In my view this is the best episode of The Day Today they made. Horses on the Tube, the Bureau, the Queen hits John Major, the UK Government official "Everything's OK" public pacification film, Alan Partridge sees boobs, Chapman Baxter and his "Fried To Be", and The Pool with Steve Coogan's iconic security guard, as well as "This is the Newwwwwws!" and the ending long hair gag. The whole thing is a comedy classic.
PopeLando I love this show, and brass eye and on the hour. it's a shame though this isn't still on now, cuz lord knows we need more Chris Morris in the world of comedy.
It’s hilarious how Chapman Baxter continues to be a reoccurring character despite his death in the first episode! Not even a name change to try and disguise it. Gold!
There’s something deeply funny and very underrated about Chris asking so many questions of Alan, with Chris facing his right and Alan facing his left, only for Chris to then turn around and reveal Alan is to his left. They’ve just been both talking at each other in the wrong direction for the past minute. And then Alan disappears from that position, replaced by the French philosopher.
@@chrisbirch4150 I mean, it isn’t from us who watched it. Just reliving my past just now… How many others do you know that know that know this show though? It holds up so well, and couldn’t happen these days. It’s definitely under-rated.
@@emlyndewar maybe. I guess I just think the expression "underrated" is overused on youtube. It's everywhere. The Day Today was a BBC comedy that was critically acclaimed, essentially catapulted Steve coogan and the Alan Partridge character to global fame. A load of the others: Chris Morris, Rebecca Front, David Schneider have all been ever present in tv and movies since. I am not really knocking anything artistically. I am just unclear on the metric for "underrated".
Have not seen this show before. Doon is so good as expected, but Rebecca Front’s comedic skill and versatility shines, too. The gals here are certainly as strong as the two talented guys.
This is the most brilliant TV newsroom training video ever seen. It's uncannily amazing how this Gold Standard presentation from so long ago has spread around the world to become the example that all TV companies follow to this day. "Wonderful stuff. Absolutely triffic. Standard. Standard. Isnit.". Rod Laver.
What I see is the logical results of continuous cuts due to diminishing audience and revenue,The Bureau is the cheapest,shortest,to the point,condensed soap opera ever,also the funniest and best,who needs expensive costume dramas and the like when it's all in here.
"What will they say?" "They'll quite simply say John Major punched the Queen everything else will be a footnote." "But for time, can you sum it up in a word?" "No." "Sound?" "Boouuaaggh." "Spartacus thank you."
15:22 I've just noticed three odd things on my 999th rewatching that, combined, I found rather hilarious: Morris gulping a drink while staring into/smirking at the camera; the looped video in the background of an AK-47 toting militant doing a little dance, captioned "WEATHER"; the shit-eating way Morris introduces Sylvester Stewart. It's so dense.
First appearance of Ted Maul (all be it only voiceover) he has to be the funniest reporter character Chris invented certainly the funniest in Brass Eye. The number of individually different characters Chris creates over the two separate programs is amazing really.
The "this is Britain" video is absolutely packed with jokes, fantastic stuff. Also just noticed that the copper smoking the bifter and the fella patting his jacket for a light are the same actor.
I love The Bureau because it's a bunch of good actors acting like bad actors. Also, I find it amazing that Valerie SInatra and Barbara Wintergreen are the same actor, just because of the difference in accents. The part where all the ministers are entering Number 10 and the reporter is naming them off, "Kenneth Clark, Michael Howard, Christopher Biggins, Michael Heseltine" - the third guy is not, of course, Christopher Biggins, who was a camp overweight d-grade celebrity - but he does look like Christopher Biggins.
Yeh I always remember watching the news in Australia even UK footage was foggy or grainy, before the net it made you feel like anything overseas wasn't quite real, post net now overseas events do feel real cos you can literally watch people live overseas with clear footage.
@@belykwater5601 Oh the Charlie thing is from that Sarah Palin interview, I think it was her first TV interview, I can't remember what the interviewers name was, but he asked her something like, "what's your opinion of the Bush doctrine ?" And she replied with this semi-homespun, high-pitched attempt to appear likeable, and she just replied, "In what respect Charlie ?" It was a funny moment. Politics moves so fast now that it can be hard to find stuff like that. But I just use it because it gives me a chuckle when I think of that first, disastrous Sarah Palin interview. (This was before the Couric interview, which just descended into madness)
to me TDT at its best easily rivals the best of Python. Not all of them is gold, but certain sketches are simply impossible to match: the parrot, funniest joke, how not to be seen, Blackmail, rich yorkshiremen, the dirty fork and of course the legendary Life of Brian . Same with TDT
stinky visitor I rememember in Brass Eye where we had a radio DJ, Tommy Vance (for some inexplicable reason) giving us a list of absurd prison slang. Among which was 'Portillo', which meant 'watch out behind you'. I think part of it was that Morris, like most in the media, was aware that many people in the public eye had another side to their personality, and this was his way of bringing it out without making himself subject to libel.
Well he does (did) carry a sawn-off shotgun to constituency meetings, corners children in parks and chews their cheeks and has frequent sexual intercourse with stray animals. How could anyone condone that?
‘Just to let you know that police are still looking for the act of Bert Renauld’s after he stole a dodgem and drove it out of a fairground in Islington’ lmfao
These are the only blemishes in the otherwise flawless day today. They are a bit naff and its not really fair to pick on the general public in this way. Thankfully they went for bigger fish on Brass Eye
this is the golden age of television. christopher morris is a god. it all went downhill from here. apart from peep show. and brass eye but that's basically series 2 of this. oh and alan partridge. maybe it didn't all go downhill maybe there's just 5 people in television who can make stuff that's actually good
It was broadcast on BBC2, at the nine-o-clock slot reserved for independent comedy - Monty Python, Not The Nine O’Clock News, Red Dwarf and many other cult shows were shown as well as The Day Today. The Alan Partridge character went on to become better known in his own shows, and with Jam and Brass Eye on a different channel, Chris Morris would soon become the enfant terrible of British tabloid press. Another BBC2 9pm show was The Office, which is reputed to be based on a sketch in The Day Today. They definitely pioneered the ‘mockumentary’ format which the Office adopted. I know a few people around my age who are fans of the show - they tend to be the cooler, more literate of my friends 😊
These days it's all cheap shots at celebs. I don't want to be all grumpy about modern TV but there seems to be less abstract humour mixed in, everything has to be right on the nose. Tried and tested rather than inventive.
I think it's time for Hollywood to make a $200m blockbuster out of the Bureau De Change. They'd need a big name though so Cruise would have to replace Coogan.
That Bureau clip encapsulated every Eastenders nuance perfectly.
It's scary just how authentic this is to modern news coverage.
@@no9008 : That episode and what happened before they rebroadcast it a week after the first showing still amazes me.
@@DisorderedArray Do tell!
yes it is
@@no9008 shut up stupid face
@@no9008 That was Brass Eye Not The Day Today
In my view this is the best episode of The Day Today they made. Horses on the Tube, the Bureau, the Queen hits John Major, the UK Government official "Everything's OK" public pacification film, Alan Partridge sees boobs, Chapman Baxter and his "Fried To Be", and The Pool with Steve Coogan's iconic security guard, as well as "This is the Newwwwwws!" and the ending long hair gag. The whole thing is a comedy classic.
+PopeLando Also: John Fashanu.
John Fashanu....
John FASHanu
PopeLando I love this show, and brass eye and on the hour. it's a shame though this isn't still on now, cuz lord knows we need more Chris Morris in the world of comedy.
That's John FaSHAnu.
It’s hilarious how Chapman Baxter continues to be a reoccurring character despite his death in the first episode! Not even a name change to try and disguise it. Gold!
"She gon' die like a dawg" LMAOOO
He died on the John in a *big nappy*
Like two episodes after this one on "The Bureau" the boss discovers the one character is gay, so consistency is consistently inconsistent. lol
For some reason, I found the funniest moment in this episode to be the paramedic giving the old woman a little kiss on the cheek.
Never even noticed that before and I must have seen this about 50 times!
Also "Can you sum it up in a word?" "No." "A sound?" "Mwaarrgh" tickles me every time
There’s something deeply funny and very underrated about Chris asking so many questions of Alan, with Chris facing his right and Alan facing his left, only for Chris to then turn around and reveal Alan is to his left. They’ve just been both talking at each other in the wrong direction for the past minute. And then Alan disappears from that position, replaced by the French philosopher.
How do you know it is underrated?
@@chrisbirch4150the whole show is underrated, so we know every bit from it is.
@@emlyndewar is the show underrated?
@@chrisbirch4150 I mean, it isn’t from us who watched it. Just reliving my past just now… How many others do you know that know that know this show though? It holds up so well, and couldn’t happen these days. It’s definitely under-rated.
@@emlyndewar maybe. I guess I just think the expression "underrated" is overused on youtube. It's everywhere. The Day Today was a BBC comedy that was critically acclaimed, essentially catapulted Steve coogan and the Alan Partridge character to global fame. A load of the others: Chris Morris, Rebecca Front, David Schneider have all been ever present in tv and movies since. I am not really knocking anything artistically. I am just unclear on the metric for "underrated".
"This is Britain and everything's all right." Timeless genius.
15:12 "Leaves her lover jolted at the Altar...Looks like this is one wedding where we all get to toast the happy couple" That's gold.
"John Fashanu...John Fashanu...John Fashanu...John Fashanu...John Fashanu...John Fashanu...
That's John Fasharnew... tonight on BBC 2"
ppl actually pronounce it fasharnew these days
I spat out my tea at that joke
Eh? There's no 'r' sound in there.
@@Catcrumbs I think it's in there somewhere
It's getting the name as far off as possible
Everything Morris/Ianucci have done is eminently quotable
"Headmaster suspended for using big-faced child as satellite dish" lmaooo
It's bigger than that chris, it's large...
this is a high class bureau de chonge
... Shut it Alan, I want you to stop.
I mean it's bigger than that Chris, it's large.
"Resident Reactor" haha. This show is gold.
I rewatch it about every 2 years, catch some new nuance every time.
Brilliant.
THIS IS THE NYEEEWWWS.
GOD I WISH IT WASN'T.
HAPPY NOW?
HELLO SIR!
My favourite phrases there.
.
THANKS
HELLO SIR! was my favourite. Beer everywhere first time I saw that!!
Have not seen this show before. Doon is so good as expected, but Rebecca Front’s comedic skill and versatility shines, too. The gals here are certainly as strong as the two talented guys.
Totally! Front is a national treasure.
have you seen Brass Eye?
Front deserves an MBE!!!
Doon too!!!
"Elastic song strangles Hucknall" must be a contender for the best-delivered line in the series.
Chris Morris's elaborate transitions are legitimately quite nice.
THIS IS THE NEEEEEEEEEEEWS
Happy now?
Those the headlines, my God I wish they weren't (/-_•)\..
Now fact me 'til I fart.
It was more like NEEEEEEEEOOOOUUUUWWS
THIS IS THE NEWWWWWS😅😅
This is the most brilliant TV newsroom training video ever seen. It's uncannily amazing how this Gold Standard presentation from so long ago has spread around the world to become the example that all TV companies follow to this day. "Wonderful stuff. Absolutely triffic. Standard. Standard. Isnit.". Rod Laver.
It's GBnews from the good old days..
I still find myself saying "it's a magnificent potato of a day" from time to time ha
:)
The Bureau is what I see when I watch any soap ever
What I see is the logical results of continuous cuts due to diminishing audience and revenue,The Bureau is the cheapest,shortest,to the point,condensed soap opera ever,also the funniest and best,who needs expensive costume dramas and the like when it's all in here.
All that teeth acting, it's sublime!
You're on borrowed time, sunshine
That look when Steve Coogan says “You’re out!” 🤣
I'm closing the bureau..
For an hour.
"What will they say?"
"They'll quite simply say John Major punched the Queen everything else will be a footnote."
"But for time, can you sum it up in a word?"
"No."
"Sound?"
"Boouuaaggh."
"Spartacus thank you."
It’s bigger than that it’s large
I wish I'd kept my John Major kissing the Queen commemorative stamps in mint condition.
Thanks for posting this. Chris Morris is a much underrated comedian, and I used to watch his Brass Eye too back in the day.
My god, that Britian montage - I can't breath
Wabznasm
The paramedic kissing the old one on the cheek 😂😂😂😂
This is surrealist video art at its finest.
The deadpan nature of the humour is brilliant. And it almost fools you into thinking it's actually real news.
Some of it got complaints when it came out. Peadeggedon received the most complaints in history when it was aired.
The brilliance of this show makes me want to prefer it over anything that’s calls itself a news outlet today.
“It’s difficult not to feel humbled or even ashamed after that”
She sure is pretty.. She gonna die like a dawg... You may kiss the bride... CLEAR THE AREA. Steve Coogan is brilliant as the minister.
15:22 I've just noticed three odd things on my 999th rewatching that, combined, I found rather hilarious: Morris gulping a drink while staring into/smirking at the camera; the looped video in the background of an AK-47 toting militant doing a little dance, captioned "WEATHER"; the shit-eating way Morris introduces Sylvester Stewart. It's so dense.
relentless, you end up having trouble breathing if you don't pause from time to time
First appearance of Ted Maul (all be it only voiceover) he has to be the funniest reporter character Chris invented certainly the funniest in Brass Eye. The number of individually different characters Chris creates over the two separate programs is amazing really.
Albeit
I used to make sure I was baked out of my mind every week when this was on early 90s. Best times, somehow this still seems relevant.
Smart move 😂
The "this is Britain" video is absolutely packed with jokes, fantastic stuff. Also just noticed that the copper smoking the bifter and the fella patting his jacket for a light are the same actor.
I love The Bureau because it's a bunch of good actors acting like bad actors. Also, I find it amazing that Valerie SInatra and Barbara Wintergreen are the same actor, just because of the difference in accents.
The part where all the ministers are entering Number 10 and the reporter is naming them off, "Kenneth Clark, Michael Howard, Christopher Biggins, Michael Heseltine" - the third guy is not, of course, Christopher Biggins, who was a camp overweight d-grade celebrity - but he does look like Christopher Biggins.
Everything's alright. It's OK. It's fine.
My god, this is still as fresh as it was thirty years ago.
Truly ahead of its time.
All these years later and still the funniest, most accurate satire there is...TODAY, tonight, NOW!
still the best thing ever on british telly
"... Special staff who had to patrol the darkened tunnels every day...and _kill_ the horses with _hammers!"_
I love how the video from the US looks like crap, just like it did back then due to the conversion from PAL to NTSC (or was it the other way around?)
Other way around. The NTSC colour space is vastly different. Never Twice the Same Colour
Yeh I always remember watching the news in Australia even UK footage was foggy or grainy, before the net it made you feel like anything overseas wasn't quite real, post net now overseas events do feel real cos you can literally watch people live overseas with clear footage.
ah that pool sketch is brilliant..
"in 1976 no one died
in 1977 no one died
"n 1978 no one died
in 1979 no one died"
When an early 90’s news parody show is more believable than the mainstream media in 2023 we know we have a problem.
Yea, way to go Trump! Good job Fox News!
@@audiblenugz Hard to believe people this guy still exist.
@@belykwater5601In what respect, Charlie ?
@@jimreily7538 To be a fan of Donald Trump and Fox News, after everything that's happened. Why do you call me Charlie?
@@belykwater5601 Oh the Charlie thing is from that Sarah Palin interview, I think it was her first TV interview, I can't remember what the interviewers name was, but he asked her something like, "what's your opinion of the Bush doctrine ?"
And she replied with this semi-homespun, high-pitched attempt to appear likeable, and she just replied, "In what respect Charlie ?"
It was a funny moment. Politics moves so fast now that it can be hard to find stuff like that. But I just use it because it gives me a chuckle when I think of that first, disastrous Sarah Palin interview.
(This was before the Couric interview, which just descended into madness)
“Fried to be” is crazy 😂😂
We need this back, up to date, more than ever!
I first saw this when I was 13. It is still as funny, fresh, and relevant as it was then.
"Bob Marriner, you missed the penalty - WHY?"
The currency kidney! Inflammation in the exchange tract! A negative flow of waste pounds across all international membranes! Oh god I’m dying!
Ahh, my favourite kind of fake news!
The imagination of the script writers is amazing, almost if not at Monty Python levels of quality. Perfect cast as well.
to me TDT at its best easily rivals the best of Python. Not all of them is gold, but certain sketches are simply impossible to match: the parrot, funniest joke, how not to be seen, Blackmail, rich yorkshiremen, the dirty fork and of course the legendary Life of Brian . Same with TDT
Monty Python is actually shit. Baffling that people like it
@@artvandelay3922except he isn't. Don't you feel special 😂
Collaterlie Sisters has to be the best name I have ever heard.
+embe1
+1
+embe1 I think Spartacus Mills is the best for me.
_"It's bigger than that Chris, it's large."_
Bwahaha! Spit liquid on my keyboard.
+embe1 Sookie Bapswent
Try Jane Plough.
Have you killed anyone? Only my dad, got me.😂😂
The Queen marches on Downing Street 😂 tears from laughing
Absolutely side splitting funny. Gets even better with age.
Amazing work uploading these my friend! So hard to find and everyone deserves (read: needs) to be exposed to Chris Morris' genius. Thank you!
Anyone else think Doon MacKichan and Rebecca Front were hot as hell!
They still are imo
I'll take that.
They are far from being hot as hell but they are not ugly.
Yep!
Definitely by British standards.
Coogan at 5:31 is just wonderful
Is Coogan in this?
@@peterbreen3039 All day.
Fat....l
"Like an abattoir in a powercut"
'Heseltine fading fast'. What was that weird obsession Morris had with Heseltine? And Portillo even more so.
stinky visitor I rememember in Brass Eye where we had a radio DJ, Tommy Vance (for some inexplicable reason) giving us a list of absurd prison slang. Among which was 'Portillo', which meant 'watch out behind you'. I think part of it was that Morris, like most in the media, was aware that many people in the public eye had another side to their personality, and this was his way of bringing it out without making himself subject to libel.
Well he does (did) carry a sawn-off shotgun to constituency meetings, corners children in parks and chews their cheeks and has frequent sexual intercourse with stray animals. How could anyone condone that?
Best comedy of any kind, ever.
We need this show again in 2023. Who wants to the real news? No one. Who wants comedy parody news? Everyone.
That's a very good Richard Branson look-a-likey! =o)
.....Between this and "Brasseye"... the best two News and Current Affairs opening sequences and themes since the beginning of recorded time....... 😁
Proof, if proof be need be
"The Day Today. Approaches the buffet with an extremely broad plate."
I wonder if that's where Alan Partridge got his idea for the 12" plate scam...
This was so funny . Back in the 90s . Still good today.
SHUT IT ALAN. I WANT YOU TO STOP.
Massively ahead of its time
‘Just to let you know that police are still looking for the act of Bert Renauld’s after he stole a dodgem and drove it out of a fairground in Islington’ lmfao
The actor Burt Reynolds, I take it you mean.
20:16 that poor man... He had no idea what he was being interviewed for :D
These are the only blemishes in the otherwise flawless day today. They are a bit naff and its not really fair to pick on the general public in this way. Thankfully they went for bigger fish on Brass Eye
this is the golden age of television. christopher morris is a god. it all went downhill from here. apart from peep show. and brass eye but that's basically series 2 of this. oh and alan partridge. maybe it didn't all go downhill maybe there's just 5 people in television who can make stuff that's actually good
77MrAH The thick of it was brilliant.
How popular was this show? It is so well done
Not as popular as it should have been ..
It was broadcast on BBC2, at the nine-o-clock slot reserved for independent comedy - Monty Python, Not The Nine O’Clock News, Red Dwarf and many other cult shows were shown as well as The Day Today. The Alan Partridge character went on to become better known in his own shows, and with Jam and Brass Eye on a different channel, Chris Morris would soon become the enfant terrible of British tabloid press.
Another BBC2 9pm show was The Office, which is reputed to be based on a sketch in The Day Today. They definitely pioneered the ‘mockumentary’ format which the Office adopted.
I know a few people around my age who are fans of the show - they tend to be the cooler, more literate of my friends 😊
I never thought I'd say this, right... But pull down the blinds. I'm closing the bureau. foranhour.
I do wonder if Noel Fielding got the idea for the voice of Richmond on the IT Crowd from the pool night attendant, Keith Mandemant!
i was trying to remember where i'd heard that voice! was thinking it was boosh and couldn't place it
"it's bigger then that Chris its large"
Bwuuhahhhaa
Bureau de Change is still my favourite program, amazing writers!
I'm trying to run a high class bureau de change here!
'Call an ambulance '..
'Don't bother, she's dead'
The very ending where he tears his wig off as the credits roll 😂🤣😆
This is brilliant at its best !
Still more accurate than the modern media.
Not really though.
Alan Partridge does Dirty Den
This has not aged apart from Queen v Major, today Charles v Rishi lol
This is now 30 years old, of course it has aged
Britain needs something like this on TV in 2022
Haven't you seen GBnews yet?
These days it's all cheap shots at celebs. I don't want to be all grumpy about modern TV but there seems to be less abstract humour mixed in, everything has to be right on the nose. Tried and tested rather than inventive.
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.
Sal sean
Good point.
Incidentally, he was a writer for On the Hour.
Garth Mahrenghi is a legend.
John Fashaanoo
"Let me just tell you, you look fantastic on a horse! ... Like the Lone Ranger on Tonto"
I'm watching this and comedy gold 🤣
Sheer frigging brilliance!
"shot in the chin" is such an Armando Iannucci line
I love how the electric chair is so useless that they have yet to give Chapman Baxter his sizzling send off, despite multiple attempts.
i’m surprised there aren’t more people talking about the “churches churches churches” bit that was hilarious
thanks for uploading this [checks notes] Pol Pot
Slavoj Zizek is the modern day Jacques-jacques Liverot
7:20 🗣️ *SHUT IT ALLAN.*
Brilliant 😂❤😊
0:43 This Is The News
Was this from a sketch comedy troop? I only learned about this today and have been binge watching. This is goddamn good.
British humour at it's best. Chris Morris you tried but no one lstened.
I never thought I'd say this... I'M CLOSING THE BUREAU (for an hour)
Killed the horses with HAMMERS
"...headmaster suspended for using big faced child as satellite dish" ahahahahahahhahahaha
I think it's time for Hollywood to make a $200m blockbuster out of the Bureau De Change. They'd need a big name though so Cruise would have to replace Coogan.
Originally aired on BBC Two on 2.2.1994.