It’s among one of the hardest sketch to listen without breaking a straight face. I nearly burst out laughing mid-work. This is what people should be watching to understand how flexible Rowan Atkinson was in his comedic roles. Prior to the Blackadder.

@zakelwe

2 жыл бұрын

Rowan Atkinson almost lost it 2/3 way through but then recovered to give a fitting climax to the sketch.

@hinakomalin

2 жыл бұрын

@@zakelwe , it will be extra funny had there been an updated version of this with all the other monuments and buildings currently in London. 🤣🤣🤣

Still makes me laugh 40 years later

Imagine what Jean-Pierre would have to say about the Shard, the O2 Arena and assortment of towers on Canary Wharf.

@ThinPicks

Жыл бұрын

And the Gherkin!😂

@gettothechorus

Ай бұрын

"PAH!!!!"

When are we ever going to get a new generation of comedy writers and performers who are going to be as talented as these guys!?never again I fear!

@ericlackford6718

3 жыл бұрын

Almost all of the modern comedians are frightened of the woke morons who have to inflict their boring dogma on the rest of us. It started with political correctness, now the few are dictating to the rest of us. PC , Pah! A load of willies.

@vivaldi1ett

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericlackford6718 we can’t let them win “we’ve got to fight for our right to party” 😬🤪💞😘🎚

@modhakikamynt8708

3 жыл бұрын

Not going to happen. These days anything that you said or do about race will be considered racist or bias to certain groups of people. Seems like the more advanced we are, the more sensitive we become.

@vivaldi1ett

3 жыл бұрын

@@modhakikamynt8708 wonderful response comment young man you’ve a great future ahead of you God bless you sir and take care out there buddy just to add it’s only certain types of people who are more sensitive 🤪🤘🇬🇧🎚🎸💞🇬🇧

@elizabethwhyman7507

Жыл бұрын

That will never happen.

this is 2014 and this thing is still funny Rowan Atkinson is epic..

@Pow3llMorgan

6 жыл бұрын

I was slightly devastated when I learned that in the "making of ...." production. But on the other hand, she and Billy Connolly met, got engaged and married as a more or less direct consequence of his being invited on the show and they are still married!

@trunestor

4 жыл бұрын

Still can agree

@ronwilliams4184

3 жыл бұрын

2021 ... still funny .....

Pamela Stephenson regularly performed this character (who had an actual name) during the original run of the show. It was *_'Janny Shtrait-Pawuh',_* an entirely different person to _Janet Street-Porter._

"Who would not be a potty in the country... where the houses of parliament are erecting in the shadow of something called BIG BEN?! That every hour says *DONG* !

@EddieGaster

5 жыл бұрын

"Aren't you just sex mad?"

@budgiefriend

3 жыл бұрын

Well recited, i just saw it and you got it right word for word. Very bloody well done sir.

I've been to London 4 times and every time i see those buildings i think of this sketch!

"What a load of willies!" Got to use that one day!

Pamela Stephenson is fucking brilliant at playing Janet Street Porter, I think she was underrated in her role in the team.

@richardholland5182

3 жыл бұрын

@J Hemphill yes

@charleslyster1681

3 жыл бұрын

She wasn’t underrated by me!

@gregghill2059

3 жыл бұрын

@@charleslyster1681 She was by SNL. Their loss as well as ours.

Brilliant. Still so funny after all these years. Quality writing comes through every time

@fretboardmaster70

Жыл бұрын

No pun intended 😮comes through

Pamela's performance is no less hillarious than Rowan's. "...you are complaaetlay pottay."

@ThinPicks

Жыл бұрын

I love it when she pronounces "Hugo"😂

One of the best Janet Street-Porter impressions Ive ever seen :)

Jean-Pierre is spot on. Incidentally, a stroke of genius to get Janet Street-Porter to appear in the sketch as the presenter.

@jonathangriffin1120

2 жыл бұрын

Errr, 'Janet Street-Porter is actually Pamela Stephenson, AKA Mrs. Billy Connolly.......

@jrb1802uk

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathangriffin1120 'Whooooosh'

@09weenic

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathangriffin1120 you plonker 😂

@flipper2392

Жыл бұрын

@@jonathangriffin1120 There's no flies on you, is there. Well spotted.

@StephenChadwick-qd1wu

Жыл бұрын

Are you serious!!! Obviously Pamela Stevenson

Rowan hillarious as always, side splitting at work

@kamrankhan-lj1ng

Жыл бұрын

Rowan was keen and intense in this skit.

“It is Nelson’s WILLY!”

@graemestarkey7524

3 жыл бұрын

Whenever I go through Trafalgar Square I say that internally.

@funkyalfonso

3 жыл бұрын

@@graemestarkey7524 Internally?......Phaaaaa! It is simply a country attempting to impregnate the French.

I remember seeing this when it first came out and I'm still laughing now.

That face expression on 0:35 is hilarious!

Griff Rhys-Jones doing a parodic Henry Kissinger there.

This must clearly be the best of all the skits.

PA!!

@roberthollingworth8050

5 жыл бұрын

Especially if your parents were in the room at the time.

I swear this was based on a very weird French guest they had on a BBC arts programme.

He will have a field day describing London's "Gherkin".

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

7 жыл бұрын

krazykat1977 aka The Dildo.

Priceless. Pam and Rowan, what a scream.

It's too bad the end of the skit is missing because it continued to be funny.

It is 2021 and it is still funnay!

I think Lord Nelson would agree....

@simonatford1

9 жыл бұрын

Lady Hamilton was quite keen on his column as well.

@mithrandir491

9 жыл бұрын

Simon Atford :D

@pineapplepenumbra

4 жыл бұрын

As one of the many reincarnations of Nelson, I approve of your post...

I just had to listen to this one again. Pammy as Street Porter is brilliant. Atkinson - well what can you say? How Griff kept a straight face I don't know. Perhaps he didn't when the camera was off him.

thanks so much for this - good laughs, easily the best abs training EVER!

Oh god dying of laughter, freaking hilarious.

That must be janet street porter !!! very accurate lol

The "video edit" cuts about 30 seconds off the sketch, and quite clumsily. As the clip fades out, you still can hear Rowan ranting (as Jean-Pierre)

i simply adore this

"I made two new friends. Oh jump here and Shergar." The subtitles add another comedic layer to everything.

@ArtificialSoul

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. In that case I should leave them unaltered

@gary.h.turner

Жыл бұрын

Two friends she met at the "Brish Nose I am".

When comedy becomes reality

@sundareshvenugopal6575

2 жыл бұрын

Good observation.

I can't believe this is actually becoming an opinion "journalists" have nowadays on architecture.

@loafersheffield

3 жыл бұрын

Are you referencing this Guardian opinion piece? I read "Woke" by Titania McGrath (Andrew Doyle) last year. Thought it was hilarious. Now it reads like a horror novel. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/06/upward-thrusting-buildings-ejaculating-cities-sexist-leslie-kern-phallic-feminist-city-toxic-masculinity

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

It always was but it’s not journalists, it’s architects.

@Angelofexecution

3 жыл бұрын

@@thethirdman225 It's both, fam. Let's be honest.

@thethirdman225

3 жыл бұрын

@@Angelofexecution Alright, let’s be honest: when did a journalist say this? Got a link?

@Angelofexecution

3 жыл бұрын

@@thethirdman225 Spend more time on Twitter and you'll eventually get what you ask for. I ain't scrolling back to seven months ago to find on my feed what made me comment in the first place. 1. The Twitter feed stops working after 48 hours of scrolling in the past 2. I'm not on Twitter as much as I was 7 months ago.

Absolutely brilliant!

I can also remember watching this when it was first broadcast. Not coming from London I had no idea who Janet Street Porter was. Ahhhh those were the days...

That Rowan Atkinson is a genius.

Timeless funnyness , ( if Shakespeare can make up words so can I ).

Ha ha ha! This never gets old.

I wonder if he's ever been to America and seen the Washington Monument.

@gimmecat6251

6 жыл бұрын

Washington Monument?! Pah! It is the Washington _Willy!_

@thewomble1509

5 жыл бұрын

@@Urlocallordandsavior Willy means cock in Britain you knob!

@martm216

4 жыл бұрын

'Washington Monument?! Pah! It is the Washington Willy, soaring upwards, PENETRATING the atmosphere in zee hope of making zee very air pregnant with more Washingtons for zee American hegemony!'

You can almost see how Rowan Atkinson honed all his language and gestures as skills to eventually mutate to mr bean🤔🤔🤔🤔

He was certainly passionate about the subject that's for sure.

I think he slipped from a French to a German accent for a bit on his rant....LOL

Any viewers outside the capital perhaps wouldn't realize this was based on LWT's 6 o'clock Show.

2:23 He so very nearly cracks up there.

What a interview....

Amazing

It would be funny if Rowan could revive the Jean-Piere character in a funny cameo in a Simon Pegg movie

IT IS NELSON'S WILLY!

That sign was probably borrowed from ITV but turned 6 upside down

Outside of London, nobody would have heard of The 6 O'Clock Show, which was parodied here.

I often think "mouldy old relic" whenever she's on Loose Women...

@garyturner1706

8 жыл бұрын

There's certainly plenty of them on the show.

Janet Street-Porter spoofed to the core.

The Gherkin? Pah! It is the Dildo!

@pineapplepenumbra

4 жыл бұрын

So what's the London Eye, then?

@David-ud9ju

4 жыл бұрын

I've always thought that the gherkin looks more like a butt plug.

Comedy gold! 😂😂😂

Brilliant!

this is seriously the funniest fucking thing ever

80s / 90s .. Comedy was so funny back then. Now we have to put up with Mrs. Brown's Boys 🙄

Phenomenal. Atkinson is unique.

The good old days when comedy was funny

@vivaldi1ett

3 жыл бұрын

anthony slattery And un-P.C.!they seemed to be free and fresher and didn’t worry about upsetting anyone

Jean Pierre is me in Year 9

This was paralysingly funny if you were 13 at the time...

@garygramm6533

4 жыл бұрын

Mate it's paralysingly funny now at the age of 49. Shit man, I'm literally wiping tears of laughter from my eyes.

@L-mo

3 жыл бұрын

What would he have thought of the Gherkin? And the walky-talky?

@L-mo

3 жыл бұрын

And don’t even mention the London Eye!

@PointsofData

3 жыл бұрын

@@garygramm6533 it's really not but okay

@garygramm6533

3 жыл бұрын

@@PointsofData Thanks for bringing me down to earth there, bud. Your good deed for the day.

lol you could see him almost losing it around the time he got to nelsons willie

Quite brilliant.

just brillant................

Add an extra layer of funny by watching it with the subtitles. Doesn’t cope too well with JSP!!!

I agree with everything he said. Eet is obvieuse, mon vieux!

Sarkozy's getting upset again.

Pure comedy gold! Atkinson was incredible! Is this part of a longer show? I've been searching all over the internet for the full version. Can anyone help me?

@garyl5128

2 жыл бұрын

The show is called "Not The Nine O'clock News"

Every hour says DONG!

id forgotten this so funny nelsons willy...

Her impressions are awesome - and she's hot. damn.

2:16 LOL

Great comic team, very underrated at the time, much funnier than Python series. K ( i dont include their films in that)

who would not be a potty!

PUAH!

I didn’t know who Janet Street Porter was when this was made, but years later I saw her on TV and the penny dropped then.

@tadpolesandwich No. It was already like this on the original episode.

Slavoj Zizek studied Atkinson’s elocution here when fashioning his own.

PAH!

Very funny

The steam locomotive... colonization... breakthroughs in science... the industrial revolution... great literature, great comedy I'm not even British and I know that much ^_^;

Truth is funny !

this is amazing are atkinson and jones depicting specific people?

Phallic symbolism has been around for a very long time..

You must be totally insane to find this amusing and are devoid of sanity if you do not. Thank you. Second Side Up FM here on YT and on the BBC iPlayer. Ciao. Bye-eeeee.

Pause at 1:59.

🤣👍👍👍

You know, I've wondered for 40-odd years what he says at 1:34: "And who _something unintelligible_ it? No-one. NO-ONE" Any ideas?

@80sandretrogubbins25

5 ай бұрын

And who measures it?, or, And who maintains it?

@tomerkandel5824

3 ай бұрын

I think it's "and who mentions it?"

@80sandretrogubbins25

3 ай бұрын

@@tomerkandel5824 That makes sense.

Rowan Atkinson is Legendary Date/26/July/2017

Nelson's Column.

Still actual.

WILLY

Pa!mela Anderson.

Atkinson seems to drift from a french to German accent pah!

Needs to be updated with London's more recent skyline additions

Pwff!!

Holy shit that's right! I've got to go show this to my kids before they grow up!! XD