“What’s the blandest thing on the menu?” “I’ll have that, eh bring a folk & knife” 🤣🤣

I remember seeing this sketch with my parents as a kid, I didn't understand why it was so funny but they were dying laughing because it was a reversal of how drunk English people would behave at Indian restaurants.

@arcanaa8696

9 ай бұрын

I watched it when I was a kid with my parents too but I did get the vast majority of it the only thing I didn't get was the ladies about the "SiZE" if you know what I mean. This was a sketch that stuck in my mind since I was like 7 and i'm now 32. LOL.

@JasonHarrison-og5pw

7 ай бұрын

Cos they are ram jams

@raftonpounder6696

4 ай бұрын

You don’t say.

@kevincassidy1983

24 күн бұрын

Thank God you're here to explain the joke

@JoeyDNo3

19 күн бұрын

​@@kevincassidy1983 there's always 1 eh pal 🤣😂

Love that 24 plates of chips line. You think the sketch can't really go anywhere else but it is a funny finish. Every time youre at an Indian restaurant there's always about 8 naans and 40 poppodums on the table when everyone is done 😂

@Simbabhebhe

2 жыл бұрын

I always need 5 poppadoms though lol

@groundcontrol-888

Жыл бұрын

@@equalityforall9902 whats your point mate ?

@equalityforall9902

Жыл бұрын

@@groundcontrol-888 u know the point.

@h.j7469

Жыл бұрын

Ironically perhaps, there will be in the kitchens some downtrodden looking Indian chefs serving english food for wealthy indians, delivered by english waiters

@Arianddu

Жыл бұрын

@@equalityforall9902 Get over yourself, you're talking rubbish.

"12 Bread rolls" that cracked me up. Hilarious.

The strength of 'Goodness Gracious Me' was that it appealed to a wide audience - not squarely Asian or White British, but to everyone

@ZeranZeran

Жыл бұрын

I'm American and I really would prefer this show over the ones we have now. SNL our "Saturday Night Live" comedy shows have become just awful. THIS is hilarious!

@kishennandha9127

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@crazyfishmonster459

Жыл бұрын

Who are we if we can't laugh at each other? Stereotypes are great fun when they're not just going in one direction. That's what I loved about this era of comedy. It was a complete free-for-all and in that indescribably human way nobody felt left out.

@kc4276

Жыл бұрын

I’m an older millennial from India, and I grew up watching this show along with The Kumars at No. 42 (this was back when there weren’t too many British/American shows available to us - ofcourse now things are very different). It helped bridge the gap between our countries, for which I’m thankful to the diaspora as well as the broadcasters. Unfortunately, nothing of this sort exists today and most likely never will. Despite the advancements in technology, I feel the distances are increasing between different nations.

Can gamers here give some praise for James' actor, Neil Newbon - he's now a prominent VA and mocap performer.

@missellaneous5142

8 ай бұрын

Now the waiter might just eat you 🧛

@SessVlogs

7 ай бұрын

@@missellaneous5142And I’d let him.

@felinefurkin4275

7 ай бұрын

Came back to see him, didn’t know him back then, but loving him in Baldur’s Gate 3.

@mimma904

6 ай бұрын

glad to see people went down the rabbit hole like me, legit came to see neil he was also so cute, like baby astarion

@arcanaa8696

5 ай бұрын

i didn't know him back then either but finding out so mych stuff i watched as a kid or teen and Neil was apparently there.@@felinefurkin4275 He was great as Heisenberg in RE Village too

Fun fact: the waiter is Neil Newbon, who much later played Astarion in the widely acclaimed 2023 video game Baldur's Gate III

I see Astarion also had to wait tables in his younger days

Every joke (and there's a lot of them) still works as well in 2023 as on it's original release date. Quite probably the finest sketch ever written..

@deathcrunch9020

3 ай бұрын

Its just rascist nonsense.

"oi! Clive of Bloody India, who bloody asked you hey?" 😂😂😂

@royw-g3120

4 ай бұрын

My favourite bit too!😂

So pleased this clip has resurfaced, it's an absolute classic and the original disappeared for a long time.

‘Actually I think that’s how you’re supposed to eat this sort of food…’ I only just noticed this but it’s so accurate 😂

This is 'Goodness Gracious Me's equivalent of the Fawlty Towers' 'The Germans' episode. It has attained classic status and is one of the most memorable sketches.

@EfftupSmith

Жыл бұрын

not really. It's closer to Rowan Atkinson's Indian Waiter sketch.

@pauljordan4452

Жыл бұрын

​@@EfftupSmith That was genius.

@alexevansuk

8 ай бұрын

Hardly!

I can't beleive the waiter is a vampire

“ Fancy stuff, Butter” 🤣🤣

the 'what is the blandest thing on the menu' line has been in my head since I first heard this on the radio back in the 90s - it should be a meme with wide contemporary applications

‘I think that is how you are supposed to eat this food’ Subtle line. Very funny

"fancy stuff" "oh butter"

Absolute classic! “What’s the blandest thing on the menu?” 😂😂

@Sameer-Mustafah-Raza1-2-1

9 ай бұрын

“Steak & Kidney Pea 🫛!!” 😂😂😂

Fun fact for Baldur's Gate 3 fans: waiter Ja-mes is played by Neil Newbon, who plays Astarion

Why yes that is the actor who plays Astarion in BG3, thanks for asking! 🤯

This show was so ahead of its time, so funny..great comedy!!!

Love the little dance the guy in the green does after he says something 😂

Still one of my favourite ever sketches

Loved this show. Funny, clever, and sometimes profoundly brilliant. "What's the blandest thing on the menu?" Priceless! I hope this sketch changed a lot of peoples behaviour. It would be somewhat ironic if in 100 years time British folk flocked to India for better prospects, and eventually made India's national dish fish and chips.

@helenchelmicka7894

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@carltonlambert7608

2 ай бұрын

I believe people from here will head east so your prediction may have legs yet. India is the super of the future. I has the population.

@Bozebo

Ай бұрын

To be fair a load of Indian food is British empire influenced already, new world ingredients from trade. But... India was the biggest component of the British empire itself so there is that. English food influence however, there's not much of that.

@jimb9063

Ай бұрын

@@Bozebo Yes, probably true of a lot of things. The approximate date of contact between peoples tends to be pushed further back in time as new evidence emerges too. Asia without chillies would seem as strange as Britain without chipped potatoes. There was a time when people probably thought they wouldn't catch on!

"What is the blandest thing on the menu ?" 🤭

@ejayman

2 жыл бұрын

"Hey Jemas, what have you got that is not totally tasteless?" is one of the funniest lines I've ever heard

@C---M

Жыл бұрын

@@equalityforall9902 nice way of making your name a joke."Equality for all: prepare to close down libraries and churches." You do know christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world due to China right? Not to mention the Christian population in India and obviously Islam which is not much more than advanced version.

@equalityforall9902

Жыл бұрын

@@C---M we are talking about Britain. Not your fat east China. You are be 1.4 billion. I am taking about preserving Britishness in the traditional sense. Diversity has altered the very composition, and tolerance and decline from our own complacency has allowed the displacement of the host.

@Arianddu

Жыл бұрын

@@equalityforall9902 troll.

@Moondog-wc4vm

Жыл бұрын

@@equalityforall9902 You completely missed the subtle point behind this show didn't you? Maybe your vision was obscured by the frantically waving St George's flag of little england. Get your sense of humour bypass reversed and go watch all the episodes of the show, then come back on youtube and humbly apologise for your foolishness.

At its best, sketch comedy can nail a concept so perfectly, nobody ever needs to address it again, they can just refer to the sketch. Mitchell and Webb's "Are we the baddies?" is one of those, so is Monty Python's Parrot Sketch. In the case of "Going for an English", it may be literally unnecessary for anyone to ever say or write another word on the subject of boorish, drunken British people in Indian restaurants, because this is all you need. Note the round of appreciative applause after the "butter" line, when the audience fully grasps what's going on. They know they're witnessing something epochal, in its own way.

@stuartbowden4735

Ай бұрын

Very well said!

I think about this everytime I go out for a curry. My mate orders 4 naan breads.

@frankiesalmon7545

2 жыл бұрын

FOUR NAANS?

@highten443

2 жыл бұрын

24 Nanns?

@rowandavis2061

2 жыл бұрын

"that's insane"

@chriscurtain1816

2 жыл бұрын

When I was younger it was not unheard of to go for an Indian, smash poppadums over each others heads and throw them around like Frisbees (after a few beers of course). I would say GGM got this about right. I first saw this in the mid 90's and laughed my head off. It was so true to life, funny, very well observed and with no malice intended or taken. It couldn't be written today because so much has changed in what we are allowed to do and what TV is allowed to show. In fact the way things are going this post of mine will probably be used in the future to convict me of historic Indian restaurant crimes.

@Simbabhebhe

2 жыл бұрын

It’s comedy as it should be

Kulvinder Ghir is a much underrated actor, he's played some fantastic roles. My first memory of him was in a channel 4 short film called Lucky Sunil, its hilarious

@holnrew

6 ай бұрын

He was fantastic in that Bruce Springsteen one

“ Oi ! Clive of India ! Who bloody asked you ? Eh ? “ Classic .

‘Clive of India’ gets me every single time 😂

@cattt0202

7 ай бұрын

Hey 😊 that's the one part I didn't get 🙈🙈 what does it mean/refer to?

@Braham21

5 ай бұрын

​@@cattt0202It's like calling someone Lawrence of Arabia

@cattt0202

5 ай бұрын

@Braham21 thank u. I live in arabia so that makes much more sense to me

@alicequayle4625

Ай бұрын

​@@cattt0202 I think Clive of India invaded part of India for the Empire.

@cattt0202

Ай бұрын

@alicequayle4625 ahh, thanks Alice 🙏

This is how i see english food and im english 😂😂

I am NEVER going to eat at an Indian restaurant for fear of being humiliated now Kidding. This is hilarious. "Yeah, Jamus, that's what I said"

@ZeranZeran

2 жыл бұрын

Also they need to just remove SNL from American tv and play this show instead.

@PianoFish

Жыл бұрын

Had to show this to someone today who'd never seen it before and so was very confused when my wife called me "Jah-mez" 😂

@TheBT

Жыл бұрын

@@ZeranZeran I have a feeling a lot of the show would be lost in translation in the US given how its driven by that British Asian culture cues. Though don't worry, 'Indian' restaurants are very much built for a British clientèle as 90% of them are Bangladeshi who run them for that purpose. I do recommend going to an Indian Indian restaurant if you can too (one where the customer base is also mainly Indian) as its a different experience

@kme

9 ай бұрын

​@@TheBTyeah, we tried to get my parents (white(ish; my mum has first nations heritage too) Canadian) to watch this, but my dad was just like... Isn't this racist? I don't get it, it's not funny. All while me and hubby are cracking up all over the place. My brothers did like Blackadder tho.

"Kidney pee" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This show is brilliant - a top quality comedy with a wonderfully talented cast. With a mixture of sketches and songs to suit all ages, Goodness Gracious Me dares to poke fun at English and Asian people alike

One of the all-time classic comedy sketches. Like Del Boy falling over at the bar, or the chandelier falling down. Or pretty much anything from Fawlty Towers. From the days when there was something worth watching on telly.

@cdname47

2 жыл бұрын

When this was on the telly people were still saying it was rubbish and the things you mentioned was the golden age That's life, you life through various golden ages, not appreciating when you're in one because you're too busy looking back at the last one

@Doppelfrog

Жыл бұрын

Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

@romainsavioz5466

Жыл бұрын

@@Doppelfrog 🤦🏻‍♂️

@romainsavioz5466

Жыл бұрын

I agre but you shouldn't mention the war

"aLriigHt miite" gets me every time 😂😂

Glad this has appeared here. Cracking sketch with some fine actors. I call my close friend and former flatmate "Jam-ez" due to this (we only met in 2005) and I often say "what is the blandest thing on the menu" in restaurants to my family.

"😂Clive of India"

"There you go Nina steak and kidney pee!" 😭😭😭😭😭

@ejayman

2 жыл бұрын

"Hey Jemas, what have you got that is not totally tasteless?" is such a good line

@TheSandyKale

2 жыл бұрын

Love how the steak and kidney pie metamorphoses to steak and kidley pee. 😜

This show, for a while, was the greatest show on tv

I love this sketch, having lived just off, and worked at the end of Brick Lane London in the 80's. I remember hearing the same people do another version of this sketch, maybe a radio version, where everyone ended up ordering the latest English Cusine Fad.....chicken in a basket !

24 plates of chips 😂😂😂😂 I loved this show when it was on and its still funny to this day, definitely need to watch some more :)

So glad to see this back on KZread after years

ASTARION IS THE WAITER!!!

24 plates of chips ...you might have ordered too much sir...then a riot breaks out lol

I wish we could still have comedy like this.

The blandest thing on the menu always gets me, so funny.

One of my favourite sketches of all time. Absolutely superb.

I came across this fantastic comedy sketch again after watching Sanjeev Bhaskar in Unforgotton, this was a comedy classic there with the two Ronnies fork handles and pythons dead parrot, absolutely brilliant.😅😂🤣

Meera Syal and Nina Wadia are so funny 😂😂😂

@pauljordan4452

Жыл бұрын

Because they're Indian!

Hadn't ever heard of this before; can't believe how hilarious it is...

@ZeranZeran

2 жыл бұрын

This is way better than Saturday Night Live.. they should just air this instead. This is really good, ahead of its time.

@haruyasumi616

Жыл бұрын

it was really well observed. this is their most famous sketch, and it deserves to be remembered fondly. it's my generation's 'parrot sketch'. i low key had a girl crush on nina wadia.

This is pure comedy gold.

Still one of the funniest sketches ever, up there with harry Enfields old arsenal v new Liverpool and Kevin n Perry Manchester scene

Absolutely brilliant show.

One of the best sketches in comedy ever written, I still quote the phrase "I'll have the blandest thing on the menu!" to this day. 😂 Mum and I also joke amongst ourselves about other jokes in the show. "Ah, but how big is his danda?" (Spelling?) "Like a smaaaaall aubergine!" 🤏🍆 😂❤🥰

Used to love this show.

Love this show.

If any Baldur's Gate nerds read this: that waiter is Astarion.

@RazorEdge2006

3 ай бұрын

Baldur's Gate? Does that reference this show?

@DiamandaHagan

3 ай бұрын

@@RazorEdge2006 Alas no.

absolute genius and still so comic but unreally real

one of the greatest skits ever made, brilliant

"jammes" lmao

@MrSunnyBhoy

2 жыл бұрын

I know lmao!

@kavcherry4010

2 жыл бұрын

J mas steak & kidney pea

One of the great sketches of all time.

This was peak comedy!

They nailed it.

" What's the blandest thing on the menu ?! " 🤣

This and The Delhi Mail is comedy gold.

Absolutely brilliant.

Just so many clever gags in here

Incredible. So true !

absolute classic

This is satirical gold! 😂🤣

I've been looking for this sketch for a few years. Thanks for uploading.

Absolute classic 🤣🤣.

Yes! Finally, it's on KZread!!!

Brilliant, genius, hilarious 😂😂😂

Damn cazador had astarion doing wild things

Excellent!

Why am I suddenly seeing neil newbon everywhere though

Hilarious! Lovin' the English accents.

First performed on Radio 4 and later adapted for TV. I still prefer the radio version.

Astarion has come a long way!

Oh my gosh, this is so hilarious!! 🤣🤣

Gold!!!

Omg😂 how have I never seen this before

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 spot on

Laughed my socks off when I first saw this...

"Oh go on, have something bland!"

I just found out that the waiter James is Neil Newbon who voices Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 and Heisenberg in Resident Evil Village 😮

Omg legendary

Chunky Lafunga 😂

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣👍

amazing

Watch the GGM sketch where a white police recruit has his first tour of duty in an Indian Police Station. Priceless.

@laurallama73

2 жыл бұрын

I’m no Liam Neeson, but I WILL find that sketch!!! 😂Sounds hilarious.😂😂😂

@pauljordan4452

Жыл бұрын

Dave Lamb plays all the Anglo characters.

Steak and Kiddley pea.

oye clive of india! lol🤣

24 plates of chips lmao

💯😁Good humor requires that we relax and drop the chip we’re carrying on our shoulder.

@simpleNomadUK

Жыл бұрын

into one of the 24 plates they just ordered

@josephclift3662

Жыл бұрын

@@simpleNomadUK I had this very thought. Lol

@pauljordan4452

Жыл бұрын

Or simply, eat it.

Can't see what's wrong with 24 plates of chips though.

@C---M

Жыл бұрын

There is 6 of them, it's not enough!

Nina: Anyway I love English food, yah. Also Nina: But Nitin, you know I don’t like anything too bland, yah.