You know, like, someone who was, like, a kid when this was on TV and couldn't watch it, and is really glad to sort of like see it on RU-vid and that? That's me that is.
Newman & Baddiel In Pieces - That's You That Is 1753pm 22.9.23 as they sit by the tv all slouching about saying and pointing: that's you, that is... they're usually called tony and point and say: that's you, that is...
@@stephenhumphrey7935 *Because BBC **_funding cuts_** - that's your Mum that is...* Sketch comedy is notoriously labour-intensive and expensive. Also, their genesis requires time and nurturing by a Head of Comedy who's not constantly being performance-managed via BARB ratings. Shows are cancelled these days unless they're _immediately_ successful - partly as a result of 'trial by social media'. I wonder if - had it been made today - Blackadder would have ever made it past one series? Yet it's now in the top three of most people's all-time favourite sitcoms.🤔 The Conservatives have had their eyes - and mucky paws - on the BBC for _decades._ Their relentless attempts to break it apart have made it an increasingly risk-averse organisation, and good comedy is all about risk-taking. Ultimately, like Brexit, people won't know what they had until they've lost it, and the BBC is finally a weak shadow of its former self.
It's also a knock-on effect from BBC radio funding cuts. So many successful BBC TV comedy shows started their life as BBC radio comedy. It was a very common stepping stone for shows that had ironed out some of their wrinkles on the comparatively smaller audience of radio. That nurturing ground has also been decimated...
The two guys are fucking quality. I used to watch this when I was a wee kid in school and I used to piss blood watching this. It was our comedy, those of us who were bored shitless with variey mainstream pap. Any tow people can test their wit by playing this as a toking game in a party, it's great fun, all should try it! :)
As we all know, for reasons of preservation, the Domesday Book is kept in storage in the British museum, at a constant temperature of -273.15 degrees Celsius, what scientists refer to as "absolute zero"........and that's the number of pubic hairs you have. You thought you had one, but then you weed through it. ^_^
Usually it's Rob who makes me laugh most with these, but David killed me with: "I'm going to Brighton Marine World" and "You need special medicine to live!" Absolutely hilarious. Though I always found the catchphrase "See…" a bit too abrupt (eg "See a whelk stall"). I think it should have been something like "Professor Lewis, are you familiar with…"
Legendary stuff. And accurate - that front-of-mouth pronunciation seems to have been characteristic of Oxbridge dons in the first half of the 20th century. Imagine Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore bickering.
2:41 when David's character just accepts the image of the whelk stall, without even considering it's just a shoehorned in setup for an insult. Tip top!
I like the sketches where it's a really complicated description and the 'victim' seeks clarity on the image... "you see that dried milk stain on your mum's brazier?" "you mean the ones where my baby brother failed to quite lick it up?" "yes those" "and the ones that turn a sort of murky yellow colour after two days of not being washed?" "yes, especially those ones" "I see them regularly, yes, I know the ones you mean" "that's your best ever wet dream that is"
He fell out with David badiell. Spectacularly after the Mary Whitehouse experience tour. And then became very extreme person in his comedy to the point where nobody wanted to work with him. And then he vanished...nobody has heard from him again. Think he had a breakdown. After the Mary Whitehouse experience tour
And that's a bad thing because? You see, its clear their comedy must have been great back in the day, you are clearly a right wing twat, yet you found their left leaning humour hilarious.
it’s not ripping off Python, but Python also heavily mined that seam of, y’know... ‘undermining expectations of the behaviour of very serious grown ups’ - swapping out the behaviour of people at opposite of ends of the academic spectrum - kids in the playground / crusty old professors is kinda Pythonesque as an idea
I hope those permanently offended woke morons calling themselves comedians will defend comedy when it was actually good. Not todays. Its important history is preserved, and not torn down - because the present state of comedy is dead, and the future has nothing.
