So so funny! Even the checked jacket is exactly like those Barry Took used to wear. I love the revolving chair at the end! Griff Rhys Jones is brilliant!
I can remember when the TV didn't start until 4:30pm in the afternoon, imagine how much energy and brain-cells we could save if there was no daytime television ?
@@b.p4958 1966/67 - specifically I'm talking about Southern Television commencing programmes well after we got home from school. Programmes started with a 5 minute selection of nice pictures of the local area including Oast Houses in Kent while the New World Symphony by Dvorak played in the background. The BBC had programmes at lunchtimes, the news and Watch with Mother (Bill & Ben, Andy Pandy et al) but even they went to Test Card in the afternoons on weekdays. I remember when BBC2 started it didn't start until the evenings and would show Trade Test Transmissions during the day which were short films which seemed to repeat endlessly.
Two 'The Day Today' correspondents (Ted Maul and Colattely Sisters) were named after two BBC employees who regularly wrote false letters of praise to 'Points of View', posing as members of the viewing public.
I personally think that £400 a year is far too low especially on the poor. I would willing pay £2,000 a month for their coverage of Nelson Mandela's death alone. WELL DONE BEEB ANOTHER WINNER!
I personally think £2,000 a month far too low and should be at least £10,000 a week because its clear James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson don't have enough money to play with and don't offend enough.
I wonder whether the BBC manager who recently stated the BBC was worth £400 a year when compared to all the streaming services thought this brilliant sketch was a documentary.
I'd like to congratulate the BBC on their recent coverage of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Well done BBC. I'd gladly pay 1 billion pounds for my licence
Another point. If you buy any media such as CD/Blu-Ray/DVD sourced from the BBC you should be able to produce your TV License for a hefty discount as we've already paid for it.
+Nick Forbes-Warren What I don't get is why they axed Ceefax to replace it with a looping preview. Of all the nighttime filler content they could have had!
I would willingly pay the BBC £400 a month if it could show the Test Card on Saturday evenings instead of The Wheel - the worst ever game show. Very funny sketch, by the way.
£ 32 licence fee in 1980 and now it's over four times as much and the BBC is a load of crap, to quote that letter, a lot of the time these days. Mind you it's still Shakespear compared to ITV, which has really gone down the drain.
Yes indeed, this outdated scheme is still in place in the UK, however it isn't the only country still insisting on fees to fund state broadcasting. A number of European countries do the same, plus a few other assorted countries worldwide.
Does anyone remember a similar sketch, in which people write in complaining about the actors who read out the letters, which are, of course, read out by the actors being complained about?
Not sure... I recall a similar sketch in Spitting Image with a young girl's letter being read out by a gruff, middle-aged man ("I *don't* talk like this!") if that's any use.
Why don' t we have satire like this now? Oh I forgot it might offend the snowflakes. How I miss political satire programs like N.T.N.O.C.N and Spitting image.
@@carlosantuckwell I'm a Brit, so might be mistaken, but I think there was a TV licence in Australia. Since it was abolished ABC has been funded out of government funds (ie the Aussie taxpayer), so you're still paying for it (even those without a TV), but they're concealing it better.
I think in Sweden they have a state broadcaster like most other countries. The BBC isn't a state broadcaster, it's independent and has to ask the government to approve any increase in the licence fee. It's true left wing governments are more likely to agree to such a request and right wing ones less likely, however, the current Coalition has frozen the licence for five years. The BBC gets accused of bias whichever government is in office.
Candolad Tell us right wing views the bbc supports? Just a few left wing views supported by the beeb: pro Arab anti Israeli, transsexualism, extensions of gay rights, pro abortion, pro EU, pro SNP, pro immigration. To give one further proof that you cannot say is opinion- they have a target of employing 20% LGBT.
I would gladly pay £4K a day not to watch the BBC crap. However I cancelled the licence fee 3 years ago so I’m free to watch other crap on here for free.. sort of.
This is basically the answer you get now from the BBC complaints procedure. Not the Nine O'clock News was so ahead of its time.
Except that you get it in a Scottish accent.
Why are you complaining to the bbc
So so funny! Even the checked jacket is exactly like those Barry Took used to wear. I love the revolving chair at the end! Griff Rhys Jones is brilliant!
They brought back Points of View and I saw it today. They have had 30 years to change and this is still horribly accurate.
I wrote to the BBC complaining about the licence fee back in the day and they replied
"This has nothing to do with us"
Cyril .......
....even the light worked when we opened the fridge door
This is still hilarious. The way he captures Barry Took’s tone is brilliant
I like the end bit with our "Barry Took" looking like he is about to be sick as he revolves, very very funny even now
computersolutions164 I didn't even notice that til you pointed it out. It's hysterical.
+theeddielang I don't think he being sick, I think he dizzy and about to fall off the chair.
I love Griff Rhys Jones
still hilarious after 32 years! :)
Make that 39
@@dkizxpt-su3ze Make that 40
Make that 41
42
@@jameskvo 42 and 2 weeks...
I'm still cracking up with laughter after that sketch!
I can remember when the TV didn't start until 4:30pm in the afternoon, imagine how much energy and brain-cells we could save if there was no daytime television ?
An excellent idea - but what about the unemployed: you can’t smoke and masturbate all day!
@@Eustace.h.plimsoll6625 We used to - Capstan Full Strength and Underwear Catalogues - Ah! the good ole days!
What year are you talking about
@@b.p4958 1966/67 - specifically I'm talking about Southern Television commencing programmes well after we got home from school.
Programmes started with a 5 minute selection of nice pictures of the local area including Oast Houses in Kent while the New World Symphony by Dvorak played in the background.
The BBC had programmes at lunchtimes, the news and Watch with Mother (Bill & Ben, Andy Pandy et al) but even they went to Test Card in the afternoons on weekdays.
I remember when BBC2 started it didn't start until the evenings and would show Trade Test Transmissions during the day which were short films which seemed to repeat endlessly.
I used to have this on an album in the early 80s, "We Are Most Amused: The Very Best Of British Comedy
", I used to wet myself laughing.
Two 'The Day Today' correspondents (Ted Maul and Colattely Sisters) were named after two BBC employees who regularly wrote false letters of praise to 'Points of View', posing as members of the viewing public.
Citation?
Chinny reckon.
What about Brian O'Hanraha Hanrahan?
pure class! still stands up today.
I personally think that £400 a year is far too low especially on the poor. I would willing pay £2,000 a month for their coverage of Nelson Mandela's death alone. WELL DONE BEEB ANOTHER WINNER!
I personally think £2,000 a month far too low and should be at least £10,000 a week because its clear James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson don't have enough money to play with and don't offend enough.
+cheesehoven Well I'd willingly pay this for another 10,000 Pointless shows on a loop and to ensure Eggheads is shown for the next 50 years.
LOL very funny! Loving the comedy take on such a programme and nice to have Stevenage mentioned too! where I work!
I wonder whether the BBC manager who recently stated the BBC was worth £400 a year when compared to all the streaming services thought this brilliant sketch was a documentary.
"Well done the BBC. Another winner" Brilliant!
Yes,Janet Brown sounding like Maggie Thatcher... :)
I'd like to congratulate the BBC on their recent coverage of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Well done BBC. I'd gladly pay 1 billion pounds for my licence
I like how all letters have the same handwriting and are obviously written on the same kind of paper with the same pen and ink.
I noticed that - brilliant!
That is the joke...
Thanks for explaining that 🤦
@@followtheboat You welcome. A pleasure to enlighten you.
Wonderful stuff thank you !
Another point. If you buy any media such as CD/Blu-Ray/DVD sourced from the BBC you should be able to produce your TV License for a hefty discount as we've already paid for it.
Excellent stuff. Sounds like Rowan Atkinson reading the "letters"...
fair and balanced
This was first broadcast on the day Rishi Sunak was born
I love it that every letter is obviously written by the same person!
"I think the BBC is a load of crap!" epic
I'm Mr Mulligan and I still think 'the BBC is a load of crap.'
I agree with you Mr Mulligan!
I'm with you Mr Mulligan.
Well I’m the late Barry Took and I still think you’re a load of old crap too Mr Mulligan
@@RMahaffey Touche monsieur
I agree with Richard MAHAFFEY.
6 people are called Mr Mulligan and the BBC thinks they're crap too.
I used to think the liscence fee was worth £400...until they got rid of the test card. I miss that. :-(
I used to live in Roehampton 😂
The test card is an absolute winner compared with the crap put out these days!!
Believe it or not there's appreciation society for the test card.
I've heard of it, think it's called the Test Card Circle or something like that.
+Nick Forbes-Warren What I don't get is why they axed Ceefax to replace it with a looping preview. Of all the nighttime filler content they could have had!
to Nick Forbes-Warren : D
that green balloon she's holding (or whatever it was) used to give me nightmares
Love the way they've spelt "exellent"!
Way ahead of its time.
So that's where the suggestion of £400 per year was first formed. It's become a bigger joke since then.
classic!!!!
I would willingly pay the BBC £400 a month if it could show the Test Card on Saturday evenings instead of The Wheel - the worst ever game show.
Very funny sketch, by the way.
I've just sent this video to a friend who is incensed by the BBC breaking away from thr Djokovic/Alcarez tennis match at the Olympics.
mr mulligan spot on
It would have been perfect if he does an impression of Bill Clinton.
spot on
more reason to never pay for the useless TV tax
"Barry Took" sounds more like Denis Norden.
Mr mulligans spot on
Note how the licence fee has quintupled in price in less than 40 years and still full of repeats all year round. 🤔
I Saw it originally & I was Surprised that it let ANYBODY critisize it.... :)
brilliant
Bring back this type of humour, it was in an era when you could say anything, without offending anybody or any snowflakes, like we have now.
Hey 2014 called, it wants its brainless fascist talking points back.
I'd love to comment on this, but unfortunately I sold my house with all it's contents to pay my license fee....
I came here because I thought someone doing an impression of Bill Clinton.
Such a pity it was the wrong era.
Excellent fun from the BBC.
It was becoming a Monty Python sketch
So very subversive. Love it!
£32 for a TV license, how times change.
So true
I'd gladly pay £32 for my Tv License.
1:17 LOL
£ 32 licence fee in 1980 and now it's over four times as much and the BBC is a load of crap, to quote that letter, a lot of the time these days. Mind you it's still Shakespear compared to ITV, which has really gone down the drain.
ITV s gone round the u bend.
How dare you !---IT'S MUCH WORSE THAN THAT.
£32 in 1980 is now, after inflation, worth around £125.
Glenn Cumbria
Glenn Cumbria Not for me its not! I just dont pay it, not now, not then, not ever.
I wonder if anybody at the time wrote in using that address?
Do UK citizens still pay for a licence? It'd be like paying someone a fee and then ask them to kick you in the balls.
Yes indeed, this outdated scheme is still in place in the UK, however it isn't the only country still insisting on fees to fund state broadcasting. A number of European countries do the same, plus a few other assorted countries worldwide.
A BIT OF THAT MUSIC SOUNDS LIKE THE JEREMY KYLE SHOW
Does anyone remember a similar sketch, in which people write in complaining about the actors who read out the letters, which are, of course, read out by the actors being complained about?
Not sure... I recall a similar sketch in Spitting Image with a young girl's letter being read out by a gruff, middle-aged man ("I *don't* talk like this!") if that's any use.
Skewered! And yet, 40 years on, the BBC still deems itself above contradiction.
NTNOCN was on the BBC
The music sounds like an older version of the Jeremy Kyle Show theme tune.
topical!
Haha he sounds like Noel Feilding
I wish it was still £32 now.
AND THE NATIONAL AVERAGE WAGE AT £ 15,000
Ah, English working-class Obedience! Why not wish it be abolished all together?!
@@carlosantuckwell What "obedience"?
It should be put back to £32 rather then £157
Kanga chunks nearly cut my bloody hand off.
Feels so weird seeing the BBC make fun of themselves like this
I thought I saw Bill Clinton
That was remember ppl pre twitter era.
BBC laughing at itself, like it
Thank goodness we don't have them here. I wouldn't get my moneys worth for it
Why don' t we have satire like this now? Oh I forgot it might offend the snowflakes. How I miss political satire programs like N.T.N.O.C.N and Spitting image.
32 quid!
We all think the bbc is a load a crap too..
👍
Anyone know where I can find the Watchdog spoof?
What Watchdog spoof. NTNON was long gone before Watchdog started.
@@hughcdavies Watchdog was originally a segment of Nationwide, about the time of NTNON.
In Sweden we pay £195 a year for the privilege of watching crap television and state propaganda. TV license is a joke and should be abolished.
Immopimmo Thank goodness we don't have them here in Australia anymore. I'd go without if we did and just go to the pub to watch my sport
We never had them in Australia. (Maybe licence for radio before there was TV, but that's before my time.)
@@carlosantuckwell I'm a Brit, so might be mistaken, but I think there was a TV licence in Australia. Since it was abolished ABC has been funded out of government funds (ie the Aussie taxpayer), so you're still paying for it (even those without a TV), but they're concealing it better.
I think in Sweden they have a state broadcaster like most other countries.
The BBC isn't a state broadcaster, it's independent and has to ask the government to approve any increase in the licence fee. It's true left wing governments are more likely to agree to such a request and right wing ones less likely, however, the current Coalition has frozen the licence for five years. The BBC gets accused of bias whichever government is in office.
Candolad
Tell us right wing views the bbc supports?
Just a few left wing views supported by the beeb: pro Arab anti Israeli, transsexualism, extensions of gay rights, pro abortion, pro EU, pro SNP, pro immigration.
To give one further proof that you cannot say is opinion- they have a target of employing 20% LGBT.
Ever since they got rid of real proper top gear I can agree with the last one the BBC is a load of crap
I miss the original MUSIC Top Gear
Now also funded by the EU.... should be the EUBC
YEP--AND DON'T IT SHOW ? AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT.
Nowadays the bbcs not worth shite.
Today’s bbc
They were funny you know, weren't they?
I would gladly pay £4K a day not to watch the BBC crap. However I cancelled the licence fee 3 years ago so I’m free to watch other crap on here for free.. sort of.
BBC of 2022 would like to produce Points of View like this, considering the current incumbent conservative governments hatred for the BBC.
Justified hatred.
I think the BBC is a load of crap these days! That's why I stopped paying for a TV license two years ago....