A huge shoutout to Phil Pope, who wrote the music for the jazz club sketches. He managed to both lampoon the genre whilst also writing incredibly well within it.
possibly the best parody of all time, my eyes are watering after watching Jackson Jeffery Jackson , I don't blow I suck. priceless as are the names of the various musicians and bands.
Such a great part of the fast show. Makes me wish jazz club was a real show. RIP Smokes Stacksman better known in jazz circles of course as Trevor Worthington.
Funniest for me was the Nigel Kennedy parody, the look on Louis’ face 12:27 is priceless. Also a shout out to the costume director on this - some of the outfits are inherently hilarious in themselves!!
I always get a bit of a pain when I see Caroline Aherne on the Fast Show. Still hard to believe this beautiful and talented woman is no longer with us. Felix Dexter went far too young as well.
I am here because I am listening to a jazz album called "Solid" by Woody Shaw, and I found the title track quite familiar ("Solid" by Sonny Rollins). I turned here, and sure enough, there is "Piles" Hussein at 4:33 playing a very similar tune ("Nic Nac No"). Niiiiice.
The joke being that it's a very middle of the road and pleasant enough sound, but also a bit dull...not exactly loud and dangerous as was promised! Saying that, it would have been a good Beatles song back in their day!
Loved the attention to detail in this show. Like here where they put the work in to actually compose music for it, when they could've just thrown together nonsense and called it a day. That's what makes it work, is so much funnier for being close to reality. And all the music theory, I get what it all means, and it's still hilarious, and still sounds like it could be made up on the spot yet oddly if it was just babble and it didn't make sense, it probably wouldn't sound as much like that nor as funny. Also how many of these songs are legitimately awesome? Taking away the silly bit, when that's a thing. Especially like the Colon one and the cuban band who gets shot with arrows's song. Oh and how good is Paul's singing during the scat singer bit in the Christmas show? Merry squee-doobaday!
I'm absolutely convinced that john thompson coming from manchester has been to the annual manchester jazz festival, cos this character is the bang on the nail piss take of the guy who introduces the bands and artists on stage! I'm currently looking for for a louis balfour t-shirt to wear at this years festival, just to see if any of the bands notice and i get thrown out!
The guy who introduces the bands is he Steve Mead? www.google.co.uk/search?q=steve+mead+jazz&rlz=1C1AVNE_enGB688GB689&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJr8LJxvDUAhVqDMAKHYISAIoQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=662
Probably one of the best segments was where the intro started with LB standing outside the studio smoking as the smoking ban had come into force so folks couldn’t smoke inside anymore classic 😂😂😂
I've been to actual gigs at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival that feature dance collectives and titles like 'Inevitable Geometry'...this isn't so much satire, just a mildly exaggerated version of reality...
30:37.. the icing.. wow. I remember seeing Jack Pott & Tom Bowler in what was such a short credits clip and I just pissed myself and asking myself "i wonder if anyone else thought this was the funniest thing they ever saw" To have them incorporated into the stage show.. I just feel validated
Funny thing was, during the Fast Shows original UK transmission, I was studying Jazz at a Swiss contemporary Music Academy (I am a Guitarist) A few of us rented a rehearsal room and called it „Jazz Club“ including the massive green JC letters, painted on the wall. We had many great moments playing in that room. Friday nights would be drunken jamming.
It’s funny you should mention that, i’m just watching some documentary on Blue Note records on sky arts and thought i’d watch this instead cos it’s more entertaining!!!!
Hah, I'm American and I love British humor so much... it's extremely dry. American humor is more 'knock knock joke' kind of corny stuff with punchlines. This is a great bit.
Chris Price Well, here in Finland we like The Fast Show. Maybe Finnish sense of humor is close to British one, at least my friends outside Finland believes so. And once in "The Jazz Club" Finnish band was mentioned. :)
Nikke88 The Finnish song John Thomson mentions is an actual song called "Vanhoja poikia viiksekkäitä" (=moustached old bachelors) by a prolific Finnish songwriter, Juha Vainio. The song tells a sad tale about an old man and a seal, both bachelors who have lost their loved ones and are the last of their kind.
Chris Price I know that song, it's still very popular here in Finland. :) The title of the song is actually a pun, because if you write it like "vanhoja poikia" it means just "old boys/guys", but written like "vanhojapoikia" it means old unmarried "boys". (vanhapoika is a Finnish term that describes a man older than maybe 40yo, who haven't been married at any point in his life) The seal mentioned in the song is Saimaa ringed seal, that is critically endangered species. In the song it's mentioned, that there is only around 100 seals left in lake Saimaa (only place in nature where those seals can be found), but luckily nowadays it's up to around 300. It could have something to do with this song, at least it brought national attention to the alarming situation of the Saimaa ringed seal. In the end, there is a huge difference between "vanhojapoikia viiksekkäitä" and misspelled version "vanhoja poikia viiksekkäitä".
i'ts 2024 .....And my friends and I still still look across at each other, and say "niiiiiiice"..and we all know exactly what we're saying. ....
A huge shoutout to Phil Pope, who wrote the music for the jazz club sketches.
He managed to both lampoon the genre whilst also writing incredibly well within it.
And looked super cool on the piano too
Such a music genius. Sure I saw him on one of the sketches playing piano
Quality bad jazz ?
Mr Dewick Twotter 🤣
Niiiiccccee👌
I love seeing comments from years ago and then ones from the last few months on these Fast Shows vids! Pinnacle of my childhood this show!
I’ve been passing this on to American professional Jazzers and it still hits the spot. Spinal Tap for Jazz Cats 😂
Sadly the Fast Show wasn’t part of my childhood TV. My comedy viewing was restricted to the Bill and Ben. An early parody of gardening.
"Tune?!!!....this is jazz..." Pure quality.
He says it: Jayuzzzzz
possibly the best parody of all time, my eyes are watering after watching Jackson Jeffery Jackson , I don't blow I suck. priceless as are the names of the various musicians and bands.
I like when Jackson is asked what he's going play and says Trumpet then Louis asks what tune will you play Jackson replies Tune? this is jazz
Was sure that was Benny Maupin on trumpet. 😜🤣
‘For me young lion, acid skiffle’
Such a great part of the fast show. Makes me wish jazz club was a real show. RIP Smokes Stacksman better known in jazz circles of course as Trevor Worthington.
Louis balfour is the coolest man alive!
He must av ad arf'a tower amlets stuck up is 'ootah!
Wrong about Acker Bilk, however.
He looks a little bit like Elton John. 🤣
Funniest for me was the Nigel Kennedy parody, the look on Louis’ face 12:27 is priceless.
Also a shout out to the costume director on this - some of the outfits are inherently hilarious in themselves!!
and duetting with the talented Linda McCartney too!
This is how us GCSE music students speak, suuuuperb
I love the way they use London underground station names “Theydon Bois” and “Stepney Green” brilliant😂
The makeup artist that made those trumpet cheeks is an understated genius
Never get fed up watching this... Just cracks me up.... 😂😂
This. Has not dated. Niiiceee.
Grrrrrate
GRRROOOVVYY!
I always get a bit of a pain when I see Caroline Aherne on the Fast Show. Still hard to believe this beautiful and talented woman is no longer with us. Felix Dexter went far too young as well.
And also the show's producer Geoffrey Perkins.
Agreed. And a magnificent bust.
4:59 - the best NICE of all time in the history of humanity!
"Car Pollution Hypocrisy" is awesome!
I want to see the whole song!
Simon Day is a genius.
I am here because I am listening to a jazz album called "Solid" by Woody Shaw, and I found the title track quite familiar ("Solid" by Sonny Rollins).
I turned here, and sure enough, there is "Piles" Hussein at 4:33 playing a very similar tune ("Nic Nac No"). Niiiiice.
At school, I was the official best impressionist of this guy.
Lies I was 😂 Niceeeee
You get the impression John Thomson's been thinking up these names since he was a teenager.
this is brilliant entertainment and it makes me happy
Admirable!
The Arty Storm one at 6.40 just had me in stitches, especially when Louis just loses it with him...."GET OVER THERE!!!"
This upload really is the last word in jazz! Great! No REALLY GREAT!!!!
Colon's ' kick in the sun' quite a good 90s tune .
The joke being that it's a very middle of the road and pleasant enough sound, but also a bit dull...not exactly loud and dangerous as was promised!
Saying that, it would have been a good Beatles song back in their day!
I heard it got to number five in the charts 😂
The dance troup music is straight from Fiona Talkingtons R4s late night programme
Jeremy Kwee is the funniest guest on Jazz Club 🤣🤣🤣
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
Great Piles!
Brilliant !!
Loved the attention to detail in this show. Like here where they put the work in to actually compose music for it, when they could've just thrown together nonsense and called it a day. That's what makes it work, is so much funnier for being close to reality. And all the music theory, I get what it all means, and it's still hilarious, and still sounds like it could be made up on the spot yet oddly if it was just babble and it didn't make sense, it probably wouldn't sound as much like that nor as funny. Also how many of these songs are legitimately awesome? Taking away the silly bit, when that's a thing. Especially like the Colon one and the cuban band who gets shot with arrows's song. Oh and how good is Paul's singing during the scat singer bit in the Christmas show? Merry squee-doobaday!
Love the fact that the pianist on the Jackson Jeffery Jackson sketch is clearly pissing himself
That’s so funny😊
Theydon Bois on guitar....superb.
"Great!" 💜 (o^^o) 💜
...and Clam on bass
Thanks
I'm absolutely convinced that john thompson coming from manchester has been to the annual manchester jazz festival, cos this character is the bang on the nail piss take of the guy who introduces the bands and artists on stage! I'm currently looking for for a louis balfour t-shirt to wear at this years festival, just to see if any of the bands notice and i get thrown out!
The guy who introduces the bands is he Steve Mead? www.google.co.uk/search?q=steve+mead+jazz&rlz=1C1AVNE_enGB688GB689&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJr8LJxvDUAhVqDMAKHYISAIoQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=662
According to John Thompson. "Louis a cross between Whispering Bob Harris (Old Grey Whistle Test) and Roger Moore"
Did you find a t shirt and get thrown out?
Riddled with syphilis and self doubt lol
Ah! The legendary Horn Fingers.
Yeah but what about smoke stacksmann Tragedy!!!!
There's also clean air kennedy on trumpet! Crazy! But nice!!!!
thanks for your input
Thrusk: or as it was called at primary school, music and movement.
I remember that
Brilliant 😊😊😊
Priceless... Grrreat.
Priceless ! ;
John Thompson is so good.
I'd love to watch Stewart Lee Reviews Jazz Club.
The sketch was the best sketch show of the 90’’s hands down...genius stupidity
Probably one of the best segments was where the intro started with LB standing outside the studio smoking as the smoking ban had come into force so folks couldn’t smoke inside anymore classic 😂😂😂
15:21 - "And of course, Acker Bilk. Shite."
Theydon Bois on guitar. Haha. Not just the name of a London tube station then!
Trevor Dance up towards Epping and Ongar.
Don't forget Stepney Green.
And Clam on bass
12:45 Admirable.
I've been to actual gigs at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival that feature dance collectives and titles like 'Inevitable Geometry'...this isn't so much satire, just a mildly exaggerated version of reality...
unemployablegraduate Ozzy Osborne didn’t find the Spinal Tap film funny for the same reason. He said it was just like a normal day in his world.
Great! Sorry I mean shite!
Ah, HCMF. A true meltin' pot.
I've been in Hudds since '88 and I've never attended the festival; what am I missing?
Wonderful 👌
"Whenever she tours she always takes her 4 month old daughter with her" lol
30:37.. the icing.. wow. I remember seeing Jack Pott & Tom Bowler in what was such a short credits clip and I just pissed myself and asking myself "i wonder if anyone else thought this was the funniest thing they ever saw" To have them incorporated into the stage show.. I just feel validated
😂 thank you for naming them
What Can I Say. Nice , Great , Wonderful. Awesome. Just Sent You A Sub. Cheers Andy.
the look on his face when he realises its a pile of shit is classic
💥💥💥
Piles Hussains cheeks make me cry.
I love jazz but none of friends do , this is what they see , I love it especially the pretension ha ha ha brilliant
Mum ! She’s gone again 😊😊😊Genius
"Tune? This is jazz!"😂😂
Don't want to excite you cats, but rumour has it Piles Hussein and Clam are thinking of comboing at the next Manchester Jazz Festival.
Nice!
This is sooo cruel but yet oh so true! There are actually people like this! LOL
the haunting buddy freak melody 👌
I missed the fast show back when tv was abit better than it is now because today it's crap
I wonder did they have to clear copyright to perform the Cage piece, or was it considered fair use.
Knowing you tube they’d start taking down every video ever uploaded for partial use of it
"Carlos Valderrama" 😁
Jazz aficionados must either cringe or fume at this clever parody. Brilliant!
Following his conversion to being a Belguim
Paul Whitehouse CAN SING !! 🤣
4:59
Been searching for this shit for 10 minutes.
fml
Acid skiffle ffs lol 😂
Art Arty storm 20th century Legend.
This video was grrreat
Desolate shore a classic.
Jackson Jeffery Jackson. Thats my funeral jam.
...and prolapse. Grrreat! :D
You´ve got exhalation and you´ve got inhalation. But they are two different things; Man you screw up, you´ve got mutilation.
Piles Hussein... Nice.
"Wrong Note Magazine". did I hear that correctly?
Funny thing was, during the Fast Shows original UK transmission, I was studying Jazz at a Swiss contemporary Music Academy (I am a Guitarist) A few of us rented a rehearsal room and called it „Jazz Club“ including the massive green JC letters, painted on the wall. We had many great moments playing in that room. Friday nights would be drunken jamming.
Groovy daddio!
👌 cool 👌 nice 👌 hmmmmm 👌 great 👌
Fab!
17:48 - 18:19 Good singing by Paul Whitehouse.
He has a good voice. Ever heard him do Italian opera?
His mum was an opera singer with Welsh National Opera, so I wonder if that must have been a big influence.
@@Sidneyyoungblood75 I've seen that sketch he did with Harry Enfield.
Paul Whitehouse- Genius!
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear - Ted Genus and the Philip Glass piece 4m33 - had to be done….niiice….
Unfortunately the legendary hornfinger is riddled by syphilis and self doubt.....
I'm defo in a Turquoise mood, lmao
The Reverend Blow......😎
Suit you, Nice. 😂Wonderful.
American jazz fan here. Never saw this parody before. It’s “great.”
14:38 - 14:51 - brilliant.
Is that Reeves & Mortimor lol
Louies looks a little bit like Elton John. All he needs is the glasses. Great! 🎶👌
Paul Whitehouse looks like Leslie Crowther in the first Jazz Club sketch at 1:13.
"Wrong Note magazine" :-D
It’s funny you should mention that, i’m just watching some documentary on Blue Note records on sky arts and thought i’d watch this instead cos it’s more entertaining!!!!
22:51 my guy at the back has got the giggles
That face on 2:44 is epic.
I was waiting to see if Jaco Pistorius would show up !
Niccccce
8:43, Jackson Jeffery Jackson for president
Hah, I'm American and I love British humor so much... it's extremely dry. American humor is more 'knock knock joke' kind of corny stuff with punchlines. This is a great bit.
Frater Tenc Strangely enough. after UK and USA, Finland seem to enjoy my Fast Show videos the most.
Glad you enjoyed.
Chris Price Well, here in Finland we like The Fast Show. Maybe Finnish sense of humor is close to British one, at least my friends outside Finland believes so. And once in "The Jazz Club" Finnish band was mentioned. :)
Nikke88 The Finnish song John Thomson mentions is an actual song called "Vanhoja poikia viiksekkäitä" (=moustached old bachelors) by a prolific Finnish songwriter, Juha Vainio. The song tells a sad tale about an old man and a seal, both bachelors who have lost their loved ones and are the last of their kind.
Chris Price I know that song, it's still very popular here in Finland. :)
The title of the song is actually a pun, because if you write it like "vanhoja poikia" it means just "old boys/guys", but written like "vanhojapoikia" it means old unmarried "boys". (vanhapoika is a Finnish term that describes a man older than maybe 40yo, who haven't been married at any point in his life) The seal mentioned in the song is Saimaa ringed seal, that is critically endangered species. In the song it's mentioned, that there is only around 100 seals left in lake Saimaa (only place in nature where those seals can be found), but luckily nowadays it's up to around 300. It could have something to do with this song, at least it brought national attention to the alarming situation of the Saimaa ringed seal.
In the end, there is a huge difference between "vanhojapoikia viiksekkäitä" and misspelled version "vanhoja poikia viiksekkäitä".
Nikke88 Wow. And I thought it was just a wind up!!!!!!
Ah the power of the interweb.
Cheers
That's Steve Howe on guitar on the first clip
Your comment made me go back and look, I really wish it was steve😅
@@rogerbeattie2263 ..it IS Steve...read a review in a magazine, or it may have been online, why do you doubt it ?
@@kelvinsmith6854 On the the clip it is Paul Whitehouse, do you mean it is Steve on the sound recording, if so I stand corrected 🙂
I'd assumed it was Howe performing, cos he is not the best looking guy in the World 😉
Niiiice!