When I was in the army we had a sergeant who did that. He could never get the timing right though. Hilarious, especially as he was in charge of the vehicles
As funny as this is, it's so accurate too. As a recovering alcoholic, I used to cough when opening the bottle lid for the first time and hide my bottles all over the place. Almost 16 months sober now and it's the next best feeling after getting cuddles from my son. Miss the Fast Show old days, but glad I got to enjoy it back when it was on at 9pm BBC2.
I'm a few months behind you but hopefully going down the same path now. I shall report back at the end of 2022 with hopefully good news. This video has helped.
I drank like this for many years in complete denial and I believed that nobody ever noticed it.. and I found watching this at the time all those years ago, surreal and confusing . Frightens the shit out me watching it now.
Why did you find it surreal and confusing? I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life, for me this is a whole different world I can't understand at all.
I had a gastric sleeve back in February and was recovering in hospital with quite severe abdominal pain. The bit at 2:43 made me laugh so hard I really hurt myself 🤣
Mk4 with Mk5 grille.....!!!! Standing joke with me and my brothers, we laugh every time. Mind you, sometimes we say Mk5 with a Mk4 grille as well. We're not pissed...... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☺️☺️
paul whitehouse as grandad ( who was not pissed ) out side the house on the steps of the front door, i think the makers of father ted took a leaf outta sir paul whitehouse`s book there !! suits them sir !
Unlike many other alkies, I never wet the bed when I was drinking. However, I used to have a mystery stalker who followed me everywhere I went in those days, and they would sneak into my bedroom at night and pee in the bed I was sleeping in without waking me up. They followed me from town to town and even from country to country. I didn't manage to lose them until I got sober. One of life's little mysteries that will never be solved, I suppose. 🤷♀️
Back in the 80s it was very funny if your parents didn't get violent if they were drunk. But it's still tragic after you stop laughing or if you didn't see the funny side. Lockdown, corona 19 would make people do just that.
See old comments about why the grill is missing on the front of the car which is there when they are getting into the car but missing when he belts out the driveway, I think the first take damaged the grill and bonnet of the car if you pause it, its crumpled but the impact must have been a a really slow (ish) pace , I guess the second take they just went fuck it and absolutely roger melleyed it. And in editing, if you can imagine two takes one where he drives off at 5 mph and drives across the road and prangs the neighbours car or the second where they floor it , they decided the 2nd take to be the better. Brave in the second one lot of weight in those old Granada's and some of them were no slouch, so smacking into another car at the rate they were going would have hurt the shoulders on the old seat belts, no air bags in them. I hade to eit this coment casue I'mn nut pissed ok, .!
@@billgriffiths1685 Yss it could infer that, just other comments out ther, quite old , going , oh when they get in the car there's a front grille on it , when it charges out of the driveway in the next cut there's no grille on the car, different cars etc, like it makes any real difference to the scene. Swapping a reasonable car for some scrapper bound stunt car would also be reasonable.
As hilarious as it is, there's something deeply unsettling about the way that they're all absolutely smashed to the point where they can barely function, but have somehow evidently managed to maintain some semblance of a normal well-balanced existence where they have a nice clean tidy house, the husband has a decent job and the son goes to school.
The cough to disguise the sound of a can being cracked open is classic! 😂
When I was in the army we had a sergeant who did that. He could never get the timing right though. Hilarious, especially as he was in charge of the vehicles
I used to do that...an alcoholic cousin showed me how to.....
Running the cold tap on full blast when pouring wine
@@traceypace92 that's pretty tragic
When they all simultaneously have their backs turned to each other while drinking at the same time is also funny
Nice bit of Smashie on the radio at the beginning.
Quite literally Crossover-You'd-Never-Expect-But-Actually-Works-Tastic! 😊😊❤❤
Sketches like this are a great tonic.
A gin and tonic.
I'm not pissed!
I'm glad I'm not pissed, I could've smacked my head on that remark lol 😅 (PS you ain't seen me.....right?! >;x)
That's the spirit!
As a former alcoholic this is scarily accurate
Yep 100 percent
Here too. I split my sides in identification. As good as a meeting.
i used to cough when opening a can
It's spot on, especially the hiding places.
The can ‘cough’ opening as it’s 6:30 am
As funny as this is, it's so accurate too. As a recovering alcoholic, I used to cough when opening the bottle lid for the first time and hide my bottles all over the place.
Almost 16 months sober now and it's the next best feeling after getting cuddles from my son.
Miss the Fast Show old days, but glad I got to enjoy it back when it was on at 9pm BBC2.
I'm a few months behind you but hopefully going down the same path now. I shall report back at the end of 2022 with hopefully good news.
This video has helped.
@@zakelwe keep up the good work brother.
@@zakelwe Bravo both of you. x
Well done sir 👍😊
@@flashboult1 21 months sober today 👌🏼
As a former fast show viewer, this is scarily accurate
'breakfast, most important meal of the day. Ah... , I've finished!'
😂😂😂 that's my favourite part of the sketch!! 😂
Brilliant! classic comedy that still makes me laugh all these years later!
Said no one of this era ever… 🙄
@@brownwarrior6867 projecting yourself much?
The worst thing is crashing a Ford Cortina, I winced when I saw that. They can get pissed all they like but not the Cortina.
Thankfully it wasn't a mk3. I'd have bawled my eyes out.
Ahh the splendid 90’s
Simon Day struggling to keep a straight face when he goes to sit down 😆
The bit when simon day walks in dressed as a schoolboy is priceless!
The bit where she cracks her head on the unit is brilliant! as is the bit where the radio goes for a burton had me in tears!
I read that in Del Boy's voice 👌✌️
Cooshty!
Brilliant! Love the Fast Show. British comedy at it's best 👍🇬🇧
Dear Lord, this hits home so hard!
You rang dear? 😊
As a kid, i grew up in a home which consisted three generations of alcoholics. This is a pretty accurate depiction.
The choice of music was perfect. Lost inside. I'm not pissed you know.
Smashy and Nicey on the radio in background 👍😁
I'd never noticed before that it was Smashy and Nicey on the radio at the start! 😂
Ah the good old days... truly happier times. Think I'll go grab a beer...
This hits on alot of levels .
This was one of the greatest clips the show ever made
That Cortina’s worth about £10k now - even smashed up
When we were kids we used to play a game of counting all the Ford Cortinas when we were on the motorway. They were unbiquitous.
@@seniorslaphead8336 Kept you occupied then.
This is really dark if you have alcoholic relatives
If your an alcoholic?
It's comedy, get over it. Have a beer
Been there done that, and this is class
Ok Grandma
Just lost my brother to alcoholism and I'm not offended one bit by this.
I was very,very drunk but I wasn’t pissed
Literally one of the best British sketches ever done , Bloody Brilliant
I don't know if I remember noticing Smashy and Nicey on the radio. Brilliant.
Sums up my mum in the 80s, an absolute raging but functional alcoholic
Love Mark's expressions. Priceless.
It's me 2004 still there 77 years old 👴
Classic, especially the end
So true and so funny too. Unique Fast Show.i love them all and im not pissed!!
Oh God this is too close to home.
Maria trying not to laugh at the bacon scene. Brilliant.
Great nod to Mike Smash at the start
Quite liderelleee!
Now how did I miss the documentary crew in my kitchen? I really should have seen them, not being pissed at all or anything...
A scene from 2021 lockdown.
Watched this pissed laffed my head of. Hellish🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
we used to have a neighbour like this!
Excellent. Remember it well !!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Best sketch from fast show. Always makes me laugh.
My name is also Andrew Whitney hello.
@@AndRewUK24 And you both uncannily joined YTUBE 14 years ago..
@@AndRewUK24 My name is also...fuck.
No mobiles, no prescription pills at the breakfast table, but besides that, white collar-class England hasn't changed much since this aired
Brilliant
2:38 I'M-NOT-PISSED!!! LOL
D'you know, I have a sneaking suspicion they were pissed.
It's funny but sad at the same time.
I drank like this for many years in complete denial and I believed that nobody ever noticed it.. and I found watching this at the time all those years ago, surreal and confusing . Frightens the shit out me watching it now.
It's not issue based - it's just comedy.
Why did you find it surreal and confusing? I've never had a drop of alcohol in my life, for me this is a whole different world I can't understand at all.
@@agile-j4d Imagine waking up and knowing that's the best you're going to feel all day!
1:23
pretty sure this is gonna be me to my kid even when i'm stone-cold sober
I’m not pissed 😂
"Let's have quite liderally more fun with O-Asiz"
I have never seen this sketch, although I used to watch The Fast Show. And I used to have a Ford Cortina like that one!
This series was excellent. Where are the great modern comedies?
Somewhere muttering about Donald Trump no doubt
This is best enjoyed when you are totally pissed
Absolutely classic show. Gen X’s Monty Python
gen x were the 60 - 70's.... so was python, your comment makes no sense.....
@@chloedevereaux1801 The most widely used world definition of Gen X is people that were born between 1965 and 1980. 🙏🏻
@@chloedevereaux1801 You're definitely pissed.
@@chloedevereaux1801 Whoosh……….
@@speakatron5634 I believe we are boomers
So good. So true.
The funniest yet most tragic Fast Show characters.
I had a gastric sleeve back in February and was recovering in hospital with quite severe abdominal pain. The bit at 2:43 made me laugh so hard I really hurt myself 🤣
I used to know a family like this. They were mates of my Dads.
They weren't pissed you know
Sorry about that. I'm not pissed you know.
Middle class familys are the worst because they try hide it or brush it off lol
I weren’t pissed when I done it Dad!
That 'was' a lovely Ford Cortina!
Mk4 with Mk5 grille.....!!!! Standing joke with me and my brothers, we laugh every time.
Mind you, sometimes we say Mk5 with a Mk4 grille as well.
We're not pissed...... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☺️☺️
paul whitehouse as grandad ( who was not pissed ) out side the house on the steps of the front door, i think the makers of father ted took a leaf outta sir paul whitehouse`s book there !! suits them sir !
Brillinat sketch, The Fast Show was an amazing series all great stars
I like this documentary
Unlike many other alkies, I never wet the bed when I was drinking. However, I used to have a mystery stalker who followed me everywhere I went in those days, and they would sneak into my bedroom at night and pee in the bed I was sleeping in without waking me up. They followed me from town to town and even from country to country. I didn't manage to lose them until I got sober.
One of life's little mysteries that will never be solved, I suppose. 🤷♀️
Fabulous. And in those days BBC LE budgets stretched to the wrecking of 2 cars!
Nicey cameo in the Fast Show 👍
I'll drive....fuckin amazing....
Missed the joke. That was pretty accurate and disturbing.
I last went to pub 23rd December 2020.
Stopped buying beer and wine for the house.
OOOOooooooo, no, no.... That was a perfectly good Cortina.
An average day at the Weasley family. :)
I had a field day when I learned about this show and noticed it's the Weasley guy. Absolutely love this show.
'at home with the alchies'
been there
Did NOT expect that crash! Haha
Dads home!!!
if the title of this would have been PM meets with personal spokesperson Dec 2021, it would have been *so* much more prescient.
"Let's have quite literally more fun with..." xD
Very sad and close to the bone but that's why it's such a subtle and great sketch.
Simon Day looks so funny as the son.
yes, kinda tragic :/
Back in the 80s it was very funny if your parents didn't get violent if they were drunk. But it's still tragic after you stop laughing or if you didn't see the funny side. Lockdown, corona 19 would make people do just that.
See old comments about why the grill is missing on the front of the car which is there when they are getting into the car but missing when he belts out the driveway, I think the first take damaged the grill and bonnet of the car if you pause it, its crumpled but the impact must have been a a really slow (ish) pace , I guess the second take they just went fuck it and absolutely roger melleyed it. And in editing, if you can imagine two takes one where he drives off at 5 mph and drives across the road and prangs the neighbours car or the second where they floor it , they decided the 2nd take to be the better. Brave in the second one lot of weight in those old Granada's and some of them were no slouch, so smacking into another car at the rate they were going would have hurt the shoulders on the old seat belts, no air bags in them. I hade to eit this coment casue I'mn nut pissed ok, .!
Or they drive and hit the car daily?
@@billgriffiths1685 Yss it could infer that, just other comments out ther, quite old , going , oh when they get in the car there's a front grille on it , when it charges out of the driveway in the next cut there's no grille on the car, different cars etc, like it makes any real difference to the scene. Swapping a reasonable car for some scrapper bound stunt car would also be reasonable.
Guessing you weren't pissed while watching.😂
Very accurate representation of Nigel Fromage's household
So many family's lying to each other and in denial
" I'm not pissed, you know"
I like the other Andrew Whitney comment oh I forgot it's me 5 years ago!
Will you be back in another 5 years?
As hilarious as it is, there's something deeply unsettling about the way that they're all absolutely smashed to the point where they can barely function, but have somehow evidently managed to maintain some semblance of a normal well-balanced existence where they have a nice clean tidy house, the husband has a decent job and the son goes to school.
That's functioning alcoholism for you, more common in Britain than we'd like to admit.
Thats how it is, i grew up in alcoholic family - the denial is unbelievable
Just another morning at Number 10.
”Right! Well… WORK!”
oasis in the background and great humour
Ah... I've finished! lol :D
Well that settles it, I'm getting pissed
Grille on Cortina mysteriously vanishes when setting off. Must have been too valuable to destroy.
It was hanging off to begin with anyway.
@@GK1976A True, but disappears completely when sets off.
Different car, that crashed one looks like it already had dents. The 504 it hit is quite rare now too.
@@CycolacFan This was made in 1995. The 504 was getting increasingly rare back then.
@@speakfreeley4473 most of them went to South Africa for parts, either legally or stolen.
I'M. NOT. PISSED.
For a second I thought I was seeing Glenn Close as the mother instead of Maria McErlane
Simon Day as the son at 1:19 hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Which one from the show is an alchy, theyve nailed it
How many Functional Alcoholics do we know just like this…unfortunately quite a few..
I was an alcoholic for 25 years
Now I'm a born again Christian
No going back
Praise the Lord Jesus
❤️✝️🙏
as an alcoholic i can say im not pissed
what is the lady actors name?
this is my life
'Gin'.🤣