An episode i recorded at the time complete - a few un-pc items on here Not much chance of a dvd release - so enjoy - Mel Smith what a great performer !
I saw this in my youth too and have just watched this to reminisce . I did not laugh out loud once. I was so disappointed. Maybe it is just me, I am old school and love watching things from my youth but after watching this I realise that The Inbetweeners , Friday night Dinner, Plebs, The Young Offenders, The Office, Extras and other comedies of the 21st century are so much funnier than the shite we watched back then. I hate to admit it but it is true.
The Internet Killed Music Mmm, first option would be no, but the second option would be yes. I'd take it under both circumstances. I'd be 13 in '81 and I'm not sure I'd want to be that small again but I loved the post-punk time. And as you know the music was great unlike today's nonsense.
I would had liked to had seen it from the very first episode. I've got The Best of... Volumes 1 and 2 on DVD which is an edited compliation of all the best sketches.
Being a huge Blackadder fan, Atkinson's talent is a given, but Mel Smith was Years ahead of his time. His humour is like it was made yesterday. RIP Mel
I have always had a vivid memory of watching the skit with the petrol pump when I was a child. I don't remember anything else about this at all, apart from that. It's strange what you remember as a child. I'm pleased to have seen it again.
Mel Smith as Frances Morell is pure genius 23:35 and I love the petrol station sketch, £5.00 worth of petrol would hardly get you home from the bloody petrol station these days.
Still remember the petrol station Sketch myself as I had only started driving. As I'm a lot older now., The dog sketch will take over. Not that I will bring telling anyone about it in forty years. Tomorrow for sure.
This makes me laugh today! I love the silliness of British humour, wonderful piss-take quality to it. Takes me back to younger years of my life... Love the 'fisherdog' - reminds me of a sign I saw in the door of a pub outside Cambridge (well-known, can't remember the name) which read: No children, no dogs, and no long-haired lefties. (Would have been about 1971 I think.)
Remember watching this on friday nights in Denmark with my parents the four years it was on..Oh watched the reruns to obviously. Mel always made me laugh...RIP.
I remember the episode in the second half of this video very well. I would have been 18 when it was on and I've remembered the words to 'I'm a Headbanger' ever since.
The sketch featuring the bank is very good. Sometimes I wish the banks had kept our savings in little boxes as they would have been a lot safer. Pamela also did a great job in turning herself from a super attractive babe to a dowdy looking bank clerk. The petrol joke is a classic - how little forecourts have changed (and our attempts to get to the nearest whole number)
It's fun to spot young comic actors ( some serious ones) in old series like these. Jim Carter ( Downton's Carson) is at 9.00. Mad Mike Hoare--was a real mercenary soldier, who was in the news a lot back then. the show was mostly topical of it's time.
BBC 2 Mondays at 21:00 if I recall correctly ? The sketch in the bank was built on the same premise as the 'Gramophone' sketch in the hi-fi electrical shop with Mel Smith again playing the unsuspecting customer being the butt of the jokes of the staff. I love the Rowan Atkinson idea of the shop thief being lured by the tea in the 'Special Offers' section - brilliant !
This was such a good comedy show inventive and really funny. This is Brit humour at its best. It had such a talented group of hilarious individuals. Its a shame it only ran for 3 seasons on British TV and deserved many many more seasons of this gem of British tv comedy from this era which coincided incidentally with the first 3 years of the Thatcher Govt in the UK and jokes about the Thatcher Conservative Govt featured a lot on the show, but the show ending after only just 3 seasons may have something to do with Pamela Stephenson having other plans and wanting to move on and because they were all good friends and tight nit group decided to call it quits if one of them left the show, Pamela Stephenson who was popular in the UK in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s as an actress and being constantly in the UK media at the time in the early 1980s, who was very talented personality herself preparing for an expanded career in America. Because she joined SNL in the mid 1980s and moved to America from the UK after that and has been there ever since after marrying Billy Connolly. I think she has given up acting in the early 1990s after being in several movies and tv shows for memorably appearing in minor role in Superman III but she was in a lot of other movies too not big roles, but she was a good looking lady in the 1980s and she left an impression on me, then she went back to education and studied psychology and became a qualified doctor in the States. How people re invent themselves and change careers and who they are after many decades. Not the nine o clock news showed the good quality of tv shows and the talent that was on British television at this time.
The 'punchline' for the spoof "Contact 1,200" advert at about 18:00 (which is cut short in this video) is Rowan Atkinson with a capsule stuck up each nostril.
Love this stuff. There was a hilarious sketch (I think by these people) about the idiocy of union voting "All those not in favour of rejecting the acceptance of the offer..." but I can't find it anywhere.
Francis Morrell: "Well I'm amazed i mean we're sitting here talking about a nuclear holocaust, casually discussing the destruction of the entire planet and ignoring the major issue. Which is the appalling record of this Conservative government and the real tragedy here is that 3 million people will die......unemployed...and here I would like to drone on about Conservative economic policy...." Brilliant.
Has anyone got a video of the sketch of a radio controlled model powerboat driven by Rowan Atkinson on a park pond interfering with the electric wheelchair of Mel Smith in the background? Priceless!
And thus is over 35 years old? Weirdly relevant in places. I don't know if I should be impressed by the scope or depressed by the evident lack of change in almost 40 years.
That is because school and university do not delevop young people in self thinking subjects any more. The change began in the late seventies. And since the eighties people often even look like today. New technology has only brought even more superficiality.
The show was made at a time when the world seemed to be progressing ahead but somewhere in between, possibly mid to late 90's the world became more corporatised, social media was in its infancy and since then the world has done a u-turn and gone backward without us realising it...that's why the comedy seems relevant...the world has gone nowhere since the 80's...if anything, it's more darker and scarier.
@@zapkvr Sounds like it's too easy for you to not want to know who the bad guys are. Well I'll tell you, The bad guys are a handful of people who own the combined wealth of the world's poorest half. And people like you are compliant and obedient to these handful of people FFS.
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It is still brilliant after 43yrs 🙏🏻🙏🏻
The gag with the pencil during Question Time is pure genius!
Saw this in my youth and decades later it still makes me laugh out loud😀
I saw this in my youth too and have just watched this to reminisce . I did not laugh out loud once. I was so disappointed. Maybe it is just me, I am old school and love watching things from my youth but after watching this I realise that The Inbetweeners , Friday night Dinner, Plebs, The Young Offenders, The Office, Extras and other comedies of the 21st century are so much funnier than the shite we watched back then. I hate to admit it but it is true.
what is wrong with people that watch this. a load of weird idiots.
@@lennywebb6740 I agree those are good comedies, but this is clever and funny. you aren't you are a sad bitter little knob.
This is as funny as anal cancer.
Thumbs up if you would quite happily go back to 1981
I was born in 1984, but I would like to go back to 1981 and watch Not the Nine O'clock News.
+pigknickers Do I get to be young again too? :)
The Internet Killed Music Mmm, first option would be no, but the second option would be yes. I'd take it under both circumstances. I'd be 13 in '81 and I'm not sure I'd want to be that small again but I loved the post-punk time. And as you know the music was great unlike today's nonsense.
+pigknickers I'd love to be young again, I could do everything better!
I would had liked to had seen it from the very first episode. I've got The Best of... Volumes 1 and 2 on DVD which is an edited compliation of all the best sketches.
Being a huge Blackadder fan, Atkinson's talent is a given, but Mel Smith was Years ahead of his time. His humour is like it was made yesterday. RIP Mel
Gordon Urquhart ...Mel who?
Yebbut Mel Smith is a bloody useless copper though in my experience. Germany calling. Germany calling.
@@AsadAli-jc5tg educate yourself sweetie 😀
This show is something that we all need right now. But it seems people don't have the guts anymore...
The bank sketch is wonderful. Highly amusing.
I have been looking for the Question Time sketch on TH-cam for ages. Brilliant.
I have always had a vivid memory of watching the skit with the petrol pump when I was a child. I don't remember anything else about this at all, apart from that. It's strange what you remember as a child. I'm pleased to have seen it again.
Mel Smith as Frances Morell is pure genius 23:35 and I love the petrol station sketch, £5.00 worth of petrol would hardly get you home from the bloody petrol station these days.
2021 ..... struggle to get off the forecourt!
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Still remember the petrol station Sketch myself as I had only started driving. As I'm a lot older now., The dog sketch will take over. Not that I will bring telling anyone about it in forty years. Tomorrow for sure.
"And I'm pretty sure, he would have shat in his pants!" Hilarious delivery.
Sultans of swing just makes this even better.....🎵🎵
Great watching these old episodes with Griff,Mel & Rowan in them.
“Your box. You know, the little cardboard shoebox that we keep your money in.” 🤣🤣🤣
The unemployed wildebeest had me in absolute tears😂
Love this old British comedy! 😎👍
It's such a shame that most Americans just know Rowan for being Mr. Bean. He's so much more than that!
This makes me laugh today! I love the silliness of British humour, wonderful piss-take quality to it.
Takes me back to younger years of my life... Love the 'fisherdog' - reminds me of a sign I saw in the
door of a pub outside Cambridge (well-known, can't remember the name) which read:
No children, no dogs, and no long-haired lefties. (Would have been about 1971 I think.)
us loves brit humour.. its why they copied so many :)
I was a kid when this was on but my mum used yo let me stay up to watch it and 'Gob on you' will always favourite comedy tune.
Remember watching this on friday nights in Denmark with my parents the four years it was on..Oh watched the reruns to obviously.
Mel always made me laugh...RIP.
Jeg husker det også haha
wow!! I live in Denmark and have always thought how similar British humour is the Danish!
absolutely hilarious even now, in fact especially now
i miss times like this so much, where you could make a sketch and not have to worry about anything because it was a joke.
That motorbike stunt team pursuit is a great sight gag.
Brilliant wasn't it!
Lot of work for a 15 sec bit...
I remember the episode in the second half of this video very well. I would have been 18 when it was on and I've remembered the words to 'I'm a Headbanger' ever since.
they all should have been given OBEs for this. Can't get enough. can anybody get enough of this?
I was only born in 1981 so missed a lot, but now im catching up
I hope you enjoy it and understand something of the times
I love the bits where they're in their pajamas with teddy bears 💜
I grew up with this, pure gold. The skit about the kangaroo meat a little too close to home, kangaroo meat is, sadly, eaten here and used as pet food.
The sketch featuring the bank is very good. Sometimes I wish the banks had kept our savings in little boxes as they would have been a lot safer. Pamela also did a great job in turning herself from a super attractive babe to a dowdy looking bank clerk. The petrol joke is a classic - how little forecourts have changed (and our attempts to get to the nearest whole number)
ewaf88 I've seen the half penny joke, but instead of the cassier prssing a button it's Thatcher, so they changed it in reruns?
Except now you can punch in the exact amount you want to purchase
Well said
That £5 today hardly buys you half a gallon!!!
Pure gold!
- Kids?
- Can't have any unfortunately
- Oh, that's not so bad then
These guys were the best ! I almost forgot how good they were. Today's comedy does not even come close
Good/ intelligent huomour never gets old.
Not the nine o'clock, Assaulted nuts, KWTV... those were the days when comedians knew how to be hilarious and make us happy no matter what.
British comedy at its best ! Classic and unforgettable.
If you weren't there at the time then maybe you won't get it.. fecking class.
I haven't discovered this series but recently however I believe that it was really innovative at its time and really brilliant...
"Bevan would have shat his pants" got me laughing 40 years ago and again right now! Brilliant!
Better days and better men😊!
I'd forgotten how good this was.
Thanks for uploading this!
Thanks a load for sharing !
Glad you enjoyed it - R.I.P. Mel
Loved this show x
At 20:47 sketch Question Time is absolutely one of their best ones! Fricking brilliant!
Especially relevant as of 27 February 2022. Just like old times. Hide under the dining room table!
I remember watching some of these skits when they were first aired.
It's fun to spot young comic actors ( some serious ones) in old series like these. Jim Carter ( Downton's Carson) is at 9.00. Mad Mike Hoare--was a real mercenary soldier, who was in the news a lot back then. the show was mostly topical of it's time.
The inspiration for NNtN! Ty for the upload, delightful!
BBC 2 Mondays at 21:00 if I recall correctly ? The sketch in the bank was built on the same premise as the 'Gramophone' sketch in the hi-fi electrical shop with Mel Smith again playing the unsuspecting customer being the butt of the jokes of the staff. I love the Rowan Atkinson idea of the shop thief being lured by the tea in the 'Special Offers' section - brilliant !
Yup, good timing as we had all been out on the grog over the weekend, had no money left and a bit fragile. Happy days
Stands up well. There was a pace to NTNOCN, that felt very contemporary at the time. The music helps too. It just caught the mood of the moment.
This was such a good comedy show inventive and really funny. This is Brit humour at its best. It had such a talented group of hilarious individuals. Its a shame it only ran for 3 seasons on British TV and deserved many many more seasons of this gem of British tv comedy from this era which coincided incidentally with the first 3 years of the Thatcher Govt in the UK and jokes about the Thatcher Conservative Govt featured a lot on the show, but the show ending after only just 3 seasons may have something to do with Pamela Stephenson having other plans and wanting to move on and because they were all good friends and tight nit group decided to call it quits if one of them left the show, Pamela Stephenson who was popular in the UK in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s as an actress and being constantly in the UK media at the time in the early 1980s, who was very talented personality herself preparing for an expanded career in America. Because she joined SNL in the mid 1980s and moved to America from the UK after that and has been there ever since after marrying Billy Connolly. I think she has given up acting in the early 1990s after being in several movies and tv shows for memorably appearing in minor role in Superman III but she was in a lot of other movies too not big roles, but she was a good looking lady in the 1980s and she left an impression on me, then she went back to education and studied psychology and became a qualified doctor in the States. How people re invent themselves and change careers and who they are after many decades. Not the nine o clock news showed the good quality of tv shows and the talent that was on British television at this time.
thanks for posting
So a head of it's time.. Laughing my as off.. Saw this when it originally aired.. Brilliant!
It looks incredibly dated now.
Love the 'creases' bit - nobody seemed to say this before NTNON did !!
Thanks. The mugger sketch, train song and jungle army sketches I didn’t recall at all..
The production value is superb.
Mel Smith just had one of those faces that could make me laugh, same as Gareth Hale.
Even the music is great. Dr. Feelgood, Dire Straits, just great!
If only!
First time I've heard ""Roland Davies" Brilliant!
RIP Mel Smith and Mary Tamm
The dog doing everything that was forbidden, was lovely and nose stuck up in the air
Absolutely Perfect ending- the Michelin man had me in tears!
Pure gold
Super! Thanks!
Mel Smith RIP/*\
@#rolfdejonge@
I was 8 at the time watching these awesome 👍
1981? They make reference to the pound coin. This did not enter service until 1983.
"To my left, and indeed, to everybody's left, Frances Morrell"
Best thing ever on TV!
The transitional cutaway edits in this show is just AAA.
Thanks for this. It annoys me that the BBC can only issue a compilation video.
Just Brilliant!!
Half pennies 😂 wow that is a blast from the past 😱
I think they abolished them as they were tiny and worthless. Now we have the tiny 5p and for that matter, the wothless pound coin
Back when you could buy petrol by the half-penny.
No mistaking that guitar work...Mark Knopfler
£5 petrol wouldn't take me to the shop now and i only live a few doors down 😂
Classic!
The 'punchline' for the spoof "Contact 1,200" advert at about 18:00 (which is cut short in this video) is Rowan Atkinson with a capsule stuck up each nostril.
I was just about to post pretty much the same comment but I see I beat myself to it.
Love this stuff. There was a hilarious sketch (I think by these people) about the idiocy of union voting "All those not in favour of rejecting the acceptance of the offer..." but I can't find it anywhere.
I don’t know why but Mel Smith in “Not Nine O’clock News” reminds me of James May in “Top Gear”.
The Michelin Man has tremendous dignity because he crossed his legs.
We actually eat Kangaroo in Australia. And no, it's not beef. It tastes like deer.
So, you eat Bambi?
@@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers No, Skippy.
Absolute classic not a woke in sight RIP Mel
The good days when people had a sense of humour and laughed at tv. You can’t even look at someone nowadays without them being offended
Those were the days'''
Filling a MK1 Ford Escort with a fivers worth of petrol ?
Just one gallon of petrol is now around £7.15 😳
Hahaha, Kangaroo meat is now readily available in Australia at many supermarkets and is an acceptable alternative to beef! 😄
Tesco did kangaroo meat a few years ago - delicious!
Mine kept jumping out the trolley 🦘🤣
So funny, first time I've seen this show! And it seems its from a better time, before we went PC mad.
YES, there are far too many Personal Computers.
Johnny Woggo!!! So we are NOT going! Love it!
Francis Morrell: "Well I'm amazed i mean we're sitting here talking about a nuclear holocaust, casually discussing the destruction of the entire planet and ignoring the major issue. Which is the appalling record of this Conservative government and the real tragedy here is that 3 million people will die......unemployed...and here I would like to drone on about Conservative economic policy...."
Brilliant.
LOL ! A baby John Alford @ 17:13, he popped up in several NTNON sketches, and later went on to appear in GRANGE HILL and LONDON'S BURNING.
Has anyone got a video of the sketch of a radio controlled model powerboat driven by Rowan Atkinson on a park pond interfering with the electric wheelchair of Mel Smith in the background? Priceless!
I'm unsure if Not the Nine O'Clock News had that sketch, but it is part of a Mr. Bean episode.
Pretty good! Stands the test of time, just about 😂
i enjoy thr "hot air" joke about 5:25 in
Lord Carrington hahaha! He is brilliant.
took me a few minutes to realize it was Rowan
And thus is over 35 years old? Weirdly relevant in places. I don't know if I should be impressed by the scope or depressed by the evident lack of change in almost 40 years.
That is because school and university do not delevop young people in self thinking subjects any more.
The change began in the late seventies. And since the eighties people often even look like today.
New technology has only brought even more superficiality.
The show was made at a time when the world seemed to be progressing ahead but somewhere in between, possibly mid to late 90's the world became more corporatised, social media was in its infancy and since then the world has done a u-turn and gone backward without us realising it...that's why the comedy seems relevant...the world has gone nowhere since the 80's...if anything, it's more darker and scarier.
Relevant how precisely you dope? Jesus.
@@terrythekittieful oh FFS it was the fall of the Berlin wall dummy. Now we don't know who the bad guys are. It's not friggin complicated.
@@zapkvr Sounds like it's too easy for you to not want to know who the bad guys are. Well I'll tell you, The bad guys are a handful of people who own the combined wealth of the world's poorest half. And people like you are compliant and obedient to these handful of people FFS.
I'm crying with laughter
Fun Fact: Mike Hoare was also a chartered accountant.
R.i.p. Mel, gone far too soon,
😮
Best line of all time - I'm pretty sure he would have shat in his pants!
Back then, when this was on TV, I didn't think much of it. Now, I think the same.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love comments like this. They are rare but I cherish the moment.
Clive Jenkins: "Haloooo!"
Classic... Comedy Gold... 😂
love the thin lizzy bit!