I would have thought they would have said "mitigate" but "militate" maybe fits. They could both be used. "Being a good shot could militate or mitigate somewhat against his being a quare."
My favourite part watching this is that they're never offensive to Bunny, they're all just friends and he's just the more knowledgeable one about these matters.
Johnny Depp looks like a quare, dresses like a quare, wears his hare like a quare, and has (had) a very attractive wife. He's also on the television. Draw your own conclusions.
Yes, the little cameos from Charlie Higson in these "Is he a Quare" sketches really are the icing on the cake of two brilliant central performances by Harry & Paul, aren't they? I liked his comment: "Perhaps Hislop and Attenborough quare away together when the cameras aren't rolling" lol
They had a hissy fit about Little Britain, imagine the outrage about 2 elderly upper class white men deciding who is or isn't quare... The quares would go ballistic.
@@mikeboosh8776Not really. Some of the sketches haven’t aged well. There’s a few blackface ones that wouldn’t fly, but a lot of them actually hold up surprisingly well. These quare sketches aren’t offensive at all, they’re poking fun at posh elderly men, that’s the butt of the joke. Hell, there’s a lot of frightful quares in these comments alone that admit that it’s really funny. Not that I’d be inclined to take the word of a bunch of old quares as gospel, but Bunny’s a quare and he’s a good sort, that is barring the fact that he is evidently a quare.
@@mikeboosh8776No, we wouldn't. Nothing offensive to actual quares here. They're not the butt of the joke. The ignorance of the old men and their obsession over who is and isn't Quare is what's being lampooned here. If you don't understand comedy, and where Harry & Paul are coming from, their genius is wasted on you.
The only man I knew of, called Bunny was N.M. "Bunny" Roger (1911-1997) and he was indeed a "Quare" and like many, did his bit in WW2. In Normandy (1944) there were reports of him leading his Rifle Company in the attack, with a green chiffon scarf around his neck; when later asked about the war, he once replied, "My dear, the people, the noise!" :)
On Facebook I repeated this sketch in text about a lecturer in my university. Now my university is up in arms about why I did this. They have no sense of humour and are planning disciplinary action against me. Imagine if Michael Heseltine sued the BBC for broadcasting this show, it would make him look like a right humourless cow. Like the humourless cows at my uni. Bastards.
I do wish probable part-time quares would stop muddying the water by being good shots. Good grief man, we need some certainties in today's confusing world.
This ain’t mocking homosexuals, it’s mocking homophobes. You’d have to be thick not to get that. They’re arguing over whether his shoes or him being a good shot make him a “quare.”
Can we just enjoy the sketch without having an argument whether something is offensive. Like we did ten years ago when people were less sensitive about everything.
@@stevebinning977 .....of course, when Behan wrote the 'The Quare Fellow', [ 'quare' being the Irish pronunciation of "queer" ] Quare meant 'Strange' or 'Odd' in the colloquial Irish at the time, and not at all a sexual reference,. The play was about the eponymous "Quare" fellow [ who, like Godot, never actually appeared in the play ] but was a prisoner in the condemned cell next door to the main protagonist in the play, who referred to the condemned man throughout as ' De Quare Fella '......In previous times to this [ The Quare Fellow was first staged in the 1950's ] when I was growing up, "Queer" simply meant being 'not feeling well' in the English vernacular of the time; in much the same way as "Gay" simply meant feeling 'happy'....so yes, if he's referred to as a quare, he's probably a quare...so I'll put him down almost certainly as a probably happy quare
As someone pointed out Bozo the PM went to Eton so is probably a quare but as he has shagged about for years and left countless sprogs all over the place he is very likely to be a part time quare.
It doesn't refer to a person. It's just a variation of phrases such as "like mad", "like crazy", "like hell" (another one is "like nobody's business", which is a good one). Usual spelling is Billy-O, but there are others. It's from the late 1800s, and probably originated in Australia.
"He eats pizza with a knife and fork, like a queer." "He drinks alcopops through a straw, like a queer." "He takes it up the bottom, like a queer." "I'll put him down as a confirmed uphill gardening queer!"
The best one by far. Bunny's smile after "incorrigible old queer" is priceless.
@@andymerrett Well if it sounds like a word, it looks like a word and it's on televishhhhun,
then I'd suspect that it's probably a frightful old word.
Yes, it's the best one. Paul Whitehouse's existential crisis at 1:25 is golden.
I expect "probable part time quare" will be an option on the next census.
An option on the next census and compulsory for the one after!
Stevie Wonder's hit single 'Part Time Quare' was probably inspired by this.
Lol! 😂
😂😂😂
Somehow we can make this be about trans people.
Paul Whitehouse...one of the greatest comedy talents of the last hundred years!
couldn't do it without whitehouse.
It's true that Housey is a great comedy talent - but he's very probably quare.
It's always nice to see Enfield and Housey together on television. It's good to see an openly quare couple doing so well.
They're both absolutely hilarious and really good actors who
Certainly in the last 40,45 years anyway
"That would militate somewhat against him being a queer" what a sentence. God-tier gold.
I would have thought they would have said "mitigate" but "militate" maybe fits. They could both be used.
"Being a good shot could militate or mitigate somewhat against his being a quare."
@@davebellamy4867could you stop quaring about the place you incorrigible quare
It's always good to see Harry and Paul on television. It's nice to see an openly quare couple doing so well.
They probably quare together when cameras aren't shooting and wives aren't looking like a couple of probable quares.
Harry & Paul have been Quare together for forty to forty-five years..
@@drewyStyla 😂😂😂
Two absolutely amazing British comedians, pure gold.
My favourite part watching this is that they're never offensive to Bunny, they're all just friends and he's just the more knowledgeable one about these matters.
Token gay but he's actually respected
They do call him a stupid old queer but you can tell it's with love
Oh they were pretty cruel in the Angela Merkel sketch.
So many part timers in parliament. Even now. 😂
Barney, not Bunny
“He’s an extremely good shot” The fear in their eyes! 😂😂😂 Comedy gold
Shaking the very foundations of their time-honoured belief system! Just imagine the mental turmoil if he’d been a good cricketer as well.
@@justinneill5003he's certainly a big cricket fan fwiw.
The old men’s big ears is fucking genius 😯
Bunny😅What a classic!
Brilliant makeup.
Most makeup specialists are probably quare.
@@FredScuttle456wears make up, most probably a quare.
Enfield and Whitehouse are the greatest comedy double act ever !
Sir Quare Starmer. Definitely.
Bring back this sort of telly, ill start watching it again =)
“I don’t think I shall sleep at all tonight!” Priceless!
I cry everytime he says "however" it cracks me up every time ...never fails LOL probably my favorite one of the lot!
9 out of 10 ppl wear florid dbl breasted suits 😂
when they mark the newspapers in red it just cracks me up
I've just come here after the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Lots of quares.
Ah that's different, in the trade they are known as Gallic Pouffes
*OH YES, I'M AN INCORRIGIBLE OLD QUAAAREEEE...*
A frightful quaaare even!
As a kwear myself, I find this highly offensive, I think.
I might have to ask Bunny.
BUNNY ?!
Mark Adderley You might be only a part timer.
@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 probably a quarre.
Part time or full time? 😅
But I hear you're an extremely good shot. 🤔
@@stevealden5691zero hours contract by the sounds of it, the probable quare
Love the fact they don't care at all if he is a qware, but just want to know if he is indeed a qware or not.
Johnny Depp once said Whitehouse was the best actor he had ever seen :)
changed his mind once he saw Charlie Higson's performance as Bunnie :)
Johnny Depp gets abused by a stupid Hollywood actress so I don't think his opinion is worth jackshit
Johnny Depp is on television
Jonny Depp is a very clever one.
Johnny Depp looks like a quare, dresses like a quare, wears his hare like a quare, and has (had) a very attractive wife. He's also on the television. Draw your own conclusions.
Whoever uploaded this is probably a quare. Since watching it I myself have realised I'm a frightful quare and now I'm quare-ing away like Billyo.
Are you on television?
Does he store all the newspapers after he has written on them? Forming a sort of archive of who is and isn't a quare?
Probably a quare.
yes he's been storing them for 40-45 years
Lairdyful i don't know what'w funnier that skiit or this
I expect it is not his newspaper but The Club's and therefore would be archived by The Club.
Paul Moss one of them is the Telegraph
Yes, the little cameos from Charlie Higson in these "Is he a Quare" sketches really are the icing on the cake of two brilliant central performances by Harry & Paul, aren't they?
I liked his comment: "Perhaps Hislop and Attenborough quare away together when the cameras aren't rolling" lol
Quaring away like billy-oh. What will you do in your old age?
0:37 Bunny is an incorrigible old quaarree and he is proud of it.
I wish that "they" would put these gems on again. It's ages since Harry and Paul have been on the telly.
They had a hissy fit about Little Britain, imagine the outrage about 2 elderly upper class white men deciding who is or isn't quare... The quares would go ballistic.
@@mikeboosh8776Not really. Some of the sketches haven’t aged well. There’s a few blackface ones that wouldn’t fly, but a lot of them actually hold up surprisingly well. These quare sketches aren’t offensive at all, they’re poking fun at posh elderly men, that’s the butt of the joke. Hell, there’s a lot of frightful quares in these comments alone that admit that it’s really funny. Not that I’d be inclined to take the word of a bunch of old quares as gospel, but Bunny’s a quare and he’s a good sort, that is barring the fact that he is evidently a quare.
@@mikeboosh8776No, we wouldn't. Nothing offensive to actual quares here. They're not the butt of the joke. The ignorance of the old men and their obsession over who is and isn't Quare is what's being lampooned here. If you don't understand comedy, and where Harry & Paul are coming from, their genius is wasted on you.
Hilarious. What a duo they were.
Never gets old and goes under the PC radar! 👊🏼
It sounds like you don't understand satire. Are you a quare?
You know this is taking the piss out of posh old gits gossiping about irrelevance and not at all about quares, don't you?
Netflix pls do something and bring this 2 again together..BBC is xxxxxed up
"...Does your wife mind you quaring away ?"
I love this act these guys do.
It’s great when everything falls into place to
produce comedy gold.
Part Time Quare is the underground Stevie Wonder German Export B-Side that nobody talks about
Dislikes are from quares.
Oh piffle, I'm a frightful Quare and I love it.
That chap Boris Johnson...do you think he's a quare? He has the hair of a quare.
The only man I knew of, called Bunny was N.M. "Bunny" Roger (1911-1997) and he was indeed a "Quare" and like many, did his bit in WW2.
In Normandy (1944) there were reports of him leading his Rifle Company in the attack, with a green chiffon scarf around his neck; when later asked about the war, he once replied, "My dear, the people, the noise!" :)
Who's bit did he do?
He can't have been a quare, old chap; he was a very good shot.
Hope he didn't do his bit in.
Did his wife mind him quaring away?
Wouldn't get away with this on TV now just 13 years later!
Just perfection!
On Facebook I repeated this sketch in text about a lecturer in my university. Now my university is up in arms about why I did this. They have no sense of humour and are planning disciplinary action against me. Imagine if Michael Heseltine sued the BBC for broadcasting this show, it would make him look like a right humourless cow. Like the humourless cows at my uni. Bastards.
A sign of the times.
They're probably quare
university's are the breading ground of malcontent.. and the liberal left time for a clear out..
Your university sounds like a quare
steve Apperley I think you mean ' breeding' ....breading is an entirely different thing.
Stunning...so good!!!
Who would have thought Hestletine would be almost the last decent Tory? Absolutely jaw dropping.
Lol - their ears!
I do wish probable part-time quares would stop muddying the water by being good shots. Good grief man, we need some certainties in today's confusing world.
no she's happy to let me queer away like billio
Love the old man ears😂
Probably a quare
"He is an extremely good shot....." How confusing.
This is one of the first adverts I have never 'skipped. '
"excellent" at the end
You'd never get away with this type of comedy these days unfortunately.
Because of the big ears?
Kier Starmer has an attractive wife like Bunny, who lets him and lord Alli quare away like Billy O.
That must make him a definite probable quare
He certainly looks like a Quare, talks like a quare, behaves like a quare. Yes he probably is a Quare! 😂
God this is good acting.
This ain’t mocking homosexuals, it’s mocking homophobes. You’d have to be thick not to get that. They’re arguing over whether his shoes or him being a good shot make him a “quare.”
Can we just enjoy the sketch without having an argument whether something is offensive. Like we did ten years ago when people were less sensitive about everything.
Frightful quare
It's not mocking homophobes you quare.
@wakofish "that would millitate somewhat against him being a quare" lmao, best sketch on the show, just in front of dragons den :)
This explains why we are in the Age of A'quare'ius
So good!
When Brendan Behan wrote his play The Quare Fellow, was he ahead of his time?
If he wrote a play called the Quare Fellow he's probably a quare.
@@stevebinning977 .....of course, when Behan wrote the 'The Quare Fellow', [ 'quare' being the Irish pronunciation of "queer" ] Quare meant 'Strange' or 'Odd' in the colloquial Irish at the time, and not at all a sexual reference,. The play was about the eponymous "Quare" fellow [ who, like Godot, never actually appeared in the play ] but was a prisoner in the condemned cell next door to the main protagonist in the play, who referred to the condemned man throughout as ' De Quare Fella '......In previous times to this [ The Quare Fellow was first staged in the 1950's ] when I was growing up, "Queer" simply meant being 'not feeling well' in the English vernacular of the time; in much the same way as "Gay" simply meant feeling 'happy'....so yes, if he's referred to as a quare, he's probably a quare...so I'll put him down almost certainly as a probably happy quare
They didn't mention that when they heard him on the wireless he sounded like a quare
LOVE THIS. Part time quare. hahahaha!!!
So glad Harry gave back Charlie his job.
He's the hair of a quare.
Best line!
Who is this quare, Billy O.?
Paul Whitehouse doing his best King Charles impersonation.
Jack Whitehall... is he a quare?
Yes, I should think he's probably a quare.
love it!
"Im an encourageable old quare"
Part time quare, very appropriate at the moment if the rumours are anything to go by !
Is Portillo a quare?
He wears pink trousers and went to Harrow and quared away like Billy oh when he was at University so I should say so.
What did I just watch
A very funny sketch.
As someone pointed out Bozo the PM went to Eton so is probably a quare but as he has shagged about for years and left countless sprogs all over the place he is very likely to be a part time quare.
He may well be an Ex Quare
Ball point pen with the thickest writing in history.......probably a quare pen.
Have you heard of Keir Starmer,? Yes!
comedy genius - I wonder how many takes it took?
One, because it's not funny
@@scannaunderscore1 I shall put you down as a probable quare
I haven’t seen this in what? 40-45 years??
I just discovered that Bunny is one of the guys from "Loadsamoney" song.
Well... if he sounds like a quare and looks like a quare...
I'm going to put down... probable quare...
Just genius
I used to rejoice in my florid double-breasted suits, and I can't hit a barn door from 10 paces. So....😊
many a true word spoken in jest
Who was or what was the reference to "Billeo", I don't know the proper spelling or language?
It doesn't refer to a person. It's just a variation of phrases such as "like mad", "like crazy", "like hell" (another one is "like nobody's business", which is a good one). Usual spelling is Billy-O, but there are others. It's from the late 1800s, and probably originated in Australia.
@@KonoShunkan OMG, thanks heeps, mate! :)
@@tomasinacovell4293 You're welcome! It was a good question.
Could be a reference to the Devil.
Always thought it meant doing something often and quickly, like a quare would
He ties his Guards tie like a quare.
Isn't it sad that this would not get on tv nowadays?
No, because I haven't got one.
What do they do with this information?
Wait until such time as a political career needs derailing and then leak it to a member of the press old boy. You don't play cricket do you?... 🤨
31 definitely probable queares.
I like the fact that they have massive ears😅
Do you know who I mean by Charles Windsor?
LOOKS like a quare, SOUNDS like a quare. Put him down as a probable quare, yes.[could go on forever this bit lol]
Amazing Whitehouse ❤❤❤❤
DAVID LAMMY ..... is he a QUARE ??
Can anyone upload the Harry Redknapp one?
Its not bilio, its Billyo.. as in 'she goes like the billyo' in other words, like hell, very well, very fast, with enthusiasm etc etc
Thanks for putting that into context, the difference in language and culture can need explaining. Funny, 8 years ago. Can you define grinder? 😂
"He eats pizza with a knife and fork, like a queer."
"He drinks alcopops through a straw, like a queer."
"He takes it up the bottom, like a queer."
"I'll put him down as a confirmed uphill gardening queer!"
Lovvvvvvvvvve😂😂😂😂
So is he a quare or not??
Here in ireland quare means weird or unusual. Or if ya say "quare one" it means your girlfriend or wife.
Bunny the quare hare lol
Shouldn't this be banned for Quarophobia?
Ιmagine if Paul was Bilbo Baggins, Harry being Gandalf the Grey and Charlie as Tom Bombadil. Exactly this scene, in Shire, talking about quares.
The ironic thing is that both of them look and sound like a quare!
Is Tony Blair a Quare ?
I'd hope so given his wife's face.
who is playing bunny???
Charlie Higson.
@@RealIllumin Is Charlie Higson a quare?
@@powderedground78 He's on TV AND he's married. So yes probably a quare. Certainly looks a quare.
@@RealIllumin well if he looks like a quare, he's married and he's on televishhhun....
then he's probably an incorrigible old quare
@@kaiserswaghelmii9361 Bunny? You think he's probably an incorrigible old quare don't you?
Oh yes!