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  • @ryanpierce3986
    @ryanpierce3986 ปีที่แล้ว +303

    “What’s the blandest thing on the menu?”
    “I’ll have that, eh bring a folk & knife” 🤣🤣

  • @mr0perator
    @mr0perator ปีที่แล้ว +127

    ‘I think that is how you are supposed to eat this food’
    Subtle line. Very funny

  • @chrisbirch4150
    @chrisbirch4150 2 ปีที่แล้ว +601

    Love that 24 plates of chips line. You think the sketch can't really go anywhere else but it is a funny finish. Every time youre at an Indian restaurant there's always about 8 naans and 40 poppodums on the table when everyone is done 😂

    • @Simbabhebhe
      @Simbabhebhe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I always need 5 poppadoms though lol

    • @groundcontrol-888
      @groundcontrol-888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@equalityforall9902 whats your point mate ?

    • @equalityforall9902
      @equalityforall9902 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@groundcontrol-888 u know the point.

    • @h.j7469
      @h.j7469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Ironically perhaps, there will be in the kitchens some downtrodden looking Indian chefs serving english food for wealthy indians, delivered by english waiters

    • @Arianddu
      @Arianddu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@equalityforall9902 Get over yourself, you're talking rubbish.

  • @eleanorferguson3421
    @eleanorferguson3421 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    ‘Actually I think that’s how you’re supposed to eat this sort of food…’ I only just noticed this but it’s so accurate 😂

  • @bodrulali5673
    @bodrulali5673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    The strength of 'Goodness Gracious Me' was that it appealed to a wide audience - not squarely Asian or White British, but to everyone

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I'm American and I really would prefer this show over the ones we have now. SNL our "Saturday Night Live" comedy shows have become just awful.
      THIS is hilarious!

    • @kishennandha9127
      @kishennandha9127 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly

    • @crazyfishmonster459
      @crazyfishmonster459 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Who are we if we can't laugh at each other? Stereotypes are great fun when they're not just going in one direction. That's what I loved about this era of comedy. It was a complete free-for-all and in that indescribably human way nobody felt left out.

    • @kc4276
      @kc4276 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I’m an older millennial from India, and I grew up watching this show along with The Kumars at No. 42 (this was back when there weren’t too many British/American shows available to us - ofcourse now things are very different).
      It helped bridge the gap between our countries, for which I’m thankful to the diaspora as well as the broadcasters.
      Unfortunately, nothing of this sort exists today and most likely never will. Despite the advancements in technology, I feel the distances are increasing between different nations.

    • @pammir631
      @pammir631 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I disagree

  • @Jmcinally94
    @Jmcinally94 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    Absoultely nailed the micro-aggressions towards tbe poor waiter.

  • @TheIkaraCult
    @TheIkaraCult ปีที่แล้ว +695

    I remember seeing this sketch with my parents as a kid, I didn't understand why it was so funny but they were dying laughing because it was a reversal of how drunk English people would behave at Indian restaurants.

    • @arcanaa8696
      @arcanaa8696 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I watched it when I was a kid with my parents too but I did get the vast majority of it the only thing I didn't get was the ladies about the "SiZE" if you know what I mean. This was a sketch that stuck in my mind since I was like 7 and i'm now 32. LOL.

    • @JasonHarrison-og5pw
      @JasonHarrison-og5pw ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cos they are ram jams

    • @raftonpounder6696
      @raftonpounder6696 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      You don’t say.

    • @kevincassidy1983
      @kevincassidy1983 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      Thank God you're here to explain the joke

    • @JoeyDNo3
      @JoeyDNo3 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@kevincassidy1983 there's always 1 eh pal 🤣😂

  • @harjmahey
    @harjmahey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    Also, the fact that they refuse to say the waiters name correctly kills me. That's spot on even in today's times.
    Jams! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @vincent_hall
      @vincent_hall 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They can't figure out his name.
      That's different.

  • @tooshlong
    @tooshlong 2 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    "oi! Clive of Bloody India, who bloody asked you hey?" 😂😂😂

    • @royw-g3120
      @royw-g3120 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My favourite bit too!😂

    • @davidwiltoncymru
      @davidwiltoncymru 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      always been my favourite bit

    • @twofoursevenbeauty
      @twofoursevenbeauty 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@royw-g3120 and mine!

  • @Ironside-fz9vd
    @Ironside-fz9vd ปีที่แล้ว +110

    "12 Bread rolls" that cracked me up. Hilarious.

  • @jakethegsd
    @jakethegsd ปีที่แล้ว +81

    So pleased this clip has resurfaced, it's an absolute classic and the original disappeared for a long time.

  • @arcanaa8696
    @arcanaa8696 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    Can gamers here give some praise for James' actor, Neil Newbon - he's now a prominent VA and mocap performer.

    • @missellaneous5142
      @missellaneous5142 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Now the waiter might just eat you 🧛

    • @SessVlogs
      @SessVlogs ปีที่แล้ว

      @@missellaneous5142And I’d let him.

    • @FelineFurKin
      @FelineFurKin ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Came back to see him, didn’t know him back then, but loving him in Baldur’s Gate 3.

    • @mimma904
      @mimma904 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      glad to see people went down the rabbit hole like me, legit came to see neil he was also so cute, like baby astarion

    • @arcanaa8696
      @arcanaa8696 ปีที่แล้ว

      i didn't know him back then either but finding out so mych stuff i watched as a kid or teen and Neil was apparently there.@@FelineFurKin He was great as Heisenberg in RE Village too

  • @sanchoodell6789
    @sanchoodell6789 2 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    This is 'Goodness Gracious Me's equivalent of the Fawlty Towers' 'The Germans' episode. It has attained classic status and is one of the most memorable sketches.

    • @EfftupSmith
      @EfftupSmith ปีที่แล้ว +6

      not really. It's closer to Rowan Atkinson's Indian Waiter sketch.

    • @pauljordan4452
      @pauljordan4452 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@EfftupSmith That was genius.

    • @alexevansuk
      @alexevansuk ปีที่แล้ว

      Hardly!

  • @C.Goraya
    @C.Goraya 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    “ Fancy stuff, Butter” 🤣🤣

  • @davemc6887
    @davemc6887 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    Every joke (and there's a lot of them) still works as well in 2023 as on it's original release date.
    Quite probably the finest sketch ever written..

    • @DeathCrunch
      @DeathCrunch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its just rascist nonsense.

    • @thesolitaryadventurer
      @thesolitaryadventurer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "fork handles"

    • @H0n3yMonstah
      @H0n3yMonstah 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This, fork handles, Ted and Ralph and the pub drinking game would be in my top five, trying to think of some others to fill the other slots...

    • @John...44...
      @John...44... 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Its funny, but finest sketch ever written is too far 😂

    • @H0n3yMonstah
      @H0n3yMonstah 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@John...44... If you had to pick some you think are among the finest, what would your preferences be?

  • @AnP865
    @AnP865 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    the 'what is the blandest thing on the menu' line has been in my head since I first heard this on the radio back in the 90s - it should be a meme with wide contemporary applications

    • @marksmith2464
      @marksmith2464 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I can hear it now :-)

    • @TheManThatIsF54
      @TheManThatIsF54 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I use it every time I have Cheese and Beans jacket potato.

    • @jackdoyle7453
      @jackdoyle7453 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because archaic racism and classism from the 90s is good to you? Were you out rioting in Stockport too?

    • @VioletWaves44
      @VioletWaves44 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jackdoyle7453*Southport. And this skit is making fun of the racists if anything

    • @jackdoyle7453
      @jackdoyle7453 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@VioletWaves44not really it's insulting traditional working class Anglo-Irish food as bland and engaging in lazy stereotypes about working class behaviour. If you can't see that, then you are the problem.

  • @eric113
    @eric113 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    This show was so ahead of its time, so funny..great comedy!!!

  • @jimcapel328
    @jimcapel328 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Absolute classic! “What’s the blandest thing on the menu?” 😂😂

  • @woodjoewood
    @woodjoewood 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Love the little dance the guy in the green does after he says something 😂

  • @jimb9063
    @jimb9063 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Loved this show. Funny, clever, and sometimes profoundly brilliant. "What's the blandest thing on the menu?" Priceless!
    I hope this sketch changed a lot of peoples behaviour.
    It would be somewhat ironic if in 100 years time British folk flocked to India for better prospects, and eventually made India's national dish fish and chips.

    • @helenchelmicka
      @helenchelmicka ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😂😂

    • @carltonlambert7608
      @carltonlambert7608 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I believe people from here will head east so your prediction may have legs yet. India is the super of the future. I has the population.

    • @Bozebo
      @Bozebo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      To be fair a load of Indian food is British empire influenced already, new world ingredients from trade. But... India was the biggest component of the British empire itself so there is that. English food influence however, there's not much of that.

    • @jimb9063
      @jimb9063 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Bozebo Yes, probably true of a lot of things. The approximate date of contact between peoples tends to be pushed further back in time as new evidence emerges too.
      Asia without chillies would seem as strange as Britain without chipped potatoes. There was a time when people probably thought they wouldn't catch on!

  • @andrewmunro5780
    @andrewmunro5780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Still one of my favourite ever sketches

  • @bodrulali5673
    @bodrulali5673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    This show is brilliant - a top quality comedy with a wonderfully talented cast. With a mixture of sketches and songs to suit all ages, Goodness Gracious Me dares to poke fun at English and Asian people alike

  • @PoisonousPen
    @PoisonousPen 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    To this day, my 75 year old dad still asks “What’s the blandest thing on the menu?” with that impressive shoulder shrug and it still makes me laugh 😂
    Really glad to have found this clip 😄

  • @Ali1986Koksal
    @Ali1986Koksal 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    The "24 plates of chips" did me!!
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @computer_toucher
    @computer_toucher ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I see Astarion also had to wait tables in his younger days

    • @timetochronicle
      @timetochronicle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thats because ASTARION IS INDIAN!

  • @TerryWinchcombe
    @TerryWinchcombe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Kulvinder Ghir is a much underrated actor, he's played some fantastic roles. My first memory of him was in a channel 4 short film called Lucky Sunil, its hilarious

    • @holnrew
      @holnrew ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was fantastic in that Bruce Springsteen one

    • @blehblehbleh86
      @blehblehbleh86 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Funny fact - his wife's first name is Blandine!

  • @Splendiferous42
    @Splendiferous42 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Fun fact for Baldur's Gate 3 fans: waiter Ja-mes is played by Neil Newbon, who plays Astarion

    • @SerAkimbo
      @SerAkimbo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Elijah Kamski in Detroit Become Human, Heisenbergbin RE Village. Great actor

    • @excellaquatics446
      @excellaquatics446 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Incredible 😂

    • @thekameru6058
      @thekameru6058 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I THOUGHT I RECOGNISED HIM.

  • @PP-kp4dd
    @PP-kp4dd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I love this sketch, having lived just off, and worked at the end of Brick Lane London in the 80's. I remember hearing the same people do another version of this sketch, maybe a radio version, where everyone ended up ordering the latest English Cusine Fad.....chicken in a basket !

  • @H0n3yMonstah
    @H0n3yMonstah 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    One of the best British sketches ever. Up there with the Ted and Ralph drinking game at the pub and fork handles.

  • @simonmcmanus3639
    @simonmcmanus3639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    "What is the blandest thing on the menu ?"
    🤭

    • @ejayman
      @ejayman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      "Hey Jemas, what have you got that is not totally tasteless?" is one of the funniest lines I've ever heard

    • @C---M
      @C---M 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@equalityforall9902 nice way of making your name a joke."Equality for all: prepare to close down libraries and churches." You do know christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world due to China right? Not to mention the Christian population in India and obviously Islam which is not much more than advanced version.

    • @equalityforall9902
      @equalityforall9902 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@C---M we are talking about Britain. Not your fat east China. You are be 1.4 billion. I am taking about preserving Britishness in the traditional sense. Diversity has altered the very composition, and tolerance and decline from our own complacency has allowed the displacement of the host.

    • @Arianddu
      @Arianddu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@equalityforall9902 troll.

    • @Moondog-wc4vm
      @Moondog-wc4vm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@equalityforall9902 You completely missed the subtle point behind this show didn't you? Maybe your vision was obscured by the frantically waving St George's flag of little england. Get your sense of humour bypass reversed and go watch all the episodes of the show, then come back on youtube and humbly apologise for your foolishness.

  • @EdJonesVideos
    @EdJonesVideos ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Fun fact: the waiter is Neil Newbon, who much later played Astarion in the widely acclaimed 2023 video game Baldur's Gate III

    • @TheEvilCheesecake
      @TheEvilCheesecake 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      i found it, the whitest comment of all time.

    • @kevinbaboolal4225
      @kevinbaboolal4225 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheEvilCheesecake not even close to being that, its a pretty normal comment

    • @EdJonesVideos
      @EdJonesVideos 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@kevinbaboolal4225 I mean, I am white so the cheesecake is correct

    • @nathangamble125
      @nathangamble125 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kevinbaboolal4225 I don't know about you, but I don't normally see many non-white people playing D&D.
      It honestly never occurred to me before, but yeah, D&D games like Baldurs Gate are _super_ white activities.

    • @BobTeapot-dp1xp
      @BobTeapot-dp1xp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He also played Luke Davenport in Dream Team

  • @keithsimpson4618
    @keithsimpson4618 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    “ Oi ! Clive of India ! Who bloody asked you ? Eh ? “ Classic .

  • @joegrimes9232
    @joegrimes9232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I think about this everytime I go out for a curry. My mate orders 4 naan breads.

    • @frankiesalmon7545
      @frankiesalmon7545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      FOUR NAANS?

    • @HighTen_Melanie
      @HighTen_Melanie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      24 Nanns?

    • @rowandavis2061
      @rowandavis2061 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      "that's insane"

    • @chriscurtain1816
      @chriscurtain1816 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      When I was younger it was not unheard of to go for an Indian, smash poppadums over each others heads and throw them around like Frisbees (after a few beers of course). I would say GGM got this about right. I first saw this in the mid 90's and laughed my head off. It was so true to life, funny, very well observed and with no malice intended or taken. It couldn't be written today because so much has changed in what we are allowed to do and what TV is allowed to show. In fact the way things are going this post of mine will probably be used in the future to convict me of historic Indian restaurant crimes.

    • @Simbabhebhe
      @Simbabhebhe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s comedy as it should be

  • @bizarresysy
    @bizarresysy ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I can't beleive the waiter is a vampire

  • @chriscurtain1816
    @chriscurtain1816 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    One of the all-time classic comedy sketches. Like Del Boy falling over at the bar, or the chandelier falling down. Or pretty much anything from Fawlty Towers. From the days when there was something worth watching on telly.

    • @cdname47
      @cdname47 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      When this was on the telly people were still saying it was rubbish and the things you mentioned was the golden age
      That's life, you life through various golden ages, not appreciating when you're in one because you're too busy looking back at the last one

    • @Doppelfrog
      @Doppelfrog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

    • @romainsavioz5466
      @romainsavioz5466 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Doppelfrog 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @romainsavioz5466
      @romainsavioz5466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I agre but you shouldn't mention the war

  • @aigtban
    @aigtban ปีที่แล้ว +40

    At its best, sketch comedy can nail a concept so perfectly, nobody ever needs to address it again, they can just refer to the sketch. Mitchell and Webb's "Are we the baddies?" is one of those, so is Monty Python's Parrot Sketch. In the case of "Going for an English", it may be literally unnecessary for anyone to ever say or write another word on the subject of boorish, drunken British people in Indian restaurants, because this is all you need. Note the round of appreciative applause after the "butter" line, when the audience fully grasps what's going on. They know they're witnessing something epochal, in its own way.

    • @stuartbowden4735
      @stuartbowden4735 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Very well said!

    • @icturner23
      @icturner23 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yup, everything about this sketch has been burnt into my brain every time I have been in Indian restaurants ever since. I will never order the spiciest thing, I will never share different dishes and I will especially never order papadams.

    • @aigtban
      @aigtban 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@icturner23 I think it's still fine to order poppadums, FWIW. They're delicious! Just not such insane numbers of them, there's no room for the actual meal.

    • @johnconnor3246
      @johnconnor3246 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great comment!

  • @PhilRead80
    @PhilRead80 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of my favourite sketches of all time. Absolutely superb.

  • @beardedloon77
    @beardedloon77 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The threat "I'll pull a moony" right at the end during the scuffle is so underrated.

  • @degaulle30
    @degaulle30 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    This show, for a while, was the greatest show on tv

  • @gewglesux
    @gewglesux ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "fancy stuff" "oh butter"

  • @nw101971
    @nw101971 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Turning around what English people do going out to an Indian restaurant, such a clever sketch. I am English & I found it hilarious.

    • @VioletWaves44
      @VioletWaves44 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah, I think people aren’t getting this. I’ve never seen the show but I’ve seen plenty of ignorant Brits behave this way, they just reversed it. I don’t understand why people are saying this scene is racist. It’s showing what racist, ignorant Brits act like. It’s like a “taste of their own medicine” type of vibe 🤷

  • @freshnas1
    @freshnas1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Realising the waiter is Neil newbon is mad, as soon as I saw this I remembered this exact scene!! To think this guy is an amazing motion capture/voice/actor!

  • @raymasraymas
    @raymasraymas ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So glad to see this back on TH-cam after years

  • @Emma_Rosa
    @Emma_Rosa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    "There you go Nina steak and kidney pee!" 😭😭😭😭😭

    • @ejayman
      @ejayman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Hey Jemas, what have you got that is not totally tasteless?" is such a good line

    • @TheSandyKale
      @TheSandyKale 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Love how the steak and kidney pie metamorphoses to steak and kidley pee. 😜

  • @petermutua9838
    @petermutua9838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Hadn't ever heard of this before; can't believe how hilarious it is...

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is way better than Saturday Night Live.. they should just air this instead.
      This is really good, ahead of its time.

    • @haruyasumi616
      @haruyasumi616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      it was really well observed. this is their most famous sketch, and it deserves to be remembered fondly. it's my generation's 'parrot sketch'.
      i low key had a girl crush on nina wadia.

  • @Threemore650
    @Threemore650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Absolutely brilliant show.

  • @jimjoelliejack
    @jimjoelliejack ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I came across this fantastic comedy sketch again after watching Sanjeev Bhaskar in Unforgotton, this was a comedy classic there with the two Ronnies fork handles and pythons dead parrot, absolutely brilliant.😅😂🤣

  • @eleanorferguson3421
    @eleanorferguson3421 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    ‘Clive of India’ gets me every single time 😂

    • @cattt0202
      @cattt0202 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey 😊 that's the one part I didn't get 🙈🙈 what does it mean/refer to?

    • @Braham21
      @Braham21 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@cattt0202It's like calling someone Lawrence of Arabia

    • @cattt0202
      @cattt0202 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Braham21 thank u. I live in arabia so that makes much more sense to me

    • @alicequayle4625
      @alicequayle4625 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@cattt0202 I think Clive of India invaded part of India for the Empire.

    • @cattt0202
      @cattt0202 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @alicequayle4625 ahh, thanks Alice 🙏

  • @djalexdunne
    @djalexdunne ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "aLriigHt miite" gets me every time 😂😂

  • @dilibau
    @dilibau 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "Kidney pee" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @kevinshanahan6064
    @kevinshanahan6064 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I applaud those who wrote and performed in this sketch. It is a perfect reverse observation. Special mention of a young Muslim nurse who told me she had heard the Tony Hancock “that’s nearly an armful” about taking blood about 40 times, when he died 30 years before she was born.

  • @Littlebrum73
    @Littlebrum73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Still one of the funniest sketches ever, up there with harry Enfields old arsenal v new Liverpool and Kevin n Perry Manchester scene

  • @aeronblakefyre
    @aeronblakefyre 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “What’s the blandest thing on the menu?” is one of the most savage lines I’ve ever seen on TV 😂

  • @ninadsheth8422
    @ninadsheth8422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "😂Clive of India"

  • @ZeranZeran
    @ZeranZeran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I am NEVER going to eat at an Indian restaurant for fear of being humiliated now
    Kidding. This is hilarious. "Yeah, Jamus, that's what I said"

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also they need to just remove SNL from American tv and play this show instead.

    • @PianoFish
      @PianoFish 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Had to show this to someone today who'd never seen it before and so was very confused when my wife called me "Jah-mez" 😂

    • @TheBT
      @TheBT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ZeranZeran I have a feeling a lot of the show would be lost in translation in the US given how its driven by that British Asian culture cues. Though don't worry, 'Indian' restaurants are very much built for a British clientèle as 90% of them are Bangladeshi who run them for that purpose. I do recommend going to an Indian Indian restaurant if you can too (one where the customer base is also mainly Indian) as its a different experience

    • @kme
      @kme ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@TheBTyeah, we tried to get my parents (white(ish; my mum has first nations heritage too) Canadian) to watch this, but my dad was just like... Isn't this racist? I don't get it, it's not funny. All while me and hubby are cracking up all over the place. My brothers did like Blackadder tho.

  • @watiflappynounou3302
    @watiflappynounou3302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Meera Syal and Nina Wadia are so funny 😂😂😂

  • @AMFL3116
    @AMFL3116 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is pure comedy gold.

  • @kalicunningham9139
    @kalicunningham9139 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Love this show.

  • @luketabois2620
    @luketabois2620 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Cool to see where Astarion got his start 😂

  • @AcornElectron
    @AcornElectron 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I wish we could still have comedy like this.

  • @richl6966
    @richl6966 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Glad this has appeared here. Cracking sketch with some fine actors. I call my close friend and former flatmate "Jam-ez" due to this (we only met in 2005) and I often say "what is the blandest thing on the menu" in restaurants to my family.

  • @CaptainHowdy-mw9vc
    @CaptainHowdy-mw9vc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of the single greatest pieces of comedy ever created in Britain. Pure genius.

  • @nigelfaulkner5449
    @nigelfaulkner5449 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The blandest thing on the menu always gets me, so funny.

  • @nlpnick
    @nlpnick 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    “Oy Clive of India, who asked you eh?” First time today I laughed out loud 👏

  • @Emeraldkyber
    @Emeraldkyber 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Damn cazador had astarion doing wild things

    • @timetochronicle
      @timetochronicle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah like going up against Clive of India. Poor Astarion

  • @GalidorDimension
    @GalidorDimension 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I just found out that the waiter James is Neil Newbon who voices Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 and Heisenberg in Resident Evil Village 😮

  • @stever456
    @stever456 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just brilliant, now I'm older (50) and have been to Nepal with Gurkhas from our UK forces and learnt about Asian food and cooking I see this as even funnier. The food over there is just amazing and that's before you try Tibetan or Sherpa food. Through the learning and cooking im friends with local Chinese takeaway and Asian market and they all including my Nepali friends love English food but do think their food is tastier and so diverse.
    This video is exactly how I say to them all their food is compared to ours really 😂😂😂

  • @arianaajbeaverhausen8175
    @arianaajbeaverhausen8175 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the best sketches in comedy ever written, I still quote the phrase "I'll have the blandest thing on the menu!" to this day. 😂 Mum and I also joke amongst ourselves about other jokes in the show. "Ah, but how big is his danda?" (Spelling?) "Like a smaaaaall aubergine!" 🤏🍆
    😂❤🥰

    • @fionadalton8773
      @fionadalton8773 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep, the warring banter between two rival mums!

  • @petitmeowmeow
    @petitmeowmeow 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Like this sketch, Neil Newbon has also aged like a very very very fine wine

  • @andywood7784
    @andywood7784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Just so many clever gags in here

  • @cloudstrife1983
    @cloudstrife1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Used to love this show.

  • @raychaudhuri6217
    @raychaudhuri6217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    absolute genius and still so comic but unreally real

  • @georgemorley1029
    @georgemorley1029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    They nailed it.

  • @jen6893
    @jen6893 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Fun fact, the waiter is the voice actor for Astarion in BG3

  • @rottenheavenly6245
    @rottenheavenly6245 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    24 plates of chips ...you might have ordered too much sir...then a riot breaks out lol

  • @DiamandaHagan
    @DiamandaHagan ปีที่แล้ว +31

    If any Baldur's Gate nerds read this: that waiter is Astarion.

    • @RazorEdge2006
      @RazorEdge2006 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Baldur's Gate? Does that reference this show?

    • @DiamandaHagan
      @DiamandaHagan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RazorEdge2006 Alas no.

    • @eucera1
      @eucera1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I thought that was Neil!! 😀

  • @jackmclean4120
    @jackmclean4120 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Holy shit, that's Neil Newbon!

  • @GordonTaylorThomas
    @GordonTaylorThomas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "jammes" lmao

    • @MrSunnyBhoy
      @MrSunnyBhoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know lmao!

    • @kavcherry4010
      @kavcherry4010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      J mas steak & kidney pea

  • @ocdmusic
    @ocdmusic ปีที่แล้ว +3

    24 plates of chips 😂😂😂😂
    I loved this show when it was on and its still funny to this day, definitely need to watch some more :)

  • @spngled8654
    @spngled8654 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    one of the greatest skits ever made, brilliant

  • @JonnyGTi180
    @JonnyGTi180 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is how i see english food and im english 😂😂

  • @CricketEngland
    @CricketEngland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This comedy skirt has to be one of the all time greatest sketches ever written along side.
    Victoria Wood - The Ballard or Barry and Freda and Two Soups
    Two Ronnies - Fork Candles and Mastemind
    Monty Python - Parrot Shop, Spam and Spanish Inquisition
    Billy Connolly - When in Rome and The Crucifixion
    Pete Cook and Dudley Moor - one legged Tarzan auditions
    Not the Nine O’clock News - Rowan Atkinson walking into a tree
    Jasper Carrot - The Mole and Driver insurance claim forms
    Abbot and Lew Costello - Who’s on First
    Bob Newhart - The Driving Instructor

    • @luvhart
      @luvhart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s a good list 👍🏻

    • @binagarten4667
      @binagarten4667 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I cant understand why white people find this funny as you sont even get have the sketches. But the luvies must find consildation in oh I agree! Yet moveing out when an Indian perosn moves on to thier st, and the white filght amasts.

    • @CricketEngland
      @CricketEngland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@binagarten4667 was that actually meant to be a coherent sentence? because is makes absolutely no sense at all.

    • @luvhart
      @luvhart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@binagarten4667 Huh?

    • @CricketEngland
      @CricketEngland 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@luvhart must have been drunk when he wrote it after going out for his usual India

  • @jongray6045
    @jongray6045 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Is that Neil Newbon (Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3) playing the waiter?

  • @DungeonsandRoses
    @DungeonsandRoses 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Fun fact: the waiter is Neil Newbon (Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3)

  • @markkidman9535
    @markkidman9535 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This must be 20 years old and I still burst out laughing every time I see it. I think I still say “bottore” for butter lol.

  • @azapro911
    @azapro911 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Oh go on, have something bland!"

  • @Mntgmry19
    @Mntgmry19 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely brilliant.

  • @keyfeatures
    @keyfeatures 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I've been looking for this sketch for a few years. Thanks for uploading.

  • @Reggiec727
    @Reggiec727 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hilarious! Lovin' the English accents.

  • @brettstirling
    @brettstirling 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Astarion villain arc starts here

    • @gobbitop554
      @gobbitop554 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Fresh from Neil Newbon’s wiki page and I had to come here to see if anyone had left comment

  • @Indienheld
    @Indienheld 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yes! Finally, it's on TH-cam!!!

  • @ohdearwhocares
    @ohdearwhocares 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As a white brit, I absolutely love how they reversed the stero typical English in an Indian restaurant. GGM was absolutely pure gold. I miss it. It crossed cultures, and everyone found it funny. Stella writing. I loved the asian top gear skit.

  • @MrVee24
    @MrVee24 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That fancy stuff butter 😂

  • @madewithlofi
    @madewithlofi 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Comic gold! "Bring me the blandest thing on the menu, Jams".

  • @stevetaylor7403
    @stevetaylor7403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Watch the GGM sketch where a white police recruit has his first tour of duty in an Indian Police Station. Priceless.

    • @laurallama73
      @laurallama73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m no Liam Neeson, but I WILL find that sketch!!! 😂Sounds hilarious.😂😂😂

    • @pauljordan4452
      @pauljordan4452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dave Lamb plays all the Anglo characters.

  • @joshtherahrah
    @joshtherahrah 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was peak comedy!

  • @dominokid7996
    @dominokid7996 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is gold comedy . So on point with the English

    • @hakz795
      @hakz795 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cringe

  • @yabeenbamboozled5067
    @yabeenbamboozled5067 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    " What's the blandest thing on the menu ?! " 🤣

  • @leswilcock7327
    @leswilcock7327 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Incredible. So true !

  • @padwicin01
    @padwicin01 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Shit, the waitior is Astarion from BG3