Mr Barker's timing was deadly.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

Ай бұрын

Have you seen Peter Sellers as Dr Pratt in "The Wrong Box" ?

This is how comedy is done!! Excellent from start to finish.

One of the best sketches ever. Just love how it picks up the pace towards the end

@edwalsh6883

5 жыл бұрын

Paw patrol

@commentfreely5443

5 жыл бұрын

you will see me soon, that's the broom cupboard.

The Dr Death seems oblivious to everything dying around him. I do miss the Two Ronnies, but nothing can last forever.

In Australia, we really did have a politician in charge of the Health department, named Dr. Blewitt.

@ianmontgomery7213

4 жыл бұрын

When i worked in Victoria Barracks in 1974 the Army doctor was a Dr Death.

@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc

4 жыл бұрын

Knew a shrink by the name of Brain, and a pathologist named Blood! Auto suggestion in choice of profession ? I wonder

@Aubepine81

3 жыл бұрын

one of my doctors was called Dr Stiff

@junewebb-baptiste2409

2 жыл бұрын

I had surgery in the UK many years ago. The surgeon was named Mr Savage. Hes was wonderful

@BadgerBotherer1

Жыл бұрын

Reading Football Club once had a goalkeeper called Steve Death. He's dead.

When Ronnie Corbett comes in, he is literally at Death’s door! 😂

These two chaps are just superb! No matter how often I watch them, I love them and their wonderful talents! Lucky for us, these shows were taped! RIP, dear ones, and thank you for all the great times you gave us.

RIP chaps, your work will bring laughter to many for many years to come. ✝️

@larissakravcova8626

2 жыл бұрын

Great British Comedies! I agree 100%!💐 But, with the other part, I disagree because many younger generations Never seen these comedies, they more interested in how to get ££££ and Nothing else, sadly...👈😪

Pure Gold. Sadly they will never make them like this again.😢

@tansleypotts9486

2 жыл бұрын

👍 No they won't comedy today if you can call it comedy is boring

@eugenberzani1216

Жыл бұрын

yes, because you are sitting on youtube instead of doing humor : D

LOL, the watering plant thing made me laugh so loud! :D

Never again will we see the likes of them........ Rest in peace you giants of Comedy

"Are you single or buried?"

'Are single or buried?' love it.

@rorymckernan8594

8 жыл бұрын

ha ha. "Cuckoo, dead on time". "plenty of time to kill" 😂

"I'll see you soon" "Yes you will see me soon that's the broom cupboard" LOL

@MoskHotel

4 жыл бұрын

“I’ll see myself out. No need to come down!” “No, I won’t. That’s the laundry chute.”

Jokes just keep coming ...... One of the best skits ever

Note to self : Don't watch while drinking water 😊

Brilliant! Another sketch I'd not seen before.

“Hello, Death speaking” ha ha!! I love it. Haven’t seen this one before. More priceless comedy from the Two Ronnie’s 👍

This is the acme of this comedy duos performances. It's a shame such simple humour is so rare nowadays.

"Well it's high pressure I was going!" I love it!

@karanfield4229

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂💦

@GrezH

2 жыл бұрын

I remembered that from first seeing this in the 1970s. Classic line delivered in true Ronnie Corbett style.

I used to live in Ruislip Gardens at about the time these two were on TV . I never realised it had got a mention on The Two Ronnies 😀

This is comedy gold, how many jokes can you fit in one sketch! That ad-libed section was amazing. "Dead on time as usual" superb! Wish I was around in this era, though the joys of youtube have helped, more views people this is real comedy.

@MaskedMan66

5 жыл бұрын

Ad libbed? It was in the script.

@jourwalis-8875

5 жыл бұрын

How do you know? Have you worked with The Two Ronnies?

@commentfreely5443

5 жыл бұрын

i think the fish drowned too

@MaskedMan66

5 жыл бұрын

@@jourwalis-8875 I don't need to have; the bird fell out of the clock on purpose, and the line was in response to it.

@andrewcarson5850

5 жыл бұрын

@@MaskedMan66 The name-dropper bit was ad-libbed, I think.

There were complications, he died. Classic.

@GudieveNing

9 ай бұрын

Like COVID.

Awwww why cant we have these sort of things on telly anymore. I recall sketches like these in the late 80s and early 90s. Good times!!

@peternagy-im4be

2 жыл бұрын

I stopped watching television over 10 years ago. Mind numbing garbage.

@rinsedpie

2 жыл бұрын

@@peternagy-im4be ha ha actually same with me here.. actually i stopped many longer than this. very little quality now; i dont know how reality TV like Big Brothers can be conisdered as entertainment

How on earth are there thumbs down disliking this. Someone without humour I’m sure. Fantastic clever and very funny sketches. We all meet these characters in life! How I miss their shows and humour. What a legacy 🤣🤣🤣🤪🤓😬🙃 ❤️❤️❤️

@peternagy-im4be

2 жыл бұрын

Just more of today's humourless little babies.

"Name dropper" a brilliant piece of fast thinking improvisation there, improvised right up to when Ronnie Barker says "Three drops a day in your ear" during performing in front of a live Audience and left in after filming and editing. You can tell it's improvised because he gives everyone a clue by saying, "Name dropper, I'll write that down", because it was good Ans something to maybe use in another sketch.

@ElvarMasson

2 жыл бұрын

"Fast thinking improvisation" ? Was there no script at that time ?

@gaggymott9159

Жыл бұрын

It was a superb piece of ad libing, and picked up by Corbett like only a partner could! I'm so glad they kept it in 👍

@Strontyum

Жыл бұрын

So when Barker spontaneously laughed, was that in character, or a rare glimpse of the real Barker?

@jjakiefte2165

Жыл бұрын

@@Strontyum l think you're barking up the wrong tree....

@quizmaster85

20 күн бұрын

There was a book of _Two Ronnies_ sketches which confirms this (although the book erroneously referred to that ad-lib as "Must treat for name dropping").

They are always so funny. Love them to bits❤❤❤❤❤❤😊👍🥇🏆🤗💯👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

So simple and harmless yet such genius in the wording and timing.

As a boy I went to a Dentist called Dr Payne for many years , never struck me at the time

@Aubepine81

3 жыл бұрын

one of my doctors was called Dr Stiff

@jasonmcdaniel345

3 жыл бұрын

But he struck you afterwards?

@midnightteapot5633

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonmcdaniel345 only with the bill !

Thanks for sharing! Pure gold. 🙂

They are fantastic! 😂😂😂 Will dig up a few friends 😂😂😂😂

I wonder if Harold Shipman watched this, i can only imagine what he must have been thinking.

@RenaissanceEarCandy

3 жыл бұрын

Eerily, they did mention someone called Grundy who died of an ingrowing toenail. Which was also the name of one of Shipman's victims.

The clock and the cupboard/chute killed me. Absolu..............

I can dig up a couple of friends

This is one gag they were dying to tell !

Excellent bit of comedy! What a pleasure to watch it ❤Thanks for uploading this masterpiece 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

Much as I liked Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper and others....The two ronnies was another level, fantastic!

Very clever with words & how they used them, Ronnie Barker always did it for me tho, so witty. Thanks for uploading this.

@edgarporter9333

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Whitlock gg

Dead on time. Priceless!!

Legends

Four Candles is great but this sketch is my fave - has me howling with laughter every time! : D

@hemipemi

4 жыл бұрын

Four Candles was one of those sketches like the Only Fools & Horses classics (falling through the bar and the chandelier scene): If you've never seen it before it's absolutely side-splittingly funny, but once you know what's coming, not so much so.

@richardturner4848

3 жыл бұрын

Ice cream shop is my favourite and it's not on youtube, I only have the memory. Barker showed his unbelievable talent in that sketch, wish it was up.

Never trust a doctor with a shovel in his office.

So well written

the cuckoo bird dying had me dying 😆

I bet they would have been a superb live act.

I love classical British comedy. 👏👏👏👏👏

They were the best comedy duo ever

What a great sketch 😂

Incredible machine gunning comic timing.

God they were bloody good.

Laughed out loud watching this.

Brilliant

'Come back here Mr Billet, plenty of time to kill...'

Totally unbelievable. How did he manage to get an appointment to see a doctor?

@gdok6088

Жыл бұрын

😂

@duckduckgoismuchbetter

Жыл бұрын

Even more unbelievable, how did he get an appointment with one of the few with English as his native tongue?

@AP-nj1mr

Жыл бұрын

This particular doctor is registering new patients.😱

@andrewmorrice9139

Жыл бұрын

There were a few last minute cancellations.

brilliant

One fish still survives!

The last part got me laughing so much so I couldn’t stop when he went down the laundry chute ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I'll see myself out. No need to come down! *opens the door and walks in*

Harold Shipman loved this sketch

Never seen that one before, brilliant! I was looking for one when Ronnie B is playing a computer doctor on a TV screen but I don’t think it’s been uploaded.

Awesome! :) A huge LOL! :D

Used car salesman was his previous occupation. There were no complaints about the faulty brakes, because dead people are unlikely to complain.

This sketch sort of makes me think of present day virus vaccines & WHO etc.

COMEDIANS ARE THE MOST INTELLIGENT HUMANS

My god,he was doctor DE ATH after all.

surprised that they delivered the lines without "corpsing!"

Stuck in bed with covid, yet laughing out loud. God it hurts.

5:15 .... death by laundry chute! LOL

High pressure to go!

When I worked at the MOD at the 60's there was a Dr Death, rhymed with Heath...

@Triadii

4 жыл бұрын

if he's still around, you should send him this.

To think that this actually really happened in real life. Dr. Harold Shipman---now he is the real Dr. Death

Great . RIP r o n n I e s

I wonder if that "namedropping" segment was ad-libed? the name card falling on the floor seemed a genuine mistake.

@quizmaster85

9 жыл бұрын

Yes it was; a book featuring Two Ronnies sketches makes mention of that moment.

@ratherryan

9 жыл бұрын

Brendan Richards Was that really ad-libbed? If so, that was a perfect recovery.

@davidgillettuk9638

7 жыл бұрын

Definite adlib, you can tell by the way they looked at each other. Pure genius.

@WilliamRoscoe

6 жыл бұрын

This was the result of a BBC initiative for young comedy writers to submit their ideas for sketches in exchange for £25 if it was turned into an actual sketch. Well £100 quid in all but since it was me and three mates then we got £25 each. That was good money in those days for a 14 year old. We submitted about thirty sketches to the Beeb and four of them were made and broadcast. Barker and Corbett improved on our original script immeasurably but kept that line of mine about the barometer and my friends' lines about the causes of death. Happy days.

@kokamoa

4 жыл бұрын

According to the Two Ronnies book mentioned above, the sketch is credited to Garry Chambers. Maybe the BBC paid to use the sketch but got other writers to polish up a good idea.

Hahahahaha, can't stop laughing !

1:24 "kick the bucket"

@WYIT0

3 жыл бұрын

I missed that one! XD

How'd You Perish Lad? Laundry Chute. How'd You Meet Your End? Laundry Chute.

Good clean comedy.

On the day that Henry Kissinger died. The original Dr Death.

Mr. Tompkins's skeleton will be waiting for Ronnie Corbett at the bottom of that same laundry chute I presume.

I've heard of the Midas touch, but Dr Death beats all :-)

Reminds me of a 'doctor' i used to know....:)

@Aimia4

5 жыл бұрын

Harold Shipman? 😂

I wonder if that was the laundry shute that killed off his other patient they're having a funeral for?

Looks Like Death Won't Be Need'n His Scythe Anymore.

Hilarious 😂

Just a slip of the scalpel🤕😬

"Are you single or buried?" Brilliant. They're the same thing anyway! Once a man is married you might as well put him in the ground already!

@Irunwithscissors63

4 жыл бұрын

Joel Gawne Really? So I take it you’re divorced? I mean, if you’re married, that statement is hypocritical and disrespectful to your wife. If you’re widowed your statement is plain crass. If you’re single then your statement is idiotic as you’re making a judgment on something you know nothing about.

very clever :)

I could dig up a couple of friends and bring them along

If I would have watched this comedy before I would Never visited Doctors, who are killing me for years and Now too!..

Classic🖤💛❤️🇦🇺😂😅😆👍

We had Dentist named Dr. Hell btw it means gentle in native language

I went to secondary school with a Jonathan de'Ath

💘

I would walk in and go straight out the door good luck 🤞

We had a Dr Death (pronounced Deeth) who is a geriatric specialist.

I new skid called Wayne Kerr.

Dr De-ath 😂😂😂😂

I dig up a couple of friends 😁

2.59 you can still get those in B and Q lol

Funny