When Ian takes against a particular guest or host, it is very funny, as he too polite to be direct but simmers like a disgruntled schoolboy. Brian Blessed is one hell of a funny man!
@@ysgol3 Why would there be any contempt since this program aired years before any of his possible wrong doings came to light. He also offered him his bottle, which would not have happened if what you say is correct.
@@gaskellr44 Because Paul doesn't rate him as a 'comedian', in fact Paul doesn't consider him a comedian at all, just an unfunny twerp (which he of course is).
Hilarious. Always been a fan of HIGNFY. Thank god BBC kept the outtakes About 20 minutes in. "...Brian Blessed as London mayor..." how different life might be now if he had followed BJ's path. I never realised that Tom Baker was so funny. At 29:15 onwards is that a young Reginald D Hunter with Paul Merton? All we need now is Not The 9 o'clock News.
Slightly amusingly, Jack Dee was known for being dead-pan the whole time on stage & TV… on his first appearance on HIGNFY that was cracked by Paul Merton.
I was in the studio for the recording of both the Tom Baker and Brian Blessed episodes, absolutely brilliant! Just a pity the 90% of the best Blessed material couldn’t be broadcast.
I think the Brian Blessed episode is my favorite thing on the internet, but I think Paul and Ian don't want to spend that much of their lives in the studio. ; )
Not a big fan either, but I think his delivery and timing are excelent when he gets it right, like the bit with ”health and safety... and something called ’decorum’”. Not a super original nor conceptually funny joke but very well delivered.
He seems a horrible and self-obsessed human being. Calling the actor who played Fawlty Towers Manual to talk about having sex with his daughter was a real bastard move. The only really funny and original thing he did, in my view, was appearing in white Arab robes, almost the day after 9-11, saying (in effect) "Can't we put this all behind us?" SO inappropriate & deliberately badly-timed it was hilarious. So many of his other bits are about him being incredibly selfish (feet on airplane seats) and thinking hes being clever tryng to talk his way out of it.
Why not bring ex-footballer, Paul Merson, onto the show and joke about his name being similar to Paul Merton. A whole show where Ian keeps getting the two confused 😅
According to Paul Merton, (in one of his shows at which I was there ), he claimed he got home from work and his wife pilloried him for various aspects of life-style and self-indulgence when 'his' name, Paul Merson was all over the tabloids!
Ian hislop is fantastic on this show he loses virtually every week but love his sense of humour but one of the funnist line ever was when Peter string fellow was on and about his young girlfriends and Paul Merton said your haircut older than her quality show
I went back in 2016 I think - was a great show and was funny when they had to repeat jokes etc. Lots that goes on that doesn’t get shown and they had an on-site lawyer to check they weren’t getting themselves into trouble with what’s said.
Jeremy Clarkson would fit perfectly in with all the small minded twunts here in the states who are threatened by how other men look and their portrayals that you’re somehow not a real man unless you’re popping steroids and dressing like a trucker. It says a lot about them psychologically and none of it is good. It’s like he’s lashing out at others because he knows he looks like he was beat by every single branch on the ugly tree.
@Pencil.. You seem to have forgotten that the elderly actor answered the phone! That poor man, it's almost unimaginable. He never recovered from the (multiple) vile and offensive messages left on his answer phone. So, no, we won't get over it. Imagine it was your grandparents answering the phone to hear some plebs laughing about having sex with you (only not put anywhere near as politely as that), and when they then become too scared and puzzled to take the calls, even worse statements are left on their phone. Or, can you not necessarily understand because the welfare of your grandparents isn't your problem?!
Sigh… We here all just have to know that you call courgettes zucchini and aubergines eggplants and coriander cilantro, and nappies diapers and pavements sidewalks and car boots trunks and car bonnets hoods etc etc etc. But you’re fucking baffled.
It's not shortened, it's specifically the outtakes etc (check the title). And yes everyone should watch the show but if you _know_ the show then this is hilarious. I'm very glad this was uploaded.
@@noesense769 The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.
The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.
@@cliffboulton8763 it means as soon as you label someone or disrespect another human you see them as less than and that can lead to all sorts of awful things, always try and be kind and compassionate
@@proevoisace7 I could NEVER be kind and compassionate to that scumbag. 40 = years lorry driving didn't leave me with too clever a vocabulary, but the insults and swear words that come from his GOB certainly take some beating. To use his lingo, I think he's as funny as dose of Pox.
@@cliffboulton8763 I wouldn't judge you as I dont know anything about you, same goes for russell brand, he has been through terrible things in his life, did you know he was abused as a kid and had struggled with drug addiction, he has come through it and now has a wife and 2 kids and spends his time helping homeless people and making videos on youtube trying to help others, not trying to change your mind but just so you have both perspectives
Yank eh? They’re similar to aubergines. Google that too. And taps. And nappies. And car boots. And car bonnets. And we walk on pavements. And use coriander as a herb (which starts with an aspirated H sound) But we don’t get fucking baffled by your TV programmes or movies.
