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In this iconic sketch, a group of Indian friends "go for an English" in Bombay, because it wouldn't be a Friday night without an English would it?
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@ryanpierce3986 8 месяцев назад

“What’s the blandest thing on the menu?” “I’ll have that, eh bring a folk & knife” 🤣🤣

@chrisbirch4150 2 года назад

Love that 24 plates of chips line. You think the sketch can't really go anywhere else but it is a funny finish. Every time youre at an Indian restaurant there's always about 8 naans and 40 poppodums on the table when everyone is done 😂

@Simbabhebhe 2 года назад

I always need 5 poppadoms though lol

@groundcontrol-888 2 года назад

@@equalityforall9902 whats your point mate ?

@equalityforall9902 2 года назад

@@groundcontrol-888 u know the point.

@h.j7469 2 года назад

Ironically perhaps, there will be in the kitchens some downtrodden looking Indian chefs serving english food for wealthy indians, delivered by english waiters

@Arianddu 2 года назад

@@equalityforall9902 Get over yourself, you're talking rubbish.

@TheIkaraCult Год назад

I remember seeing this sketch with my parents as a kid, I didn't understand why it was so funny but they were dying laughing because it was a reversal of how drunk English people would behave at Indian restaurants.

@arcanaa8696 11 месяцев назад

I watched it when I was a kid with my parents too but I did get the vast majority of it the only thing I didn't get was the ladies about the "SiZE" if you know what I mean. This was a sketch that stuck in my mind since I was like 7 and i'm now 32. LOL.

@JasonHarrison-og5pw 9 месяцев назад

Cos they are ram jams

@raftonpounder6696 6 месяцев назад

You don’t say.

@kevincassidy1983 3 месяца назад

Thank God you're here to explain the joke

@JoeyDNo3 2 месяца назад

@@kevincassidy1983 there's always 1 eh pal 🤣😂

@Ironside-fz9vd 11 месяцев назад

"12 Bread rolls" that cracked me up. Hilarious.

@bodrulali5673 Год назад

The strength of 'Goodness Gracious Me' was that it appealed to a wide audience - not squarely Asian or White British, but to everyone

@ZeranZeran Год назад

I'm American and I really would prefer this show over the ones we have now. SNL our "Saturday Night Live" comedy shows have become just awful. THIS is hilarious!

@kishennandha9127 Год назад

Exactly

@crazyfishmonster459 Год назад

Who are we if we can't laugh at each other? Stereotypes are great fun when they're not just going in one direction. That's what I loved about this era of comedy. It was a complete free-for-all and in that indescribably human way nobody felt left out.

@kc4276 Год назад

I’m an older millennial from India, and I grew up watching this show along with The Kumars at No. 42 (this was back when there weren’t too many British/American shows available to us - ofcourse now things are very different). It helped bridge the gap between our countries, for which I’m thankful to the diaspora as well as the broadcasters. Unfortunately, nothing of this sort exists today and most likely never will. Despite the advancements in technology, I feel the distances are increasing between different nations.

@pammir631 Месяц назад

I disagree

@mr0perator 8 месяцев назад

‘I think that is how you are supposed to eat this food’ Subtle line. Very funny

@tooshlong 2 года назад

"oi! Clive of Bloody India, who bloody asked you hey?" 😂😂😂

@royw-g3120 6 месяцев назад

My favourite bit too!😂

@davidwiltoncymru 2 месяца назад

always been my favourite bit

@Ali1986Koksal 4 дня назад

The "24 plates of chips" did me!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@eleanorferguson3421 Год назад

‘Actually I think that’s how you’re supposed to eat this sort of food…’ I only just noticed this but it’s so accurate 😂

@AnP865 4 месяца назад

the 'what is the blandest thing on the menu' line has been in my head since I first heard this on the radio back in the 90s - it should be a meme with wide contemporary applications

@marksmith2464 28 дней назад

I can hear it now :-)

@TheManThatIsF54 8 дней назад

I use it every time I have Cheese and Beans jacket potato.

@sanchoodell6789 Год назад

This is 'Goodness Gracious Me's equivalent of the Fawlty Towers' 'The Germans' episode. It has attained classic status and is one of the most memorable sketches.

@EfftupSmith Год назад

not really. It's closer to Rowan Atkinson's Indian Waiter sketch.

@pauljordan4452 Год назад

@@EfftupSmith That was genius.

@alexevansuk 11 месяцев назад

Hardly!

@davemc6887 Год назад

Every joke (and there's a lot of them) still works as well in 2023 as on it's original release date. Quite probably the finest sketch ever written..

@DeathCrunch 6 месяцев назад

Its just rascist nonsense.

@thesolitaryadventurer 20 дней назад

"fork handles"

@jakethegsd Год назад

So pleased this clip has resurfaced, it's an absolute classic and the original disappeared for a long time.

@arcanaa8696 11 месяцев назад

Can gamers here give some praise for James' actor, Neil Newbon - he's now a prominent VA and mocap performer.

@missellaneous5142 10 месяцев назад

Now the waiter might just eat you 🧛

@SessVlogs 9 месяцев назад

@@missellaneous5142And I’d let him.

@FelineFurKin 9 месяцев назад

Came back to see him, didn’t know him back then, but loving him in Baldur’s Gate 3.

@mimma904 8 месяцев назад

glad to see people went down the rabbit hole like me, legit came to see neil he was also so cute, like baby astarion

@arcanaa8696 8 месяцев назад

i didn't know him back then either but finding out so mych stuff i watched as a kid or teen and Neil was apparently there.@@FelineFurKin He was great as Heisenberg in RE Village too

@jimcapel328 Год назад

Absolute classic! “What’s the blandest thing on the menu?” 😂😂

@Sameer-Mustafah-Raza1-2-1 11 месяцев назад

“Steak & Kidney Pea 🫛!!” 😂😂😂

@C.Goraya Год назад

“ Fancy stuff, Butter” 🤣🤣

@EdJonesVideos 9 месяцев назад

Fun fact: the waiter is Neil Newbon, who much later played Astarion in the widely acclaimed 2023 video game Baldur's Gate III

@TheEvilCheesecake 18 дней назад

i found it, the whitest comment of all time.

@kevinbaboolal4225 17 дней назад

@@TheEvilCheesecake not even close to being that, its a pretty normal comment

@EdJonesVideos 17 дней назад

@@kevinbaboolal4225 I mean, I am white so the cheesecake is correct

@nathangamble125 8 дней назад

@@kevinbaboolal4225 I don't know about you, but I don't normally see many non-white people playing D&D. It honestly never occurred to me before, but yeah, D&D games like Baldurs Gate are _super_ white activities.

@BobTeapot-dp1xp 8 дней назад

He also played Luke Davenport in Dream Team

@eric113 2 года назад

This show was so ahead of its time, so funny..great comedy!!!

@andrewmunro5780 2 года назад

Still one of my favourite ever sketches

@woodjoewood Год назад

Love the little dance the guy in the green does after he says something 😂

@simonmcmanus3639 2 года назад

"What is the blandest thing on the menu ?" 🤭

@ejayman 2 года назад

"Hey Jemas, what have you got that is not totally tasteless?" is one of the funniest lines I've ever heard

@C---M 2 года назад

@@equalityforall9902 nice way of making your name a joke."Equality for all: prepare to close down libraries and churches." You do know christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world due to China right? Not to mention the Christian population in India and obviously Islam which is not much more than advanced version.

@equalityforall9902 2 года назад

@@C---M we are talking about Britain. Not your fat east China. You are be 1.4 billion. I am taking about preserving Britishness in the traditional sense. Diversity has altered the very composition, and tolerance and decline from our own complacency has allowed the displacement of the host.

@Arianddu 2 года назад

@@equalityforall9902 troll.

@Moondog-wc4vm 2 года назад

@@equalityforall9902 You completely missed the subtle point behind this show didn't you? Maybe your vision was obscured by the frantically waving St George's flag of little england. Get your sense of humour bypass reversed and go watch all the episodes of the show, then come back on youtube and humbly apologise for your foolishness.

@freshnas1 Месяц назад

Realising the waiter is Neil newbon is mad, as soon as I saw this I remembered this exact scene!! To think this guy is an amazing motion capture/voice/actor!

@TerryWinchcombe Год назад

Kulvinder Ghir is a much underrated actor, he's played some fantastic roles. My first memory of him was in a channel 4 short film called Lucky Sunil, its hilarious

@holnrew 8 месяцев назад

He was fantastic in that Bruce Springsteen one

@blehblehbleh86 Месяц назад

Funny fact - his wife's first name is Blandine!

@computer_toucher 9 месяцев назад

I see Astarion also had to wait tables in his younger days

@timetochronicle 2 месяца назад

Thats because ASTARION IS INDIAN!

@Splendiferous42 9 месяцев назад

Fun fact for Baldur's Gate 3 fans: waiter Ja-mes is played by Neil Newbon, who plays Astarion

@joegrimes9232 2 года назад

I think about this everytime I go out for a curry. My mate orders 4 naan breads.

@frankiesalmon7545 2 года назад

FOUR NAANS?

@HighTen_Melanie 2 года назад

24 Nanns?

@rowandavis2061 2 года назад

"that's insane"

@chriscurtain1816 2 года назад

When I was younger it was not unheard of to go for an Indian, smash poppadums over each others heads and throw them around like Frisbees (after a few beers of course). I would say GGM got this about right. I first saw this in the mid 90's and laughed my head off. It was so true to life, funny, very well observed and with no malice intended or taken. It couldn't be written today because so much has changed in what we are allowed to do and what TV is allowed to show. In fact the way things are going this post of mine will probably be used in the future to convict me of historic Indian restaurant crimes.

@Simbabhebhe 2 года назад

It’s comedy as it should be

@aigtban Год назад

At its best, sketch comedy can nail a concept so perfectly, nobody ever needs to address it again, they can just refer to the sketch. Mitchell and Webb's "Are we the baddies?" is one of those, so is Monty Python's Parrot Sketch. In the case of "Going for an English", it may be literally unnecessary for anyone to ever say or write another word on the subject of boorish, drunken British people in Indian restaurants, because this is all you need. Note the round of appreciative applause after the "butter" line, when the audience fully grasps what's going on. They know they're witnessing something epochal, in its own way.

@stuartbowden4735 3 месяца назад

Very well said!

@icturner23 13 дней назад

Yup, everything about this sketch has been burnt into my brain every time I have been in Indian restaurants ever since. I will never order the spiciest thing, I will never share different dishes and I will especially never order papadams.

@aigtban 12 дней назад

@@icturner23 I think it's still fine to order poppadums, FWIW. They're delicious! Just not such insane numbers of them, there's no room for the actual meal.

@bizarresysy 9 месяцев назад

I can't beleive the waiter is a vampire

@PP-kp4dd 2 года назад

I love this sketch, having lived just off, and worked at the end of Brick Lane London in the 80's. I remember hearing the same people do another version of this sketch, maybe a radio version, where everyone ended up ordering the latest English Cusine Fad.....chicken in a basket !

@jimb9063 Год назад

Loved this show. Funny, clever, and sometimes profoundly brilliant. "What's the blandest thing on the menu?" Priceless! I hope this sketch changed a lot of peoples behaviour. It would be somewhat ironic if in 100 years time British folk flocked to India for better prospects, and eventually made India's national dish fish and chips.

@helenchelmicka7894 11 месяцев назад

😂😂😂

@carltonlambert7608 4 месяца назад

I believe people from here will head east so your prediction may have legs yet. India is the super of the future. I has the population.

@Bozebo 3 месяца назад

To be fair a load of Indian food is British empire influenced already, new world ingredients from trade. But... India was the biggest component of the British empire itself so there is that. English food influence however, there's not much of that.

@jimb9063 3 месяца назад

@@Bozebo Yes, probably true of a lot of things. The approximate date of contact between peoples tends to be pushed further back in time as new evidence emerges too. Asia without chillies would seem as strange as Britain without chipped potatoes. There was a time when people probably thought they wouldn't catch on!

@dilibau 2 года назад

"Kidney pee" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@bodrulali5673 Год назад

This show is brilliant - a top quality comedy with a wonderfully talented cast. With a mixture of sketches and songs to suit all ages, Goodness Gracious Me dares to poke fun at English and Asian people alike

@keithsimpson4618 Год назад

“ Oi ! Clive of India ! Who bloody asked you ? Eh ? “ Classic .

@harjmahey 23 часа назад

Also, the fact that they refuse to say the waiters name correctly kills me. That's spot on even in today's times. Jams! 🤣🤣🤣

@ZeranZeran 2 года назад

I am NEVER going to eat at an Indian restaurant for fear of being humiliated now Kidding. This is hilarious. "Yeah, Jamus, that's what I said"

@ZeranZeran 2 года назад

Also they need to just remove SNL from American tv and play this show instead.

@PianoFish Год назад

Had to show this to someone today who'd never seen it before and so was very confused when my wife called me "Jah-mez" 😂

@TheBT Год назад

@@ZeranZeran I have a feeling a lot of the show would be lost in translation in the US given how its driven by that British Asian culture cues. Though don't worry, 'Indian' restaurants are very much built for a British clientèle as 90% of them are Bangladeshi who run them for that purpose. I do recommend going to an Indian Indian restaurant if you can too (one where the customer base is also mainly Indian) as its a different experience

@kme Год назад

@@TheBTyeah, we tried to get my parents (white(ish; my mum has first nations heritage too) Canadian) to watch this, but my dad was just like... Isn't this racist? I don't get it, it's not funny. All while me and hubby are cracking up all over the place. My brothers did like Blackadder tho.

@Emma_Rosa 2 года назад

"There you go Nina steak and kidney pee!" 😭😭😭😭😭

@ejayman 2 года назад

"Hey Jemas, what have you got that is not totally tasteless?" is such a good line

@TheSandyKale 2 года назад

Love how the steak and kidney pie metamorphoses to steak and kidley pee. 😜

@petermutua9838 2 года назад

Hadn't ever heard of this before; can't believe how hilarious it is...

@ZeranZeran 2 года назад

This is way better than Saturday Night Live.. they should just air this instead. This is really good, ahead of its time.

@haruyasumi616 2 года назад

it was really well observed. this is their most famous sketch, and it deserves to be remembered fondly. it's my generation's 'parrot sketch'. i low key had a girl crush on nina wadia.

@watiflappynounou3302 2 года назад

Meera Syal and Nina Wadia are so funny 😂😂😂

@pauljordan4452 Год назад

Because they're Indian!

@PhilRead80 Год назад

One of my favourite sketches of all time. Absolutely superb.

@chriscurtain1816 2 года назад

One of the all-time classic comedy sketches. Like Del Boy falling over at the bar, or the chandelier falling down. Or pretty much anything from Fawlty Towers. From the days when there was something worth watching on telly.

@cdname47 2 года назад

When this was on the telly people were still saying it was rubbish and the things you mentioned was the golden age That's life, you life through various golden ages, not appreciating when you're in one because you're too busy looking back at the last one

@Doppelfrog Год назад

Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

@romainsavioz5466 Год назад

@@Doppelfrog 🤦🏻‍♂️

@romainsavioz5466 Год назад

I agre but you shouldn't mention the war

@raymasraymas Год назад

So glad to see this back on RU-vid after years

@eleanorferguson3421 Год назад

‘Clive of India’ gets me every single time 😂

@cattt0202 9 месяцев назад

Hey 😊 that's the one part I didn't get 🙈🙈 what does it mean/refer to?

@Braham21 7 месяцев назад

@@cattt0202It's like calling someone Lawrence of Arabia

@cattt0202 7 месяцев назад

@Braham21 thank u. I live in arabia so that makes much more sense to me

@alicequayle4625 3 месяца назад

@@cattt0202 I think Clive of India invaded part of India for the Empire.

@cattt0202 3 месяца назад

@alicequayle4625 ahh, thanks Alice 🙏

@Littlebrum73 Год назад

Still one of the funniest sketches ever, up there with harry Enfields old arsenal v new Liverpool and Kevin n Perry Manchester scene

@jimjoelliejack 8 месяцев назад

I came across this fantastic comedy sketch again after watching Sanjeev Bhaskar in Unforgotton, this was a comedy classic there with the two Ronnies fork handles and pythons dead parrot, absolutely brilliant.😅😂🤣

@nigelfaulkner5449 Год назад

The blandest thing on the menu always gets me, so funny.

@ninadsheth8422 2 года назад

"😂Clive of India"

@raychaudhuri6217 2 года назад

absolute genius and still so comic but unreally real

@kalicunningham9139 2 года назад

Love this show.

@djalexdunne 9 месяцев назад

"aLriigHt miite" gets me every time 😂😂

@Threemore650 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant show.

@Emeraldkyber 3 месяца назад

Damn cazador had astarion doing wild things

@timetochronicle 2 месяца назад

Yeah like going up against Clive of India. Poor Astarion

@cloudstrife1983 2 года назад

Used to love this show.

@rottenheavenly6245 2 года назад

24 plates of chips ...you might have ordered too much sir...then a riot breaks out lol

@gewglesux 10 месяцев назад

"fancy stuff" "oh butter"

@Livikyu 4 месяца назад

Like this sketch, Neil Newbon has also aged like a very very very fine wine

@GalidorDimension 7 месяцев назад

I just found out that the waiter James is Neil Newbon who voices Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 and Heisenberg in Resident Evil Village 😮

@AMFL3116 Год назад

This is pure comedy gold.

@degaulle30 6 месяцев назад

This show, for a while, was the greatest show on tv

@CaptainHowdy-mw9vc 2 дня назад

One of the single greatest pieces of comedy ever created in Britain. Pure genius.

@georgemorley1029 2 года назад

They nailed it.

@richl6966 10 месяцев назад

Glad this has appeared here. Cracking sketch with some fine actors. I call my close friend and former flatmate "Jam-ez" due to this (we only met in 2005) and I often say "what is the blandest thing on the menu" in restaurants to my family.

@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa69 2 года назад

"jammes" lmao

@MrSunnyBhoy 2 года назад

I know lmao!

@kavcherry4010 2 года назад

J mas steak & kidney pea

@jen6893 6 месяцев назад

Fun fact, the waiter is the voice actor for Astarion in BG3

@JonnyGTi180 6 месяцев назад

This is how i see english food and im english 😂😂

@martinyeomans3319 2 года назад

Brilliant, genius, hilarious 😂😂😂

@brettstirling 24 дня назад

Astarion villain arc starts here

@gobbitop554 12 дней назад

Fresh from Neil Newbon’s wiki page and I had to come here to see if anyone had left comment

@keyfeatures 2 года назад

I've been looking for this sketch for a few years. Thanks for uploading.

@leswilcock7327 Год назад

Incredible. So true !

@arianaajbeaverhausen8175 8 месяцев назад

One of the best sketches in comedy ever written, I still quote the phrase "I'll have the blandest thing on the menu!" to this day. 😂 Mum and I also joke amongst ourselves about other jokes in the show. "Ah, but how big is his danda?" (Spelling?) "Like a smaaaaall aubergine!" 🤏🍆 😂❤🥰

@fionadalton8773 13 дней назад

Yep, the warring banter between two rival mums!

@spngled8654 5 месяцев назад

one of the greatest skits ever made, brilliant

@ocdmusic 10 месяцев назад

24 plates of chips 😂😂😂😂 I loved this show when it was on and its still funny to this day, definitely need to watch some more :)

@Captainflake99 2 года назад

Omg😂 how have I never seen this before

@DungeonsandRoses 7 месяцев назад

Fun fact: the waiter is Neil Newbon (Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3)

@willb4552 2 года назад

Absolute classic 🤣🤣.

@Mntgmry19 Год назад

Absolutely brilliant.

@andywood7784 2 года назад

Just so many clever gags in here

@Indienheld 2 года назад

Yes! Finally, it's on RU-vid!!!

@potdog1000 Год назад

absolute classic

@Reggiec727 Год назад

Hilarious! Lovin' the English accents.

@ianhand5006 2 года назад

Excellent!

@Carmel明慧 2 года назад

Oh my gosh, this is so hilarious!! 🤣🤣

@kitharrison8799 10 месяцев назад

One of the great sketches of all time.

@azapro911 Год назад

"Oh go on, have something bland!"

@Jmcinally94 2 часа назад

Absoultely nailed the micro-aggressions towards tbe poor waiter.

@AcornElectron Год назад

I wish we could still have comedy like this.

@karenbautista3077 Год назад

This is satirical gold! 😂🤣

@stevewiles7132 Год назад

Laughed my socks off when I first saw this...

@jkent9915 2 года назад

Gold!!!

@MissyASTB 2 года назад

Omg legendary

@devanman7920 Месяц назад

Every line is gold.

@Blaktista 6 дней назад

“What’s the blandest thing on the menu?” is one of the most savage lines I’ve ever seen on TV 😂

@yabeenbamboozled5067 8 месяцев назад

" What's the blandest thing on the menu ?! " 🤣

@ruthharvey4158 9 месяцев назад

Why am I suddenly seeing neil newbon everywhere though

@joshtherahrah 4 месяца назад

This was peak comedy!

@neilfrench6639 2 года назад

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣👍

@AlastorWilliam 9 месяцев назад

Why yes that is the actor who plays Astarion in BG3, thanks for asking! 🤯

@akamal226 2 дня назад

still cracks me up !!!

@mrhob6355 Месяц назад

Absolutely spot on only other people can show us the absurdity , I remember this from years ago .

@kevinshanahan6064 5 дней назад

I applaud those who wrote and performed in this sketch. It is a perfect reverse observation. Special mention of a young Muslim nurse who told me she had heard the Tony Hancock “that’s nearly an armful” about taking blood about 40 times, when he died 30 years before she was born.