What a great actor Ronnie Barker was. Absolutely carries it.

As I understand it, Gobstoppers are basically the same thing as Jawbreakers.

Hundreds and thousands = Sprinkles in the US

Their gift was the mastery of language in a comic situation.

I was lucky to see the two ronnies being filmed. It is real laughter on this clip.

@Lee.Willcox

7 ай бұрын

My father and I too but not this series. 4 Candles 😆

''Four candles'' is widely regarded as their best sketch...... also swedish lessons is one of my faves

There is no doubting the fact that American Humour or Humor (American version) are different in many ways so it is nice to see one of our Cousins appreciating The Two Ronnie's. I highly recommend "By the sea" , which can be found on KZread and is a 40 minute or so film set in an English seaside resort. I wont spoil it for you but it is a film that relies not on dialogue but situation and double "double entendre" for which this wonderful pair were famous.

Gobstoppers are a traditional type of sweet that is made in layers of different colours, so as each layer wears away it reveals the next which is a different colour.

@henrygibson9107

7 ай бұрын

KB would know them as jawbreakers

@BuyOneGetOneFree

6 ай бұрын

And were completely tasteless as I recall ….!

I used to have a short fuse, but now I prefer to take the path of John Gielgud’s manservant character in the film Arthur - quiet, dignified and direct insults, such as “You may well be right. On the other hand, why don’t you go screw yourself.”, or “How delightful to meet you. One would normally have to go to a bowling alley to meet someone of such refinement.”

The Two Ronnies "Swear Box" sketch is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣

Great to see you reacting to the two rons. I agree it is smart comedy, they do some fantastic scketches just talking, playing with the English language. It's so well done it blows the mind. True master class in comedy👍👍😎🇬🇧

Have you seen the Four Candles sketch? It’s a classic 😂. I wish we still had these prices! Hundreds and Thousands are the little colourful bits people put on cakes and ice cream etc

@sjbict

7 ай бұрын

I think they are called sprinkles in the US

@mancuniangamecat8288

7 ай бұрын

He's already done four candles.

@Coxy_Wrecked

7 ай бұрын

Yes thats what Hundreds and thousands are although in the sketch itself it looks like they use kali/kaylie (not sure of the spelling) as the consisctancy isn't the same as 100's and 1000's.

@StefanWB

7 ай бұрын

There's an episode of Dad's Army where Pike has 100s and 1000s with that very fine texture, almost like powdered sherbet, it's so fine you just lick your finger to get it wet, stick it in the bag and then lick them off your finger. That's more the traditional sort of thing you'd have in a shop like this, rather than the ones we now mostly call sprinkles as that's what the Yanks call them. Four Candles is absolutely hilarious, the most iconic Two Ronnies, but it's also a sketch that I've seen several Americans be very baffled by, and not understand the humour. I know King Boomer has reacted to it and I don't remember how he reacted. For sharing 2R with the Colonials, you're safer to go with sketches like this one, or the Racing "Pigeon", or similar silly ones that are less based on dialects and wordplay.

@Coxy_Wrecked

7 ай бұрын

@@StefanWB I guess the terminology for 100' and 1000's has probably changed through the years or is referred to differently in various parts of the UK.

Take a look at an old school British comedian, His name is Jethro, he's a Cornish man from Cornwall England so he has a thick Cornish accent. A stand up comedian from the 70s to the 90s . Absolutely hilarious story teller.

@user-of9mh5ov6d

Ай бұрын

Jethro -"Why do divers fall backwards out of the boat?" ANSWER - "Cos if they fell forward, they'd still be in the boat!" 😂🤦

Didn't like Liquorice allsorts?!!! wash your mouth out !! I love them, and could (and have) eat a whole box. Gobstoppers are large round sweets that change colour as they get smaller . They are a bit boring, I am not even sure they make the big ones we used to have when i was small, because they must have been a choke hazard. Hundreds and Thousands are usually used for topping in baking, and there are ....... hundreds and thousands in a box.

@lisemartino1995

6 ай бұрын

I seem to remember that there was an aniseed in the middle of gobstoppers?!

@MrBulky992

6 ай бұрын

I think "hundreds and thousands" are called "sprinkles" in the USA.

@MrBulky992

6 ай бұрын

Wasn't there an everlasting gobstopper in Willy Wonka which Charlie handed back at the end of his visit to the chocolae factory?

Hundreds and Thousands are what you'd call Sprinkles.

Great video 👍King boomer you filthy guy 😅 you been watching far too much UK sketches "suck it till it goes pink"😂. Two Ronnie's is all about the writing and timing of the sketches 😊

So much nostalgia, I’m 29, and in my early teens I’d go to a ‘penny sweet’ shop because you can get small haribo sized sweets for 1-2 pennies each, you’d fill up one of those paper bags you saw in the beginning and that’d last you through school. It was great until it got too costly for the owners and these penny sweet shops pretty much vanished over a month, the ones you still see are either too expensive and very tourist trappy because of their ‘ye olde’ branding and stock American candies. Not like it was.

@simondobbs4480

7 ай бұрын

I'm 62, and remember buying "sports mixtures" sweets at the local shop at ten for one old penny, so that's 20 odd for a penny in decimalised money. Used to love watching the two Ronnie's with my dad in the seventies.

@vernatudos

7 ай бұрын

​@@simondobbs4480 I loved them & remember that...I much prefer the original licorice tasting black ones.

@adambattersby8934

7 ай бұрын

The plural of "penny" is "pence."

@simondobbs4480

7 ай бұрын

@@adambattersby8934 “penny /penˈi/ noun (pl pennies /penˈiz/ (as material objects) or pence /pens/ (as units of value))’ chamber’s dictionary. So both are correct.

@Isleofskye

7 ай бұрын

Nostalgia @ 29? LOL I enter my 8th decade in May.THAT is when you really get nostalgic as I do for the England of The early 1960s :)

I would love for KB to react to 4 candles 2 Ronnies skit. That's great.

Gobstopper = jawbreaker

The “Bert & Charlie” sketch to be found on DM is another 2 R’s classic.

I love how the hundreds and thousands were still flying off the brim of Corbett's fedora every single time he moved his head. They must've kept toping them up in-between camera shots.

I haven’t seen that one in a while but it still had me in stitches 😂🤣. You should look up Hale & Pace from here in the 90’s because they did ALOT of sketches and they were legends!

Oooo, that did make me chuckle! 😂 I’m from the Uk but I don’t remember that particular sketch. Brilliant! Thank you! 😂😂

Hundreds and thousands are those very small multi coloured candy granules that get sprinkled onto iced doughnuts or trifles, for edible colourful decoration.

Have you seen the hardware shop scene with Two Ronnies? 4 candles 🕯️😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣

The wonderful Patsy Smart aka the old lady at the start of the sketch.

In general, the real problem for 2R's reactions is that the context is often very British and contemporary to the time.

@4Kandlez

7 ай бұрын

I don't agree, the majority of their humour is based on everyday things that are recognisable in anyone's life, this sketch for example could be anywhere in the world and made yesterday

Haven't seen gobstoppers for years. Very hard sugar balls in thin coloured layers with a tiny aniseed centre which flavours the sugar. Hundreds & Thousands are called Sprinkles in the US - used for decorating cakes.

Willy Wonka's gob stoppers were everlasting.🤣

when i was a kid in the 90s we could go to a sweet shop and get a big bag of sweets for like 20p

@elemar5

6 ай бұрын

Soo, 19 or 21p then. 😵‍💫

I know that you would love the Four Candles sketch by them ! So funny xx

Naughty boy, as my mum would say, "get your mind out of the gutter, definitely double entendre.

Hundreds and Thousands are what you call Sprinkles.

in hull where i come from, my generation used to call licorice spanish its the only town in england that called it that

If you haven't seen it already then you should check out The Two Ronnies' "Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town." There are several short episodes.

@heatherarnott5457

7 ай бұрын

The best! 😊

@stevetheduck1425

7 ай бұрын

Possibly the best thing Spike Milligan ever wrote.

You have to check out the two Ronnies Master Mind and theirs one with Harry Enfield called My blackberry is not working.

Been binge watching a load of your guys videos, especially the idiot abroad ones! They sum up the dry sense of humour we have in the UK. Big fan of you guys from the UK🇬🇧🇺🇸

Gobstoppers were massive balls. When you had one in your mouth (slang: gob) it stopped you speaking. And yes, they changed colour, so we all pulled them out of our gobs every few minutes to see what colour they were now. Yuk! At the very centre there was a single aniseed

so glad theres no mrs hulk with the gobstopper lol

Love The two Ronnies and love Liquorice in any form.

@elemar5

6 ай бұрын

I don't mind liquorice but hate licorish.

@vallee3140

6 ай бұрын

Licorish is that healthy form isn't it?@@elemar5

@elemar5

6 ай бұрын

No. It's the wrong way to pronounce it.@@vallee3140

If you want a laugh from a real old time comedy sketch look for the W.C. Fields sketch in the candy shop where hes selling candy from an old time candy store counter, kids coming in for candy and driving him crazy with their requests - lolol

Hundreds and Thousands are what we call Sprinkles

Enjoyed this. Have you seen the Harry Enfield South African chemist sketch?. Or Monty Python, Dirty Hungarian phrase sketch. Or their Yorkshire men sketch. Brilliant. :

The pink, blue and coconut are the best ones.. sweets like gobstoppers were 1penny childrens sweets from the olden days! 😆😆🇬🇧

These two were light years in front with comedy..

The Two Ronnies shop sketches are funny, There is four that I know of:- The most popular one is the four candles sketch, There is also this, The sweet shop sketch, There’s an Ice cream parlour sketch, which is quite like the Sweet Shop sketch, There’s also a Pronunciation Problems sketch, There is also the one with Ronnie Corbett & Harry Enfield:- My Blackberry is not Working, Which is a modern version of the three sketches, 🇬🇧🤣👍🏼

My 7 year old daughter loves plain Licorice, has it every year in her Xmas stocking. Weirdo😂

I am old enough to remember farthing chews. In sterling coinage (before decimalisation in 1971): £1 (L, Latin libra) = 20 shillings 1 shilling (s, Latin solidus) = 12 pence 1 penny (d, Latin denarius) = 4 farthings (fourthings) Until the farthing ceased to be legal tender in Britain in 1961, anyone affluent and greedy could buy 960 farthing chews for £1 ... which would also pay for a week’s shopping, when ‘1d off’ signified a bargain. In ‘Dad’s Army’, set in the early 1940s, Private Pike used his sweets ration to buy hundreds and thousands, because ‘you get more for your money’.

@elemar5

6 ай бұрын

I remember getting four caramels for a penny.

Pinnacle British comedy

Post-war Britain, liquorice was a popular remedial go to, for many home ailments. It was purchased at your local 'Chemist' (Pharmacy). It was then popularised as 'Liquorice Allsorts' at most 'corner' shops. .

Hundreds and thousands are what Americans call sprinkles

These pair were absolute legends … Can you please cover the sketch with fork handles ..and or 4 candles.

The Two Ronnies - 2000 Today sketch still makes me smile..

I think 'Hundreds and Thousands' is called 'Sprinkles' in America.

God I love your laugh mate, I've said it before but it makes me smile. Happy New year to the royal boomer palace from Cass Manchester UK.

we have gobstoppers in america. they are a box of small jawbreakers

Hundreds and thousands are called Sprinkles in the states I believe

The two Ronnies racing duck is my favourite.

@brendagilson934

6 ай бұрын

Four candles!!!!!!😂

Now that was funny😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

Liquorice. I'm from the main place in the universe for liquorice, Pontefract in Yorkshire. Pontefract/Pomfret Cakes etc. I live in Japan now and brought a batch to give to school principals as gifts. It did cross my mind as to whether they might not like Pontefract Cakes but, everyone's been kind so far and not spat them out. Yup, can be an "acquired" taste.

13p in todays money is very cheap but this was released in 1980 where 13p is roughly 53p in todays money. Or about 68 cents US.

@SpeccyMan

7 ай бұрын

I can still remember when a packet of Polo mints was 2p.

I would describe their comedy as Wordy.

100's and 1000's are what americans call sprinkles

You should check out Morecambe and Wise. VERY traditional British humour so be aware of that but they were, and still are, one of the most loved comedy duos. They were at their peak in the 70s so their style was very much based in variety rather than sketch comedy. They had the must see show on Christmas Day evening for many years. One year the BBC dared to move it to the 26th and there was outrage and even questions in Parliament. Good place to start is the Andre Previn sketch. Suggestion re your love of tea and the baby bump. I used to take 2 heaped spoons of sugar in tea but gradually weaned myself off it. The way I did it is to reduce gradually so go to 1.5 for a few weeks then to 1 then to 0.5. The hardest step is the final 0.5 to 0.

If my old Ed Edd and Eddie knowledge is right, I think gobstoppers are sometimes called jawbreakers in the US 😄 Love the Two Ronnies. It's all innuendo. 100% of the time. 😂

I think 100s & 1000s are called "sprinkles" in America

Walking the service industry down to a T 😂👹😩

great stuff

Big gob or little gob 😂

Laughing here lol 😂😂😂 love the 2 ronnies 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Hundreds and thousands are like sprinkles

A gobstopper is a large sweet that you can't break with your teeth so you have to suck it. The ones in Charlie and the Chocolate factory are 'everlasting gobstoppers' that you could suck forever without them ever shrinking in size. Hundreds and Thousands are 'sprinkles' in America.

KB this sketch reminded of something similar which you might get a quick giggle from, especially from some of your comments to QB about your temper. Look up Ballistic Bob. The quality will probably suck but they are all short as its from an old sketch show.

Fork skit is brilliant

Cadbury Gorilla - In The Air Tonight (Extended Mix) worth a look at.

Find the two Ronnie's four candles sketch- their best know sketch. Play on words

the Revenge of the Four Candles

Hundreds and Thousands are sprinkles.

Have you checked out the most famous 2 Ronnies sketch, i.e. The Four Candles sketch?

It reminds me of my favorite movie Falling Down.

It just shows how different British humour differs to American humour.We British don’t need to say anything and certainly don’t try to explain the humour,you either get the joke or you don’t,no need to analyse it.The humour isn’t lost on us,we recognise it ,Americans have to explain it to each other.

happy new year bud and two Ronnie's was great

That video is the perfect way to describe how people are on the internet on social media !

Hundreds and thousands are sprinkles

Sorry but Spanish root was sold in Wales too. It was chewed or sucked to obtain the liquorice flavour.

Mrs brown good one

Four Candles sketch!

Arkwright wouldn't have stood for that guy in his shop.

Always remember the phantom raspberry blower of ye old london town!

@SpeccyMan

7 ай бұрын

You clearly do not remember, since there was no "ye" in the title at all!

@craighughes4906

7 ай бұрын

correct but in the original sketch in 71 written by Spike Milligan he did say in an interview ye olde London town & was adapted by the two Ronnies in 76' @@SpeccyMan

Ps..you call hundreds and thousands "sprinkles"...😊

13p in early 70's was not bad price fore the sweets.

That wasn't hundreds and thousands the the shop keeper poured over his head.. That was more like kali

Hundreds and thousands are what you would call Sprinkles in America

Hello king boomer, I think you would enjoy "the thick of it".

I'll eat anything with liquorice, fennel or anise in it. My favourite is the Dutch double-salted liquorice.

Happy new year all I never liked liquorish all sorts either 🎉🎉🙂

Gob stopper in America is a jaw breaker.

Willy Wonka's everlasting gobstopper

Only watched this yesterday 😂 🙌

Kenny Evorate dececed is a side spliutter. Two Ronnies Fork Handles is good