The sketch where he played the homeless drunk Pamela was running away with after 20 years of marriage to the successful executive husband Rhys-Jones was a scream.
The show made such an impact because it was back when Britain only had three TV channels and so almost everone was watching the same shows and people were more connected with things in common.
this show was a must watch when I was 10. Lucky my folks let me watch it at the time. Brilliant.
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@@oldrunnerstepx2638 I suppose the odd thing is that the brexit folk might have re-appropriated it. It was the right wing hooligans that were meant to have been de-knackered at the time.
It's not just the shock value, but, looking at it and enjoying it again, the characterisations of the three people - the professor with the higher IQ than EQ, the left-wing social worker, the initially urbane but then bemused and embarrassed presenter - are also spot on. Superb acting. For less chronologically challenged viewers, the name of the presenter is a parallel to Hugh Scully who presented BBC "Nationwide" and similar shows in the 1970s/1980s - even the presenter's hairstyle and suit are reminiscent of him.
Great sketch and really hit a nail on the head. Football hooligans were a scourge at the time, and most people would have reacted to this sketch by having a good laugh first and then standing up and cheering.
How Pamela Stephenson keeps a straight face is amazing. When Mel Smith first says cut their goolies off - I had to pause the vid and get myself under control.
Mate, I can't possibly imagine how to describe this sketch 😂 I remember it first time round, I watch again from time to time, just to get myself laughing!
@@darrellsimpson6966 Well, many means a countable big amount and much means an uncountable big amount. Considering the density of Australias population, many would be more accurate. 🤓
Still hilarious over forty years on and certainly the hot topic at the time; secondary school the next day providing a great many laughs - the humour stems mainly from Pamela's deadpan delivery as the social worker...
Shut up and appreciate that cock in a frock. ( That’s not at all funny. ) Mrs Browns Boys. That’s not even remotely funny. However there is the odd sketch here and there. That is that’s fuck all to Mel smith and griff Rees Jones.
They finished by saying, "cut 'em off" back and forth like it was one word, cut-m-off. Cut 'em off. Cut 'em off. ' Yes. Cut 'em off. Cut 'em off. I'll never forget that one. I saw the first airing. :D
@@DieFlabbergast It's just his opinion. Besides, most of us in this comments section can agree that we like the show, so... why not just enjoy the video instead of choosing to recognise some comment?
"In tandem with and related to"…. Ha Ha! Those "scholars….!" the Professor of "Crowd Control Psyhchology" always kills me. RIP Mel Smith. Talented UK comedy from truly intelligent comics of the 1980s. The social worker - just her outfit deserves an Oscar. Talented Pamela Stephenson. She knows their "parents!" Comic genius. Weren't most of these comics Oxford and Cambridge graduates? Sophisticated comedy. I miss it.
Yes, they were all Oxbridge. I think Griff Rhys-Jones and Mel Smith were both Cambridge and Rowan Atkinson was Oxford. Actually, not sure about Pamela Stephenson?
Pamela Stephenson is actually an Australian actress. She's not Oxbridge. When this series was made she was married to Nicholas Ball, who appears in a sketch in Alas Smith and Jones about police and criminal slang. You probably know that these days Pamela Stephenson is married to Billy Connolly and works as a clinical psychologist.
1:17 Hats off to Pamela Stephenson here, she had a tough job following that outrageously funny opening From Mel and Griff but she pulled of her bit really well and was funny doing that cliche of a do-gooding social worker.
I made the same suggestion to a TV reporter in Aberdeen when I was asked outside the Bon Accord centre about football hooligans. Of course my contribution was cut from the news report.
When I was a kid in the late 70's, Not The 9 O'Clock news was the show not to be missed. It was rude and edgy for the time. Then came the Young Ones!!!!
Lambeth and Lewisham are not the East End, but south London. But yes, Cockney has disappeared, moved and merged with the Essex accent in places like Chemlsford and Colchester.
It's strange, I'm from the North East of England, had sum old mod lads they said the same, have u seen the last east enders, think it was called that about the west ham fans and the social club, very interesting
I had this sketch on tape, I guess it was from a NTNON album, and at the end, Pamela Stephenson almost screams "SLICE THEM THROUGH!" That line is almost inaudible in this version, and it's hilarious.
Better than Morecambe and wise I agree, but better than two Ronnie's? 😂 Barker was a comedy genius and a genius of playing on words and phrases and use of the English language was incredible, Corbett was a great story teller, a natural at writing gags and monologues Smith and Jones were brilliant but to compare them to the two Ronnie's is demented .... next you'll be telling us Mrs brown's boy's is the best sitcom ever....come back when you've learnt a lot more about comedy ffs 😂
@@TheReesi73 chill. I still like the two Ronnies, and I hate Mrs Brown. But Smith & Jones were the most consistently hilarious sketch show comedians of the 80s
I don't think its fair to the compare them. Their all pretty funny in their own ways. It's a bit like saying Heath Ledger was a better Joker than Jack Nicholson or Joaquin Phoenix. Their 3 completely different animals.
@@LoudaroundLincoln well yes I can compare jokers and comedy duos as they are alike and to therefore comparable. Maybe YOU can't compare them but I can.
Football faced a ban from Edward II in the 13th century because it was too rowdy and the King thought the state was going to lose control of the mob...it has never been soccer, that is like calling swimming, mountaineering...
@@lesart3446 There's a long history of the modern game of association football being called soccer. The football of the medieval period bears little relation to the modern game. It was violent, brutal and often featured several hundred on each side. It appears to have resulted in many deaths, serious injuries and riots over the years hence the multiple (unsuccessful) attempts to ban it over several centuries. The name Association Football comes from the Football Association which successfully codified the rules (about 1860) which were eventually adopted across the world. As stated above, soccer is an abbreviation of association football. The name's been in use since the sport's invention to show that one is referring to association football and not to any of the other games that are also called football (Rugby football, American football, Gaelic football, Aussie Rules, etc.). I have no idea why you say the game has "never" been called soccer. There must be tens of thousands - probably more - references to the soccer in books, newspapers, newsreels, television programmes and films, etc. over the last 170 years. Although much less popular than the term "football", "soccer" is still in common usage in the UK and it's the dominant usage in the USA, Australia and the rest of the Anglosphere.
I saw Mel Smith in an episode of Minder the other night. He was playing the part of a hard man music manager. i couldn't take him seriously, as I kept waiting for him to say "Cut them right off". He's just got one of those faces for comedy, much like Rowan Atkinson.
I know what you're thinking, no it's the cities that made guys go Reeee! As economic changes have made it harder for people to live outside of them, so they're stuck doing lame jobs and watching girls they can't have
Although many English folk make a big baby fuss about the use of the term soccer by North Americans it's all bullshit. The term is an English invention, an abbreviation of 'association' football which distinguished it from other football forms such as 'rugby' football (or 'rugger'). If you look at old English television or newsreels the term soccer was frequently used. It's facsinating how many English people have come to believe that 'football' is the sole proper and traditional term. One could argue that 'fußball' is the most apposite name, given that the bloody Germans are clearly better at it than everyone else. Having said that, it is also important to remember that it is the greatest game ever invented and that pretty much all other sports are irrelevant, not that I'm biased.
Stephen Piper Thanks yeah I'm a where that the word soccer is an English term I learned about it in high school because I couldn't understand why we Americans used the term soccer to describe it. It's just that in more resent years the term football is more commonly used around the world than soccer is. The only thing I'm not really sure of is when did the name change from soccer to football.
Growing up, we (the Brits) used soccer and football interchangeably; that was partly because many people used Football to refer to Rugby Football. That's died out but in Australia, 'footie' is Aussie Rules. It's only in the last twenty years that the word soccer has come to be seen as an Americanism and that's primarily because in the US, the official term is Soccer ie the MSL. Everywhere else it's Football.
Gooner Tim Thanks for clearing that up. I've always wondered why Brits stopped using a word they invented. Of course today football makes more sense since it's more direct.
Like they say - great comedy is rooted in truth. And I'm sure there are two versions of this sketch with the same cast except in the alternate version, Mel plays the Conservative candidate for an upcoming by-election but Pamela still plays the leftie social worker. I think the catch phrase in the other version is "Kick them in the goolies" but otherwise the script is the same.
What a comedy show Not The Nine O’clock News was, brilliant stuff
Absolutely gorgeous and incredibly talented, married to billy Connelly of course.
Mel Smith , a brilliant comic . RIP mate
Brilliant!!
One of the greats!!!
The sketch where he played the homeless drunk Pamela was running away with after 20 years of marriage to the successful executive husband Rhys-Jones was a scream.
he was a great actor too
Was Mel Smith not one of the two bobbies that "announced" Rock band Queen's stage moment at Live Aid 1985 ?
Pamela . What a stunner
It's probably still the best course of action
Worked, look at 'em @ wc 23.
I c f in future in that or dat
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The show made such an impact because it was back when Britain only had three TV channels and so almost everone was watching the same shows and people were more connected with things in common.
Brilliant - Pamela and Mel get the 'experts' of that time perfectly.
They are the same today.
Never, ever forgotten this sketch, how the laughter echoed around Britain that night, and how everyone was talking about it at School the next day :)
indeed, it became a catch-phrase for years.
Almost 40 years on and I well remember it too.
I haven't seen this in 30 odd years and it is still as good now as it was then.
this show was a must watch when I was 10. Lucky my folks let me watch it at the time. Brilliant.
@@oldrunnerstepx2638 I suppose the odd thing is that the brexit folk might have re-appropriated it. It was the right wing hooligans that were meant to have been de-knackered at the time.
It's not just the shock value, but, looking at it and enjoying it again, the characterisations of the three people - the professor with the higher IQ than EQ, the left-wing social worker, the initially urbane but then bemused and embarrassed presenter - are also spot on. Superb acting. For less chronologically challenged viewers, the name of the presenter is a parallel to Hugh Scully who presented BBC "Nationwide" and similar shows in the 1970s/1980s - even the presenter's hairstyle and suit are reminiscent of him.
Have you ever met any social workers . They're far from left wing, nazi and judgemental, more like.
And she then calls the presenter "Jonathan"!😂
Great sketch and really hit a nail on the head. Football hooligans were a scourge at the time, and most people would have reacted to this sketch by having a good laugh first and then standing up and cheering.
0:53 Griff's expression is PRICELESS. "I...I....I'm sorry???? Well, Sally, I'm sure you'll have something to say about that!"
How Pamela Stephenson keeps a straight face is amazing. When Mel Smith first says cut their goolies off - I had to pause the vid and get myself under control.
Hahahaha
N Mel Smith wearing glasses just like a professor
Icf in future in that
Unforgettable sketch, great to see it on UA-cam to enjoy again. Now I can point people to it rather than just trying to describe it!
Mate, I can't possibly imagine how to describe this sketch 😂 I remember it first time round, I watch again from time to time, just to get myself laughing!
I'm from Australia and so much people loved this show so great
So am I but we don’t say so much people , we say so many !
@@TonyWhite22351 Not in Aussie.
@@darrellsimpson6966 Well, many means a countable big amount and much means an uncountable big amount. Considering the density of Australias population, many would be more accurate. 🤓
As a teacher of the English language, I concur.
As soon as I see Mel Smith adjusting his glasses I start laughing.
Griff Rhys-Jones reaction is priceless!
Icf in no chance
Still hilarious over forty years on and certainly the hot topic at the time; secondary school the next day providing a great many laughs - the humour stems mainly from Pamela's deadpan delivery as the social worker...
Real with chips
How mad is it that 40+ years later the stereotype of the lefty social worker is still accurate.
Ah..but is it possible to have an accurate character stereotype? Discuss.
rip mel,one of our greatest comedians
The way Mel Smith says "goolies" at 0:50 is hilarious.
Mel Smith, what a performer!
The wonderful Mel Smith - much missed !
This sketch was incredibly funny and I remember it so well. Great show it came from
The brilliant Mel Smith, loved him in Colins Sandwich.
Icf in no future in it
I wish we had comedy as good as this today.
Not allowed in this PC world.... err too many offended now
Shut up and appreciate that cock in a frock. ( That’s not at all funny. ) Mrs Browns Boys. That’s not even remotely funny. However there is the odd sketch here and there. That is that’s fuck all to Mel smith and griff Rees Jones.
We have, you are watching it, justice and peace.
I have not heard the term goolies in 20 years.
We use it all the time down our way.
+raphael44ify Along with the word "contrafibularities"?
@@slashingraven And are you anuspeptic, phrasmotic, or compunctuous?
@@DieFlabbergast What what WHAT!?
@Zoned 247 I'm a feminist, although not a politically correct one, and I agree with you.
Good thing the word "goolies" is defined in the description😂😂thank you!
I'm swiss, but i could still figure it out by myself. 🤓
Legend RIP Mel
Griffs response to Mels statement about cutting their goolies off is just perfect.
Rip The genius that was Mel Smith!
Cutting the goolies off for football hooligans was introduced as government policy in 1983.
Ken Bates electricuting them was the next step...
Yes, I recall.
Wish it had been 😆
They finished by saying, "cut 'em off" back and forth like it was one word, cut-m-off.
Cut 'em off.
Cut 'em off. '
Yes. Cut 'em off.
Cut 'em off.
I'll never forget that one. I saw the first airing. :D
Still makes me laugh years later.
😂Everyone was expecting some kind of retort from the 'social worker'. Her agreement was an unexpected twist and a great comedy moment.
They already laughing about "I know these kids". So used were we with those kind of inner-city social workers..
@@JJVernigHave you come across the brilliant radio comedy series ‘Clare in the Community? Takes the brain-dead lefty social worker to new heights!
Have to admit that English humor is straight in your face, hilarious!
Griff Rhys-Jones is a good actor.
His reaction at 0:52 is priceless.
He had to take time out to control himself and prevent cracking up. He nearly failed!
Yes. Just a notch below Smith and Pamela
Was Griff the actor that was a salesman in are you being served
@@catherinefroese4628 no wtf! 😂 Looks nothing like him 🤣
Remember the sketch well . Still hilarious . I imagine hooliganism would have disappeared overnight if castrations were introduced ! !
Amsterdammer here, and thinking this is a pretty good solution.
wow, thanks for posting this... great memories
Remember being in Oxford where Mel studied the day he passed away. There was palpable disbelief at the news.
Bloody hell where have I been? I had no idea Mel had died 😢
A terrific sketch. You can see that they’re all trying to hold it together.
Mel Smith- the class act. Perhaps the best in NTNOCN. Much under appreciated though.
You are honestly, seriously suggesting that Mel Smith was a greater comedic actor than Rowan Atkinson?! Have you been taking your medication recently?
@@DieFlabbergast It's just his opinion. Besides, most of us in this comments section can agree that we like the show, so... why not just enjoy the video instead of choosing to recognise some comment?
I completely agree with experts.
'Goolies'. Wow. I had forgotten that they were ever called that!
Not to be confused with a movie about kids seeking pirate treasure.
Perhaps we should do this to politicians that are caught 🤥 lying, in fact yes “cut them off” 😂🤣😂
Wotabout the ladies.
Amazing to think there was once a time when you could say "soccer" on English television.
Soccer AM has long been a thing, and Soccer Saturday
Hehe, I got the joke, CPG, even if Rachel didn't 🤭
"In tandem with and related to"…. Ha Ha! Those "scholars….!" the Professor of "Crowd Control Psyhchology" always kills me. RIP Mel Smith. Talented UK comedy from truly intelligent comics of the 1980s. The social worker - just her outfit deserves an Oscar. Talented Pamela Stephenson. She knows their "parents!" Comic genius. Weren't most of these comics Oxford and Cambridge graduates? Sophisticated comedy. I miss it.
Yes, they were all Oxbridge. I think Griff Rhys-Jones and Mel Smith were both Cambridge and Rowan Atkinson was Oxford. Actually, not sure about Pamela Stephenson?
Pamela Stephenson is actually an Australian actress. She's not Oxbridge. When this series was made she was married to Nicholas Ball, who appears in a sketch in Alas Smith and Jones about police and criminal slang. You probably know that these days Pamela Stephenson is married to Billy Connolly and works as a clinical psychologist.
Yes indeed sir!
@@geoffpoole483 NZ born, from Auckland.
I stand corrected.
RIP Mel Smith.
Griff struggling to keep a straight face is hilarious.
Brilliant show
Great sketch but cut too short on this vid. The continuation was also funny. I particularly remember laughing at "Slice them through".
Thanks , didn't know it was longer .
A true classic and now my answer to a lot of the world’s issues though perhaps not in the area of genital malnutrition.
1:17 Hats off to Pamela Stephenson here, she had a tough job following that outrageously funny opening From Mel and Griff but she pulled of her bit really well and was funny doing that cliche of a do-gooding social worker.
I made the same suggestion to a TV reporter in Aberdeen when I was asked outside the Bon Accord centre about football hooligans. Of course my contribution was cut from the news report.
Mel smith, comic genius, r.i.p.
Ah, the sweet old days when football hooliganism was considered a serious social ill.
Very true. Now a completely & unequivocally solved problem. You can't even go to a game now!
I forgot how funny this show could be.
All these years later and they never did accept the advice to cut off their goolies.
I think my all time favourite is the rampant maceral ashtray sketch.
When I was a kid in the late 70's, Not The 9 O'Clock news was the show not to be missed. It was rude and edgy for the time. Then came the Young Ones!!!!
Both essential viewing back then.
Great observation!
Classic sketch classic show
Great TV show; Pamela so fit.
Within a generation of this show Cockney was extinct in the East End of London.
You're 'avin a larff, incha?
Lambeth and Lewisham are not the East End, but south London. But yes, Cockney has disappeared, moved and merged with the Essex accent in places like Chemlsford and Colchester.
While , simultaneously, those from Ilford have, also , taken a further step out and blended their accent with the Norfolk ones..@ @@lecco666
Indeed. A valued heritage, and now with a hostile and violent Islamic colonisation.
That's the Far Left's answer. Effing Brilliant !
It's strange, I'm from the North East of England, had sum old mod lads they said the same, have u seen the last east enders, think it was called that about the west ham fans and the social club, very interesting
I had this sketch on tape, I guess it was from a NTNON album, and at the end, Pamela Stephenson almost screams "SLICE THEM THROUGH!" That line is almost inaudible in this version, and it's hilarious.
There was a bit of a nod to this in the 1995 movie "I.D." when Philip Glenister uttered a very similar line . ..
The very same man used it again in either Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes or both. I wish he was on TV more.
Good old days, like a fucking theme park going to a top flight English Match these days.
Miss ya Mel god bless
The most underrated comic duo ever. Much funnier than Morecambe and wise or the two Ronnies.
Better than Morecambe and wise I agree, but better than two Ronnie's? 😂 Barker was a comedy genius and a genius of playing on words and phrases and use of the English language was incredible, Corbett was a great story teller, a natural at writing gags and monologues
Smith and Jones were brilliant but to compare them to the two Ronnie's is demented .... next you'll be telling us Mrs brown's boy's is the best sitcom ever....come back when you've learnt a lot more about comedy ffs 😂
@@TheReesi73 chill. I still like the two Ronnies, and I hate Mrs Brown. But Smith & Jones were the most consistently hilarious sketch show comedians of the 80s
I don't think its fair to the compare them. Their all pretty funny in their own ways. It's a bit like saying Heath Ledger was a better Joker than Jack Nicholson or Joaquin Phoenix. Their 3 completely different animals.
@@LoudaroundLincoln well yes I can compare jokers and comedy duos as they are alike and to therefore comparable. Maybe YOU can't compare them but I can.
Funnier than Morecambe and Wise yes but no way better than the Two R's.
Some "football" fans insist that "football" was never called "soccer" in England but this video proves that it was.
“soccer” originated as English public school slang, asSOCiation football became soccer and RUGby football became rugger.
Yes that's rite we used to have star soccer on Sunday I recall it's mostly called soccer in USA tho
Football faced a ban from Edward II in the 13th century because it was too rowdy and the King thought the state was going to lose control of the mob...it has never been soccer, that is like calling swimming, mountaineering...
@@lesart3446 There's a long history of the modern game of association football being called soccer. The football of the medieval period bears little relation to the modern game. It was violent, brutal and often featured several hundred on each side. It appears to have resulted in many deaths, serious injuries and riots over the years hence the multiple (unsuccessful) attempts to ban it over several centuries.
The name Association Football comes from the Football Association which successfully codified the rules (about 1860) which were eventually adopted across the world.
As stated above, soccer is an abbreviation of association football. The name's been in use since the sport's invention to show that one is referring to association football and not to any of the other games that are also called football (Rugby football, American football, Gaelic football, Aussie Rules, etc.).
I have no idea why you say the game has "never" been called soccer. There must be tens of thousands - probably more - references to the soccer in books, newspapers, newsreels, television programmes and films, etc. over the last 170 years. Although much less popular than the term "football", "soccer" is still in common usage in the UK and it's the dominant usage in the USA, Australia and the rest of the Anglosphere.
Soccer was what posh people called it.
Gary Young can Cyberman play Snooker? 1:51
Just realized how much Griff looks like Hugh Grant.
Mel was a genius
R.I.P Mel :-(
I saw the thumbnail caption to this video and thought Mr Smith was Mike Graham from talk radio! They're spitting images of one another
Timeless classic
Classic comedy at it's best :)))))))))))))
Many a true word said in jest.
mel RIP
And the conclusion is still true :)
there were a great comedy team miss u mel xxx
It would definitely work. Complete success.
Mel and Rik are making it awesome in heaven right now.
Huge Scullery! Hilarious!
Superb.
Bloody hell did David Cameron style himself on this clip of Griff?
She had always curled my toes! I REALLY MISS REAL COMEDY ON THE TELE!!!
I saw Mel Smith in an episode of Minder the other night. He was playing the part of a hard man music manager. i couldn't take him seriously, as I kept waiting for him to say "Cut them right off". He's just got one of those faces for comedy, much like Rowan Atkinson.
So "Oi! Oi! Oi!" will become "eee! eee! eee!"
I know what you're thinking, no it's the cities that made guys go Reeee! As economic changes have made it harder for people to live outside of them, so they're stuck doing lame jobs and watching girls they can't have
I'm kind of surprised that they used the word soccer and not football considering its British comedy show
Although many English folk make a big baby fuss about the use of the term soccer by North Americans it's all bullshit. The term is an English invention, an abbreviation of 'association' football which distinguished it from other football forms such as 'rugby' football (or 'rugger'). If you look at old English television or newsreels the term soccer was frequently used. It's facsinating how many English people have come to believe that 'football' is the sole proper and traditional term. One could argue that 'fußball' is the most apposite name, given that the bloody Germans are clearly better at it than everyone else. Having said that, it is also important to remember that it is the greatest game ever invented and that pretty much all other sports are irrelevant, not that I'm biased.
Stephen Piper Thanks yeah I'm a where that the word soccer is an English term I learned about it in high school because I couldn't understand why we Americans used the term soccer to describe it. It's just that in more resent years the term football is more commonly used around the world than soccer is. The only thing I'm not really sure of is when did the name change from soccer to football.
Growing up, we (the Brits) used soccer and football interchangeably; that was partly because many people used Football to refer to Rugby Football. That's died out but in Australia, 'footie' is Aussie Rules. It's only in the last twenty years that the word soccer has come to be seen as an Americanism and that's primarily because in the US, the official term is Soccer ie the MSL. Everywhere else it's Football.
Gooner Tim Thanks for clearing that up. I've always wondered why Brits stopped using a word they invented. Of course today football makes more sense since it's more direct.
YEAH, well quite---but never mind that shit--this is a great sketch.
ah the good old days .where have they gone ?.
You can tell this is middle class humour. ITS CALLED FOOTBALL.
Still brilliant.
Still applies today.
And if they had back then, we probably wouldn't have football hooligans today
Absolute genius.
Pamela Stephenson - and God created woman...
Hi , you are.Adrian Mole? ;)
Goodbye Mel.
Like they say - great comedy is rooted in truth. And I'm sure there are two versions of this sketch with the same cast except in the alternate version, Mel plays the Conservative candidate for an upcoming by-election but Pamela still plays the leftie social worker. I think the catch phrase in the other version is "Kick them in the goolies" but otherwise the script is the same.
Brilliant 🌞