Man i do love Ben Elton, he's unreplaceable and i thought this was better compared to the 1996 revival (except for Harry Hill sketches) and 2007 revival ''Saturday Live Again'' and he's great at making fun of politics, especially Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, but Boris is more of a liar. This show should deserve to return by Saturday nights as ''Saturday Live'' just to not piss Gogglebox fans off about the change if Channel 4 renew it, even i'm not interested of that program.
22.10.22 1006am Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 was that you being satirical, john? rugby league world cup is on so i gave it a miss until later. i just went to the ch4 website and watched it.. just now!!! i thought this was a new series. shame if it aint, as they could do with a show to rival live at the apollo. if only to prove that not all the acts required needed to be trans. it's merely confirming the fact that the ghost of danny la rue has had his revenge... no mrs merton, no ade being a cunt without rik... shame. no mention of the wohar in eastern europe... the "SATIRE" WAS MERELY DETAILING BEN ELTON'S GUILT COMPLEX AT BEING A DYED IN THE WOOL CONSERVATIVE PARTY MEMBER... i think this one off came a bit late, though.... as our boris was pure gold. comedy gold, luv!!! on a par with thatch for the comedic soundbite and/or running commentary quip. did i laugh? was it forced laughter? yes i chuckled and no it wasn't (en)forced laughter. there would be a few acts i would have dug out for this... hence the fact it should have been a series so they could bring out the tired and doddery amidst the new crop of alleged funny people. fat lying plasterers aside - your harry held all this together. you missed ben elton? i missed old stav and loads o' money. even the poor and destitute are thinking: tedious fuel crisis shitters - merely due to the fact that they, the media, kept harping on about this topic ad nauseum for far too long. cheers. nostalgia is pretty tedious but this wasn't too bad an attempt to lighten ch4's dreary schedule. n.b as i write boris johnson returns from the Dominican republic as the curtains are drawn on the late incumbent's rule. i wonder if he blacked up to enter the gates of the city lest he be spied by some cunning knave with a pistol????
@@2112jonr Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 1109am 22.10.22 y'reckon!? jeeez. you ned to get a life or go live where the action is if yer so concerned about righting wrongs...
@@JJONNYREPP Pity Mr. elton's a dyed in the wool liberal left voter and has been for decades. Pity you're just angry at the truth about your beloved UK-fuckers being outed and applauded.
Good to see this back on hope it's a regular thing,Ben still delivers gags like he used to ,giving us diverse acts the he she stripping off made me laugh great stuff we want more
It's a one off, thank God, and whilst Elton and Harrg Enfield (as Stavros, but not Loadsamoney) were pretty good, the rest was dross. Julian Clary wasn't funny 30+ years ago and he isn't funny now. Rosie Jones is as amusing as a bladder infection and the naked trans "comedian" clearly doesn't understand what the word means.
What a seemless return. Some utter brilliant lines including, "Boris Masturbating would be an act of fidelity. " I would love to see repeats of the originals now.
This is without doubt the best take down of the absolute shit show of a Government we have now. It takes a lot to make Labour supporters miss Thatcher but that’s where we are now. At least she had principles and a moral compass even if many of her policies did more harm than good.
OMG I wasn’t sure this wasn’t going to be painfully embarrassing but…. What o show! Ben as on point as ever. The pathetic Tory party as it is now SO needs to be given a good kicking. And it looks like we need Ben to get it done.
Got a feeling the only way this got shown was because the bosses didn’t know about the content. And by the time they did, it was too late. It’ll be interesting to see how many heads roll as a result of this. Somehow the BBC and Channel 4 have got to pull themselves out from under the cosh of the Tory party protection racket.
I thought BE’s comments about Brexit and Boris were excellent too! I doubt many Mail or Express readers were watching but I hope it gave them pause for thought if they were.
I'm not sure as Ben would satirise Labour, should they be elected. He's a reliable old leftie, and I don't think his heart would be in it. Look at the left-wing American comedians, they're not particularly critical of old man Biden, most of them still talk about Trump.
Imagine talking in an accent that isn't your own just in order to connect with those who aren't quite as clever as yourself. It's so funny. Beyond the absurd.
Love and Respect for Elton and Enfield.....never missed any of their material .....was Brilliant stuff.....but this was some of the Worst TV I have ever witnessed.
Magnificent event T.V! Ben Elton was brilliant as the anchor. I don’t want to single out just one comedian because they where all so great. I have to give a shout out to Rosie Jones, Mawaan Rizwan, Jordan Gray, and Sam Campbell because they were amazing JORDAN GRAY,WOW,JUST WOW 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Absolutely brilliant, it’s about time someone spoke up for common sense. Jordan you’re going to be a star, you are very beautiful & very confident within yourself please keep it up (metaphorically speaking) i genuinely thought you were a lady, until you sung the first verse😳, you’re better than all the rest✌️, I love your humour. It is amazing you have the talent too go alongside Ben Elton, not forgetting you will earn (LOADS A MONEY £$€), Harry Enfield. I cannot wait to have the opportunity too see you all on FNL live, hopefully near the Chester/ Liverpool area. I love Saturday Night Live, please keep up the great work. All the very best for the future, to every comedian on FNL. Please give us more, do not let them grind you down. We deserve the best, you’re all amazing comedians, keep the faith folk’s & hopefully they will be back.
Ben Elton was as good as ever, as was Harry Enfield, other performers were mediocre to poor. Just as well channel 4 had canned laughter on standby, it distracted you from the tumbleweed.
I too thought Ben Elton was fantastic, as sharp as ever. Harry Enfield, however, I thought was passable - a bit past his time. I've never thought Ronni Ancona was that great. Leo Wright, on the other hand, was superb - modern, sharp, relevant, aware and didn't take himself - or us - too seriously. He appealed to me at 59 and my daughter at 22 laughing our heads off and agreeing with much of what he had to say.
I can’t help thinking: Ben has made so much money that he lives in a £5million house in Hampstead with loads of other rich people. And he told them that he was going to pretend to still be left wing for his comeback act.
Read his book "Identity Crisis" its hilarious. However he proved he has sold out on his own personal convictions in the first 90 seconds. What a very disappointing example of someone taking a lot of money to feed the Seals in a zoo.
@@AliceDelilahDude I'm confused, are you saying that the government is responsible for "woke propaganda", or that it isn't? What I question, as I always have done, is the conservative mindset: a group of people so proud of their opposition to change and progress that they name themselves after it? Strangely, they're not the ones I trust to take the country forward, or improve people's lives. And if you're interested, neither is Starmer. So was I "fishing for comments"...? Well, only in the sense that if you look in a fish pond you know there's gonna be fish. The "anti-woke", who cherish their misremembered childhood above the well-being of others, can always be counted on to latch onto the first snappy phrase they hear to describe things they don't like: because it's much easier to stir up hate against people if you feel you're doing it by proxy. I'm sure you think by hating an "idea", you're not discriminating. Nothing if not predictable! Let's see, what are people calling "woke" these days? Non-white people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as the civil rights movement. Non-heterosexual people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as Oscar Wilde, George Michael or the ancient Romans. Transgender people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as Simone de Beauvoir, who knew there was a distinction between biological sex and acquired gender in the 1940s; it goes without saying that she's more of a feminist than J.K. Rowling will ever be! So, @AliceDelilahDude...did you make it this far? I'm guessing not. If it's not "propaganda" then it's a "lecture". And if it's neither, you'll just pretend you've never seen it. Some people would try and stop the world turning if they could-fortunately, they're yet to realise that no amount of steaming and foot-stamping about "wokeness" (ie, the world) will make that happen. Maybe if you do, as I suspect, just believe everything you read, then this will be in your subconscious. Now wouldn't that be fun!
@@fredh1720 I do not stand with any political party, they're all satanic and sadistic. What even gave you the impression I'm "white" or even right wing ? I do not agree with cross dressing men grooming impressionable children and all the other bile the tell-a-lie vision literally programs their viewers to be conditioned by. Also from what you've written it's not clear which side you're on. However, the only concern of *everyone* right now should be freedom.
Wokes the new term for political correctness. Lots of people basically hate political correctness. It's not so much monkey-see-monkey-do, it's just that people don't like it.
This was a car crash of a show. Desperately unfunny, woke, trash. It was as if Ben was brainwashed into doing this. The new comics were awful and token. The trans music act was disgraceful and offensive, nothing to do with gender. Shame on Channel 4.
Nothings changed. They have always said and done exactly what their masters have told them, it's the reason they are on the TV in the first place. Channel 4 was never about being "rebellious" like they have you believe, simply there to programme and brainwash in order to further their future agenda. It should be obvious to everyone at this point.
I seen the first 15 minutes just to see if it was in tune with the current politically correct guidelines and unfortunately it was and i couldn't stand anymore of it. Ben Elton is a champagne socialist, if he had anything to say he wouldn't even be on TV. As for that band that was on after his intro, they are biggest pile of shit I've ever had the misfortune to hear, the song went "are you checking me out or are you just a racist " nothing funny about racist people no matter what colour the skin is, but nothing like mainstream TV when it comes to spreading hate and fear is there. Real comedy died with Bill Hicks.
I'm trying to wrap my head around "if he had anything to say he wouldn't be on TV". Isn't it a good thing he's using the platform he's got? What would you expect him to do
Not just me that thought it was crap then, he hasnt aged well comedy wise, two decades old material, comedy has moved on and he hasnt, took seconds to bring up Thatcher lol
Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 1016am 22.10.22 they could allus try to fudge the issue of this being crap by resurrecting saturday night live... jeeeez. as i have said the collective consciousness lasts abot 20 years. none of these skanks watching or starring - new or old acts - recalls friday night live let alone it's bastard off spring saturday night live.
@@CashelOConnolly Yeh, yeh, yeh... same bullsh@t from the little snowflakes. Whenever someone disagrees with you, it's "hate"! Shame you don't look at JK Rowling's rape and death threats in the same light.
@@Tony-1971 That's all of them! Had a disabled comedian, a trans comedian, Asia and black comedians etc it was just a total woke fest. And even Ben Elton only takes the piss out of the right wingers.
Someone else who's heard the phrase "woke fest" and aims it at everything, with no idea what they mean. You see a black person on tv and say "it must be wokeness"... that's racist. I'm not saying that as someone who's offended. I'm saying that as someone who *knows* you're racist.
@@fredh1720 Why don't you go and fck yourself you prick? If you actually read my comment, I mention a disabled comedian and a trans ( not that there's nothing wrong at all with such people as with other races, it's just cringy when it's all emphasized and shoved in everyone's faces in a channel 4 woke fest ) etc it's pricks like you who bleat ' racist! Racist! Bla bla bla '..........here's true story for stupid little lefty brain to take in .....I once worked in a British school in Azerbaijan. There was a black teacher from Nigeria who I got on with and as we were discussing Britain, he said to me that he had only visited London once. When I asked him did he like it, he said, and I quote ' Yes, but you know, there were too many black people there '....... believe it or not but its 100 percent the truth. I bet your silly little woke brain is hurting now as you can't process that.......
Jim,at the moment it's about 5% of the voting population he alienates, only the hard-core racist tory/ukip/ any other far right group you can think of are actually alienated by your reckoning...
I did not laugh once no matter how many times they overlaid a laugh track. This guy isn't funny; he is a political cheerleader. Pedestrian at best and fodder for the 87 to 100 IQ crowd. Sorry if that's you and shocking news.
This was awkward. It's like the final dying breaths of woke left wing media in the UK. Like the final act of the emperors new clothes but with more blood coughing and less laughter.
This show was so funny, I was waiting for lenny Henry. Ffs it was crap, who was good? Gay people mentioning they are gay, black people mentioning rascim, transgender mentioning hes a she (hesnot). Disabled comedian mentioning her disabilities, so amazing. Crap oh and Jo brand hilarious saying she's fat. Boring
It felt like a swan song to a dying era of left wing counter culture. They became the establishment and dictated the status quo. Their ideas failed to deliver and created a whole new set of problems that the new counter culture addresses. They know it's over for them so a transgender penis piano session is an appropriate final "fuck you" to the country they hate but never want to leave.
I HATED HIM!!! Back in the day because i was 15 when he was at his prime and i absolutely couldnt stand POLITICS!!!! Now i think hes a genius beyond compare.. an act that matures with age indeed.. what a British institution and powerhouse of a professional.. those lines he got out.. and made literally 1 mistake.. AMAZING!
@@AliceDelilahDude I dont see how that was warranted.. do u not like Ben? or do u like him and just happen to be bereft of an intellect and misunderstood me? Either way, i feel someone called ALICE DUDE.. needs to have some real thought about naming conventions. Also.. pish.. pish and tosh!!! pishtosh to u SIR OR MADAM!
@@sheepthehack Ben or whoever *IT* is... Has to tell his audience "my pronouns are he/him"... ?! This just goes to show it's actually his audience that are lacking the intellect you're alluding that I'm lacking to have - how ironic! This Ben character must be aware that his audience are pretty daft if they haven't the ability to judge someone's gender. If you look like a man, it's he.. If you look like a woman it's she. People like you really need to get your heads out of the t.v. You find this garbage entertainment ? The conditioning of everyone is clearly causing mental health issues.
@@AliceDelilahDude OMG!!! You do realise that Ben Elton is about as WOKE as hitlers ghost.. He said the pronouns as a JOKE!! Because thats what society has come to these days.. Ben Elton wrote Black adder and a little show called.. THE YOUNG ONES!! its about as ANTI WOKE as u could get on tv at the time!!! I dont think ive laughed so much in my life after reading your reply!!! You honestly didnt get it.. thats absolutely hilarious!!! I dont even need to write a come back.. u make urself look so moronic all by yourself.. well done!
@@fredh1720My life ?! Oh please don't tell me you're so naïve to believe this will only affect a certain demographic or personality ? people like this who agree with this "agenda" & nonsense are dragging everyone into the NWO.... In other words communism ? Which sane person would want to live a life with no freedom ? The t.v. has fried certain cretins brains the last few years.
![Ben Elton ('Authentic Stupidity’ Tour) On BBC Breakfast [15.04.2024]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1S0IwQJUoww/mqdefault.jpg)
![Ben Elton ('Authentic Stupidity’ Tour) On BBC Breakfast [15.04.2024]](/img/tr.png)
Mans still got it.......Bring back 'The Man From Auntie' Ben....Loved it !!
I remember this from the first time round I honestly thought he's hoona be a bit slower but no he was on it straight off the bat still got it
Please bring it back. Oh how we've missed you Ben. Brilliant xxxx
Why has Ben Elton been off our TVs for so long? Was bang on form from the off.
He was busy making some real money writing.
@@britturk123or say hi to his 3rd cousin
I think he moved to Australia? The multicultiism here in Britain was probably was too much of a paradise for him.
You can't teach this. 34 years later and he drops straight back into it.
Wonderful !!
Can someone just get him to do that every week?
He's 63, but hardly changed, especially in his delivery
@@stephen3654 Exactly that
Congratulations Ben! Welcome back! It's been too long. We need you!
Man i do love Ben Elton, he's unreplaceable and i thought this was better compared to the 1996 revival (except for Harry Hill sketches) and 2007 revival ''Saturday Live Again'' and he's great at making fun of politics, especially Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, but Boris is more of a liar.
This show should deserve to return by Saturday nights as ''Saturday Live'' just to not piss Gogglebox fans off about the change if Channel 4 renew it, even i'm not interested of that program.
Ben back on form in a much missed show!
Well done Ben! That was just a wobble in Australia mate! One wobble in an otherwise spotless career! 😎
What wobble?
I have missed this man so much one of the best comedians ever
22.10.22 1006am Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 was that you being satirical, john? rugby league world cup is on so i gave it a miss until later. i just went to the ch4 website and watched it.. just now!!! i thought this was a new series. shame if it aint, as they could do with a show to rival live at the apollo. if only to prove that not all the acts required needed to be trans. it's merely confirming the fact that the ghost of danny la rue has had his revenge... no mrs merton, no ade being a cunt without rik... shame. no mention of the wohar in eastern europe... the "SATIRE" WAS MERELY DETAILING BEN ELTON'S GUILT COMPLEX AT BEING A DYED IN THE WOOL CONSERVATIVE PARTY MEMBER... i think this one off came a bit late, though.... as our boris was pure gold. comedy gold, luv!!! on a par with thatch for the comedic soundbite and/or running commentary quip. did i laugh? was it forced laughter? yes i chuckled and no it wasn't (en)forced laughter. there would be a few acts i would have dug out for this... hence the fact it should have been a series so they could bring out the tired and doddery amidst the new crop of alleged funny people. fat lying plasterers aside - your harry held all this together. you missed ben elton? i missed old stav and loads o' money. even the poor and destitute are thinking: tedious fuel crisis shitters - merely due to the fact that they, the media, kept harping on about this topic ad nauseum for far too long. cheers. nostalgia is pretty tedious but this wasn't too bad an attempt to lighten ch4's dreary schedule. n.b as i write boris johnson returns from the Dominican republic as the curtains are drawn on the late incumbent's rule. i wonder if he blacked up to enter the gates of the city lest he be spied by some cunning knave with a pistol????
@@JJONNYREPP #RussianLackeyAlert
@@2112jonr Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 1109am 22.10.22 y'reckon!? jeeez. you ned to get a life or go live where the action is if yer so concerned about righting wrongs...
Oh dear. Sarcasm hopefully.
@@JJONNYREPP Pity Mr. elton's a dyed in the wool liberal left voter and has been for decades. Pity you're just angry at the truth about your beloved UK-fuckers being outed and applauded.
Sharp as ever
I don't know about missing Mrs Thatch, I definitely have missed you Mr. Elton, been off our screens far to long.
As sharp as ever - brilliant !
I have a blind spot for comedy shows but after forty years it's good to see something actually funny.
I doubt this show will get a second outing after the penal piano playing exhibition by the guy with the enlarged mammas!
@Keyboard Dancers It was repeated the very next day! 😀
"Channel 4 won't broadcast something controversial."
Fucking LOL! And they were invited onto another Channel 4 show a week before Christmas 😂😂😂
We were spoilt rotten with quality tv when we were young! Welcome back Ben!
From a man who got into bed with the establishment the first sniff of affluence he got.Wkkner.
Nice to have Elton back.
glad the shows back wanted to see if he was good again after selling out.... pleasantly surprised
Comedic on a Freemasonic checkerboard , bravo Channel 4 we know who owns you now . 👿
@3:14> "Einstein's definition of insanity"...
thanks for put up missed it, thanks
Is this show still going?
Love Ben Elton. Great writer, Great satirist. Just a funny guy
Got Brexit done - "He didn't, and it isn't". Spot on and brilliant 👏
Nice masonic floor..
He's wearing the same suit and tie he did in the 80's.
Definitely intentional.
@@drstkova yes indeedy.
He said he might in the trailer.
Brilliant. No-one does this better. He should have a 10 minute slot on prime time TV every week to tell it how it is.
Good to see this back on hope it's a regular thing,Ben still delivers gags like he used to ,giving us diverse acts the he she stripping off made me laugh great stuff we want more
It's a one off, thank God, and whilst Elton and Harrg Enfield (as Stavros, but not Loadsamoney) were pretty good, the rest was dross. Julian Clary wasn't funny 30+ years ago and he isn't funny now. Rosie Jones is as amusing as a bladder infection and the naked trans "comedian" clearly doesn't understand what the word means.
Ben Elton. Cleverest, funniest standup and so much more!
Beautiful
What a great surprise to see left wing comedy from the the usual ring wing dogma coming out of Channel 4.
How do you make Farage and Hopkins seem tolerant?!?!?!?🤣🤣😂😂
Let Rees-Mogg set your party's agenda? 😉
how do you make leftists tolerant of the national majority opinion?
I miss Ben soooo much!!!
The country has got so bad even Ben Elton felt the need to return and take the piss after 3 decades. Things must be bad 😂
That's right ladies and gentlemen, does anyone remember when I was relevant?
Ben elton back from australia
What a seemless return. Some utter brilliant lines including, "Boris Masturbating would be an act of fidelity. " I would love to see repeats of the originals now.
This is without doubt the best take down of the absolute shit show of a Government we have now. It takes a lot to make Labour supporters miss Thatcher but that’s where we are now. At least she had principles and a moral compass even if many of her policies did more harm than good.
He was great. Makes nearly all current stand up comedians look like amateurs
Eh no. He holds no candle to Ed Byrne or Milton Jones. Actually funny comedians.
@@rebelraccoon9018 Bizarre examples
@@fredh1720 to you
Arise Sir Ben??
Oi ! , I'm still hear you know
Hahah
The Guvnor is back and I was a Thatcherite ,expat following from Edmonton Canada
That ratio.... ouch.
OMG I wasn’t sure this wasn’t going to be painfully embarrassing but…. What o show! Ben as on point as ever. The pathetic Tory party as it is now SO needs to be given a good kicking. And it looks like we need Ben to get it done.
We need him on doing this every week.
Got a feeling the only way this got shown was because the bosses didn’t know about the content. And by the time they did, it was too late. It’ll be interesting to see how many heads roll as a result of this. Somehow the BBC and Channel 4 have got to pull themselves out from under the cosh of the Tory party protection racket.
I thought BE’s comments about Brexit and Boris were excellent too! I doubt many Mail or Express readers were watching but I hope it gave them pause for thought if they were.
Whoops! Bit of politics!
Ben was rather great, I miss 1980s Ben.
He is ALWAYS so so RIGHT... EVERY TIME!!!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good to see this :D :D :D :D
I'm not sure as Ben would satirise Labour, should they be elected. He's a reliable old leftie, and I don't think his heart would be in it. Look at the left-wing American comedians, they're not particularly critical of old man Biden, most of them still talk about Trump.
I am 66 and this was a great show, just like it used to be, I was laughing out loud again at the TV, not done that for years! Bring it back!
I wanted to see Stavros.
Hello everybody, peeps.
Imagine talking in an accent that isn't your own just in order to connect with those who aren't quite as clever as yourself. It's so funny. Beyond the absurd.
Get stavros and loadsamoney backtoo
slags the tories butt Not the tory voters ? - doesnt want to lose any fans ? Nice suit ... looks like my car seat covers .
Julian Clary and Harry Enfield were funny, but the rest of the show wasn't great.
Great to see the master back.
Love and Respect for Elton and Enfield.....never missed any of their material .....was Brilliant stuff.....but this was some of the Worst TV I have ever witnessed.
Elton ... lol ... sucking up the rainbow ...
Magnificent event T.V! Ben Elton was brilliant as the anchor. I don’t want to single out just one comedian because they where all so great. I have to give a shout out to Rosie Jones, Mawaan Rizwan, Jordan Gray, and Sam Campbell because they were amazing
JORDAN GRAY,WOW,JUST WOW 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Absolutely brilliant, it’s about time someone spoke up for common sense. Jordan you’re going to be a star, you are very beautiful & very confident within yourself please keep it up (metaphorically speaking) i genuinely thought you were a lady, until you sung the first verse😳, you’re better than all the rest✌️, I love your humour. It is amazing you have the talent too go alongside Ben Elton, not forgetting you will earn (LOADS A MONEY £$€), Harry Enfield. I cannot wait to have the opportunity too see you all on FNL live, hopefully near the Chester/ Liverpool area. I love Saturday Night Live, please keep up the great work. All the very best for the future, to every comedian on FNL. Please give us more, do not let them grind you down. We deserve the best, you’re all amazing comedians, keep the faith folk’s & hopefully they will be back.
As good as he ever was..
Ben Elton was as good as ever, as was Harry Enfield, other performers were mediocre to poor. Just as well channel 4 had canned laughter on standby, it distracted you from the tumbleweed.
Agreed….but maybe that was always the case.
Totally agree, a little disappointed.
Ben Elton was as good as ever? That bad eh?
I too thought Ben Elton was fantastic, as sharp as ever.
Harry Enfield, however, I thought was passable - a bit past his time.
I've never thought Ronni Ancona was that great.
Leo Wright, on the other hand, was superb - modern, sharp, relevant, aware and didn't take himself - or us - too seriously. He appealed to me at 59 and my daughter at 22 laughing our heads off and agreeing with much of what he had to say.
@@spfspf7087 yes that bad
Ben Elton doing what Ben Elton does best, fabulous brutal delivery an funny with it too. Pleased he wore the shiny suit too. Hope it happens again. 👍🏻
I can’t help thinking: Ben has made so much money that he lives in a £5million house in Hampstead with loads of other rich people. And he told them that he was going to pretend to still be left wing for his comeback act.
Why does somebody who's left wing have to be poor? I'm against homelessness but don't feel the need to validate by not having a home myself!
This Guy is THE COMiC GOD!!!
Mrs Thatch, Mrs Thatch, ooh - bit of politics there!
Sold his soul.
Elton was of his time. Looks tired and silly now. Millionaire comic trying to come across as angry working class.
Awwww, hurting you is he, deluded Tory boy.
I didn't get the impression he cared about the working class.
I remember when Ben was actually funny
Read his book "Identity Crisis" its hilarious. However he proved he has sold out on his own personal convictions in the first 90 seconds. What a very disappointing example of someone taking a lot of money to feed the Seals in a zoo.
Very poor 😢
Would never have guessed Ben Elton’s pronouns are he/him 🙃🙄
I'm doing a "woke" count for the comments. I wonder if people actually mean anything or if they've just seen their favourite toilet/newspaper use it?
I see you fishing for comments that don't agree with your views. How refreshing to see someone who questions their government propaganda🙄🙄
@@AliceDelilahDude I'm confused, are you saying that the government is responsible for "woke propaganda", or that it isn't?
What I question, as I always have done, is the conservative mindset: a group of people so proud of their opposition to change and progress that they name themselves after it? Strangely, they're not the ones I trust to take the country forward, or improve people's lives. And if you're interested, neither is Starmer.
So was I "fishing for comments"...? Well, only in the sense that if you look in a fish pond you know there's gonna be fish. The "anti-woke", who cherish their misremembered childhood above the well-being of others, can always be counted on to latch onto the first snappy phrase they hear to describe things they don't like: because it's much easier to stir up hate against people if you feel you're doing it by proxy. I'm sure you think by hating an "idea", you're not discriminating. Nothing if not predictable!
Let's see, what are people calling "woke" these days? Non-white people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as the civil rights movement. Non-heterosexual people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as Oscar Wilde, George Michael or the ancient Romans. Transgender people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as Simone de Beauvoir, who knew there was a distinction between biological sex and acquired gender in the 1940s; it goes without saying that she's more of a feminist than J.K. Rowling will ever be!
So, @AliceDelilahDude...did you make it this far? I'm guessing not. If it's not "propaganda" then it's a "lecture". And if it's neither, you'll just pretend you've never seen it. Some people would try and stop the world turning if they could-fortunately, they're yet to realise that no amount of steaming and foot-stamping about "wokeness" (ie, the world) will make that happen. Maybe if you do, as I suspect, just believe everything you read, then this will be in your subconscious. Now wouldn't that be fun!
@@fredh1720 I do not stand with any political party, they're all satanic and sadistic. What even gave you the impression I'm "white" or even right wing ? I do not agree with cross dressing men grooming impressionable children and all the other bile the tell-a-lie vision literally programs their viewers to be conditioned by. Also from what you've written it's not clear which side you're on. However, the only concern of *everyone* right now should be freedom.
Wokes the new term for political correctness. Lots of people basically hate political correctness. It's not so much monkey-see-monkey-do, it's just that people don't like it.
This was a car crash of a show. Desperately unfunny, woke, trash. It was as if Ben was brainwashed into doing this. The new comics were awful and token. The trans music act was disgraceful and offensive, nothing to do with gender. Shame on Channel 4.
Nothings changed.
They have always said and done exactly what their masters have told them, it's the reason they are on the TV in the first place.
Channel 4 was never about being "rebellious" like they have you believe, simply there to programme and brainwash in order to further their future agenda.
It should be obvious to everyone at this point.
🤣
Yep.
I seen the first 15 minutes just to see if it was in tune with the current politically correct guidelines and unfortunately it was and i couldn't stand anymore of it. Ben Elton is a champagne socialist, if he had anything to say he wouldn't even be on TV. As for that band that was on after his intro, they are biggest pile of shit I've ever had the misfortune to hear, the song went "are you checking me out or are you just a racist " nothing funny about racist people no matter what colour the skin is, but nothing like mainstream TV when it comes to spreading hate and fear is there. Real comedy died with Bill Hicks.
I'm trying to wrap my head around "if he had anything to say he wouldn't be on TV". Isn't it a good thing he's using the platform he's got? What would you expect him to do
Abysmal return for friday night live.
Not just me that thought it was crap then, he hasnt aged well comedy wise, two decades old material, comedy has moved on and he hasnt, took seconds to bring up Thatcher lol
Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 1016am 22.10.22 they could allus try to fudge the issue of this being crap by resurrecting saturday night live... jeeeez. as i have said the collective consciousness lasts abot 20 years. none of these skanks watching or starring - new or old acts - recalls friday night live let alone it's bastard off spring saturday night live.
Can't possibly be as abysmal as "our" abysmal, incompetent, lying "government".
Stick to Mrs Browns Boys mate
@@CashelOConnolly Yeh, yeh, yeh... same bullsh@t from the little snowflakes. Whenever someone disagrees with you, it's "hate"! Shame you don't look at JK Rowling's rape and death threats in the same light.
Well. Just like being back in the 1980s! Yes…. Ben Elton is still smarmy and crap…
It's a pity he's leftwing........but then aren't all comedua
Just the unfunny ones. The ones too scared to make jokes in case it hurts someone's feelings, and they get cancelled by their own side.
@@Tony-1971 That's all of them! Had a disabled comedian, a trans comedian, Asia and black comedians etc it was just a total woke fest. And even Ben Elton only takes the piss out of the right wingers.
Someone else who's heard the phrase "woke fest" and aims it at everything, with no idea what they mean.
You see a black person on tv and say "it must be wokeness"... that's racist. I'm not saying that as someone who's offended. I'm saying that as someone who *knows* you're racist.
@@fredh1720 Why don't you go and fck yourself you prick? If you actually read my comment, I mention a disabled comedian and a trans ( not that there's nothing wrong at all with such people as with other races, it's just cringy when it's all emphasized and shoved in everyone's faces in a channel 4 woke fest ) etc it's pricks like you who bleat ' racist! Racist! Bla bla bla '..........here's true story for stupid little lefty brain to take in .....I once worked in a British school in Azerbaijan. There was a black teacher from Nigeria who I got on with and as we were discussing Britain, he said to me that he had only visited London once. When I asked him did he like it, he said, and I quote ' Yes, but you know, there were too many black people there '....... believe it or not but its 100 percent the truth. I bet your silly little woke brain is hurting now as you can't process that.......
Awful show and I'm old enough to remember the original run, Brilliant proper funny.
this annervsary edition is cringe.
Utter bollocks.
Trash,satire is dead.
really bad, hire people under 35 ffs
Loved Ben etc. Loved and miss Julian Clary. So many new acts were shit. Maybes I am old, but non had me loving any of them.
The show was a load of leftwing, woke nonsense! There again it's channel 4
it was petulant desperation. They know their era is dead. This was a final "fuck you".
Anyone who thinks Ben Elton is funny… have no sense in comedy!
complete woke crap from beginning to end.
why doesn't he keep away from politics? He literally instantly alianates 50% of the adult population.
Do you have any idea who Ben Elton is? Or what Friday Night Live is?
Jim,at the moment it's about 5% of the voting population he alienates, only the hard-core racist tory/ukip/ any other far right group you can think of are actually alienated by your reckoning...
Guys! Ive found the Liz Truss supporter!
That’s his job, he’s been doing since the 80’s
Yep. That's kinda the point.
His noun is "wanker".
Good old Ben, still not funny after all these years.
I did not laugh once no matter how many times they overlaid a laugh track.
This guy isn't funny; he is a political cheerleader.
Pedestrian at best and fodder for the 87 to 100 IQ crowd.
Sorry if that's you and shocking news.
This was awkward. It's like the final dying breaths of woke left wing media in the UK. Like the final act of the emperors new clothes but with more blood coughing and less laughter.
Well... He's hasn't got any funnier since he disappeared 30 years ago...
Hellscape
This show was so funny, I was waiting for lenny Henry. Ffs it was crap, who was good? Gay people mentioning they are gay, black people mentioning rascim, transgender mentioning hes a she (hesnot). Disabled comedian mentioning her disabilities, so amazing. Crap oh and Jo brand hilarious saying she's fat. Boring
It felt like a swan song to a dying era of left wing counter culture. They became the establishment and dictated the status quo. Their ideas failed to deliver and created a whole new set of problems that the new counter culture addresses.
They know it's over for them so a transgender penis piano session is an appropriate final "fuck you" to the country they hate but never want to leave.
I HATED HIM!!! Back in the day because i was 15 when he was at his prime and i absolutely couldnt stand POLITICS!!!! Now i think hes a genius beyond compare.. an act that matures with age indeed.. what a British institution and powerhouse of a professional.. those lines he got out.. and made literally 1 mistake.. AMAZING!
He did toilet humour too, back in the day
Sheep. Your UA-cam name says it all. Stick with you herd & see where it leads you... *cough* NWO style communism :')
@@AliceDelilahDude I dont see how that was warranted.. do u not like Ben? or do u like him and just happen to be bereft of an intellect and misunderstood me? Either way, i feel someone called ALICE DUDE.. needs to have some real thought about naming conventions. Also.. pish.. pish and tosh!!! pishtosh to u SIR OR MADAM!
@@sheepthehack Ben or whoever *IT* is... Has to tell his audience "my pronouns are he/him"... ?! This just goes to show it's actually his audience that are lacking the intellect you're alluding that I'm lacking to have - how ironic! This Ben character must be aware that his audience are pretty daft if they haven't the ability to judge someone's gender. If you look like a man, it's he.. If you look like a woman it's she. People like you really need to get your heads out of the t.v. You find this garbage entertainment ? The conditioning of everyone is clearly causing mental health issues.
@@AliceDelilahDude OMG!!! You do realise that Ben Elton is about as WOKE as hitlers ghost.. He said the pronouns as a JOKE!! Because thats what society has come to these days.. Ben Elton wrote Black adder and a little show called.. THE YOUNG ONES!! its about as ANTI WOKE as u could get on tv at the time!!! I dont think ive laughed so much in my life after reading your reply!!! You honestly didnt get it.. thats absolutely hilarious!!! I dont even need to write a come back.. u make urself look so moronic all by yourself.. well done!
He/him ?! Left maniacs
What difference does it make to your life
@@fredh1720My life ?! Oh please don't tell me you're so naïve to believe this will only affect a certain demographic or personality ? people like this who agree with this "agenda" & nonsense are dragging everyone into the NWO.... In other words communism ? Which sane person would want to live a life with no freedom ? The t.v. has fried certain cretins brains the last few years.