I love the way the sketch opens every time with Whitehouse saying "is he a quare?" super inquisitively like he has never thought or asked it about anyone before 😂
No it was shit, they took out the laugh track because it just wasnt funny and people were not laughing. There was a lot of hype for the show before it started because they had a popular show in the early 90s but apart from the odd sort of funny thing here or there, the show was just shit.
Bunny's little affectionate chuckle when he's asked if he knows David Attenborough is a nice little touch that plants the seed of thought as to whether Bunny just likes the documentaries, or whether he and Attenborough occasionally get together for some surreptitious quaring when their wives are out shopping together.
My granny minnie had ears like that, but she wasn't a quare. However, occassionally she would say "well I'll be buggered! She may not have known what it meant, so maybe she was quare without even knowing!
Well did your granny Minnie look like a quare? Because she sounds like a quare, so if she looked like a quare then she's probably a quare. I mean, was. Was she?
She had ears like that because she wore heavy clip ons. Her ears weren't pierced. Born a west country girl (Dartmouth), she moved to London, where most were probably Quare, but she was very discreet, so if she was quaring away while no one was looking, no one knew, probably.
I'm in my seventies now and I can remember when I was young in the 50's/60's that men used to endlessly speculate about 'quares' or rather, for the majority of men, 'queers'. It was a really odd obsession, somehow deflecting suspicion from oneself by accusing others. This sort of behaviour died out in the 1970's.
Maybe it started dying out then, and maybe that's because some of came out then and made a noise about our rights, but it's not dead yet - it's just become more socially unacceptable.
Perfectly normal for heterosexual men to speculate about whether some other men were not, whether to themselves or with their mates. Just like people do about women. Nothing abnormal, humans have always been interested in other humans.
BBC producers and theatre censors habitually referred to "queers and pansies", the latter word if the man concerned was effeminate, God knows what they would have said about Alan Carr!
I like the fact that, even though they're being very liberal with the use of the word queer, they're not using it to be derogatory towards anyone, merely an observation. As a queer myself, I enjoy asking if any particular person is a "quare," justifying it with the fact that they look and sound like a quare so are therefore probably quare.
BBC News Flash Ian Hislop has decided after 15 years that this hurt his feelings and he's going to sue, Richard Attenboriugh and 106 others also decide that they were also offended and demand compensation.
Just found these quare sketches after the brilliance of Polish Cafe and found these a bit silly, repetitive and predictable at first. Then I found myself hearing these two at it in my head and needing to rewatch these sketches and now I'm in a vicious circle.. I don't know in what order these were shown, but I suspect the one with the "quare" being his god-son is the last one, driving home the message. The range of characters Harry and Paul simply nail is amazing.
This isn't a sketch about homophobia as there is no derogatory implication in their remarks but a statement on modern over-fascination on the minutiae of the lives of celebrities. Notice how Bumny is accepted and opinion valued.
@@Paul-fv4no Well, he looks like a quare and sounds like a quare. Plus he's on television a lot....and although he's married, so is Bunny and Bunny's a quare. And there are lots of rumours about that he's a quare.....so yes, he's probably a quare.
He has the hair of a Quare, sounds like a Quare, panders to the crowd like a Quare, and has a missus that lets him Quare away like Billyo, so a virtue signalling probable full-time Quare, yes
The fact they’re obsessed with talking about Quare’s probably makes them posssible, probable quares themselves?…ill make a note (here)that they are probably quare!😂
The part I like best is Bunny's responses to knowing Hislop and Attenborough are such a contrast. Sure, he _knows_ who Hislop is but isn't keen about it; whereas Attenborough is a national treasure.
The man who married Dawn French to advance his career, but then couldn't face hopping on top of it so got himself a tidy blonde bint on the side? By the looks of him he'd be "prison quare". Looks the sort to spend his life in and out of the slammer, as it were.
"Well he looks like a quare and he sounds like a quare..." "Yes he looks like a quare and he sounds like a quare..." "Well if he looks like a quare and he sounds like a quare then he's probably a quare..." "Yes if he looks like a quare and he sounds like a quare then he's probably a quare..." "NO HE AIN'T! NO HE AIN'T! But ya gotta know the territory!"
TH-cam User I guess I know what you're trying to say, but it's no different than Monty Python in all honesty. This could easily be a Monty Python sketch performed in 2010 under a modern camera. I can easily see the Python crew doing something very similar to this.
if harry enfield and paul whitehouse are so tough, why dont you guys go around broadstairs and find me waiting behind a bunch of dustbins and we shall put up our dukes to find out who the bestest man is
I love the way the sketch opens every time with Whitehouse saying "is he a quare?" super inquisitively like he has never thought or asked it about anyone before 😂
And Harry pauses before saying "yes."
I think you missed the subtext of the bit.
@@neekfenwick which subtext?
@@chrisbirch4150 how many are you choosing between?
@neekfenwick 7
I love the fact that there's zero judgement regarding their friend Bunny being "Quare", and he's a valued friend
Well done.
Maybe look up the word 😉
@124Outdoor maybe Sto pissing on people's chips
These characterisations are so unbelievably spot on.
Jjj
Pair of quares if you were to ask me. Saw them on the television. Yes definitely, probably.
"excellent". They've really achieved something with their day
Spot on!! :)
Sorted the quares from the queers. Did it on television. Probably a pair of poofters.
I love that Bunny is a frightful Quare
He sounds like a quare.
I can just imagine Hislop chuckling to this when it first came out.
I mean have you ever read Private Eye?. Almost certainly a probable quare
@mikesmith1485 Seen him on Have I got news -always ready to be make fun of himself
@mikesmith1485 Get over yourself bucko, trust me
@@msimms-lp5qw only to a point.
Jj
The way Paul's heart sinks when he hears that he's married 😂 Now what do I do?
I love their big ears.
What do you think of their Noddys?
Harry and Paul is a masterpiece
No it was shit, they took out the laugh track because it just wasnt funny and people were not laughing. There was a lot of hype for the show before it started because they had a popular show in the early 90s but apart from the odd sort of funny thing here or there, the show was just shit.
@@Mike--Oxmall why are you on here then😂
@@lothor69 Random shit pops up on my home screen and also Im very drunk with nothing better to do.
@@Mike--Oxmall Well have a happy new year you pisshead
@@lothor69 I sure will you skank.
I’m a quare and this is still fucking brilliant 😂
The whole shooting match; not even a probable quare? 😂
Putting you down as a frightful quare
I'll bet you look like a quare.
It's just a phase you're going through.
Are you on television? If not then you probably aren't a probable quare.
Bunny's little affectionate chuckle when he's asked if he knows David Attenborough is a nice little touch that plants the seed of thought as to whether Bunny just likes the documentaries, or whether he and Attenborough occasionally get together for some surreptitious quaring when their wives are out shopping together.
Well they're both on televIIIISSSSSSSIOOOONNNN aren't they....
Genius and Charlie Higson is icing on cake for levels of genius
No-one likes you. No, sorry, that's the other lot isn't it?
i think the two dislikes probably quare together!!!!
Oh, I should imagine they do quare together, yes
Well, they look like quares and they're on the youtube. I'll put them down as "probably quares"
There are now 7 dislikes, March 2019.
July 2019, still at 7. Does it require a quare mind to figure out how an uneven number of quares could possibly quare together?
My God! There are fourteen of them now!
Class , Harry Enfield and Paul whitehouse are comic geniuses
I love that their friend Bunny is a self confessed quare and they don't care at all !
English Comedy at its best Quare should have a dictionary listing
It does
@@bryanleigh6497 Quare ???
@@WoollyBackLFC quare
/ kwɛə /
adjective
remarkable or strange
a quare fellow
great or good
you're in a quare mess
I find their lampooning the privileged spot on. The status and boredom is implied in every sentence.
My granny minnie had ears like that, but she wasn't a quare. However, occassionally she would say "well I'll be buggered! She may not have known what it meant, so maybe she was quare without even knowing!
She was probably a blissfully unaware probable quare
She might've been quaring-away when you weren't looking 😉
Strange...she sounds like a frightful quare.
Well did your granny Minnie look like a quare? Because she sounds like a quare, so if she looked like a quare then she's probably a quare. I mean, was. Was she?
She had ears like that because she wore heavy clip ons. Her ears weren't pierced. Born a west country girl (Dartmouth), she moved to London, where most were probably Quare, but she was very discreet, so if she was quaring away while no one was looking, no one knew, probably.
Pure brilliance
The 1922 Committee's weekly meeting at the Carlton Club
How can this possibly be from 14 years ago? Where did that time go??😢😂😂
The communists won.
Love this soooo much.
Aside from what they’re saying, their old boy mannerisms are brilliantly observed. Probably quare ...
You’ve missed the joke then.
@@bobtahoma Let's reply to someone from three years ago and pretend it's relevant.
Phillip Schofield is on television.
A cunning little Quare.
No probable about it.
He's not a real quare though, just a dirty old nodger that likes boyes. Yes the shop for legal reasons.
Probable quare
Probably quaring away right now!
He does sound like a quare.
how long has he been a quare? 40...45 years, 45..40..45 years...
And their forté for fortified ears...
Absolute comedy gold
Those King Charles ears are great
I'm in my seventies now and I can remember when I was young in the 50's/60's that men used to endlessly speculate about 'quares' or rather, for the majority of men, 'queers'. It was a really odd obsession, somehow deflecting suspicion from oneself by accusing others. This sort of behaviour died out in the 1970's.
They probably quared away together when no one was looking.
Are you a quare?
Maybe it started dying out then, and maybe that's because some of came out then and made a noise about our rights, but it's not dead yet - it's just become more socially unacceptable.
Perfectly normal for heterosexual men to speculate about whether some other men were not, whether to themselves or with their mates. Just like people do about women. Nothing abnormal, humans have always been interested in other humans.
BBC producers and theatre censors habitually referred to "queers and pansies", the latter word if the man concerned was effeminate, God knows what they would have said about Alan Carr!
BBC. PLEASE BRING THIS SORT OF COMEDY BACK! I'm sick to death of righteous comedy.
No chance
tell the zionist yanks, they're the ones that enforce these bs rules on us.. "black history month", gender neutral bogs etc..
Hell will freeze over first. It's stuffed to the gunwhales with woke culture.
@@stephenhill8991 Agree.
You’re supposed to laugh at them, not with them. You’ve completely missed the point of the comedy.
Well they’re on televishhhion, aren’t they? 😆😆😆
Bloody love these two . 😂
This was the reality - there was no hatred towards Quares, they were simply accepted..no judgement....
Still funny great sketch
I think mr Hislop and mr Atenbough would probably this is hilarious!
Perhaps they share a laugh whilst quaring together when the cameras are not rolling.
Hislop and Enfield work together on the Private Eye stage shows, so I'm sure they're in on the joke.
Charlie Higson as bunny. Love it...
I like the fact that, even though they're being very liberal with the use of the word queer, they're not using it to be derogatory towards anyone, merely an observation. As a queer myself, I enjoy asking if any particular person is a "quare," justifying it with the fact that they look and sound like a quare so are therefore probably quare.
I think Andy Peters is quare
Top comment you quare, genuinely funny
@@jimsouth5203 hello Jim, not a clue what most of that means, does it mean that you're a quare?
@@jimsouth5203 lol 😆
I shall put you down as a probable quare then.
Kier Starmer is a quare
Bunny is brilliant - whathisname off the Fast Show.
Charlie Higson
@@osamabinliner9781 who also plays Ralph...
He also wrote the young James Bond series of novels.
Swiss Tony is one of his characters 😆
Ralph is a quare but Swiss Tony is probably not a quare.
The secret theme of these scenes is friendship.
That's exactly the kind of thing a probable quare would say.
1:17 That part is so funny ! 😆
BBC News Flash Ian Hislop has decided after 15 years that this hurt his feelings and he's going to sue, Richard Attenboriugh and 106 others also decide that they were also offended and demand compensation.
Bunny is brilliant,and bob flemming too,charlie higson and paul white house and harry enfiled AWSOME😅😅😅
Just found these quare sketches after the brilliance of Polish Cafe and found these a bit silly, repetitive and predictable at first. Then I found myself hearing these two at it in my head and needing to rewatch these sketches and now I'm in a vicious circle.. I don't know in what order these were shown, but I suspect the one with the "quare" being his god-son is the last one, driving home the message. The range of characters Harry and Paul simply nail is amazing.
Harry changed his voice for the Gove and Fry ones, and there was no Bunny in them.
How I want to spend my final year's in life 😂
'Confirmed batchelor' nudge, nudge, wink, wink....😉
this aged so well
He's also Church of England so that removes all possible doubt.
Brilliant.
This isn't a sketch about homophobia as there is no derogatory implication in their remarks but a statement on modern over-fascination on the minutiae of the lives of celebrities. Notice how Bumny is accepted and opinion valued.
Ah, but Bunny is "out". Their concern seems to be with the ambiguity of uncovered "quares".
Old people believe hell, good times
Today I learned that quare is a verb.
Why can we not do this sort of comedy in 2024, Gary lineker(just a thought).
He's on television, probably a quare.
@@mchlbkfull time quare
Ian Hislop may not really look like a quare but he does look ever so smug.
Is Sir Keir a quare?
@@Paul-fv4no Well, he looks like a quare and sounds like a quare. Plus he's on television a lot....and although he's married, so is Bunny and Bunny's a quare. And there are lots of rumours about that he's a quare.....so yes, he's probably a quare.
His best friend is, so he's probably a quare.
Oh he is a frightful quare.
@@Paul-fv4no Yes, he's a definite quare.
And many years later on Have I Got News for you Ian called out this joke to Charlie Higson.
"oOoOoo yes"
"Oh yes!"
Hair of Quare!
back when comedy existed
'Have you heard of Lewis Hamilton?'
A Sir, a whinger,a vegan and dresses like a girl, mark him down as probable definate quare.
@@drcrosby2296 Wears a rainbow helmet and a fur coat likr a quare,speaks like a quare, takes the knee like a quare.
Full- time probable quare ?
He has the hair of a Quare, sounds like a Quare, panders to the crowd like a Quare, and has a missus that lets him Quare away like Billyo, so a virtue signalling probable full-time Quare, yes
'We'll put him down as a probable quare then' 😂
He's an encouragable quare
The fact they’re obsessed with talking about Quare’s probably makes them posssible, probable quares themselves?…ill make a note (here)that they are probably quare!😂
Ironically they are both, in fact, on television, so it's probably billy-o season
The part I like best is Bunny's responses to knowing Hislop and Attenborough are such a contrast. Sure, he _knows_ who Hislop is but isn't keen about it; whereas Attenborough is a national treasure.
These days everyone's a quare... so Harry and Paul were quite ahead of their time with this sketch.. lol
Their ears... 😂🤣
They should have used these characters more in other sketches.
"Have you heard of Sir Lenny Henry?"
The man who married Dawn French to advance his career, but then couldn't face hopping on top of it so got himself a tidy blonde bint on the side?
By the looks of him he'd be "prison quare". Looks the sort to spend his life in and out of the slammer, as it were.
And just not funny. At all. Ever. Not once.
@@darthkek1953 Dawn French was smoking hot back in the day. Sex on legs.
I think that I am turning into a quare!
So you went from probable quare to definite quare and now, 10 years later, it's safe to assume you're a frightful quare.
Let me guess - are both of them sworn bachelors?
Are their earlobes real? Or is it Quare for me to inQuare about Q-ears?
Defintely, probably they do, yes.
These men seem to be in a confusion of the highest ohdah.
They look like Hobbits to me, especially Harry. Very much like Ian Holm as Bilbo.
well they look like hobbits and they sound like hobbits and they're on televisssion so I'd say the'yre probably hobbits, wouldnt you agree?
This Baggins fellow--is he a quare?
@@JasonJason210 I think a few of the elves are also a bit suspect. That mate of Legolas, the tall blonde one is definitely a quare ...
@@fieryjack6396 I would agree, need to see the feet to confirm if you be so kind ......
"Well he looks like a quare and he sounds like a quare..."
"Yes he looks like a quare and he sounds like a quare..."
"Well if he looks like a quare and he sounds like a quare then he's probably a quare..."
"Yes if he looks like a quare and he sounds like a quare then he's probably a quare..."
"NO HE AIN'T! NO HE AIN'T! But ya gotta know the territory!"
I'm not a quare I think its downright rather humorous
Is Kier Starmer a quare?
well he does look like a quare AND he sounds like a quare
Have you heard of Hugh Edwards?
RIP British Comedy
TH-cam User I guess I know what you're trying to say, but it's no different than Monty Python in all honesty.
This could easily be a Monty Python sketch performed in 2010 under a modern camera. I can easily see the Python crew doing something very similar to this.
Clint Tapper You’re responding to 5 year old comments.
@@lazaglider haha so he is
@@lazaglider innit
Very funny but do how they get away with it? I love the big ears - I've noticed this feature in many upper crust types.
Is Paul channelling Alan Coren?
What about Sean" puff daddy " Combes , is he a quare ? because he definitely sounds like a quare
Couldn’t get away with this in 2021
Found one
@@Eric-ys8do Found another.
a probubububle quaaarrr 1:49
look like a Quare, probably Quare
Yes.
Wasn't filmed in front of a studio audience
Oops after schofield/Thomas debarcle this holds up well 😂
The good old days when sketch shows didn't get slated for just doing funny things 😂
Brilliant nutters!
Quare, 2020
You can't fault the logic. It all tracks. 😅
*pat, "Excellent!"
if harry enfield and paul whitehouse are so tough, why dont you guys go around broadstairs and find me waiting behind a bunch of dustbins and we shall put up our dukes to find out who the bestest man is
Brilliant, lol
Charlie Higson looks more and more like Martin Clunes in these sketches
Luckily I only watched for a minute, otherwise I would have had to ask for two minutes back.
The pen seems quare...
Savage...
"He is married of course"
😕
Oddly enough both of these characters, now quare in 2024, look like King Charles, quare. The Spitting Image of Charles, quare.
It's written in marker but he's holding a pen lol
That's a quare occurence.
@@eppiehemsley6556 woah blast from the past
no theyre not qwares you are the qweer ones geeez