I can't think of a single show that hasn't been improved by casting Kevin Eldon, and he's been in A LOT of shows. He is a mark of quality.

@applecorp

28 күн бұрын

His casual racist bit part in I'm Alan Partridge is fucking hilarious.

@misterprecocious2491

28 күн бұрын

Had his own show, his amish sex pistols sketch is awesome.

@alexharris2995

28 күн бұрын

He played the incoherent help desk operator brilliantly in The IT Crowd.

@SteffBrockley

27 күн бұрын

He was in Game of Thrones twice

@Harani66

27 күн бұрын

you mean 'the actor kevin Eldon" agreed he's superb in every supporting role ever. especially Hyperdrive apart hls own show "It's Kevin" which managed to be awful 😞

Kevin Eldon is a comedic Prince amongst men.

Kevin Eldon still works with Bill Bailey on his stage show. Their rendition of the hokey-pokey (as you colonials call it) by Kraftwerk, is stupendous.

@PedroConejo1939

28 күн бұрын

Ja, ja, und ja.

@ajorngjdonaydbr

28 күн бұрын

JA, DAS HOKEY-COKEY.....

@MrNikolidas

27 күн бұрын

@@ajorngjdonaydbr Knie gebeugt, Arme ausgestreckt, RA-RA-RA

Kevin Eldon, the cleaner!!! get used to seeing that chap, he's in most British television. never as a main character, but always somewhere! legend.

@3zObafouzr

28 күн бұрын

he was the french tech support guy that jen called up in it crowd.

@BuzzaB77

28 күн бұрын

@@3zObafouzr yup

Since watching this 20 years ago, my friends and I have used the phrase “cheap and dusty bottle” to refer to expensive wines.

The cleaner is the IT helpline guy from IT crowd and multiple things you’ve seen

@yester30

28 күн бұрын

I only just realized

@eggzaki

28 күн бұрын

Helluw, canibeeyovazistonce?

@MarcusSentry

27 күн бұрын

@@eggzaki sereiisnoonelseavailublu

The dust in the air visual gag kills me every time.

My favourite episode of black books.

Anall cleaners ltd - "if we don't clean it, it's not dirty!" 🤣

When King B is sleeping tonight, Queen B will whisper into his ear "You dirty, dirty man....".

I can't wait for you to see over a dozen scenes during these episodes. Scenes that made me slide off the sofa and cry in a fetal position laughing . " where are the turrets ?"

@arch1017

28 күн бұрын

Ha-ha! Naughty little passport! Hiding in the crisps again!

This is probably the best black books episode. It’s so perfect and so much going on with so many great characters.

Well... That's a side of Queen Boomer we've never seen before!!! LOL

You lucky Brian having Queen B saying Dirtey in your ear has to be the highlight of your day.

The “cleaner” is Matthew Bockersbiege. From Jam. Dr sketch. Or more formally known as Kevin Eldon. One of Britain’s best comedy performers,

@jasonyoung7705

28 күн бұрын

Awesome as 'York' in Hyperdrive.

@tyreshredding

28 күн бұрын

*The Actor Kevin Eldon

@rickb.4168

28 күн бұрын

@@tyreshredding obviously. Or Simon Quinlank

@rickb.4168

28 күн бұрын

I’m going to drink my weak lemon drink now! Oh now, I’ve just made a rubbing of a Vicars Arse!

@barrythemoth

20 күн бұрын

Drink your weak lemon drink............now!

Great episode. Remember, "Must do "Brasseye"".

The 'Dirt Guy' was Kevin Eldon a renowned bit part player in many British comedy shows.

Manny's pigtails were the highlight for me.

After they've finished Black Books, they may be about ready for Green Wing - if for no other reason than to follow along with Tamsin Grieg's career , meet Mark Heap again (and to introduce themselves to the force of nature that is Michelle Gomez!)

Hyperdrive is a good British sci-fi comedy, worth a watch.

I bought the DVD set of these when they came out years ago. The set was only available region locked to Europe so I had to change the region code on my computer DVD drive to watch them. Then I couldn't watch DVDs for North America. Totally worth it!

Watched that episode when it first aired. Have been using “dirty” ever since.

Queen Boomer was an absolute legend on this one!

@hedgehog1965uk

28 күн бұрын

I have to admit, I only watch videos on this channel that contain Queen Boomer. She adds a crucial dynamic.

Black books! Party on! Excellent!

@andrewphippsphillips1455

25 күн бұрын

-"So let's....parrrr......." -"Don't you dare use the word 'party' as a verb in this shop!!!"

0:25 I think what you meant to say to QB was “I am a giant ear, waiting for your songs of niceness”.

About wine: James May and Oz Clark did a fabulous "wine tour" through France, in a jaguar car. They visited all famous wineries and Chateaux, while Oz tries to learn a sceptical May all about wine. Is very, very funny.

Kevin Eldon = National Comic Treasure.

can't beat good wine aged properly. i kept an award winning chardonnay for 5 years and eventually drank it when my friends daughter was born. it was amazing. we then cracked open a $5 supermarket wine and it was like drinking petrol by comparison. also this was the best episode of Black Books imo, followed by the next episode 'The Blackout' - the whole series is brilliant but those two episodes i can rewatch and laugh at any time.

@lloydevans2900

27 күн бұрын

I'm not sure anything really beats the summer episode "Fever" for sheer weirdness: Especially when Manny suffers an attack of "Dave's Syndrome" as a result of the temperature rising above 88 degrees F (31 degrees C). I always wondered if this could have been an "Easter Egg" type reference to the "Back to the Future" movies, in which the Delorean time machine car needs to reach 88 mph in order to time travel.

Really glad you are getting into this. Really hope you watch the IT crowd blooper reels too!

"That is a 15 year old me!"😱😂😂😂😂💜

I love this episode but can't help wonder if they saw THAT episode of Northern Exposure? Great video, atb

@Strange_Club

28 күн бұрын

Which episode? I loved Northern Exposure

@rod2623

26 күн бұрын

@@Strange_Club Shelly breaks Maurice's extremely rare wine, Eve helps make a replacement, sorry can't remember the name of the episode

I had a couple of bottles of Champagne from the 1900s and a bottle of nice port older than myself (50+ years), but I drank them for last Christmas and new years. I was going in for major heart surgery in January and thought there was a risk I wouldn't survive, so what the heck. I'm not leaving that behind for someone else. The bubbly was all right, but the port was the bomb. No use in drinking anything cheaper than that in the future. Anything else will be meh after this. :D

This is minor detail but if you look closely at when Bernard sits down his cup and it sticks to the table, it actually moves in the next scene it's handle is in a different direction.

Kevin Eldon is absolutely superb, never seen him in a bad role.

"Dirty". Such sotto voice semi-erotic disgust from Kevin Eldon is pure comedic gold in just one word.

@andrewphippsphillips1455

25 күн бұрын

His voice almost uses that sinister whispered sound put to great effect by Gabriel Woolf in a Dr Who story "The Pyramids of Mars". Woolf plays the evil incarcerated Egyptian god Suhtek, banished by other Pharaohs. When you hear him saying "Time Lord, kneeeeeell before Suhtek, you are now my plaything", I can't help thinking he'll say "Dirty!!"😅😂

@timboxall8936

25 күн бұрын

Yes! This! You've hit the nail on the head there! ​@@andrewphippsphillips1455

I already can't wait for episode 4 😁❤️

Your reactions are awesome guys! Also, it's spring, I'm single....Queen Boomer looks great! (you are a lucky man!) :)

My absolute favourite episode of Black Books!

Loved Black books first time I watched, and it’s just as good seeing it again.

Every time I have jam on toast I have to do the jam jam jam jam song. Theres so many quotes from this series that I say alot, usually without even thinking about.

I absolutely love this episode.

There will be an episode with Fran and a guy she gets "confused"... (He was in " Sean of the Dead" as Pegg's roomate)

@hedgehog1965uk

28 күн бұрын

You mean Nick Frost?

@JH-lo9ut

26 күн бұрын

Fran (Tamsin Grieg) has a cameo in "Shaun of the dead" too. When Shaun's posse run into another group of survivors, they all cross paths and awkwardly meet their mirror/opposite character. Well, one on them is Fran/Tamsin.

Kevin Eldon as "Tony Rudd' singing 'Machadaynu' in 'Look Around You' is an all time classic!!

One of my favorite episodes in the series. You guys need to react to Big Train. Specifically the episode "evil hypnotist". Mark Heap (Jim) Simon Pegg and Kevin Eldon (the cleaner) Hilarious!😂

Will you guys be doing The Mighty Boosh with Noel Fielding anytime soon?

omg I love that scene in Goodfellas you mentioned 😂

@hedgehog1965uk

28 күн бұрын

I love the fact that the "mom" was Scorsese's real mom, and when they did the scene she felt like she was just having her son's friends round for tea. I also think the discussion about the picture was adlibbed.

At 5.30 ish i see king boomer tryna remember a certain bee's name, maybe it was the only bee that provides milk, the boo bee.

The Iznik restaurant is just up the road from where i live ! It's still there.

"ill tell u who i am..im the king of hobbies"!!!!!!

@travisr82

28 күн бұрын

I’ll raise my thermos of orange squash at that reference !

Good to see the long standing irish tradition of toast on the ceiling isn't dying out

*dir...ty* in that Kevin Eldon voice is STILL a catchphrase in our house. Or anywhere we go where somebody has been slovenly.

The most memorable episode of the show for me! An early highlight! Still some excellent stuff to come...

Big Spender,sung by Shirley Bassey.(Birly Chassis )The first tune in the restaurant.

I love that bit in Goodfellas. Most reactors skip it. It is made even better by knowing who's mother she is too.

The great Kevin Eldon as the clean man! One of many came appearances by top comic actors in this series. Eldon was fantastic in the sketch show "Big Train", and is often seen in supporting roles in TV shows. PS - no, white wines only last about eight to ten years before they're no longer any good (and I'm like you - I like white, but not red).

This is my favourite episode ❤

Kevin Eldon. Gomedy Cod. There is a series called Hypersonic, which is a bit like the curate's egg. BUT, Nick Frost, Kevin Eldon, Miranda Hart ensemble. It is however, very British and doesn't get the airtime it deserves.

@adamfurness8824

27 күн бұрын

"Jeffers, Jeffers!" I know I'm being that guy but the series is called Hyperdrive, not Hypersonic. To be fair, I looked it up to see if the series also went by a different name before commenting, but no. Also, and again to be fair, I didn't know what a curate's egg is and looked it up too: meaning "partly bad, partly good", yeah I think I know what you mean about Hyperdrive, there.

@PedroConejo1939

27 күн бұрын

@@adamfurness8824 Yep. Thanks. Don't know why I wrote Hypersonic, reflex perhaps, because it's a thingy.

As others have said, Kevin Eldon (the cleaner) is a superb comic and character actor. He's worked with many of the UKs best comedians, and he always delivers. He worked with Stewart Lee for many years, as well as Bill Bailey and many others. A comedy genius 👌

Queen Boomer did wine tasting correctly

Black boooks! Drinking time! Excellent! 🤘

Last Christmas my son and I played drink along with black books with this episode and a bottle of Dom Perignon😂😂😂😂❤

I don't think I've seen these since they were first on TV!

Kevin Eldon looks like Dean Stockwell from Quantum leap

I love that you guys are watching this. One of my fav's for sure. I also recommend Ricky Gervais' After Life. I normally dislike him a lot but my god is it worth a watch.

@thadtuiol1717

27 күн бұрын

Can't stand that man, in anything.

Black Books is brilliant and crazy… Manni and Fran are my favourites… it’s great to see Americans enjoying British humour 👍🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸

Absolute classic

Recommendation for you, Sire Boomer - Villa Maria, Sauvingnon Blanc - New Zealand. One of my current favourite affordable whites at the moment.

Probably the best black books episode.

@Missy-24

28 күн бұрын

My favorite episode for sure. I love the Simon Pegg episode and the Peter Serafinowicz one and a bunch of others, but this one is my absolute favorite.

@necessaryevil3428

28 күн бұрын

Nooo..... The Entertainer with the piano is too funny

@amnril

28 күн бұрын

Yup, my favourite, although there are a few others to rival it.

@ajorngjdonaydbr

28 күн бұрын

The rival book shop next door is my personal favourite

@amnril

28 күн бұрын

@@ajorngjdonaydbr yes that was was good too, plus I had the hots for the girlfriend back then…. 😂🤦‍♂️

My friend was clearing out his parents house and found 2001 bottle of red wine, good quality stuff. It was definitely way more delicious and smooth than a typical bottle. I'm not a wine guy but it was really good.

@hedgehog1965uk

28 күн бұрын

Did you check it's value or just drink your way through it? I would like to taste a mouthful of really expensive wine, just to see what it is like. In fact, a blind test against an average bottle of supermarket wine, to see if I can guess which is the really expensive one.

@-Blackberry

28 күн бұрын

@@hedgehog1965uk I think we checked I dont think it was particularly valuable but its aging seemed to make it a lot better then it would have been otherwise.

Oh, and spitting the wine back out is simply for not getting (too) drunk when you're tasting a lot of different wines in a couple of hours. _Some_ alcohol will still get in your bloodstream since the molecules can penetrate the thin skin in your mouth, but it's only very little. If you're just tasting a few wines, let alone just one, and don't need to drive afterwards or so, you probably don't want to spit it back out...

When I was drinking in the 90's, I drunk a bottle of 1975 australian wine in about 15 mins. How it wasn't valuble becasue I didn't appretiate the taste of it.

This episode is fucking funny

A good British comedy show I really like that has Tamsin Grieg (Fran) in it, is called ‘Green Wing’, or a British/American show with Matt Leblanc also in it, is called ‘Episodes’.

This reminds me of when I bought a ver large country pub and when rummaging found a box of six white wines from 1982 my beer rep turned up and I asked him if they were worth anything, he got onto his wine expert who said not really just drink and enjoy them so we did , some expert he was, about ten years later I was reading an article in the Sunday times about wine apparently these six bottles would have fetched 250k at auction 🙄🤣🤣

The cleaner is Kevin Eldon he's a comedian actor he was in the sketch show Big Train with Simon Pegg and others written by Graham Linehan also in the late 90s and 00s very funny man 😂

Kevin Eldon (the Cleaners), also patient in sex-line doctor's office (Jam), bad support line telephonist (the IT Crowd) - see also Jam, Brass Eye, Look Around You.

Oh yeh back then the pound was Strong against the dollar, I went to Jamaica around this time and remember the exchange rate making it worth around double!actually came back with spare spending money!lol 😱💜

On expensive wines... According to an actual vintner, sure, there are some great, old wines that actually cost quite a bit, but that's usually in the couple of hundred Euros/dollars range. The *_really_* expensive stuff (upper 4-digit range and above) for the most part gets bought by newly-rich guys who want to impress their buddies, they order and buy dozens of bottles and come back a couple of weeks or so later, saying how great the wine was - even when that specific wine actually tastes like bad vinegar. Bordeaux apparently doesn't age all _that_ well for example, but you can buy some _really_ old and expensive Bordeaux - it's of course pretty famous (and it _is_ a really good wine, it just doesn't age all that well), and age=value for wine in general, so old Bordeaux is really expensive, so it _must_ be really good... Nope, but it _is_ really useful for showing off that you can afford it - and for showing off that you don't know much about wine...

I was sitting outside my local pub in Windsor yesterday (The Queen Victoria) and the barmaid (Sara) sat by me watching something on her phone while I was busy writing a song... Guess what she was watching... That's the end of that sentence. It's a small world.

Your wife is funny as, smd you’re both so literal, when confronted by absurdist whimsy. ❤️ Gold

"Bernard, look..."

@Norcha8

28 күн бұрын

look Bernard

@liamcorrigan3158

28 күн бұрын

Bernard.

@valerieh84

28 күн бұрын

Bernard look

@mastertoymaker5249

28 күн бұрын

Bernard!

Underneath it all, Bernard and Fran are as attractive as King and Queen Boomer..

Come and get your books! 😂

@scipioafricanus5871

28 күн бұрын

...delivered in such an upbeat, assertive way that only Americans can really do.

@hedgehog1965uk

28 күн бұрын

Which is something Bernard would never say.

The cleaner is the ot help guy Jen phones in the IT crowd with the ridiculous accent. He's also from Big Train

The lady with the pram is the pregnant woman in episode 1.

Glad i seen this you was on my old account that got closed down

Fran is talking about the Greek chap on Masterchef!

Yay!

the youngest of my 2 older sisters is winer, she is always complaining about something

Season 3 is amazing

I’ve been waiting for you to react to this one. I think this is episode to block books is what the gay musical is for the IT crowd. The best in series. I haven’t watched the reaction yet so I hope you like it

"Sporty one, he is"

5:39 jaspers…👍🏻

If they're not into wine, why is there a painting of a wine glass on their wall?

31:05 I did wonder, thanks.

The actor Kevin Eldon is brilliant in this

Fresh meat is good So is Moone boy Clips wilty - Losing my test at Glastonbury Alan Partridge and Martin Brennan - the best.

You should try The Green Wing..

Green wing please my good man . 😊

The intro music sounds to me to be in the style of Tom Waits.