They really don't make comedy like this anymore. The genius of all these guys will never be repeated. I am so grateful to have been alive through the greatest periods of comedy (although I missed this by about a decade)
RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor. I never saw this as a child, but the legacy it left, and the following series and comedians it introduced were vital to British comedy....
Watched this in Australia when I was an undergraduate. I'm ashamed to say that I never contributed to the "Make the lovely Aimi MacDonald a rich lady fund." A worthy cause.
I remember performing the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, along with a sketch about a Kamikaze pilot about to take his 46th mission at school back in 1990 lol. Great to see the original one at last.
David Frost was very unsure about Feldman, he liked his writing but a performer? 'What about the way he looks?' he asked Cleese when Cleese suggested him.
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I also noticed a few bits and pieces that later ended up in The Goodies. The Goodies episode "Saturday Night Grease" contains much of the Chartered Accountant dance
The secret agent sketch might have been an inspiration for Atkinson's Johnny English. Some really original comedy here. Which stands the test of time, to a surprising extent.
it's incredible how Cleese and Chapman got together with the other eventual Pythons. I know how hard it is to get even a THREE piece band together let alone 6 men of such immense talent for as long as they were able to stay that creative and enjoy each others company By the way - I wound up sleeping with Aimi MacDonald back in 66 - when I was 8 years old....in my MIND...twas a corking good sleep as well.
I was just reading about these sketches in Cleese ' s book So, Anyway. Interesting to see it. You can certainly see elements of Monty Python which took the zany up a notch or two
Wow, I did not know of this until recently, and so now I have some delightfully zany comedy shows to enjoy for the first time. I am sure some Python stuff will be peppered in now and then; stuff like this is what that series grew from. After this series I will try "Do Not Adjust Your Set" which I read is another program that preceded Monty Python's Flying Circus..
I only pursue funny and currently find Flula on YT very funny. Also 9 out of 10 cats and Would I Lie To You are good for laughs. Found lots more but start here.
"One hundred fifty of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road." That last sketch is pure gold! I like this early version just as much as the Monty Python version.
I used to rush home after school to watch 'At Last...' and 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' (In 1967, not 1948). The name of The Lovely Aimi McDonald was frequently on my Mum's lips and mine until Mum died in 2005.
Some Python fans don't want to hear this (it's the same people who like to say Nick Mason was as important as Roger Waters because that sounds fair to them) but a Cleese and Chapman sketch is a Cleese and Chapman sketch, whether Cleese is on a show with Terry Jones -- giving Cleese a lot of input he doesn't need -- yet or not.
I hate to break it to some of you but this is not in fact Episode 1 of At Last the 1948 Show. It isn't even a proper episode but a compilation of sketches from the show. The only negative about this is how the DVD this compilation is from hasn't bothered to state the fact that this is merely a compilation. The original episodes these sketches are from are: Reluctant Choir (Series 2, Episode 5) Psychiatrist (Series 2, Episode 5) Secret Service Cleaner (Series 2, Episode 5) The Pretty Way (Series 2, Episode 5) Reptile Keeper Swallowed by Snake (Series 2, Episode 1) The Chartered Accountant Dance (Series 2, Episode 6) The Four Yorkshiremen (Series 2, Episode 6)
I’ve been reading Robert Ross’s bio of Marty Feldman, and the timelines for all of the work & shows these guys were doing in the late 60’s is driving me nuts. Plus references to writers & actors from earlier shows I’ve never heard of in the US. I shouldn’t have expected this group of creators to be orderly!
Someone found other episodes of 1948 show not long ago and I wonder whether they've been able to put them on DVD. The courtroom sketch would have been on that.
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Have never seen these before...although I have seen The Marty Feldman Show and of course, Python. These must have been made in the late 60s before Python's debut in 1969 (in 67-68 maybe?). Lots of ideas later to be refined in Tim Brooke Taylor's The Goodies and by Cleese and Chapman in Monty Python. Some very funny stuff! I would have loved to have seen Cleese and Feldman do more together!
They were in the Cambridge Footlights theatre club together, as were Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Frost. Footlights has had *a* *lot* of members who became prominent in comedy and theatre later: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Footlights_members
It helped launch the careers of John Cleese, Graham Chapman (Monty Python’s Flying Circus), Tim-Brooke Taylor (Broaden Your Mind, The Goodies) and Marty Feldman.
The last sketch is amazing. Does anyone know what John Cleese said when he goes "We had to work at the mill for 29 hours a day for a ______ a lifetime..."? I'm not sure what the number is. I know the others are tuppence and that, but not sure what John Cleese said...
Also what does he say when he says "Well when I said house I mean xxxxxxx hole in ground covered by a foot of torn canvas." I'm not sure what he said in the xxxxxxx part. Thanks.
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Can anyone tell me what song that is Aimi MacDonald played ? It's the few bars she plays when doing the joke about the 45 babies born in China. I have an audiobook (Bram Stokers' Dracula) that starts with those same notes for the intro.
Mark HARRIS Not exactly. There were two series consisting of 13 episodes (six in the first series and seven in the second). What the BBC is reporting that episode one from the first series and episode seven from the second were found. That leaves episodes 2 & 3 from series one and episodes 4 & 6 from series two still missing (although extracts from the missing episodes survive). What we have here on TH-cam is five compilation episodes taken from the DVD release. These 5 episodes were found in Sweden. I hope that clears it up for you.
Just noticed that the psychiatrist-sketch uses the theme tune of "The Human Jungle", which was a 60's tv-series starring Herbert Lom as a (rather less shouty) psychiatrist.
Was this the actual Episode 1, or the collection of sketches that was called Episode 1 on the DVD release of At Last the 1948 Show and Do Not Adjust Your Set?
According to Wikipedia, the 'Reluctant Choir,' 'Psychiatrist,' 'Secret Service,' and 'Pretty Way' bits are all from the same episode (S2, E5), but the 'Reptile Keeper' sketch is from S2, E1, and the 'Chartered Accountant Dance' and' 'Four Yorkshiremen' are both from S2, E6.
They really don't make comedy like this anymore. The genius of all these guys will never be repeated. I am so grateful to have been alive through the greatest periods of comedy (although I missed this by about a decade)
They really do. Stop being a blinkered snob
i missesd it by 40 years, you really are lucky
RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor. I never saw this as a child, but the legacy it left, and the following series and comedians it introduced were vital to British comedy....
Rip Tim Brooke Taylor, hello stalking Troll boy Trevor burrows has never heard of Tim Brooke Taylor okay your trolling is bullying okay
Watched this in Australia when I was an undergraduate. I'm ashamed to say that I never contributed to the "Make the lovely Aimi MacDonald a rich lady fund." A worthy cause.
I still use the "make x a rich lady fund" even now, but I don't think anyone gets the reference!
So do I!
I remember performing the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, along with a sketch about a Kamikaze pilot about to take his 46th mission at school back in 1990 lol. Great to see the original one at last.
Great to see. Someone has done a brilliant job on restoring the sound! Sounds bright and fresh.
The last sketch is classic ...I never knew Marty Feldman was an original cast member. Very cool ...thanks
Marty Feldman wrote the last sketch - often performed by (and wrongly attributed to) the Pythons. Few can beat the late great Marty Feldman
@@schubertuk It was co-written by Cleese, Grahan and Taylor.
David Frost was very unsure about Feldman, he liked his writing but a performer? 'What about the way he looks?' he asked Cleese when Cleese suggested him.
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Woulld that be a Brummie accent they're speaking?
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I used to watch this with my Auntie Mary on a Friday night back in 67 apparently, we loved it.
I'd heard of this show, but had never seen it before. Thanks for posting these episodes. Loved it, especially the last sketch.
A lot of great Monty Pythons in that show ... Excellent!
The Lovely Aimi MacDonald was great.
I love that last sketch!!!!
I'm going to have to remember the Chartered Accountant dance. :P
Yes, I thought Tim did well, there !
I had no idea how many Monte Python skits had their origins in these earlier British skit comedy shows.
I also noticed a few bits and pieces that later ended up in The Goodies. The Goodies episode "Saturday Night Grease" contains much of the Chartered Accountant dance
Aimi MacDonald was nothing short of scrumptious.
Incredible to think that this series was the first time Marty had ever performed!
At Last the 1948 Show, made in 1966, made available to be viewed in 2021.....after seventy-odd years, shown at last once again.
Broadcast on Rediffusion (Channel 9) London on Wednesday 15th February 1967 at 10:05pm right after Gunsmoke
"We're just going to let nature take its course!"
"BUT THAT'LL TAKE YEARS SIR!"
All Legends and great historic entertainment value - The boys at there best - Proud t be a part of it.
The secret agent sketch might have been an inspiration for Atkinson's Johnny English. Some really original comedy here. Which stands the test of time, to a surprising extent.
Of course it's original.. look at when It was written!
always felt that grew from his Barclay card ads.
Thank you for uploading. Saw bits and pieces of this show on televison, but never the whole show. It is a treat!
it's incredible how Cleese and Chapman got together with the other eventual Pythons. I know how hard it is to get even a THREE piece band together let alone 6 men of such immense talent for as long as they were able to stay that creative and enjoy each others company
By the way - I wound up sleeping with Aimi MacDonald back in 66 - when I was 8 years old....in my MIND...twas a corking good sleep as well.
PS. The MPFC bit with Graham Chapman wrestling himself is one of the very best pieces of physical comedy of the 20th Century IMHO
LOL naughty you! BUt I cannot blame you. I wish I had known of her existence sooner. For me it was Carol Cleveland...
Proto Python...RIP Tim Brooke Taylor...I THINK IM A RABBIT!!!!
"THEY DROPPED OFF WHEN I CAME IN!!!" XD
I love that this is on TH-cam!!
I was just reading about these sketches in Cleese ' s book So, Anyway. Interesting to see it. You can certainly see elements of Monty Python which took the zany up a notch or two
Wow, I did not know of this until recently, and so now I have some delightfully zany comedy shows to enjoy for the first time. I am sure some Python stuff will be peppered in now and then; stuff like this is what that series grew from. After this series I will try "Do Not Adjust Your Set" which I read is another program that preceded Monty Python's Flying Circus..
I only pursue funny and currently find Flula on YT very funny. Also 9 out of 10 cats and Would I Lie To You are good for laughs. Found lots more but start here.
@@brainwaiver1 Thanks!
I noticed that some underlying themes were copied by Mel Brooks and 2nd city. Great stuff. I'm glad you posted them.
20:15 probably my favorite sketch; I want to figure out how to steal it so bad
I see what you did there.
Later in Monty Python Show the piano player became Terry Jones Naked! lol
Python did this sketch as well.
The Hollywood Bowl version was just as funny nearly 30 years or so later
At 15:57 seems to be the prehistoric 'Ministry of Silly Walks'. 20:16 'Good Old Days', later known as 'Four Yorkshiremen sketch'.
"One hundred fifty of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road." That last sketch is pure gold! I like this early version just as much as the Monty Python version.
Thank you. What a great video. Them were the days my friend...
I love the lovely Aimi MacDonald
I preferred Mary Maud
Yeah, she's really... what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yes, lovely! :D
I did not.
I'm so glad I found this. These are a great lesson in comedy.
Excellent!
Thank you for posting this!
Love John Cleese's humor
Pity there's only "like" or "dislike". Should be one marked "loved it!"
"You try and tell that to the young people of today. Will they believe you?"
"NO!"
Thanx soooooo much for sharing this 🙏
Love from Sweden 💖
Great to see early John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, and sexy Aimi MacDonald. The last sketch is Epic!
Don't forget Tim Brooke-Taylor! One of the best comic performers England produced!
Thanks for the upload. I saw these when they first came out.
I used to rush home after school to watch 'At Last...' and 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' (In 1967, not 1948). The name of The Lovely Aimi McDonald was frequently on my Mum's lips and mine until Mum died in 2005.
Heard so much about this show but never seen it. Thanks for uploading!
4:50
Behold, the first otherkin! An amazing, historic moment.
I THINK IM A RABBIT! GENIUS
Some Python fans don't want to hear this (it's the same people who like to say Nick Mason was as important as Roger Waters because that sounds fair to them) but a Cleese and Chapman sketch is a Cleese and Chapman sketch, whether Cleese is on a show with Terry Jones -- giving Cleese a lot of input he doesn't need -- yet or not.
I hate to break it to some of you but this is not in fact Episode 1 of At Last the 1948 Show. It isn't even a proper episode but a compilation of sketches from the show. The only negative about this is how the DVD this compilation is from hasn't bothered to state the fact that this is merely a compilation.
The original episodes these sketches are from are:
Reluctant Choir (Series 2, Episode 5)
Psychiatrist (Series 2, Episode 5)
Secret Service Cleaner (Series 2, Episode 5)
The Pretty Way (Series 2, Episode 5)
Reptile Keeper Swallowed by Snake (Series 2, Episode 1)
The Chartered Accountant Dance (Series 2, Episode 6)
The Four Yorkshiremen (Series 2, Episode 6)
I’ve been reading Robert Ross’s bio of Marty Feldman, and the timelines for all of the work & shows these guys were doing in the late 60’s is driving me nuts. Plus references to writers & actors from earlier shows I’ve never heard of in the US.
I shouldn’t have expected this group of creators to be orderly!
Someone found other episodes of 1948 show not long ago and I wonder whether they've been able to put them on DVD. The courtroom sketch would have been on that.
Used to rush home to watch this show...... brilliant memories....where are you now Erica
" see now, this watch is shock proof ...KNICKERS!!!!!!"
the absolute best
I remember watching this first time round, great to see it again.
Tim Brooke-Taylor is such a cutie!
you could almost see Ronny Barker in the background .
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Tim Brooke-Taylor is so FUCKING CUTE in this
Barry Cryer is the waiter in the Yorkshireman sketch, he'd reunite with Tim Brooke-Taylor for Hello Cheeky 10 yrs later!
Have never seen these before...although I have seen The Marty Feldman Show and of course, Python. These must have been made in the late 60s before Python's debut in 1969 (in 67-68 maybe?). Lots of ideas later to be refined in Tim Brooke Taylor's The Goodies and by Cleese and Chapman in Monty Python. Some very funny stuff! I would have loved to have seen Cleese and Feldman do more together!
Interesting Cleese and Chapman were educated at Cambridge!
Tony Lamley So was Eric Idle :) That's how John and Eric 1rst met
They were in the Cambridge Footlights theatre club together, as were Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Frost. Footlights has had *a* *lot* of members who became prominent in comedy and theatre later:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Footlights_members
It helped launch the careers of John Cleese, Graham Chapman (Monty Python’s Flying Circus), Tim-Brooke Taylor (Broaden Your Mind, The Goodies) and Marty Feldman.
Great show,..thanks for sharing x
You just don't get comedy as good as this now!
The shrink sketch is brilliant
This oozes Peter Cook. 😃👍
The last sketch is amazing. Does anyone know what John Cleese said when he goes "We had to work at the mill for 29 hours a day for a ______ a lifetime..."? I'm not sure what the number is. I know the others are tuppence and that, but not sure what John Cleese said...
He says 'halfpenny". Pronounced "hape-knee"
He said "a 'a'penny"- a half penny
Also what does he say when he says "Well when I said house I mean xxxxxxx hole in ground covered by a foot of torn canvas." I'm not sure what he said in the xxxxxxx part. Thanks.
He says "it twer" as in "it were."
Mr. Cleese, in his somewhat stylized northern accent, worked for a "ha'penny a lifetime" - that is, half a penny.
ahhh, Aimi MacDonald, Britain's very own Goldie Hawn.
Yes, is there anything on American tv that wasn't done in Britain first?
Most of it.
@@tostentwo baseball
Steve Allen had some very creative stuff on early TV. David Letterman reused a lot of it too.
“There is nothing new under the sun.”
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I even had the album.
Can anyone tell me what song that is Aimi MacDonald played ? It's the few bars she plays when doing the joke about the 45 babies born in China. I have an audiobook (Bram Stokers' Dracula) that starts with those same notes for the intro.
I could be wrong, but it does sound a lot like Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Ballet Suite Op.20, The Enchanted Lake. I hope that helps.
It's music from the ballet Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky.
Gibbon? A funky gibbon?
The rediffusion jingle reminds me of being a child...that tape flutter which makes it slightly out of tune especially!
Now that's a Dream UK Comedy Team
20-23 !! 8))what a glamour!! 8))
16:00 Big fish - little fish - cardboard box
I hate that I understand this comment.
I didn't understand the comment, but now I know where Alestrom got Big Ship Little Ship from.
th-cam.com/video/1AaNj7W4AKo/w-d-xo.html
Why have I never heard of this???????
Marty. Pre Python.
Great to see the original Four Yorkshireman sketch, though I think the Monty Python version had better timing.
BBC reports these episodes as newly discovered when they've been on TH-cam for years.
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29722866
Mark HARRIS Not exactly. There were two series consisting of 13 episodes (six in the first series and seven in the second). What the BBC is reporting that episode one from the first series and episode seven from the second were found. That leaves episodes 2 & 3 from series one and episodes 4 & 6 from series two still missing (although extracts from the missing episodes survive). What we have here on TH-cam is five compilation episodes taken from the DVD release. These 5 episodes were found in Sweden. I hope that clears it up for you.
Great comedy...only I came here for an argument. Yes, I did! I did!
The down votes for this video came from the Gibbonposture family.
and four of their cousins, the Weeblefronks.
probable loonies
And and 5 Kenneth Woolstenholmes.
At 7:33 you can see Cleese spank himself, which is something he did again, and much better, on Fawlty Towers.
This show predicted the future with Aimi MacDonald character.
Gosh. I love the lovely Ami Macdonald too. She's great.
I believe just a tad funnier than the "Episode 1" (on TH-cam) of "Do Not Adjust Your Set."
Just noticed that the psychiatrist-sketch uses the theme tune of "The Human Jungle", which was a 60's tv-series starring Herbert Lom as a (rather less shouty) psychiatrist.
I would love to know what year this came out. So often on TH-cam that minor but interesting fact is omitted.
1967
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10:50 - 10:53 Ahaha ohhh John
the saddest thing is that I once had a psychologist who almost was like this... :(
Correction needed: Starring The Lovely Ami MacDonald.
Was this the actual Episode 1, or the collection of sketches that was called Episode 1 on the DVD release of At Last the 1948 Show and Do Not Adjust Your Set?
According to Wikipedia, the 'Reluctant Choir,' 'Psychiatrist,' 'Secret Service,' and 'Pretty Way' bits are all from the same episode (S2, E5), but the 'Reptile Keeper' sketch is from S2, E1, and the 'Chartered Accountant Dance' and' 'Four Yorkshiremen' are both from S2, E6.
Seems to be a compilation from Series 2, episodes 1, 5 and 6. See Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Last_the_1948_Show
Thames should have kept that program.
The last skit inspired The Python's to do a similar one haha
What year is this from? not 1948 I take it.
1967
ViceVersa Thanks.
I were in the audience I were and that Ami was smashing.
* was
* Aimi
Yes. Please excuse my fingures
@@pauledwards8275 *fingers
Wild!
Reece, it was "ha penny" a lifetime
I still miss your excellent posts. I hate Y/T for poisoning the water of creativity. Thank You.
Is that the same David Frost, the executive producer?
Yes!
CLASS.
was she emma peel #2?