I remember on one of those countdown shows that Mike Reid described Harry Enfield as a great impressionist, and he was absolutely right. Everything he does is so impeccably observed and the attention to little details is exceptional.
Go on. Get out, you bitch. I like the star's name: Michael Hemingstamp. A composite of England's top movie sh*ts of the sixties : Michael Caine, David Hemmings (all the pointless driving around and parties in Blow Up) and Terence Stamp, who I don't know so well. It's very closely observed.
Way before the silliness of Austin Powers this was a true satire of the 60's. A gem. The antithesis of "The Family Way" starring Hywell Bennett and Hayley Mills.
Antonioni's Blow Up as well. In the original David Hemmings drives around fairly pointlessly in his convertible. The Yardbirds make a cameo appearance. He (Hemmings) buys an aeroplane propeller on a whim and puts it over the back seat. The whole film is a weird visual stream of consciousness. Everybody is really groovy. Blow Up is like its very own parody.
Spoilt rich blokes and art school drop outs. Every second art school student / drop out was either in a band or starting one. In London it was King's Road, Carnaby Street and Chelsea, plus some music clubs scattered about. Most people weren't "groovy". For most ordinary people the sixties didn't "swing".
I've used the I hope you die soon line many times over the years. It's amazing that no matter how much of a comedy voice you put on it, it nearly always manages to cause offence.
@@davidc4571 You mean to say you didn't just put headphones on and pretend you couldn't hear the ticket inspector, while saying things like "What? Tickets for cheese?"
Watched The Graduate the other day, a favourite film of mine growing up. It has not aged well...it's basically the story of a privileged stalker. People complain about political correctness but you watch some of the shit from back then and fucking hell it's a good thing PC exists, at least a certain necessary minimum.
@@thesprawl2361 Don't PC need to exist to stop that kind of movie. It existed because the directors and writers were creepy man children that used these characters as self inserts.
"Michael Heminigstamp" I take it he's based on Michel Cain, David Hemmings and Terrance Stamp. Come to think of it, essentially those films were like that. "Blow up" for example.
I'm currently re-reading Keith Richards' autobiog -- yeah, I think you're not far off the mark. If anything, the bloke here is possibly a little more gentle.
Brilliant comment. There have been quite a few articles and a documentary about him in the last few weeks. As said below, Enfield portrays an equally empty but not as nasty character. Enfield has a genius for not bullying his characters and renders them all as oddly likeable or pitiable
And a parody of 1960s actuality. I was in Aberystwyth Milk Bar in the late 1960s when a crying young girl at a nearby table told her boyfriend she was pregnant. The charmer replied that that he’d “broken in loads of chicks” and she wasn’t one, so there was no way of knowing. Still wishing her well.
Which series was this sketch from? I've never seen Blowup but a lot of films were like that in the 60s: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush and The Knack and How To Get It to name two.
The swinging sixties. These films were very popular along with "Kitchen Sink" drama on the television. It was an opportunity for the middle classes to gaze into the lives of the working classes and degenerates safe from getting infected with something. It also assuaged their consciences with their drinking, gambling, drugs and wife swapping. The young were pretty clueless. Some idea from the idiot in the classroom caught on, they all tried it! Then there was the music and fashion that came on the scene at the right time to exploit them. Oh those halcyon days.
That was funny. And it was a piss take of Antonioni's film, Blow Up, with David Hemings playing a very David Bailey-esque 60's photographer. I thought it was pretty cool.
Lol! Way to not get the joke at all and just see it as a chance to air your tired, cliched, pub-bore views on SJWs, feminists and...The UN secretary? What? 🧐
@@vooveks The number of SJWs making themselves known in comment sections? Zero. The number of people complaining about SJWs and bringing them up at every tedious opportunity? Fifty fucking billion million zillion.
Harry Enfield is unbelievably good at capturing the essence of films from different decades-the mannerisms, accents-even the costuming is spot on!
I remember on one of those countdown shows that Mike Reid described Harry Enfield as a great impressionist, and he was absolutely right. Everything he does is so impeccably observed and the attention to little details is exceptional.
@@LeeGee That was standard policy for sketch shows in those days. It wasn't until the late 90s it was abandoned. Doesn't mean he wasn't funny
Go on. Get out, you bitch.
I like the star's name: Michael Hemingstamp. A composite of England's top movie sh*ts of the sixties : Michael Caine, David Hemmings (all the pointless driving around and parties in Blow Up) and Terence Stamp, who I don't know so well. It's very closely observed.
"What are you laughing at?"
"I don't know"... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Way before the silliness of Austin Powers this was a true satire of the 60's. A gem.
The antithesis of "The Family Way" starring Hywell Bennett and Hayley Mills.
yes, the Family Way!
And The Knack.
Antonioni's Blow Up as well. In the original David Hemmings drives around fairly pointlessly in his convertible. The Yardbirds make a cameo appearance. He (Hemmings) buys an aeroplane propeller on a whim and puts it over the back seat. The whole film is a weird visual stream of consciousness. Everybody is really groovy. Blow Up is like its very own parody.
To this day, over 30yrs later, when I walk into a dark room, I always say "WHO TURNED THE LOITS AIRT?"
Well done. Someone is bound to tell you eventually.
Next time a woman tells me she loves me, I'm going to respond "I thought you might, everybody does".
This seems to sum up the 60s pretty well. If you were a spoilt rich bloke then I’m sure you had a bloody good time…
Spoilt rich blokes and art school drop outs. Every second art school student / drop out was either in a band or starting one. In London it was King's Road, Carnaby Street and Chelsea, plus some music clubs scattered about. Most people weren't "groovy".
For most ordinary people the sixties didn't "swing".
I've used the I hope you die soon line many times over the years. It's amazing that no matter how much of a comedy voice you put on it, it nearly always manages to cause offence.
20 years ago I used to bunk the trains, and upon receipt of a fine, that line was the one I gave to the ticket inspectors, bit harsh looking back now!
Get in you bitch.
Oh dear Dave! If it's broke, ya wanna fix it mate lol
hahaha!! Me too. It really is perfect for every occasion!
@@davidc4571 You mean to say you didn't just put headphones on and pretend you couldn't hear the ticket inspector, while saying things like "What? Tickets for cheese?"
Great memories watching Harry, nothing like him now sadly
Yea, Because we no longer have freedom of Speech.
Gawd bless ya for posting this! I've been quoting it for years, but was unable to track it down. Priceless!
Alfie springs to mind, right nasty bit of work.
Watched The Graduate the other day, a favourite film of mine growing up. It has not aged well...it's basically the story of a privileged stalker.
People complain about political correctness but you watch some of the shit from back then and fucking hell it's a good thing PC exists, at least a certain necessary minimum.
@@thesprawl2361 Don't PC need to exist to stop that kind of movie. It existed because the directors and writers were creepy man children that used these characters as self inserts.
@@tucolalo8251 Have you even seen the Graduate? Keep your projection to yourself.
I tried talking to the missus like this. I'm one bollock short now. How I miss the 60's!
Love it, surprised it's not both 😂😂
Charlie Higson rocks a great Beatles moptop 😄
Soon as I saw the character he was playing I thought Tony Blackburn.
@@mjp8648 I thought Oliver Reed.
Reminds me of Alan Bates in quite a few 60s films
"Get in, yer bitch." I once said that to my best friend's girlfriend when we arrived to pick her up. Thankfully, everyone found it funny.
I must try that myself.
I believe it's a satire on the actor David Hemmings and in particular his role in the 1966 film Blowup
"Michael Heminigstamp" I take it he's based on Michel Cain, David Hemmings and Terrance Stamp.
Come to think of it, essentially those films were like that. "Blow up" for example.
And Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving
I imagine Brian Jones being like this 😂
I'm currently re-reading Keith Richards' autobiog -- yeah, I think you're not far off the mark. If anything, the bloke here is possibly a little more gentle.
Brilliant comment. There have been quite a few articles and a documentary about him in the last few weeks. As said below, Enfield portrays an equally empty but not as nasty character. Enfield has a genius for not bullying his characters and renders them all as oddly likeable or pitiable
Definitely!!!!
Good pisstake of David Hemmings in Blowup
Wow that girl's the spit of Rita Tushingham who starred in films like Taste of Honey and The Knack which this sketch perfectly parodies
Next stop for her, if parents reject her: Cathy Come Home. Mind you, the real girl portrayed in She's Leaving Home turned out OK
Script, acting, photography, editing... everything absolutely pitch-perfect 😎
What a fantastic parody of certain 60s films!
And a parody of 1960s actuality. I was in Aberystwyth Milk Bar in the late 1960s when a crying young girl at a nearby table told her boyfriend she was pregnant. The charmer replied that that he’d “broken in loads of chicks” and she wasn’t one, so there was no way of knowing. Still wishing her well.
It pairs beautifully with "The Knock" (parody of Dick Lester's "The Knack" made by a young, edgy Benny Hill when that film was still current!)
About sums up Swinging 60s lol
Perfect satire. It shows what many men thought of the sexual revolution.
Observational comedy at its best!
Absolutely fooking hilarious 🤣
I watched a 60s Film with Michael Caine recently. He was almost just as rude and disrespectful as Enfield in this Film. But this is funnier
Alfie?
@@darganx Yeah thats the one!!
Shadows... on me lungs... I'm being eaten away!
Nobert Smith is also excellent if you can find it!
Cheers Krayonfix, it seems we share the same kind of humour, I have been looking for it everywhere. Its a classic, love it.
So bloody funny!
You might at least have said thank you!
Just brilliant comedy
Which series was this sketch from? I've never seen Blowup but a lot of films were like that in the 60s: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush and The Knack and How To Get It to name two.
I.m sure it's based on Hywel Bennett
Certainly looks like him!
Appalling to think these cads exist.
The swinging sixties. These films were very popular along with "Kitchen Sink" drama on the television. It was an opportunity for the middle classes to gaze into the lives of the working classes and degenerates safe from getting infected with something. It also assuaged their consciences with their drinking, gambling, drugs and wife swapping. The young were pretty clueless. Some idea from the idiot in the classroom caught on, they all tried it! Then there was the music and fashion that came on the scene at the right time to exploit them. Oh those halcyon days.
Exploitation at it's finest!
Ahhh, the swing in sixties
Too funny. Captures that 69s essence.
That was funny. And it was a piss take of Antonioni's film, Blow Up, with David Hemings playing a very David Bailey-esque 60's photographer. I thought it was pretty cool.
Just so clever.
The real Austin Powers
Nice and sick
When Harry was funny, the good old days
Women, know your limits!
Cannes material if ever I sawd it 😎
Spot on
Its a parody of a cross between the Beetles film Magical Mystery Tour and the David Hemmings character he played in the film Blow U0 😂😂😂
That actress is gorgeous.
Rachel Fielding.
Liam Gallagher as film critic.
I love this scene soo funny
My god, is that Justin Hayward?
Treat them mean Harry, lol
Lovely Austin Healey, but the engine seems a bit worn. M.
Ha ha ha. What are you laughing at? I don't know.
Do the washing up on your way out
nice car.
Ik, got it from the shit ha
Austin Healey 3000. Loved the detail where the starter was a separate button, not on the key! Petrol in those days was 5 bob a gallon (ie 25 pence).
Michael Hemmingstamp ...
I remember seeing this when it first came out. It was a private screening in Soho. Marianne Faithfull was there, but she was an awful bore.
Even the audio was 60s sound
Hilarious
😍
what you laughing at? i odn't know! LOL
Satire.
Good old comedy
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
Yep nothing much has changed as of 2023
what is this a spoof of exactly??
it's basically just a spoof of that kind of genre. Kind of like an accumulation of all those tenapenny 'free love' romance movies of the 60's haha
"Blowup" with David Hemming
It also has elements of 'Alfie' starring Michael Caine.
🤣
😂
Blow Up the most pretentious film of the whole era
It was worth it for the Yardbirds scend with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, if nothing else.
No such thing as chivalry in the 60's...
When comedy was funny 😂
This is pretty good, except for the horrid abuse of the laugh track.
Rich Boomers had way more fun than you
I don't care!!!!
forward ( poppet on a swing ) to your favourite feminist . liberal , social justice warrior, or UN Secretary. LMFAO !
They would like it. The whole point of the sketch is he is behaving terribly.
You're not really in on it are you? Christ.
Lol! Way to not get the joke at all and just see it as a chance to air your tired, cliched, pub-bore views on SJWs, feminists and...The UN secretary? What? 🧐
@@vooveks The number of SJWs making themselves known in comment sections? Zero. The number of people complaining about SJWs and bringing them up at every tedious opportunity? Fifty fucking billion million zillion.
@@thesprawl2361 Yeah, and I’m sure the irony is completely lost on them. These people tend to lack a certain self-awareness, in my experience.
This is every cine illiterate UA-camr claiming to be a film critic
Hahahahaha!
I don’t care !
Misogyny reeeeeee
God I hope Enfield doesn't find this. He's notoriously protective...
and a complete prick
@@audiocue in your opinion