Well written, well performed, well directed, well presented... well everything ... marvellous little sketch without swearing, aggression or spite. Joy.
@@pachy444 who cares about a fluffed line! Trying to tear something and partially succeeding is comical. The cleaner was tame. We’ll have to agree to disagree here sir.
The whole idea is inspired, and when you think it couldn't be more inspired, the ending makes it out of this world. Am new to the two Ronnies and must say it's of a truly extraordinary standard.
Thats right...theres nothing i watch on tele these days...oh to invent a time machine to go back to them wonderful funny comedies we loved to watch so very much lol 😂😂😂
I was fortunate to see The Two Ronnies in their live theatre show, Sydney Australia circa 1980, where they performed their hilarious routines, including the brilliant 'Fork Handles' sketch. I still have a good laugh watching their genius and, after all these years, their brilliance still shines. RIP Messrs Barker and Corbett.
Like the microphone comes in above her head at 1:26. I just loved watching these guys, they were so funny and up to date with things at that time. They were a rare talent that went to heaven & so greatly missed.
For those of you who are curious, the highest mountain in South America, and indeed the highest mountain anywhere outside Asia, is indeed Mount Aconcagua, which stands at 22,837 feet. And "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage" was Shakespeare.
@Bercilak de hautdesert Your answer is right by definition. So is mine. Today, everyone is entitled to their own truth. It's all about freedom, and experts are never to be trusted under *any* circumstances. (sigh)
@Jon Collins Bless you!! Jon Collins! This gave me a chance to watch this again. Almost (vulgar remark coming) pissed myself again laughing! This is MY kind of humor! So incredibly smart and creative!
Couldn’t agree more. This is when comedians sat down and had a long, hard think about what others would find funny, without delving into the obscene. This was the golden age of comedy, and British comedy at that.
I used to work at BBC TVC and saw some of these recordings being made. If there was no audience, before the recordings started, they would both be utterly silent waiting for the red light - then they ignited !
Ronnie Barker always carried the whole thing. Ronnie Corbett was integral, because Barker needed a character to bounce his jokes off. The show could have survived without Corbett, but it wouldn't have had a spark without Barker.
@@dreamforfreedom No they didn't end in bad terms they were the best of friends for years. All the way to the end when Barker died he didn't see Corbett or anyone he died in private which Corbett respected
I grew up in Belgium and as a kid accompanied my grandmother to visit her sister many times. Her sister's son repaired cars for a hobby and sometimes even had a car engine in the living room on wooden blocks he was working on like Ronnie had the bike inside... I'm not kidding... there was a tank with gas/petrol with a hose feeding it.... it was so funny when she wold bitched at him to take his stinking crap outside and he always said it was too cold out there...
@@EagleOneM1953 Reminds me of a Cartoon I saw, in the Daily Express, but the guy was sat up in bed, with black engine oil all over the eiderdown, engine parts shrewn around him, with tools everywhere, AND, a lovely touch, a Engineers VICE clamped on his Bed Head board, one on each side. Reminds me me of my old dad.
At first when he was asking the questions and Ronnie B said “yes”, I thought Ronnie C was going to say “how do you know these things?”. I thought Ronnie B was going to say “because you’ve just told me”.
My parents actually bought a set of encyclopedias from a salesman like this. The thing I remember about them is they had an intoxicating smell. I used to open them just to get a whiff of the smell.
@@treblesix8730 With the current rewriting of history especially here in The UK, I have just taken custody of our late parents' Encyclopedia Britanica set... I suggest you comb the secondhand stores for books that have words and pictures that verify historical events. There might be some truth in the idea that, "history is written by the victors", but there is also truth behind the phrase, "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"...
Here in 2020 the rapore between this two was second to none.............Never my number one comedians but ohhh so close. No swearing of course just a hint of innuendo and laughs a plenty pure classic brilliance.
There's nothing like British comedy... of the past, they don't write it like that anymore. Even though you knew the guy in the back cleaning the window was going to give the correct answer to the question about the monkey in South America it was still funny... Irreplaceable, the Two Ronnies... Best part was the cuckoo answering the question about I even had a hard time understanding them, let alone remember them... Pure comedy brilliance...
We had a set just like that one. Red, and a blue set that was really interesting but I don’t remember what they were about. My dad used to read the blue set to us. The encyclopaedias I used for school work. I loved them. Wish I had them now.
The blue set may have been the Columbia Encyclopaedia. Red ones were either Britannica (advanced but difficult) or New World (much easier for youth to comprehend). I started off with the Junior World Encyclopaedia as a young fella in primary school then progressed to more comprehensive encyclopaedias. Still have a one-volume Chambers that I refer to now and then. Happy learning.
I've just taken custody of our late parents' back Encyclopaedia Britanicas. With the Internet being so full of official mis and dis information, I might need to grasp reality every now and again :-)
I was friends with these 2. I helped them both write a lot of material. We used to sit at the table, drink brandy and write till 4 or 5am. It was hilarious. They were really funny guys. Right bundle of laughs I tells you
If John Cleese says Ronnie Corbett had the greatest comic timing of anybody anywhere, Ronnie Corbett had the greatest comic timing of anybody anywhere. Simple
