The full run of Hugh sketches from The Armando Iannucci Shows. Each week, Armando would gently cajole Hugh into reminiscing about his past. Sadly, Hugh - full name Hugh Cecil - passed away on February 11, 2004. Goodbye, Hugh.
A work of sheer genius... 'in those days the internet was in black and white, it was only on for 3 hours a day...we used to get dressed up in our sunday best to log on to it'
my favourites: "You couldn't just jump into bed with a lady back then. You'd go along to her house and ask her parents if you could knock her up, and get her on crack." "We never had Feng Shui in those days, so we put all our cupboards in the wrong place, and as a result all our businesses went bust. And that was the start of the great depression."
His demeanor and accent is just perfect I particularly like the idea of a coin with Jabba the Hutt on one side and Queen Victoria on the other... I'm told Doctor Who has one...
Iannucci... " I suppose it was very exciting in the Old Days, when new things came out..." Love those dead-pan, polite,questions... the TONE and content is great!
Yeah proper dark, old school and hardcore stuff, before the polo-neck wearing, trendy, Hoxton set took over and made it all “conceptual” and “ambient” and lame sounding.
There's one missing? "Concordes! They were great planes! We used to call them "Cracked tubes of death!" I think it was cut out of the C4 showing coming so soon after the first ever (and last) Concorde crash but it's on the DVD..
Timeless - and it gets more relevant the older I get! 'Someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success. So we all celebrated by running out and killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit'
I've suggested the armando iannucci shows to every American reactor I can find on here, because its so good and underrated. Still no ones picked it up unfortunately 😕
"It was very different...we never had sushi, I mean we had to improvise; so we would go to the fish shop and used to say 'don't bother frying it', or my mother used to make sushi out of corned beef".
Huzzah, well said. Hugh Cecil was a superb comedy actor for many decades. I think you're right about it being profound in all of those ways. It'd be a disservice to older people to treat them like they have no bloody awareness, that they always have to be stoic and defiant. They're people, not another species. Stories make the news because they're the exception not the norm. No less disgusting, but I think you'll find there's more repsect than the Daily Mail narrative likes to present Whitney...
amazing what wiki can tell you but lets get back to the upright base video and how sad it is to watch one on the internet,whats your take on this i need your feed back please?
Good work, MisterSix. Aaah . . . but what about, "Well, we never had feng shui in those days, so we put all our cupboards in the wrong place. As a result, all our businesses went bust. That was the start of the Great Depression."?
@penchanskii I think I recently saw him in the 'audience' as an extra in 'The All New Alexei Sayle Show' show from '94. It's quite hard to tell if it's him but probably is... pointless info or what :)
Gotta love Hugh! one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success....so we all celebrated by killing an ostrich.
As aforementioned, it's called a bass. What exactly about it offends you so much? I'll relay your creative suggestions to the person who made it. What have you made recently, apart from a fool of yourself?
This isn't taking the piss out of old people: it's not as if this guy really thinks those things, I'd wager there's no-one in the entire world who actually thinks anything like what Hugh says is true.. This is scripted. It simply portrays an articulate, interesting, funny, intelligent old man and an excellent actor. I called you an idiot because you are the one belittling the aged- you would deprive us of 'Hugh's' fine performance. P.S. I don't know what subscribers are.
So, by your logic, we can never ever show old people having a laugh, they can only be filmed if they are in 'profound' scenarios. No old people in comedy. Do you cry out in indignant rage when ever Last Of The Summer Wine comes on. Further more, even if I agree with your old people/profound material rule, this is still okay because I think it is profoundly: profoundly inventive, profoundly imaginative, profoundly interesting, profoundly fun and it challenges our preconceptions.
In view of the recent Council elections and the sort of OTT rhetoric that gets thrown around, just thought I'd throw in one really hyperbolic statement that some people might actually think IS going to happen. And, depending on whether there ever will be a EU referendum, maybe it might. Eastern Europeans immigrating, indigenous Brits emigrating. That's what they say they'll do, anyway.
This is what you're gonna sound like to your grandkids; get used to the idea: "I'm so old I can remember when it was still the 20th Century! I remember it BEFORE it was the 02 Arena! I can remember King William's great-gran Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother living to be 101 years old still drinking G&T's everyday! I remember when Britain still had mostly Britons living here!"
