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This is what comes into my head every time I hear ridiculously nationalistic English commentators.

as an australian I just assumed Eric Bristow was an english cricket player, thanks for your insight!

Thanks for spelling it out Sherlock, we'd never know otherwise

@@koleberdinoch926 I wouldn't have known!! I'm American & not into sports, so I know fuckall about the terminology of cricket [or darts]. I only got the initial joke where they were poking fun at the commentators & the bizarre shit they say.

Sorry, so what’s the joke there? The fact that darts is more working class?

@@noidea26 The joke is that this sort of nostalgia-as-commentary is par for the course on Test Match Special but would be completely inappropriate and out of place as darts commentary.

Absolute genius

A darts tournament??? In an open arena with green grass and buses and strawberries and cream??? Not cricket?

He says Eric .... steps onto the.....now .....????

@@josephbahri1403 Oche (pronounced ockie). It's the toeline in darts. Eric Bristow is a famous English darts player. That's the joke. Darts doesnt tend to have such upper class commentators.

@@AG-cg7lk Thanks for clearing this up. I didn't get that part. Brilliant.

Darts*

I was watching some of the county matches and their commentary is exactly like this. I believe they even started talking about caterpillars on the pitch.

Thank you for the context!! I live in Australia and don’t watch sports 🤣

I am so sorry you had to grow up Br*tish. It's a condition no child should ever have to go through.

@@brokensilence3268 I loved every minute of it and considered myself very fortunate and extremely privileged.

The essence of English old chap.

long may it last

At £165 a ticket, I should jolly well hope so.

@@sirrathersplendid4825 Test Match Special is free mate. If someone's charging you £165 quid to listen to it, you've been had.

@@hackdaniels7253 - To watch in person, old bean.

Lie back? ...Or forward?

literally the best comment evah

Bahahaha 😂😂😂

Degenerate furry.

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Not the same at all!

_"ACHTUNG! ERDBEEREN!"_

TieDef skimmed england 😢

The first half of this reminded me of the Sunday Afternoon Relaxation bit from Mitchell and Webb

Nowadays things have become tinny.

@@Tmanaz480 : a frightful word !

A good woody word. Like intercourse.

Thats because american sports are so incredibly dull that event statistics of the most excruciating minutia like what cereal the batter had for breakfast the last time he hit a home run seemingly is more entertaining than the game itself.

Are you sure you're not confusing America for some other country unless you're talking about baseball, which I never watch. Commenting in any other sport is on the par with or better than anywhere else.

@@rimmersbryggeri You're a typical YT user: You agree with the first piece of crap someone says and run with it. The initial comment never mentioned baseball but wrongly described U.S. sports commenting in general.

@@deanronson6331 Well you are like a typical youtube commenterintaht you dot realise that commentsmightbe intendedsatirically. My comment mainly pertainedto baseball and nascar probably. And btw why do you take it personally when most sports are boring most of the time.

@@rimmersbryggeri Claims of sarcasm and flipping are the first line of defense for those who have been rightly called on their stup!d!ty.

TheYopogo a good one haha

TheYopogo And if you don't take that seriously-----it'll be curtains for all this stands for ! Into the Marxist PIT.

A nice bit of Human Bigotry And Libertarian Nonsense?

TheYopogo The real question is why on earth you read it for the first time?

TheYopogo And what, exactly, is wrong with English culture?

🎶 “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”.🎶

Me too!

Guaranteed to cream himself!

And the millions paid by his banker owners.

Colorfly C4?

I drove through Garboldisham only yesterday. It’s a lovely village with some nice pubs on the A1066 between Thetford & Diss.

my dear old thing!

Indeed, TMS isn't quite the same without Blowers mentioning passing busses, pigeons and the Oval gasometers.

Is he still sick?

Beat me to it 🙂

Well, yes, given the emphasis they put on it I'd say that was the joke.

Not anymore!

Map Men didn't cover that one. But thanks anyway, I didn't know that!

+NormanMatchem Honestly Nanny, I never touched them!

Nounismisation Ah, about Nanny, is that someone hired to take care of children, or is it the name you give grandmothers? I'm from Newfoundland, a Province, formerly a country, off the East coast of Canada, part of Great Britain until 1949, and my grandmothers were always Nan or Nanny. They even signed cards to their grandchildren with Nan O or Nan M, the letter being that of their last names. Absolute angels they are, priorly figuratively, presently literally.

My word, it seems rediulous that Britain made any claim whatsoever to a place like Newfoundland. I mean really!? What next? China?

Nounismisation Well, Newfoundland was discovered in 1497 by John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto), an Italian explorer hired by king Henry VII. For almost the entirety of the next 452, Newfoundland was part of Great Britain. We gained independence from them for a short time in the 1930s, but ultimately what with the Great Depression, quickly decided to let them make the important decisions for us from London. One of the few countries on Earth to return to being part of Britain after being let go. A lot of what you said in your longer comment went over my head, but the "sticklebacks in an old tin can" bit is very familiar. My friends and I used to enjoy catching "specklebacks" in whatever container we could find. Very tiny fish, perhaps 3cm long at most, little over an inch, but usually around an inch as I recall. Some were completely smooth all around, others had two barbs poking out the sides of their heads. Sharp enough to draw blood. Does this sound like what you call "sticklebacks", or is it a different type of tiny fish?

NormanMatchem Yeah. Very. Without looking it up I'd say that they're kind of the same family. Little, utterly useless freshwater things. Certainly the same activity though. I had thought that Newfoundland had been 'discovered' by Vikings who settled there before falling out with the indigenous peoples. Now I'm not so sure. Am I thinking of somewhere else. Sorry you didn't understand what I said in my epic post. Is it the language? I could edit it if so...

Hey man

angus987 Especially when the bus was mentioned. Good old Blowers!

'Oooh, and that's a bad miss!'

If this video makes you proud of anything whatsoever you are to be pitied. It was just not funny, not relevant to English life for 90% of peoole, had no message, was badly acted and the script was lame.

I was born in England but nothing in this video is relevant to English life at all, other than for the toffs in Oxfordshire in London with frickin degrees.

+Jeff Davis Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought of Python.

First series of Fry and Laurie was basically a reheat of Python.

@@anonUK And Python was basically a reheat of the Goons.

@@davidfiler7439 Series 1, certainly. IMO, they didn't really find their feet until the first episode of Series 2. Much of Series 1 was either Goons, or too surreal or childish to actually be funny, or was written for the 1948 Show (e.g. the training course interview sketch or Lemming of the BDA).

@@anonUK I'll take your word for it, my memory gets rather wobbly post The Navy Lark, Round the Horne and ITMA.

Like any fine old fashioned creamy english town of the rolling sun beaten red paint licked Downs, while the name might be pronounced Garboldisham, it is most assuredly spelled Gayaribaweldeishawarmam.

funktimusrhyme I like how you got the shawarma in there

Yeah? Well I live in Gobbleshite.

Surprised they know who he is, too busy watching the Boat Race or playing polo.

I think I counted 19 camera cuts. Admittedly not during the long Rees-Moggian rant about creaminess, but on either side.

These stereotypes were dated even when the series was first aired. Nowadays such characters are long extinct, sadly. What you are looking for is not satire but nostalgia.