"What will they say?" "They'll quite simply say John Major punched the Queen everything else will be a footnote." "But for time, can you sum it up in a word?" "No." "Sound?" "Boouuaaggh." "Spartacus thank you."
In my view this is the best episode of The Day Today they made. Horses on the Tube, the Bureau, the Queen hits John Major, the UK Government official "Everything's OK" public pacification film, Alan Partridge sees boobs, Chapman Baxter and his "Fried To Be", and The Pool with Steve Coogan's iconic security guard, as well as "This is the Newwwwwws!" and the ending long hair gag. The whole thing is a comedy classic.
PopeLando I love this show, and brass eye and on the hour. it's a shame though this isn't still on now, cuz lord knows we need more Chris Morris in the world of comedy.
It’s hilarious how Chapman Baxter continues to be a reoccurring character despite his death in the first episode! Not even a name change to try and disguise it. Gold!
And Armando Iannucci needs more exposure. When these 2 team up, and get Steve Coogan, employ Peter Baynum, Richard Herring, & Stewart Lee as writers, throw in Graham Linehan and you have weapons grade comedy!!!
There’s something deeply funny and very underrated about Chris asking so many questions of Alan, with Chris facing his right and Alan facing his left, only for Chris to then turn around and reveal Alan is to his left. They’ve just been both talking at each other in the wrong direction for the past minute. And then Alan disappears from that position, replaced by the French philosopher.
@@chrisbirch4150 I mean, it isn’t from us who watched it. Just reliving my past just now… How many others do you know that know that know this show though? It holds up so well, and couldn’t happen these days. It’s definitely under-rated.
@@emlyndewar maybe. I guess I just think the expression "underrated" is overused on youtube. It's everywhere. The Day Today was a BBC comedy that was critically acclaimed, essentially catapulted Steve coogan and the Alan Partridge character to global fame. A load of the others: Chris Morris, Rebecca Front, David Schneider have all been ever present in tv and movies since. I am not really knocking anything artistically. I am just unclear on the metric for "underrated".
''Heseltine fading fast...'' Glad I was not drinking at that point or I'd have a soggy monitor. But seriously, one of the best comedies of the last generation!
Have not seen this show before. Doon is so good as expected, but Rebecca Front’s comedic skill and versatility shines, too. The gals here are certainly as strong as the two talented guys.
Brass eye Armando Iannucci Shows Time Trumpet This Morning With Richard Not Judy Fist of Fun I'm Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters Monkey Dust There's a list for u... I hope you've at least heard of those.
Stumbled onto this from a LRB podcast in which the guest mentions Chris Morris who I’d never heard of. Tho was familiar w Alan P and Armando I. This is f#####g hilarious, not at all dated, so glad to find it
This is the most brilliant TV newsroom training video ever seen. It's uncannily amazing how this Gold Standard presentation from so long ago has spread around the world to become the example that all TV companies follow to this day. "Wonderful stuff. Absolutely triffic. Standard. Standard. Isnit.". Rod Laver.
What I see is the logical results of continuous cuts due to diminishing audience and revenue,The Bureau is the cheapest,shortest,to the point,condensed soap opera ever,also the funniest and best,who needs expensive costume dramas and the like when it's all in here.
15:22 I've just noticed three odd things on my 999th rewatching that, combined, I found rather hilarious: Morris gulping a drink while staring into/smirking at the camera; the looped video in the background of an AK-47 toting militant doing a little dance, captioned "WEATHER"; the shit-eating way Morris introduces Sylvester Stewart. It's so dense.
First appearance of Ted Maul (all be it only voiceover) he has to be the funniest reporter character Chris invented certainly the funniest in Brass Eye. The number of individually different characters Chris creates over the two separate programs is amazing really.
I love The Bureau because it's a bunch of good actors acting like bad actors. Also, I find it amazing that Valerie SInatra and Barbara Wintergreen are the same actor, just because of the difference in accents. The part where all the ministers are entering Number 10 and the reporter is naming them off, "Kenneth Clark, Michael Howard, Christopher Biggins, Michael Heseltine" - the third guy is not, of course, Christopher Biggins, who was a camp overweight d-grade celebrity - but he does look like Christopher Biggins.
to me TDT at its best easily rivals the best of Python. Not all of them is gold, but certain sketches are simply impossible to match: the parrot, funniest joke, how not to be seen, Blackmail, rich yorkshiremen, the dirty fork and of course the legendary Life of Brian . Same with TDT
@@belykwater5601 Oh the Charlie thing is from that Sarah Palin interview, I think it was her first TV interview, I can't remember what the interviewers name was, but he asked her something like, "what's your opinion of the Bush doctrine ?" And she replied with this semi-homespun, high-pitched attempt to appear likeable, and she just replied, "In what respect Charlie ?" It was a funny moment. Politics moves so fast now that it can be hard to find stuff like that. But I just use it because it gives me a chuckle when I think of that first, disastrous Sarah Palin interview. (This was before the Couric interview, which just descended into madness)
Gotta love the low quality,fuzzy video of the reports from America. So acurrate to the pre-HD NTSC broadcasts from the states shown in Britain at the time. Amazing attention to detail!
Yeh I always remember watching the news in Australia even UK footage was foggy or grainy, before the net it made you feel like anything overseas wasn't quite real, post net now overseas events do feel real cos you can literally watch people live overseas with clear footage.
stinky visitor I rememember in Brass Eye where we had a radio DJ, Tommy Vance (for some inexplicable reason) giving us a list of absurd prison slang. Among which was 'Portillo', which meant 'watch out behind you'. I think part of it was that Morris, like most in the media, was aware that many people in the public eye had another side to their personality, and this was his way of bringing it out without making himself subject to libel.
Well he does (did) carry a sawn-off shotgun to constituency meetings, corners children in parks and chews their cheeks and has frequent sexual intercourse with stray animals. How could anyone condone that?
