mousse actually contains gelatine anyway.
Mushy Pork IF YOU DONT EAT YOUR MEAT, HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING?
So you're a brown Moose?
This is hilarious! and I am a South African! So the accents are not quite right, but.....the humour is in there! well done, and I'll have the cow!
Beef and Cow are the same thing...
+Mushy11 tarbas No shit Sherlock
same here , but it's funny because it's kind of how South African airlines are , albeit exaggerated , but just a bit .
What...?
What?
I actually live in Johannesburg and this really made me smile...if you've ever had a run-in with an Afrikaans girl, you would understand...brilliant!
Afrikaans girls don't exist... anywhere
@@clavichord Huh?
@@saintadolf5639 It's Afrikaner, not Afrikaans
@@clavichord Ohhh, gotcha. Thanks.
@@clavichord in dutch we say afrikaans, een afrikaanse
"Well if you don't eat beef and you don't eat cow, how can you be alive?" OMG, this is hysterical!! I want more!!
A dear departed friend of Mine was South African and a flight attendant and the stories she told me were hilarious and scarcely believable (and that was just the passengers)
I have worked in "the entertainment industry" most of my adult life. As a roadie I've had a few adventures and had some quite wild nights out....
However. I went out one night with a bunch of cabin crew (from a well know airline which I will not name here) ......and to be honest it was somewhere between a rugby club night out and fucking hammer of the gods!
Those girls knew how to party!
Australian sign language.
When the ladies stand in isle and point "your exits are here" then point down the isle and say "and here".
If you were deaf youd see the lady saying "fuck you; fuck the lot of ya".
Hilarious right!
I got more funies too
Tell us a good story im listening??
@@nathangrueber9834 what do you mean? the pointing of the exists is the same as fuck you in sign language?
@@nathangrueber9834 lmao really
I have watched this at least a dozen times in the last year...it has to be one of the funniest things ever produced. Thanks to the genius producers.
Yep gotta love Jodine and Myla, more of these 2 please :)
Christ 🙄🙄🙄🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@SV33381 what’s wrong?
Are you…. Me?
Well, I have watched it probably a hundred times, it is always funnier.
“That food is for Jews and hippies!” As a vegetarian, kosher Jew, I found that hilarious!
Hippie!
Biltong
Is there a non kosher vegetarian food.
Noone cares what you find funny
As a kosher and highly-carnivorous Jew, I was quite flattered ☺
I love how these two work so well together as a team! They are a testament to synchronized teamwork!
This is actually a Qantas training video. They hope to lift their service standards to this level.
not wrong ! :)
More like JetStar
I met an elderly Afrikaans lady. She lives in Northern Ireland. And was a farmer in South Africa near Johannesburg. She used to carry an Israeli uzi submachine gun for personal protection. It was hard to imagine this old lady running around with an uzi but nevertheless a true story.
thats awesome
Legend!
because the UZI was made specifically for women
Yes, much lighter than an AK.
Probably in support of the apartheid too.
We need more flight attendants like this instead of security checkpoints. They'd sort out any troublemakers fast enough.
I apologize if I am mistaken, but you sound like the typical trumpist racist, very common vermin in the US.
@@raphaelklaussen1951 I have never voted for Trump, and I have seen obnoxious behavior on flights or even in waiting areas from people of all descriptions, although they often have excessive alcohol consumption in common.
@@ViolettaD1485 Sorry for misconstruing your comment's intent.
Flights and airports don't give you an unbiased sample of people to judge their behavior. The reason is trumptards, being uneducated and working-class, are less likely to fly than middle class people. If you go to a place infested with trumptards you will notice their violence is not related to alcohol consumption but to their racism and stupidity. It surprises people to discover that trumptards don't consume much alcohol - their favorite drink is American beer, very low in alcohol and urine-tasking (Coors is their favorite thanks to the Coors company past sympathies with racism.)
@@raphaelklaussen1951 u have issues lol
@@SAMMYJR00777 I smell a trumpturd.
Hahaha. I flew SAA from AUS to Johannesburg in the late 80's, I think it was. Apart from my knees pressing against the seat in front, I remember that the cabin crew had raised rudeness to the level of an art-form. When I didn't understand what the meal choices were, I was told "It's written on the menu!" which the guy tossed back to me.🤣🤣
You’ve obviously never flown with Air Canada longhaul
I am a former Flight Attendant and I totally can relate! So dam funny.
* ✋🏻. 🤔. ♿️🧒🏻.
What can you relate to?, being rude XD
Me too..lol I actually tried beef or cow
@@forjimmykimmel9269 I believe the two different worlds btwn Crew and guests. One does not need to be rude but find fun at work
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💜
The number of comments here from Afrikaaners who thought this is funny and get the joke is not only charming and disarming, but it gives you hope when you realize how many people can laugh at themselves and have a good time of it. I would love to see more parodies of Americans. God only knows we deserve it!
Tell a South African that apartheid means "apart hate" and watch the charm pour out of them.
@@censorbleep3018 No it doesn't, unless fatherhood mean "dad hate"
I knew a South African who used to say, "I am a complete vegan. I only eat things that eat vegetables."
@@digdougedy Ah yes. South African humor. Ha. Ha.
As a South African, I can confirm that we love poking fun at ourselves. There are so many different cultures here and humor is the best way to bring people together.
Beef or Cow? I'm a vegetarian. That's ridiculous; if you don't eat beef or cow how can you be alive? 🤣 if you're a vegetarian you don't get a chocolate mousse. 😂 ROFL
Who is 'Vegatarian Lady'? I recognise her (from other acting parts).
Pip Nice job typing what you listened to an instant ago!
"We don't need no education!..." :D
Anonymous douche bag
This is not so far from the truth. When I was a child on a long-haul flight, not only was the vegetarian meal disgusting and had to be pre-ordered during booking. We used to get really dry fruit cake or just a piece of fruit instead of the chocolate mousse or chocolate cake the other customers would get. As a child that was torture. They never used to have any extra desserts to swap either. So we just ate the sour grapes and wished we had packed more snacks.
The "hunchback" at 0:12 was personal 😭😭😭
This is a British comedy that was part of a show that ran from the 3rd of December 2008 to the 17 December 2008 the show was called Beehive and was screened on channel E4 , one of the actresses is English and the other is Australian.
I just stumbled across this skit and now I have tears in my eyes.😁😁😁👍👍👍
Ikr! 🤣😂🥹
I love this so much. Being South African born it strikes a chord. Their accents are very good considering they are actually English. Beef or cow?! Lmao got everyone I know saying that 😂😂😂
This is rubbish, South African humour must be shit!!
are south africans known for being rude? I'd love to hear your take on it.
It's true! It's like they invented an accent that swaps countries so often, it's a metaphor for the white South African identity crisis! It's phonetic genius. I am in utter awe at their effortless execution. Truly effortless.
What identity crisis are u referring to? If I have one (being a white Safer) then so do the rest of the worlds Caucasian race.
This video is an act.....omg I'm not even gonna bother to comment further.....I'd be wasting my timr
Beef or Cow?
I cannot live without this video. It is on my desert island list. If I were stranded on a desert island, I certainly want this video with me. Bravo! To the two actresses.
But you might not want to be rescued by Air Afrkaans
To answer all the questions...
This was a recurring sketch on _Beehive_, a British sketch comedy show that ran 5 episodes in 2008.
Clare Thomson plays Marla. Alice Lowe is Jodine. They're left and right greeting the passengers.
Sarah Kendall is the "nervous flier." She is really Australian; Alice and Clare are British.
Thanks, that explains why their accents were all over the place
@@pierreblignaut5859 I am not from South Africa, have hardly met anyone from there and don't really know much about these things and I can confirm these accents are spot on, consistent and hilarious.
@@theblueacorn That's a really weird statement. If you're not South African, and have met very few South Africans, how can you say the accents are spot on?
I am South African, so while I agree with you that the skit is funny, the accents are not spot on.
@@pierreblignaut5859 I don't really mind that you think this.
Unfortunately to the rest of the English speaking world this is what you sound like. Humbling isn’t it.
Just discovered this. Too goddamn brilliant. Writing and acting the best. Reminds me of 70's Lampoon. Keep satire alive!
puterossputeross Bowelly this show stopped after one series I think which is a shame since I wanted more air afrikaan
Ropsana Khanom word, thanks Ropsana, wish there was more !
I have worked with , and shared accommodation with South Africans , these flight attendants have definetly been to Charm School and passed with flying colours.
How this pair didn't become icons of comedy has me buggered.....it's my favourite..
ikr ? probably not antiwhite enough....
@@Anonymous-km5pj let's get you some Valium then
It's satire, folks should not be angry. It's a comedy.
ummm... United personnel just beat and dragged a doctor off a plane a couple of months ago for refusing to give up his seat to a UA staff person. Broken teeth, bloody nose, cuts and bruises and the guy was 69 years old!
gtimny the not so funny yet funny thing is united airlines slogan is"The Friendly Skies" but I'm sure thats not what the doctor was thinking at that moment ...
Sean Rosich Ive traveled with a lot of differente companies - but ive never met a nice south african!
Danielo I have, they are extremely nice people maybe just your experience with South African's is not a good one i have some close friends who are South African i guess its the same with many races and cultures there is good and bad :)
Sean Rosich i
As someone who takes over 100 international flights per year, I can see the humour in this. Rest assured, it's not just South Africa, but it is mostly restricted to economy. This could be the Spinal Tap of the aviation industry.
Whereas in first and business classes, the real assholes come out to play.
I haven't seen this in years! Every episode is more hilarious than the last.
What show is this
I second this request
@@BSin8413 as mentioned above, it's from a short lived British comedy sketch show called 'Beehive' from 2008.
@@bobcricket4873 Thank you!
I flew with South African Airways from Heathrow to Johannesburg and back in 2001. I remember the cabin crew being a bit surly.
And they remember you being an entitled asshole😂😂
That title is taken by British Airways and Luthansa!
The performance and the script both are legends.
I just came across this ... absolutely hilarious! The repetitive "What?" reminds me of Chappelle's Lil Jon sketch. About pissed myself with the "She gave me Spina Bifida " 😂
That's just being a dumbo saying what too many times
I watch this once a year. One of the funniest skits I have ever seen..just enough truth to make it more so!
I come back to this regularly too!
Glory to the writers and the casting. Those two stewardesses were perfect.
the stewardesses are the writers.
As someone who lived in South Africa and has roots there still, but now lives in Germany , I’d say the worst case is Luftwaffe (mean Lufthansa). The Afrikaans people have a fantastic sense of humour and also don’t mind laughing at themselves. Hence, this sketch is not a problem. Even funny.
It does drag a little. The joke becomes obvious quite quickly so they cut have cut the 'fat' a bit.
Still better customer service than Ryanair.
EDIT: can't believe this comment just got 2.5k likes, thanks!
EDIT#2: make that 3.7k!
Honestly my experiences with Ryanair have been really nice. They don't dote, but always polite and helpful.
That's because you're not a vegetarian
I have to confess that I find Food Faddists and non drinkers, faintly irritating.
George Mirchev not everyone wants to be treated like a slave, some people respect themselves.
You're just talking out of your ass. The only interaction you get with Ryanair is the flight safety drill and being offered food and drinks. Nothing wrong with that.
4:03 "Sir, you are only allowed 20 kg of hand luggage. So, if you're trying to get one over on us, you've picked the wrong Air Stewardesses!"
Too funny 😅
Eleven year old video and TH-cam just gets it to me now? Well, some things are worth waiting for. I loved it!!
having spent almost hundred flights to/from/across India, the line "beef or cow" was an absolute gem.
This is so funny 😂they are great comediennes absolutely brilliant 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😆
What the fuck is a "comedienne"?
@@mushypork1272 A comedienne is the female equivalent of comedian. Though I'm guessing you already know that...
Beehive was so underrated when it came out. Alice Lowe in particular I always thought was so funny.
"This woman lives for her job!"
This is from the sketch series BEEHIVE. It would've been nice if that was put somewhere in the description. And it's pretty much all as brilliant as this. Hugely underrated
Thanks, never heard of beehive before but will check it out. Love this video!
Stumbled on this whilst watching Catherine Tate.
Yeah and maybe you should look what your typing, moron.
So did I :)
No, he should where he's typing, lol.
same
I see so much great stuff since I quit watching American 📺
Clearly these flight attendants are VERY wise.....
yes they are very very "wise"
Robyn Smith ijo
Blonde yes for sure
Yes, extraordinary wise....
Sage-like one might say.....
As my grandmother says, they are "wise asses"
"Stop.Think. Disabled child." OMG,dead....🤣🤣🤣
I have a couple customers at work who wander through (over the road truckers, US) who are Afrikaans. The one couple are RV customers who come to our repair shop to have their "Land Yacht" serviced. The conversations they have are hilarious- breaking back and forth between English/Dutch Slang (Afrikaans). The other guy who stops by for parts has a bit more of a british/Afrikaans talk, and drives for a Canadian company. Living where I do, it's always fun to hear different ways people talk. Here people say we have an "accent", however we just say words differently I guess? Long story short- this sketch nails it head on, haha.
"dutch slang"
Mate mate mate.
1) It’s not Dutch Slang. It’s Dutch derived but it’s a language by itself.
2) Pronouncing words differently is the very definition of an accent. I really don’t get it when Americans say “xyz had an accent”. Everyone has an accent in comparison to someone else.
Honestly, we all know there’s one (and only one) country where a domestic sports championships is called a “World Series” and that level of ignorance is something to not brag about
Well then, forgive me for being too American, lol. I'll agree with you on Baseball....The only other countries that have leagues are in Japan, South Korea, etc. We notice people's accent's here because we have so many regional ones- like in the UK. @@raymasraymas
Beef or cow? -"I'm a vegetarian!" -??? Beef or cow? - I'm a vegetarian!!! -????? Beef or cow? :o)))
Absolutely hilarious!
What? What? What? 😂😂😂
I would say as an American this is stupid funny this is universally funny I could watch this over every day and laugh at it every single time hilarious course I worked with people from South Africa and known a lot of people from around the world so I can relate this is hilarious.
I don't believe you
Still kak myself laughing whenever I seen this. Sure, the accents may swing from attempted(and sometimes exaggerated) Afrikaans lapsing back into English occasionally, but funny nevertheless. The" childless single" passenger is obviously Australian where the rest are English. It's good to see some Afrikaners seeing this skit for what it actually is - a joke. Nothing more. Nothing less.
If the same joke featured many other races it would be called racism instead of humour, some people are just so think skinned.
@@David-ci1vn I believe he was talking about what it actually is and not what other people might assume it to be
@@DanDownunda8888 Every Afrikaans person I have worked with displayed idiocy. I think it is the fact that Afrikaans people are so aggressive that makes them come across as dumb. I've talked to a few Afrikaans people about this and they said it's because South Africa is so violent, you have to always assume the worst and display aggression so people are less likely to target you. Also, their culture is 80 years behind European cultures, so that makes them look dumb and backwards.
There is nothing offensive about this skit. It’s not making fun of any ethnic group, or spreading any negative stereotypes. The same can’t be said about Many skits about non-white ethnic groups.
@@dewilew2137 as a matter of fact, the same can't be said about many skits about ethnic groups _in general..._ kind of strange you singled out "non-white" when there's certainly examples of comedy that propagates stereotypes offensive towards ethnic groups considered white.
Saffa here and this is WORLD CLASS😂😂😂, more of these please!asseblief!
Can confirm, I'm Jewish and a difficult flyer
oy vey
No chocolate mousse then
Beef or cow?
r/wooosh
If you're Jewish you're just difficult.
beef or cow haha
NonsensicalVids. stud horse beef ahhh ...
MORE PLEASE, I want to fly to South Africa on a very long flight with them. Comedy was once comedy unlike modern pap!
This is modern pap.
You must be white
I don't know why this is funny, but it is. The line "I'll get some Valium to help you shut up." just creases me up
True story; I was on a SAL flight once when one of these "new S A flight attendants kept on asking me " beef or tekkie?" I honestly didn't know what she meant. Eventually I asked "what do you have "Adidas or Nike" This is when my wife elbowed me in the ribs and said " she means 'TURKEY', you idiot!!
African lady lemme guess 😂😂😂😂😂
this has to be one of the funniest comments I've ever read! :)
Flew and ate with SAA ... glad you made it out alive.
@Daniel Coetzee Kind of like my mother. English is her secondary language.
Waitress: "Super salad?"
Mother: "Yes please."
Waitress, again, much slower: "Soup... or... salad?"
Mother: "Oh... salad please." She was kind of disappointed. Super salad sounded interesting.
Tekkie! I love it!
I'm South African 🙋🏼♀️🇿🇦 and i thought this was hilarious 😆😂🤣 and spot on! 😉
It's true lol
It’s irrelevant that you are sa
Reminds me of a Pink Floyd song. "If you don't eat yer beef, you can't have any chocolate mousse.
How can you have any chocolate mousse if you don't eat yer beef?"
This is NOT a correction, It IS a salute!
I watched 'The Wall', with a great bunch of mates, when it was released, in a Leicester Square cinema.
Cinema audiences do not give standing-ovations very often.
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding!"
th-cam.com/video/n5diMImYIIA/w-d-xo.html
pudding but yeh
RobARug that’s not what she said but ok
You have to eat the bread and butter AND the jam sandwich after the main course, if you are to have the apple.
lol. It actually is chocolate mousse... in a parallel universe :)
Funny, but in a different way that I'm used to. The humor is almost surreal. It is a treat to experience this culture's style of humor - thank you :-)
Anyone who thinks this is not funny has no sense of humor,,,this is best comedy ever!! I love these two!! Reminds me of all the lazy flight attendants I have endured in the US all these years.
Hilarious as a former Crew......This is such comedy as you would never do this! Brilliant funny humor!
Guilty pleasure.
The show is "Beehive", it ran for five episodes in 2008 on the E4 channel :).
Probably their net connection went off when the cancelling e-mail after the first episode was to be sent.
Andy B , only five episodes or five seasons?
Pip 5 episodes
Five episodes! Lol. Says it all.
A whole 5 episodes 😂😂😂😂😂 now THAT IS funny, says it all 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"And some Valium to help you shut up" 🤣
And no Afrikaans was spoken that day.
yeah I didnt hear "pof" once XD
Howard Fortyfive -- You clearly have no clue what Afrikaans is. It's a language derived from Dutch, and spoken largely by Afrikaners, who are the white people of South Africa of European (Dutch and Huguenot) descent.
H45 & Selki: First Afrikaans, then Dutch, then English.
- Hierdie sin is in Afrikaans geskryf.
- Deze zin is in het Nederlands geschreven.
- This sentence is written in English.
Now, just for fun, same sort of thing in Zulu:
Lo musho ubhalwe ngesiZulu.
It's all just german
Hassan Shaikh Actually 13.5% of the SA population speak Afrikaans(mostly Coloured) making it the 3rd largest language group in the country after Xhosa at 16% and Zulu at 22.7%.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_South_Africa
Though I've seldom heard a Coloured man call himself black there is this article as well: www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2017/04/28/afrikaans-language-black-white/
This was too funny! I want to be a flight attendant one day, this would be no joke.
This person did realize their dream. Unfortunately, they were stewarding the Malaysia Airlines flight 370 that went missing.
😉@@landsraad9745
A valume to help you shut up! Hahahah. I love that line!
Valium
@@chewee2k Would have helped that bash.
This is from an E4 show called Beehive from 2008. The two stewardesses are played by Alice Lowe and Clare Thomson.
Both are beautiful 😍
Reminds me of the service on Air Kuwait. Flying low over the Rann of Kutch - breathtaking views of flights of flamingos over the salt-flats. "Now you will close the blind sir, and watch the film". "I prefer to look at the view". Attendant repeatedly closes the blind every time I open it. Made these ladies look positively service-oriented. Don't fly Air Kuwait...
"If you don't eat beef and you don't eat cow, how can you be alive?"... cracks me up every time 😂
but if we are real for a minute it's vegetarians and vegans who think like that... ;) (I once didn't eat any plants under any form for 18 months, no health issues at all...)
@@happystoat99 girl that is not. okay....
@@user6122 first it's guy and what is not ok?
@@happystoat99 if you continued, you would become unwell. Healthy people eat both plants and animals, plants in a higher proportion.
@@Ri57490 Our ancestors in Europe ate only meat for hundreds of thousands of years...
There are no essential nutrients you get from plants that you can't get from meat.
"If you don't eat beef or cow, how are you alive?"😂😂😂😂
I laughed my ass off, "What a bitch" and "if you are a vegetarian you don't get a chocolate mousse" hahahahahaha
To be fair, a vegetarian chocolate moose is a bit ridiculous.
I hope they bring out some more of these sketches they are really great!
😆 Love this. I've seen it before great to see it again.
Love the accent.
I'm Vegan and I still find this funny.
From London, England, UK 🏴
That's the swiss flag...
@@marilynl335 no its the English flag 🏴 this is the swiss flag 🇨🇭
Still more courteous than United.
I've watched this several times and it still has me roaring with laughter! 😂
This is just a few moments of very light hearted humour that just happens to show two people with a (possibly over simplified) south African accent. Zero negative comments about south Africa or its culture. But WoW, the comments on here are amazing and the personal offence taken is astonishing.
Since television came to the masses in the late 60's we have had 100's of TV shows and thousands of skits from the UK, USA and Australia (to name just a few) that have parodied themselves and each other. Never before have i seen such offence taken.
Lifes far too short, get a sense of humour and move on.
+Mr2at Well it does suggest that white South Africans are still racist, does it not? I let them off for that though as it is generally quite true in my experience.
+Algernon Farquhuar That's some funny shit.
Boers and other European groups in Sub-Saharian Africa are probably the most persecuted peoples on Earth.
***** Obviously, and what?
***** Is that so? Why?
Mr2at I agree... it is funny. En ek is n boer. Mostly I feel they are typical Trolly Dollies, not specifically South African. I liked it, gave me a laugh. I wonder how many of my fellow countrymen who are so vocal about the accent not being perfect would like to upload vidoes of themselves doing British or Aussie accents. Geezlike... the video is ok, the uptight SAffers commenting are an embarrassment.
“You’re a nervous flyer”
"Look and weep, fat boy" killed me
"some valium to help you shut up" is priceless.
I've watched this way too many times, my love!
"diet and exercise, that is how Mila and I have maintained our trim figures, look and weep fat boy"
This had me in tears😂😂
n i k a f i t z g e r a l d 😂😂😂
You forgot the follow up hand gestures and "This means you Fatty!" Ha, ha, ha! Nice to see no political correctness!
I HAVE to watch this regularly as it makes me lough soo much. Fantastic. Beef or Cow lol.
This is funniest thing I've ever seen.
I watch funny things on the internet all day every day for dozens of years. I'm watching it on a loop
If only we could say what we think in the hospitality industry.
I want to see these two do a sketch show where its just these two flight attendants in every conceivable situation lmao
or every conceivable position…
Very funny. We need more Afrikaaners up in the air!
i've noticed many parts of africa have this certain kind of frankness and it's the best thing ever