0.28: "Ey up son - You'll never play for Yorkshire" - how very true with current events at Yorkshire CC. Amazing how Harry Enfield got this spot on 29 years ago.
Back then, to play cricket for Yorkshire you had to be born there. Up until the 1990s they wouldn't even accept outsiders from other parts of England - never mind overseas players.
@Tom Brown About 55 years ago I had a black work mate, we used to do the racial banter bit all the time " Good morning black man, Good morning White man" was typical so I've never seen any harm in banter because it's the intent that matters
@@steveforest8385 ...but that's the whole point of that part of the sketch. A racist 'plain-speaking, it's only banter' Yorkshireman saying that a black player can't play for Yorkshire, purely based on skin colour, automatically based on the assumption that they're not from Yorkshire. In reality, in the 1990's, there were tens of thousands of black and Asian players that could have played for Yorkshire based on the old 'born in the historic county boundary' rules.
Do you know the one about a girl that brought her boyfriend home to stay the night? He had to stay downstairs and not use the toilet upstairs as not to wake her parents. He said what do I do if I need to go to the toilet? she replied, use the sink. later that night he shouts, wheres the paper!
I'm a sophisticated Yorkshire man from Leeds and i find this totally hilarious. I did 20 years ago when it was on tv and i still do now. Slightly disappointed with any fellow Yorkshire man who can't laugh at this stereotype.
Watched this 20 years ago but never understood the " ....sophistication l been to Leeds joke. Assume it is about stereotypes but could someone please explain???
kingelvis Leeds (my home town) is seen as the cosmopolitan, big city capital of Yorkshire. We've got a Harvey Nichols, tha' knows! People from Sheffield will dispute this.
Made me laugh . Reminds me of my late Dad , when I asked him why he married my Mam. He replied "She mekks great Yorkshire puddings and was 6 months pregnant!"
@Francesca Moss "Ok lass now run along an mek us cup o tea an be quick wiv it an den on tbed for a shag " P.S Your dad should said "she mekks great yorkshire puddings an twas a bread-cake in t oven"!!!
knottlawhites This and 'The Four Yorkshiremen' [Python/ALT1948 Show] are amongst my favourite bits of comedy ever - I don't think that's all that unusual for a Yorkshireman. I don't know if it's peculiar to us, but things so proximate to one's native domicile are particularly stimulating to the ulnar nervous receptors. Is it the same for those shitey southern poofs?
knottlawhites it's an extreme stereotype, obviously, but I doubt any true Yorkshireman would be offended by it, we used to be very straight talking people, you bluntly said what you thought of someone new, they just as bluntly did the same back, now you understood one another, no offence taken and no bull, and you got on with life, 'twas t' Yorkshire way. Shame it's dying off.
Its so subtle, signs of how subtle Harry and Pauls later shows could be. In this context though the sheer self delight in the fact that he had indeed travelled all the way to Leeds away from kith and kin. Beautiful, comedy this good is a dying art. Higsons pony tail is worthy of mention too, detail that just makes the scene.
Im a londoner, was in a pub in Yorkshire, on the dales. This character, was giving it the large about southern poofters. His misses came in. "George! yu dinners on't table! HOME!!! "Okay me duck. We ripped the shit out of him!!!! Love Yorkshire, and the folk that have kept it as beautiful as it is. And always be.
@@gibson4676 If you read the missive. I didn't quote him as a Yorkshireman, I stated, "A character" Read before you start putting your clog in it me old mate. And by the way, I lived in Nuneaton for four years. I know the lingo, Youth.
Im from yorkshire and now live in hull,im seen as something of a sophisticate,I grew up in Bradford and i was 20 years old when I travelled the 15 miles to Leeds,it was worth it though!
@@corporal747 You speaking for the nation there, or just yourself? Comedy is subjective. I can't help if his humour goes over your head. Point is, it's the same kind of sketch: the main character is the target. The bloke making good old traditional black jokes is the idiot.
@@gunsharck I get your point but can I say that I’m a “lefty” and I love this humour and also stuff a lot more offensive. In my limited experience it’s often conservatives that find this sort of thing unacceptable. I wouldn’t say cancel culture is just a leftie thing. And I wouldn’t say snowflakes are all lefties.
@@TomCat681 Shite! The exact reason why I don't watch TV at least much anymore because its all a load of bollocks now (not being confined to just comedy).
@@TomCat681 LOL can still remember when cancelling my licence fee, thought got the TV on in the background, then thought not really bothered about this. Went on the site and cancelled it and got a bit of a refund too haha! Never looked back since, not really anyway and when the BBC come out with something I consider daft (arguably most of the time they come out with something daft and stupid) I roll my eyes well theoretically speaking anyway.... when I'm at either of my parents or wherever I am and have to watch that crap.
I'm a lancashire lad and I honestly have to say that I like Yorskhire and the people. They are good humoured folk and they were hard grafters in the coal mines and in the stone quarries. Some real tough guys too. There are some beautiful sites and breath taking views in the dales. Lovely place to visit on a hot sunny summers day. I like the heritage of the small villages. Sorry southerners - but the Yorkshire folk get my vote everytime :)
Not just saying it but at 77yrs and raised and lived them in Leeds I have always preferred Lancashire folk. I have found them more disposed to humour ,sympathetic and cultured in the everyday sense..but that's just me...
No it wouldn’t because it’s taking the piss out of racism...? - I sometimes feel like the only people who don’t understand the difference between racist jokes and jokes about racism are the anti - SJWs trying to prove a point... Signed: a London student.
Oh god, A) we do not live in some weird PC dystopia that you seem to think we do, there's plenty of "offensive" comedy and B) This isn't even offensive, it is mocking racism, not being racist, and C) Students are all too busy taking MDMA to care about anything like that.
I remember when this was shown on Tv back in the early nineties. It was and remains my favourite Harry Enfield sketch. The irony is I work in advertising, but can see the parody. We are full of shite at times! I know every word, and still find it funny. Pure comic sophistication - from Leeds!
I worked in it as a creative for a time, and his ideas really aren't that bad or even that crass compared to some of the coked-up shit you see getting pitched.
Talking of PC Brigade I found out the other day that Yorkshire's 'The Railway Children' got it's 1st complaint in 2013 as it "would encourage children to play on the railways" 42 years after it's release! That's just another thing to add to the list of things idiots complain about every single week
Brian Clough was born in Middlesborough , North Yorkshire but was the best England manager we never had . Considered to be too outspoken and direct , just like Harry's character , but he would have got the job done .
Not seen that clip since the show was aired back in the day and it is just as hilarious now as it was back then. As a Yorkshireman my self I think it's just bloody brilliant!
@@ericgeorge5483 I watched a lot of Benny Hill and Monty Python on my local PBS station when I was a kid. That's pretty much universal humor! (Was in graduate school in the UK when I saw this show.)