How Ronnie Barker can stand there and go through his lines without so much as a smile on his face is pure genius. Arguably the best stand-up comedian who ever lived. (ABRS UK)
You wouldn’t get away with this these days. There are many people in the world who can’t take a joke. Barker’s use of word play is brilliant, cutting the pie for example. God rest you, Ronnie Barker. You are greatly missed.
Too many people think there are too many people who can't take a joke and have to tell everyone that they are old and grumpy and want to complain to everyone about nothing being the same as the old days and that there are too many people who can't take a joke. The rest of us, being most people, are laughing at both.
@@manchild3479 And strangely enough a lot of complaints TV stations get are from conservatives because the show was using "bad words". And I am still waiting for anybody on the right defining the word "woke".
@@joachimschoder Precisely, in fact Ronnie Barker pokes fun at the sensitive Conservatives in another one of his sketches, calling out Mary Whitehouse.
can catherine tate or mrs browns boys, do a sketch on virgin,arriva,south west or some other train services...being delayed,cancelled or late...or bad service...
I like the odd blooper they kept in when he stumbles on some words, but to remember all this and deliver it takes some skill. As for some of it, you couldnt get away with this today in 2021. The poster with the man fondling the behind of a women getting onto a train, remember, women dont like male attention these days. Apparently. As for the ending, wow thats so funny but again, too offensive for todays snowflakes. This was HUMOUR, all of it. This was back in the day when life was normal before social media and hashtag campaign. My god, what a world it is now.
A friend of mine worked on The restaurant cars on The Waterloo to Bournemouth Line On the tariff showing the prices Someone had written Don’t the piss out of British rail Tea it needs all the flavour it Can get Someone once said that British Rail tea was like making love in A boat it was close to Water
Ho ho, just as relevant now, though the food on stations is better. Nowadays it would be the next train might arrive in six months time due to industrial action.
As someone who travels frequently, I’ve never had a problem with Britishrail, namingly as their trains never showed up
British railway doesn’t even exist anymore 💀
How Ronnie Barker can stand there and go through his lines without so much as a smile on his face is pure genius. Arguably the best stand-up comedian who ever lived. (ABRS UK)
He smiled several times and fluffed a line or two.
Odd thing is that it isn't anything like stand up.
"That being said, BR are going to maintain their standards. And now for the good news... "
"and simply do what you are told whenever you see this sign..."
A true comic genius who wrote many of the iconic sketches under the pseudonym of Gerald Wiley.
"Tea has not gone up in price but we've halved the size of the cup". No doubt they got this idea from the local supermarket.
Just think of Nespresso enough said 😁
You wouldn’t get away with this these days. There are many people in the world who can’t take a joke.
Barker’s use of word play is brilliant, cutting the pie for example. God rest you, Ronnie Barker. You are greatly missed.
Too many people think there are too many people who can't take a joke and have to tell everyone that they are old and grumpy and want to complain to everyone about nothing being the same as the old days and that there are too many people who can't take a joke.
The rest of us, being most people, are laughing at both.
the woke crowd would be so very upset, about this sketch..................................
@@manchild3479 And strangely enough a lot of complaints TV stations get are from conservatives because the show was using "bad words".
And I am still waiting for anybody on the right defining the word "woke".
@@joachimschoder Precisely, in fact Ronnie Barker pokes fun at the sensitive Conservatives in another one of his sketches, calling out Mary Whitehouse.
Ronnie Barker was a one off. A true comedy genius. I cant put my finger on it but he had sonething extra special that the rest just don't have.
Seen it before but it still gets me howling with laughter, what a genius!
"Frankly, I told BR to B off" :D
Or get a train out of the platform
here is a good word for commuters : scum
Can't get back to Uni due to strikes this week. Perfect sketch to rewatch to pass some of the time
Absolutely hilarious from beginning to end
Still better than Northern Rail.
Yours Arthur Fingers LOL
not double the price but half the size seems to be the way of modern supermarket😂
The good old days . Y was only twenty then.
Some genius. Man 😂 was laughing the whole way through
classic sketch
can catherine tate or mrs browns boys, do a sketch on virgin,arriva,south west or some other train services...being delayed,cancelled or late...or bad service...
Northern are the worst.
They can’t even do comedy. Not point asking them.
I think on the Catherine Tate show when Nan sees that Virgin Trains has cancelled her service she would say "Virgin Trains, what a load of old s**t!"
I wish this guy was around to roast GM after the US government bailed them out.
I like the odd blooper they kept in when he stumbles on some words, but to remember all this and deliver it takes some skill. As for some of it, you couldnt get away with this today in 2021. The poster with the man fondling the behind of a women getting onto a train, remember, women dont like male attention these days. Apparently. As for the ending, wow thats so funny but again, too offensive for todays snowflakes. This was HUMOUR, all of it. This was back in the day when life was normal before social media and hashtag campaign. My god, what a world it is now.
decades on, nothing has changed :D seriously, nothing.
The train has - Newer trains
A friend of mine worked on
The restaurant cars on
The Waterloo to Bournemouth
Line
On the tariff showing the prices
Someone had written
Don’t the piss out of British rail
Tea it needs all the flavour it
Can get
Someone once said that British
Rail tea was like making love in
A boat it was close to Water
Christ, Kiwi Rail is just as bad, closed for four weeks over the summer holidays, and most weekends during the year.
Going from somewhere to somewhere? Go via somewhere else....
Lol😂
sound like Virgin Trains lol
No it's Northern that are the worst.
Like SPT
Ho ho, just as relevant now, though the food on stations is better. Nowadays it would be the next train might arrive in six months time due to industrial action.
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Is that bloke with the sooty face someone contemporary and unpopular?
i think it was james callahan the labour pm at the time he was the mp for one of the cardiff consituanses
Bbbbbbbbbritish rail
Oh the wokes would get this banned if they could oh no British rail is offended
Shut up about bloody woke.
Don't be silly
@@MrThecarebear or snowflakes then..
Literally no one uses the word "woke" in that context except for Murdoch journalists trying to drum up some outrage.
People that whinge about the "woke" crowd, are literally just as insufferable as the "woke" crowd themselves.
Just shut yer trap and enjoy the vid.
I'm Enjoying This 😂