I miss Hale and Pace, it's so hard to get farce right but they always found just the right balance between absolute stupidity (ridiculousness) and tone with great writing that made it work so beautifully well :) Not to mention the sheer talent involved in their musical numbers. Brilliant telly to grow up with.
Brilliant comedy. Grew up with it! The PC brigade would never allow it to be made now in case it offended someone. Just watching that clip now has caused me great upset and mentally scarred me for life!
The WW2 German Army had, what, 7 million soldiers serving in it? Surely, in an army that large, there had to be at least 1 soldier as stupid as this one! ;)
However hilarious this is, the Brits would probably be better off leaving him alive, I mean, his replacement could be somewhat competent. That's one of the reasons SOE didn't attempt to assassinate Hitler, some people in the British government were concerned the Germans might replace him with someone who actually knew what he was doing.
I've been trying to remember this for twenty years, since I saw it as a ten year old on PBS. Funny thing, I remembered it as a WWI era sketch, but I remembered the rest as it was (really stupid guard, the truck being full, and the other soldier being a Brit that killed the idiot).
The whole sketch is very funny! "How am I supposed to search the truck when you have all these people in it?" Too many people absolutely no sense of humour or not much of one!
Grisfettot - I agree totally! :D This is just a sketch but always the amateur historians come out of the woodwork on these comment sections. "Duvet duvet" "Duck Down". It's a lame pun but somehow fitting. And Isokkesu, that's kind of the point. Comedy that you can just sit back and laugh with, not taking it too seriously. I love it.
Woah! Is that also a young Stephen Frey? You must excuse me for having no idea about this show! I'm American but I LOVE British comedy! For once, TH-cam's recommendations nailed it for me. I'm going to now look further into this show!
They're bloody funny mate. Grew up watchin em in Aus. Get it inta ya. There's heaps of good old Brit comedy out there. And no I don't think that is Stephen Fry although he does have some resemblance. Not sure he it is but he looks familiar. Checkout "a bit of Fry and Laurie" if you like Stephen Fry. I think he was also on 'It's not the 9 o'clock news" I know he was a writer on it at least and it's worth a watch if you like old brit sketch comedy. And of course he's brilliant as Melchett in Blackadder if you haven't already seen it. :-)
@@28russ the resemblance is pretty uncanny. I loved the series with Fry and Laurie. Back to Hale and Pace, I'm onto season 6. These guys were great! I'd love to find a region-free DVD of the series, but I'm glad to know most episodes are on TH-cam
Thank you guys for making these sketches and making our miserable little lives a little bit more enjoyable God Bless you Sir’s shame the miserable PC’c have taken our fun away I feel blessed to have watched them first time around though such different times from now I don’t even know what is classed as funny now it’s all selfies and the public trying to get into situations to put on their social media page for likes
I feel the gunshot at the end ruined the ending... wasn't a necessary part... just that guy saying what he said should be enough. that's why hale and pace were never really the best they could be... just a tad too much try hard.
Like I said, it's a word used in place of a swear word to avoid censorship or profanity... This thing won't let me post a link, but search on the wiki for it...
I'm still trapped between what's the best Nazi role to portray in a movie. I presume it's a golden rule between Amon Goeth, Erwin Rommel and Allo Allo nitwits.
@eisma002 Doesn't really count. By jet most people understand that to mean a turbine jet. Coanda was a genius and deserves praise, but what he did was not something that beat Whittle. It was different. Also, it crashed! Also, he wasn't a froggie.
In comedy terms, the 'straight man' sets up the gags and the 'comedian' gets the laugh. Morecambe and Wise were pretty much the archetypal example of this. Straight, in this context, has nothing to do with sexuality.
The sketch really peaks at "Duvet! Duvet! ... Duck down!" and tails off from there... It is one of the great unanswered questions of British history: Hale & Pace... why?!?
Really good sketch. Even up to the last line, then it all went a bit Commando Comic. Took the edge off the funny for me, but I'm happy to be told to go and fuck my avacado toast by someone who went to TA for a month if it proves I've no sense of humour.
I think we should stop poking fun at the Germans. But after 2 world wars and one world cup old habits don't die. used to be the best thing on a sunday night
The comment posted about reconising one of them from the young ones episode nasty...thats most likey due to the fact that it was hale and pace were in that episode, because they started thier careers the same time as rick ade nigel and mike
@Sturmmann Who do you think you are? A.J.P. Taylor? Besides, the charcterisation is that of a Nazi. You should go to the History Channel and answer the questions no one asked there.
Allo, Allo too, Hogans Heroes another. The irony was, back then they were playing these to ex servicemen that actually fought in the war, like my father and uncles. My father loved Hogans Heroes, and generally watched old films like Battle of the Bulge, They referred to the Germans as Jerry, not Nazi, it’s the younger hate filled generation that used that terminology.
"Get back on the truck.......ehhh.......Simon say's get back on the truck" :D
I miss Hale and Pace, it's so hard to get farce right but they always found just the right balance between absolute stupidity (ridiculousness) and tone with great writing that made it work so beautifully well :) Not to mention the sheer talent involved in their musical numbers. Brilliant telly to grow up with.
Daniel Gould
Their comedy and personality compliment each other so well!
@@danielsalter1593 o moo
Amen
Brilliant comedy. Grew up with it! The PC brigade would never allow it to be made now in case it offended someone. Just watching that clip now has caused me great upset and mentally scarred me for life!
Well said, Daniel. (sorry for being 4 years late with that comment)
“Duvet! Duvet!” = duck down. “Goose stepping sausage eaters”. One of their best. Laughing my head off.
"Simon says get back on se truck!" That´s funny, even for me as a German. LOL!
The WW2 German Army had, what, 7 million soldiers serving in it? Surely, in an army that large, there had to be at least 1 soldier as stupid as this one! ;)
@@timonsolus Between 1939 to 1945, about 13 million men served.
Since when does a Private give orders to an Unteroffizer ( NCO) ?
@@Ironschmuck When he's really, really stupid.
Duvet, Duvet, Duvet - Duck Down - Classic!!!!
It's funny, because duvet is French for duvet.
I still laugh myself silly at Hale and Pace...I miss the simpler times.
Same
You wanna keep that guy around, he knew the secret of Simon says.
"I should bally well say not old bean..." BOOM
hahahah :D
At the end, "The British will never out wit us!" XD
"Duvet, duvet ." "Eh? " " Duck down !".
I don't understand the joke.
A duvet is full of duck feathers. A lot of duck feathers are called DOWN collectively.
@@bocca7789 And duvet is actually the french word for "(feather) down".
However hilarious this is, the Brits would probably be better off leaving him alive, I mean, his replacement could be somewhat competent. That's one of the reasons SOE didn't attempt to assassinate Hitler, some people in the British government were concerned the Germans might replace him with someone who actually knew what he was doing.
I've been trying to remember this for twenty years, since I saw it as a ten year old on PBS. Funny thing, I remembered it as a WWI era sketch, but I remembered the rest as it was (really stupid guard, the truck being full, and the other soldier being a Brit that killed the idiot).
lol i laughed so much from the part were the german said simon sez get back on the truck!!!
Duvet, duvet. Duck down. Genius
Duvet, duvet! What? Duck down. 😂
"I should bally well say not, old bean" I think. :D
The whole sketch is very funny! "How am I supposed to search the truck when you have all these people in it?" Too many people absolutely no sense of humour or not much of one!
Alistair McGowan in one of his first comedy roles on TV
Even tho its halarious, I think its best to keep that idiot guard alive. You never know his replacement could be smart and competent.
LMFAO at 3:44: "I should bally well say not, old bean"
LOL. I'm German and I love British comedy
Lucy with diamonds Verräterschwein
Did you mind them taking the piss out your country from ww2?😆
Grisfettot - I agree totally! :D
This is just a sketch but always the amateur historians come out of the woodwork on these comment sections.
"Duvet duvet" "Duck Down". It's a lame pun but somehow fitting.
And Isokkesu, that's kind of the point. Comedy that you can just sit back and laugh with, not taking it too seriously.
I love it.
Incredible -- they were so good. Shades of status quo?
Woah! Is that also a young Stephen Frey? You must excuse me for having no idea about this show! I'm American but I LOVE British comedy! For once, TH-cam's recommendations nailed it for me. I'm going to now look further into this show!
They're bloody funny mate. Grew up watchin em in Aus. Get it inta ya. There's heaps of good old Brit comedy out there. And no I don't think that is Stephen Fry although he does have some resemblance. Not sure he it is but he looks familiar. Checkout "a bit of Fry and Laurie" if you like Stephen Fry. I think he was also on 'It's not the 9 o'clock news" I know he was a writer on it at least and it's worth a watch if you like old brit sketch comedy. And of course he's brilliant as Melchett in Blackadder if you haven't already seen it. :-)
I was thinking it was Angus Deayton. I was also getting him mixed up with Alistair McGowan.
So I'd like to say B: Alistair McGowan, final answer.
@@markboz3366 Yeah, McGowan looks about right. I'm bloody sure it's not Fry anyway..
@@28russ the resemblance is pretty uncanny. I loved the series with Fry and Laurie. Back to Hale and Pace, I'm onto season 6. These guys were great! I'd love to find a region-free DVD of the series, but I'm glad to know most episodes are on TH-cam
They had a lot of very funny sketches
Really funny=) add more Hale and Pace videos=)
Thank you guys for making these sketches and making our miserable little lives a little bit more enjoyable God Bless you Sir’s shame the miserable PC’c have taken our fun away I feel blessed to have watched them first time around though such different times from now I don’t even know what is classed as funny now it’s all selfies and the public trying to get into situations to put on their social media page for likes
Duvet Duvet!
What?
Duck down!
😂😂😂😂😂
Is the guy who plays the British pilot Richard Griffiths aka Uncle Vernon? 🤔
All the people in the comments taking this way too seriously.
Well I'm not I thought it was funny.😆
It's funny as fuck as it's a satirical dig at the way Germans were portrayed in all those post WW2 movies made in the 50's and the 60's.
Successful British Invasion of German occupied France colorised.
I would be fully armed walking passed them, LOL!
Duvet duvet ! Duck down 😂
@eisma002
Sorry, so I understand, you are saying the first working jet engine was in flying use by 1910?
Id forgotten about Herr Biggles 😂😂😂
“Filthy Gerry Hun” 😂
I feel the gunshot at the end ruined the ending... wasn't a necessary part... just that guy saying what he said should be enough. that's why hale and pace were never really the best they could be... just a tad too much try hard.
True that, all was ok and fun until the gun shot, if he just spoke british without the gunshot it wouldve been much better.
@Yu Ting Cheng ?
@Yu Ting Cheng God and Satan don't exist though man.
Are you guy's from the comedy police?
Oh they were brilliant.
@neohip yep, good and bad men on both sides of every conflict ever
@TheSkulldan It's the black, white, and red stripes of the weimar republic flag.
All Wehrmact troops had that emblem on there helmets.
Since when does a Private give orders to an Unteroffizer ( NCO) ?
@banoffee2001 I dont get it?
How can I be expected to search the truck when you have all these people in it? :))
I Really Like The Video From Your Clip taken from DVD showreel 'One Sick Puppy Sketches Written By Richard Parker' From LWT's Hale and Pace
"I shall very well say not, old bean!"
Best.
Ending.
EVER.
:D
It's "bally well."
Like I said, it's a word used in place of a swear word to avoid censorship or profanity...
This thing won't let me post a link, but search on the wiki for it...
I'm still trapped between what's the best Nazi role to portray in a movie. I presume it's a golden rule between Amon Goeth, Erwin Rommel and Allo Allo nitwits.
@neohip sounds like they were showing mercy?
how can i be able so search the truck when you have all these people on the truck! SIMON SAYS GET ON THE TRUCK!
Absolute great humour. Remember when we used to laugh?
I found Hale and Pace, not very funny back in the day, but "Duck-down" made me laugh
Great stuff! Does anyone have the hilarious Hale and Pace song of Dolly Parton dressed as a Nazi please?
Haha good stuff!
The RAF design it but the luftwaffe was the first manufacturer of jet plane
Is the first German guard Steve Pemberton? 🤔
How peculiar that the private gives orders to the NCO! ;)
Duvet , duvet
"what?"
Duck down
lmao
I don't get that lol
@@wateryteat5837Some duvets have duck down (soft duck feathers) in them....
@@kwak1k I still don't get it though ha
please i want czech subtitles
Thought of this when the prisoner escaped from Wandsworth. Where was the guard with pitch fork?
so true
@eisma002
Doesn't really count. By jet most people understand that to mean a turbine jet.
Coanda was a genius and deserves praise, but what he did was not something that beat Whittle. It was different.
Also, it crashed! Also, he wasn't a froggie.
02:42 ..🤣🤣🎶🎶🎶👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Looks like a very youthful Alastair McGowen as German No2?
That Germans should use their rifles to expect that truck :D
"""Br*tish""" humor everyone.
@MrZmaster27
He was the son of Adrien Brody and Stephen Fry
They was good together
To me this seems more like a piss take of Dad's Army than German soldiers, which is the reason I laughed at it lol
That was good stuff - making fun of Nazis is pretty easy but still funny.
The only comedy duo to consist of two straight men.
Laurel and Hardy? Morecambe and Wise? Just 2 duos who were straight.
In comedy terms, the 'straight man' sets up the gags and the 'comedian' gets the laugh. Morecambe and Wise were pretty much the archetypal example of this. Straight, in this context, has nothing to do with sexuality.
MrSkippingpig Thank God someone has a brain.
Most of the time Norman was the straight man to Gareth's joker
Adrien Brody?
Poor, slightly sad guard...
What papers did the second guy show? A map?
British comic book
@stalinistaussie You think? We were lucky to win the war. They had the world by the balls and we only just got out!
don't mention the war
That must have cost a lot to film.
Yep £20 quid 😂😂😂
@Sturmmann Well think of all the corrections you could make there!
The sketch really peaks at "Duvet! Duvet! ... Duck down!" and tails off from there... It is one of the great unanswered questions of British history: Hale & Pace... why?!?
You are not wrong, but you said 'invented' below. Methinks that a stretch in this case.
Really good sketch. Even up to the last line, then it all went a bit Commando Comic. Took the edge off the funny for me, but I'm happy to be told to go and fuck my avacado toast by someone who went to TA for a month if it proves I've no sense of humour.
A funny one
Their face are london. They were brittish. Alles sind british. Deutscher have a good body as soldier
Okay the British invented the Jet plane but the Germans were the first in the air with a Jet plane
I do believe that was fucking terrible
Nope. English word. It is what is known as a "Minced Oath", apparently - it gets used instead of Bloody.
Like using "Feck" instead of "Fuck" :D
When H&G has friendly server
lol that was good.
To be fair, anyone played by Hale and or Pace must be stupid; more would be too much opf a stretch for them.
even if it would be a good movie the laughing destroys everything
I think we should stop poking fun at the Germans. But after 2 world wars and one world cup old habits don't die. used to be the best thing on a sunday night
Cool. I never knew Russell Crowe played a British airman.
The comment posted about reconising one of them from the young ones episode nasty...thats most likey due to the fact that it was hale and pace were in that episode, because they started thier careers the same time as rick ade nigel and mike
@ligepith Duvet = a quilt..normally filled with duck down (i,e, feathers)
*He's a German soldier.*
Is that alistair Mcgowan ?
this is not a comment
@Sturmmann Who do you think you are? A.J.P. Taylor?
Besides, the charcterisation is that of a Nazi. You should go to the History Channel and answer the questions no one asked there.
Dont mention the war!
Is that you Basil?
Wouldnt get away with this now. Shame. Even got swastika on his helmet.
Allo, Allo too, Hogans Heroes another.
The irony was, back then they were playing these to ex servicemen that actually fought in the war, like my father and uncles.
My father loved Hogans Heroes, and generally watched old films like Battle of the Bulge,
They referred to the Germans as Jerry, not Nazi, it’s the younger hate filled generation that used that terminology.
@Shuto123 uuuummmm Bob Marley quoted that but he never originated it. that phrase is in the Book of Proverbs
Oh, all right. I'll admit it. Hale and Pace created at least one funny sketch.