@@john_g_harris Dude, it's 2023 the English are now minorities in all major English cities. No-one sees the English laughing at them being disrespected and think that's powerful and inspiring.
That was the time when the BBC were in their element, OVER promoting "minorities" on their channel. I hav'nt had a tele since. Best thing i ever did, mr Birch.
As a white man in his 60`s, I once sat with a younger british born indian friend/family watching this sketch in there home, we were all crying with laughter at the reverse parody of 20 somethings going out for a indian meal on a friday night = so relatable & true
Classic sketch, as a white pasty Englishman myself, I found it magic and hilarious when it showed, it was really well done... I miss Goodness Gracious Me, it was a great series! :)
Non Indian Welshwoman here - bloody loved this series. This sketch especially had me in fits. I've been into too many places where some of the group have been determined to eat the hottest curry available, and making fools of themselves. Also seen some outrageously ignorant behaviour towards pleasant people serving lovely food. This takes the piss out of every ignoramus perfectly.
Yep, as someone who grew up on Indian food and around Indians it's always funny seeing some tough guy being all "give me the hottest thing you got". I learnt how to make good Indian curries from them which often leads to me making what I consider a mild curry that has brought guys twice my size to their knees crying and left them wiping their butts with icecbes. Like seriously don't try to act tough if you're not used to spicy food. If you can't handle it there's no shame in picking something milder and tastier
@@crwydryny I used to love spicy food - (lived nr Leicester (UK) for years) - but then moved to Leeds for a while to live with a gf that didn't really like it. No more spicy tooth since then :( Kormas are pretty much it, for me, now...
The funny thing is that most of the actors don't even have an Indian accent, they speak in a proper English accent. There's nothing we love more than people taking the piss out of us. Hysterical show.
Yes... Some. I went to an Indian restaurant with a group of female nurses once in the 90s. I'm not exactly small, shy & retiring (and a council estate boy, so according to stereotypes I should have been what this sketch is taking the piss out of, but I've never had that much disrespect), and their behaviour horrified me. This sketch underplays how awful they were. Throwing poppadoms around like Frisbees and shouting, "Oi! Gupta! Where's the fucking grub!?" I'm really not exaggerating. I've had nights out with squaddies who'd just come back on R&R with nervous tics after being blown up in Afghanistan who were far more civilised.
@@ramsey6681absolutely. The crap Asian wait staff got whether the deliberate mispronounce of names, women racially fetishing the waiters, the complete ignorance of eating for flavour rather than heat and turn around from jovial to pure aggression if asked a question was nailed.
Speaking as a Brit I can definitely say that back in the day I've seen that kind of behaviour in Indian restaurants from British people in the past. When Sanjeev said "Oi Mate" it reminded me of British people saying "Oi Sabu" or "Oi Gunga Din" to Indian waiters. It was behaviour I used to find really embarrassing. I'm not saying it doesn't happen anymore but it's been many years since I've seen that kind of behaviour in Indian restaurants which definitely for the best. But this sketch really held up a mirror to a lot of British people at the time. The bit about ordering the blandest food and the plates of chips is hilarious as well. A lot of Brits would go to for a curry after a night out on the booze and order the hottest curry on the menu and a ridiculous amount of poppadoms only to end up regretting it the next day.
It was the perfect photographic negative of drunken Brits going for an Indian on a Friday night. So much said simply by portraying the exact opposite of every waiter's experience. Still quoted regularly in this house. The show gave us some really talented performers who perhaps wouldn't have made it without showcasing their work in this way.
I have always loved this sketch, I think this is the signature Goodness Gracious Me sketch. It is well observed and a complete inversion of behaviour frequently shown in Indian resturants in England.
This was a perfect example of turning the tables, I think the reason the series was so successful and funny was how they lambasted the most ridiculous stereotypes of both English & Indian cultures. It was all about the laughs and was deliberately being anti political correctness as all good comedy should be.
Fascinating to see the situation reversed. Very funny Indian food is VERY popular in the UK, however, I don't know how representative it is of Indian food in India But i will admit, as an English person, i do like my 'bland' food; i think i may represent a disappearing demographic.
Goodness Gracious Me was such a funny show and this sketch was very much a play on the drunk British people going out getting drunk and abusing people who work in Indian restaurants in the UK, they had some great sketches for sure.
A perfectly-worded, carefully-treated satire of how badly some dopes in England treat Indian restaurants. The first time we saw it, my dad realised that he actually did a couple of these things in restaurants... not the aggression or casual racism, but the "what's the hottest thing" and over-ordering... yeah, we all do that. It's nice to see this classic sketch from your perspective. Thanks for posting.
Did you know that, yes, Indians have introduced us Brits to many lovely food but we Brits also influenced Indian food? We brought at least 2 of the most popular vegetables in Indian food with us - the Cauliflower (Gobi) back in the 19th Century and we also introduced the Potato to most of India (I believe the Portuguese first brought the potato in the 18th century but it pretty much remained only in their colony in Goa, whereas the Brits spread potatoes all over the country and incorporated them into Indian cuisine). We can thank each other for many things - India & Britain are a pretty good team, Hi-5!
Yes, comedy bridges those gaps - especially when we can all laugh at ourselves. I think Henning Wehn made many people review how they regarded Germans.
This show was great. The sketches about some Indian families that were always competing to "out English" each other were very relatable as someone from an Irish background who grew up in England. They were called "The Coopers" I think.
It's really intended as a parody of pub culture in Britain, where drunk Brits go out for an Indian, ask for really spicy things, and talk down to the wait staff, but completely reversed. So it was making fun of Brits, but not in a mean way.
Love this show! The name issue also comes up in another GGM sketch where an English guy is staarting a job with an Indian company - everyone in the room spectacularly fails to pronounce 'Jonathan' correctly and then laugh about how complicated and long-winded English names are.
Reminds me of the old Alexi Sayle gag "You do know that chucking out time in Calcutta, there are hundreds of pissed Indians wandering round chucking up steak and kidney pies"
To this day when I'm in any restaurant and I look at the menu a little voice in my head often says "Hey Jammess, What's the blandest thing on the menu?" Just comic genius!
There are so many quotable lines from that show, one that comes into my head a lot on the train is the sketch where some Indian teenagers spend their gap year volunteering in England and start off with "We have come here to a ramshackle clinic in the poverty-stricken village of Wolverhampton."
This sketch is CLASSIC. Yes back in the 20th century it was so common for drunk pasty men to behave like that in Indian restraints. Goodness gracious me was FANTASTIC. It was a radio show 1st
Yes this sketch is a landmark in British Asian humour and this series which there is also a radio show which is were it started before moving to TV.😁 Not only great writing but away from comedy the performers are great actors.
I remember seeing this in the original series airing. I laughed my rocks off. These two Indians are so innocent. It's lovely. I love their take on things.
I think you missed the point of this sketch: The way these guys are acting whilst drunk is the way many British nationals used to act in Indian restaurants showing no class and being rude to the staff back in the 1990's (the same time this comedy show came out). So they made a parody of the reality. For many of us British-Asian's, back then - GGM was the first time we had seen a comedy show on BBC with fellow brown-skinned people. It will always be close to our hearts and is definitely an old favourite of my whole family and friends.
I love that scene - goodness gracious me was an extremely good comedy show . It was a piss take out of British weekend culture at the time 80s/early 90s . I was lucky enough to be part of it , in all its glory.. Our pubs shut at 11pm and then the only places opened that served alcohol were primarily Indian restaurants . Social clubs , night clubs , raves of course opened to "shit-o-clock" . But if you were in town ( any UK town) at the pub , you would probably end up in the Indian restaurant. This sketch is basically exactly how most friday/Saturday nights were for Indian waiter's/restaurants. Everyone drunk would order the hottest curry that most couldn't eat . They would order 24 poppadoms for 2 people . The waiter's were tortured by "drunk"( they had the patients of a Saint) ..But generally it wasn't with malice or anger or anything harmful it was just drunk bombastic. I used to have a regular Indian restaurant " The balti-house " . It wasn't the best Indian restaurant in our town . But we had a table called "the captains table " . The customers who sat at the table was always just men from 18- 70s ..we just seemed to meet up on the table every weekend . Apart from my few friends , the others on the table were just "Indian restaurant friends " we never knew each outside the restaurant. We got to know the staff and it just became a every friday/Saturday night . I loved it - I adore Indian food without a doubt it was my favourite food and everyone in.the UK thought the same . Indian food was for many years considered our national dish as we ate more of it than things like "fish and chips" etc . People still go out to Indian restaurants but its not like it was . Firstly decades ago apart from.the odd pub or chains like the harvester etc there was only really Indian and Chinese restaurants, with scatterings of French,Italians,Greek etc . The other denominatior was everyone was "smashed" ( drunk ) at the weekend in comparison to today which is not as extreme
They also had a talk show called The Kumar's where the gimmick was they all played members of the family (mum, dad, gran etc) and celebrities would come to their house to chat. They're iconic but they went their separate ways a while ago now.
Fantastic sketch - pointing out the bad bits of UK culture but without being nasty (as I've seen in more recent times), & of course, brilliantly observed - that is a quintessential post-pub meal at an Indian restaurant, but in an English one 😁
Absolutely love this! If there's one thing we Brits enjoy its banter! That's all this is, nothing the least bit offensive here 😂 Indian-British people are such a core part of our culture, all of this is just so very British whilst also being Indian. The best of British culture is our ability to assimilate. This country is such a wonderful mix of amazing cultures and people.
It's a parody of what happens when people are Ignorant in a Indian Restaurant It's sad it still happens thats why this is my favourite episode because they turn the tables on the idiots that think mocking the Indian people and their culture is funny I'm a 37 year old white man and believe all humans are equal ❤👍🤝
The sketch I loved but not seen in a long time was when the gang were sitting in a cafe and one of them said that one of their crowd who was arriving later had a new girlfriend. They all became interested and the person said with regret "... and another thing. She's English!" The others cried "Oh no!" Later in the sketch the English girl turned up where they were all sitting in the park in casual clothes, she dressed in a sari, wanting to wash the feet of one of them and then singing like Lata and dancing around the tree like a character in a Raj Kapoor film.
We do have lots of Indian resturants in the UK and in london there all different restuarants you only have to turn a corner and you get the choice of lots of different cousine even banglidash. Yes London has become very cosmipocalton.
I love this clip and the show. Grew up with it. Although when I would say “eat my chuddies” rarely around my mums friends, they would give me an odd look 😂 This clip is so spot on, like going and fancying the waiters and stuff. 😂
Why is everyone skirting around this? The whole thing that makes this funny is because they are saying this is what English people do all the time when 'going for an Indian'. They just reversed the roles and it makes it brilliant lol.
I think this scene embarrassed a lot of 20-something Brits, because it was SO on the nose for how we behaved on a night out. Drinking all night then finishing the evening off by going for an Indian. But hey, if I could go back I would - those were great days. 🤣
I have always loved this sketch, although of late I've wondered if some might find it offensive. I'm glad to see that Asian people still love it. Goodness Gracious Me was a classic. I loved Indian Dad. I think he was my favourite.
this is so funny a complete turn around at what happens in so many indian restuarants across the uk on a friday and saturday night with drunk and obnoxious people
Seen this a gazillion times...still makes me laugh. I live in Monaco and you can't get a decent curry here (or in France or Italy). I need to fly back every so often to London to get a good curry.
I so remember people acting like this in Indian restaurants in the 80s. The waiters would be so patient in the face of English behaviour ob a Friday night. I do stress that we are not like this now.....mostly.
This is a glorious sketch...brilliantly turning the tables on how the English poorly behave in Indian restaurants....but back then it was Indian restaurants who actually found a loophole in very tough British licensing laws, the fact you could still serve alcohol after 11 pm only if you served food...made for a huge boom in Indian restaurants that lasts to this day
As well as appearing in this programme Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE is one of the writers along with this wife Meera Syal. Sanjeev has won many awards for his wide range of work. He is also an excellent drama actor as is his wife.
Superman. Indian! Come on you've seen the film. He runs faster than a speeding train. There's only one country where you can run faster than a train". 😂
i loved that show . im glad you found it funny . it was comedy nothing else . they were highlighting the way English people act when they went for a meal as they wanted to be the same ....something people just dont get now ,
I remember this so well "Bring me the blandest thing on the menu". Their best sketch ever was when the gay Indian son brings home the white English boyfriend to meet the parents.
Incidentally the title of the show is taken from an old comedy record by Peter Sellers who started in BBC radio comedy The Goon Show which for it's day 1951-1960 was considered cutting edge but today you can see the racial humour within. The objection the people who make the show to the song is the clearly fake Indian accent used by Sellers and how it offends by turning Indian accents into a parody of themselves.
As an Englishman I’ve always loved this scene, it has to be one of the most perfect parodies of stupid drunken behaviour! 😂
It's racist against the English, imagine English living in India parodying Indians like this. Show respect to your host country, always.
@@budweiser600 one of the good things about the English is their sense of humour.
@@john_g_harris Dude, it's 2023 the English are now minorities in all major English cities. No-one sees the English laughing at them being disrespected and think that's powerful and inspiring.
@@budweiser600 Imagine, NOW, the "english" living in India ? End of any arguement.
@@budweiser600 English people are not the minority and I live in a big city.
Goodness Gracious Me was a gem of a show. This sketch was so on point for drunken English guys going to an Indian Restaurant.
Yeah, that's what this sketch is actually poking fun at.
"what's the blandest thing on the menu?" Gets me every time 😂
That was the time when the BBC were in their element, OVER promoting "minorities" on their channel. I hav'nt had a tele since. Best thing i ever did, mr Birch.
@@blackbob3358 pretty sure some people were calling it a politically correct show back then too
@@blackbob3358So now you're watching it on UA-cam so you can whine about it. Hypocrite.
The absolute best line...
It's nina wadia's "it blocks me right up, I won't go to the toilet for a week" that gets me
As a white man in his 60`s, I once sat with a younger british born indian friend/family watching this sketch in there home, we were all crying with laughter at the reverse parody of 20 somethings going out for a indian meal on a friday night = so relatable & true
one of the best shows to ever come out of the uk! brilliantly mocking culture clashes and stereotypes without really taking or giving offense
This sketch was a work of genius at the time,absolutely brilliant
@Gregory Jones forgot about that
At the time? Even now its the perfect skit and hasnt been bettered. The problem is good comedy like this cant get made anymore
Classic sketch, as a white pasty Englishman myself, I found it magic and hilarious when it showed, it was really well done... I miss Goodness Gracious Me, it was a great series! :)
Non Indian Welshwoman here - bloody loved this series. This sketch especially had me in fits. I've been into too many places where some of the group have been determined to eat the hottest curry available, and making fools of themselves. Also seen some outrageously ignorant behaviour towards pleasant people serving lovely food. This takes the piss out of every ignoramus perfectly.
Absolutely the underlying "we are best mates eh" , but "know your place" aggressive wuickturn on banter was all too knowing.
Yep, as someone who grew up on Indian food and around Indians it's always funny seeing some tough guy being all "give me the hottest thing you got".
I learnt how to make good Indian curries from them which often leads to me making what I consider a mild curry that has brought guys twice my size to their knees crying and left them wiping their butts with icecbes. Like seriously don't try to act tough if you're not used to spicy food. If you can't handle it there's no shame in picking something milder and tastier
@@crwydryny I used to love spicy food - (lived nr Leicester (UK) for years) - but then moved to Leeds for a while to live with a gf that didn't really like it. No more spicy tooth since then :( Kormas are pretty much it, for me, now...
Nearly all the stars of this comedy went on to great things, a true British comedy show.
I remember repeating these sketches at school, it really was very popular. The Real McCoy too.
"It was INDIAN" as per one of the characters
@@adrianred236 Yeah remember that Dad, "Superman, Indian" :)
@@1amjapanthe main thing I remember from the real McCoy is their parody of Michael Jackson's Black or White
The funny thing is that most of the actors don't even have an Indian accent, they speak in a proper English accent. There's nothing we love more than people taking the piss out of us. Hysterical show.
That's because most of the cast were born in England.
@@RedcoatT I know that, you know that, but I'm not sure they know that. 👍
The most surprising thing was John not speaking scouse!
@@zepo82 😂😂😂👍
Same with Scots, Welsh and us Irish. Taking the micky at ourselves is something a lot of other nations can't quite get their heads round - ! 🤣
Haha, I remember this sketch. They completely turned it around, the way English people behave in Indian restuarants here in the UK.
Thankfully, most of us don't! But it is a brilliant parody of how certain sections of drunken people can be, especially back in the 90s.
Speak for yourself, bollock chops.
Come on..some, but really very few English people.
Yes... Some. I went to an Indian restaurant with a group of female nurses once in the 90s.
I'm not exactly small, shy & retiring (and a council estate boy, so according to stereotypes I should have been what this sketch is taking the piss out of, but I've never had that much disrespect), and their behaviour horrified me.
This sketch underplays how awful they were.
Throwing poppadoms around like Frisbees and shouting, "Oi! Gupta! Where's the fucking grub!?" I'm really not exaggerating.
I've had nights out with squaddies who'd just come back on R&R with nervous tics after being blown up in Afghanistan who were far more civilised.
@@ramsey6681absolutely. The crap Asian wait staff got whether the deliberate mispronounce of names, women racially fetishing the waiters, the complete ignorance of eating for flavour rather than heat and turn around from jovial to pure aggression if asked a question was nailed.
Speaking as a Brit I can definitely say that back in the day I've seen that kind of behaviour in Indian restaurants from British people in the past.
When Sanjeev said "Oi Mate" it reminded me of British people saying "Oi Sabu" or "Oi Gunga Din" to Indian waiters.
It was behaviour I used to find really embarrassing. I'm not saying it doesn't happen anymore but it's been many years since I've seen that kind of behaviour in Indian restaurants which definitely for the best.
But this sketch really held up a mirror to a lot of British people at the time.
The bit about ordering the blandest food and the plates of chips is hilarious as well. A lot of Brits would go to for a curry after a night out on the booze and order the hottest curry on the menu and a ridiculous amount of poppadoms only to end up regretting it the next day.
It was the perfect photographic negative of drunken Brits going for an Indian on a Friday night. So much said simply by portraying the exact opposite of every waiter's experience. Still quoted regularly in this house. The show gave us some really talented performers who perhaps wouldn't have made it without showcasing their work in this way.
After watching this my son was never called James again he's been jammez ever since awww I loved this show xx
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I'd forgotten how funny this show was. Thank you reminding me! Love and peace from the UK.
One of the funniest things on tv back then. Init?...
I have always loved this sketch, I think this is the signature Goodness Gracious Me sketch. It is well observed and a complete inversion of behaviour frequently shown in Indian resturants in England.
Goodness Gracious was fabulously written and performed. Please do more of this program, specifically the Indians trying to be British.
The "Coopers"
This was a perfect example of turning the tables, I think the reason the series was so successful and funny was how they lambasted the most ridiculous stereotypes of both English & Indian cultures. It was all about the laughs and was deliberately being anti political correctness as all good comedy should be.
Amazing video, thanks guys! "Give me the blandest thing on the menu" is a really well-known line from this show in the UK 😆 Happy new year friends!!
As a Brit I’ve always found this to be one of the best sketches ever. Brilliant 👍
Fascinating to see the situation reversed. Very funny
Indian food is VERY popular in the UK, however, I don't know how representative it is of Indian food in India
But i will admit, as an English person, i do like my 'bland' food; i think i may represent a disappearing demographic.
It’s just a different way of cooking, there are lots of very delicious dishes not least of all the puddings!
Goodness Gracious Me was such a funny show and this sketch was very much a play on the drunk British people going out getting drunk and abusing people who work in Indian restaurants in the UK, they had some great sketches for sure.
Great reaction guys
You totally got it
Peace from the UK
Not only a fantastic sketch, but makes us English look at our own behaviour in restaurants. Perfection.
A perfectly-worded, carefully-treated satire of how badly some dopes in England treat Indian restaurants. The first time we saw it, my dad realised that he actually did a couple of these things in restaurants... not the aggression or casual racism, but the "what's the hottest thing" and over-ordering... yeah, we all do that.
It's nice to see this classic sketch from your perspective. Thanks for posting.
More from Goodness Gracious Me please especially the sketches where two families are bragging about their kids,
Haha omg yes!!!
Did you know that, yes, Indians have introduced us Brits to many lovely food but we Brits also influenced Indian food? We brought at least 2 of the most popular vegetables in Indian food with us - the Cauliflower (Gobi) back in the 19th Century and we also introduced the Potato to most of India (I believe the Portuguese first brought the potato in the 18th century but it pretty much remained only in their colony in Goa, whereas the Brits spread potatoes all over the country and incorporated them into Indian cuisine). We can thank each other for many things - India & Britain are a pretty good team, Hi-5!
Fantastic. I live and learn.
Chicken Tikka Massala was invented here (by Indian chefs) for the British palate
And fish and chips was invented in India
Curry was actually created by British soldiers in India to disguise the taste of the rotten meat they had to endure.
The Portuguese brought chillis (a New World crop) to India. Before that, Indian cuisine only had black pepper for heat.
Genius sketch on a genius show. I honestly think this show did alot to bridge the gap bewteeen the two cultures.
Yes, comedy bridges those gaps - especially when we can all laugh at ourselves. I think Henning Wehn made many people review how they regarded Germans.
This sketch changed the way a lot of people behaved overnight, so spot but hilarious at the same time.
This show was great. The sketches about some Indian families that were always competing to "out English" each other were very relatable as someone from an Irish background who grew up in England. They were called "The Coopers" I think.
Not the Coopers but The Kumars at No. 42. Yes very funny.
You right it was the Coopers and the Robinsons aka the Kapoors and Rabindranaths
@@william6682 That was a different show with some of the same actors.
It's really intended as a parody of pub culture in Britain, where drunk Brits go out for an Indian, ask for really spicy things, and talk down to the wait staff, but completely reversed. So it was making fun of Brits, but not in a mean way.
I cannot remember how many Friday nights I spent like this in the 70's!
Love this show! The name issue also comes up in another GGM sketch where an English guy is staarting a job with an Indian company - everyone in the room spectacularly fails to pronounce 'Jonathan' correctly and then laugh about how complicated and long-winded English names are.
Reminds me of the old Alexi Sayle gag "You do know that chucking out time in Calcutta, there are hundreds of pissed Indians wandering round chucking up steak and kidney pies"
“Hey Jamis” 😂😂😂 a really great bit of comedy, this
One of my favorite comedy sketches ever. An absolute classic.
To this day when I'm in any restaurant and I look at the menu a little voice in my head often says "Hey Jammess, What's the blandest thing on the menu?"
Just comic genius!
There are so many quotable lines from that show, one that comes into my head a lot on the train is the sketch where some Indian teenagers spend their gap year volunteering in England and start off with "We have come here to a ramshackle clinic in the poverty-stricken village of Wolverhampton."
..."".. Let's go for an English In It... "" The Legendary Line... Brilliant 😂😂😂🏴✌️
As a Brit `this was one of the best comedy sketches I have seen. So brilliantly observed!!
It really was such a big thing to go for an Indian meal after a night out (especially at that time), they absolutely nailed the parody.
This sketch is CLASSIC. Yes back in the 20th century it was so common for drunk pasty men to behave like that in Indian restraints. Goodness gracious me was FANTASTIC. It was a radio show 1st
Yes this sketch is a landmark in British Asian humour and this series which there is also a radio show which is were it started before moving to TV.😁 Not only great writing but away from comedy the performers are great actors.
My favourite sketch from that show 😅
I remember seeing this in the original series airing.
I laughed my rocks off.
These two Indians are so innocent.
It's lovely.
I love their take on things.
I think you missed the point of this sketch:
The way these guys are acting whilst drunk is the way many British nationals used to act in Indian restaurants showing no class and being rude to the staff back in the 1990's (the same time this comedy show came out).
So they made a parody of the reality.
For many of us British-Asian's, back then - GGM was the first time we had seen a comedy show on BBC with fellow brown-skinned people.
It will always be close to our hearts and is definitely an old favourite of my whole family and friends.
I love that scene - goodness gracious me was an extremely good comedy show .
It was a piss take out of British weekend culture at the time 80s/early 90s . I was lucky enough to be part of it , in all its glory..
Our pubs shut at 11pm and then the only places opened that served alcohol were primarily Indian restaurants . Social clubs , night clubs , raves of course opened to "shit-o-clock" . But if you were in town ( any UK town) at the pub , you would probably end up in the Indian restaurant.
This sketch is basically exactly how most friday/Saturday nights were for Indian waiter's/restaurants. Everyone drunk would order the hottest curry that most couldn't eat . They would order 24 poppadoms for 2 people . The waiter's were tortured by "drunk"( they had the patients of a Saint) ..But generally it wasn't with malice or anger or anything harmful it was just drunk bombastic.
I used to have a regular Indian restaurant " The balti-house " . It wasn't the best Indian restaurant in our town . But we had a table called "the captains table " . The customers who sat at the table was always just men from 18- 70s ..we just seemed to meet up on the table every weekend . Apart from my few friends , the others on the table were just "Indian restaurant friends " we never knew each outside the restaurant.
We got to know the staff and it just became a every friday/Saturday night .
I loved it - I adore Indian food without a doubt it was my favourite food and everyone in.the UK thought the same . Indian food was for many years considered our national dish as we ate more of it than things like "fish and chips" etc .
People still go out to Indian restaurants but its not like it was . Firstly decades ago apart from.the odd pub or chains like the harvester etc there was only really Indian and Chinese restaurants, with scatterings of French,Italians,Greek etc . The other denominatior was everyone was "smashed" ( drunk ) at the weekend in comparison to today which is not as extreme
They also had a talk show called The Kumar's where the gimmick was they all played members of the family (mum, dad, gran etc) and celebrities would come to their house to chat. They're iconic but they went their separate ways a while ago now.
Fantastic sketch - pointing out the bad bits of UK culture but without being nasty (as I've seen in more recent times), & of course, brilliantly observed - that is a quintessential post-pub meal at an Indian restaurant, but in an English one 😁
GGM was so fresh when it came out. Very popular sketch show with do many popular sketches. And this sketch was just priceless.
This is a classic comedy scene. Truly great.
I'll never forget this sketch. Such a classic. This and The Real McCoy were gems.
This was a take off of the way some British people behaved in Indian restaurants !
this was one of the funniest shows ever i loved it
Absolutely love this! If there's one thing we Brits enjoy its banter! That's all this is, nothing the least bit offensive here 😂 Indian-British people are such a core part of our culture, all of this is just so very British whilst also being Indian. The best of British culture is our ability to assimilate. This country is such a wonderful mix of amazing cultures and people.
I think this really did change English behaviour in Indian restaurants. We were shamed, but in the funniest way possible.
GGM transcended across cultural lines back in the day. We used to love copying the skits at school when we were kids. It was hilarious!
It's a parody of what happens when people are Ignorant in a Indian Restaurant It's sad it still happens thats why this is my favourite episode because they turn the tables on the idiots that think mocking the Indian people and their culture is funny I'm a 37 year old white man and believe all humans are equal ❤👍🤝
GREAT TAKE ON HOW WE ENGLISH BEHAVE LOL
The sketch I loved but not seen in a long time was when the gang were sitting in a cafe and one of them said that one of their crowd who was arriving later had a new girlfriend. They all became interested and the person said with regret "... and another thing. She's English!" The others cried "Oh no!" Later in the sketch the English girl turned up where they were all sitting in the park in casual clothes, she dressed in a sari, wanting to wash the feet of one of them and then singing like Lata and dancing around the tree like a character in a Raj Kapoor film.
We do have lots of Indian resturants in the UK and in london there all different restuarants you only have to turn a corner and you get the choice of lots of different cousine even banglidash. Yes London has become very cosmipocalton.
Goodness Gracious Me was one of my favourite comedy shows growing up in the UK. So we written and brilliant in its social cultural parodies.
I love this clip and the show. Grew up with it. Although when I would say “eat my chuddies” rarely around my mums friends, they would give me an odd look 😂
This clip is so spot on, like going and fancying the waiters and stuff. 😂
“Whats the blandest thing on the menu” 🤣🤣🤣
Why is everyone skirting around this? The whole thing that makes this funny is because they are saying this is what English people do all the time when 'going for an Indian'. They just reversed the roles and it makes it brilliant lol.
The show Goodness Gracious Me is one of my favourites
I think this scene embarrassed a lot of 20-something Brits, because it was SO on the nose for how we behaved on a night out. Drinking all night then finishing the evening off by going for an Indian. But hey, if I could go back I would - those were great days. 🤣
Hilarious programme 😆👍
I remember this sketch so well. I’ve been embarrassed ever since when people I’m with order papadams in Indian restaurants.
I remember when this first came on TV - properly funny!!
I showed this to three friends from Bangladesh a few years ago, they loved it.
I have always loved this sketch, although of late I've wondered if some might find it offensive. I'm glad to see that Asian people still love it. Goodness Gracious Me was a classic. I loved Indian Dad. I think he was my favourite.
We genuinely loved "Goodness Gracious Me". Real work of genius and it made the cast household names.
Brilliant sketch.
And what I loved most about GGM was that all the jokes and characters were so....
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this is so funny a complete turn around at what happens in so many indian restuarants across the uk on a friday and saturday night with drunk and obnoxious people
Seen this a gazillion times...still makes me laugh. I live in Monaco and you can't get a decent curry here (or in France or Italy). I need to fly back every so often to London to get a good curry.
Great show, great reaction.
(Hmm - don't even _think_ about watching _It Ain't Half Hot, Mum_ )
Goodness gracious me was so excellent, wonderful cast.
I still to this day, pronounce anyone called James, as "Jar Mez". Great scene.
I so remember people acting like this in Indian restaurants in the 80s. The waiters would be so patient in the face of English behaviour ob a Friday night. I do stress that we are not like this now.....mostly.
This is a glorious sketch...brilliantly turning the tables on how the English poorly behave in Indian restaurants....but back then it was Indian restaurants who actually found a loophole in very tough British licensing laws, the fact you could still serve alcohol after 11 pm only if you served food...made for a huge boom in Indian restaurants that lasts to this day
This show is worth a watch, still very funny!
One of my favorite things here on UA-cam is Manjulas Kitchen. A lovely older Sikh lady and a fabulous cook, well worth checking out.
Brilliant sketch going for an english , great group of talented actors , afew have been in eastenders lol
I was never a particular fan of Goodness Gracious Me. But this sketch is absolute genius, beautifully observed and parodied. Hilarious.
I use to love watching this back in the day, such a smart, well written comedy that wasn't afraid to mock both British and Indian culture.
I am Punjabi, 2nd generation. I am doing the loving. Good vidio boyz
As well as appearing in this programme Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE is one of the writers along with this wife Meera Syal. Sanjeev has won many awards for his wide range of work. He is also an excellent drama actor as is his wife.
I loved this show, the actors were brilliant..... this was a hilarious sketch, still makes me laugh now. 😂😂😂
Namaste, folks.
Great reactions to this wonderful sketch show.
Have a grand day.
I wish you rainbows.
Superman. Indian! Come on you've seen the film. He runs faster than a speeding train. There's only one country where you can run faster than a train".
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i loved that show . im glad you found it funny . it was comedy nothing else . they were highlighting the way English people act when they went for a meal as they wanted to be the same ....something people just dont get now ,
I grew up with this show, really missed it when it finished.
This is my favourite comedy sketch ever. It’s superb.
Lovely memories of this program. Have you reacted to Citizen Khan ?
Love it, thanks guys xx
I remember this so well "Bring me the blandest thing on the menu". Their best sketch ever was when the gay Indian son brings home the white English boyfriend to meet the parents.
When a joke about Indians going for an English is one of the most English things ever.
It’s a fantastic sketch and show, from a time when people were able to share jokes with each other without it being offensive
Incidentally the title of the show is taken from an old comedy record by Peter Sellers who started in BBC radio comedy The Goon Show which for it's day 1951-1960 was considered cutting edge but today you can see the racial humour within. The objection the people who make the show to the song is the clearly fake Indian accent used by Sellers and how it offends by turning Indian accents into a parody of themselves.
Mexican as continental food? Omg 😂
To be fair, some Mexican stuff has a similar flavour profile to Indian food. I think they'd like it
Not forgetting Skipinda, the Punjabi Kangaroo