@Mark Johnson Transitioned to the next sketch by having someone go through a door as part of the previous sketch. I'm not saying that Fry & Laurie are plagiarizing Monty Python -- it could be a homage to them, or my memory could be faulty. I think Fry & Laurie are amazing comic geniuses!
Well, here in Norway we already do that. Classic children stories, Roald Dahl, etc is being dissected and censored east and west for containing words such as brown and fat. I think the problem is that we as a nation are too much a bunch of pussies to gather round and decapitate leadership and place their heads on stakes outside the parliament to ward off other potential leaders.
I knew a girl who had a similar spine tickling voice. When she spoke, I had trouble keeping from tilting my head sideways, like a dog who hears someone whistle
Ted Cunterblast! One of the greatest comedy names ever. How on earth Fry & Laurie got away with the first syllable, and kept saying it through the skit, without the BBC censors kicking off, is beyond me. Brilliantly funny, still.
I was nine years old when I saw this sketch, and...umm: I rang the nearest library requesting said book. (The libarian was rather cheesed off with me and asked if it was a joke and being a naive wee chap I repeated my request and was quite jilted when the dial phone gave a disconnected tone.)
According to Wikipedia the current post-war iteration of the SAS exists because "there was a need for a long-term deep-penetration commando unit." Hmmm...
...especially if it was spoken before the 9:00pm "watershed"... as one of Stephen's vox pop characters asked about..! In this case "Who keeps water in a shed? ... And what's that got to do with cunt blasts?"
Lol, full circle for me when I read "appalled". Deborah Norton was great in Yes Prime Minister too where Bernard, Hacker, Humpy and "Weasel" all were just that, "appalled" in an episode 😁
***** Strongly recommend you watch Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones--( Not the Nine O'clock News) in their terrific piss -take of --Mr. President (Ronald Reagan) meets the Press. This applies to All US Presidents since.
How dare you sir ?! As a Cunterblast from a long line of Cunterblasts going back to the Norman Conquest, I take strong exception to that comment ! Blast your eyes !! And a pox on your house !! Many of my ancestors have been named Ted. I demand satisfaction, sir !!
I can so much relate to this, the same thing happening in my country India right at present. Any criticism of the state and society is immediately branded as Anti-Nationalism, and any attempt at informed debate is dismissed with a rabid hostility towards all those with "fancy college degrees".
It’s almost like a discussion on TH-cam: so much missing, and never agreeing with my pet theories... 3:51 “I am a librarian, but I am also an Englishman...” I’m here in March 2022, and it seems like Russia has not lost a game of cricket since the war... I love how much humor the Algorithm has, bringing these videos up at the right time...
SAS is also an acronym for "sweaty arse syndrome" and Fry keeps saying "crack". Was expecting him to say "World War Number Two", but I guess that would have given away the joke too obviously.
@@jacketofdiamonds Just go and have a look at any news piece which has a headline that contains the words "experts say" or "fact checkers", and you'll have a general idea.
@@RabbiHerschel yeah, as the one who approached this conversation with an open mind up until you said to distrust experts on the basis of being experts I'm the one coping and seething
Deborah Norton, turning 80 next year (2023). Hilarious in the 12 episodes of "Health and Efficiencies" as hospital administratrix. Btw. a Google search shows a picture of her looking lovely in a flowery mini dress in her twenties.
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I love how Laurie just walks into the next sketch.
Very Monty Pythonish...
@@BadWebDiver Bugger. I was going to say Pythonesque.
@@funkyalfonso Pythonic
Pythonian, Pythonarily, Pythoniptic
I love how they transition to the next sketch by making him go through the door as part of the previous one. That was clever.
I believe that Monty Python's Flying Circus did the same thing 50 years ago...
@Mark Johnson Transitioned to the next sketch by having someone go through a door as part of the previous sketch. I'm not saying that Fry & Laurie are plagiarizing Monty Python -- it could be a homage to them, or my memory could be faulty. I think Fry & Laurie are amazing comic geniuses!
Cutting out words in a book to make it read something else is so funny, I hope my library thinks so too.
So you're the little rascal.
@@wayneurquhart7192 I read War & Peace twice yesterday at morning tea.
So engrossing, I finished the entire work in one sitting!
@@shotforshot5983 You should read "The West Indies, a Nation of Cricketers", by Ted Cunterblast next. You will be enthralled.
Well, here in Norway we already do that. Classic children stories, Roald Dahl, etc is being dissected and censored east and west for containing words such as brown and fat. I think the problem is that we as a nation are too much a bunch of pussies to gather round and decapitate leadership and place their heads on stakes outside the parliament to ward off other potential leaders.
That woman's voice is delightful
I knew a girl who had a similar spine tickling voice. When she spoke, I had trouble keeping from tilting my head sideways, like a dog who hears someone whistle
Very much like Basil Fawlty's Sybil, I thought. Delightful...in that context.
Ted Cunterblast! One of the greatest comedy names ever. How on earth Fry & Laurie got away with the first syllable, and kept saying it through the skit, without the BBC censors kicking off, is beyond me. Brilliantly funny, still.
I was nine years old when I saw this sketch, and...umm: I rang the nearest library requesting said book. (The libarian was rather cheesed off with me and asked if it was a joke and being a naive wee chap I repeated my request and was quite jilted when the dial phone gave a disconnected tone.)
@@SiliconBong / Don't give up the day job will you!
"I envy you, sir, I can never read a book twice..." ....waaahhhahhahhhhaaaa
Right?! Hilarious. 😂😅
According to Wikipedia the current post-war iteration of the SAS exists because "there was a need for a long-term deep-penetration commando unit." Hmmm...
well can't do that without a propper crack assult force
@@ransherman1611 They have a good arsenal..😁
You forgot secret and elite.
Our Special Forces troops have to first graduate from.....Speshul skool.
Those two can deeply penetrate our commando units in Australia any time.
Deborah Norton, what a gem ❤️👍🏻🇳🇱
She was a superb addition to the cast. . Amazing performances always!
She has that kind of accent that just makes me want to hear her say, "DIRTY BOY! DIRTY, DIRTY, DIRTY!!!"
I just can't help but see her as Wayne Wright all the time.
That was a first-class link between the two sketches.
"Just so these people can keep their marriages intact" Ooh such scathing social commentary, Fry and Laurie are quality AND substance.
That transition- pure first-series Python.
That woman was off Yes Prime Minister, right?
Dear Lady
I was thinking that too!
Yeah she was
“Go ahead and take issue with him”
"snide university?"
"or wherever you went."
I love how Hugh's voice gets high when he says "anybody" at 4:48. Oh, and his facial expression is terrific too. =)
I have watched the library sketch a dozen times! It is so well written!
I've always wondered how they got away with Cunterblast.
Kunerblarghst.
At least it's not Dikkyblast!
...especially if it was spoken before the 9:00pm "watershed"... as one of Stephen's vox pop characters asked about..!
In this case "Who keeps water in a shed? ... And what's that got to do with cunt blasts?"
This episode is from the time when West Indies was one of the best in cricket
That ending was so freaking brilliant!
Daily Mail comment section in a nutshell....
I'm pretty sure I'm studying at Snide University, though evidently they've changed the name.
I'm a westindian and I find this offensive and true.
It's always good watching clips like this as a Welshman.
As a librarian, I'm appalled at their lack of customer service.
Lol, full circle for me when I read "appalled". Deborah Norton was great in Yes Prime Minister too where Bernard, Hacker, Humpy and "Weasel" all were just that, "appalled" in an episode 😁
If it had been at the Swedish Post Office it would've been "documentarish" accuracy 😁
as a non librarian, i'm just appalled.
Well that was a very crack, secret, assault, crack, elite, secret, and crack sketch
She'll always be Mrs. Talliot to me.
That's Mrs. Toilet to you!
You may step down, Mr Lesbian
I knew Ted in school, he was handy with the ladies, I can tell you that!!
i love the "well apparently" and now i'm doing it all the time
If you can have a town called Scunthorpe, you can have an author called Cunterblast
It's 2022 and not much has changed.
Prof. Mijory Marjorie is one fine Librarian as well.
Is that Dorothy from Yes, Prime Minister?
Yesss!
She really should have been on more episodes than she got.
I find the latter sketch a bit far-fetched, really. I mean, what sort of name is that for a man to have?
'Ted'? Honestly, I ask you...
***** And they say Americans don't have a sense for irony.
***** Be that as it may: "Ted"?
"Ted"?
***** Strongly recommend you watch Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones--( Not the Nine O'clock News) in their terrific piss -take of --Mr. President (Ronald Reagan) meets the Press. This applies to All US Presidents since.
How dare you sir ?! As a Cunterblast from a long line of Cunterblasts going back to the Norman Conquest, I take strong exception to that comment ! Blast your eyes !! And a pox on your house !! Many of my ancestors have been named Ted. I demand satisfaction, sir !!
If you would defend your honour, I must accept your challenge, Sir. Sword or pistol?
It's Mrs. Toilet.
Will you be in for tea ?
😊👍🏻🤝🏻🇳🇱
That's my absolute fave sketch!
You may stand down Mr Lesbian
fabulous. love em both!
"Did you enjoy it Sir?" - hahhaa
completely nonsensical and absolutely wonderful
i didn't know piers morgan used to be a librarian.
The beginning seems very similar to the 'joining the army' sketch in Monty Python, right down to the character joining another sketch at the end...
As a Texan, I find this relatable.
"Ted Cuntablast" @2:04 brilliant!
This explains how they rushed headlong into brexit.
This is my second favourite sketch from this programme.
That Wainright female!!
Fix your collar Fry!
yep and it really deserves it. it was an awesome series. Xx
The answers to the questionnaire sound like me when I sign up for a new e-mail account
The part of John Cleese was played by Stephen Fry. Michael Palin, by Hugh Laurie. Female Librarian: Ethel The Aardvark
I can so much relate to this, the same thing happening in my country India right at present. Any criticism of the state and society is immediately branded as Anti-Nationalism, and any attempt at informed debate is dismissed with a rabid hostility towards all those with "fancy college degrees".
Literally what I was thinking as an Indian. Really cannot understate how hard this hits. Ultra-nationalism is a disease.
Ahh! . . So the 'elite' are starting to take over India too. . . Dangerous times ahead.
Found the bengali
brilliant piece of satire
I recommend trying it ASAP.
Nailed modern america in the library sketch.
wow, very nice of stephen fry to link us here, as I don't have every sketch on the top of my mind (regrettably)
standard obligatory comment to salve the wounded TH-cam machine. Liked@953
How it is like to talk to an English cricket fan. It's 2022 and not much has changed.
It’s almost like a discussion on TH-cam: so much missing, and never agreeing with my pet theories...
3:51 “I am a librarian, but I am also an Englishman...”
I’m here in March 2022, and it seems like Russia has not lost a game of cricket since the war...
I love how much humor the Algorithm has, bringing these videos up at the right time...
“As for me, If you want to know what I think: I’ll show you something...” (Monty Python “The French Waiter”) th-cam.com/video/mzlCdWwYn2I/w-d-xo.html
I seem to recognize the woman in the sketch as Sir Humphrey's foil in some episodes of "Yes, Minister".
Yep, Deborah Norton was great there too (nerdy point: it was in Yes, Prime Minister tho, but it was the same brilliant comedy)
Is that Dorothy Wainwright, political advisor to Prime Minister Jim Hacker?
Is Stephen Fry wearing the sweater he wears playing Brigadier Blaster Sump on The Thin Blue Line?????
4:17 Her mouth doesn’t move once during her line! WTF her face is haunted! O,O
The second sketch will be always actual.
Lady reminds me of Sybil from Fawlty Towers:)
She was in Yes, Prime Minister. Dorothy, Jim Hacker's political adivsor
feels so strange to see Bertram Wooster, Jeeves, and Dorothy in one scene.
Certainly not Sybil!
@@victoriousrufus6747 no, I think the OP agrees ("reminds me of...")
Hmmm. Sybil 🤔
That's a woman too. Good catch 👍🏻
It's crazy that this is a comedy sketch but this shit is actually happening in the US right now!
I wish Stephen Fry would go under my desk! ^,~
British comedy is so much more fres and original than american comedy
i'm going to use this in my next interview... see how well this goes.
:D
Are we sure this isn't a library in Texas or Florida? 😆
Alternative facts, innit ?
I beg your pardon, but did you say "Inuit"?
JanetFunkYeah I thought they said "dimwit". But maybe that's just my hearing.
SAS is also an acronym for "sweaty arse syndrome" and Fry keeps saying "crack". Was expecting him to say "World War Number Two", but I guess that would have given away the joke too obviously.
world war number 2? they are not americans
Huh? We call it World War 2, not "World War #2." Which Americans have you spoken to?
Important for the SAS & SBS ... Looking good in black ! 😂
A bit Monty-Pythonesque, this one. Still fully original, insanely brilliant and poignantly comic in a way that we can only arrogantly scoff at today.
Wroughton! I went to school there, sadly.
Some people do worry about the fate of their home country, indeed.
This is actually really good commentary on how university students execute discourse
Steven Fry playing an early version of Nigel Farage.
I thought Hugh was going to socked again by Fry.
Which should push the viewing figures up by a few thousand in a matter of minutes ;o)
Did you get your wish?
5 people are librarians... :P
@arseman1024 You seem to have forgotten to use the space button, sir.
Damn... The librarian has a good point! He's the strawman, for sure, but the strawman has a point...
A man looking for facts gets browbeaten by the custodians of knowledge who want him to follow another narrative.
Very prescient.
I'm curious what in particular you're referring to?
@@jacketofdiamonds Just go and have a look at any news piece which has a headline that contains the words "experts say" or "fact checkers", and you'll have a general idea.
@@RabbiHerschel ...don't...trust...experts. Got it. Anti-intellectualism at its finest.
@@jacketofdiamonds cope and seethe
@@RabbiHerschel yeah, as the one who approached this conversation with an open mind up until you said to distrust experts on the basis of being experts I'm the one coping and seething
seems nothing's changed! wow
Oh look...its UKIP supporters.
I wasn't expecting that 😃
Deborah Norton, turning 80 next year (2023). Hilarious in the 12 episodes of "Health and Efficiencies" as hospital administratrix.
Btw. a Google search shows a picture of her looking lovely in a flowery mini dress in her twenties.
Is it that Wainwright female?
Oh how the library segment has aged! It has become reflective of social and political norms now! It's not comedy, it's prophecy!!
it's funny how at the end he says "it's a bit of an exaggeration" well, not anymore xD
I look good in black :P
2:50 Is it me, or does Stephen look a bit like John Major here?
Sorry... could you say that again Hugh?!
Wow, she's "Dorothy Wainwright" from Yes, prime minister.
The actress looks like Eleven from Stranger Things, but grown up.
4:00 Ironically This is how BBC media works these days lol
Those books aren't quite cricket.
Mrs Pert.
have you read the book before? then how do you know bits are missing?
can't argue with that.
this is sick, i can't believe somone like hugh laurie would badmouth this great country like that
He's a knocker.
@@rockycomet4587 and I'm glad they took issue with him for it!
funny that you're the second person to take me seriously, happy xmas
Was the lady librarian in Yes Prime Minister series also?
Yea as the wainwright woman
Wrong color beret for the SAS.
How many SAS recruiters have interviewed you?
Which SAS?
The back benchers were put off by the correct one so the crack team adopted, adapted, and improved!