I didn't get where I am today by not recognising a classic timeless comedy when I see one Reggie!

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

GOODBYE REGGIE.

Masterpiece comedy starring the genius Leonard Rossiter. He is totally brilliant in the role. The rest of the cast are also wonderful. Brilliant writing from David nobbs.

This, like Black Adder, Porridge, Till Death Do Us Part, is so much more than just comedy.

@Portugal2025

Жыл бұрын

I would certainly add Fawlty Towers and My Family

It's sad really how the sit com level has dropped now to almost zero when you look at comedy of this calibre now,from David nobbs the writer to the stellar cast of Reginald and cj and the rest this is absolute gold

Much as I admire the great talent of Martin Clunes his portrayal of dear Reggie could never match Leonard Rossiter...he IS Reggie. A masterclass in acting.

@robertfrankgill5962

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps Reginald Perrin was Leonard Rossiter as much as the other way round. Or even more. But that's just hindsight on my part.

@Portugal2025

Жыл бұрын

Leonard was also a wonderful dramatic actor- he left us far too early

Brilliant sitcom!...Rossiter was magnificent, as Perrin...His acting is sublime...Looking forward to watching all the KZread episodes of "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin".

i love how the sunshine desert sign decays over time

@Daniel-xv5jq

8 күн бұрын

England was also decaying over the same period of time!?!

Timeless portrayal of how isolating a mental breakdown can be.

@runswithwindz9875

Жыл бұрын

Good comment

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

that anti gay underwear scene was the funniest scene of the series,but there are so many great moments

One of the best episodes. My late Father was a bit like Uncle Percy .... I remember once when I was pushing him along a corridor in Wexham Park Hospital he said in a loud voice, referring to a lady walking in front of us, `She's got a substantial pair of pins on her' 😁😁. Luckily the lady appeared to not hear this judgement.

"Perhaps you'd be better off running a boutique. Or a wine bar. Or a hair-dressing salon....:oD

In a couple years I'll be able to get away with saying... what a lovely pair.......don't need binoculars to see your knockers.....🤣

@Martindyna

Жыл бұрын

Barbara Windsor to man eating fruit: Oh what a lovely looking pear ! Man to Barbara: You took the words right out of my mouth ! [Carry on Doctor]

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

id like to think ill always have a filter to what i say --- but i may drop that filter from time to time to surprize and bewilder those around me

I love the scenes with CJ and the Yes men.

@georgej851

3 жыл бұрын

Super!

@EM-yk1dw

3 жыл бұрын

@@sprishka666 Super!

@spencerfrankclayton4348

9 ай бұрын

"Yes, CJ."

@spencerfrankclayton4348

9 ай бұрын

"No, CJ."

WHAT a Lovely Pair !!!!😂True g

wat a lovely pair

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

the forever ooooold tony simpson

A superb series showing the brilliance of Leonard Rossiter. Many of the cast were also excellent too and this series imo is up there with the very best of British comedy. However, I do feel that it was overdone in the end.

Uncle Percy was interviewed for a job on Are You Being Served.

Great series - I doubt that anyone could carry off Perin like Rossiter did. The opening credits always remind me of Sgt Troy's feigned suicide in Far From the Madding Crowd... hmm? Rossiter will forever be Rigsby in Rising Damp for many of his fans - a remarkable comic combination of obnoxious and loveable.

@relicofgold

3 жыл бұрын

Rossiter was doing some of TFARORP and RISING DAMP simultaneously!! The man was a worker and near genius at comedy.

How strange this is... A couple of years back, I picked up a copy of the Entire Reginald Perrin (basically all of the Reginald Perrin books, the first of which is the basis of this series) and finally got around to start reading it a couple of weeks ago. So it's a bit of a surprise that this pitched up in the recommended list. I recall watching the show years ago and I'd forgotten most of it, so it was interesting to watch this episode again with the chapters it covers still relatively fresh in my mind. Naturally, I was expecting lots of the book to be either glossed over (such as Uncle Percy Spillinger's courting of Davina Letts-Wilkinson) or skipped entirely (such as Reggie's continued suffering in the stifling heat while Elizabeth is away), but I was a bit surprised that some bits were overdone. The meeting with Mr. Campbell-Lewiston was a bit more insult laden, for one. But the main one that I spotted, which annoyed me intensely, was those damn chairs in CJ's office. In the book, you get all the way past the speech at the conference (which is the episode after this one, I guess) and they are mentioned just once in the book, but it happens many times in just this one episode and it's pretty obvious that it's done simply for a cheap laugh. I'm not sure this was what David Nobbs would've wanted, really...

WOW! That short bearded fellow! I recognized him instantly from the Peter Sellers film _The Pink Panther Strikes Again_ . He played Short the Gardener. The reason I bring that up is because Leonard Rossiter was in that film too so thought it was a nice connection.

If you can’t appreciate the genius of this you need to study more

I have nothing against homosexuals, in fact some of my best friends….NOOO!!! 😂😂😂

Feeling a little Chesty Joan? We'll soon have you examined.

Uncle Percy has got Uncle Albert Trotter’s Bit On The Side, Same White Hair & Beard, Same Phoney Stories, as well.

Get a kick out of the unexpected, startling sight gags of Reggie imagining C J to be either a dog or a rabbit, and then Frankenstein's Monster. 19:23 & 23:10

Big crime they demolished the office block......

brilliant. has the same wonderful essence of fawlty towers!

Thanks for putting this on. I watched the first 2 episodes on BBC but for some reason the other episodes were expunged (I suspect PC snowflakes have censored it, because as we know the 70s never existed)

Is that Capt. Quinn from Barry Lyndon? A comedic genius. And the “Farty Chairs work better than the “Comfy Chair” of the Spanish Inquisition

@michaelnash2138

2 жыл бұрын

Also Dr. Andre Smizlov from 2001:a Space Odyssey. Kubrick did like using Mr. Rossiter.

It's shame that fall and rise of Reginald Perrin never was worwide popular as a black adder or the office.

Goodbye Reggie!

poor sweet mrs perrin

I feel like that sometimes

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

chesty or examined??

I've always loved this show. It's very faithful to the novels, except the TV adaptation omits the love affair between Jimmy and Reggie's daughter. A bit too incesty, I guess.

I keep forgetting that Joan is also Gail platts mum in coronation street

Great.

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

...super

GOODBYE REGGIE!

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

i love cjs blunt randomness

I wonder what Americans make of this, they are probably baffled by it all !!

@AnnihilatingAngel

5 жыл бұрын

Not this one: I HOWLED when I first saw it on PBS in the early '80s.

@mikkiduf

3 жыл бұрын

Love this! Not baffled at all, but I lived in the UK for 3 years. British comedy is so much better than American comedy!

@relicofgold

3 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding? My favorite series of all time, bar none, and I'm from west coast USA.

@illaveyoubutler3588

3 жыл бұрын

They made their own version called ‘Reggie’.....ITV showed it here

@justmadeit2

3 жыл бұрын

@@illaveyoubutler3588 Seriously! ?

I'm suspecting this is where the writers of scrubs got the idea for their format.

@chipperleon7204

3 жыл бұрын

I take it you mean all the cutaways and weird bits

“During the war”

11:31 Aye

Any one else get the feeling this slightly like a live action version of Stressed Eric?

@BossBass7o7

5 жыл бұрын

No.

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

never heard of it

6

Who doesn't like a nice set of knockers and saucy jokes about them?

Reginald Perrin for PM

15jun2024

My personal theory is that Reggie has ADHD (inattentive type). Nobody would have recognised that in the 70s, certainly not Doc Morrisey

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

we over diagnose things now admit it ----when i was little you were simply repremanded and told to pay attention

those chairs ave whoopie cushions in them

@martinworld7214

3 жыл бұрын

no shit sherlock

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

most embarrassing---GOODBYE,REGGIE!

Woman in the green dress is gorgeous

Does he ever nail the secretary?

@UncleMort

6 жыл бұрын

I had to look up who she was, it`s Sue Nicholls who plays Audrey Roberts in Coronation Street.

@brettwyatt7165

6 жыл бұрын

Hypatia4242 love the the profile pic

@MrMatthiasSchneider

6 жыл бұрын

Spoiler alert: the answer is no.

@Lytton333

5 жыл бұрын

No, he couldn't get to the DIY centre in time.

@BossBass7o7

5 жыл бұрын

He did once finger-bang her on a lorry from Rotherham to Kahn's house.

Humour that probably wouldn’t be allowed these days as in our super pc world a joke is considered offensive, bonkers

Cancel Culture and all that nonsense, probably wouldn't allow this nowadays. More's the pity. Sitcoms are awful without this type of writing. Jon Cleese said it years ago and he was correct.

Before the world went to shit with the snow flake brigade

@stev1963hit

3 жыл бұрын

U mean the people who couldn't accept herr Trump lost?

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

politically correct tightasses is better than all these made up nonsense terms snowflakes karens justins and woke,whatever that means

@michaelhughes4466

7 ай бұрын

Hold on, you can't typecast everyone. I don't like woke snowflakes, but I can't stand the illiterate authoritarian Trump either.@@stev1963hit

Coleridge Tennyson Wordsworth everywhere I've grown up the streets/roads/closes/avenues were named after unknown rivers or some twat who introduced the Industrial Revolution, to which many middle/upper middle class and professional gits still cling to to this day. YOU CANNOT SAY "GET A JOB" whilst you are earning £300,000 a year to a person who is 35 and has had nothing but 2 failed small businesses and lots of minimum wage jobs, at which point they give up because the 'trickle down effect' DOESN'T!!! The Victorian values of serfdom, being owned by people who are worth lots of money and employ poor people at absolute minimum wage and expect them NOT to steal from you whilst you choose from 6 cars from one of your 5 large mansions which to drive to work whilst the rest of us are forced to take the bus or walk. You cannot expect loyalty from people you pay peanuts. Whilst I live on tea and toast, with the occasional tin of beans, I WILL STEAL from you bastards. We ALL will. The christian work ethic is over. Question: why would a landlady - who is worth £5.7 million use her dodgy accountant of a son to fiddle the payment of rent so that she could keep my deposit from - apparently, 19 months before when I did not pay several weeks rent? Greed. The rich never have enough. AS it was, My sister works in Liverpool at the Tax Fraud Investigation dept and I informed on her. She was claiming she was only worth £4.2 million. I also stole my deposit by NOT paying the last month rent. Fuck the old witch. I think it is fair to say I have a chip on my shoulder but I am looking forward to putting a knife into the shoulders of every landlord/agency who has ripped me off. T.S.Elliott was right about the shitholes in the south coast. greedy, miserly rich who deserve to die slowly. FUCK the human race and fuck everything about it. The sooner we're gone? The better.

@jb1397

3 жыл бұрын

,,,,,,,,, I see that public school education didn’t serve you very well after all Jack

@silverapples75

3 жыл бұрын

I seeee......

I just don't find it funny. Never did back in the day, and not now!

@secondchance6603

5 жыл бұрын

It's about a guy having a midlife crisis, it's actually quite sad

@AnthonyMonaghan

5 жыл бұрын

Then why watch it...or did you just come here because you had nothing else to complain about.

@garlandraines1855

5 жыл бұрын

That's because it takes a bit of insight to really get the subtext. You might want to find something a little lighter.

@BarryAllenMagic

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe you'd find Love Thy Neighbour or Benny Hill more your cup of tea?

@ozzie-sk9dh

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't get where I am today by not finding it funny back in the day and not now. GOODBYE!

Hilarious show, but I was waiting for the requisite 70's homophobia to appear. Hopefully the writers have got that out of their system for the rest of the series. I didn't cringe as much over the sexual harassment, and I had my bum pinched by a pervy co-worker in the early 90's. Back then, if it was unwanted attention, there was no one to tell, so you just avoided the offender.

@runswithwindz9875

Жыл бұрын

I was waiting for the homophobia to appear too ! Fortunately I foung it under a layer of Bechemel sauce in my Petrol station Lasagne !

@BruceAlarie

Жыл бұрын

@@runswithwindz9875 its not fear,its disapproval

The fact that i laugh at the hippopotamus bit every episode

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 ?"