Harry Enfield's superb Playboys sketch from Series 2, Epsiode 2 of his Television Programme series from 1993. Apologies for quality, but its from an old BBC VHS cassette
Oh... I laughed myself silly at this twenty years ago and I'm doing exactly the same now - It's magnificent. Harry Enfield's Television Progamme was some of the best television comedy ever made.
A brilliant, well observed (& very funny) homage to all those old ATV & ITC shows. The stock footage of the helicopter as it's taking off is from ITC's the Prisoner. The Comic Strip Presents team also satirise Jason King amongst others in Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown the sequel to the equally funny the Bullshitters (a send up of the Professionals TV show.)
Boring comment but this along with 'poppet on a string', the casting, make up, hair, film quality etc for these period parodies is really really good, way better than anything else I can think of.
I don't remember watching Jason King, but I do remember a few of those British ITV / Associated Television productions that aired either on the CBC or CTV back in the seventies like The New Avengers or The Persauders, most of those crime fighting shows were like that.
Ah god, i'd fogotten how funny this is. Champagne cork taking out the helicopter LOL !!!!! A nice cliche to those spy tv shows from the 70's, prob one of Harry's best sketches ever :)
So glad I had this recommended, great memories. I searched out and watched Harry Enfields ‘Leslie the barman’ character last week and this forgotten gem pops up this week.
The way the openng triptych comes together from 0:03 - 0:07 is sensational. I know the laughter's canned, but this part is so funny, it could plausibly be real.
Thanks for posting, got this on a ropey old video somewhere, but you've saved me the bother of trawling through them...amazing how I can still recite this after all these years!
But if anyone was brave enough the call this out for the hopelessly dated and sexist comment it is, would not others gang up to attack and insult them?
The actress is Jaye Griffiths isn't it? Very pretty when young. Saw her in "Ashes and Mettle' at the Court late 2021. Only okay but she was good as a banana Republic president.
Just for info, Amazon UK now list the complete Harry Enfield TV shows being released on DVD in the spring - there have been flase alarms in the past, but lets hope this is genuine - one of the greatest comedy series not available on DVD IMO.
an excellent sketch. anyone know who were playing the two 'lady mud wrestlers'? mmm. the straight haired one was rather nice. Everything about this sketch is perfectly observed. Ridiculously badly choreographed fights were a staple of these kinds of series, and the mud bath fight here manages to take it just one extra notch up into complete absurdity. classic.
Aden Gillett who was a familiar face on British telly at the time (early 90’s) given that he also played ‘Jack’ in popular BBC period fashion series ‘House of Elliot’.
Jaye Griffiths lives in my town, I saw her in a shop recently and I had to bite my lip so as not to tell her she "really is bang on!" Unkuntu kwanda may be a step too far I feel.
@@QFIhawkman Familiar face but just couldn't place her. Recorded Series 1 of Between the Lines recently and she was Tony Clarke's love interest in a couple of episodes. There really isn't much that's witty on TV these days.
