It really is an honor to see Jacob Rees Mogg in his early years.

@LGranthamsHeir

2 жыл бұрын

His speech is about "human bigotry and libertarian nonsense" 😄😃

@reasonablyserious

Жыл бұрын

They have the exact same figure as well

@gracias3879

10 ай бұрын

😂

@Jannfndnanakid

4 ай бұрын

seething and obsessed

“While the audience throws quietly up” genius, Stephen’s conductors encouraging face makes it

@TheEvilCheesecake

Жыл бұрын

shame he's a tory now

1:04 - "The lights are going down behind us as you can probably hear"

@forgive7449

6 жыл бұрын

thankyou susan

Very assured, very ghastly, completely sucked dry of youth, energy, ideals, imagination, love, passion, or intelligence.

"Andrew is in his second year at Exeter University, reading Human Bigotry and Libertarian Nonsense."

@dmonarredmonarre3076

3 жыл бұрын

I guess when you can't defeat them on the grounds of reason, argument and logic, you need to straw man and satire

@dmonarredmonarre3076

3 жыл бұрын

@@gorahindu3196 Once again, as Thomas Sowell would say, that is simply "An argument without an argument." ("Intellectuals and Society," Thomas Sowell pg. 54) arguments

@dmonarredmonarre3076

3 жыл бұрын

@@gorahindu3196 You don't because you don't want to expose your infantile "ideas" to scrutiny. Like I said, "No skin in the game." Tacit attacks without revealing your prescriptions, strategies and courses of action is the definition of cowardice. Hahaha, goofy collectivists! LOL

@dmonarredmonarre3076

3 жыл бұрын

@@gorahindu3196 Whoa whoa whoa, I made assumptions? Look back at the thread. The person INITIAITING assumptions was you! I was simply REACTING to the assumptions. It's called LOGICALLY FOLLOWING. The very anti-thesis of a libertarian (One who believes in maximum freedom for the INDIVIDUAL) is a collectivist. A probabilistically valid INFERENCE to make regarding your comments would be that since you denigrate LIBERTY, you laud collective action. Why would you engage me then if you you didn't want to "waste time." You are aware YOU started the thread right? This is like the thief trying to say he isn't a bad guy in the middle of committing a robbery. All of your statements are EMPTY.

@vaclavmiller8032

3 жыл бұрын

@@dmonarredmonarre3076 Hahahaha you are transparently triggered, and I can't even see what you're responding to.

"...the endless variations in J major."

@ajmeyers5661

6 жыл бұрын

I missed that until you brought attention to it, tks!

@eta2670

2 жыл бұрын

I’d never noticed it!

I think the contestant was a young William Reece-Mogg.

@pineapplepenumbra

5 жыл бұрын

Did you mean Jacob Rees-Mogg?

@alpeshabhijitchowdhury6895

3 жыл бұрын

Did you mean Ben Shapiro?

@georgerubypoppy1063

2 жыл бұрын

@@pineapplepenumbra Maybe not. William R-M was J R-M`s father.

@pineapplepenumbra

2 жыл бұрын

@@georgerubypoppy1063 Bloody hell, you're right! I didn't know that he had a father, I thought he just stepped out of an old documentary or something.

@tonybates7870

2 жыл бұрын

William Rees-Mogg was the guy who wrote a newspaper editorial in 1967 that criticised the law's treatment of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards over trifling offences that wouldn't normally have seen the light of day. Hard to imagine his son being quite so sympathetic to the 'counterculture', isn't it?

"Genuine displays of ignorance and prejudice" - I lost it! 🤣🤣

That aged disturbingly well.

@reasonablyserious

Жыл бұрын

Am I missing something

3:10 "I thought at one point he was going to say something which made sense" XD

@landochabod7

6 жыл бұрын

"Yes, he just avoided it."

@richardlaversuch9460

5 жыл бұрын

The truth does not make "sense"; that is why so few people understand it.

@danielcrafter9349

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardlaversuch9460 - lol! Nice attempt at a save!

@pineapplepenumbra

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardlaversuch9460 "that is why so few people understand it." And you think that tories know what the "truth" is, do you?

"Every bit as insulting as a Tory twice his age." ROFL "At one point I thought he was going to say something that made sense! -Oh yes, but he JUST avoided it!" Here we are years later and still just as relevant! LOL

This is almost, actually, literally how Ben Shapiro was made.

@matthewodonnell6906

2 жыл бұрын

This would be Ben Shapiro 100% if he were British.

@emmanuelgoldspleen2905

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewodonnell6906 I can't imagine what Ben Shropshireo would be like.... 🤮

@matthewodonnell6906

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 Absolutely horrifying, a Thatcherite Tory through-&-through who actively campaigned for Boris Johnson.

@libertycowboy2495

2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever watched a Shapiro speech or debate? He uses actual documentaries empirical evidence in his arguments, and his opponents seem to only be able to use emotional arguments.

@emmanuelgoldspleen2905

2 жыл бұрын

@@libertycowboy2495 That may be the case, some of the time. Liberty Cowboy, unfortunately Ben is not interested in liberty for either of us. He’s completely bought and paid for, and he will shamelessly do whatever it takes to secure a fat pay packet. He has said as much himself, and his sponsored videos also attest to that. Fame has gone to his head, and has corrupted all of the other well-known talking heads out there who think they know it all. Trust your own instincts and your own insights instead of always agreeing and accepting the sentiments of that horrid worm. Don’t let him do your thinking for you. It’s very important. Also, I can think of a multitude of times where Ben has made emotional arguments, without any facts. Especially when it comes to a particular place in the *COUGH* Middle East *COUGH* .

It's scary how some things don't change.

@NameNotAlreadyTaken2

6 жыл бұрын

humans never change. still the same old bronze age shit.

@KbcBerlin

6 жыл бұрын

Are you well ? Evi etc;

@livb6945

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't that exactly what conservative means?

@sbhatti534

5 жыл бұрын

It’s the kind of competition Rees Mogg would probably have entered when he was young.

@fwwdadwdwafefhawedweddewaw6711

3 жыл бұрын

good on you for finding out what conservatism is moron.

A perfect sketch, relevant probably anywhere in the world

Some skits endure the passage of time better than others and this one has aged like a sea sponge.

@Plethorality

4 жыл бұрын

?

@waltonsimons12

4 жыл бұрын

@@Plethorality Sea sponges (well, some of them) can live for one to two hundred years. He's saying that the skit has aged really well; i.e. it's still as applicable now as it was back then.

@Plethorality

4 жыл бұрын

@@waltonsimons12 thank you!

@itookallthenames

2 жыл бұрын

@@waltonsimons12 thank you, I had no idea if that was good or bad!

@drottercat

2 жыл бұрын

Ummm... how does a sea sponge age?

I wouldn't be able to say why but that little moment "it doesn't sound" at around 0.50 is one of my favourite moments of TV ever

@malcolmsepulchre7713

3 жыл бұрын

They interrupt each other with such perfect awkwardness.

@newlife.vanessacalfan

Жыл бұрын

I feel that Susan and the judge are just at the realization that they like eachother. The dim lights, Stephen`s soft voice asking questions and Hugh’s sensing that his opinions are highly valued are giving off an attraction vibe. Their gradually appreciation of eachother is another supblot here. Brilliantly done.

If this is what the Young Conservatives competition is like, I'd hate to think what the UKIP youth division competition would be like.

@bilbofaggin5

5 жыл бұрын

Just young skin heads hitting each other with sticks.

@anonUK

3 жыл бұрын

Springtime for you-know-who.

@alteumaen4820

3 жыл бұрын

Best Hitler Salute Competition maybe?

@alisonmiller7212

2 жыл бұрын

Blackest shirt contest ?

@gaiusjuliuspleaser

2 жыл бұрын

They say the same things, just really loudly and in a thick German accent.

This was satire once. Now it's an improvement on the current Tory leader.

Who knew that they got Alan Davis as the conductor. Seriously that wig Steven wears cracks me up.

@vis7139

Жыл бұрын

Haha it's fantastic how he can play "susan" and the conductor - while appearing to be 2 totally different characters. Same for Hugh Lawrie!

"In the Daily Mail Hall, Horrorgate".

The number of times I've seen, and laughed at, this sketch, I've never noticed the line "...and the endless variations in J Major." Brilliant!

These must be those "trendy young people in their 60s".

Sounds exactly like Auto-generated cloud speech based on all other Torie speeches. Absolutely brilliant

@4nc3st0r

Жыл бұрын

How far we have come in terms of auto generation by now

Only Hugh can make the word ‘awesome’ sound upper class.

@xenolalia

2 жыл бұрын

The increasingly uncommon but original sense of 'awesome' (to mean, as here, 'awe-inspiring' rather than generically 'good') is entirely typical of upper-class speech.

To think that promising young Tory grew up to be the current prime minister

@jameshughes7946

2 жыл бұрын

But somehow lost the eloquence that was shown here

The beginnings of Ben Shapiro.

@cityzens634

3 жыл бұрын

Who?

@PlayNiceFolks

3 жыл бұрын

@@cityzens634 poo

@cityzens634

2 жыл бұрын

@@PlayNiceFolks Poo?

@fds7476

2 жыл бұрын

@@cityzens634 Dunno. I've never heard of him until I prepared for this.

@tutekohe1361

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

Uncanny how Hugh giving his speech is a dead ringer for Rory Stewart!

@peterwoodhouse4314

Жыл бұрын

That's ironic as Rory Stewart comes across as a human being...

2 simple rules for life; No.1 - Never trust a tory No.2 - Never forget rule number 1

@josefserf1926

Жыл бұрын

Rule 3 - Never trust any politician

@vis7139

Жыл бұрын

@@josefserf1926 Rule 4 - if a politician had been saying the same thing for 40 years, they become a bit more trustworthy!

@0w784g

Жыл бұрын

The sad thing is you could've made an identical skit about Labour though couldn't you?

I've never seen A Bit of Fry and Laurie written as ABOFAL, for a while I had no idea what I'm looking at

BRILLIANT. Keeping this bit as a touchstone point of reference. There’s an accurate transcript which I will share soon. The “transcript” here on youtube is well-intended, yet hopeless- too many errors. This sketch appeared originally in 1995! Was only posted to Internet in 2008- it did not originally appear in 2008, just to be clear. 👍🏽

@johnstanley3939

3 ай бұрын

Any update on the transcript? Or a link to it?

Kind of reminds me of The Upperclass Twit of the Year race from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

@bicolouredprawn

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure there'll be some car door slamming in the streets of Kensington tonight.

@richardlaversuch9460

5 жыл бұрын

And that was inept too.

@06alepea1

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardlaversuch9460 alright gammonface

"Well, the lights are going down behind us as you can probably hear" Love it!

This is the first time I have seen Stephen -- whom I admire immensely -- performing in drag. His ability to be knee-slapping funny without cracking up is heroic!

@sathrielsatanson666

2 жыл бұрын

There is plenty Vox Pop segments from ABOFAL when Fry was dressed as a woman.

Lol "The lights are going down behind us, as you can probably HEAR." :D

Just one of my favourite sketches of all time. Perfect. So good. Important to rewatch every few months.

I love the musical accompaniment. Spot on.

Truly prophetic...and here we are in 2023.

@rachelbrough8160

3 ай бұрын

And 2024.........😂😢

THis is a brilliant sketch!! Dionysos 37 is correct this IS American politics in less than 60 seconds; These guys were a 2- man circus.

"And why not...trickle down economics...austerity measures...I make no apologies!"

3:15 "Very assured, very ghastly: completely sucked dry of youth, energy, ideals, imagination, love, passion or intelligence." Looks like a review of BoJo's "Peppa Pig" speech 😄😃

Never seen this before, brilliant! So many quotable remarks in there....

Ben Shapiro sounds exactly like this

@oliverlambkin3412

4 жыл бұрын

And honestly, I could not care less if you are triggered by that fact.

@KZ-xt4hl

3 жыл бұрын

@@oliverlambkin3412 Nobody asked you, seems like you are looking for conflict

wonderful timing

Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Early Years

"Devoid of love, passion or intelligence" - some things never change!

as true now as ever

my favourite ABOFAL sketch!

@theradgegadgie6352

Жыл бұрын

You forgot the air quotes, m'colleague. "A Bit of Fry and Laurie."

Mindblowing. That English judge looks almost identical to that grouchy American doctor with the hot lady boss.

@kathyspencer339

5 жыл бұрын

That IS the same guy who plays Dr. House LOL

@GrandMarshalGarithos

5 жыл бұрын

Wooosh.

that music is jupiter from holst's the planets

@cangokce9107

5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH FROM 10 YEARS LATER

@zoepadmore9922

4 жыл бұрын

No it isn't, it is, "I vow to thee my country'.

@JohanHerrenberg

3 жыл бұрын

@@zoepadmore9922 'I vow to thee my country' puts words to the melody Holst wrote. It came later.

"we're returning you to the shop where we bought you."

I'm watching Stephen's conductor thinking of a young Jeremy Clarkson! It's an awful thought!

@Plethorality

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha!!!!!

Mogg

"Am I not even, perhaps God?"

Is that music “Fanfare For The Common Man”? That’s genius!

@EddieGaster

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's 'Jupiter' by Gustav Holst.

Strong contender for next year's Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest.

The endless variations in J major i love best.

"the young and hip-trendy", is a phrase I feel should from now on be used in national newspapers in place of "hoodies"...no reason I just think it's funnier

I see that conservatism in the Old Country didn't differ much from conservatism in the modern USA. It was just better dressed and far less obese.

@mattpreece6106

2 жыл бұрын

and then there is Boris ... the spitting image of T***p ... we are just as adept at stupid

Excellent.

"Human bigotry and libertarian nonsense." killing me lol

I vow to thee, my country... Such a beautiful hymn

@LGranthamsHeir

Жыл бұрын

You should see the song played in "The Day Today" parody and Penny Mordaunt's PM campaign video as well 😆

And absolutely nothing has changed.

36 conservatives watched this video it seems

@pineapplepenumbra

5 жыл бұрын

The thumbs down is now up to 61, but more Tories have watched it, than that. It's just that some have thumbed it up as they believed that he put on a good show, and they want to vote for him.

The orchestra is playing Vaughan Williams' Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus.

@vibraphonics

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you're joking

@EddieGaster

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like "Jupiter" by Gustav Holst.

@nicolasmartinez839

2 жыл бұрын

@@EddieGaster you were right the part they play is around 3:20 it sounded so familiar it was driving me nuts trying to remember

@majst6

3 ай бұрын

The music is a theme by Gustav Holst called Thaxted. He first used it in the movement Jupiter from The Planets, but it was also used for the patriotic hymn "I Vow to Thee, my Country", and it's probably this hymn that is being referenced in the sketch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Vow_to_Thee%2C_My_Country

Whoever thinks this is unsubstantiated satirical nonsense might just as well take a close look at the current state of the great nation now...

So, the UK was a good decade, if not two, ahead of US in culture wars & right wing lunacy. One of the values of history is seeing how seemingly new social pathologies always turn out to have deep precedents & the far right has always been full of it in pretty much the same way they are now.

oh how times have changes.

"Tory" is Irish for bandit or thief.

@pineapplepenumbra

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, and when I found that out I nodded and said, "that explains a lot". I refuse to call them "Conservatives" as they are not even attempting to conserve anything remotely British or traditional.

@70AD-user45

4 жыл бұрын

@@pineapplepenumbra Looney left comment no doubt from a Corbyn voter who was humiliated at the last general election. Hahaha.😂😂😂

@pineapplepenumbra

4 жыл бұрын

@@70AD-user45 I'm neither a Loony nor humiliated by the election (although I am Economically left wing, as in I want workers to be treated decently, and for there not to be a massive disparity between the richest and the poorest; only cunts would disagree with those two), as it was a given that Boris would win. The last election was purely about Brexit, not that the Labour party or the BBC (or most of the msm, or that matter) could admit that that was what the election was about. They are too insulated from the realities of most peoples' lives, that and they are faux PC. "Hahaha.😂😂" Very childish. Btw, what happened in 70 AD that you want to commemorate?

@thetooginator153

4 жыл бұрын

pineapplepenumbra - Annexation of the island of Samothrace by the Roman Empire under Vespasian? Seven years before Pompeii was destroyed? The Roman siege of Jerusalem? I have no clue what 70 AD is commemorating.

@lizardlegend42

3 жыл бұрын

Not to be a downer, but it isn't and idk where you heard that from. The Irish for theif is gadaí. Now my Irish is a little rusty so maybe there's another word that I don't know. But there's no letter y in Irish either so it'd have to be spelled differently.

A bit of Fry and Laurie - it's the name of TV series Hugh Laurie (of recent House MD fame) and Stephen Fry did in UK in, I think, 70s-80s. It has a lot of masterfuly done sketches - both guys were (and are) true, top-class actors and it shows even when they are essentialy fooling around!

@hennobrandsma4755

4 жыл бұрын

godfric Between 1989 and 1995 in fact. Quite a bit later.

Oh, and still fully relevant today!!

The young conservatives then are our cabinet members now. Was this used as training material?

The song is Jupiter from Gustav Holst's The Planets

That bloody wig 🤣🤣🤣

"I thought for a moment he was going to say something that made sense."

@DuncanMcA

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he JUST avoided it

Well, here we are for Election 2024.

Yeah....that's pretty much the American conservative elite. Universal mentality of the privileged class from time immemorial.

@KbcBerlin

6 жыл бұрын

Be bold let it show sometime,

Brilliant

the correct short for "a bit of Fry and Laurie" is ABOFAL what is with a bit imagination above all. coincidence I don't think so :)

"Every bit as insulting as a Tory twice his age."

bloody brilliant this should get replayed on tv somewhere for the uk would be a good laugh we need more comedy like the old days open all hours.. on the buses .. the last of the summer wine.. flowery twats xD! ,, monty python .. the 2 ronnies all funny old stuff hey im only 29!

If only Sunak was half as coherent and on point with his replys to any questions as to why he does f all in the face of several crisis situations he helped cause.

American politics in 2 minutes! "Every bit as insulting as a Tory twice his age." "At one point I thought he was going to say something that made sense!"

1:39 Good lord! the resemblance to ben shapiro's voice caught me off guard.

@VinewoodSniper I couldn't believe it when I saw that the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler version wasn't even a parody. It was just a transcript. Hilarious and perfect.

1:29 "Forward With Into Britain Tomorrow Right Step"

Lucky's speech from Waiting For Godot

NatCon Conference 2023

i love how high pitched he say "conference" at 1:39 hahaha

Endless variations in J Major...

The BBC will never air a comedy sketch like this today.

That trendy liberal education!

J Major was a superb sneak of a pun.

Never noticed the "Exeter" reference until I went there. Boy, do they merit their reputation.

@EebstertheGreat

7 жыл бұрын

I have only heard of Exeter in reference to the prestigious (and effete) Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. For most of the country, it is famous only insofar as it is disdained. In reality, it is probably just another private school like any other.

@jaredbowhay-pringle1460

6 жыл бұрын

Errr... pretty sure any reference in the sketch would be to the University of Exeter, which has a bit of a (reasonably valid) reputation as being a destination for white upper-middle class students. In fact, the actress Emma Thompson (who is also a good friend of Fry and Laurie) had a bit of a rant about the university following her adopted black son's experience there.

@isabellenaylor501

6 жыл бұрын

Exeter, as in the city in England- not America.

@rachelthomas5801

6 жыл бұрын

I went to Exeter. it was full of Sloanes and rich Arabs. Apparently Saddam Hussein had spies there, too. I was in a class with Santa Palmer Tomkinson

@anonUK

6 жыл бұрын

Exeter, like Durham and St Andrews, is full of Oxbridge rejects. I have a St Andrews degree and tried for Edinburgh though not Oxford.

Strong and stable!

Confrence!

ben shapiro

And nowadays Tories don't disappoint and sing exactly the same tune... how wonderful! 😂

Forward With Into Britain Tomorrow Right Step

I Wonder how they think of it these days….

Still true after all these years.