It's the way he turns round and assesses the room when he's playing Gay Bar and then turns back towards the piano and carries on. Makes me laugh out loud every time 🤣🤣🤣
I've been to many management meetings in local government and I can assure you the fate of Benjamin Graham for stating the obvious is entirely true to life.
@kaspianepps7946 I say, old bean, what are you blathering about? I venture to say that Jeeves himself could not deduce your point if he were to become a strict piscavore. Awaiting clarification.
@@JiveDadson The person I'm responding to said "years before Jeeves and Wooster's time" implying they didn't think the sketch could be a parody of Jeeves and Wooster. I was pointing out that Jeeves and Wooster actually came out over a decade before the sketch aired.
A nod to the 'Dreadnought Hoax' played on the Royal Navy, I think around 1912, by the arch-joker Horace Cole, writer Virginia Woolf, Virginia's brother Adrian Stephen, artist Duncan Grant and others. Got a theatrical costumer to rig them out as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. Wired from London, purporting to be from a government department, that the Emperor wished to visit and inspect the Royal Navy's newest ship HMS Dreadnought. The others all spoke gibberish, with Adrian posing as official interpreter. They were received and given a tour by a senior officer (who was actually a cousin of Duncan Grant, but didn't recognise him). Horace Cole tipped off a newspaper the next day, who splashed the story and made the Royal Navy a laughing stock for a few days. Questions were even asked in Parliament.
My mum left me in my pram outside a shop. Then she got home and my gran was like, "where's the baby?". I was still there when she got back to the shop.
I was walking past a newsagents and there was a pram outside with twins in it. Some bloke who genuinely looked like he came from another century, with a shape I've never seen outside of cartoons, was standing there and, as I passed by, he asked me, "Aren't they beautiful? Aren't they just beautiful?" I had no idea how to respond to this weirdness, and just mumbled an "I suppose so, yes", and carried on my way. I'm normally quite happy to talk to strangers, but this was slightly beyond me. I don't have kids, don't understand why people rave about babies and didn't understand when I was in a pram why women would say complimentary things about me (yep, my memory goes back a loooong way) when I was very young. He was still raving about them, to no one in particular, as I passed out of earshot. Still, at least he didn't nick them. Edit, probably because the brake was on!
I'm sure this is a quote from a real sixties live discussion show...David Frost or something similar....a protester got into the studio and started to speak but was bundled to the ground by bystanders...he shouted "I will not be silenced!" Did this really happen or is a 40+ year old memory playing tricks on me??
7 years too late, here is the answer: That Was The Week That Was (TW3) 1960s satire programme. I think Bernard Levin had made a comment earlier that the protester wanted to dispute. On another occasion, a member of the audience punched Levin.
This is sheer brilliance. The only thing is, back then "gay" meant something different, so it wouldn't have seemed quite as jarring as we might believe, still pretty freaky though.
Similar, I would think. Gay was fun - as in, fun girls. The loose morals bit ended up moving in to homosexuality, but it could certainly have sounded like he was singing about going to a brothel, which in that setting would have been scandalous I'm sure. That's why we now call them 'hostess bars'. Far more civilized...
Not much, especially popular music. It's still pretty much the same as early folk ballads. The modern classical tradition, Hamelin and Rzewski and so forth are still relatively similar though more complex to Scriabin and Alkan.
I see you triggered some people but with regards to the BBC/C4 you are totally right. Years ago we had this, mitchell and webb, fast show, so on and so on, a golden age of comedy. C4 had its own great stuff. Now we have endless new series of "The Mash Report" and "The Last Leg" and the decades past its sell by date "HIGNFY" where a box ticking panel of left wing arseholes sit and sneer at anyone who isn't like them.
It's the way he turns round and assesses the room when he's playing Gay Bar and then turns back towards the piano and carries on. Makes me laugh out loud every time 🤣🤣🤣
Alexander is such a talented musician
Having grown up in the 1970s, those PIFs (Public Information Films) are spot on!!!
"... hypnotized into believing he was a steam locomotive..."
I love the snippets of the amazing and fascinating stories we hear in those sketches. Would love to have heard more from each of them haha
@@ticklish1991 I know.
It's a shame one of them wasn't very, very drunk....
"How many hats" really got to me
I've been to many management meetings in local government and I can assure you the fate of Benjamin Graham for stating the obvious is entirely true to life.
@@freebeerfordworkers That's it. We're on to you!
You know you're not allowed to let the general public in on that sort of thing!!!"
Much funner than 'Numberwang'.
I can't believe How many hats? didn't get picked up for a series, it really was compelling viewing.
It was reimagined as Numberwang
Is the number of series you're thinking of a prime number? 😁
first piano part is amazing
Their eye for parody is unequalled. These are superb.
I have the feeling that piano player might be a time traveler.
Definitely didn't feel piano player was "right on time".
@@scipioafricanus5871 - Nor did he get a 'Ride on Time'... ;)
omfg, that first bit almost killed me laughing!!!
The Jeeves and Wooster parody is great.
Years before Jeeves and Wooster’s time.
Wodehouse wrote the first Jeeves book in the 20s or before.
@@josephinebennington7247 The Jeeves and Wooster TV adaptation aired 1990-1993; The Armstrong & Miller Show aired 2007-2010.
@kaspianepps7946 I say, old bean, what are you blathering about? I venture to say that Jeeves himself could not deduce your point if he were to become a strict piscavore. Awaiting clarification.
@@JiveDadson The person I'm responding to said "years before Jeeves and Wooster's time" implying they didn't think the sketch could be a parody of Jeeves and Wooster. I was pointing out that Jeeves and Wooster actually came out over a decade before the sketch aired.
lmfao when he started singing "right on time"
It's Ride on Time!
2.03
Sometimes I wished I had my serving tray with me.
"I will not be silenced!" lol
Alexander Armstrong rocking to Gay Bar always reduces me to tears…
Remember "Chip pan, children. chair!"......Pmsl
You sir!
Why are they shocked when he starts singing about visiting a cheerful public house?
Because he had something to put in them
"Disguise yourself as an Abyssinian!" Marvelous
We call it Ethiopia now
A nod to the 'Dreadnought Hoax' played on the Royal Navy, I think around 1912, by the arch-joker Horace Cole, writer Virginia Woolf, Virginia's brother Adrian Stephen, artist Duncan Grant and others.
Got a theatrical costumer to rig them out as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. Wired from London, purporting to be from a government department, that the Emperor wished to visit and inspect the Royal Navy's newest ship HMS Dreadnought. The others all spoke gibberish, with Adrian posing as official interpreter. They were received and given a tour by a senior officer (who was actually a cousin of Duncan Grant, but didn't recognise him).
Horace Cole tipped off a newspaper the next day, who splashed the story and made the Royal Navy a laughing stock for a few days. Questions were even asked in Parliament.
My mum left me in my pram outside a shop. Then she got home and my gran was like, "where's the baby?". I was still there when she got back to the shop.
I was walking past a newsagents and there was a pram outside with twins in it.
Some bloke who genuinely looked like he came from another century, with a shape I've never seen outside of cartoons, was standing there and, as I passed by, he asked me,
"Aren't they beautiful? Aren't they just beautiful?"
I had no idea how to respond to this weirdness, and just mumbled an "I suppose so, yes", and carried on my way.
I'm normally quite happy to talk to strangers, but this was slightly beyond me. I don't have kids, don't understand why people rave about babies and didn't understand when I was in a pram why women would say complimentary things about me (yep, my memory goes back a loooong way) when I was very young.
He was still raving about them, to no one in particular, as I passed out of earshot. Still, at least he didn't nick them.
Edit, probably because the brake was on!
2:33
GENERAL KENOBI
Got myself into a chutney
the jeeves and wooster scetch is rather difficult to find
The lost episodes.
Hilarious!
Monty Python did a parody in the 70s of all the radio quiz games. Its hilarious
ride on time-blackbox
I'm sure this is a quote from a real sixties live discussion show...David Frost or something similar....a protester got into the studio and started to speak but was bundled to the ground by bystanders...he shouted "I will not be silenced!"
Did this really happen or is a 40+ year old memory playing tricks on me??
7 years too late, here is the answer: That Was The Week That Was (TW3) 1960s satire programme. I think Bernard Levin had made a comment earlier that the protester wanted to dispute. On another occasion, a member of the audience punched Levin.
This is sheer brilliance.
The only thing is, back then "gay" meant something different, so it wouldn't have seemed quite as jarring as we might believe, still pretty freaky though.
Similar, I would think. Gay was fun - as in, fun girls. The loose morals bit ended up moving in to homosexuality, but it could certainly have sounded like he was singing about going to a brothel, which in that setting would have been scandalous I'm sure. That's why we now call them 'hostess bars'. Far more civilized...
Electric lighting
"ONE HAT!*hmmpfff!!!*..."
3 hats lol
RUMTEETO: It's a take off of 'What's My Line?' (featuring Gilbert Harding)
NOOOO!
I don't know. I didn't exist 40 years ago and I only watch british TV since TH-cam, so I can't tell.
mammoth!
The first song is by the Fugs.
It's a shame Armstrong is more famous these days for being the host of a boring game show and being on Classic FM.
And he still is! Such a waste. Still, his choice…or the money’s.
I prefer the erudition of the whacky questions.
Anyone know what that second song is?
Charles Vincent Still wanna know?😁
ride on time by Black Box
Not much, especially popular music. It's still pretty much the same as early folk ballads. The modern classical tradition, Hamelin and Rzewski and so forth are still relatively similar though more complex to Scriabin and Alkan.
I don't know any of those names, but I've given you a thumbs up anyway, and intend to learn more.
😅😅😅
5:00 - Donald Trump if he were an edwardian Englishman.
More likely bill clinton.
They truly don't make comedy like they used to in this sterile PC country 😕
Kris Jenders... Oh do fuck off, will you!
LOL it was only 10 years ago
I see you triggered some people but with regards to the BBC/C4 you are totally right. Years ago we had this, mitchell and webb, fast show, so on and so on, a golden age of comedy. C4 had its own great stuff. Now we have endless new series of "The Mash Report" and "The Last Leg" and the decades past its sell by date "HIGNFY" where a box ticking panel of left wing arseholes sit and sneer at anyone who isn't like them.
These n-words are too much.
Didn’t hear any n-words in this video 😒