The Day Today & Brass Eye were truly ground breaking........ My penance for loving this humour is to sit in an office with people who watch Mrs Brown's Boys.

@grahamblack1961

7 жыл бұрын

Someone I used to know tried to get me to watch Mrs Brown's Boys, claiming it was really funny. I never really respected them very much after that.

@affalaffaa

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had some friends claiming that I would laugh at Mrs Brown's Boys as well. I very much proved them wrong.

@handsandmouth7685

6 жыл бұрын

I agree, British comedy has became too concerned with attracting a broad audience, though shows like 'People Just Do Nothing' are real gems. On a side note, please check out our development pilot kzread.info?o=U&video_id=4rJGgPAOc40 #notthatbroad #justcheckthelackofviews

@notryangosling3065

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone here is being quite an arsehole to a bunch of people who just like a certain tv show.

@jgharding2

4 жыл бұрын

F

This is the most bizarre masterpiece I've ever seen

@yewgong1248

4 жыл бұрын

20+ yrs later masterpiece seems the best word.

@hugevibez

3 жыл бұрын

Wait till you see Chris Morris' Jam!

"...an experiment they shall never forget, and from which one of them will never physically recover..." 😂

Wtf have I just discovered, comedy gold? Having a shit day tbh, this has given me my first laugh all day.

I’m watching the Office management training section from The Day Today now. It’s a bizarre masterpiece. I don’t think I’d really noticed before that beneath the bullying and nonsensical consultant speak and pointless roleplay, Marber actually has a preternatural insight into the minds of the people he’s torturing. Marber really has a threatening aura, I love it.

For the last twenty years, I have thought of this sketch and the “defecation scenario” line every time I see a toilet with the words ‘Armitage Shanks’ on it.

'The pig that's the anger inside us?' 🐖 😂

Absolutely brilliant. The Day Today is a comedy that is still head and shoulders above anything that’s on tv nowadays. Daring, sometimes though provoking but hilariously funny. Give me this any day over shite like Mrs Browns Boys

@al201103

3 жыл бұрын

Right there with you.

I was reminded of my last office job, and I experienced a horrible anxiety attack. Brilliant!

Nice to see the origins of "The Office" training scene where Gareth is asked what his ultimate Fantasy is.

“It might have a baby” “It will if you keep shouting” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Doon Mackichan falling over at 9:35 is exceptional acting

@bibby5000

5 жыл бұрын

its not even toward the pig, she just spaz's out XD

@pinkzweibel985

4 жыл бұрын

I love Doon xc

@al201103

3 жыл бұрын

Doon was amazing on TDT.

ricky gervis must have watched this and thought " hmmm i have an idea for a tv show"

@CS-mo7xp

6 жыл бұрын

OpinionDay007 yep without this skit there would be no Extras, Derek, Meet Ricky Gervais, or Life's Too Short.

@jamesduffy7549

4 жыл бұрын

@@CS-mo7xp no derek wouldn't be such a bad thing

@parlay-music

4 жыл бұрын

james84 - it wouldn’t have been so bad if it wasn’t for that disgusting perverted character, he was just too much

@elvisleeboy

4 жыл бұрын

@@parlay-music The same is often said of Jim'll Fix It.

@Lachie55

4 жыл бұрын

I've noticed lots of coogan and morris influence on Ricky's work

I'm never going to say "can I borrow a stapler please" ever again. Haha..

@stevechristie2569

6 жыл бұрын

K Russell you work in an office?

@zodrob7

4 жыл бұрын

You couldn't borrow mine anyway, it's in jelly

I love how when Steve Coogan cries in a Scottish accent he becomes Pauline Calf

"Christine, hit Anthony."

"You dress like an old lady and you've got a stupid face" is such a great insult.

@rallokkcaz

4 жыл бұрын

I still have a crush on her though.

Dynamic cast. What an impeccable team! Everyone knows their craft - - they play off of each other so well, so joyfully. Brilliant little gem, down to the last detail. 🐖

This sketch is a hidden gem.

Management consultants should be required to watch this.

@skullsaintdead

3 жыл бұрын

No, they'll get ideas!

Coogan's character queuing up for another go at insulting Christine 😂

I forget how good the long cut is, thanks for posting this.

My laughter soon faded and became a blank stare as I remembered similar bleak encounters whilst wearing a suit!

Rebecca Front is brilliant in this

Thanks for putting this up!

This extended bit is great. Thanks.

Oh boy this made me crack up. Super well done. Thanks man

"...and you're always there." 25 years later I want to add to the end of any sentence I say to any work colleague I speak to regardless of context

"Get a knife, lets kill it!"

@monstermunch4956

7 жыл бұрын

farmers 😂😂😂😂😂

22 people don’t have a very fulfilled home life

@Blackpool-no2vt

4 жыл бұрын

Make that 23 dislikes

@kemalziya

4 жыл бұрын

@@Blackpool-no2vt make that 25 idiots

The full ensemble! Sublime!!

Ms Front is truly amazing..

Put some paper down it might have a baby

I love The Office, but this makes me feel more uncomfortable than that ever did.

@stevechristie2569

6 жыл бұрын

Adam Funnell even the interview with the female PA, where he tries looking up her skirt?

Patrick Marber is so funny in this. :D

"I don't think she has a fulfilled home life".

Actually went on a similar course! Based on a New York fish market ethos. I'll never forget it, made some good friends and failed the course with flying colours

At 8:12 you can see him barely hold it together but it was truly incredible.

Stands up after all this time. So well done.

This is actually like a Gestalt group therapy session.😂😂😂

I think Ricky Gervais owes these guys a few quid.

"Let's kick some ass into life" 😂

"Buy a paper, Anthony!" :D

Can't stop watching this

brilliant! thanks for uploading :D

@shiv2nite

7 жыл бұрын

welcome!

@TheDEATHSTARIII

7 жыл бұрын

errrrrrrr

@SmugSuspenders

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheDEATHSTARIII Eerrr!!

Steve coogan is being Dennis nilson . The hair glasses , accent ,butcher history and psycho look in his eyes. I got you mr coogan.

@MattySadler

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on

One of the funniest Day Today sketches. I believe it's a send-up of the Exegesis Seminar that ran "motivational" courses in the UK during the 70s and 80s. There's a couple of contemporaneous documentaries on youtube, as well as a Play for Today episode, "Instant Enlightenment Including VAT". You'll spot the similarities. 😉

absolutely brilliant

They are all such great actors

I like how they wear the same clothes even though it's different days

Out of corporate life now, thank goodness. Couldn't watch this first time it was too realistic. Sell your soul. Still hard watching.

"I don't think she has a very fulfilled home life" 😂

THE BEST sketch in The Day Today! 🤣🤣🤣 Also great to see this extended cut! 😉 O.O.K 👌🏼💙

"Will it be killed soon? Will that die?"

Buy a paper Anthony!

@uncletedscabin4625

7 жыл бұрын

"Take your paper with you!"

Chris Morris is a genius. Comedy has truly gone downhill ever since.

@arveyilleszender5809

3 жыл бұрын

There’s some relatively recent T.V. comedy that’s equal to or superior to Chris Morris’s work. Most of Sacha Baron Cohen’s work. Some aspects of Ricky Gervais’s The Office. A fair amount of Chris Lilley’s work. Aspect of Nathan Fielder’s Nathan For You.

@Vaudevillain121

9 ай бұрын

@@arveyilleszender5809 Sorry,but the Day Today is better. You think Ali g is equal or superior(!!!) to this??? SB Cohen is good and can be very funny,but this is far more original,clever,eclectic and funny than any of his characters or shows. The Office isn't in the same league as this either.

@arveyilleszender5809

9 ай бұрын

100% disagree. @@Vaudevillain121

“Always there” 😆

I love the way he plucks his beard 1:18

Patrick marber is fantastic in this

@tomkent4656

6 жыл бұрын

Which one is Patrick Marber?

@justinjha

6 жыл бұрын

The guy doing the training. Buy a paper Anthony

@92RedRevolver

4 жыл бұрын

I feel completely the opposite.

@TheRightLadder

4 жыл бұрын

92RedRevolver Don't be a pussy, Red.

@none167

3 жыл бұрын

He reminds me of Marco Pierre White in this skit...

“Shake Adnan’s hand, Anthony” 😂😂

I remember a trading course a bit like this back in 83. Exegesis or something! There was a documentary about a sales office trained to this method. SALE!!

brilliant

Buy a paper Anthony! Errrrrrrrrr!!!

"Can I borrow a stapler please?"

hilarious, gut wrenching, and various other superlatives love that pig...so cuddly

So much better than "The Office" after countless episodes. THIS one sketch IS the office. The Day Today has never been surpassed.

@sillygoose635

5 жыл бұрын

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHa of course they have

@ThemeParkChomp

5 жыл бұрын

fingerhorn4 This doesnt satirise office worklife though like The Office (the Gervais and Merchant show). This is more satirising corporate ‘team building’ programmes. The sketch is very different

'These are unwritten rules.'

You’ve got no sense of humour and you’re always there!

"Open Mum to the carpet" 👌😂

@carpetfluff35

4 жыл бұрын

He says 'help him onto the carpet'.

@MarkMathewsMusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@carpetfluff35 No. No he doesn't.

@carpetfluff35

4 жыл бұрын

@@MarkMathewsMusic Yes he does. I'm not going to get into some stupid back and forth over this. Feel free to go download the scripts if you really really don't want to hear it right.

Superb.

Came here to rewatch because watching Episode 8 of The Vow reminded me of it. Horrifically close. Genius.

7p for a copy of the Mirror, I still wouldn't buy it!

@T0mat0S0up

7 жыл бұрын

27p

@forgive7449

5 жыл бұрын

@@T0mat0S0up errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 😕 errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

@normanno8514

3 жыл бұрын

is that because youre a racist?

This is like a typical day in the NHS

Imagine if the meat that employee was cutting up at the end was actually the same pig that was playing around in the office.

“Two lesbians. Sisters. I’m just watching” “I never thought I’d say this, but I’d like to hear more from Gareth”

@pascalansellful

4 жыл бұрын

tdurbo Thank you. What a show!!

@jamesmuir7840

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on

@al201103

3 жыл бұрын

You're standing in a news grave.

@tdurb0

3 жыл бұрын

@@al201103 ...”and what does it say on that grave Peter?” “News” 😂

@al201103

3 жыл бұрын

@@tdurb0 classic! "Rotate it 180 degrees in my favour"

Happy days.

It’s a mockumentary set in an office and the logo looks similar to the Ricky Gervais sitcom but that’s where the similarities end really. The Office was all about realistic social interactions and the documentary aspect was really just an excuse to loosen up the rules of more traditional acting. This sketch is more about surrealism, and one of Chris Morris’s big interests at the time was in meticulously and accurately recreating the tone and style of the type of show they’re making fun of, so kind of the opposite if The Office. If Ricky Gervais ripped off anyone it’s Christopher Guest.

@usagiwerd6664

3 жыл бұрын

Good comment i agree

BUY A PAPER ANTHONY!

I'd like to do one of these development courses with all my colleagues, it'd be a right gas

I reckon they should do techniques to recovery/therapy like this in the working world, perhaps even social. I know it's all an act but the outcome looks outstanding and more civil. The entire sketch was astonishing. Felt like it was an actual documentary.

@-BuddyGuy

4 жыл бұрын

You're exactly the kind of fucking bellend that would set one of these up aren't you

I'VE GOT THE MIRRRRORR!!!

great writing

This is genius

6 years before Ricky Gervais! Haha Ground breaking comedy 👍

and so "The Office" was born

@farmbrough

7 жыл бұрын

powernoid except The Office wasn't funny.

@shirleymental4189

7 жыл бұрын

Fuck off.

@stevechristie2569

6 жыл бұрын

dfarmbrough I think there's been a rape up there!

@Xt-tt6mc

6 жыл бұрын

Not really much similarity apart from the obvious name etc

@tiarnan76

6 жыл бұрын

theres definitely a lot of office in this skit - dawn is very like rebecca front in this....for example

Let's kick some ass into life!

Way ahead of The Lobster of The Killing of a Sacred Deer

"Are we human? Or are w dancers?"

It's not a f8cking skit, it's a f8cking SKETCH

@maverickstclare3756

4 жыл бұрын

vignette

Mummy's gone, and you want to cry like a baby.

I like meat, I like working with meat.

"Mommy's gone"

"Don't cheat on yourself" 😂

"deal with the fucking pig!"

@BillySnowball

4 жыл бұрын

Additionally "see the pig doesn't care about you, but you care about the pig - this is your problem"

Ah, so this is where Ricky got his idea for The Office.

The pig that's our anger?

Thank the gods for this!!!! I know every line of this sketch off by heart and this extended version will very soon be at home there as well.

Gervais really knocked this off, even the font is the same

@Fumpage

4 жыл бұрын

I mean it’s a standard typewriter font. I bet that if you asked 10 graphic designers who were born before 1970 to make a title screen for something called The Office 9 of them would use the same font.

@jimreily7538

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fumpage Yeah that's fair enough. But the font on black background is just one aspect; in its totality I think it's not coincidence - it's just my view but it seems likely that Gervais was, at the very least, inspired by this skit

AHHHHH!!!!! ERRR!!!!!!!

@jamesfield1674

4 жыл бұрын

ERR!

Is that Tony Hayers from the BBC with the moustache? :P

@TheUnperson

4 жыл бұрын

Bread Harrity yep!

@quirkypurple

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheUnperson 18 minutes. Wasn't expecting that! :D