I was on a cruise a couple of years ago, and the guy who played the surfer was giving talks on board. He went on to be a director/producer and his daughter is in the business now. Very interesting guy.
Haha! I came back from a cruise a couple of weeks ago and he was giving talks there! He's obviously now on the cruise ship circuit fulltime. Did he talk about playing one half of the Queen in Aliens?
Hehehehe I remember this. And all the other great Carling ads. I just got it now...what he meant by straight glass!!! The surfer was very camp and he was checking if he was straight or not....never get away with that now, but its still funny. I miss the 80s sometimes....
I didn't pick up on that until you mention it here,but when I saw this ad that kind of deadpan quip reminded me of a then-recent afternoon when I walked into a pub in St Albans with a pair of Venus Fly Traps I'd bought from a garden centre and the barman peered into them and said "no,they like water. Beer's bad for them."
@@simonatford1 ... it became a common phrase when somebody did something different or special... one of the best campaigns at the time... but would not be allowed today..
That’s the Funniest Carling Black Label Surfer Advert ever the Surfer One & the King Arthur 1991 Carling Black Label Adverts both with Mark Arden & Steve Frost in
I have never been compared to David Essex - but they spent days doing my tan and hair LOL I was the CBL man and this is how I did it - ua-cam.com/video/XfiF-w2ugzk/v-deo.html in the 80's I did a number of Carling Black Label commercials.
Yes they were. They are still around. One of them played a fireman on Londons Burning the drama series for a while. Also they were on Friday Night / Saturday Live with Ben Elton and Rik and Ade too...and in the Comic Strip Presents...they were very very funny in their own way, and more understated and less physical, so more often that not are over looked. Some classics from these two in the Young Ones...Police I.Q. shocker where they are talking about looking at life, and one has argued with his girlfriend and made a nasty comment about the Pope....The other says - "You fool! You know her family is Catholic!" And the other replies - " Yeah....but I didn't know the Pope was!" Utterly hysterical, corny and stupid and the fact that they are dressed up as coppers as well...and it zooms out to be the headline of a newspaper article called - Police I.Q. Shocker! There has never been anything like the Young Ones since, with the mad cutaways and weird puppets and other stuff happening at random thats nearly as funny as the four guys in the flat....
I was on a cruise a couple of years ago, and the guy who played the surfer was giving talks on board. He went on to be a director/producer and his daughter is in the business now. Very interesting guy.
Haha! I came back from a cruise a couple of weeks ago and he was giving talks there! He's obviously now on the cruise ship circuit fulltime. Did he talk about playing one half of the Queen in Aliens?
Hehehehe I remember this. And all the other great Carling ads. I just got it now...what he meant by straight glass!!! The surfer was very camp and he was checking if he was straight or not....never get away with that now, but its still funny. I miss the 80s sometimes....
I didn't pick up on that until you mention it here,but when I saw this ad that kind of deadpan quip reminded me of a then-recent afternoon when I walked into a pub in St Albans with a pair of Venus Fly Traps I'd bought from a garden centre and the barman peered into them and said "no,they like water. Beer's bad for them."
@@rjjcms1 Heheheh it is....Venus Fly Traps....those things are wild....I have two cats that sort out the flies or anything else that gets in here...
I remember this advert back then. It was a blatant dig at the Old Spice aftershave advert.
Nothing gets past you, does it?😅
Another Great Advert Carling Black Label Surf
I was the CBL man and this is how I did it -
ua-cam.com/video/XfiF-w2ugzk/v-deo.html in the 80's I did a number of Carling Black Label commercials.
Yep... a time when adverts were a parody and also funny.. somebody should revive the carling brand... sod the old spice aftershave..
Carling Black Label hasn't gone away. The '80s ads were great. Shame about the beer.
@@simonatford1 ... most teenagers at the time couldn’t tell pi**water from dishwater... but the adverts were great pick up lines..🙂
I wasn't old enough to drink when these ads were on but I was quite a late starter booze wise.
@@simonatford1 ... it became a common phrase when somebody did something different or special... one of the best campaigns at the time... but would not be allowed today..
@@franceleeparis37 Why would it not be allowed today?
That’s the Funniest Carling Black Label Surfer Advert ever the Surfer One & the King Arthur 1991 Carling Black Label Adverts both with Mark Arden & Steve Frost in
Now we have the nights in white satin music used, time for another dig?
Is it me or does the blue ad guy look like David Essex of old?
I have never been compared to David Essex - but they spent days doing my tan and hair LOL I was the CBL man and this is how I did it -
ua-cam.com/video/XfiF-w2ugzk/v-deo.html in the 80's I did a number of Carling Black Label commercials.
"And it pays well as well!"
Weren't the main two blokes sitting down in The Young Ones? Were they a comedy duo of some sort?
Yes they were. They are still around. One of them played a fireman on Londons Burning the drama series for a while. Also they were on Friday Night / Saturday Live with Ben Elton and Rik and Ade too...and in the Comic Strip Presents...they were very very funny in their own way, and more understated and less physical, so more often that not are over looked. Some classics from these two in the Young Ones...Police I.Q. shocker where they are talking about looking at life, and one has argued with his girlfriend and made a nasty comment about the Pope....The other says - "You fool! You know her family is Catholic!"
And the other replies - " Yeah....but I didn't know the Pope was!"
Utterly hysterical, corny and stupid and the fact that they are dressed up as coppers as well...and it zooms out to be the headline of a newspaper article called - Police I.Q. Shocker!
There has never been anything like the Young Ones since, with the mad cutaways and weird puppets and other stuff happening at random thats nearly as funny as the four guys in the flat....
You may have seen the one who says, "I bet he drinks..." as the head of the firing squad who nearly shoot Rowen Atkinson in Blackadder Goes Forth.
The Oblivion Boys were very underrated comedians.