As is so often the case in music its the silence that is important, so though I like the “Pen behind the ear” part of the song the gaps of silence between them are as important.
He's actually really good at doing it, I've seen him do it on the first attempt in an interview, he says that during the show he ekes it out and makes the section last for a couple of minutes
This is comedy gold, the frantic music makes it even harder to do😅, Tim getting it finally and then the crowd cheering him on, I love this clip. Thanks for posting it.
HOW?... Have you SEEN Morcambe and Wise, doing the "Stripper " Routine, (they must have spent endless hours rehearsing), THAT!, was One of the greatest comedy routines,(if not the greatest!).The Two Ronnie's, (four candles sketch).Any Monty Python ....
@@johnhendry6636 Only hours practising? How long do you think Tim Vine spent mastering the art of throwing the pen behind his ear....then not throwing the pen behind his ear and building the tension, including creating his own sound track, until his audience cheered at something so completely ridiculous? That joke would have taken months to construct in its entirety. Also, comedy is subjective. There is no best comedy. It's all about personal preference. Some people can appreciate all the comics you mentioned AND Tim Vine. My 3 year old would literally fall over laughing at Parliament Question Time- every time. Grown men being told off by the Speaker was apparently hilarious. There is no accounting for taste. The world would be a boring place if we all liked the same things. Viva la différence!
My wife and I come from Finland, and we went to our friend's house and watched Tim Vine's DVD and we couldn't stop laughing at Pen Behind the Ear. Its so funny!
I tried Teller Behind the Ear, but ran out of time. Her lunch break ended and she went back to work at the bank. Still, got some interesting video footage.
REALLY, So Billy Connelly, Chris Rock, Richard Prior, Louis CK, and the Master, George Carlin, (i am a Brit BTW), need to "take a knee" to this comedian, Are you serious?...Tim himself, would not be that audacious .Or, are you just too young?.
@@johnhendry6636 i think all spinout3 meant was that hes different, not that hes better, and also we all have preferences. My preference is Lee Mack's style but i still watch loads of others and to be honest Tim Vine is now right at the top too
I think this was in the UK, not America- so the US constitution wouldn't apply... It was amazing when he actually got it! I've got to learn how to do that... Thanks for uploading!
Very funny! Although half way thru it almost became like watching sport. I got really into it! I was like, "come on, Tim!" . I cheered when he did it too!
the funny thing is, he can do this after 1 or 2 attempts. look at 4:09 that's the nod to tell the sound guy/cameraman man to say get ready, as going to actually do it. The man is a comedy genius who got a theatre full of adults full attention for nearly 5 mins while trying to do an "impossible" party trick, which he is actually very good at. I saw a clip of him doing this where he got something like 18 out of 20 pens behind his ear in less than 1 minute. Can't find it on RU-vid, but was a Scottish Breakfast type talk show (like This Morning, but in scotland)
for the people that dont like this, it is clearly alternate comedy, meaning that not everybody has the same kind of humour, this is kind of the same style of monty python just because of the pure randomness of it especialy to the americans this isnt just what british people laugh at there are lots of british comedians each with different styles for example, observational: mark watson, dark comedy: frankie boyle and randomness : tim vine
@Ali3nat0r It,s called Night On The Bones first recorded by Jacob almost two thousand years before sound was invented and it,savailable to download in all good cycle shops
