I miss Hale and Pace, it's so hard to get farce right but they always found just the right balance between absolute stupidity (ridiculousness) and tone with great writing that made it work so beautifully well :) Not to mention the sheer talent involved in their musical numbers. Brilliant telly to grow up with.
Brilliant comedy. Grew up with it! The PC brigade would never allow it to be made now in case it offended someone. Just watching that clip now has caused me great upset and mentally scarred me for life!
I know nobody asked, but I localized the shooting location : 6 Rue de la Gare, 17600 Pisany, France The building is a train station built in the 1910s with an Art Déco inspirations, now all bricked up to safeguard it but it sadly means it is currently not used nor maintained. The plans were used to build 5 same building/stations on the line, I'll let the adresses in this comment in the event someone somewhere somewhen has its curiosity peaked : 46 Rue de la Gare, 17460 Varzay 1 Route de Royan, 17600 Saint-Romain-de-Benet 1 La Gare, 17100 Le Douhet 16 Rue de la Gare, 17770 Saint-Hilaire-de-Villefranche La Gare, 17400 Asnières-la-Giraud I'm sure it is the Pisany station and not any other thanks to the house seen in the background at 1:52 . Cheers
The WW2 German Army had, what, 7 million soldiers serving in it? Surely, in an army that large, there had to be at least 1 soldier as stupid as this one! ;)
I hadn't seen this before. It reminded me of "Allo Allo" where they basically took the pi$$ out of national stereotypes of Germans, British, French and Italians without offending any of them. Everybody had a laugh at everyone's expense including their own.
The whole sketch is very funny! "How am I supposed to search the truck when you have all these people in it?" Too many people absolutely no sense of humour or not much of one!
However hilarious this is, the Brits would probably be better off leaving him alive, I mean, his replacement could be somewhat competent. That's one of the reasons SOE didn't attempt to assassinate Hitler, some people in the British government were concerned the Germans might replace him with someone who actually knew what he was doing.
Thank you guys for making these sketches and making our miserable little lives a little bit more enjoyable God Bless you Sir’s shame the miserable PC’c have taken our fun away I feel blessed to have watched them first time around though such different times from now I don’t even know what is classed as funny now it’s all selfies and the public trying to get into situations to put on their social media page for likes
Grisfettot - I agree totally! :D This is just a sketch but always the amateur historians come out of the woodwork on these comment sections. "Duvet duvet" "Duck Down". It's a lame pun but somehow fitting. And Isokkesu, that's kind of the point. Comedy that you can just sit back and laugh with, not taking it too seriously. I love it.
I've been trying to remember this for twenty years, since I saw it as a ten year old on PBS. Funny thing, I remembered it as a WWI era sketch, but I remembered the rest as it was (really stupid guard, the truck being full, and the other soldier being a Brit that killed the idiot).
Woah! Is that also a young Stephen Frey? You must excuse me for having no idea about this show! I'm American but I LOVE British comedy! For once, UA-cam's recommendations nailed it for me. I'm going to now look further into this show!
They're bloody funny mate. Grew up watchin em in Aus. Get it inta ya. There's heaps of good old Brit comedy out there. And no I don't think that is Stephen Fry although he does have some resemblance. Not sure he it is but he looks familiar. Checkout "a bit of Fry and Laurie" if you like Stephen Fry. I think he was also on 'It's not the 9 o'clock news" I know he was a writer on it at least and it's worth a watch if you like old brit sketch comedy. And of course he's brilliant as Melchett in Blackadder if you haven't already seen it. :-)
@@28russ the resemblance is pretty uncanny. I loved the series with Fry and Laurie. Back to Hale and Pace, I'm onto season 6. These guys were great! I'd love to find a region-free DVD of the series, but I'm glad to know most episodes are on UA-cam
Like I said, it's a word used in place of a swear word to avoid censorship or profanity... This thing won't let me post a link, but search on the wiki for it...
I feel the gunshot at the end ruined the ending... wasn't a necessary part... just that guy saying what he said should be enough. that's why hale and pace were never really the best they could be... just a tad too much try hard.
@eisma002 Doesn't really count. By jet most people understand that to mean a turbine jet. Coanda was a genius and deserves praise, but what he did was not something that beat Whittle. It was different. Also, it crashed! Also, he wasn't a froggie.
I think we should stop poking fun at the Germans. But after 2 world wars and one world cup old habits don't die. used to be the best thing on a sunday night
I'm still trapped between what's the best Nazi role to portray in a movie. I presume it's a golden rule between Amon Goeth, Erwin Rommel and Allo Allo nitwits.
The comment posted about reconising one of them from the young ones episode nasty...thats most likey due to the fact that it was hale and pace were in that episode, because they started thier careers the same time as rick ade nigel and mike
Really good sketch. Even up to the last line, then it all went a bit Commando Comic. Took the edge off the funny for me, but I'm happy to be told to go and fuck my avacado toast by someone who went to TA for a month if it proves I've no sense of humour.
Real comedy not like the alternative trash of today..hale and pace would not be aired on tv now as they would be classed as not politically correct....
I miss Hale and Pace, it's so hard to get farce right but they always found just the right balance between absolute stupidity (ridiculousness) and tone with great writing that made it work so beautifully well :) Not to mention the sheer talent involved in their musical numbers. Brilliant telly to grow up with.
Daniel Gould
Their comedy and personality compliment each other so well!
@@KeepRIGHTpeeps o moo
Amen
Brilliant comedy. Grew up with it! The PC brigade would never allow it to be made now in case it offended someone. Just watching that clip now has caused me great upset and mentally scarred me for life!
Well said, Daniel. (sorry for being 4 years late with that comment)
“Duvet! Duvet!” = duck down. “Goose stepping sausage eaters”. One of their best. Laughing my head off.
I know nobody asked, but I localized the shooting location :
6 Rue de la Gare, 17600 Pisany, France
The building is a train station built in the 1910s with an Art Déco inspirations, now all bricked up to safeguard it but it sadly means it is currently not used nor maintained.
The plans were used to build 5 same building/stations on the line, I'll let the adresses in this comment in the event someone somewhere somewhen has its curiosity peaked :
46 Rue de la Gare, 17460 Varzay
1 Route de Royan, 17600 Saint-Romain-de-Benet
1 La Gare, 17100 Le Douhet
16 Rue de la Gare, 17770 Saint-Hilaire-de-Villefranche
La Gare, 17400 Asnières-la-Giraud
I'm sure it is the Pisany station and not any other thanks to the house seen in the background at 1:52 .
Cheers
"Get back on the truck.......ehhh.......Simon say's get back on the truck" :D
"Simon says get back on se truck!" That´s funny, even for me as a German. LOL!
The WW2 German Army had, what, 7 million soldiers serving in it? Surely, in an army that large, there had to be at least 1 soldier as stupid as this one! ;)
@@timonsolus Between 1939 to 1945, about 13 million men served.
Since when does a Private give orders to an Unteroffizer ( NCO) ?
@@Ironschmuck When he's really, really stupid.
I still laugh myself silly at Hale and Pace...I miss the simpler times.
Same
Duvet, Duvet, Duvet - Duck Down - Classic!!!!
It's funny, because duvet is French for duvet.
I hadn't seen this before. It reminded me of "Allo Allo" where they basically took the pi$$ out of national stereotypes of Germans, British, French and Italians without offending any of them. Everybody had a laugh at everyone's expense including their own.
"I should bally well say not old bean..." BOOM
hahahah :D
You wanna keep that guy around, he knew the secret of Simon says.
The whole sketch is very funny! "How am I supposed to search the truck when you have all these people in it?" Too many people absolutely no sense of humour or not much of one!
At the end, "The British will never out wit us!" XD
Who would’ve thought that after the war that German son would migrate to England going to be one of the stars of Hale and Pace
However hilarious this is, the Brits would probably be better off leaving him alive, I mean, his replacement could be somewhat competent. That's one of the reasons SOE didn't attempt to assassinate Hitler, some people in the British government were concerned the Germans might replace him with someone who actually knew what he was doing.
Where to start...
LOL. I'm German and I love British comedy
Lucy with diamonds Verräterschwein
Did you mind them taking the piss out your country from ww2?😆
"Duvet, duvet ." "Eh? " " Duck down !".
I don't understand the joke.
A duvet is full of duck feathers. A lot of duck feathers are called DOWN collectively.
@@bocca7789 And duvet is actually the french word for "(feather) down".
?@@MonicaVartolomeiFDDLP
lol i laughed so much from the part were the german said simon sez get back on the truck!!!
Duvet, duvet. Duck down. Genius
Thank you guys for making these sketches and making our miserable little lives a little bit more enjoyable God Bless you Sir’s shame the miserable PC’c have taken our fun away I feel blessed to have watched them first time around though such different times from now I don’t even know what is classed as funny now it’s all selfies and the public trying to get into situations to put on their social media page for likes
Duvet duvet! What?! Duck down! Oh right.
absolutely hilarious!! 😅😅😅
Duvet, duvet! What? Duck down. 😂
Grisfettot - I agree totally! :D
This is just a sketch but always the amateur historians come out of the woodwork on these comment sections.
"Duvet duvet" "Duck Down". It's a lame pun but somehow fitting.
And Isokkesu, that's kind of the point. Comedy that you can just sit back and laugh with, not taking it too seriously.
I love it.
I've been trying to remember this for twenty years, since I saw it as a ten year old on PBS. Funny thing, I remembered it as a WWI era sketch, but I remembered the rest as it was (really stupid guard, the truck being full, and the other soldier being a Brit that killed the idiot).
Woah! Is that also a young Stephen Frey? You must excuse me for having no idea about this show! I'm American but I LOVE British comedy! For once, UA-cam's recommendations nailed it for me. I'm going to now look further into this show!
They're bloody funny mate. Grew up watchin em in Aus. Get it inta ya. There's heaps of good old Brit comedy out there. And no I don't think that is Stephen Fry although he does have some resemblance. Not sure he it is but he looks familiar. Checkout "a bit of Fry and Laurie" if you like Stephen Fry. I think he was also on 'It's not the 9 o'clock news" I know he was a writer on it at least and it's worth a watch if you like old brit sketch comedy. And of course he's brilliant as Melchett in Blackadder if you haven't already seen it. :-)
I was thinking it was Angus Deayton. I was also getting him mixed up with Alistair McGowan.
So I'd like to say B: Alistair McGowan, final answer.
@@markboz3366 Yeah, McGowan looks about right. I'm bloody sure it's not Fry anyway..
@@28russ the resemblance is pretty uncanny. I loved the series with Fry and Laurie. Back to Hale and Pace, I'm onto season 6. These guys were great! I'd love to find a region-free DVD of the series, but I'm glad to know most episodes are on UA-cam
Really funny=) add more Hale and Pace videos=)
"I should bally well say not, old bean" I think. :D
Absolute great humour. Remember when we used to laugh?
'Laugh'?
Vwat eez 'laugh'? 🤷😶🧐
Even tho its halarious, I think its best to keep that idiot guard alive. You never know his replacement could be smart and competent.
His replacement will be another Britisher.
LMFAO at 3:44: "I should bally well say not, old bean"
How can I be expected to search the truck when you have all these people in it? :))
All the people in the comments taking this way too seriously.
Well I'm not I thought it was funny.😆
It's funny as fuck as it's a satirical dig at the way Germans were portrayed in all those post WW2 movies made in the 50's and the 60's.
God I wish those days of comedy were still here but sadly the WOKE BBC and ITV wouldn't show these series 😢😢
Duvet Duvet!
What?
Duck down!
😂😂😂😂😂
Duvet duvet ! Duck down 😂
I would be fully armed walking passed them, LOL!
Alistair McGowan in one of his first comedy roles on TV
They had a lot of very funny sketches
Successful British Invasion of German occupied France colorised.
@TheSkulldan It's the black, white, and red stripes of the weimar republic flag.
All Wehrmact troops had that emblem on there helmets.
Since when does a Private give orders to an Unteroffizer ( NCO) ?
The RAF design it but the luftwaffe was the first manufacturer of jet plane
"I shall very well say not, old bean!"
Best.
Ending.
EVER.
:D
It's "bally well."
@neohip yep, good and bad men on both sides of every conflict ever
Like I said, it's a word used in place of a swear word to avoid censorship or profanity...
This thing won't let me post a link, but search on the wiki for it...
3:12 I believe the driver was thinking "My government surrendered to these idiots"
“Filthy Gerry Hun” 😂
Their face are london. They were brittish. Alles sind british. Deutscher have a good body as soldier
I feel the gunshot at the end ruined the ending... wasn't a necessary part... just that guy saying what he said should be enough. that's why hale and pace were never really the best they could be... just a tad too much try hard.
True that, all was ok and fun until the gun shot, if he just spoke british without the gunshot it wouldve been much better.
@Yu Ting Cheng ?
@Yu Ting Cheng God and Satan don't exist though man.
Are you guy's from the comedy police?
Oh they were brilliant.
"""Br*tish""" humor everyone.
@stalinistaussie You think? We were lucky to win the war. They had the world by the balls and we only just got out!
Haha good stuff!
Is the guy who plays the British pilot Richard Griffiths aka Uncle Vernon? 🤔
Is it me, or is Alistair McGowan/Angus Deayton the other German guard?
@eisma002
Sorry, so I understand, you are saying the first working jet engine was in flying use by 1910?
how can i be able so search the truck when you have all these people on the truck! SIMON SAYS GET ON THE TRUCK!
I found Hale and Pace, not very funny back in the day, but "Duck-down" made me laugh
Great stuff! Does anyone have the hilarious Hale and Pace song of Dolly Parton dressed as a Nazi please?
How peculiar that the private gives orders to the NCO! ;)
don't mention the war
I Really Like The Video From Your Clip taken from DVD showreel 'One Sick Puppy Sketches Written By Richard Parker' From LWT's Hale and Pace
The only comedy duo to consist of two straight men.
@banoffee2001 I dont get it?
@eisma002
Doesn't really count. By jet most people understand that to mean a turbine jet.
Coanda was a genius and deserves praise, but what he did was not something that beat Whittle. It was different.
Also, it crashed! Also, he wasn't a froggie.
Okay the British invented the Jet plane but the Germans were the first in the air with a Jet plane
To me this seems more like a piss take of Dad's Army than German soldiers, which is the reason I laughed at it lol
Id forgotten about Herr Biggles 😂😂😂
Incredible -- they were so good. Shades of status quo?
Thought of this when the prisoner escaped from Wandsworth. Where was the guard with pitch fork?
02:42 ..🤣🤣🎶🎶🎶👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@neohip sounds like they were showing mercy?
That must have cost a lot to film.
Yep £20 quid 😂😂😂
I think we should stop poking fun at the Germans. But after 2 world wars and one world cup old habits don't die. used to be the best thing on a sunday night
I'm still trapped between what's the best Nazi role to portray in a movie. I presume it's a golden rule between Amon Goeth, Erwin Rommel and Allo Allo nitwits.
That Germans should use their rifles to expect that truck :D
Adrien Brody?
please i want czech subtitles
I do believe that was fucking terrible
Duvet , duvet
"what?"
Duck down
lmao
I don't get that lol
@@wateryteat5837Some duvets have duck down (soft duck feathers) in them....
@@kwak1k I still don't get it though ha
Gareth looks puffy.
Who gets away with microwaving a cat these days
so true
@MrZmaster27
He was the son of Adrien Brody and Stephen Fry
The comment posted about reconising one of them from the young ones episode nasty...thats most likey due to the fact that it was hale and pace were in that episode, because they started thier careers the same time as rick ade nigel and mike
lol that was good.
Looks like a very youthful Alastair McGowen as German No2?
They was good together
this is not a comment
Is the first German guard Steve Pemberton? 🤔
even if it would be a good movie the laughing destroys everything
Really good sketch. Even up to the last line, then it all went a bit Commando Comic. Took the edge off the funny for me, but I'm happy to be told to go and fuck my avacado toast by someone who went to TA for a month if it proves I've no sense of humour.
When H&G has friendly server
Cool. I never knew Russell Crowe played a British airman.
Nope. English word. It is what is known as a "Minced Oath", apparently - it gets used instead of Bloody.
Like using "Feck" instead of "Fuck" :D
Poor, slightly sad guard...
A funny one
To be fair, anyone played by Hale and or Pace must be stupid; more would be too much opf a stretch for them.
Oh, all right. I'll admit it. Hale and Pace created at least one funny sketch.
🤣😂😆
Real comedy not like the alternative trash of today..hale and pace would not be aired on tv now as they would be classed as not politically correct....
And that is why television is finished
@@MrDirkles i haven't watched television in over 2 years as strange as that may seem.
@@doctorsocrates4413 not strange at all. If Mrs dirkles was to be aducted by students the TV would be the first thing to go!
@Shuto123 uuuummmm Bob Marley quoted that but he never originated it. that phrase is in the Book of Proverbs