If anyone's wondering about his hospitalisation, Paul broke his arm while in Edinburgh for the Fringe.

@ethzero

Ай бұрын

_"... for the Fringe"_ , that's dedication! 😆

Paul's "W. H. Spliff" comment made me laugh.

Other little known Antipodean facts include: koala means I cannot recall, echidna means I used to know this, platypus means maybe ask someone else, wombat means I would prefer not answering, and dingo means mind your own business. Also, sadly kangaroo is the attempt to spell the word from Nth Qld people for the bouncy bastards (gungurru, or the like), learned after Cook had to spend time ashore during a serious repair. It did not come from the Botany Bay area, or was an error in understanding. Drongo.

str1tsa you make me so happy ty for all the work you put in it and share with us you the best in my book lol.

@jrspiritcommunicator7611

4 жыл бұрын

Well said 👍

@amelia6150

4 жыл бұрын

@@jrspiritcommunicator7611 thank you

@alunchurcher7060

3 жыл бұрын

have you ever thought about grammar and diction my friend.

@amelia6150

3 жыл бұрын

@@alunchurcher7060 yes and it's asshole for you.

@oscardog6719

3 жыл бұрын

Alun Churcher English may not be her first language. Rather mean spirited of you to say that when she was being kind.

Blackwood was just excruciatingly inept.

Thanks for posting.

Miss Angus in the other series

such fun, many appreciations, but Stringfellow, and he's been on more than once. ....

@anonUK

4 жыл бұрын

Well he won't be on again.

@ash7324

6 ай бұрын

@@anonUK😂

Oh Germaine, how wrong you were

@eta2670

3 жыл бұрын

My mother loves her, but germaine* seems to be wrong a surprising amount x)

@LoneKharnivore

3 жыл бұрын

Bloody Greer hasn't been right about anything for a long time.

@DeadlyPants123

2 ай бұрын

Biggest cow in the world. Hated her after what she said about Steve Irwin

the peineta on Angus is quite fetching. the dots on the board behind his head .....

Ian's Welsh pronunciation actually isn't that bad, compared to most English people who attempt it.

@petergrimsditch7778

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe because he was born in Wales :}

@richardponsford5147

2 жыл бұрын

@@petergrimsditch7778 tiger uppercut!

@pwuk

Жыл бұрын

Tidy

"well, i split my trousers in front of the queen" is the only phrase in the english language as far as i'm concerned

@TheEvilCheesecake

Жыл бұрын

Bet you voted leave didn't you

Not related to this particular video but for some reason Series 57 arrived but will not open due to copyright issues and the commends are turned off. Can open all the others. Weird.

@str1tsa

3 жыл бұрын

Weird. The video works fine where I live. It has probably been blocked or something. By the way, every blocked video is also on dailymotion so you can watch it there if you want to: www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xbwju?playlist=x3oj3x

@weatherbog

3 жыл бұрын

@@str1tsa yeah very Odd. Thanks for the new link..

Forgot just how mercilessly they used to razz Angus. Classic 🤜💥🤛

@Xipheas

2 ай бұрын

Used to do what!?

Is that prince Andrew? (no, I'm not brittish) And thank's for posting! 🌷

@jenniferholden9397

4 жыл бұрын

flugsven No, it's not.

@flugsven

4 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Holden I seem to have missed the beginning last time 🙃

yes, to uphold the moral integrity of the bbc we get rid of deynton and replace him with guest hosts rolf harris and jimmy saville.

@felicitatumfortunae

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't that. It was that he was such a source of scandal that he couldn't properly make fun of people any more.

@zufgh

2 жыл бұрын

@@felicitatumfortunae And so they move onto a format where instead they hire a new source of scandal basically every week and pile onto the host, etc. It's not really an excuse that works when you take into account the years since where the host being the butt of the joke is essentially the whole point of the show now.

@Liorte1973

Жыл бұрын

Jimmy Saville never presented HIGNFY.

@lizziebkennedy7505

9 ай бұрын

Exactly

@lizziebkennedy7505

9 ай бұрын

@@felicitatumfortunaeit IS that to anyone with a clue. What is the scandal? Jeez, you people elected Boris Johnson! on your standards you’d be depose your King.

Charles Kennedy! What a funny guy! could have this piss taken out of him, (or do it himself!) Nice funny Man!! RIP xx fcuking drink!

Is that nigella Lawson sitting next to paul?

@george52066

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Nigella 🔥🔥

7:25 The "kangaroo means I don't know" story isn't entirely accurate. What actually happened was the settlers were speaking to two different Aboriginal groups who spoke different languages. They got the word "kangaroo" from the first group but the second group didn't know what that word meant because they spoke a different language.

7.41 - which is the wrong answer actually

Well that bit about global warming has aged well. . .

@PokerPlayerJames

4 жыл бұрын

@Richard Joyce very familiar with Orwell. "Brave New World" would be an apt comparison as well.

@LoneKharnivore

3 жыл бұрын

But environmental destruction is the most important. Governments, ethics and civilisations come and go but climate change can end humanity.

@PokerPlayerJames

3 жыл бұрын

@@LoneKharnivore I think you're arguing against a point I never made? I'm a strong believer in combating climate change.

done

Crikey! They all look younger and Charles Kennedy looks... Alive!

@mathewdee1632

4 жыл бұрын

Always a fan of his on this show , shame about his alcoholism ,. He was quite funny and reserved ..which made it even funnier

Back when this funny and pretty much politically balanced

kangaroo does not mean i don't know in aborigine its just what they called kangaroos the story is a myth.

@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. What happened is because different Aboriginal tribes spoke different languages, one tribe called them "kangaroos" and the English dutifully recorded that as the name, but when they interacted with another tribe, the other tribe didn't recognise the word "kangaroo", leading to the confusion. It'd be like thinking the word "dog" meant "I don't know" because the next person you spoke to was French and used the word "chien".

@bloozee

Жыл бұрын

How did the koori understand the question I wonder... perhaps captain Cook shouted his question very loud???

@lizziebkennedy7505

9 ай бұрын

Aborigine, you goon. Show some damn respect

@lizziebkennedy7505

9 ай бұрын

@@bloozee Use capital letters for proper nouns, you bogan.

*broadcast

that penguin story was a lie, it never happened

39:46 Is that awfully creepy of Paul or am I missing a running joke?

@gaskellr44

Жыл бұрын

no, not said in a creepy way - more dead pan - and he obviously knew how the target would take it.

7:29 This story is untrue

Is there a law that stops us pronouncing the word for homosexual men as homosexual ? I notice the Daily Mail doesnt print it either!

“Good night. Sorry, that was just to annoy anyone who set their videos to record this.”

The story about the word kangaroo is nonsense. How would an aborigine who didn’t speak English know what Captain Cook was asking?

@arthurkemp4494

2 жыл бұрын

Because captain cook wasn’t the first European or even brit to Australia. The Dutch were there first, so they knew who the whites were. Also there are so many aborigines languages that are now extinct that it could be true that kangaroo originally meant “I don’t understand you” all in all etymologist don’t really know why the kangaroo is called the kangaroo

@johnfairweather9188

2 жыл бұрын

@@arthurkemp4494 The Dutch who arrived first didn’t speak English, so my point still stands.

Merton is / was impressive and swift, but he had no idea when to put on the brakes. Eventually, his constant interruptions turned into a circus, rather than a funny but serious political comments. The public laughed, but you could see the strain on the faces of his partners, as they repeatedly tried to continue where the comment had started. I can't imagine how long the original texts were - they must have told Merton, whatever you do, make sure you're done on time - that may explain his breakneck speed. I'm glad he's mellowed down since those halcyon days.

@gaskellr44

Жыл бұрын

You are spot on in your analysis. Think he took it too far at times for his own enjoyment (which is fair enough) but it could get a bit tiresome, but he and I H were masters at wit and satire. With hindsight, you can now understand that they weren't too fond of A D...not sure why.

@peteglanton9259

3 ай бұрын

I can’t stand him personally. He reminds me of a child in my class at primary school; noisy, rude, desperate for attention, constantly interrupting the teacher, and not very funny.

Paul Merton at the end comes off really badly. I wonder what his real life beef with Angus was

@csmadisun

3 жыл бұрын

He was never super fond of Angus - Ian Hislop was once quoted as saying "Paul didn't ever like him, and was very 'up front' about it. But I got on quite well with him - until the big break-up, obviously." (The big break-up being his departure from the show in 2003) It was probably a serious clash of personalities, coupled with the jokes about Paul's wife (Caroline Quentin) souring Paul's opinion of him - it's quite notable that it was after Angus started making those jokes that Paul started being harsher towards him.

@emeraldblue5291

3 жыл бұрын

They just did a retrospective for the show's 30th anniversary. Ian said he & Paul are friends & go out for a pint after the taping and that he and Angus were friendly "until the situation". (This season was after scandal #1) They wanted him gone after his very public scandal but the BBC kept him on, consenting adults etc, & Angus promised them that was the full story. He almost cost all of them their jobs. I'd be a bit salty too. Then the other shoe dropped & all hell broke loose. Angus was fired & they tried Paul as host before going to different host every week. I think Paul knew that Angus was an SOB aka a liar & a cheat from the first time they met and they never got on very well. Sometimes you just know that someone isn't a good person. Yet they still managed ro work together for 10yrs.

@MultiBunnyhops

3 жыл бұрын

@@emeraldblue5291 There was also a lot of resentment that Deayton got paid loads of money "for reading a funny script" whereas Paul (especially) provided spontaneous witty comedy (without a script) and got paid normal panelist rates (which I understand are modest).

@opkb4e

3 жыл бұрын

@@emeraldblue5291 You should watch that anniversary show again, because you have a lot of the details muddled up, and some are just plain wrong.

@garyd7890

3 жыл бұрын

@@MultiBunnyhops Yeah, only 20k for a good solid couple of hours work every week. Very Modest.

This was one of the worst for Merton doing his Monty Python schtick.

32:20 whenever we say this about Pakistanis etc we are called racist

@SorendeSelbyBowen

2 жыл бұрын

What! Do you mean that what you say =to= is also important as what you say? Well I never!

@TheEvilCheesecake

Жыл бұрын

"How dare people call me racist for being racist"

@stephenmurray2851

Жыл бұрын

@@TheEvilCheesecake Ah there it is, the race card alert. The girls in Rochdale and Rotherham say hi.

@lizziebkennedy7505

9 ай бұрын

That’s ‘cos you are.

@stephenmurray2851

9 ай бұрын

​@@lizziebkennedy7505no I'm not. It's people like you who are racist.

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?" kzread.info/dash/bejne/goODls6rhMbSfrw.html

@johnbootland1675

2 жыл бұрын

why have you written an excerpt from fawlty towers ? we all heard and and we all know it

@fredflintstoner596

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnbootland1675 ARE YOU THE COMMENT POLICE ?

@fredflintstoner596

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnbootland1675 YOU NAUGHTY MOOSE !

@TheEvilCheesecake

Жыл бұрын

We're watching a man fall apart in front of our eyes here

@fredflintstoner596

Жыл бұрын

@@TheEvilCheesecake THOSE ARE THE WRONG SHAPED CHIPS !

go learn some science

HIGNFY is very funny at times, but this is mostly a tiresome rampage at Angus' expense and starts to become devoid of humour, and just basically a lesson in bullying. Him and Hislop can be great wits, but come over as c**** in these snippets.

@GaryGoals

2 ай бұрын

Car? Cat? Cog?

@gaskellr44

2 ай бұрын

@@GaryGoals Lol, should have been 3 *s