My parents owned a hardware shop exactly like this with the drawers and everything for over 25 years and they used to love this sketch as they had customers like Ronnie Barker every week. Brilliant brilliant observation comedy

The Gold Standard of British comedy. Simply unbeatable.

@IzzyMann

Ай бұрын

so true, simply amazing

@michaelplumpton8873

Ай бұрын

Up there with the dead parrot

Brilliantly scripted. They don't write them like that anymore. The pauses and silences/looks are timed to perfection.....😂😂😂 love it ❤

@Sixsmite

8 ай бұрын

To be fair they're dead

Ronnie Barker wrote this...Absolutely fantastic and brilliant comedy acting and timing 😂😂

@dagaffer2269

8 ай бұрын

Genius 😂

If you don't understand comedy, in its purest format, then this is lost on you I cry with laughter, every time I watch this It's just the expression on their faces, and the interaction between them. It's just pure comedy gold

@An-Alien-On-Earth

Жыл бұрын

Ya I don't get it

@philips170t

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed most part, but I don’t get the bill hook part at the ending.

@TonyEnglandUK

Жыл бұрын

Oh you understand it so you cry with laughter, well aren't you the special one, lol. The rest of us mere mortals just laughed because two brilliant comedians acted out a very funny sketch, excuse us.

@sebzapata

Жыл бұрын

@@philips170t It's implied that on the piece of paper, the first shop keeper misread it as "bollocks"

@aaronshanahan4507

Жыл бұрын

@@TonyEnglandUK really? Are you that sad ? Attack me for making an opinion? Jesus wept. Aaron

Such a fantastic duo, one of the best double act sketches ever, such a shame neither are any longer with us 😢

@teddingtonbear3265

2 жыл бұрын

It's because of all that cocaine Corbett used to do in the toilets at awards ceremonies

Still one of the funniest ever sketches written

@user-fz9ro8xy3u

16 күн бұрын

Yes it's pure gold ✨️ Ronnie Barker was so funny this sketch has me laughing all the time 😂😂

What bloody good old fashioned English humour eh a real timeless classic!

I come here every time a need a real laugh - if you are feeling tired and blue this skit will do.

Absolute Diamonds of British comedy RIP Ronnie and Ronnie

Ahhh! This was already a priceless piece of comedy, but if that last bit made it in, that would of been the cherry on the icing on the cake!

You just can't get that genius anymore....lololool ..." What kind of knockers you looking for" .... hahahahaha

Ah, the old storeman. How the world has changed. Notice how protective the storeman was over his box of plugs. Just how it was.

Ronnie was absolutely brilliant in this sketch

@jae-kwangkim6012

4 жыл бұрын

Naw, Ronnie was better.

@herbsmanherbs

Жыл бұрын

Q: Which one? A: Yes.

@TheComedyColosseum

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@dagaffer2269

8 ай бұрын

Both of them are good, but Ronnie is my favourite.

Quite simply, the greatest television sketch ever.

@michelez715

9 ай бұрын

Definitely one of the best, but I also loved the Morecambe and Wise sketch, no dialogue, where they made breakfast, in time to a musical number. Does anyone else remember it?

@j4jools292

2 ай бұрын

@@michelez715 One of my favourites too. Done to the music of The Stripper. The egg whisking bit always has me in stitches :)

Great sketch Corbet in this reminds me so much of me dad who had a shop like this his look is my dad to a tee especially the hair, cap and coat and the looks he used to give some of the awkward customers that came in lol, comedy legends!

Thank you for finding this in 1080. Best sketch ever and so superbly performed.

The shop and the costumes are a reminder of how things were in the seventies through to the early nineties. Remember visiting such shops getting boards for the model railway. (And its subsequent extensions)

@dennisneo1608

10 ай бұрын

The old world shops. 😊

Ronnie C is absolutely brilliant in this - Ronnie B too but anyone who remembers these hardware stores - which sold everything seen in this sketch, including tinned peas and plimsolls - will probably also identify with the shop assistant whose patience progressively wears thin due to the trying nature of ignorant or awkward customers. Ronnie C carried this off superbly. His irritated ranting when Ronnie B asks for "p's" after he had just put the letters away was so brilliant

Thank you for this 1080p version PLUS should have been ending. They both performed to their best. Two Ronnie's in our hearts forever.

You’ve made my night! Thank you! Reminds me of my late grandfather! He loved these two

dont du just miss them..2 brilliant comedians ...doing there what turned out to be the never forgotten sketch "four candles" brilliantly funny! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Absolutely brilliant.

Legends, the tv background to a lot of my childhood. And love it as an adult

Sore tips!? What dya want some ointment or something!This sketch is a masterpiece.

I never got the last joke and to have it finally explained to me, by the Amazing Ronnie Barker himself, after all these years, is truly wonderful! Thanks for the upload x

Have to say Ronnie C took the acting honours on this one, but can anyone explain why, knowing every single word and move in this script by heart, it still reduces me to tears of laughter?

@michaelacoulthard3851

2 ай бұрын

@michelez715 I think it's because the sketch is a classic, and nothing like it will ever be seen again. This is my favourite sketch by them.

The best sketch ever

Seen this a thousand times and never gets old, still hilarious after 50 something years.

That extra tag at the end is fantastic.

I was really depressed yesterday....and this morning played this vid....😂😅 Absolutly brilliant....just wat i needed...a good laff.

Makes you cry !!

Classic 😆. Thinking this sketch wouldn't work now because you rarely get this type of shop now, it's all self-service.

Absolutely the kings of comedy especially this particular sketch as it took them a while to get it without either of them smirking or laughing.

You know at that moment when Ronnie Barker is starring at him walking up the ladder you know he is fucking with him

LOL the perfect ending did exist!!!

The essence is that Ronnie Barker does not laugh through out the sketch

@aaronhurst4379

10 ай бұрын

Yep, that deadpan expression throughout really goes a long way, alongside Corbett getting increasingly agitated by contrast

Interesting to think how this sketch would have worked or not worked with Ronnie Corbett playing the shopper, and Ronnie Barker playing the ironmonger? Maybe it would have got the same laughs, but I think Corbett having to go up and down the ladder is funnier than Barker having to do it...

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

Ronnie B wrote it that way.

@peterowen9183

Жыл бұрын

100% agree. Obviously it's a legendary sketch, and Barker is as great as ever. But Corbett does the bulk of the work here to maximise the laughs. It's a masterclass in how the straight man's reactions make the joke even funnier.

I did get the bill hooks part

Timeless classic, 😊

The problem is though that “four candles” has overshadowed everything else that the two ronnies have done to such an extant that most people pretty much regard them as “one sketch wonders”. You ask 100 people on the street to name as many of their sketches as possible and I’d wager at least 90 of them could only think of this one sketch,it’s the same for the monty python team with the “dead parrot sketch”,they are regarded as one sketch wonders too by most people!

Excellent stuff.

Brilliant x

One of the funniest sketches ever made

Replaying in April 2024 😂😂😂 classic!

I heard that there is a pub named after them, the Four Candles.

Brilliant

Really funny and says a lot about English (language too) ;)

I went to a General Store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

😂 the best sketch

I worked in an Ironmongers and it is exactly like that

Abosoluty the best xxx

Got any plugs what size 13 amp

3.29 Ronnie C nearly loses his composure

That's one well stocked store.

@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah always wondered why a hardware store would have tins of peas lol

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome shops like this did exist but supermarkets killed them a tiny few manage to survive in rural towns.

@ronpaulssecretary

3 жыл бұрын

I mean a general store is gonna have general stuff.

What disc is on I've got all the boxset . I dont know which series or episode. I cant find it.

@jameskeohane7778

2 ай бұрын

Series 5

I'd love to have seen this acted the other way around with Arkwright dealing with the customer.

Imagine if they had comedy supergroups the way they have musical supergroups. These two paired up with Morecambe & Wise.....

@meheuck

Жыл бұрын

Or Bob & Ray.

BBC broadcast in 1080i.

@JJMClark

3 жыл бұрын

BBC since 2011 have been switching between 1080i and 1080p on a GOP (Group of Pictures) by GOP basis and UHD HDR since the beginning of this year (2021) via iPlayer Ultra HD 'trial'. Not suggesting the original source is 1080p, just that the re-broadcast was a 1080p source for capture. Cheers.

I'm not English but fck me,English humour is top class, Mr bean,2 Ronnies, little Britain,I love them all Silly but brilliant

The time & trouble that they took in those days was extraordinary. The English Language is the only one to allow this confusion, is it? Could it be done in any other?

What’s the kicker at the end with “bill hooks” I’m lost can someone explain it please?

@Shaz-ec9mu

2 ай бұрын

Bollocks

@richyjay330

Ай бұрын

A billhook is a long agricultural implement, while a bill hook would be a hook that you can fasten to the wall and spike bills (invoices) on for safe keeping. Or could be something close to bar locks.

Is this the best two Ronnie's sl

@bruceheath9748

Жыл бұрын

Of all time

Omg its harry Maguire with the woolly hat 🤣⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️

Originally called 'Annie Finkhouse'.

Very funny video, however, I am an American and they lost me on the last item. Billhooks? Yeah, ok? What?

@nairocamilo

2 жыл бұрын

Remember the concept of the sketch: the accent changes what the shopkeeper thinks of the item wanted. That means that the "billhook", in the ironmonger's thick accent, could spoken as to become a _“billock”_ (bollocks/testicles)

@terrybaird3122

2 жыл бұрын

@@nairocamilo Thanks, that play was lost on me over here, bollocks is not a word we use, but it was still funny. Love these guys.

Did he want four candle's or fork handles

@WoodyWoodpecker19843

Жыл бұрын

Fork handles. Handles for forks.

Someone has to recreate this sketch and do the alternative ending.

makes to confiscate his list) Look, I've had just about enough of this, give us that list. (He mutters) I'll get it all myself! (Reading through the list) What's this? What's that? Oh that does it! That just about does it! I have just about had it! (calling through to the back) Mr. Jones! You come out and serve this customer please, I have just about had enough of 'im. (Mr. Jones comes out, and Ronnie Corbett shows him the list) Look what 'e's got on there! Look what 'e's got on there! JONES (who goes to a drawer with a towel hanging out of it, and opens it): Right! How many would ya like? One or two? (He removes the towel to reveal the label on the drawer - 'Bill hooks'!)

Jeeesus what a spastick XDDDDD

Is this really what British hardware stores were like?

@andyrobertson7315

4 ай бұрын

Back in Ye Olde Days yes! I vaguely remember one like this a few miles from my house when I was a kid back in the 70s.

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People would still be offended at something here

Basic x

Monty python cockroach assortment

You're spoiling the whole sketch with the fucking title, mate! Change it!

what size..13 amp lol

But what the fuck is the point in buying/selling fork handles as opposed to a complete fork?? Sorry to burst the bubble.....

@jansoltisik8208

Жыл бұрын

That's how people think in today's throwaway society, if the wooden shaft snaps while the sharp business end is still OK, why not just replace what's damaged. 🙂

@carlhughes9584

Жыл бұрын

@@jansoltisik8208 This isn't in today's society you!! This clip is several decades old!!!!

@jansoltisik8208

Жыл бұрын

@@carlhughes9584 That's right, sir, but your comment is only two weeks old, isn't it?🙂