Oh my gosh!! I didn’t even realize that was Saunders - I kept thinking, why’s she so familiar! I remember her from way before AbFab, when she made appearances alongside Dawn French on The Young Ones. LOL - she did a great Maggie Smith!!
Scott W Much better actress than we probably gave her credit for.. for most British people, I believe, know her only from SATC..a previous commenter mentioned her performance in My Boy Jack.. about Rudyard Kipling's son..I missed it but will definitely watch when I can.
Pattmore's blindfolded and rolling dough with lettuce and the talking bear just about had me in a heap. Love it that the Brits can laugh at themselves like this...
So glad I came across this. The more immersed you are in Downton, the cast members and the back story, the funnier it is. The stairs were hilarious, along with the ever prone Bates, and the progression of Mrs. Patmore's vision loss. lol
I feel sorry for the poor hedgehog they had to kill to give Olivia Colman that realistic O'Brien hair. 😄 "Why are you so evil? I mean, I love it, but why?" "I think it's mostly 'cause me hair's just knitting!" (sobs) Love it!
Joana Lumley going downstairs killed me xD Jennifer Saunder is brilliant as always! Her expressions are priceless😆 And Kim Cattral is amazing in this Downtown Abbey spoof ^_^
That knitted teddybear in the maid dress just killed me XD "I'm trying to help, but I just can't reach! I can't reeeeeeach! Nooo *sobs*" OMG, the voice! XD Hahaha!
Modern people having a period conversation about the time period: Cora: "Have tampons been invented yet, do y' think?" Violet: "No, not until the Great War, and then only to staunch the bloodflow from battle wounds. We women won't benefit for another 20 years, at the earliest. I'm not affected any longer, of course, but I do feel for you and the girls. Not that _they_ will be able to use them until _after_ they're married." Cora: _"Twenty years?_ Oh dear. Those poor women we're portraying, how ever did they manage without losing their minds? And no ibuprofen, I'll bet, either. And, no, I will not bar _any_ of my daughters from using tampons before they're married, if they want to use them. They're half American, after all." Violet: "My dear, don't be so _middle class._ It doesn't become you." There's some semi-factual history for the kiddiewinkles! 😂
Yes. Great classic. Thing is i was thinking. You know how um the first wife dies? I read it YEARS AGO . Anyway methinks she didn't die but survived the attempt on her life and goes back to haunt the servants . Weird how the girl does EVERYTHING the same as the first wife and how he tries again to do it again to a 'different ' wife?
"She's got some airs and graces, that one. One whiff of being a goddess in a foreign clime and she's got above herself" (Joanna is officially a goddess in Nepal)
Yes, indeed. She sat a few seats along from me at The London Coliseum once. It was English National Opera's production of The Cunning Little Vixen and Joanna's husband conducted the orchestra. She's very graceful and elegant, a classy lady.
@@ursine121 Met her twice at charity auctions of wildlife art and Gary Hodges drawings for EIA/Born Free Foundation back in the 90s.. she's a huge wildlife conservationist..she was ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.. great fun!
May 2024, WHERE is part 3? I’ve been waiting all this time! 🙂 I love this show sooo much! Brits are absolutely top hole in entertainment & especially comedy production! I need so much more of this in my life! ✅💯 Signed Still waiting impatiently across the pond near Nashville for a full series of Downtown Get Up Them Stairs Abbey. 👏👍🏼 TA VM yall 😉
Joanna Lumley's final look at "All that rich food, I'll be scrubbing those toilets until midnight - I'll be chiseling it off." Priceless. Almost the same look of horror and revulsion Dame Edith Evans gave when her character realizes Mr. Worthing was found in a handbag. Would love to see Lumley play Lady Bracknell some time.
What a great cast and a superb parody - the 'behind the scenes' stuff is so funny esp Joanna Lumley approaching the writer 'I'm posher than you!!' - great stuff
Can't believe I never saw this before- it is so clever!!!! Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley do an amazing job. Really, everyone does. What a pleasure.
2:31 - "What a lovely lounge" ---- Oh My God! She called it a "lounge". I just love the instant reaction, of the silence that is as loud as church bells. No one in the upper class calls that room a "lounge".
@p a I agree, pretty common word.. but a lot of these comments are from Americans.. they've simplyfied the English language to within an inch of it's life...my Bostonian friends, whom spend six weeks a year, every year, (WELL, not THIS one, obviously!) in London, go into paroxysms of laughter and delight if I use a word like, 'wallop', ("you're going to get such a wallop in a minute if you don't fill that wineglass up, pronto!")...😂
These two sketches are the funniest things I have ever seen. I was laughing so loud that my landlady knocked on my door to see WTF I was laughing about.
Eight years later and I'm still laughing. Also still spotting people taking part who I hadn't noticed before - Do my eyes deceive me or is that Dale Winton explaining cake eating?
6:42 This is a reference to the fact that in the introduction used in the first season, the bell was silent, but they added a ringing bell noise from season two forwards.
This parody was absolutely fabulous. Jennifer Saunders mercilessly skewers Maggie Smith's Dowager, and Joanna Lumley is hilarious as a riff on Mrs. Hughes.
This is still hilarious 11 years later. So nuanced, so witty, so finely observed.
RIP Victoria Wood and Dale Wynton.
I was racking my brains to remember who that was --- Dale Winton -- thank you Emma S
I couldn't believe that when I saw him just now: He was in his element there. RIP Dale Winton, you cheered many up.
(And I simply cannot bear to write that Victoria Wood has also gone. Unbelievable. RIP Victoria Wood, you so many laugh so much)
ooooooooooooooooh my God I learned about this serries this year
and Michael Gambon.
I can't stop laughing at the staff's reaction when he says "They want tea!" (especially, the 2 maids running with a bicycle! lol)
HAHAHA omg i didnt notice them at first
@@benwusten5179 esp since there is actually NO tea!!! I didn't even notice that in Part one. LOL
Me too 😂😂
Every time the maids start running around 😅😂
I was waiting for the Cook to throw flour in her face.
Jennifer’s Saunders impression of Maggie Smith is hysterical. But then again, everything she does is brilliant.
Jennifer Saunders' Maggie Smith is better than Maggie Smith's Maggie Smith!! 😂
Oh my gosh!! I didn’t even realize that was Saunders - I kept thinking, why’s she so familiar! I remember her from way before AbFab, when she made appearances alongside Dawn French on The Young Ones. LOL - she did a great Maggie Smith!!
I thought the same thing! LOLOL
@@RosePetal17 Wondering since it 2011 it's just appeared on my screen. I'm thrilled. Love the UK Comic Relief material.
Rgds NZ
@@martinen.5025 Pah! Never.
I have such new respect for Kim Cattrall. She has Cora’s voice, face, mannerisms DOWN!
Scott W Much better actress than we probably gave her credit for.. for most British people, I believe, know her only from SATC..a previous commenter mentioned her performance in My Boy Jack.. about Rudyard Kipling's son..I missed it but will definitely watch when I can.
She's amazing.
You mean she has them...DOWNton Abbey!
She’s British
@@mrsmacca126 I think she's from Manchester originally but I'm not sure how long she lived in England
I have watched every episode of upstairs downstairs and Downton Abbey and I'm an American but this is the funniest thing I have ever seen. Bravo!
2:32 "What a lovely lounge... I mean drawing room... obviously"
Best line in the whole sketch! Victoria Wood will always be a national treasure RIP
Pattmore's blindfolded and rolling dough with lettuce and the talking bear just about had me in a heap. Love it that the Brits can laugh at themselves like this...
Not a lettuce- spring cabbage
British comedy can never be topped!
She gets more and more blind every time she is in a scene
Joanna Lumley....'I'm posher than you!' Just brilliant, I have just seen this for the first time and love every second. 😍
I love the fact that each time we see the cook she's a bit blinder!
I know, too funny...the last scene she was using a lettuce for a rolling pin ! LOL
That was hysterical.
I never noticed that
I KNOW 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
correct 😅
So glad I came across this. The more immersed you are in Downton, the cast members and the back story, the funnier it is. The stairs were hilarious, along with the ever prone Bates, and the progression of Mrs. Patmore's vision loss. lol
Congratulations on a well deserved 500th like 6 years too late.
"I think it's because my hair is just... knitting." *sob*
Best line 🤣🤣🤣
It's the queen
Joanna Lumley waking down the stairs had me laughing like crazy!
Crying laughing at Joanna going down the stairs😂😂
mickyjoe97 me too! Watched it 3 times!
Like crazy? Thank God not totally then.
wait is that Kim Cattrall, playing the Mum...lady of the mansion?
Me too. This lot have enough funny bones to make a complete skeleton. That business with the stairs is great.
Is there anything Olivia Colman can’t do? She’s so fabulous
Apparently she can't do hair. It's just knitting. 3:46
She is s genius! In drama and comedy!!!
The Julian Fellows portrayal is spot on - how has no one mentioned this yet!!! Simon Callow 👏🏼
Simon Callow, super funny!
Oh gewd I didn't even notice
Fellowes.
@@pattigee1😮 now I have to go back and look, because I had no idea that was Gareth from 4W&AF
@@glamdolly30 Wasn't it (co-) written by Jennifer Saunders?
"Mama?"
"Mamama?"
"Ma ma ma mama?"
I think I broke a rib...
Same!!!! 😂
Me too!
Yes, I'm sure I did!
I was eating when I heard that line....big mistake!🤣
Is it just me, or does Kim Cattrall do the best Elizabeth McGovern impersonation EVER?!
This was in 2011, she should have replaced Elizabeth
No, Brooke Shields does.
Q
Yes she does.
Beth Daniels yeah she sounds a lot like her. I didn’t even realize that was her until you mentioned it
Olivia Coleman’s knitted hair kills me every time 😂😂😂😂😂
I love how the end says this will never end and 11 years later another Downton Abbey movie is coming out 😂
let beside 2024...AND ANOTHER movie is just about beeing filmed😂
@@muncangel5993NO!!! Our lucky eyes! I can not wait! ❤
"You get nowhere being a servant in one of these things" she says to future Academy Award winner, Olivia Colman.
How stupid are you, I mean JESUS. This is a parody.
@@filipzawistowski4390 Doesn't make it any less ironic though.
This was still a couple of years before her breakout on Broadchurch.
@@mnomadvfx Pretty sure she was famous in the UK from Peep Show and Green Wing before that, but okay.
👏👏👏👏!
"I mean I have done theatre you know"
I feel sorry for the poor hedgehog they had to kill to give Olivia Colman that realistic O'Brien hair. 😄
"Why are you so evil? I mean, I love it, but why?"
"I think it's mostly 'cause me hair's just knitting!" (sobs)
Love it!
best line ever!!!!!!!!
If you kill a hedgehog in Britain, the RSPCA will skin you alive....
😂❤
4:36 Her reaction when she doesnt drop character has me in tears! 🤣🤣 Tim...Tim... Tim Tatrell you can relax. Hahaha
"Cake, sir? You put it in your mouth... and cheeeew." lol This is brilliant.
Cricket Corleone I keep having to watch the scene it's so funny
I know who wants to be The Cake
This is beyond anything. So funny I can't handle it 😂 😂 😂
Lmfao I cackled so much!
I love how they get given tea in paper cups while waiting for.... tea haha
Joana Lumley going downstairs killed me xD
Jennifer Saunder is brilliant as always! Her expressions are priceless😆
And Kim Cattral is amazing in this Downtown Abbey spoof ^_^
that's Kim Cattral?? i tried so hardto recognise. she does Lady Grantham ao accuretly!
Joanna Lumley- subtle scene stealer.
Yes, they are both incredibly talented ❤❤❤
"I´ve lost the baby, I slipped on some soap" "Soap, how very common"
I died laughing :)
4:00 my fav scene "Why are you so mean?...I mean I love it..but why??"
So brilliant
That is not the reply.
"I think it's because me hair's just knitting"
That knitted teddybear in the maid dress just killed me XD
"I'm trying to help, but I just can't reach! I can't reeeeeeach! Nooo *sobs*"
OMG, the voice! XD Hahaha!
"I'm posher than you." 😂😂😂
"Do you think we should have a period conversation?"
"NO I do NOT. There's going to be kiddywinkles watching" 😂😂😂😂
Help! What are "kiddywinkles"? :)
+pppmanly Kids
Lol...them kiddywinkles probably no more about period conversations than they do. 😂🤣🤣
😂😂
Modern people having a period conversation about the time period:
Cora: "Have tampons been invented yet, do y' think?"
Violet: "No, not until the Great War, and then only to staunch the bloodflow from battle wounds. We women won't benefit for another 20 years, at the earliest. I'm not affected any longer, of course, but I do feel for you and the girls. Not that _they_ will be able to use them until _after_ they're married."
Cora: _"Twenty years?_ Oh dear. Those poor women we're portraying, how ever did they manage without losing their minds? And no ibuprofen, I'll bet, either. And, no, I will not bar _any_ of my daughters from using tampons before they're married, if they want to use them. They're half American, after all."
Violet: "My dear, don't be so _middle class._ It doesn't become you."
There's some semi-factual history for the kiddiewinkles! 😂
I love that the housekeeper is named Mrs Danvers, just like the housekeeper in “Rebecca.” Nice little reference there.
Sixth Jayhawk hahahahahaha
Rebecca is a great film.
Yes. Great classic. Thing is i was thinking. You know how um the first wife dies? I read it YEARS AGO . Anyway methinks she didn't die but survived the attempt on her life and goes back to haunt the servants . Weird how the girl does EVERYTHING the same as the first wife and how he tries again to do it again to a 'different ' wife?
Yes, I picked up on that straight away!
"She's got some airs and graces, that one. One whiff of being a goddess in a foreign clime and she's got above herself" (Joanna is officially a goddess in Nepal)
That’s superb.
Ah, that's what that meant! I was wondering. Thank you.
Oh, thank you! I hadn't got what she said! 👍
Not officially. She was called a goddess (from Nepal)
I must shrine up my u tube account.
This should have won the Emmy for Best Drama Comedy. Absolutely funny as Hell!
"I've lost the baby.." [crowd gasps]
[off screen] "Oops."
Dead.
"I've slipped on some soap."
"Soap? How very common..."
" 😳' "
😆
Why do you have the same profile picture as me? What the hell?
@@chocolatepiano7366 you're soulmates
@@junjiefebtrangia7996 The travelling fortune teller never told me this was supposed to happen.
Lady Mary’s facial expressions and Violet’s hat!!!!!!!! Spot on.👏👏👏
Lumley and Callow together are smashing even in that short scene. ‘I’m posher than YOU!’
Kim Cattrall does fabulous Cora
Ikr
Yojiv Iriak even funnier because Kim Cattrall
is actually British
@@mrsmacca126 She has an English father, and has spent a lot of time in the U.K., but she grew up in Canada.
You mean Tim
Olivia Coleman is genius! I cannot get enough of her acting and will watch her in anything!
I laughed my arse off when the woman from How Clean Is Your House showed up! =D
To be fair, Joanna Lumley is literally one of the poshest people alive.
Too posh to be a house keeper. Olivia Coleman. Once a scullery maid now the Queen.
Proper!
@@Me-fo1kk Yes! And I adore Olivia Coleman! Her "knitted" hair! Rofl! And of course, if one has Jennifer Saunders, one must have Joanna Lumley!!
Yes, indeed. She sat a few seats along from me at The London Coliseum once. It was English National Opera's production of The Cunning Little Vixen and Joanna's husband conducted the orchestra. She's very graceful and elegant, a classy lady.
@@ursine121 Met her twice at charity auctions of wildlife art and Gary Hodges drawings for EIA/Born Free Foundation back in the 90s.. she's a huge wildlife conservationist..she was ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.. great fun!
Aaah the lovely Victoria Wood & Dale Winton R.I.P. they were so special.
I've never watched the proper show, but I'd definitely watch 5 seasons of this.
"...I've done theater you know!..." LOL
It's THEATRE, dahling!!
Theatre
The ending is fantastic!!! I fell out when Kim Woodburn came walking down the drive!!
I'll be chiseling it off!
When she said to Kim “ you seem calm” 😂😂😂
I think it's because my hair's just knitting
Gigi Geniveve Real hair for Mrs O'Brien? Not on your nelleh!
xD!!
Gigi Geniveve taA
I always thought she said nitty as in full of nits :3
Oscar worthy.
NefariousJim, I absolutely love the actress who said that about her hair, though I don't know her name.
"Tim! Tim! Tim Tatrall! They're going to be hours!" :-D
Why did she call her Tim?
@@TehEeveeGeneral The actress's name is Kim Cattrall, which rhymes with Tim Tattrall.
I died. 'Maggie Smith' is amazing!
I'm such a Downton Abbey fan, and this parody is hilarious. Everyone is so funny. PEACE to ALL.
May 2024, WHERE is part 3? I’ve been waiting all this time! 🙂 I love this show sooo much! Brits are absolutely top hole in entertainment & especially comedy production! I need so much more of this in my life! ✅💯 Signed Still waiting impatiently across the pond near Nashville for a full series of Downtown Get Up Them Stairs Abbey. 👏👍🏼 TA VM yall 😉
"I have important news to import of quite considerable importance to import." Oh my god, I couldn't stop laughing.
That's a sentence I'm DYING to use...on a daily basis!! 😂🤣
Olivia Coleman: “I think it’s because me hair’s just knitting” 😂 Best. Line. Ever.
Joanna Lumley's final look at "All that rich food, I'll be scrubbing those toilets until midnight - I'll be chiseling it off." Priceless. Almost the same look of horror and revulsion Dame Edith Evans gave when her character realizes Mr. Worthing was found in a handbag. Would love to see Lumley play Lady Bracknell some time.
"... though I suppose you'll do alright, you seem quite common." Lmao always love Joanna Lumley she's so great
Since nobodys mentioned Katy Wix as Sybil...I just love her!!
What a great cast and a superb parody - the 'behind the scenes' stuff is so funny esp Joanna Lumley approaching the writer 'I'm posher than you!!' - great stuff
What a lovely lounge! **world stops spinning**
I don't get this one.
@@populustremulus228 Calling a living room 'the lounge' is a strong class indicator - working-class or lower-middle-class.
@@clairenoon4070 merci!
Can't believe I never saw this before- it is so clever!!!! Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley do an amazing job. Really, everyone does. What a pleasure.
Tears running down my face in hilarity - 10 years later this is still freaking hilarious!
Hello 👋how are you doing?
This is one of the best things I've ever seen, especially O'Brien's hair. I really hope they make more!!!
2:31 - "What a lovely lounge" ---- Oh My God! She called it a "lounge". I just love the instant reaction, of the silence that is as loud as church bells. No one in the upper class calls that room a "lounge".
" I think its because my hairs just knitting"...my favourite line 🤣🤣🤣
I love Downton Abbey, and this is hilarious! Love the girls from Ab Fab in it
"What a lovely lounge"
"I mean drawing room, obviously"
Favorite part
+Brian Moore ditto!
I think it's a parody on that commercial about the jam
The music making a dead halt added to its hilarity..
Brian Moore Still technically the Saloon but okay lol
That idea was used in an old Monty Python sketch.
Johanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders are as always 'absolutely fabulous'!
Hilarious...every bit of this little production. Olivia Colman and her knitted hair had me laughing out loud.
@ 4:19 If the tea comes from Ealing does that make it Darj Ealing tea?
( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
You win the Internet today. Good one! 👍😀
I was trying to think of something along those lines!
Ba-dum-tiss! 🥁🤣
No.
I just found this and the tears are rolling down my face. In these troubles times I really needed this.
I love the reaction on Kim Catrall's face when Mrs. Danvers says she belongs with everyone upstairs!
1:53 Roaring with laughter as the entire staff are taking the tea upstairs lol 🤣😂😁👏
They got it spot on with the "this will go on for ever and ever" ending ccredits.
LOST it at the knitted hair! That'd such a great send-up.
Olivia Coleman playing a meanie? NEVER!
3:48 - You're looking at the next Queen Elizabeth II in "The Crown", Olivia Colman.
Omg I didn't realise it's her until you mentioned it.
You know Olivia Colman has been famous forever, right?😂😂😂
And future/past Iscar winner!!
@@audreykoskei4072 Americans only just discovered her and now act like she was obscure beforehand lol.
I've been watching her in Peep Show since like 2004 thanks.
Olivia Coleman, it's coz me hair is knitted😂😂
“They treat you like muck. Still, I suppose you’ll be alright,
, you seem quite common.”
“All that rich food...”
😂🤣😂🤣
I miss Victoria Wood 💔💐💔💐 She’s a legend and pioneer of comedy 💔💐💔💐 Still can’t believe she’s no longer with us ....
Just thinking that too. 💐
This is so funny I can't stop laughing 😆 🤣 😂
Is it so wrong for me to say I would love it if this was a real series!!
It would be a major hit!!
“I’ll be chiselling it off” was the fatal blow⚰️ These clips are gold
The Zillit Bang being used on the chandelier XD
Love Jennifer Saunders expressions!
Hi 👋 how are you doing?
😂😂😂omg the How Clean I'd Your House lady Kim is here too??? I love this!
The ending with Kim...genius XD
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That was shady when Joanne called Kim common at the end
The fact that they filmed this inside Highclere Castle is an absolute coup❣❣❣❣ Jennifer Saunders is my IDOL❣❣❣❣
Dawn French is just a HOOT❣❣❣
"I think its because my hair is just knitted.." Olivia Colman 🤣
"I just want to spend less time in Ealing", that lines cracks me up!
Joana Lumley is hilarious in this sketch!!! Forthwith 😁
@p a I agree, pretty common word.. but a lot of these comments are from Americans.. they've simplyfied the English language to within an inch of it's life...my Bostonian friends, whom spend six weeks a year, every year, (WELL, not THIS one, obviously!) in London, go into paroxysms of laughter and delight if I use a word like, 'wallop', ("you're going to get such a wallop in a minute if you don't fill that wineglass up, pronto!")...😂
@@martinen.5025 At least we know how to spell "simplify" and the difference between "it's" and "its." (Said in good humor.)
"Don't you think we should be having a period conversation?"
"No, I do not. There's going to be kiddiewinkles watching this."
lmao
These two sketches are the funniest things I have ever seen. I was laughing so loud that my landlady knocked on my door to see WTF I was laughing about.
Eight years later and I'm still laughing. Also still spotting people taking part who I hadn't noticed before - Do my eyes deceive me or is that Dale Winton explaining cake eating?
The late, great, lovely, Dale Winton 😢
Yes lovely to see Dale Winton ❤
Much better than the original, THIS should have been it's own series.
Fabulous! I wish they had done a whole series. And the ending, with Kim Woodburn is perfect.
6:42 This is a reference to the fact that in the introduction used in the first season, the bell was silent, but they added a ringing bell noise from season two forwards.
Kim Cattrall is a genious!
also Marry's face expressions..
amazing!
I love the progression of Mrs. Patmore's blind glasses, also using fouets and cabbages to punch the bread dough
This parody was absolutely fabulous. Jennifer Saunders mercilessly skewers Maggie Smith's Dowager, and Joanna Lumley is hilarious as a riff on Mrs. Hughes.
What a lovely lounge! * Everybody stares annoyed * I mean drawing-room, obviously... lol
Well, this was just Absolutely Fabulous!
Tim Tattrall. 😂😂😂
I love how they break the fourth wall in this so much! Hysterical!
4:48 Tim... Tim.. Tim Tatral 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"you get nowhere being a servant in these things," Joanna Lumley said to Olivia Coleman.
I loved at the end , the replacing of the upstairs maid with the TV cleaning lady, it cracked me up..
...and Joanna Lumlet's facial expression after the "I'll be chiselling it off..." comment is fantastic!
2:31 - My God, she called it a "lounge". Lets look at her in disgusted silent shock for 13 seconds until she comes to her senses.
I'm surprised that no monocles were broken quite frankly.
Presently practising face pulling in vanity mirror. Must attempt audition.