For us this was THE highlight of the TV week, so many great sketches, and so many wonderful comic talents. So memorable, especially PC Savage !. Light years better than today's tv rubbish.
Saw many of these live. The "Constable Savage" sketch must be one of the all time best comedy sketches ever. Even more appropriate in light of the Met issues.
Think of all the great comedic movies that could never be made today. I remember reading 1984 in school and being sure Orwell was talking about conservatives, but instead it’s turned out that it’s the liberals that are against free speech.
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 I was born in 1998, so I don't know many of those things, so I think a lot of references are flying over my head .. sometimes I can tell it's satire, but i don't know who/what they're satirising.
I loved this show as a teenager and find that I still remember several of these sketches 40+ years later. Those were the days when you could laugh at poor-taste humour without offending anyone.
At the time Not the nine o’clock news was considered pretty offensive, the daily mail was scathing about it, calling it puerile and crass, Mary Whitehouse was petitioning for it to be taken off air
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 Back then, the Daily Mail and Mary Whitehouse were in the minority. I agree that much of the humour was puerile but then I was a schoolboy and I was allowed to find it funny. I still do, tbh. The "That's Life" parody was spot on. Of its time, as has been noted.
Whole team was brilliant. Pam was awesome as a woman comedian....she definitely held her own against these guys. Rowan a comedian god. I wasn't old enough to watch most of these shows so put my ear to the bedroom door to hear the audio....still laughed.
Why do people have to be as a default, nasty? Can't you just appreciate something funny (like this) without justifying it by attacking something else? I personally like all comedy.
I watched this from Sweden back then. As you say, many quotes I still remember and actually use today. Unfortunately no one knows what I’m on about 😢😅. Feels like I’m the only one in this reference frame…
Ahh haaaaha. . I used to watch this with my mum , I'm 47 now and still makes me LMAO! !.. nothing like this on TV anymore...SADLY.. omg... That's Life.. hahaha... the dress on pam..n check Mel smith hair...I'm crying laughing at the horses launching people into the water...princess's Anne. ..hahha. . Wdnt it be great..if she launches self into a tree...Haaaahaa . Thankyou ..this video has made my Monday morning. ..
It's still great, isn't it? The airline food so bad they'd already eaten the other passengers. Forgot how good it was and it was pretty anti-establishment, at the time. Even the name
Crucial essential never to be missed viewing , what would you talk about with your school mates next morning if you missed it. Hahaha Schoolwork ,I think not.
I had forgotten just how funny this programme was. A couple of bits that haven't aged well and I can't remember any reason they'd be having a go at Marc Almond but overall this still stands up well for me and I am now off to see if I can find some more episodes. Thanks for uploading this!
The sketch at 18:49 is hard to believe in that it predicted the ridiculousness of the present day competition to be the most offended for other people!
25 February 2024 "I larfed and larfed" ! The creation of comedic genius. Rowan in his many forms. Mel and Griff ( the darts match). Pam's caricatures. It must be hilarious in the house with "Big Yin". (BTW, in total agreement with the earlier commenter - and I'm 77
I loved this show back in the day but it wouldn't get on the air today. Times have changed, I've changed. Still funny though. I like truckin is a classic!
OMG - I was only 12 years old when it was on Danish national television Saturday nights and it was soooo hilarious, even though I did not understand all - I got most of it, Danish people love British humor and this was one of the most popular shows of all times 😂😂🤩🤩🤩🤩
Wow! I had forgotten how good this show was........I missed most of it as I was abroad mostly.... This is catch-up I guess..... Miss Mel Smith though..... Brilliant.
@@lauriecook2399 that's what started my love for British humor... I remember my parents watching VHS copies of the show that my dad had mailed over from Europe from a friend he meet in the Air Force...lol... This is way way before streaming...lol
@@FrancisHatton Yes it does help to have seen Rantzen, Hann, etc to understand the charicatures of them. So I guess anyone under 40 may struggle to see the comedy.
@@tman5634 No, you had to be there. She had a rocking body, and when made up just right, such as on photo shoots, she really was easy to look at. Watching this video today, I can understand your scepticism, but you'll have to take our word for it that she was smoking hot when NT NON was all the rage.
I once made someone laugh with an amazingly well told joke! She couldn't stop laughing for 4 hours and I had to take her into A and E where she was hospitalised for 6 months without any jokes at all being told to her. She eventually recovered but then accidentally went to a Bernhard Manning show and well she died 12 seconds into it!
I remember seeing this on telly and my word, it could have been today as nothing has really changed. Even had social media on that flight and the toilet sign. The need to know everything Hahaha
@@Faladaena He wrote quite a bit about it in his memoir "Tainted life", it apparently caused him some long-term distress. He was already uneasy with success, after that bit aired he started hating it☺
I know a lot of these sketches as we used to have them on video, but had not seen a few of them. Just roaring with laughter and as others point out the comedy is very relevant today, and well ahead of its time.
This was the Eiffel Tower of sketch comedies. It made household names of all 4 of its players: Atkinson, Smith, Jones and Stephenson. Plus, it launched the TV 📺 career of John Lloyd, who went on to produce Spitting Image, Blackadder (also with Atkinson) and QI, among other things. So, this was a seminal series at the time it arrived. Cheers 🥂 for this mate ❤ 😊
Some of Pam’s impressions might not be familiar now. How many remember Judith Hann from Tomorrow’s World (16:00)
Me! I used to love Tomorrow's World.
The Stoutest sketch? What a parody of every second serious debate in 2024!
This is 2023 and there's nothing like it anywhere on Tele today. Thank you so much for this.
Uh no first of all this is 2024 and it is exactly here the same except looking older. Welcom
What's tele? :-)
@grindupBakerThey have Tele now? When I was there we only had rocks and waddle.
@@danmar007 Not what, who.
Tele Santana, the great manager of the legendary 1982 Brazil football team, how can you not know him?
For us this was THE highlight of the TV week, so many great sketches, and so many wonderful comic talents. So memorable, especially PC Savage !. Light years better than today's tv rubbish.
Marc Almond at 14:00, just priceless, happy memories of growing up with this stuff at school in the early 80s.
Saw many of these live. The "Constable Savage" sketch must be one of the all time best comedy sketches ever. Even more appropriate in light of the Met issues.
ironically, with invented racialist accusations.
Can't remember if it was the barbican centre or not but went to several live filming episodes, was quite a small studio but a great experience.
I concur! Many timeless phrases there. Griff Rhys Jones’s facial expressions. Perfect!
“You arrested him!
Well, thank you sir🤣”
It's truly astounding how the satire from Not the 9'OClock News remains remarkably relevant even after four decades! 👍🏻
Think of all the great comedic movies that could never be made today. I remember reading 1984 in school and being sure Orwell was talking about conservatives, but instead it’s turned out that it’s the liberals that are against free speech.
Just replace stout with transgender and its up to pace
Especially that recruiting-drive for the Russian Army! They're dropping down like flies over in Ukraine!
The joke around the 10 minute mark is kind of topical again sadly. Well, the latest technology bit isn't quite right.
@zekelucente9702 not even close to true. Murdoch isn't a liberal
Proof, if it were needed, that genius comedy will stand the test of time. Just as hilarious as it was then. I loved this show.
Dis is BaBa WA Wa!
Ahh, the 70s and 80s
Interesting to see it’s still looney left wing. The more successful they become, the more fear they have.
It's been years since I've seen these shows. The humour stand up remarkably well. Great fun!
Especially that recruiting-drive for the Russian Army! They're dropping down like flies over in Ukraine!
Clever and very funny. Loved it back then.
Still funny.
one of the few comedy shows that are timeless.
Utter bullshit. It was quite LITERALLY of its time and no other
As long as you remember “That’s Life” telephone boxes, Janet Street Porter, Thatcher, trade Unions, the Hamlette adverts, Punk, tomorrows world…….
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 I was born in 1998, so I don't know many of those things, so I think a lot of references are flying over my head .. sometimes I can tell it's satire, but i don't know who/what they're satirising.
Quality !! Great show ! Never missed an episode in the good old days !! X❤
I loved this show as a teenager and find that I still remember several of these sketches 40+ years later. Those were the days when you could laugh at poor-taste humour without offending anyone.
Realising I still know all the words to 'I Like Trucking'....speechless
EDIT: omg, MISTER KODOGO.....
At the time Not the nine o’clock news was considered pretty offensive, the daily mail was scathing about it, calling it puerile and crass, Mary Whitehouse was petitioning for it to be taken off air
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 Back then, the Daily Mail and Mary Whitehouse were in the minority. I agree that much of the humour was puerile but then I was a schoolboy and I was allowed to find it funny. I still do, tbh. The "That's Life" parody was spot on. Of its time, as has been noted.
@@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 TBF, Mary Whitehouse and the DM hated everything
@@Torquemada70 not at all, they were very targeted. They wanted TV to be like it was when they were young.
This was and still is one of the greatest comedy sketch shows ever to grace TV.
Pamela Stephenson’s portrayal of Janet Street Porter is brilliant. Completely on the money.
I like to think JSP has seen this and had a good laugh. Incredibly talented actress who was stunningly beautiful.
She sounds nothing like Janet Street Porter😂
We all had a mega horn for Pamela. 👍
@@alleadmin3294 I didn’t 🤷🏻♂️
@@robertwalkey1443 You are either gay or your knob has fallen off.
Whole team was brilliant. Pam was awesome as a woman comedian....she definitely held her own against these guys. Rowan a comedian god. I wasn't old enough to watch most of these shows so put my ear to the bedroom door to hear the audio....still laughed.
Not the 9 O'Clock News was a brilliant political themed sketch comedy show that was ahead of its time.
No. It wasn't. Neither brilliant nor ahead of its time. It was average. It was of its time.
@@zapkvr0101 it was funny though, you miserable bastard.
@@zapkvr0101 Agreed, but it still shows the flashes of brilliance that its cast went on to fulfill.
@@zapkvr0101 Here is me thinking woke feminists were a modern thing. I guess not. 🤣😂🤣
@@willemslie crap
so brilliant and so under rated, they provided a twig of hope and a grasp at sanity in the mid 80s.
They were not underrated in the slightest! These guys were superstars.
Overrated comment, they weren’t underrated at all.
Rowan Atkinson was genius right from the beginning - superb 😎 Proto-Thin Blue Line towards the end there 😊
That was a great show too.
Absolutely brilliant. My favourites are Gerald the Gorilla and the Pythonists sketches.
What an utterly brilliant show this was. Light years ahead of the shite that passes for 'comedy' these days.
The old people didn’t like it though. They complained it was puerile and not funny. Maybe being old affects your sense of humour?
The good old days -when men were men and women were women🤣😊
Why do people have to be as a default, nasty? Can't you just appreciate something funny (like this) without justifying it by attacking something else? I personally like all comedy.
@@Edgel-in6bs Each to their own. Modern comedy is by and large terrible but if you like it fair play.
and small green furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were small green furry creatures from Alpha Centauri .... 😂
Rowan’s face when Pamela Stephenson gets in that truck.😂😂
Pamela was fit!!!
Well wouldn't you? I know I would!
I still miss the 80s and they'll never make tv like this again. This was a brilliant show.
You'd get done for mis information 🤨
We still have _The Onion_
I miss it too id go back in a heartbeat
Thank you for sharing this, brought back giggly memories!
Monty python, fawlty towers, the young ones, allo allo. No better humor than british humor. As a kid I loved this show (I'm Dutch)
Alas Smith and Jones.
Good to see a compilation of some of their very best sketches, many of which contain quotes I still use in regular conversation to this day! 🤓
I watched this from Sweden back then. As you say, many quotes I still remember and actually use today. Unfortunately no one knows what I’m on about 😢😅. Feels like I’m the only one in this reference frame…
I soooooo love Brit Comedy 🤗
Thanx for sharing 🙏
Love from Sweden 💖
I am now 60 and I still fancy the lovely Pam Connolly. Lucky Billy!
I hear you mate, she is a goddess!
Utter angel, stunning woman, and appeared in a few episodes of the Professionals !!
Which season and episode has it where they're pushing a car?
She can grab my gear stick anytime.
"We're holding him on a charge of posession of black curly hair and big lips " 😂😂😂
Guilty!!!!
Don’t you mean gwuilty 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What a joy, to watch this fabulous show again! fantastic humour,if ONLY we had this sort of humour again!
Great memories!
Xxxx
Love it and found it just as funny as I did all those years ago.
I now officially feel old😂😂😂
Rowan Atkinson as Marc Almond was absolutely hilarious
Yes totally agree 🤣😆🤣😆🏆🇬🇧👍
Ahh haaaaha. . I used to watch this with my mum , I'm 47 now and still makes me LMAO! !.. nothing like this on TV anymore...SADLY.. omg... That's Life.. hahaha... the dress on pam..n check Mel smith hair...I'm crying laughing at the horses launching people into the water...princess's Anne. ..hahha. . Wdnt it be great..if she launches self into a tree...Haaaahaa . Thankyou ..this video has made my Monday morning. ..
It's still great, isn't it? The airline food so bad they'd already eaten the other passengers. Forgot how good it was and it was pretty anti-establishment, at the time. Even the name
glorious..
still having a proper giggle
in 2-23.!
😉☺️😊😃😆
cheers for sharing.!
✌🏻🌏🇦🇺🤘🏻
Hilarious! Love seeing them all so young, irreverant, funny.
I watched these when I was a teenager. I still find them funny today.
Gawd, this is bringing back memories. The “That’s Life” sketch at 26 minutes.
That was the best bit - just brill 😂
I can remember buying the LP version of this . brilliant
"...the LP version..."...ha ha yer showing yer age there mate😊
@@davedennison7386 yeah and I had to put a two pence on the arm so it would play properly
Haven't seen any of this since the early 80's, so good to see it as an adult. A lot of it must have went over my head as a kid. Holds up really well.
Incredible series not available on tv series on any platform. Thanks for sharing this. I bought a box set DVD to keep this timeless comedy alive.
Utterly hilarious!
"This has got NOTHING to do with us ! 😌" .... I hereby pledge to speak this sentence , just like Rowan did, for the rest of my days on this planet .
27:34
But you have to use the precise intonation. Preferably while wearing polyester.
Oh my.. This literally is the greatest hits!
Memories!
And then I moved to France and found that they really are as Rowan Atkinson portrayed them. And here I thought he was exaggerating for effect.
Loved the Billy Connelly sketch.
Fabulous comedy, what a team!
Pamela’s fantastic
@01:20 This airline sketch is pure gold.
How can you not like this, its hilarious 😆
Crucial essential never to be missed viewing , what would you talk about with your school mates next morning if you missed it. Hahaha Schoolwork ,I think not.
Rowan took his HGV license just so he could actually drive the truck in that song
Had a laugh like it has been so long the last time. Thanks for sharing :P
I love Truckin was one of the best songs to be heard in the 80's, we still sing this :)
I had forgotten just how funny this programme was. A couple of bits that haven't aged well and I can't remember any reason they'd be having a go at Marc Almond but overall this still stands up well for me and I am now off to see if I can find some more episodes. Thanks for uploading this!
Because they basically had a go at everybody sooner or later. At some point they must've realised Marc had slipped by.
Yeah I thought the same. Was Almond busted lip syncing? I don't think so. Hope he didn't take it too harshly.
..apart from Chris Langham....
Thank you for sharing. I've heard of the show but never watched it before. Hilarious!
Absolutely fantastic show. Atkinson is my no 1 comedian of all time
The sketch at 18:49 is hard to believe in that it predicted the ridiculousness of the present day competition to be the most offended for other people!
It didn’t predict anything, it was satirising attitudes that existed even then
@@johnp515 if you say so.
Ron miller 😀😀
25 February 2024
"I larfed and larfed" ! The creation of comedic genius. Rowan in his many forms. Mel and Griff ( the darts match). Pam's caricatures. It must be hilarious in the house with "Big Yin". (BTW, in total agreement with the earlier commenter - and I'm 77
Still so much more original and brilliant than anything today.
Brilliant - real quality writing and delivery.
Rowan had the best “rubber face”😂😂😂
I loved this show back in the day but it wouldn't get on the air today. Times have changed, I've changed. Still funny though. I like truckin is a classic!
And I like to truck.
I've seen this for the first time. Incredibly funny, so talented guys. And Atkinson ❤❤❤
17:58 Is this Billy Connolly?
Yes yes
Thanks 👍 they can't take away our sense of humour 😂
'They' are having a bloody good go at it😢. Nothing like laughing at life's absurdities. Love the goons monty python...
OMG - I was only 12 years old when it was on Danish national television Saturday nights and it was soooo hilarious, even though I did not understand all - I got most of it, Danish people love British humor and this was one of the most popular shows of all times 😂😂🤩🤩🤩🤩
I've still got all my not the nine o'clock news albums i might bring out and listen. 😂
...old school....very nice...I vaguely remember the book..
Wow! I had forgotten how good this show was........I missed most of it as I was abroad mostly.... This is catch-up I guess..... Miss Mel Smith though..... Brilliant.
It's amazing how long it took me to realize the futility of the deaf person knowing when the phone rang... o-O
Same here. It's only when he held it to his ear that it dawned on me.
@@grantm6514 Could you type that again and speak up?
I always remember and loved to see again the one-legged shoe shop stickup. Brilliant :)
I love British comedies... how have I never heard of this.
if you like this you will probably like Monty Python's flying circus - very similar in the madcap humor department 😂
@@lauriecook2399 that's what started my love for British humor... I remember my parents watching VHS copies of the show that my dad had mailed over from Europe from a friend he meet in the Air Force...lol... This is way way before streaming...lol
If you knew who they were taking the Micky out of absolutely spit double.makes it even funnier...😂😂😂😂
@@FrancisHatton Yes it does help to have seen Rantzen, Hann, etc to understand the charicatures of them. So I guess anyone under 40 may struggle to see the comedy.
I was born in 83 I vaguely remember my parents watching it when I was a boy, I think the treasure for my generation was Only Fools and Horses
Only Fools started in 80. By the time you could remember it, it had already finished in the series leaving just the Christmas specials.
Those guys were class
Thank you so much for uploading this - I enjoyed it very much!
Even Smith and Jones is still hilarious today 😁
Oh I love this, including the music ❤ thank you
OMG!! This is amazing!!! Well done!
One of the best ever 😅🎉😂
Pamela Stephenson was absolutely gorgeous. When I heard billy Connolly was dating her I thought you’ve knocked it of there big man.
Pity that the US didn't know what to do with her. Maybe that's why she quit the business.
Some people need glasses, but aren't aware they do.
@@tman5634
No, you had to be there. She had a rocking body, and when made up just right, such as on photo shoots, she really was easy to look at.
Watching this video today, I can understand your scepticism, but you'll have to take our word for it that she was smoking hot when NT NON was all the rage.
Are you blind??
She looks ridiculous
She’s still beautiful
This comedy kinda lingers..thanks for posting.
Cunny Lingers
I once made someone laugh with an amazingly well told joke! She couldn't stop laughing for 4 hours and I had to take her into A and E where she was hospitalised for 6 months without any jokes at all being told to her. She eventually recovered but then accidentally went to a Bernhard Manning show and well she died 12 seconds into it!
Great tv show..very clever very funny ,never missed it back in the day😂
Can't believe this is over 40 years ago....geez, that went quick!
I remember seeing this on telly and my word, it could have been today as nothing has really changed. Even had social media on that flight and the toilet sign. The need to know everything Hahaha
*_"Marc Almond"_* LMAO...
I loooved Tainted Love, with a passion! Eurythmics, Yazoo... I could go on for an hour about everything awesome in the 80s!
Mark was deeply hurt about this depiction, by the way.
@@ВладимирКруглов-к9о
*Seriously?* Aww... bless, fragile little petal!😄
@@Faladaena He wrote quite a bit about it in his memoir "Tainted life", it apparently caused him some long-term distress. He was already uneasy with success, after that bit aired he started hating it☺
@@ВладимирКруглов-к9о
Good grief! LOL...
The Smiths were the greatest thing from the 80's and like this show still relevant today❤❤😂
Bring this humour back.
Loved Mel Smith, taken too soon ❤
I know a lot of these sketches as we used to have them on video, but had not seen a few of them. Just roaring with laughter and as others point out the comedy is very relevant today, and well ahead of its time.
GREAT SHOW !
This was when you could laugh at things you can't laugh at now!
Rowan Atkinson: "Feel free to insult me."
Thanks for sharing.
This was the Eiffel Tower of sketch comedies. It made household names of all 4 of its players: Atkinson, Smith, Jones and Stephenson. Plus, it launched the TV 📺 career of John Lloyd, who went on to produce Spitting Image, Blackadder (also with Atkinson) and QI, among other things. So, this was a seminal series at the time it arrived. Cheers 🥂 for this mate ❤ 😊
Amazing. The 'stoutist' sketch is something the BBC would be broadcasting in all seriousness today.
Amazing how many of these I remember
Loved this at the time.
I'll never forget Mel Smith as the hotel proprietor in European Vacation 😂
Wonderful stuff.
great show!
Good times!😆
And suddenly I'm on the wrong side of 40...😐🤔🥺