No it's definitely Harry Enfield! You can see he's wearing a bald cap. It's a darker colour than the rest of his head and it is completely smooth, unlike the lines on his forehead beneath the cap. Normal people's skin doesn't stop being creased an inch above their eyebrows! Goes to show what a brilliant actor he is.
@@sgtraytango Is the dolphin in a bathtub? IN a bathtub reading a newspaper? Or is it where he amusingly notices part of the background in a photograph appear to go through a person's head in the foreground?
@@sgtraytango I liked his sketch show shame he only did one series. His best HIGNY joke was "suppositories? for all the good they do me I might as well shove them up my ass." But that was decades ago.
Something Like Anonymous Yes, probably. He's an insufferable attention-sink. I'm reminded of a bit in The IT Crowd when Jen offers to act as an Italian translator for her boss, even though she can't speak a word of it, all because the people in the room weren't paying any attention to her. But it's the arrogance; the pompous air of superiority even when he's telling jokes that are manifestly shite; the fact that he throws out nine jokes for every one that lands; the awful 'surreal'(not surreal at all) style of his, so laboured and formulaic that it could probably be perfectly replicated by a basic 'Paul Merton 'surreal' humour' algorithm; the way he acts on Radio 4's 'Just A Minute', pretending he doesn't care about winning while obviously caring about winning a great deal, and taking up a regular slot every week when there are much funnier, more likeable people available; the shittily snide Parkinson interview he gave after Deayton left HIGNFY, where he took the opportunity to drag his former colleague through the dirt when the guy had no means of hitting back....all of that and more. Aaaaaaahhhh. That felt good. Anyway, to recap: I'm not a fan.
This was absolute bloody genius, and still is. Harry & Paul summing up the entire acts of umpteen of their comedy contemporaries in pretty much a single line each. Ouch... I'm guessing they weren't very popular in the BBC canteen for a while after this :)
@@JackRascal Fry & Laurie loved Countdown and made a vicious parody of it. The satirist is meant to poke fun and expose flaws in everyone without fear or favour, and not spare anyone, which is a principle Enfield follows. I doubt Hislop would take it personally, he is the editor of Private Eye.
@@JackRascal Did you know that Carol Vorderman recently sold her mansion. When she renovated it she had it renamed, she was such of huge fan of that 'A Bit of Fry & Laurie' 'Countdown' sketch that she called her mansion 'Sloblock Hall' - that was a word from the sketch Fry & Laurie did spoofing 'Countdown' ... Vorderman sold Sloblock Hall for uk£2.6 million.
I liked Mel (or Sue) pushing her glasses back up her nose instead of saying anything. I'd only noticed her 'look everyone, I'm being ironic' routine before. Harry and Paul have sharp radar.
Yea and Finally a Harry Enfield sketch that is actually funny today because they’re are so few of them.. Although I did enjoy Harry and Paul’s one off they did about the history of BBC2
I literally cannot breath, this is so accurate and funny!!! Ian Hislop was so fucking funny, the way he taps his pen and leans back with his double chin lol
Hahahaha actually crying with laughter at his Hislop impression! The way he taps the pen on the desk and looks away while smiling! ROFL! And Merton "Is it a dolphin a bathtub?"
Listen to all those featured in this then come back to it. You'll find that actually with the exception of Noel Fielding (who anyone can do a reasonable impression of) they were all shit.
@@GroovingPict True. Always been an overrated comedian. The impression encapsulates him perfectly. Say something randomly off tangent in the hope it gets a big laugh, then give that sort of self-aggrandising look to one side like everyone else and their jokes are beneath you.
Merton used to be vaguely funny on a late night Channel 4 show. His standup routine went into observations about the need for 1970s US cop shows to have random stacks of boxes for cars to bash through.His point being why were they there, who's job description includes "stack random boxes for passing cars to knock flying in high speed chases"", and what purpose did it serve? On reflection, the joke was caned subsequently by a few others that any "flavour" it had, has long since gone. At the time of this, Jack Dee came along on Ch4 at the same time and could do "miserable deadpan" so much better and has got the upper hand.....
haha, as a fan of HIGNFY this is soo spot on, love the Paul Merton with his repeated, surreal yet totally unrelated joke. And Harry Enfield's Ian Hislop - exactly like the real thing! ;-)
The full show was called something like the "Terrible Twos" and it was a one-off special Harry and Paul were asked to make for the 50th anniversary of BBC2 back in 2014, I think. It had a lot of great stuff like a parody of one of those Scandinavian detective shows BBC2 always shows and a fake history of the channel. It is arguably one of the best things the two have done as every sketch was brilliant.
‘Harry & Paul’s Story Of The Two’s’ ☺️ I’d love them to do another special, with a theme that ties all the sketches together. This one trounced their TV series
A finnish guy here... i've officially watched way too much British TV as i got all the references... just why DO you have so damn many panel shows on? A lot of them are great of course, but still i would've thought the public would get tired of the overabundance.
There are way too many but in defense of we British I think we're finally beginning to see that, for example David Mitchell has hosted 3 or 4 panels shows that lasted 1 series because people are a bit sick of him.
@@richardduplessis1090 no, not based on one show. based on have i got news for you, mock the week, and QI. just because the studio looks vaguely more like the have i got news for you studia than the mock the week one doesnt mean its the have i got news for you parody
Even after all these years, those 'panelists' are still doing the rounds today on these quiz shows on Dave. There's a whole load of comedians whose only role in life is to appear on quiz shows.
Panel shows are way to passé now, and have for a very long time. There was a pint where I used to watch every single one, and then they just got stale and oversaturated. Plus everyone I see one recently pretty much everyone on the panel looks tired and doesn’t want to be there
Yeah what the fuck happened to Boyle. Gone from shockingly cruel (and therefore somewhat funny) to pious wokemaster in the space of a few years. Utterly tedious now
Also Peter Serafinowicz Show and an appearance in the IT Crowd (dinner party episode, shags Noel Fielding's character), among other things. She's great 👍
Got Paul Merton spot on. He comes up with bizarre statements that are so unfunny. I think that Dolphin reference is a dig at his ill fated comedy sketch show on Channel 4
One of my very favourite sketches ever, not just because of how funny and accurate it is, but also because it smashes into tiny pieces the omerta whereby British comedians are only supposed to mock one another in gentle, non-damaging ways. It's clear Enfield and Whitehouse have sincere contempt for many of the comics, shows and tropes skewered here, and in the context of the usual showbiz all-mates-together chumminess, it's genuinely refreshing. Worth comparing this to Not the Nine O'Clock News's similarly devastating "Two Ninnies" spoof of the Two Ronnies.
Ironically it’s these shite ‘comedy’ panel shows (which are cheap to make) which all but killed off comedy sketch shows..........I’m still dumb-founded as to how some of these completely unfunny ‘comedians’ keep getting hired. The most mysterious for me is Arthur Smith! Why R4 do you have this completely and utterly unfunny ‘comic’ on every bloody show? Same with Sue Smug Perkins. Stop it. These people are not funny.
A brilliant piss take of some talentless hacks (Perkins, Parsons, Hamilton, Jupitus) and the very real, casual, tossed off cruelty of a show like Never mind the Buzzcocks. Whenever I saw that segment where pop stars - many of whom anyone barely remembers - and sub par comics feel they have the right to insult and slag off nobody actors/extras, it always made me cringe. Thank God the BBC no longer makes it.
I think it's more than just the voice they couldn't get right, they could have easily done a pisstake of his "angry logic" kind of rants but for whatever reason (seemingly) opted for not going that hard on him
Back in about 2008/2009, the only TV I watched was Dave after 9pm. Repeats of panel shows were the only thing that kept me halfheartedly turning the television on. I feel like if I'd discovered ketamine at that point in my life, this is what I would have envisioned.
HAH, well spotted caricatures; though most panel shows blow away US comedy. Bring back Spitting Image; UK's Muppet SouthPark! Satire is important, but many greats have devolved into fluff TV
Harry and Paul's BBC2 tribute was a brilliant bit of satire. This sketch is brilliant because it highlighted the clichés of people on panel shows endlessly attacking the same targets (Daily Mail, Widdecombe etc) in front of a supportive audience, as if they were being brave and edgy. Especially as many of the people they parodied would have been their friends, Hislop co-created Tim nice but dim for Harry 😁
Eh, the Daily Mail and Widdecombe etc continually make themselves a target by repeatedly doing stupid things. Not the comedian's fault that it's there to be made fun of.
Completely relevant. I'm surprised no-one has taken the piss out of these awful panel shows before to my knowledge. Although QI I quite like. The Sarah Millican contributions are pretty accurate too
I used to like some of them and I can still watch QI or HIGNFY occasionally but really it's just cheap TV. Celebrity Juice is trying to be so bad-its good but really it's just terrible
I don't know - there's some shite panel shows out there, and even the half-decent ones always seem to outstay their welcome by going on way too long. OTOH, two of my favourite comedies on TV are WILTY and Cats Does Countdown. Both consistently brilliant. They're popular because: a. they're cheap, and b. they're often great fun.
They should do another one of these. If you ask me Lucy Beaumont, Jon Richardson, Sara Pascoe, James Acaster, Katherine Ryan and Jimmy Carr are all more or less asking to have the shit ripped out of them.
He is in another segment of the main program that this sketch is from. Watch that, its great! It's a fake documentary about the history of BBC2, kalled something like the history of the twos or something
So bang on its incredible, even after all the years. Difficult to think about how you could improve on it - either thats tribute to Harry & Paul's ingenuity or testament to the risibly predictable cliches of these panel shows circling the drain year after year. Probably some alchemical mixture of both..whatever the explanation, I loved every minute of this!
Everyone is beautifully observed, with Alan Davies being perhaps the most accurately portrayed. Drawing a QI salary for 20 years of sitting there, saying and doing nothing of note! 🤷🤦🏼
Who is that plays Angus Deayton at the start? I thought it looked vaguely like Alistair McGowan (who says he's often mistaken for Deayton) Edit: Joseph Morpurgo, who is both Russells in this same sketch.
The David Mitchell impression isn't very good, but other than that they're all pretty much spot-on. Especially Ian Hislop with his pen-tapping. I'm not sure why they didn't include Jimmy Carr, though.
That Ian Hislop pen tapping was incredible. Laughed out loud everytime.
Coupled with Paul Merton's idiotic farce ruining any guest's attempt at making a serious point/genuine satire
Why the fuck does he even do that? Is it a twitch?
You watched it more than once ?? Wow
Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?
@@lpsp442 It's just a habit, and maybe a way of suppressing anxiety as he is in front of an audience.
Incredibly how a sketch can still be so relevant 12 years later
It's six years old
@@Lee-cn7yp Maybe he was talking about a different sketch. 🤔
@@Lee-cn7yp It was uploaded 6 years ago. Guess made 12 years ago.
Incredibly
Just implies the bbc shows the same old rubbish
surprised they managed to get Andy Parsons to play himself
Jaffa didnt like that part. would have preferred an impression
Jaffa he’s not funny in the latest is he
It’s Harry Enfield
No, I’m pretty sure that’s the real Andy Parsons.
No it's definitely Harry Enfield! You can see he's wearing a bald cap. It's a darker colour than the rest of his head and it is completely smooth, unlike the lines on his forehead beneath the cap. Normal people's skin doesn't stop being creased an inch above their eyebrows! Goes to show what a brilliant actor he is.
Paul Whitehouse brilliantly captures Paul Merton's faux-disinterested look to the side!
Is it a dolphin in a bathtub
..and his (merton's) lazy act!
Paul Merton's entire comedy routine, "Is it a dolphin in a bathtub". 20 years of HIGNFY encapsulated in one sentance. Brilliant!
Funny thing is, it reminded me of Merton's old sketch show in the early 90s where a punchline ended up being a dolphin buying a newspaper
HIGNFY died 15 years ago. No one has had the gets to tell them.
@@sgtraytango Is the dolphin in a bathtub? IN a bathtub reading a newspaper? Or is it where he amusingly notices part of the background in a photograph appear to go through a person's head in the foreground?
It's 32 years of the same thing.
@@sgtraytango I liked his sketch show shame he only did one series. His best HIGNY joke was "suppositories? for all the good they do me I might as well shove them up my ass." But that was decades ago.
The Hislop impression is perfect.
Except for the voice...
yup
Is hislop a dolfin in a bafftub?
@@aceman0000099 no he is a quare
@@BossySwan Well he looks like a quare, he sounds like a quare, and he's on television
All that's missing is Jo 'Did I mention my Husband?' Brand and that one OCD fellow
theloserof08 Also I'm fat and ugly and its all men's fault ps I hate men. Especially thin ones.
TheLoserOf08 And Jimmy Carr's laughter
Please dont
Bill Bailey would've been interesting as well
@Einar Örn Kallestad Is that the one whose comedy comprises almost completely of shouting a lot in a Nigerian accent? Laugh, I nearly did.
Russell Howard wasn't nearly shouty and infantile enough
But was about as funny
Russell Howard has turned into a proper leftist TIT
@@RepublicIcon CoMeDy'S aBoUt PuNcHiNg uP
He was always a lefty you T I T
@@RepublicIcon this is nothing new, he was always left wing, he just hid it to take your money.
Paul Merton is so subtle, but spot on.
Zoeslaterz one of the least funny comedian I have ever known
Christ that's a relief. The way people talk about him as a comic genius makes me feel like I'm going mad. It is very good to know I'm not on my own.
The Sprawl His interruptions are like a cry for attention.
Something Like Anonymous Yes, probably. He's an insufferable attention-sink. I'm reminded of a bit in The IT Crowd when Jen offers to act as an Italian translator for her boss, even though she can't speak a word of it, all because the people in the room weren't paying any attention to her.
But it's the arrogance; the pompous air of superiority even when he's telling jokes that are manifestly shite; the fact that he throws out nine jokes for every one that lands; the awful 'surreal'(not surreal at all) style of his, so laboured and formulaic that it could probably be perfectly replicated by a basic 'Paul Merton 'surreal' humour' algorithm; the way he acts on Radio 4's 'Just A Minute', pretending he doesn't care about winning while obviously caring about winning a great deal, and taking up a regular slot every week when there are much funnier, more likeable people available; the shittily snide Parkinson interview he gave after Deayton left HIGNFY, where he took the opportunity to drag his former colleague through the dirt when the guy had no means of hitting back....all of that and more. Aaaaaaahhhh. That felt good.
Anyway, to recap: I'm not a fan.
The Sprawl my sentimonies exactly. Let's hope that on the wafer slim chance he reads your comment, that he gives up on trying to be funny.
This was absolute bloody genius, and still is. Harry & Paul summing up the entire acts of umpteen of their comedy contemporaries in pretty much a single line each. Ouch... I'm guessing they weren't very popular in the BBC canteen for a while after this :)
Hooray for Harry & Paul...real, timeless comic talents and H is a genius writer.
Ian used to write for The Harry Enfield Television Programme, so I'm assuming that one was affectionate?
@@JackRascal Fry & Laurie loved Countdown and made a vicious parody of it.
The satirist is meant to poke fun and expose flaws in everyone without fear or favour, and not spare anyone, which is a principle Enfield follows.
I doubt Hislop would take it personally, he is the editor of Private Eye.
@@Relugus I saw that Countdown sketch, a good one.
@@JackRascal Did you know that Carol Vorderman recently sold her mansion. When she renovated it she had it renamed, she was such of huge fan of that 'A Bit of Fry & Laurie' 'Countdown' sketch that she called her mansion 'Sloblock Hall' - that was a word from the sketch Fry & Laurie did spoofing 'Countdown' ... Vorderman sold Sloblock Hall for uk£2.6 million.
I love Poundland and potatoes and I have periods.
Ha rude word
7pitpat7 slapper
Didn't you watch the video?
7pitpat7 is the video a dolphin in a
bathtub?
Yup
Summed up sue Perkins pretty much
or was it Mel ;)
It was a dolphin in a bathtub
@SLAPPER JOHNSON Sandi Tosvig
@Razorback73 I wouldn’t give up the day job
no
I liked Mel (or Sue) pushing her glasses back up her nose instead of saying anything. I'd only noticed her 'look everyone, I'm being ironic' routine before. Harry and Paul have sharp radar.
I like how the second time Sue does her glasses thing, it's played in reverse.
Melon Sue are shite, honeydew is the money melon.
@@SMacCuUladh
I can tolerate Sue, Mel drives me up the wall. She's just superficial.
Razor-sharp observation, sledgehammer-blunt delivery. Love it.
This video was made 6 years ago! Could've been yesterday.
Yea and Finally a Harry Enfield sketch that is actually funny today because they’re are so few of them..
Although I did enjoy Harry and Paul’s one off they did about the history of BBC2
@@CricketEngland Well, you are not LanguageEngland their now are you. They're their there.
Catherine Shepherd doesn't get nearly enough credit. She always delivers a wonderful understated performance. Much funnier than Sophie Winkleman.
April > Big Suze
"Er, I think what actually happened was the government... " "Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?" 🐬 🛁
ta couldnt figure that one out - ah ... he said it again ... a few times
Leftist lads talking over women. Very sharp observation.
@@drahcirnevarc9152 Imagine thinking Paul Merton was leftist.
@@drahcirnevarc9152 I think it's any lads, their politics is irrelevant to the sketch
@DnB and Psy Production classic youtube comments - sadly this time no gold star stickers for you
Oh my God, the Daily Maiiiil!
I think you'll find the Daily Mail is actually... Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?
KeeperOfBeans Make more YTP
"Watch out, said Thomas, Keeper Of Beans is gay"
Ian Hislop was spot on.
He has a 'beard'
@@whichadrian *quare
Needs some Jimmy ha-ha-ha-HAAA Carr and Jo Have-You-Been-Talking-To-My-Husband Brand to be perfect.
I literally cannot breath, this is so accurate and funny!!! Ian Hislop was so fucking funny, the way he taps his pen and leans back with his double chin lol
Hahahaha actually crying with laughter at his Hislop impression! The way he taps the pen on the desk and looks away while smiling! ROFL! And Merton "Is it a dolphin a bathtub?"
Ha Ha. I actually, literally shit myself with amusement. LOOOOL
Listen to all those featured in this then come back to it. You'll find that actually with the exception of Noel Fielding (who anyone can do a reasonable impression of) they were all shit.
@@shirleymental4189 Get some potty training.
*breathe
the sarah millican impersonation was unexpectedly good
Andy Parsons is spot on
OH MY GAWD THE DAILY MAYOL
If only they had him silently seething at Frankie Boyle!!
ANN WIDECOMBE, ERRRRRRRRRR!
That rapid blinking pen-clicking Hislop does ... spot on.
I like that they got Noel Fielding to play himself.
nice :D
Pretty sure that's Simon Greenall, Michael from the Alan Partridge shows (voice of that poxy Meercat advert as well)
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 Maybe...
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 Not sure who that is but it's not Simon Greenall, far too young to be him. I do recognise the face though :/
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 Simon Greenall's in this as the Dara O'Briain character.
The Paul Merton one was spot on. He's been doing the same thing for 35 years on that show
Painfully accurate.
Paul Merton - spot on. unfortunately he's not funny anymore, more of an old uncle who says stuff whilst you cringe politely - wow so "wacky"
what do you mean "anymore"? when was he ever funny?
@@GroovingPict True. Always been an overrated comedian. The impression encapsulates him perfectly. Say something randomly off tangent in the hope it gets a big laugh, then give that sort of self-aggrandising look to one side like everyone else and their jokes are beneath you.
To be honest I never really found him that funny. When I hear him on Just a Minute his laboured 'surreal' streams pf consciousness are just dull.
Merton used to be vaguely funny on a late night Channel 4 show. His standup routine went into observations about the need for 1970s US cop shows to have random stacks of boxes for cars to bash through.His point being why were they there, who's job description includes "stack random boxes for passing cars to knock flying in high speed chases"", and what purpose did it serve?
On reflection, the joke was caned subsequently by a few others that any "flavour" it had, has long since gone.
At the time of this, Jack Dee came along on Ch4 at the same time and could do "miserable deadpan" so much better and has got the upper hand.....
Is it me or did Paul Merton used to have the catch phrase 'innit marvellous"??
haha, as a fan of HIGNFY this is soo spot on, love the Paul Merton with his repeated, surreal yet totally unrelated joke. And Harry Enfield's Ian Hislop - exactly like the real thing! ;-)
And totally unfunny joke. Pretty much spot on indeed.
The full show was called something like the "Terrible Twos" and it was a one-off special Harry and Paul were asked to make for the 50th anniversary of BBC2 back in 2014, I think. It had a lot of great stuff like a parody of one of those Scandinavian detective shows BBC2 always shows and a fake history of the channel. It is arguably one of the best things the two have done as every sketch was brilliant.
Story of the twos
‘Harry & Paul’s Story Of The Two’s’ ☺️ I’d love them to do another special, with a theme that ties all the sketches together. This one trounced their TV series
There is another one - it’s as good as the story of the two’s. It’s a pastiche of an Adam Curtis documentary.
Can't find it anywhere...
Slightly inaccurate for Dara Ó Briain - better to have him say 'eeeeeehhhhh' at the end of every sentence. Still hilarious though.
A finnish guy here... i've officially watched way too much British TV as i got all the references... just why DO you have so damn many panel shows on?
A lot of them are great of course, but still i would've thought the public would get tired of the overabundance.
There are way too many but in defense of we British I think we're finally beginning to see that, for example David Mitchell has hosted 3 or 4 panels shows that lasted 1 series because people are a bit sick of him.
Panel shows are low budget, easy to make, and very popular
Matty Artell
Pretty much. Why pay for writers when you can just pick 4 random celebrities and 2 comedians come on and chat for half an hour.
Bhazor the jokes are written beforehand by writers
Matty Artell QI isn't cheap or simple to make I can tell you that! Although it is very popular.
Hilarious! All pretty spot on.
Cracked up immediately with the Hislop lean back and face pull ROFL
I think Andy Parsons is actually a harry Enfield character
This has aged so well.
Catherine Shepherd as the uncomfortable journalist.
I think she's bloody lovely.
@@ivorbiggun710 is it 'I think she's a dolphin in a bathtub?'
OH MY GOD THE DAILY MAIL
A lot funnier than the actual show they're taking the piss out of.
@The Fruitcake Munchers Club It's based on ONE specific show.
@The Fruitcake Munchers Club Principally Have I got News for You.
@The Fruitcake Munchers Club Here's a toon for yu boy: ua-cam.com/video/TLnUJzueBOQ/v-deo.html
@@richardduplessis1090 He's made you look like a right mug
@@richardduplessis1090 no, not based on one show. based on have i got news for you, mock the week, and QI. just because the studio looks vaguely more like the have i got news for you studia than the mock the week one doesnt mean its the have i got news for you parody
Even after all these years, those 'panelists' are still doing the rounds today on these quiz shows on Dave. There's a whole load of comedians whose only role in life is to appear on quiz shows.
the correct pc term you are looking for is QUIZ SHOW CXNTS. most have never been funny , hence them being on barrel scraping panel shows.
Panel shows are way to passé now, and have for a very long time. There was a pint where I used to watch every single one, and then they just got stale and oversaturated. Plus everyone I see one recently pretty much everyone on the panel looks tired and doesn’t want to be there
Watched about two minutes of Frankie Boyle's New World Order (before turning off after cringing so much) and it reminded me of this so much.
Yeah what the fuck happened to Boyle.
Gone from shockingly cruel (and therefore somewhat funny) to pious wokemaster in the space of a few years. Utterly tedious now
It would be interesting if they could pull of an impression of Nish Kumar without anyone complaining...
The lady playing uncomfortable journalist plays a great part.
She’s good in everything. Great in Peep Show
@@RaveyDavey wait hang on who is she?
Also Peter Serafinowicz Show and an appearance in the IT Crowd (dinner party episode, shags Noel Fielding's character), among other things. She's great 👍
Catherine Shepherd
"Mel or Sue" and then it changes to "Sue or Mel" next time she appears slayed me
Got Paul Merton spot on. He comes up with bizarre statements that are so unfunny.
I think that Dolphin reference is a dig at his ill fated comedy sketch show on Channel 4
Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?
THE DAILY MAIL!
uprightgrandpianokid disapproving look!
Dr. Cactus Just look like an overripe strawberry :)
uprightgrandpianokid haha such an accurate representation of panel shows
Dr. Cactus Yup. Doesn't stop people from liking them though.
That andy Hamilton is perfect
Andy is more of a writer than a comedian really.
One of my very favourite sketches ever, not just because of how funny and accurate it is, but also because it smashes into tiny pieces the omerta whereby British comedians are only supposed to mock one another in gentle, non-damaging ways. It's clear Enfield and Whitehouse have sincere contempt for many of the comics, shows and tropes skewered here, and in the context of the usual showbiz all-mates-together chumminess, it's genuinely refreshing. Worth comparing this to Not the Nine O'Clock News's similarly devastating "Two Ninnies" spoof of the Two Ronnies.
Hadn’t seen that ninnies sketch before, glad you recommended it as it’s very good!
That poke at the Ronnie's was partly an homage to the duo.
It finished the Two Ronnies
I can’t get enough of these sketches. They are too accurate.
They would not be funny if they were too accurate.
Ironically it’s these shite ‘comedy’ panel shows (which are cheap to make) which all but killed off comedy sketch shows..........I’m still dumb-founded as to how some of these completely unfunny ‘comedians’ keep getting hired. The most mysterious for me is Arthur Smith! Why R4 do you have this completely and utterly unfunny ‘comic’ on every bloody show? Same with Sue Smug Perkins. Stop it. These people are not funny.
"Was it a dolphin in a bath tub?"So much like Paul Marton.
A brilliant piss take of some talentless hacks (Perkins, Parsons, Hamilton, Jupitus) and the very real, casual, tossed off cruelty of a show like Never mind the Buzzcocks. Whenever I saw that segment where pop stars - many of whom anyone barely remembers - and sub par comics feel they have the right to insult and slag off nobody actors/extras, it always made me cringe. Thank God the BBC no longer makes it.
A dull parody by two waayyy past their best comedians. Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse.....thank god the BBC no longer makes it.
@@hopebgood seethe harder
I'm so glad Simon Amstell SHOUTS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! Otherwise I won't know when the joke is being said...
Nice how they got andy parsons to appear as himself lol! So accurate!!!!
They didn't get David Mitchell right, but everyone else, spot on!
The David Mitchell is a pretty good Charlie Brooker.
I think it's more than just the voice they couldn't get right, they could have easily done a pisstake of his "angry logic" kind of rants but for whatever reason (seemingly) opted for not going that hard on him
@@dulcesolum Quite!
@@Hershie Ha exactly!
@@dulcesolum probably because despite the fact he tends to flandarize himself on these shows he's not as vapid as the rest of them.
Yup! As good as 'Brass Eye'. Harry and Paul did not have to impress anyone anymore. And yet they still went for the throat.
32 years of television in 3 minutes and 12 seconds 😂😂
Notice that Paul Merton is looking away like he's not paying attention, quite accurate
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Back in about 2008/2009, the only TV I watched was Dave after 9pm. Repeats of panel shows were the only thing that kept me halfheartedly turning the television on. I feel like if I'd discovered ketamine at that point in my life, this is what I would have envisioned.
A perfect Paul Merton.....
HAH, well spotted caricatures; though most panel shows blow away US comedy. Bring back Spitting Image; UK's Muppet SouthPark! Satire is important, but many greats have devolved into fluff TV
Spitting image is back wow
Oh my god the Daily Mail!
We never found out if it was a "dolphin in a bathtub".
Harry and Paul's BBC2 tribute was a brilliant bit of satire. This sketch is brilliant because it highlighted the clichés of people on panel shows endlessly attacking the same targets (Daily Mail, Widdecombe etc) in front of a supportive audience, as if they were being brave and edgy.
Especially as many of the people they parodied would have been their friends, Hislop co-created Tim nice but dim for Harry 😁
Eh, the Daily Mail and Widdecombe etc continually make themselves a target by repeatedly doing stupid things. Not the comedian's fault that it's there to be made fun of.
@@johnmartinez7440 Sure, but when it's the same generic jokes being recycled it gets boring after a while, regardless of your political stance.
@@kevinkibble8342 Yeah, just lazy
@@johnmartinez7440did you read the comment. Or did you just paraphrase it in your head and got it completely wrong?
This is the BBC, we're all communists aren't we?
Completely relevant. I'm surprised no-one has taken the piss out of these awful panel shows before to my knowledge. Although QI I quite like. The Sarah Millican contributions are pretty accurate too
Mock the Week used to be good, now it's absolute bollocks. The worst panel show I ever watched was Celebrity Juice. Terrible.
I used to like some of them and I can still watch QI or HIGNFY occasionally but really it's just cheap TV. Celebrity Juice is trying to be so bad-its good but really it's just terrible
*****
"Bang tidy!"
"I'd smash her backdoors in!"
*canned laughter*
celebrity juice was ok for one season just to watch the filth lemon poured over his guests but after that it got tired and shit.
I don't know - there's some shite panel shows out there, and even the half-decent ones always seem to outstay their welcome by going on way too long. OTOH, two of my favourite comedies on TV are WILTY and Cats Does Countdown. Both consistently brilliant.
They're popular because:
a. they're cheap, and
b. they're often great fun.
OH MY GAWD DE DAILEE MAYUUWL!
Is it a dolphin in a bathtub?
Love this 🤣 Harry and Paul understand British humour better than anyone
*_OMG THE D A I L Y M A I L_*
Include constant Brexit and Trump jokes and this is accurate.
To be fair, whenever you turn on the actual news all you get is constant Brexit and Trump updates.
Another parody which captures perfectly why l dislike this show and others like it
Here after Mock the Week got cancelled.
They should do another one of these. If you ask me Lucy Beaumont, Jon Richardson, Sara Pascoe, James Acaster, Katherine Ryan and Jimmy Carr are all more or less asking to have the shit ripped out of them.
Jimmy Carr is done in their question time one
My question is, what comedians aren't asking to be made fun of?
Andy Parsons can steal a great joke and turn it in to a terrible one. The dolphin in a bathtub is genius too.
A genius by comparison, maybe.
Parsons is a great writer though. See Drop The Dead Donkey.
This is very funny--IF you've spent a fair time watching Brit panel shows. Otherwise....
Sums up the tired format of HIGNFY -
Harry and Paul are the kings of British comedy.
Even under that silly hair and glasses, Catherine Shepherd still managed to look and sound as hot as hell!
3 people dislike this. Has ian hislop got 3 youtube accounts?
Ian Hislop. a dolphin and a sentient bathtub.
Sarah Milligan blocked me on twitter after I forwarded this to her... Badge of honour.
I think Sarah Milligan might've blocked you because you sent it to her and not the comedian satirised in the sketch, Sarah Millican. With a C.
The Paul Merton mannerisms were spot on.
"..and called Anne Wycombe in parts of Wycombe." Much funnier than it should be haha
Exactly what these panel shows are like - same old faces, same old topics, same old gags. Awful.
It's childish shite from grown-ups or meant to be grown-ups
Essentially...this sketch is around 1000 times funnier than the utter horseshit that HIGNFY has become in recent years.
Apparently they all get £25,000 each per show.
At 2:42 the voice over nearly runs out of breath saying number 5s Description
They needed to parody Brian Blessed. Just shout like a medevial warrior
He is in another segment of the main program that this sketch is from. Watch that, its great! It's a fake documentary about the history of BBC2, kalled something like the history of the twos or something
@@ebbelille link?
Gordon’s alive
I love this, absolutely brilliant - “Oh my God the Daily Mail!”
Oh my God the Daily Mail!
@@MannyAntipov OH MY GOD THE DAILY MAIL!
Anne Widdecombe... UUUUUUUUUGGGHH
So glad they finally cancelled Mock the Week. Utter drivel
Everything about this is fucking incredible.
Andy Hamilton voice is incredibly accurate
Johnson has not changed. How on earth he was voted PM. We are a laughing stock.
Damn. I thought I was going to watch Harry and Paul. Not just some clippings of HIGNFY, QI and Buzzcocks.
Nice tribute to The Stotts by Paul Whitehouse at 3:04
Merton has never been funny. That one liner sums him up.
So bang on its incredible, even after all the years. Difficult to think about how you could improve on it - either thats tribute to Harry & Paul's ingenuity or testament to the risibly predictable cliches of these panel shows circling the drain year after year. Probably some alchemical mixture of both..whatever the explanation, I loved every minute of this!
Loved the 'Mel or Sue'..... Says, either will do as they are equally as lame and unfunny as each other.....
Everyone is beautifully observed, with Alan Davies being perhaps the most accurately portrayed. Drawing a QI salary for 20 years of sitting there, saying and doing nothing of note! 🤷🤦🏼
The sad thing is we don't have anyone on tv that can do comedy as well as Harry and Paul so it's good to watch the repeats.
This is weak parody. Hardly the best comedy on TV.
Reminds me why I absolutely hate modern comedians.
Who is that plays Angus Deayton at the start? I thought it looked vaguely like Alistair McGowan (who says he's often mistaken for Deayton) Edit: Joseph Morpurgo, who is both Russells in this same sketch.
The David Mitchell impression isn't very good, but other than that they're all pretty much spot-on. Especially Ian Hislop with his pen-tapping.
I'm not sure why they didn't include Jimmy Carr, though.
he's in the question time one