James Acaster's Sweet Home Ketteringa - Episode 2 - Wicksteed Park

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    ★ Series 2 is online! • James Acaster's Sweet ...
    James Acaster returns to Kettering, with a camera crew in tow, to visit some of his old haunts. This episode sees him re-acquainting himself with the theme park he used to work at: Wicksteed Park.
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  • @chillichompa34
    @chillichompa34 5 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    “Did you enjoy it?”
    *cuts to next scene*

  • @Demann5
    @Demann5 7 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    the sound woman is hilarious

    • @gavinbuck8130
      @gavinbuck8130 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I bet her arms and shoulders must be in bits at the end of the day.

  • @alexchapman3906
    @alexchapman3906 5 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    “I remember you.” So creepy.

  • @Vatierville
    @Vatierville 5 ปีที่แล้ว +388

    The whole of Kettering just looks like Chernobyl now 😭😂

    • @sebastianbates
      @sebastianbates 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No not really I live there

    • @jackiez8946
      @jackiez8946 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i think it’s the lighting lol

    • @sebastianbates
      @sebastianbates 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jackiez8946 yeah just a grey day

    • @evesinclair06
      @evesinclair06 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sebastianbates same you’ve got to admit it’s shitsville here still though

    • @sebastianbates
      @sebastianbates ปีที่แล้ว

      @@evesinclair06 when I wrote that comment it was fine but now it is shitsville

  • @nancyryan4574
    @nancyryan4574 7 ปีที่แล้ว +333

    Don't worry we still call it Rock'n'bowl

    • @turtlecanyoncomedy
      @turtlecanyoncomedy  7 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Phew

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      With a wimpy attached to it - oh yeah!

    • @Annikat2006
      @Annikat2006 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It will always be rock and bowl. However wimpy has been replaced!

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There is one wimpy surviving near me. The last bastion of the Lime milkshake

    • @haunter4708
      @haunter4708 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Very similar to a snooker hall where I live. It was initially the club of Ronnie O'Sullivan who named it Rocket Ronnie's. He since sold it and it changed names but we still call it Rocket Ronnie's. Fuck the police.

  • @Cal.Crimson
    @Cal.Crimson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    After he kept mentioning it, I decided to look it up and I wasn't surprised to see that ducks definitely don't mate for life

  • @irishelk3
    @irishelk3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    He should just travel around and visit random, not so well known sites all the time -- make a whole show of it.

    • @motherlove8366
      @motherlove8366 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's just Tom Scott

  • @jopdispa1134
    @jopdispa1134 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    This whole video feels like one of his scrapes

  • @dididogster9994
    @dididogster9994 4 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    I think this perfectly describes the awkward chaos that is James Acaster

    • @192ironbru
      @192ironbru 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i think i perfectly describes kettering

  • @ianrubimbura1910
    @ianrubimbura1910 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    How is it possible to feel nostalgic for a place I've never been 😂

    • @evesinclair06
      @evesinclair06 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don’t recommend it here apart from wicksteed it’s really not that incredible 😂

  • @reallysmallfrisby
    @reallysmallfrisby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    It's nice that Jo Williams gave her time to this guy for this :)

  • @mintomax2
    @mintomax2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Next week on episode 3 of James Acaster visits places that are closed James visits the Kettering branch of Thomas Cook.

  • @ursulageorgeson7086
    @ursulageorgeson7086 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My favourite part of this rain-a-thon is the royalty-free indie rock soundtrack.
    and all the bits with James Acaster looking confused or bored.

    • @AfferbeckBeats
      @AfferbeckBeats 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My fave is all the boom miking for no reason

    • @turtlecanyoncomedy
      @turtlecanyoncomedy  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

    • @user-vr6fw5eb5j
      @user-vr6fw5eb5j 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We used to own the Rock n Bowl so pleased you liked the original name - New York Thunderbowl def doesn’t have the same ring!!!! 😂😂😂

  • @pvpherthen2981
    @pvpherthen2981 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Did anyone see the kids giving the middle finger in the window at 0:08 lmao

  • @crawfishpi
    @crawfishpi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This series is so awkward. It's absolutely brilliant.

  • @jackovhemling1831
    @jackovhemling1831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have been to that bowling alley sooooooo many good memories

  • @gromcom
    @gromcom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I thought at the start 'Is that Jo Williams?'. Can't believe that it actually is!

  • @reecedesmonde1
    @reecedesmonde1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This episode is gold

  • @Demann5
    @Demann5 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    this show is amazing

  • @musicsonlychild
    @musicsonlychild 7 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Wicksteed Park, how nostalgic! I'm dying to know if the bit with Mick was scripted or real.. killed me.

    • @turtlecanyoncomedy
      @turtlecanyoncomedy  7 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Haha! Not scripted, Mick is superb

    • @timdavis9566
      @timdavis9566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was thinking it was scripted, James' sense of humor dictates that it was,hes fricken hilarious. 😏😂😋🌈

    • @millwall0178
      @millwall0178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Genuinely watching james acaster in a tent at wicksteed last week

    • @ev9099
      @ev9099 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tim Davis it’s not scripted lol

    • @mezalong
      @mezalong 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ev9099 yes it is.

  • @benhoodmusic2283
    @benhoodmusic2283 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Every video in this series is brilliant!!! Great work! 😂😂

  • @peridotqueen26
    @peridotqueen26 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For a second I thought James was going to jump the fence to the roller coaster, but then I remembered the boom mike 😆

  • @chiefersutherland5609
    @chiefersutherland5609 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this was absolute perfection!!!

  • @megaflux7144
    @megaflux7144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    this perfectly illustrates the phrase "you can never go home".

  • @lifeadmin9417
    @lifeadmin9417 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Home of Weetabix, theme parks and...myself
    I don't know why but this always makes me laugh

  • @MrPezza
    @MrPezza 9 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Mick Bush is still there?? Legend. Used to work in stores myself, driving around in the old vans.
    Never saw Simmo wearing the Wickie bear costume though, he'd given that up well before then.
    Yeah, Kettering's not bad, but I tell people I'm from Northampton. :s

  • @joshuadixon4932
    @joshuadixon4932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    42 seconds in and you see the flat I grew up in on the left. Wild memories.

  • @G0ldie777
    @G0ldie777 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love You James 🙏🏽🥰

  • @domjl17
    @domjl17 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    My sister was Wicky Bear for a year or so. She's now an accountant.

  • @StellaKnights
    @StellaKnights 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wickstead is great both my kids loved it

  • @galenstapley4950
    @galenstapley4950 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Bare K town nostalgia hahaha. Moved out of town a few years back. This is taking me back!

  • @nickwood7223
    @nickwood7223 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I lived in Kettering from 1978 to 1986 . I went to school at Isebrook school . The school is across the road . Good memories. Now living denver Co

  • @DormerStone
    @DormerStone 9 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    A bit like a young David Brent

  • @bims4575
    @bims4575 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looking at this in 2021

  • @davecarpenter2517
    @davecarpenter2517 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mick still works there OMG!!

  • @FatLeonard84
    @FatLeonard84 8 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Closed down football ground, Wicksteed park closed most the time, what happened to Kettering?

  • @jspesh
    @jspesh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Right in the childhood

  • @biokevlar1
    @biokevlar1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Should go to the Russell Street Cinema. loads of laughs

  • @marthatitus5341
    @marthatitus5341 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    What is James’ obsession with ducks

  • @hydroxynitrile4509
    @hydroxynitrile4509 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this has the same energy as bbc series 'this country', we need a collab #comeonbbc

  • @DrsofiaE3
    @DrsofiaE3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Outside Kettering?
    No, taking a packed lunch

  • @bluesubmariner1
    @bluesubmariner1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It's no Corby!

  • @waywardrivulet1502
    @waywardrivulet1502 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    all aboard!

  • @jaxsjpg3225
    @jaxsjpg3225 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don’t know why I’m watching this now but hey 😂

  • @tee_jay1802
    @tee_jay1802 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im from Kettering aswell and james acaster is the only good thing to come out of it

  • @againagain394
    @againagain394 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's awe about Joe Williams

  • @edshotsdotcodotuk
    @edshotsdotcodotuk 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    WASSUP!!!!

  • @newvoid5827
    @newvoid5827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can't believe how similar Adrian Bliss' character is to James' persona

  • @MakhalanyaneMotaung
    @MakhalanyaneMotaung 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man had his eighth birthday at that wimpy's yanoe

  • @rourkeyliiid4769
    @rourkeyliiid4769 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    As if you've still got a Wimpy's man!

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's a wimpy near my house. Still doing the lime milkshakes!

    • @Samwwrl
      @Samwwrl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s been renamed to fat franks now 💔

  • @Joe-tt1le
    @Joe-tt1le 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    50000 People used to live here... Now it's a ghost town.

  • @MrShammm
    @MrShammm 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wicksteed Parks rides don't operate in the winter

  • @slayerkhan
    @slayerkhan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My childhood was spent in a Northern California biker oasis called Lagunitas. Our local market used to sell trucker caps with "where the fuck is Lagunitas?" written across the fronts, lol. Same vibe as Kettering ;)

  • @SunnyGlade
    @SunnyGlade 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I swear that bear is wearing an upside down Mario outfit

  • @ellashmar7378
    @ellashmar7378 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    the helicopter ride they showed just got taken down

  • @drjay4915
    @drjay4915 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    sounds loke a local town for local peeple

  • @kdizretro
    @kdizretro 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Giggles

  • @gooders8855
    @gooders8855 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    2 million improvements, and now in trouble.

  • @themarvellousmrsmorticia
    @themarvellousmrsmorticia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Northamptonshire, the place where social awkward is born.

  • @maggierowland9914
    @maggierowland9914 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This inspired “This country”

  • @thanks8589
    @thanks8589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:58 but did the log flue have a hype man?

    • @hellopeoplez8636
      @hellopeoplez8636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly not,The hype man was too busy doing Jury duty

  • @koookeee
    @koookeee 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kettering: no puns intended, best leave before 14:22.

  • @drjay4915
    @drjay4915 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    S an a H an a I and a T end it off with a nice big E sums up kettering totaly

  • @plaza8470
    @plaza8470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Low-key used to be terrified of Wicky Bear as a kid.

  • @FrenchBassoonKiss
    @FrenchBassoonKiss 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Give us another one.

    • @turtlecanyoncomedy
      @turtlecanyoncomedy  9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Give us a chance!

    • @FrenchBassoonKiss
      @FrenchBassoonKiss 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Turtle Canyon Comedy
      Seriously, will there be a third episode? Hope yes!

    • @turtlecanyoncomedy
      @turtlecanyoncomedy  9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, and a fourth and a fifth and a sixth. But that'll be it. Monthly.

  • @tendertender6695
    @tendertender6695 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sadly there are no birds there now due to the "murders" Why have you not featured Cortardo's where you honed your comedy skills with the other patrons ? I think that you should do an episode on the disproportional number of coffee shops in the town , what is that about?

  • @bobtheshorkie1987
    @bobtheshorkie1987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Only theme park geeks refer to the rollercoaster by their manufacturer.

  • @hillsonn
    @hillsonn ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't bother running

  • @MeG-yt2nv
    @MeG-yt2nv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Kettering Town fc &a &a &a...&a

  • @esmexo7678
    @esmexo7678 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    and now people are getting stabbed there almost every day😐😐

  • @dirtydirtmcgogurt
    @dirtydirtmcgogurt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think I've been to 6 or 7 "Rock n' Bowl"s in my life, not one of them was related to any of the others. All independent establishments.
    I'm not sure when the phrase "Rock N' Bowl" become part of the public domain, but it's, undoubtedly, a pun that I can get behind and I support it's further exploitation by the bowling czars.

  • @modelmotion
    @modelmotion 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    :):):)

  • @wickedvideowatcher
    @wickedvideowatcher 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there sunshine in Britain?

  • @GarrettPDGA
    @GarrettPDGA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Every time it cuts to them driving on the left side, I panic just a little

  • @ryantheiron4191
    @ryantheiron4191 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'll have a brown derby from Wimpy please Mr Gaycaster

  • @judithmorales6495
    @judithmorales6495 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    If Matthew Gray Gubler was Brit and comedian 😂😂😂