When some Spaniards complained about Manuel's portrayal in Fawlty Towers, Cleese commented, "Well Basil Fawlty wasn't exactly a great advert for Englishmen was he?"

An absolutely brilliant skit. I've seen it many times and it still makes me laugh. Today's comedians could learn a lot from this wonderful pair. Humour without the necessity of continuous effing and blinding to put a joke across.

@1aberbeeg

Жыл бұрын

Like you sir, I still watch both skits, had a pal very similar to Ronnie Barker in the 4 candles sketch, shame to think neither are with us today. We need their sense of humour now,more than ever, bless them.

@peteratkinson922

Жыл бұрын

Milligan murmuring time and the inevitability of the endless either out of the 'Humour packing case of existence'- in a non- finger waggingly way. I reckoneth.

@sabejreid2072

Жыл бұрын

They are great aren't they?

@oliveralexandre3607

11 ай бұрын

But…one “bloody”!😊

Now that was a work of art.

New face? No I’ve always had this face.🤣

Seen it LORD KNOWS 😂 how many times Still can't get enough

Pure genius and those accents!!It's all totally off the wall!!

Being Irish I take no offence at this, so please no righteous do gooders don't be offended on my behalf or try to cancel the Two Ronnies because of it

@vodaredhill1704

Жыл бұрын

Paddy stole a calendar, he got 12 months.

@vodaredhill1704

Жыл бұрын

Irish space program was planing a manned shot to the sun .They were told you can't land on the sun it's 6000degrees ! Ah we thought of that ,we're going at night !

@vodaredhill1704

Жыл бұрын

Paddy and Murphy stranded on an ice berg in despair .Suddenly Murphy looks up and shouts PADDY WE'RE SAVED ,IT'S THE TITANIC ! 🛳

@140pro

Жыл бұрын

@@vodaredhill1704Please don't take offence to this and I'm sorry if I'm gonna come across as a self righteous do-gooder with this reply, because I'm not! So just because he told you that he wasn't offended by this sketch doesn't then give you the right to bombard him with every shitty joke you've ever heard about the Irish does it.! It's a bit like apologising to your mate for accidentally hitting his thumb with a hammer whilst he holds the nail for you, then proceeding to hit every finger on his hand thereafter.

@harbster2

Жыл бұрын

Top man, good to hear these days. Although I actually don't think it's a slight on the Irish. The characters in this sketch could have had many other accents and the humour wound be the same eg Yorkshire, Cornish, Norfolk etc. As the Two Ronnies often did.

I’ve not laughed so much for a long time 😂😂.. absolutely brilliant as usual!

Bet he keeps an empty milk bottle in the fridge, for black coffee drinkers…..(heard that t’other day)

@dntlss

Жыл бұрын

lol

Im a yank but god i love British comedy,thank you for uploading this.

@honestyandtruth6847

Жыл бұрын

dntlss you must see 'Porridge' with Ronnie Barker - set in a British jail - it is absolutely brilliant.

Hilarious. When we had talent on tv.

Hysterical and still way better than anything else.

Absolutely brilliant 👏 One of the best / God I miss the Two Ronnie's.

That is the screwiest dialogue I've heard since "Who's on First"?. I loved it!😂

This skit and their "Four Candles" skit are wordplay at their best with these two. Funny stuff.

@sabian5393

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

It's a surreal world of 2 madmen from another planet who are much madder than any madness that exists in the real world. Very funny & convincingly acted.

A new face. No I've always had it. Just got here. No I just walked through the door 🤣 Classic

incredibly funny classic, many of these classic one liners have stayed in my memory bank to this day. An utterly incredible sketch . You can't cancel funny , so GrMa agus Fe*k off to those who want to, Be Janey.

I love this one. We need a good laugh

Absolute classic humour 👌 from a time when folks could hava a laugh and a joke without any nonsense.

@bartconnolly6104

Жыл бұрын

True but the irony is the entire sketch is about nonsense!

I'm irish and love it!

@patagualianmostly7437

Жыл бұрын

So you should Chris... it's just a laugh...that we all desperately need. I'm sure you have an array of jokes that poke the mick (no pun intended) at me and m,y kind....great... let's all have a gutsy laugh and revel in our perceived differences. It's a nonsense.... WE are the people that decide.... not those tossers! I raise my glass! Cheers.

@matthewphilip1977

Жыл бұрын

And that makes it ok?

Dearly missed but never forgotten. Brings back cherished memories of watching the Two Ronnies with my late parents when I was a child.

@checktheevidence

Жыл бұрын

Well, in the spirit of this sketch, I guess it was a bit weird watching this sketch with folks who had passed on!!

What an extraordinary coincidence. Whenever I paper a room I'm always one roll short.

@patagualianmostly7437

Жыл бұрын

Damn! Been there....

@angrytedtalks

Жыл бұрын

I know where you can get 4 more rolls...

@maureengillies9495

Жыл бұрын

Their accents are hilarious 🤣

@1977ajax

Жыл бұрын

@@angrytedtalks At the bakers.

From one perspective, this is an excellent piece of surrealist performance art.

@duckduckgoismuchbetter

Жыл бұрын

Make that from two perspectives. I second it.

@johnoneill4483

Жыл бұрын

From another it is crap

@rogermouton2273

Жыл бұрын

@@johnoneill4483 you say that like your opinion is worth a pinch of shit

@davidf6326

Жыл бұрын

@@johnoneill4483 And some they fell on stony ground

@enriquesanchez2001

11 ай бұрын

@@duckduckgoismuchbetter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is Great ! It's like being back in 1985 and listening to my Grandmother's friends talk about the neighborhood and have tea with scones.

Lewis Carrol would have loved this

"Where was he stuffed in the first place?" "He's stuffed in every place!".

They’re the only comedians where I can watch the same sketch twice and laugh more the second time.

So simple yet so funny, and not one f-bomb to be heard.

@Nollaig1234

Жыл бұрын

You are talking fuckin nonsense. I prefer a so-called f-bomb to racism any day.

@patagualianmostly7437

Жыл бұрын

The Two Ronnies never did. Way too & far too clever to appeal for cheap laughs.

I'm Irish, and that sketch is virtually a documentary.😅😅😅

Now I get it...four CANDLES!!!!

This hurts my head. So surreal.

Well said Peter, in one way or another we could all play the stereotype card and the determination to find it by those it doesn’t even represent and whose target would rather they didn’t, causes far more harm than good.

Pure comedy gold

A time when people were no offended by humour but accepted it as such

Classic, love the sketch 4 candles

@Tinker1950

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't the 4 candles sketch was it? Try again.

@morriscox1571

Жыл бұрын

@@Tinker1950 fork handles

@Tinker1950

Жыл бұрын

@@morriscox1571 Keep trying. You'll catch on eventually.

@morriscox1571

Жыл бұрын

@@Tinker1950 it's called fork handles, barker goes into the hardware store looking for fork handles, Corbett thinks he's looking for 4 candles, name of that sketch is, Ronnie's Pub and wallpaper

@Tinker1950

Жыл бұрын

@@morriscox1571 Nope - you still haven't got it. Dim as a toc H lamp (look it up). I'll give you a clue - it's your original remark, your unskilled grammar. What was this video about? Was it 4 candles?

I love this

Brilliant!

Brilliant.

Never seen this before. Thanks..

Hilariously clever as always.

The Bird is Dead, But it Still Had2Sit There, An Watch All That Fuss😂

As an Irishman this is a fine tribute to the Irish "craic" from two legends, dearly missed

@errcoche

Жыл бұрын

Their accents are really poor but the material is faithful to the kind of poetic, fanciful and absurdists flights of the Irish that the English used to designate them as stupid. I wonder who the writers where. Not hard to be funny with material this good.

@bartconnolly6104

Жыл бұрын

@@errcoche they wrot most of their scripts. Particularly barker.

@matthewphilip1977

Жыл бұрын

Not so much the craic as the dangerous stereotype of the thick Irish. I've reported this. It should be taken down.

@bartconnolly6104

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewphilip1977 dangerous? Reported for what?

@bartconnolly6104

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewphilip1977 By the way are you Irish?

Brilliant as always

Genious this is

The absurdity of the Irish's view on life captured in a caricature of a sketch.

Evenin, marning !!!

Brilliant comedy. Great writing.

I'm Irish, but I enjoyed this skit.

I like the gag about the wife’s wooden leg…😅😂🤣

@aqacefan

Жыл бұрын

I once met a man with a wooden leg called Smith.

@chygwelanmeneth

Жыл бұрын

@@aqacefan What was his other leg called?

My dad is Irish and he loved this sketch , but that's because the Irish don't carry victim cards , but this was all before woke .

I thought this was a documentary its so true to life

brilliant classic

Great stuff.

It's good night from me, and it's good night from him.

So he talked to a toucan and had a guiness 😂😂😂

The Irish have always had a creative relationship with the English language. That’s why so many of its finest writers are Irish. This sketch shows that.

@patagualianmostly7437

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, it is a demonstration of mutual respect. All decent, reasonable people know that. Only the so-called "experts" get offended in their lonely ivory towers.

Every Irish joke, told in 5:42.

There was a time when comedians were funny without being 'edgy' or crude, creative without drawing on their 'lived experience', respected without being politically 'correct', and didn't try to make their audience critique themselves. I'd almost forgotten those golden years. I went to a comedy show recently, paid a fortune, travelled for hours, queued in the cold, watched it on TV screens because the arena was so vast that the performer might as well've been a galaxy in the night sky. If I'd watched it at home, the experience would've been better. I waited in anticipation for the funniest, most intelligent and hardest working comedian of our time, IMO. Well, I should have arrived 15 minutes after the performance started, because thatbtime was wasted with the obligatory left wing political satire. Bill Brydon, if you are reading this, it's been done to death by every comedian since Margaret Thatcher first became PM. Stop flogging a dead horse, it's not funny any more. I respect your opinions as much as anyone's, but it's time that comedians showed some respect for the majority that votes our governments in. I used to love satire, but it's had its day. Today, going to a comedy show is like going a random concert. Where once you got Beethoven or The Beatles, today you get grime or Adele swearing at you. Time to change the record...

@lindsayheyes925

Жыл бұрын

@Evan Hodge Made me laugh 😄

@lindsayheyes925

Жыл бұрын

@@AlexAlexon3897 Yes, that's the very effect.

@marvinc9994

Жыл бұрын

Well at least you didn't have to put up with the not-quite-hysterical anti-Trump (zzzzzzzzzzzzz) nonsense. I hope ?

It's like we've stepped into Rose Nylund's mind from The Golden Girls, and it's hilarious!

At least she'll float 😂

I've lived in this house 34yrs and still buy too many rolls for a room always had drawing paper then for the kids haha

Absolute sheer comedy genius 😂

Just genius and nothing else.

Legends

This sounds like something Spike Mulligan might have written.

Very good

Brilliant writing.

Im Oirish. This is Oisome!!

Always loved these guys.

So surreal

Pure class

Funny enough.a couple of good one liners..the accents aren't all that bad,I know a lot of real Irish accents that are worse (I'm from Cork😅)...their mastermind sketch is the pinnacle of comedy in my opinion.i forgot who wrote it but I can't get my head around how it was put together.pure genius

@1969Kismet

Жыл бұрын

It was probably written by Lord Knows. Sorry, couldn't resist that one.

@wideawake914

Жыл бұрын

At least you'll float.

Excellent

the proverbial takin of the micky

Luv it

Beautiful 😅🤣

_CLASSIC GOLD_

This is too good. M 😂

Love this too and i am irish

You will see from my name above that i am Irish. I found this extremly funny NOT offensive and after hearing this i do not need urgent counciling like many snowflakes. Then again i am 58 so come from a better time.

@AlexAlexon3897

Жыл бұрын

You're not offensive. Just an old prig. And I'm older. "Better time" indeed! No such thing. Eras are what we make them. "Snowflakes", though - that's original. 😄 PS You meant "counselling".

@patagualianmostly7437

Жыл бұрын

Alex.... "Old Prig"...that the best you can manage? Some of us have manners, decency and respect. But hey, do enjoy your life at the bottom of the pond.

@matthewphilip1977

Жыл бұрын

Reported.

Some Spike Milligan has crept into this skit.

There is a depth of set theory and logic in this sketch as well as a play on meaning / semantics. The null set idea and logical operations on negation spring to mind. This formal language is then mixed in with the informal semantics of English phrases like " Lord knows" which can mean nobody ( whatever nobody is technically it should ne not any body) knows or can be the given name of a Lord.

@pitbull2005

Жыл бұрын

In other words it's funny!

@stevetaylor7403

Жыл бұрын

Can I have a line of whatever you’ve been on.

@PetroicaRodinogaster264

Жыл бұрын

@@stevetaylor7403 I was going to say something similar. He should either stop taking the pills or take more because something is not working in his head.

@eturfrey

Жыл бұрын

Wow and I thought I was watching comedy.

@worldofameiso5491

Жыл бұрын

Well done Bart, you've made a brilliantly funny sketch as boring as hell.

Funny I remember this being much funnier at the time. I think there was another version of this. This must be a 'cleaner' version.

To much glass 😂😂😂

Irish master mind ocarrol magnuson 😂😂😂😂

This makes me proud to be Irish hahahahahaha

@patagualianmostly7437

Жыл бұрын

And I to be your neighbour....albeit in South America.... Keep smiling my friend. It's the one thing they cannot tax.

British comedy....their biggest export after Independence Days.

@patagualianmostly7437

Жыл бұрын

Care to explain? If you possibly can. What a crap comment.

Classic 🖤💛❤️🇦🇺😅😂😅

Don't they torque a load Of rubbish 🗑 absolutely Love everything they do ❤😂🎉😢😮😅

@user-wp5ix9hy8c

3 ай бұрын

BLOODY FUNNY ❤I think they the best Comedians on the telly ❤😂🎉😢😮😅

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lord Nose? surely

This sounds very much like a 'Gerald Wiley' (Ronnie Barker) sketch. Based on wordplay.

LOLLLL

In comedy today there is nothing innocent or funny. Insults, pc to not offend even a Mexican wearing Sombrero because it's harmful. The 2 Ronnies with lovely innuendo & wonderful timing when comedy was just fun. No offence taken either.

Shandy 😂😂😂😂

Well, I don't know. I thought that was really funny. Made me choke on my Guinness. Happy to report I'm not woke, so I'm going back to sleep.

@patagualianmostly7437

Жыл бұрын

Bet I'm asleep before you will be Eamon...&. I'll be watching yer...!

Excellent, but why would much people thinking it's not funny to them appear to think they are higher on the IQ scale. In a way, that rather funny in itself

Lord knows

which year is this recorded and broadcasted?