Harry Enfield - Mr Cholmondley-Warner on Life in 1990 

🎵 Start spreading the news I'm leaving today I want to be a part of it - Chiddingfold-on-sea! 🎵

Despite being a parody I have to say that Enfield has recreated early television in Britain more successfully than any other recreation I have ever seen.

I really enjoyed this Short, informal but informative film about life in the 1990’s.

_Oh! I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drug store, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by!_

These Cholmondley-Warner parodies of old public information films are inspired. I was born in 1923 and remember the originals rather too well. Extrapolating into the future was farcical then. Let's us stop predicting the future and love the life that we still have. Mr Enfield, I am proud of you. You are a very talented man. Nurse get me more cake please.

Its a shame they’re not on tv anymore, classic comedy. Brilliant

I actually grew up in Chiddingfold.... got over excited with the mention of it on the internet, which i am informed they are still waiting for there.

🎼🎵🎶Chiddingfold-on-sea, Chiddingfold-on-sea, so good they named it twice 🎶🎵

I'm Scottish. This is brilliant.

Hello, I'm from Africa I'm afraid! So polite about it, cracks me up :)

"No exercise and plenty of sausages" God I wish a doctor could say that to me!

The football fans being recognised as our best ambassadors made me laugh, 'that's our 12th world cup in a row'

"If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere! It's up to you, Chiddingfeld-on-sea, New York!"

I'm Welsh and I have used inside toilets several times, but I still prefer the outside ones.

I'd forgotten all about this, remember watching it back in the day absolutely hilarious, but now I've got to go and report this sketch to RU-vid for racism and get it taken down

"Footballs returning to its original place of origin!" 🎶

“Hello. I’m African, I’m afraid.” I died.

Harry Enfield one word. Treasure

My dad got told to start smoking to improve his bronchial asthma when his dad took him to the doctors in the 20's at age 10. I don't know about the sausages though.

My fave enfield sketch ever. "you're welcome to live in the coal bunker-as long as you promise not to eat my wife." hahahahahaha

No one is really offended, just people who are offended on behalf of those they think would be offended.

I love being british

The things we got away with back then. Such a shame we became so sensitive.

" Even the Welsh will have been successfully taught how to use inside lavatories " ....... Still waiting on that one.

ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS , I STILL LAUGH OUT LOUD, ( IN A DECOROUS WAY, NATURALLY)

Watching this sat on my Inside toilet, drinking a glass of Scottish, wonderful!

Ah yes, being a boy in the 60s/70s and sitting in the doctor's waiting room enveloped in a cloud of cigarette smoke then going into the doctor's office and there he'd be, ciggie hanging from his bottom lip,overflowing ashtray. My mother was actually advised to start smoking as it'd calm her nerves! She was dead at 58 from cancer.

Harry Enfield was years ahead of his time. The 'I'm African, I'm afraid...' skit is one of my absolute favourites in ever. The BBC never show these early episodes (don't think you can buy them easily either), so haven't vandalised them - yet. Dear BBC - the racist Major in Fawlty Towers is the butt of the joke (you philistines): he corrects his racism, with more racism...it's funny.

Brilliant 👏 👌 👍. Simply Brilliant 👏 😀

I might make a visit to Cheddingfield-on-Sea one day.

The taking in of books via injection is priceless.

I just love the messed up sight lines.

British humour at it's best. Criticizing the past and the present at the same time with charm and politeness.

this is still so so funny!

Love the mobile telephone😂

"Fire's going down, dear." "Best pop another lump of plutonium on then, dear."

1:29 I WANT THAT DOCTOR mine's just a bloody quack that wants me to go on a diet

It was nice to see the Welsh adapting to an inside toilet. Mine is still outside - well at least that's the impression I got after my last party,

I thought I'd seen all of the Mr Cholmondley-Warner/Greyson clips, but I seem to have missed this one.

This is genius, every single thing they said would happen by 1990 DID happen!

Simply and utterly brilliant bit of (quite truthful) class!

Excellently brilliant

Thirty odd years from 1990 and I'm still waiting for my injection of DH Lawrence (I also had 'Doctor Zhivago' and the complete works of HG Wells on my prescription too).

Best Cholmondley-Warner/Grayson skit!

About time Enfield 's shows were released on dvd.

An informative and yet entertaining short documentary highlighting what could be in store, perhaps in 40... 45 years. I dare say, watching such material in the future, say, 40... 45 years, could well have one executed by firing squad for just lingering just a little too long whilst viewing a video of a lovely lady or gentleman partaking in lascivious activity on the internet. Yes, the monkey may well end up being spanked on a regular basis or a chap may well wish to send the weasel down the tunnel without worrying about any repercussions,... all because it`s 2022! Thank goodness we currently live in a world of free speech and enlightenment, whilst not being downtrodden by a totalitarian state. Goodness. Six thirty! Time for a brandy. Cheerio.

LOL chiddingfold is the vilage where i live xD

How true it was, New York is indeed now Chiddingfold-on-Sea.

1:59 ‘Spare a thought for those plucky losers’ 😆

"Despite being a parody I have to say that Enfield has recreated early television in Britain more successfully than any other recreation I have ever seen." Yes, I would have thought there would have been no advanced CGI filters to make it look old in 1990. They also made the Arthur Atkinson Clips look and sound old in The Fast Show. Clever people at the BBC. In the clip it's supposed to be made in 1940 and at that time nuclear power hadn't really been worked out, so it's a bit ahead of its time saying put another lump of plutonium on the fire but that's being picky. Maybe if they had said 1950 looking at 1990. Did he do Mr Cholmondeley-Warner in Harry and Paul?

Harry Enfield legend

Love these

Football fans were like that....EXCEPT MILLWALL !!

No exercise and plenty of sausages....

Even the Welsh will have been taught to use indoor lavatories.... wow... such progress!

2:26 surprised the mob have not come after them. Well done. Spot on portrayal. 100% accurate of an African chap.

It all happened exactly as foretold...

I can't wait!

😂Love it....and if only!

Jon Glover is a wonderful actor

Wonderful

Glorious

Chiddingfeld-on-sea, so good they named it twice.

Uncannily accurate.

amazingly accurate

Many of the predictions in this public information film didn't materialise, but it is quite difficult for even the greatest brains to predict the future 50 years out..

Do you know, I love this. Im an old fashioned retired fireman, brought up laughing at Benny hill, etc. However, the pc, transgender, labour left wing, feminists, antifa, etc, would try to ban this! Im surprised they haven't already, as humour, and sense are two words not in their vocabulary.

@ItTakes2ToQuango I realize that you wrote this several years ago but I dare say, I heartily agree with you.

It remonds of an early 'dead-pan' Monty Python type humour. I like when the guy comes in at 0.15 from the left with his arm pre-bent to lean on fireplace top. LOL. GuyP

Pure class

this is great

"...as long as you don't eat my wife." LOL

Y'know, I'm willing to bet New Yorkers would actually be a happier bunch if their town was renamed Chittingfield-on-Sea. It's difficult to have airs if you live in a place called Chittingfield-on-Sea.

Chittingfeld-on-sea makes it seem a far more attractive city tbh, and I visited when it was still New York

It all became true!

3:00 Make America Great Britain Again

2:25 Try and get away with that now, lol!

BANG ON !!!What !!!a Limey 😂g

I live in Chiddingfold LOL!

great stuff great scott!

This sketch made me wonder: Why is it called New York anyway? Why York? It's not important and it's not even a port town.

"Hello, I'm African I'm afraid." That shit just wouldn't fly these days! Lol!

Well, we still have time.

2:09 Laughs in Millwall

I like a good glass of Scottish.

Remember: Never say "you wouldn't get away with that now", always say "you can't get away with that for now".

The 19 who have given this a thumbs down need to see a psychiatrist.

1:20 Lynn Benfield

Genius!

Well they need to install the lavatories first in Wales , don't they ? Perhaps Mr C. Warner could make film about how it can be done ?

2:20. No way could they get away with that in 2024! 😅

So look here Grayson..

Football hooliganism was a much more sober affair back then. Getting hold of some bastard and splattering his head over a railing was frowned upon if you hadn't been formally introduced first

They got the Scottish football bit right

Still waiting to see if America realises the error of its ways…can’t be long now!!!

Alas the Welsh still haven't come to terms with the inside lavatory

Chillingfield on Sea!!!!!!

Where can you get a cigarette container like that?

wow was this truly made in 1940? it looks like something in the 60's made to look like the 40's yet talking about the 90's which was 20 years ago!! (??!!)

I'm northern and know my place