The Two Ronnies - Four Candles 

My parents owned a hardware shop exactly like this with the drawers and everything for over 25 years and they used to love this sketch as they had customers like Ronnie Barker every week. Brilliant brilliant observation comedy

The Gold Standard of British comedy. Simply unbeatable.

Brilliantly scripted. They don't write them like that anymore. The pauses and silences/looks are timed to perfection.....😂😂😂 love it ❤

If you don't understand comedy, in its purest format, then this is lost on you I cry with laughter, every time I watch this It's just the expression on their faces, and the interaction between them. It's just pure comedy gold

Ronnie Barker wrote this...Absolutely fantastic and brilliant comedy acting and timing 😂😂

Such a fantastic duo, one of the best double act sketches ever, such a shame neither are any longer with us 😢

Still one of the funniest ever sketches written

Absolute Diamonds of British comedy RIP Ronnie and Ronnie

Ronnie was absolutely brilliant in this sketch

What bloody good old fashioned English humour eh a real timeless classic!

I come here every time a need a real laugh - if you are feeling tired and blue this skit will do.

You just can't get that genius anymore....lololool ..." What kind of knockers you looking for" .... hahahahaha

Ahhh! This was already a priceless piece of comedy, but if that last bit made it in, that would of been the cherry on the icing on the cake!

Ronnie C is absolutely brilliant in this - Ronnie B too but anyone who remembers these hardware stores - which sold everything seen in this sketch, including tinned peas and plimsolls - will probably also identify with the shop assistant whose patience progressively wears thin due to the trying nature of ignorant or awkward customers. Ronnie C carried this off superbly. His irritated ranting when Ronnie B asks for "p's" after he had just put the letters away was so brilliant

Quite simply, the greatest television sketch ever.

The shop and the costumes are a reminder of how things were in the seventies through to the early nineties. Remember visiting such shops getting boards for the model railway. (And its subsequent extensions)

Sore tips!? What dya want some ointment or something!This sketch is a masterpiece.

Ah, the old storeman. How the world has changed. Notice how protective the storeman was over his box of plugs. Just how it was.

dont du just miss them..2 brilliant comedians ...doing there what turned out to be the never forgotten sketch "four candles" brilliantly funny! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Have to say Ronnie C took the acting honours on this one, but can anyone explain why, knowing every single word and move in this script by heart, it still reduces me to tears of laughter?

Great sketch Corbet in this reminds me so much of me dad who had a shop like this his look is my dad to a tee especially the hair, cap and coat and the looks he used to give some of the awkward customers that came in lol, comedy legends!

I never got the last joke and to have it finally explained to me, by the Amazing Ronnie Barker himself, after all these years, is truly wonderful! Thanks for the upload x

Legends, the tv background to a lot of my childhood. And love it as an adult

Seen this a thousand times and never gets old, still hilarious after 50 something years.

Thank you for finding this in 1080. Best sketch ever and so superbly performed.

Absolutely brilliant.

That extra tag at the end is fantastic.

The problem is though that “four candles” has overshadowed everything else that the two ronnies have done to such an extant that most people pretty much regard them as “one sketch wonders”. You ask 100 people on the street to name as many of their sketches as possible and I’d wager at least 90 of them could only think of this one sketch,it’s the same for the monty python team with the “dead parrot sketch”,they are regarded as one sketch wonders too by most people!

The best sketch ever

Makes you cry !!

Absolutely the kings of comedy especially this particular sketch as it took them a while to get it without either of them smirking or laughing.

I was really depressed yesterday....and this morning played this vid....😂😅 Absolutly brilliant....just wat i needed...a good laff.

Thank you for this 1080p version PLUS should have been ending. They both performed to their best. Two Ronnie's in our hearts forever.

You’ve made my night! Thank you! Reminds me of my late grandfather! He loved these two

You know at that moment when Ronnie Barker is starring at him walking up the ladder you know he is fucking with him

Classic 😆. Thinking this sketch wouldn't work now because you rarely get this type of shop now, it's all self-service.

Interesting to think how this sketch would have worked or not worked with Ronnie Corbett playing the shopper, and Ronnie Barker playing the ironmonger? Maybe it would have got the same laughs, but I think Corbett having to go up and down the ladder is funnier than Barker having to do it...

I heard that there is a pub named after them, the Four Candles.

LOL the perfect ending did exist!!!

One of the funniest sketches ever made

The essence is that Ronnie Barker does not laugh through out the sketch

I did get the bill hooks part

Timeless classic, 😊

Replaying in April 2024 😂😂😂 classic!

Brilliant x

I worked in an Ironmongers and it is exactly like that

I went to a General Store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

"Got any caulk?" "Now look!"

Really funny and says a lot about English (language too) ;)

That's one well stocked store.

Excellent stuff.

Abosoluty the best xxx

😂 the best sketch

Brilliant

3.29 Ronnie C nearly loses his composure

I'd love to have seen this acted the other way around with Arkwright dealing with the customer.

BBC broadcast in 1080i.

Imagine if they had comedy supergroups the way they have musical supergroups. These two paired up with Morecambe & Wise.....

Take A Moment Relax 1:01 🎉 1:09 Genius at play Forever 1:29 Stay Safe Stay Silly and Stay Free 😘 1:50

Got any Ps?

Originally called 'Annie Finkhouse'.

The time & trouble that they took in those days was extraordinary. The English Language is the only one to allow this confusion, is it? Could it be done in any other?

What’s the kicker at the end with “bill hooks” I’m lost can someone explain it please?

I'm not English but fck me,English humour is top class, Mr bean,2 Ronnies, little Britain,I love them all Silly but brilliant

What disc is on I've got all the boxset . I dont know which series or episode. I cant find it.

Is this the best two Ronnie's sl

Got any plugs what size 13 amp

Very funny video, however, I am an American and they lost me on the last item. Billhooks? Yeah, ok? What?

Did he want four candle's or fork handles

Omg its harry Maguire with the woolly hat 🤣⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️

Is this really what British hardware stores were like?

makes to confiscate his list) Look, I've had just about enough of this, give us that list. (He mutters) I'll get it all myself! (Reading through the list) What's this? What's that? Oh that does it! That just about does it! I have just about had it! (calling through to the back) Mr. Jones! You come out and serve this customer please, I have just about had enough of 'im. (Mr. Jones comes out, and Ronnie Corbett shows him the list) Look what 'e's got on there! Look what 'e's got on there! JONES (who goes to a drawer with a towel hanging out of it, and opens it): Right! How many would ya like? One or two? (He removes the towel to reveal the label on the drawer - 'Bill hooks'!)

Someone has to recreate this sketch and do the alternative ending.

People would still be offended at something here

Jeeesus what a spastick XDDDDD

Basic x

Monty python cockroach assortment

You're spoiling the whole sketch with the fucking title, mate! Change it!

But what the fuck is the point in buying/selling fork handles as opposed to a complete fork?? Sorry to burst the bubble.....

what size..13 amp lol