Grrrreat. It’s so true, we’ve got to be able to laugh at ourselves! I love listening to and playing jazz, and a whole load of the stuff on here is wonderfully listenable!
That Jamiroquai parody at the end is brilliant. Jazz Club was the best thing about The Fast Show. It's surprising how much post-bebop jazz actually does sound this way.
You got inhalation, you got exhalation, but they're two different things, you screw up you got mutilation - you see what I'm sayin'? Jackson Jeffrey Jackson
I remember studying musical arrangement in college, our teacher was a big Jazz Club fan. On a listening exam once we had to write either "correct or plausible" artists for a piece of Avant garde Jazz music he played us (to demonstrate we had done some independent listening/research into Jazz in our own time). I had no absolutey no idea what I was listening to so I remember I just listed "The James Danz Quartet" and "Louis Balfour" as 'plausible artists' .... and he gave me the marks! 😂
Howled with laughter back in the day, Jazzzz club was always one of my fave sketches from the incomparable, extremely funny Fast Show! Still makes me laugh! I miss these comedy shows so much.
I LOVE the bit from 05.50 where Caroline Aherne plays one note on the keyboard and he unplugs her, and she looks around not knowing what to do! Have been waiting to see that for years!
I was reading a story in an old British comic of the Billy Bunter mould, it said the school band was better than other bands because "those bands gave you the tunes one after the other, our band plays them all at the same time!"
I'm a guitar student at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford and we can get enough of Jazz club. When you study Jazz for a bit these sketches are made all the more hillarious. Fucking love Jackson Jeffery Jackson.
Needless to say, as with most on here, I watched The Fast Show many years back. The Jazz Club sketches were my favourite. Watching these sketches again has me nearly wetting myself! Nice!
I always thought thats who it was but on a rewatch, I think she's meant to be Brix Smith (ex The Fall)! At the time this was done, Brix was dating Nigel Kennedy and I think did some kind of limp live performace with him.
There are soooo many jazz jokes running through all of these sketches. I'm a fully fledged jazzer. Played jazz for years, and all of these jokes are right on target. The Caroline Aherne joke was brilliant. When the band leader tries to get his girlfriend into the band. It gas happened so many times, most muso s will be familiar with it, and the obvious results it incurs.....
I was going to make some comment or other about how ludicrous and absurd 'jazz' is. Then I remembered that I myself play in a Trad Folk band so I thought maybe I should just button it.
I love how Desolate Shore starts a fraction too early, that tiny "toot" always makes me laugh. Also, thank heavens, I though I was the only one who got Theydon Bois.
Paul Morris Heh, yeah, that was probably one of the funniest lines. I also liked it when the MC disconnected the cable from the woman's electric piano and the stick flew out of the drummer's hand. Really funny.
A terrible, terrible moment when Louis unplugs Caroline Ahern's piano - she was playing her arse off à la Herbie Handcrank and the other musos were all at sea without her scintillating input :-)
"And in an inventive new arrangement, where although it follows the original thirty two bar AABA structure, instead of providing a harmonic departure from the A section, the bridge resolves the rising chromatic pattern - great? - Won-der-ful..."
Nah, an expose of some frauds and a pastiche of some of the difficulties of getting in to Jazz. I apologise that my comment is sucking some fun out the sketches, but you did refer to Jazzers as 'Jazz wankers'. These sketches are amazing.
Video cuts out many of the best lines. "My father was a Polish Brocken Franko Austrian Jew, and my mother was and is the wind. Can you hear her on the breeze?"
This still cracks me up all those years later and were perhaps the best sketches in show. John Thompson's facial reactions during the Jackson Geofrey Jackson sketch is comedy gold! 😂😂😂
I remember a guitarist friend of mine went through a jazz fusion phase and a lot of the stuff he was listening to was a lot like 'Desolate Shore' lmao.
You got the partials of note C there, that's your harmonic series. But that's all you got, man. That's all you got. An' you got the C-E-F. You got the notes. But that's all you got, see? You can run up, you can run down, but you can't run sideways. You can't run from the law, little baby. You see what I'm sayin'? Mm? [JT nods in agreement, but he doesn't have a clue really]
As a Brit, I would like to say thanks👍...but to be honest “amazing” may well be pushing things abit....knowing our love of understatement, I’d say “moderately droll” would probably be a more apt description.
Learning the trumpet under a Jazz musician right now, and the stuff he says in the beginning actually makes sense and sounds interesting. And then they follow up with that shit lmao this is brilliant 😂😂😂
I dig jazz. Man, it's so cool. But some of the dudes who talk about it are just phoney pseuds who overlike the sound of their own pretention. This is why "Jazz Club" makes me laugh so much.
This is still my favourite comedy bit ever. It may take the piss out of a genre of music I love, but it's all done in a fair and true way, so I can't help but love it. There IS a lot of pretentious twaddle in jazz. There's no way around that. I also love Mikki Disco, but when I think of the Fast Show, it's "Great" and "Niiice" that immediately comes to mind.
True talent. Those guys can really sing - especially Paul Whitehouse. When I am recovered from hurting from laughter I will watch Bob Fleming's country favourites - again.
Yeah I’ve been to shows and gigs where second year undergrad art students try their hand at freeform, minimalistic, electroacoustic jazz or some nonsense.....this is surprisingly accurate. It’s often very pretentious and...well, shite.
If my brother hadn't continually played Mile's 'Nefertiti' when I was a child in the sixties, the Fast Show's take on modern jazz is exactly how I would view it today-great!!!
Presenter of Jazz Club, Louis Balfour is a man whose mission is to bring 'you all that's best in the world of jazz'. Every obscure and bizarrely named jazz combo who join him in the studio will be greeted with the Louis' particular brand of cool reverence. Louis Balfour - Nice,,The music is uniformly terrible, and Louis is always enraptured. His highest accolade is an aside to the camera - 'Nice!' or 'Grrrrreat'. John Thompson calls Louis a cross between Whispering Bob Harris and Roger Moore. He's one of the most memorable of the Fast Show characters, with one of the best haircuts. 🎷 🎸 👏 😎
The pianist in one of them is Philip Pope, who is a legend in comedy music - loads of theme tunes to his name and all the musical parodies in Radio Active, and more.
Actually take out the comedy lead and the actual session band are top notch Jazz musicians that you could easily listen to Thats what makes the sketches work so well , totally credibility musically
Absolutely amazing! Thanks for posting this one, especially loved the "Desolate Shore" (the only time freeform jazz has sounded great), the sucking trumpet player Jackson and the Jamiroquai clips. :) Cheers.
"And what are you going to play for us today, Jackson?"
"Trumpet."
"No, no, uhh, what tune?"
"Tune? This is jazz!"
I'll never understand how repeating a script gets so many likes 🤷♂️
@@andymerrett😆 🤣
Desolate Shore❤
I still can't hear any jazz music without saying the words "Nice" or "Great"
Just watching Jools Holland with a jazz session.
Nice
Sooooperb.
Jools Holland...say no more.
Same.
mmmmm, mellow, crazy....
What’s beautiful is that you can be a true Jazz fan and still find this hilarious. Let’s never lose our sense of self deprecating humour. Genius.
Nice.
@@greenfly1264 Great
@@ManCave1972 Smoking
Grrrreat. It’s so true, we’ve got to be able to laugh at ourselves!
I love listening to and playing jazz, and a whole load of the stuff on here is wonderfully listenable!
My pal's got on the Jazz show on Radio 3 and I was reminded of this.
Paul Whitehouse hitting the drum and his other arm going up gets me every time!
Whitehorse is a genius that arm made me near piss meself
Sorry spelt his name wrong a genius for sure x
Whitehouse Whitehorse Whitehouse is greeeeat! x
Donald Strong, great. 👌
That Jamiroquai parody at the end is brilliant. Jazz Club was the best thing about The Fast Show. It's surprising how much post-bebop jazz actually does sound this way.
Mum! There she goes again!
"young lion..."
Isn’t it! Even with the title of the song: JK having cut an album preaching environmentalism when he’s a total petrol head.
John Coltranes late period is the same thing.
Sergej Stokuca true...and I love Coltrane!
You got inhalation, you got exhalation, but they're two different things, you screw up you got mutilation - you see what I'm sayin'?
Jackson Jeffrey Jackson
So, to sum it all up?
You see what I’m saying Louie baby.????
I
I love this
Whatever floats your boat.
...and Clam on bass.
That is honestly one of the funniest lines of the show to me.
Right after "Sandra Timmonds there, on crack."
Troy!! Never thought I'd find you here!
LOL. This is clearly a piss take of the James Taylor Quartet. Hopefully their real bass player at the time, Gary Crockett, saw the funny side.
I'm here for Theydon Bois & Theydon Bois only.
This is probably my fave line :D
I remember studying musical arrangement in college, our teacher was a big Jazz Club fan. On a listening exam once we had to write either "correct or plausible" artists for a piece of Avant garde Jazz music he played us (to demonstrate we had done some independent listening/research into Jazz in our own time).
I had no absolutey no idea what I was listening to so I remember I just listed "The James Danz Quartet" and "Louis Balfour" as 'plausible artists'
.... and he gave me the marks! 😂
Balfour wasn't an artist.
Niiiceeee 😂
Wonderful...
Bizarrely...these sketches actually got me into jazz for the first time...'am now an avid Theolonius Monk fan!
Good.
Nice...
Great
same here!
...rahhhtaaaannnyowl
Worked in a Jazz club for almost 3 years. This is spot on!
noobynooberson yes it is!
nice!
Great!
Jazzy
I did for five years. It was a great job and had the opertunity to serve and chill with some ledgends.
Howled with laughter back in the day, Jazzzz club was always one of my fave sketches from the incomparable, extremely funny Fast Show! Still makes me laugh! I miss these comedy shows so much.
I LOVE the bit from 05.50 where Caroline Aherne plays one note on the keyboard and he unplugs her, and she looks around not knowing what to do! Have been waiting to see that for years!
F**g brilliant
Didn’t someone once describe jazz as a group of musicians all playing different songs at the same time!
No doubt Jackson Geoffrey Jackson would agree with you. 👍
Tune?! This is Jazz😂
Is that what's called "syncopated rhythms"?😊
I was reading a story in an old British comic of the Billy Bunter mould, it said the school band was better than other bands because "those bands gave you the tunes one after the other, our band plays them all at the same time!"
Brilliant 🤣
All of these sketches had seriously good jazz musicians providing the backing.
I was about to comment that. That's a huge part of why these sketches work.
That drum into in the first song was the bollocks.
@@andrewt836 completely agree - never noticed it before really, cheers
All with a great sense of humour too
"i don't blow i suck," quote for life
8:55 Jamiroquai acid skiffle LMFAO :D
Louis face at 5:24 just has me howling with laughter, it's like "wtf, is this?" Brilliant
I'm a guitar student at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford and we can get enough of Jazz club. When you study Jazz for a bit these sketches are made all the more hillarious. Fucking love Jackson Jeffery Jackson.
"Acker Bilk.....Shite.LMAO
'Tune?' (Looks aghast). 'This is jazz!!!' Pure unadultered comedy genius.
Needless to say, as with most on here, I watched The Fast Show many years back. The Jazz Club sketches were my favourite. Watching these sketches again has me nearly wetting myself!
Nice!
This is closer to the reality of the 80s jazz scene than people might think.
Shite! 😂
Caroline on the keyboard doing a Lyda McCartney brilliant
I always thought thats who it was but on a rewatch, I think she's meant to be Brix Smith (ex The Fall)! At the time this was done, Brix was dating Nigel Kennedy and I think did some kind of limp live performace with him.
Paul Whitehouse has actually got a really nice voice lol.
he can also play the guitar. Could have had a different career path if he'd wanted.
@Antonio Bromelini Suits you sir! Oooh!
He is clearly an Allan Holdsworth fan too.
His Mum was an opera singer.
“Mind the rod….”
There are soooo many jazz jokes running through all of these sketches. I'm a fully fledged jazzer. Played jazz for years, and all of these jokes are right on target. The Caroline Aherne joke was brilliant. When the band leader tries to get his girlfriend into the band. It gas happened so many times, most muso s will be familiar with it, and the obvious results it incurs.....
Yes, it's called Yoko Oh No!
It sounds better in Dubly.
It must be what the Red Bull gives you…….
I was going to make some comment or other about how ludicrous and absurd 'jazz' is. Then I remembered that I myself play in a Trad Folk band so I thought maybe I should just button it.
Went to see them live in Oxford last month. Whitehouse described jazz sounding "like a fire in a pet shop"
OMG!!
That's brilliant. "Fire in a pet shop"
I'm literally crying with laughter. Descriptive an SOOO accurate.
Thanks for sharing that.
I wonder how many of these musician names are tube stations and london boroughs I'll never know.
Piles Hussein the trumpeter. I had f**cking tears rolling out the sides of my eyes. LMFAO with those cheeks.
Based on Dizzy Gillespie!
@@michaeljames4904 yeh Dizzys cheeks came out like balloons.
British humour has always been and will always be the best.
Thanks for posting
I love how Desolate Shore starts a fraction too early, that tiny "toot" always makes me laugh.
Also, thank heavens, I though I was the only one who got Theydon Bois.
Jack Tindale not forgetting Stepney Green.
@@RB747domme and Soylent green
All Jazz musicians should be named after tube stations. You'd believe Blake Hall and Mark Lane were people.
Tune?............this is jazzzzz.
Paul Morris Heh, yeah, that was probably one of the funniest lines. I also liked it when the MC disconnected the cable from the woman's electric piano and the stick flew out of the drummer's hand. Really funny.
Paul Morris 'great line, yes
If you've ever been to an interpretative jazz club you'll realise how they've gotten the pretension spot on...
As a regular visitor to Ronnie Scotts, I can concur with that lol. Still a great night out though
Utterly fantastic...great attention to detail in every sketch. more please
'I don't blow, i suck'
'Aint no tune! That's jaaaaazzzzz!' Aint that the truth. 🙂
That jameriqui send up gets me every time 😂😂😂
acid skiffle!
A terrible, terrible moment when Louis unplugs Caroline Ahern's piano - she was playing her arse off à la Herbie Handcrank and the other musos were all at sea without her scintillating input :-)
"And in an inventive new arrangement, where although it follows the original thirty two bar AABA structure, instead of providing a harmonic departure from the A section, the bridge resolves the rising chromatic pattern - great? - Won-der-ful..."
Fabulous!! A wonderful, funny and much needed expose of the "jazz wankers."
*****
How about some clarity?
Nah, an expose of some frauds and a pastiche of some of the difficulties of getting in to Jazz. I apologise that my comment is sucking some fun out the sketches, but you did refer to Jazzers as 'Jazz wankers'. These sketches are amazing.
Nice
@Sam Dunstall You can tell these guys are into jazz, it's too perfect
Video cuts out many of the best lines. "My father was a Polish Brocken Franko Austrian Jew, and my mother was and is the wind. Can you hear her on the breeze?"
This still cracks me up all those years later and were perhaps the best sketches in show. John Thompson's facial reactions during the Jackson Geofrey Jackson sketch is comedy gold! 😂😂😂
I wish this show was still on air.
There are no good Jazz shows on air these days.
Niice.
@@fredmercury1314 Grreat!
@@astrano80001 Niiice.
“I don’t need no melted chocolate on the seats of my Ferrari….” Comedy gold.
@jubbaronny
Must have been a mcvities gold bar
Cracked me up...better than the real artist...lol
I remember a guitarist friend of mine went through a jazz fusion phase and a lot of the stuff he was listening to was a lot like 'Desolate Shore' lmao.
Indeed, clearly based on The James Taylor Quartet
Adam Neeley band. When u are too smart for the audience's good. This coming from a jazz person.
Every jazzer needs to see this. This is hilarious stuff. I love it!
Still fresh and funny even after 20 plus years.
the Jackson Jeffery Jackson bit. look at the piano player he struggling to keep a straight face.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the piano player cracking up
I've listened to and loved a lot of different jazz over the decades but at the same time these parodies are spot on and I'm crying with laughter...
Superb. Still hiliarious after these years. Loved it then and still do.
You got the partials of note C there, that's your harmonic series. But
that's all you got, man. That's all you got. An' you got the C-E-F. You
got the notes. But that's all you got, see? You can run up, you can run
down, but you can't run sideways. You can't run from the law, little baby.
You see what I'm sayin'? Mm?
[JT nods in agreement, but he doesn't have a clue really]
That's all you have ya dig?
I nearly peed my pants laughing when Jackson Jeffrey Jackson started playing the trumpet.
"playing".
@@Dismas444 aye
I've always thought that the people playing the jazz, are enjoying it more than those listening to it
Man, this is brilliant! British humour is amazing.
As a Brit, I would like to say thanks👍...but to be honest “amazing” may well be pushing things abit....knowing our love of understatement, I’d say “moderately droll” would probably be a more apt description.
@kev butterworth missed the joke didn't you buttercup 😉🤣
As a huge James Taylor Quartet fan, that first sketch kills me every time. Hilarious
And now I know what a hammond is after all these years
Just watching Jools Holland with a jazz session.
Nice
love the jamiroqui pisstake at the end, its spot on as well
Car pollution hypocrisy. Brilliant.
I don't believe they never released an album of these. Some of them are really good. That Jamiroquai take-off is spot-on.
The sketch doing Cage's "4 and a half minutes" actually CAN be classified as a legitimate version, as it does follow the rules. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Learning the trumpet under a Jazz musician right now, and the stuff he says in the beginning actually makes sense and sounds interesting. And then they follow up with that shit lmao this is brilliant 😂😂😂
5:23, he looks at the camera smiling through that appalling racket, and then the smile fades to a sinister glare. Fucking beautiful.
OMFG HIS FAKE CHEEKS!!! LOL!!!! I'm off my chair. Holy shit. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying... This is even funnier if you're a musician!
Kraaaaasssshheeeee niiiights and laaaaaaaaashheee daaaaaayyyysshhh!!!
Actually, I always liked Jeremy Kwai's "acid skiffle" song and mini-dance routine...
"I don't need no melted chocolate on the seats of my Ferrari" ahhaha
Nigel Kenedy part was epic too.
I dig jazz. Man, it's so cool. But some of the dudes who talk about it are just phoney pseuds who overlike the sound of their own pretention. This is why "Jazz Club" makes me laugh so much.
Clam on bass... classic.
ubiquitous!
Did TH-cam bring me here because I watch Paul Whitehouse and Henry Enfield videos or Rick Beato videos? Or both - “Fusion”, great.
They must have had a lot of laughs filming this.
This is still my favourite comedy bit ever. It may take the piss out of a genre of music I love, but it's all done in a fair and true
way, so I can't help but love it. There IS a lot of pretentious twaddle in jazz. There's no way around that.
I also love Mikki Disco, but when I think of the Fast Show, it's "Great" and "Niiice" that immediately comes to mind.
"tune? this is jazz!"
awsome!
I'm one of the biggest Jazz buffs but this is hilarious.
True talent. Those guys can really sing - especially Paul Whitehouse. When I am recovered from hurting from laughter I will watch Bob Fleming's country favourites - again.
I think I've played with some of those dudes...
They dont make comedy gold like this anymore
The Jamiroquai one is still the best by far.
Tune? This is jazz!
I always come back to this, so good. Nice! Shite! Jazz Club is my remedy.
_Desolate Shore_ is a masterpiece
Mad as a box of frogs but brilliantly funny.
Yeah I’ve been to shows and gigs where second year undergrad art students try their hand at freeform, minimalistic, electroacoustic jazz or some nonsense.....this is surprisingly accurate. It’s often very pretentious and...well, shite.
Jez Creed art students?
If my brother hadn't continually played Mile's 'Nefertiti'
when I was a child in the sixties, the Fast Show's take on modern jazz is exactly how I would view it today-great!!!
I've just seen some Alan Holdsworth stuff on TH-cam...I was convinced that it was Clam on bass.
"acker bilk - shite" killed me
It's international jazz day today so share this with the jazz loving cats in your life
'Tune?' (Incredulous look)'This is jazz!!!' Brilliant - cracks me up every time
Crazy nights and lazy days is a tune and a half.although ted genus and wet blankets musicianship on "4 and a half minutes" takes some beating.
Yeah, amazing! If you close your eyes, you could swear it's a full orchestra there performing it.
"Classical violinist" Justin Palmer (Paul Whitehouse) looks just like Nigel Kennedy. Hmm......
Most of these sketches features a real life artist (living or dead)
Brilliant I'm a MASSIVE fan of The Fast Show and John Thomson's been one of my favourites since he was Fat Bob with Steve Coogan.
I'm a jazz musician.. and this is funny! You got to have a sense of humor about yourself
Presenter of Jazz Club, Louis Balfour is a man whose mission is to bring 'you all that's best in the world of jazz'. Every obscure and bizarrely named jazz combo who join him in the studio will be greeted with the Louis' particular brand of cool reverence.
Louis Balfour - Nice,,The music is uniformly terrible, and Louis is always enraptured. His highest accolade is an aside to the camera - 'Nice!' or 'Grrrrreat'.
John Thompson calls Louis a cross between Whispering Bob Harris and Roger Moore. He's one of the most memorable of the Fast Show characters, with one of the best haircuts. 🎷 🎸 👏 😎
That Dizzy take off made me laugh for a full 10 minutes. This is hysterical.
i love that they have real live musicians. it just makes it so much funnier.
The pianist in one of them is Philip Pope, who is a legend in comedy music - loads of theme tunes to his name and all the musical parodies in Radio Active, and more.
6:02 Philip Pope on piano.
At least Colin McFarlane went on to be Mayor of Gotham!
Pope was musical director and composer of Fast Show. And still had time to run Vatican
THIS WEEK I 'AV BIN MOSTLY LISTENIN' TO JAZZ!
Actually take out the comedy lead and the actual session band are top notch Jazz musicians that you could easily listen to Thats what makes the sketches work so well , totally credibility musically
You got inhalation, you got exhalation... When you screw up you got mutalation🤣 priceless!!!
8:43 the drummer killed me- must be a super jazz band 😂🤣🤣
Absolutely amazing! Thanks for posting this one, especially loved the "Desolate Shore" (the only time freeform jazz has sounded great), the sucking trumpet player Jackson and the Jamiroquai clips. :) Cheers.
I would buy "Crazy nights and lazy days" . Paul Whitehouse can sing. 👍🤣🌈💜