@@metsot Yes. I was very disappointed that he became a director and stopped being a perfomer, as I think there are many great directors, but not as many truly great comedians, and Mel Smith was just so amazingly talented when it came to comedy, be it the acting, the timing, the voice, the facial expressions, etc, he had it all, as few other comedians had. Still, like all the great comics of the past decades, even though he's gone, we can still see his performances when we choose. I'm so glad that this Covid situation, if it had to happen at all, happened now, when we have access to RU-vid, DVD box sets, so many cable/satellite channels, etc. Imagaine if it had happened fifty years ago, when in the UK we only had three TV channels, no video recorders, no computers, etc. How boring would that have been?
methven Arundell Every time I’ve seen Griff in recent years, usually on some show about UK riverboats or some such, he seems like a moany, bitter, man now. I don’t know why.
love this, it brings back my childhood memories, I always remember the F*** I forget the baby sketch.... half of those ornaments were in most households in the seventies and early eighties.... looks like half of my mums old front room in there....
I have listened to this sketch on The Hedgehog Sandwich on Vinyl many times over - it's the first time I've actually seen the sketch since it aired.... classic!
Been lookiong for this for years as I only have it on Audio. My PC Gaming name is sometimes Rampant Mackerel and people always ask me where it came from!
Heraldically, it's not rampant as that is for 4 legged predator/beast . For that particular posture, it would have been called urinant. The closest posture for a fish to rampant would be haurient. Would probably spoil the humour if they do use the heraldically correct term though.
I did remember this sketch in part - it has been a very long time since the original airing. I recalled Mel’s wonderful use of language in describing the many delights he spied while browsing the inventory… I just didn’t remember the end...
Just think those 2 greats went on to do the brilliant Smith and Jones at the table sketches, and i loved watching when my kids were young Mel doing the voice over for the animation of Father Christmas, comedy great.
Could have ended with the customer leaving the shop and the shop owner putting another copy of the exact same piece from a lot of many back on display.
completely understand his emotions after seeing a particular artificial water fountain in my local market. An exquisite piece that deserves an appropriate treatment.
I looked for years for a rampant mackerel ashtray, I haunted charity shops until, eventually, I found the orange version. It took pride of place in the loo for a number of years. Now I'm going back to my corner with a bag on my head.
Every time I enter a seaside (crap)shop, I am unable to resist the urge to ask if they have a ‘rampant mackerel ashtray’ in their inventory! Suffice it to say, no one has ever picked up on or recognised my attempted tomfoolery 🤣
Excellent! I'll try it myself - I live in a seaside area and there are some 'quality' crap goods shops locally. I doubt anyone under 50 remembers the sketch now anyway!
@@skyboswell my group of friends frequently break out into sketches from the ‘not the 9 oclock news’ era! Many of the times we can be heard extolling the production of the Johnny Mathis album (when a child is born) as we run through the perfectly memorised ‘gerald the gorilla’ sketch. Constable Savage was another favourite too 🤣
@@neithere - Hmm, not sure about that. As much as I love Monty Python I do think that a lot of the sketches became absurd just because they were known for that style, but it didn't always translate to funny. I think lots of comedians have done new styles of comedy since Monty Python but these discussions never end well unfortunately.
Brilliant. Everyone had those fucking shire horses in the 70's, they were utter crap. Wherever you went on holiday in Britain they'd be in all the gift shops, along with whimsies, and those tacky bits of rock with a plastic seagull on the top and the name of the place crudely written on the front
I met Mel smith in a pub in the 80s once sipping a pint then he went to the khasi He had a white rolls Royce outside He was drinking a pint of old badger
If you're wondering if shops like this still exist, take a wander along Regent Road in Great Yarmouth during the summer... you might even be able to get yourself a lovely rampant mackerel ashtray! Oh, and GRIFF'S FUCKING FACE at 1:10 is priceless!
I have to admit that I actually bought the shire horse for my Dad. Sorry, Dad. If you're looking down (or up) at me now, I thought it was a nice present at the time :-)
our rugby team had a similar object ,that when you made a massif blunder in a game ,you had to display it on your mantelpiece ,until another player made another boob during play.
Not the punch line I expected either. I thought it was going to be 'It's not for sale. We're not an antique shop, none of it's for sale.' 'Not an antique shop, then why the antiques? What do you do here?' 'We do circumcisions, what do you want me to put on display?'
Not funny. NTNON is the most overrated show in history. Start of good careers, comics who went in to do extraordinary things (Pamela Stephenson excepted), but in and of itself, it's mostly garbage. Not all, some scenes are quality. 95% of it is insipid garbage.
@@cloudfactory2000 It is not even in the same league as Monty Python, the Two Ronnies, or A Bit of Fry & Laurie, among others. It doesn't even come up to the level of Morecambe & Wise: it ranks alongside the bloody Benny Hill Show. Occasional brilliancies - mostly thanks to Rowan Atkinson - but mostly flat.
@@DieFlabbergast, don't be ridiculous. It's miles better than M&W, who were a bit overated. Benny Hill is also brilliant. There's nothing around today that is anywhere as good as him.
