Cambridge Footlights Revue - clip 1 (song)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Video: Cambridge Footlights Revue (1982)
Come join us in the noblest of causes
The battle for national improvement
The creaking of leather and uniforms
Is the hymn of our British movement
We promise you riches and prosperity
Employment for the British working man
We promise you holidays in America
On exchange with the Ku Klux Klan
Eliminate the Paki, exterminate the Blackie
Pull out this disease by the roots
A British Movement government would repatriate the immigrant
To the tramp of Union Jack boots
Children in football grounds and classrooms
Are paraded in tiny rank and file
Incited to multi-racial aggro
Exalted by the war cry "Zeig Heil" ("Zeig Heil!")
Imagine a society with skinheads roaming wild and free
And not a pair of thick lips in sight
Fumigate the Underground and sterilize the cricket grounds
White coat and white elephant
Whitewash and White Christmas
White horse and white rich and white poor
White dirt and white licorice
White helmets, white truncheons
White face and white Willy Whitelaw
I love how the two you hear the best are Hugh and Emma. Oh, Hugh/Emma goodness. :)
And Stephen morbidly afraid to sing for real just moving his lips. When he and Hugh seem to sing "White wash and white christmas" at 1:44 you can only hear Hugh. For obvious reason.
Ah I LOVE this.
Awesome.
Just when I thought I couldn't love Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson any more!
I worked on this show. Stephen Fry didn't mime.
I did too, yes he did
Hugh Laurie's first blues album was surprisingly good. What a long way he's come!
Pity the whole thing was on youtube, and now the best bits have been taken down. Especially the Fry/Thompson Jane Austin parody.
I saw the whole special as a bonus for one of the A bit Fry and Laurie DVD's. Very funny: you could shift out the real comedic talents even then
@7d23 I think the music is by Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery and Steven Edis, and I think the lyrics were written by Fry and Laurie.
As sung by Emma Thompson...and friends... Love it!
When Stephen sings, unless you're up for a good laugh, you don't really always listen.
You only gaze at him. ;-D
Stephen is SO miming! xD
I think that Stephen and Hugh were "Bom-ing" and Tony and the other guy in the middle were meant to be humming. Tony may say he can't sing but I beg to differ...me and one of my close friends think he has a beautiful voice.
Thanks for sharing that!! Yeah, one of those English things that I miss out on being exiled in the States. Now I get to go Wikipedia for more info.
I don’t know if this would pass muster in today’s Britain.
i love how sketchy the guys in the background look
The old British movement would love the song ha
Ich höre nur den Hugh "singen" :D
Der Rhythmus is gut!
As for Emma - I was thinking the same thing. Especially in the line "pull out this disease by the root."
I'm not English. Did some background work on the punchline :)
White willie whitelaw is absolutely brilliant: wet willy and Willie Whitelaw
Is it bad that I actually really love this song.
I think I've listened to it nearly 30 times...
bro i think you might be a poor British working class skinhead
@@aakksshhaayy Well 30 was an exaggeration, and It's been a good 6 years now.
Boy this song would not fly today! XD
This song was hilarious when I was 19, now I can only worry about when Twitter finds this. I do miss the 90's and 00's before the internet floodgates opened and made everyone cretinous and weird, 4chan became real life and internet turned into srs bizness for real... >__>
There were indeed "good old days"
@@planescaped Think a song making fun of white supremacist nationalists would absolutely still fly today... actually it would prob get called woke or something by the rightwing chronically online nutters XD
Thank you so much for posting it :)))
per pro171038 : sgamata a palla :)) Sono Alessia ;)
@summersunflowers no, stephen is only just under 2 years older than Hugh!
:-) quite in tone with the song :-)
Did Hugh write this song and the other songs that appeared in the Cambridge Footlights REvue?
White helmets, white truncheons
White face and white willy, white poor
emma is awsome!
xx
lola
Gee! I laughed a lot with this song.
Sorry, I didn't mean to post twice, youtube was being stupid -
And of course I meant "Willy" not Wille, (which would be a very nice name though, I don't doubt it).
Well, actually it's more "white Wille Whitelaw" (the name of a very close Margaret Thatcher collaborator, for non English people)
That's the whole point of the song...
Does enyone have the full video I'm looking forward to find it
It's called the Cambridge footlights revue its on disk 4 of a bit of fry and Laurie
fry tompson laurie whoa whoa whoa
He´s got kind of phobia of singing on publick, si I´ve read
the one on the right
=D
@graaar True :)
"imagine a society with Skinheads roaming wild and free and not a pair of thick lips in sight"
Bliss pure and utter bliss
The snowflakes would have a field day if done today!
@@foxee36 think the purpose of this song has wooshed over both your heads
@graaar Word.
Hi!!! this is awesome, is there anybody who has the text of this song??
Only 15 years late- it’s in the caption x
the one on the right
@graaar why is this different from american comedy, i'm just trying to understand the difference from a american perspective, because we don't get much of this old fationed comedy in britian now.
Think if Americans did this it would not be taken for granted that it was parody, since there are a lot of racists saying the quiet part out loud these days
@graaar Try Second City?
My comment is a reply to albionsupreme's comment...
Hilarious
Sorry***
*** white face and white willy, white law.
@BrainyBabe24 hiya narissa =]
That would not rhyme.
Poor Stephen. He hates singing!
Thanks God that satire's no longer relevant.
Think making fun of dictator wannabe biggots has become increasingly more relevant of late, sadly :( We need more of this punching up instead of comedians punching down and acting like it's the same thing when crying about progressive people not being able to take a joke
@BrainyBabe24 i no =[
blood@hounor 2888classic
This hasn't aged well. Footlights may have talked a good game for 1982, but now it's hard not to notice that all of them were white. Problematic.
Joe Smith, ..Well StephenFry was/is half jewish .. Doesn't that count as diversity ?
what the hell do you actually mean by that? This is hard satire against racism...
Should they have filled a diversity quota or something? Of course not, its just a group of cambridge students. You wouldn't watch a basketball game and say its problematic because its 75% black players...or would you?
This has aged extremely well. Compare the attitude that is being satired to the common Brexiter attitude.
Ergo nothing historically ages well. Because everything is of it's time. So what's your point?
I mean to parody alt- right racists, ya gotta have a group of majority-ethnicity folks
Well, actually it's more "white Wille Whitelaw" (the name of a very close Margaret Thatcher collaborator, for non English people)
That's the whole point of the song...