I had to go to a job course in the 90s, this is very accurate 🤣 I was like "Why am I here? This is a waste of time and a complete madness! Give me a job in stead of this nonsense!
Absolutely! I recently bought the radio series that spring-boarded The League to TV, and I have to say, it’s bloody brilliant. I know they felt that it had reached a natural conclusion, and wanted to go out while the going was good, but I often wonder what they’d do if they all worked together again. Together, they were pure magic. I don’t know too much about them outside of this other than seeing some of them pop up here and there in various shows like Game of Thrones etc, but I do hope they’re all still good friends and there’s no bad blood. As for Pauline, I do miss her so! 😁
When they’re live Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith can barely keep a straight face in these characters. It shows an other side to how good they are. Riffing with the live audience. Excellent.
I do love the detail that Mickey struggles to spell the word “job”, yet managed to spell Pauline’s name correctly. A sign that Mickey has a strong affection for her.
Pauline Campwell Jones: " Everything I know about people I learned from pens. If they don't work, you shake 'em. If they still don't work, you chuck 'em away, bin em! " One of the best TV characters in the last 20 years.
absolutely,. thought that for years... especially with the weight watchers reference made.,. no doubt... many other scenes which also influence little britain... they openly admit they loved league of gentlemen
@@crispindry2815 It was a brilliant series. The episode with Cathy Carter Smith was brilliant. 'You! Monkey man, seat up straight you look like your backs broken'. & Micky just does this awkward zombie like movement, so funny.
Reece Shearsmith was actually due to play Pauline at first, but he said that he wasn't confident enough with his performance, so Steve Pemberton stepped in. Perhaps Cathy Carter-Smith is how Pauline would originally have been portrayed.
Very much like the type of women employed by A4E/ Action For Employment back then. Some of the cast had to go to a job club after leaving drama school so they knew what they were talking about.
My gosh, the writing and acting is always so great on this show. Mickey sitting up straight floors me; he seems like it is something so new and foreign to him. And the final words here, "She's worse than _you_ ..." is perfection. Love these guys. There's so much comeuppance and karma in their tales.
Great inversion of sitcom. Shows that the writers follow some sense of continuity. If Pauline got sacked in the first season of a different show she'd have been back in the second season like nothing happened.
When I watched this the first time, I remember thinking to myself they must have a dozen people playing the different characters. I was amazed to find it was basically three! That’s how good the acting was.
I remember the Restart courses, we,d drive the trainers insane by the end of the first week, and by the 2nd week even the mildest mannered sheep in the group were rebelling and wouldn't do as expected, hillarious to see!
On my first day the trainer told me off for wearing shorts, said it was 'unprofessional'. I continued doing so and actually enjoyed flaunting my bare legs in front of him and there was nothing he could do about it. Quite a few of the other guys on the course started wearing shorts as well, just to wind him up!
@@swanningabout I wasn't proud to be unemployed, the shorts thing was just a bit of a laugh. Think of it as sticking two fingers up at authority, those trying to tell us what to do, how to dress. It was a restart course, not a job interview. I used to really enjoy sitting on the front row, bare thighs deliberately displayed, thinking just what are you going to do about my bare legs?
@@rooroo9216 Not sure how 'sexy' they were but we made sure our shorts were as short as reasonably possible to expose as much bare flesh as we could. So quite a number of pairs of long, pasty white legs would have been quite a sight!
I once attended a Jobclub and have only happy memories of it. The leader was one of the nicest people I have ever met. Through it, I found a job in which I remained for the next 20 years before retirement due to health problems.
To be fair Little Britain series 1 was good precisely because it was a rip-off of TLoG... but each series got worse and worse as it became more light-hearted
I missed that Jobby line first time. To quick and slick, like a full bottle of Dulcolax! These 3 Amadeus' of comedy are geniuses. I'd give my last bog roll to see them live.
I went on one in 1992.....the woman who ran it was called Eileen,she's fat and middle aged and yes she had lots of pens. I filled in a questionnaire asking me if I liked animals,children etc. They fed the answers into a computer and it spat out suitable jobs...mine were zookeeper and midwife. I shit you not! 🤣🤣
It’s weird I had a neighbour called Pauline who looked exactly like the character and as a kid I never understood the references my dad made when she left the house I do now god rest her soul 😂
Anyone with any experience of the DSS Twilight Zone would find this a bit too close to the truth for comfort... Pauline's pen fetish is a masterstroke.
Reminds me of documentary of an ex job centre worker who used to lord the power of life n death over his minions, though not intentionally, but lost the job and suddenly realised how tough it can be the other side of the dole line.
I'm on one at the moment! But it's not mandatory so I'm not going in tomorrow. It was a maths thing and I've been sat in a classroom made to feel like crap. Meanwhile I've got an interview Monday! I hope I get it as I'm sick of being on the dole.
Cathy Carter Smith's appearance highlights one thing : Ross getting Pauline fired did nothing to help the Job Seekers . They're still belittled and verbally abused on a regular basis. While there's no doubt Pauline was a bully in her job , we at least see as her character develops she's got a human side and soft spot . With Cathy Carter Smith she has zero of Pauline's redeeming qualities and there's much more spite and outright disdain as she's dressing down the Job Seekers.
Believe what you want.. but it's true. The fact is it was filmed in front of a studio audience. I know people who were in the audience and I've been in many other sitcom/sketch comedy audiences myself.
Well.. obviously not! They have several sketches filmed inside the studio in front of an audience ie the local shop, The Dentons, and then between filming of those scenes they play the audience the sketches already filmed on location on big screens, to record the laughter. So the laughter is still from an audience and not 'canned' ie they are still laughing in the right places whilst watching the actual sketch.
Will people shut up about the laugh track! Buy the DVDs, watch the commentaries. It's genuine laughter. And even if it's not, what was everyone saying when they stopped it for the third series?
If you ever had to go on a job centre course back then Pauline's segments are more a documentary than a sketch 🤣
Not just then, seetec nazis say you'll be sanctioned, its man date tory.
I had to go to a Restart program last week! Thats why im watching! It still goes on!
I had to go to a job course in the 90s, this is very accurate 🤣
I was like "Why am I here? This is a waste of time and a complete madness! Give me a job in stead of this nonsense!
@@olefosshaug5565 had one early 2000's had to make things out if pegs and get called scum if couldn't see the value in it lol
I went on a privatised version of one of those in 2013 and it was just as farcical!
"she's worse than you" is a genius line
Steve Pemberton's timing and delivery are impeccable here. Pauline is one of the great British TV comedy characters.
Agreed!!!!
Absolutely! I recently bought the radio series that spring-boarded The League to TV, and I have to say, it’s bloody brilliant. I know they felt that it had reached a natural conclusion, and wanted to go out while the going was good, but I often wonder what they’d do if they all worked together again. Together, they were pure magic. I don’t know too much about them outside of this other than seeing some of them pop up here and there in various shows like Game of Thrones etc, but I do hope they’re all still good friends and there’s no bad blood.
As for Pauline, I do miss her so! 😁
He’s unbelievable. One of the people who makes me appreciate acting as a true art form (not many do)
The bright pink lip quiver 😂
When they’re live Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith can barely keep a straight face in these characters. It shows an other side to how good they are. Riffing with the live audience. Excellent.
I do love the detail that Mickey struggles to spell the word “job”, yet managed to spell Pauline’s name correctly. A sign that Mickey has a strong affection for her.
i could replay that "'who the frigg are you" bit a thousand times and still laugh. In fact, I have
The way she defends Mickey is actually quite endearing 🥲
Pauline is a legend. Everything: the hair, the glasses, the makeup, the attitude - perfect. This scene is the best ever.
'I know you lot have got nothing to live for but I do' - Cathy Carter-Smith 😂
The part where Mickey straightens up his back, great physical comedy from Mark Gatiss!
That jaw/lip tremble as she holds her head up .
Hilarious
Pauline Campwell Jones: " Everything I know about people I learned from pens. If they don't work,
you shake 'em. If they still don't work, you chuck 'em away, bin em! " One of the best TV characters in the last 20 years.
best friends you'll ever have are pens
“Piss off Ross!!”
Take a lit lighter to the nib for a few seconds ⭐️
I always use that line at school when one of my pupils tells me, 'My pen doesn't work.'
If they don't work, let them do whatever they like
Pauline was undoubtedly the inspiration for Little Britain's Marjorie.
absolutely,. thought that for years... especially with the weight watchers reference made.,. no doubt... many other scenes which also influence little britain... they openly admit they loved league of gentlemen
I always thought that.. L.O.G is so funny!
Wasn't Marjorie around first as Georgie's mother on Shooting Stars?
It was more of a rip off.
Stock improv character
This has to be the most brilliant British black comedy ever, amazing xxx
its the best, pity there wasn't more. Never laughed so much
bowler8 New episodes coming soon.
Psychoville was brilliant too. 999 letsbevenue.
Very original blend of comedy and horror.
This is not a Black Comedy - it is an ACTUAL documentary about life in some parts of the UK.
Even now anytime someone says Cox I think of Mickey, his reaction to the computer being put down in front of him is so funny.
@@crispindry2815 It was a brilliant series.
The episode with Cathy Carter Smith was brilliant.
'You! Monkey man, seat up straight you look like your backs broken'.
& Micky just does this awkward zombie like movement, so funny.
Reece Shearsmith was actually due to play Pauline at first, but he said that he wasn't confident enough with his performance, so Steve Pemberton stepped in. Perhaps Cathy Carter-Smith is how Pauline would originally have been portrayed.
"Do I look like Deirdre Rachid??"
"Yes!"
Anyone who has ever had to go to a job club recognizes this woman.
Except Micky. He thinks she's "a fireman"
SO RIGHT! Everything about her.
Soooo right even down to the way she dresses.
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Very much like the type of women employed by A4E/ Action For Employment back then. Some of the cast had to go to a job club after leaving drama school so they knew what they were talking about.
My gosh, the writing and acting is always so great on this show. Mickey sitting up straight floors me; he seems like it is something so new and foreign to him. And the final words here, "She's worse than _you_ ..." is perfection. Love these guys. There's so much comeuppance and karma in their tales.
The best bit was cut off!
"Just Who Do You Think You're Talking To?"
"According To My Report, A Psychotic 50 Year Old Lesbian"
"How Dare You!..I'm 48"
"Well what do you want me to do roll over and shit Mars Bars?"
They told me you were hard
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The best bit was cut, as was deemed too offensive in modern Britain
Mickeys face and reaction to when Cathy says… “show me what you’ve been doing on the computer “ 😅😅
Pauline. She's worse than you. LOL
hahaha
Fireman!!!
Great inversion of sitcom. Shows that the writers follow some sense of continuity. If Pauline got sacked in the first season of a different show she'd have been back in the second season like nothing happened.
The only thing that spoils this is the canned laughter which isn't needed
I love Mickey ... not the shiniest spoon in the drawer but a sweet and kind lad who is no brains and all heart ... goodness personified ☹
Such brilliant acting, these are/were a talented bunch alright
But..this is a documentary...no?
They haven't been on computers thevvv got pens 😂😂😂😂😂
Mickey sitting up straight is one of my favourite moments and had me in stitches every time 🤣🤣
When I watched this the first time, I remember thinking to myself they must have a dozen people playing the different characters. I was amazed to find it was basically three! That’s how good the acting was.
"a computer runs on a micro chip, No, not the sort you have for your tea every single night"
Genius!
@@robertmaguire1067 i don't get it
Implying that poor people only eat chips every night and that they might get it confused with a computer chip because they are so dumb
@@robertmaguire1067 OHH HAHA😆
@@robertmaguire1067 it was he 'every single night' bit that was always truly the golden bit for me
I remember the Restart courses, we,d drive the trainers insane by the end of the first week, and by the 2nd week even the mildest mannered sheep in the group were rebelling and wouldn't do as expected, hillarious to see!
On my first day the trainer told me off for wearing shorts, said it was 'unprofessional'. I continued doing so and actually enjoyed flaunting my bare legs in front of him and there was nothing he could do about it. Quite a few of the other guys on the course started wearing shorts as well, just to wind him up!
@@reddwarfer999 Why be so proud at being unemployed?
@@swanningabout I wasn't proud to be unemployed, the shorts thing was just a bit of a laugh. Think of it as sticking two fingers up at authority, those trying to tell us what to do, how to dress. It was a restart course, not a job interview. I used to really enjoy sitting on the front row, bare thighs deliberately displayed, thinking just what are you going to do about my bare legs?
@@reddwarfer999 🤣🤣 All I can picture now is just a room full of sexy legs! xD he was probably jealous lol
@@rooroo9216 Not sure how 'sexy' they were but we made sure our shorts were as short as reasonably possible to expose as much bare flesh as we could. So quite a number of pairs of long, pasty white legs would have been quite a sight!
I once attended a Jobclub and have only happy memories of it. The leader was one of the nicest people I have ever met. Through it, I found a job in which I remained for the next 20 years before retirement due to health problems.
Hope you're on the mend soon, Pauline.
@@ignoblesurfer6281 Thank you, sir and yes, I did get the Little Britain reference!
Mickey knew how to spell Pauline's name, even though he apparently can't spell job
Mate ur not be if serious here are u
I just find it amusing
love it
PAWLEEN
He can spell things he likes.
My mum used to have this job back in the 90s. She said it was pretty accurate how it's portrayed but that she was nice.
At 1:02, am I the only one who can hear a bit of Papa Lazarou in the "start learning"?
Love the way Cathy Carter Smith calls the jobseekers "jobbies," implying that they are nothing but turds.
I am currently dole scum. I think of that spinning 'dole scum' sign when I have to toddle along.
The best comedy I’ve ever seen
Absolutely hilarious comedy love it 👍🇬🇧
When the Beeb was worth something....God, I hope sanity and FUN finds its way back home.....
Steve Pemberton is amazing, it's like he literally becomes the character.
'Little Britain' is just a pale, derivative impersonation of TLoG. I don't rate it as a comparison.
agreed, Walliams way too overated
To be fair Little Britain series 1 was good precisely because it was a rip-off of TLoG... but each series got worse and worse as it became more light-hearted
@@bfyrth Can not fucking stand Walliams. An insufferable cunt.
Little Britain was always too quotable and mainstream. League Of Gentlemen is where it's at
My absolute favourite character
I had an appointment at the job centre this morning - all I could think of was this sketch.
Pauline & Cathy both sporting five o'clock shadow 😆
It’s the menopause
His name is Mycroft and you leave him alone
Crode Dodeson can’t believe I’m 6 years late- But you dear sir, have won the internet for that comment!
I can't help but fancy Pauline..*blushes* Bizarre I know, there's something about the haughtiness.
deaconredwhiteandblu
Dear Lord. Time you spoke to some mental health professionals.
@@jamesknox64 some of us love a challenge.
@@gordonferrar7782 its geuinely disturbing when men spend too much time on their own
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Its them lips of hers .......lol
Years later and just the same. Good morning Britain.
Love you Pauline
The characters are spot on like how people get treated on the unemployed benefits, Pauline does not want to behind the desk being talked to like dirt
In U.S. Like you become an idiot when you're unemployed.
I missed that Jobby line first time. To quick and slick, like a full bottle of Dulcolax! These 3 Amadeus' of comedy are geniuses. I'd give my last bog roll to see them live.
I miss this program, was my fave.
The best BBC series
A computer is like a big electronic brain, full of lots of different chips! No, not the ones you have for your dinner every single night
We need more tv series like Psychoville n The League of Gentlemen Reece Rhearsmith!!!
I went on one in 1992.....the woman who ran it was called Eileen,she's fat and middle aged and yes she had lots of pens. I filled in a questionnaire asking me if I liked animals,children etc. They fed the answers into a computer and it spat out suitable jobs...mine were zookeeper and midwife. I shit you not! 🤣🤣
Pens are my friends.
Little Britain ripped this off so bad.
Very funny 😀 Loving the English humor ♥
"They haven't been on the computers... they've got pens."
"Bloody 'ell Pauline! She's wuss than you!" Brilliant.
Lol, I'm unemployed at the mo and fed up, but i'm not signed on....even so...this always cheers me up!
Charles Dickens would have loved this! 🏆🇬🇧
It’s weird I had a neighbour called Pauline who looked exactly like the character and as a kid I never understood the references my dad made when she left the house I do now god rest her soul 😂
Anyone with any experience of the DSS Twilight Zone would find this a bit too close to the truth for comfort... Pauline's pen fetish is a masterstroke.
I swear to God she was just like the so-called 'line manager' I had in my old job. Charlie-you know I'm talking about you don't you?😂
This won't age for centuries 👍
I suppose this will be pulled any day now!!!
"I know you lot have got nothing to live for but I do"! Lol
Reminds me of documentary of an ex job centre worker who used to lord the power of life n death over his minions, though not intentionally, but lost the job and suddenly realised how tough it can be the other side of the dole line.
"They've got pens" , we say this at work whenever anyone asks for pen 😂😂
Mickey, love.....
Cathy Carter-Smith, one wife Papa Lazarou would refuse
The very best of comedy.
Utterly brilliant....I work the jobcentre...so good
"Oh, Mickey. What is aggregious?"
Pauline a legendary villain.
His name is Mickey, you leave him alone
I don't know why that makes me laugh so much....
My favourite character ❤️
im unemployed and signing on and i love going job club (or prospects as its called now) we dont have a pauline but the rooms full off micky loves.
It's not canned laughter
It was filmed in front of a live studio audience
I've just started on a 'Restart' course haha
How did it go in the end? Are you fully equipped with pens now?
I'm on one at the moment! But it's not mandatory so I'm not going in tomorrow. It was a maths thing and I've been sat in a classroom made to feel like crap. Meanwhile I've got an interview Monday! I hope I get it as I'm sick of being on the dole.
@@sparkidee I hope you get the job mate.
@@CelticSaint Cheers me too! Been out for 9 months so far, dunno how they expect you to live on 394 quid a month! 🙄
Little Britain doesn't even compare. Why mention it... -_-
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The official A4e training manual!
There's something disturbingly real about Pauline
Hilarious! Has me in stitches. lol
One of my favs
APPLAUD !: D Masterpiece :D
They should be able to sue Little Britain.
OMG the last bit killed me loool
Cathy Carter Smith's appearance highlights one thing : Ross getting Pauline fired did nothing to help the Job Seekers . They're still belittled and verbally abused on a regular basis. While there's no doubt Pauline was a bully in her job , we at least see as her character develops she's got a human side and soft spot . With Cathy Carter Smith she has zero of Pauline's redeeming qualities and there's much more spite and outright disdain as she's dressing down the Job Seekers.
Another box set to buy! 😂
I just got all 3 seasons and the Christmas Special today. Christmas came early! Cheers, Bob
This gets taken off all the streaming platforms because "racism" and all of a sudden it's all over my recommendations.
Like the clip from fawlty towers don't mention the war episode. It's popping up in my recommendations like this clip.
Not sure what you mean lad it's on BBC iPlayer
@@bigt763 no its not
Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure they’re all still on dailymotion
Believe what you want.. but it's true. The fact is it was filmed in front of a studio audience. I know people who were in the audience and I've been in many other sitcom/sketch comedy audiences myself.
Well.. obviously not! They have several sketches filmed inside the studio in front of an audience ie the local shop, The Dentons, and then between filming of those scenes they play the audience the sketches already filmed on location on big screens, to record the laughter. So the laughter is still from an audience and not 'canned' ie they are still laughing in the right places whilst watching the actual sketch.
Will people shut up about the laugh track! Buy the DVDs, watch the commentaries. It's genuine laughter. And even if it's not, what was everyone saying when they stopped it for the third series?
Is it bad that I agree with Cathy about pens? **scorns pen using and pats lovely laptop**
From Mickey to Mycroft.
Genius
Best show ever ! 🤣
1:19 in case you didn’t know, “jobbie” means turd.
They've missed out the best bit"Does anybody know what chips are? No, not the things that you have for your tea, every single night"