When this aired I watched it with my Dad. Was the first time I'd ever seen him laugh himself silly as he was mostly a serious man with no time for the arts so this will always be my favourite comedy sketch of all time
I know eh? Notice our midfield was nowhere to be seen? Or our defense...? Also, once we hit double figures, why did we just lay down and let them run all over us? Oh yeah, the assaults, but that's no excuse! How come no one picked up the big pot of glue? Cost us the game! We should have just knocked it up to the big man up front, especially just after his shorts got pulled down by that Arsenal player. etc
To be fair though, our second, straight from the throw in, should never have stood. Why it didn't go to Var i'll never know. And where was Wright for their winner? All he had to do was apply a bit of hot water to his boot to loosen the glue, and take it off his foot, and we could have taken it to pens. They were obviously flagging because I noticed their pipes were starting to go out. Oh well, there's always next century.
You know, some comedy sketches stick in your mind forever, like " fork 'andles", and "Don't tell him, Pike". This is bloody brilliant. So good to see after 30- odd years!
Maybe I've just become too old and jaded, but I don't laugh out loud much at modern comedy. This gave me a much needed laugh though, and was brilliantly done.
Some of the earlier Harry Enfield sketches were pure genius, this is the best of the lot. No matter how many times I’ve seen this, it’s still hilarious
I was centre half in that game , before the match we all had a massive bag of chips,scraps and a whale butty followed by a suet pudding with dumplings and treacle. Charlie Charles Charles was a great captain and let us all have a pipe full of Bakkie just before we went on . After the match we all crammed into a tin bath of cold water and coal tar soap ,then off to the chippy for supper. Great days .
I had a wireless in black and white. If I remember rightly the case was bakelite with linen trim. It was ideal for listening to static from long-forgotten stations such as Hilversum.
I've watched this and other Cholmondley-Warner sketches many times, and I've never noticed that before! Well spotted, and a clever touch from Mr Enfield.
I’m not usually in the habit of using “ language” whenever I post a comment on a subject, but I am sitting here at home in tears of laughter at this sketch. I well remember watching it when it was first broadcast all those years ago. There is no comparison between this sketch ( and many other Harry Enfield sketches ) and the bloody rubbish that passes as comedy on MSM. There, I said what I think and stand by it!
It's amazing that there are comments from 10 years ago but most of the comments are from the last day or so. TH-cam algorithm decided this was worth resurrecting. Hey, it got something right for a change.
The day after this sketch was aired on tv, Paul Whitehouse asked me in the street for change for the meter, I acknowledged I knew who he was and he asked if I saw the show last night and proceeded to act out the sketch in the street. Brilliant.
Another absolutely 'spiffing' comedy sketch from Harry & Paul. I could watch it over and over. I remember watching it for the first time with my late parents many years ago and us laughing so hard. A lovely memory. Just a brilliant concept idea.
Ah dear ol Harry the man who gave the school play grounds a thousand catchphrases for close to twenty years. Wish he was still doing his stuff and without the "No Laughing" Police watch his every move.
Absolutely fantastic. When I was at high school we hid in an old atic behind the stage while assembly was on, teachers came up but we hid too well, we found an old leather football and recreated this on the playing field! Great memories!
Other than the Mrs Richards sketch in Fawlty Towers my favourite comedy sketch of all time. 'Smoking some shag and passing round some nice looking sandwiches' at half time. Hahaha lol 😅
This was when Harry Enfield could do no wrong, his first BBC series was groundbreaking comedy. Was that Ian Rush playing no. 9, I'm still not sure.. and the look on Paul Whitehouse's face when Harry was pulling his shorts down 😆 gold
Arsenal crowd to Liverpool and Enfields show, less than 60 years. Liverpool to today, 32 years. Over half as much again time gone by since that programme. I feel old (and I am old). And even that Liverpool team is dated in terms of fitness and tactics compared with today. Enfield show was brilliant
They seem to be kissing , and Harry Enfield ran away . I cried so much i missed the rest of it. Wife came in from other room to ask what was going on. Played it again , they seem to be ..... i'm gone again, my sides hurt, i cant breathe, and gravity has pulled me onto the floor. takes a deep btreath. ok, i'm going to watch it all the way through .. Started it again . Kissing ... harry enfield running away ... i'm gone. I'll try again tomorrow:)
I'm a black dude from da hood who don't know shit about soccer. THIS GOTTA BE THE FUNNIEST SKIT I EVER SEEN (Behind Chappelle/in livng color resectfully) *Edit* every time I get a like alert, I watch this video AGAIN LMFAOOO
Top class football from the lads. This level of skill and sportsmanship is lost in today's time, we don't see this sort of class from the players on the field any more.
Harry Enfield's Television Programme & Harry Enfield & Chums, some of the very best British comedy shows ever. Though I liked shooting Stars a lot, too.
Still brilliant 90 years later
😂
91 mate. Get ya history years accurate
@@jamesbrennan7355 1933 + 90 years = 2023
@@Alan-xxxxxx do you think this is better than Monty python's philosophy football sketch?
😂😂
When this aired I watched it with my Dad. Was the first time I'd ever seen him laugh himself silly as he was mostly a serious man with no time for the arts so this will always be my favourite comedy sketch of all time
Nice memory
Same here definitely a classic
Lovely memory 👍
Thanks for sharing mate made me smile👍🏻😊
Still hurts to watch this as a Liverpool fan..no excuse for throwing away a 10 nil lead like that
I know eh?
Notice our midfield was nowhere to be seen? Or our defense...? Also, once we hit double figures, why did we just lay down and let them run all over us? Oh yeah, the assaults, but that's no excuse!
How come no one picked up the big pot of glue? Cost us the game!
We should have just knocked it up to the big man up front, especially just after his shorts got pulled down by that Arsenal player.
etc
To be fair though, our second, straight from the throw in, should never have stood. Why it didn't go to Var i'll never know.
And where was Wright for their winner? All he had to do was apply a bit of hot water to his boot to loosen the glue, and take it off his foot, and we could have taken it to pens.
They were obviously flagging because I noticed their pipes were starting to go out.
Oh well, there's always next century.
Yes but you have to remember that arsenal had "Charles Charlie charles" as their unstoppable captain, liverpool stood no chance!
I'm an Arsenal fan and this could be the game I've enjoyed the most 🤣
never seen a player play quite like charlie charles charles. He had it all.
Fifa 99 rating
I believe he was one of the famous Charles brothers.
@@ThisAintNews Yes, apparently his brother Charley was even better. But... the War, you know.
Proper comedy..harrys "television show"..was just brilliant...smashy and nicey too...not arrrfff..😂
Oh he was the dogs danglies back in the day
Harry Enfield, what a genius. We should all be made to watch these sketches once a day to cheer up this sad world!
thats exactly what i do.😂
@@b8nnytez Love The Yorkshireman as well , definitely not politically correct makes it even funnier
@@derrydoire1864Ironic
This should be taught in scools
Still the best football match I've ever seen!
It certainly rivals the match from 'Kes'.
You know, some comedy sketches stick in your mind forever, like " fork 'andles", and "Don't tell him, Pike". This is bloody brilliant. So good to see after 30- odd years!
"Two soups"
Charles ' Charlie ' Charles agrees
Maarsterchef
90, not 30 😂
Even after all these years this is still genius.
Maybe I've just become too old and jaded, but I don't laugh out loud much at modern comedy. This gave me a much needed laugh though, and was brilliantly done.
Every time the giggles with these dudes, remember them from college days, better days?
If you don't mind Madam Wheeler, You're quite right!
@@bernardm2312 Because "Modern Comedy" consists of slagging off people for not being left-wing.
Always was always will be. Harry is the business
Some of the earlier Harry Enfield sketches were pure genius, this is the best of the lot.
No matter how many times I’ve seen this, it’s still hilarious
it was not solely Harry
I was centre half in that game , before the match we all had a massive bag of chips,scraps and a whale butty followed by a suet pudding with dumplings and treacle. Charlie Charles Charles was a great captain and let us all have a pipe full of Bakkie just before we went on . After the match we all crammed into a tin bath of cold water and coal tar soap ,then off to the chippy for supper. Great days .
🤣🤣love it
Hopefully you had a good sing along with Mr George Banjo
You were lucky
nice
Running around as a group is perfect. Never forgotten it.
I remember listening to this game live on the wireless in black and white.
I had a wireless in black and white. If I remember rightly the case was bakelite with linen trim. It was ideal for listening to static from long-forgotten stations such as Hilversum.
0:05 - Notice how ridiculously large the British Isles are on that globe!
I've watched this and other Cholmondley-Warner sketches many times, and I've never noticed that before! Well spotted, and a clever touch from Mr Enfield.
So Britain used to be that massive? What happened? Can we blame the French, the Germans, the EU?
It’s size is due to its apparent influence in world events. Wot wot.
Ha ha its bigger than Australia 🤣
@@ACDZ123 well it is mostly desert and flies.
if all football matches on television were like this, then i might actually watch a game now and again.
I completely agree. This is how footer should be….
We get it, you prefer rugby or some other dumb sport..
Irish hurling is far better
I’m not usually in the habit of using “ language” whenever I post a comment on a subject, but I am sitting here at home in tears of laughter at this sketch. I well remember watching it when it was first broadcast all those years ago. There is no comparison between this sketch ( and many other Harry Enfield sketches ) and the bloody rubbish that passes as comedy on MSM. There, I said what I think and stand by it!
Nothing like an old Harry Enfield sketch on TH-cam to get people whining about the "MSM".
The bit where they disagree and it cuts to Grayson holding his nose and Mr Cholmondley-Warner rubbing his knuckles was fantastic! 😆😆😆
It's amazing that there are comments from 10 years ago but most of the comments are from the last day or so. TH-cam algorithm decided this was worth resurrecting. Hey, it got something right for a change.
The day after this sketch was aired on tv, Paul Whitehouse asked me in the street for change for the meter, I acknowledged I knew who he was and he asked if I saw the show last night and proceeded to act out the sketch in the street. Brilliant.
He was my next door neighbour for about 6 years.
Another absolutely 'spiffing' comedy sketch from Harry & Paul. I could watch it over and over. I remember watching it for the first time with my late parents many years ago and us laughing so hard. A lovely memory. Just a brilliant concept idea.
Remember watching this with my dad when I was a kid and us both rolling up laughing 😂
You used to roll up with your dad when you were a kid? No wonder your lungs are shot mate...
Same 😂
You smoked weed with your dad?
You both had a roll up? Epic parenting 30's style! 😂
@@andysouthern720 yep, didn’t have time to put our cigarettes out, just like Stan between the posts Hartley 😂
The second half was so funny it reminded me watching Leeds United in the 1970s.
I don't remember Billy Bremner going round with the sandwiches.
@@philattlee1 Might have been knuckle sandwiches though.
@@ggarlick46 haha, great.
Aye, a dirty bunch of bastards. Manager was a twat too. Left the England team in the lurch for a few more Middle East pieces of silver.
@philattlee1 He didn't have sandwiches luckily when big Dave Mackay had him round the throat ... 😂😂😂😂😂
Half time entertainment with Mr George banjo ! Cracked me up
The man they call Mr Banjo.
Ah dear ol Harry the man who gave the school play grounds a thousand catchphrases for close to twenty years. Wish he was still doing his stuff and without the "No Laughing" Police watch his every move.
Harry Enfield, just such a brilliant take of former years , I was crying with laughter by the end 😅
Harry always does the best football jokes..
But the monty python one was a close 2nd!!!!!
"and he's bringing on his mother to disprove it" 😂😂😂
You know darn well the work Motherf---er was used!!
Absolutely fantastic. When I was at high school we hid in an old atic behind the stage while assembly was on, teachers came up but we hid too well, we found an old leather football and recreated this on the playing field! Great memories!
There isn't much to laugh at these days. But, this is so brilliantly funny.
Exactly. It’s because of the woke who will get offended if they see something that is funny to the rest of us.
@@georgemacpherson1992 These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you're English. These days.
Fucks sake what a sad thread😂
@@georgemacpherson1992take your medication
@@willywonka7812you mean the covid vax? That medication?
Just watched this again after years,bloody brilliant,it certainly tests the bladder!
Man I was in tears watching this . Great stuff.
Imagine the fun they must have had filming that
Other than the Mrs Richards sketch in Fawlty Towers my favourite comedy sketch of all time.
'Smoking some shag and passing round some nice looking sandwiches' at half time.
Hahaha lol 😅
Arsenal still persevering with that style in 2023 🤣 One of these days it'll pay off 🤣
"One of these days it'll pay off" The Arsenal team of the 1930s were English Champions five times. Successful by any standards.
Haha, they're clowns today
The man they call "Mr Banjo"...gets me every time
Jumpers for goalposts? Marvellous.
This was when Harry Enfield could do no wrong, his first BBC series was groundbreaking comedy.
Was that Ian Rush playing no. 9, I'm still not sure.. and the look on Paul Whitehouse's face when Harry was pulling his shorts down 😆 gold
darganx: Yes, it was Ian Rush.
"Taking the knee" had *_entirely_* different connotations back in black-and-white times...😅
Tears were made for bits like this. Thanks for sharing. 😂
Classic British humour. Brings tears to my eyes. 😊
When I'm feeling fed up I sometimes watch this to cheer myself up 😂❤
Mine failed the test 😂😂❤
I don't think I noticed the giant British Isles the first time round, that's hilarious.
Hilarious and inspired. Love the inclusion of real footage of Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman from the 1932 FA Cup Final.
Am I being blind? Where was the footage of Herbert Chapman??
@@Subsbench At 2:24 I presume.
Arsenal crowd to Liverpool and Enfields show, less than 60 years. Liverpool to today, 32 years. Over half as much again time gone by since that programme. I feel old (and I am old). And even that Liverpool team is dated in terms of fitness and tactics compared with today. Enfield show was brilliant
They seem to be kissing , and Harry Enfield ran away . I cried so much i missed the rest of it. Wife came in from other room to ask what was going on. Played it again , they seem to be ..... i'm gone again, my sides hurt, i cant breathe, and gravity has pulled me onto the floor. takes a deep btreath. ok, i'm going to watch it all the way through .. Started it again . Kissing ... harry enfield running away ... i'm gone. I'll try again tomorrow:)
For me it was when Harry knelt down in front of Paul and started to pull his shorts down. Genius comedy.
😊
This is the type of fair-play & sportsmanship that made our Empire great...
I watched when it was first aired and it's still funny today
I would like Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse to run the country.
“It’s almost like it’s glued to his feet.”
Just discovered this sketch yesterday, and I was laughing out loud the whole time! 😂
Commenting just so I get notifications and another excuse to watch this again. Funny AF!
then here you go
Surely one of the greatest come backs of all time
Utterly priceless.....if this doesn't have you on the floor..... we need to talk
It was good, but, did I laugh, no, now tell me me why?
not a football man but always loved this sketch especially bringing out the sandwiches bit!
I nearly died first time I saw this.
Glad you pulled through
@@imnottellingyoumyname3050 thanks
Seen this so many times and it’s still hilarious!😂😂😂
Fantastically funny; has me in tears of laughter every time I watch it. Thanks for uploading this :-)
Simply LOL 🤣🤣🤣 funny from kick-off to final whistle! Harry Enfield - comic genius!
THE best football sketch ever...Up The Arse! :-)
Come on you Spurs ...Yid Army😂 Sorry Arse 😂😅
It’s not comedy, it was a real match, though it was funny
The size of the UK at the beginning 😂😂
The best Liverpool have played during the 2022/23 season
Definitely could've done with wilf Finneys skill and speed this year, could've got them those extra points for champions league football
Yes indeedy do old chap. Charlie Charles will replace mr Firminio next season too
Only just mind, there was one game I can think of we came DAMN close to it!
Arsenal (33) became Leeds (73) in the second half.
Messi has gone on record as saying that Charles Charlie Charles would have made him look like an amateur if they'd ever met on a football pitch.
He actually said 'he was smoking', which, when you think about it......
Wilf "the demon" finney on the wing 😂😅
That had me sputtering 😭
This will never not get a laugh from me. Classic Enfield.
Brilliant idea, brilliant writing, brilliant filming. This is never not funny and will be timeless as long as people follow the beautiful game.
I'm a black dude from da hood who don't know shit about soccer. THIS GOTTA BE THE FUNNIEST SKIT I EVER SEEN (Behind Chappelle/in livng color resectfully) *Edit* every time I get a like alert, I watch this video AGAIN LMFAOOO
I just watched it again with my father, 90 (in tears again). Time for you to do the same. :) Greetings from NZ.
@@FlyingNutcase 😄😆😅
Playing for the first time in black and white 😂
Still makes me weep with laughter, Wilf 'adapted for speed' Finney could show that Daygo Maradona a thing or two
Racist
...and the crowd have found it most pleasant.
Top class football from the lads. This level of skill and sportsmanship is lost in today's time, we don't see this sort of class from the players on the field any more.
As a yank I thought this was a tutorial on how to master non-American football
The right wing demon, Wilf "Adapted for speed" Finney.
Absolutly classic, i think Ron Manager should have had a word at the end lol
One of the all time best.
If football was like this I'd watch it. Hilarious.
Thet was epslootly hilarious, and I chundered everywhar.
Nice touch at the beginning, exaggerating how big they used to make Britain appear on a globe
This is so good I remember watching this thirty years ago when I was 7!
This was the first thing I ever saw anything of Harry Enfield and I was In tears of laughter
Such a classic sketch
Glad to see this back on YT. It's been missing for too long.
Never seen this before - so funny.
God this is absolutely hilarious!!
Harry is the greatest
Absolute Quality!
I've never noticed how huge the UK is on that globe at the start. Haha.
Fast forward April 2023!
Eee them were the days !!
Harry Enfield's Television Programme & Harry Enfield & Chums, some of the very best British comedy shows ever.
Though I liked shooting Stars a lot, too.
Very funny, i dont remember that sketch, its now a favourite. Been watching only fools and horses, classic
This has to be one of the best comedy films ever made. 😭🤣😅😂🤣😭😅🤣😂😭🤣😅😅🤣😂
..with the man they call Mr Banjo.. Mr George Banjo 🤣🤣🤣
"The man they call Mr Banjo - Mr George Banjo"
brilliant. remember this as a teenager when it came out.
How come I’ve never seen this before - absolutely brilliant!
Three Cheers for the Woolwich Arsenal!
All good friends and jolly good company.
Do you think this is better than Monty python's philosophy football?
Of course it is?
Mr Banjo looked lively at halftime
Actually thought that was the real Liverpool squad. Guy looked just like John Barnes
“the man they call Mr Banjo, Mr George Banjo”
old Wembley was so much more iconic than the new one, shame.