Fun fact: after 50-year-old Alex Mitchell, of King’s Lynn, died from laughing at almost the entirety of this episode, his widow wrote to the Goodies thanking them for making her husband’s final moments so pleasant.
This show is so boring, weird and stupid as f_ck the guy that died of laughter that watched this show must of been high out of his freaking mind because this sh_t isn’t even slightly funny
+lorenzo vestrini never seen these before till I watched top trending about the guy that laughed himself to death and I am only across the pond in 🍀🍀DUBLIN IRELAND🍀🍀🍀
Imagine back in the 70's though, having no internet, no DVD/video player and maybe even no music to listen to for years.. and this comes on the TV, i'd definitely be on the floor laughing.
Bro it was the 70s. Even tho those digital mediums didnt exist, analog film and ways to listen to music through analog mediums were widespread. These were the 70s, not the 1890s
They say this is the single episode that made the man laugh hysterically for 25 minutes straight, causing his death!? Makes you wonder if dude had DEI hires at work.
How this comment section works: 1) Someone who's never even heard of the Goodies reads that a man died while watching the Kung Fu Capers episode. 2) They do a random RU-vid search and pull up this video. 3) They watch the clip, have no idea what the context of the scene is, don't die, and leave snarky comments about how bad it is.
helpfully the context then (as i remember it) - during the 1970's kung fu craze one of the goodies (bill oddie from yorkshire) says that he knows of a better traditional martial art handed down in that county - called `ecky thump' - here oddie (an exponent of it) goes up against all comers to prove his point - so how did i do?
@@richardenglish2195 - i did say it has been a while since i saw it - i don't think that point affects the humour though since neither ecky thump or the county is named in the video..
This is random funny, like the humor we're so used to now. Maybe not so much back then. The comedic timing of everything after the boomerang was thrown was near perfect; at the end is where I was laughing the most. I can see how someone could die laughing there - maybe someone with a weak heart or something.
Actually makes you wonder what the actors in this scene were thinking or going through when they realized their humorous scene actually caused a man to die XD
I remember seeing The Goodies themselves say at one of the conventions after rewatching it that they wouldn't have personally chose it as their favourite. Graeme's reaction to the Muhammed Ali bit was still great though "If I ever find out who that was" xD
It was the part with the Scotsman that caused Alex Mitchell to laugh himself to death. There were many cases of which people died laughing. The king of Burma died laughing after a Italian merchant told him that Venice has no king. The incident was in 1599.
To be fair, Bill let them throw their best shots at him and they still did no damage to him. Just shows, it ain't just the sausage that makes the man. Ha ha
@@Railwayman01 you've got a guy doing blackface though, what's seen as acceptable is going to change especially across 55 years. Just see the goodies episode about south africa
As much as, say, science is cumulative ie. building on what's been discovered before, I claim (having seen this video for the first time in 2023) that comedy is somewhat cumulative as well. Not that comedy and humor is a thing that has somehow been perfected since the late 20th century but TV, movies and subsequently the internet with its pranks, Vine and TikToks have made it so that we've been subjected to and bombarded by such a wide array of visual comedy that any "entry level" comedy, as depicted in this video, is largely not funny to us any more.
Really? Bill Oddie was born in Rochdale, Lancashire. In the episode of Ecky Thump he talks in a Lancashire dialect, not a Yorkshire one (there is a significant difference). A chip shop is featured, supposed;y based in Rochdale, and he hits his victims with large black puddings, not Yorkshire ones, the home of which is Bury, Lancashire. I think your attempt at humour might have been better had you realised Bill was taking the piss out of his own home county, which as a fellow Lancastrian who's never put ferrets down t'trousers, wore flat cap or clogs, I'm entitled to say. I do confess occasionally to eating chip butties and black puds myself, though...
Did this scene really kill someone? I'm from LATAM and our humor is very different, although I must admit that the Scotsman's movements are really funny. Well, at least the guy died happy. R.I.P.
Pretty amusing, but I came nowhere near to death. In fact the closest I ever came was when my brother whispered me something stupid while I was sitting on the couch one day, I felt myself starting to black out from lack of air.
@anakso At the time The Goodies was hilarious. We've just been acclimatised by 35 years of comedy progression. Similar to music. I must admit though I nearly did die laughing when I first saw the walk in the park scene from the "Kitten Kong" episode of The Goodies and that was only a couple of years ago... I missed that one when I was a kid.
I just watched a clip of Alex Mitchell dying from laughing on the show called Curious And Unusual Deaths, a show that’s like a bit similar to 1000 Ways To Die
I'm just glad to see someone on here who cops to the fact that this is barely even amusing... Now. And I'm not talking about the black face. This show came AFGTER Python. From guys that worked with some of Python. They were taking the easy, lazy path to laughs, even for the time.
oh yeah, it was a black pudding i think. I was expecting to see an actual black pudding fighting the man, but i think the man is using a black pudding, not fighting it...sadly.
@littlemore Before making some cocky, sad comment attempting to correct someone do your research first. The title of the episode is called "Kung Fu Kapers" and that is why this is billed as the fight scene from that episode.
At the time, I was seven, there was nothing else around we had three tv channels and a newspaper, and listen up, it was either this or tomorrow’s world or panorama aid QED
I just think it's unnecessary and somewhat self-indulgent that people always point out how they 'managed' to avoid humor in something. Like they're finding a sense of individuality in it or something. Just my opinion; that's not being an idiot.
This show hasn't really aged very well for a comedy, probably why it's not so funny now like it was 40 years ago even though this sketch is infamous for a man who died from laughter. Nowhere days this makes people die of boredom.
On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers". After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure. Bring some respect,even if this video look stupid.
6 pm ABC. A time when we laughed at ourselves and everyone else. Laughter heals. It felt like things were getting better in the nineties, then 2005 something happened and everyone is becoming offended for everything?😢😢😢. WTF happened to the country I grew up in?
