@@metsot Yes. I was very disappointed that he became a director and stopped being a perfomer, as I think there are many great directors, but not as many truly great comedians, and Mel Smith was just so amazingly talented when it came to comedy, be it the acting, the timing, the voice, the facial expressions, etc, he had it all, as few other comedians had. Still, like all the great comics of the past decades, even though he's gone, we can still see his performances when we choose. I'm so glad that this Covid situation, if it had to happen at all, happened now, when we have access to UA-cam, DVD box sets, so many cable/satellite channels, etc. Imagaine if it had happened fifty years ago, when in the UK we only had three TV channels, no video recorders, no computers, etc. How boring would that have been?
love this, it brings back my childhood memories, I always remember the F*** I forget the baby sketch.... half of those ornaments were in most households in the seventies and early eighties.... looks like half of my mums old front room in there....
methven Arundell Every time I’ve seen Griff in recent years, usually on some show about UK riverboats or some such, he seems like a moany, bitter, man now. I don’t know why.
Been lookiong for this for years as I only have it on Audio. My PC Gaming name is sometimes Rampant Mackerel and people always ask me where it came from!
Heraldically, it's not rampant as that is for 4 legged predator/beast . For that particular posture, it would have been called urinant. The closest posture for a fish to rampant would be haurient. Would probably spoil the humour if they do use the heraldically correct term though.
I have listened to this sketch on The Hedgehog Sandwich on Vinyl many times over - it's the first time I've actually seen the sketch since it aired.... classic!
I did remember this sketch in part - it has been a very long time since the original airing. I recalled Mel’s wonderful use of language in describing the many delights he spied while browsing the inventory… I just didn’t remember the end...
Could have ended with the customer leaving the shop and the shop owner putting another copy of the exact same piece from a lot of many back on display.
Just think those 2 greats went on to do the brilliant Smith and Jones at the table sketches, and i loved watching when my kids were young Mel doing the voice over for the animation of Father Christmas, comedy great.
Brilliant. Everyone had those fucking shire horses in the 70's, they were utter crap. Wherever you went on holiday in Britain they'd be in all the gift shops, along with whimsies, and those tacky bits of rock with a plastic seagull on the top and the name of the place crudely written on the front
completely understand his emotions after seeing a particular artificial water fountain in my local market. An exquisite piece that deserves an appropriate treatment.
I looked for years for a rampant mackerel ashtray, I haunted charity shops until, eventually, I found the orange version. It took pride of place in the loo for a number of years. Now I'm going back to my corner with a bag on my head.
Every time I enter a seaside (crap)shop, I am unable to resist the urge to ask if they have a ‘rampant mackerel ashtray’ in their inventory! Suffice it to say, no one has ever picked up on or recognised my attempted tomfoolery 🤣
Excellent! I'll try it myself - I live in a seaside area and there are some 'quality' crap goods shops locally. I doubt anyone under 50 remembers the sketch now anyway!
@@skyboswell my group of friends frequently break out into sketches from the ‘not the 9 oclock news’ era! Many of the times we can be heard extolling the production of the Johnny Mathis album (when a child is born) as we run through the perfectly memorised ‘gerald the gorilla’ sketch. Constable Savage was another favourite too 🤣
@@neithere - Hmm, not sure about that. As much as I love Monty Python I do think that a lot of the sketches became absurd just because they were known for that style, but it didn't always translate to funny. I think lots of comedians have done new styles of comedy since Monty Python but these discussions never end well unfortunately.
I met Mel smith in a pub in the 80s once sipping a pint then he went to the khasi He had a white rolls Royce outside He was drinking a pint of old badger
If you're wondering if shops like this still exist, take a wander along Regent Road in Great Yarmouth during the summer... you might even be able to get yourself a lovely rampant mackerel ashtray! Oh, and GRIFF'S FUCKING FACE at 1:10 is priceless!
I have to admit that I actually bought the shire horse for my Dad. Sorry, Dad. If you're looking down (or up) at me now, I thought it was a nice present at the time :-)
our rugby team had a similar object ,that when you made a massif blunder in a game ,you had to display it on your mantelpiece ,until another player made another boob during play.
Not the punch line I expected either. I thought it was going to be 'It's not for sale. We're not an antique shop, none of it's for sale.' 'Not an antique shop, then why the antiques? What do you do here?' 'We do circumcisions, what do you want me to put on display?'
Not funny. NTNON is the most overrated show in history. Start of good careers, comics who went in to do extraordinary things (Pamela Stephenson excepted), but in and of itself, it's mostly garbage. Not all, some scenes are quality. 95% of it is insipid garbage.
@@cloudfactory2000 It is not even in the same league as Monty Python, the Two Ronnies, or A Bit of Fry & Laurie, among others. It doesn't even come up to the level of Morecambe & Wise: it ranks alongside the bloody Benny Hill Show. Occasional brilliancies - mostly thanks to Rowan Atkinson - but mostly flat.
@@DieFlabbergast, don't be ridiculous. It's miles better than M&W, who were a bit overated. Benny Hill is also brilliant. There's nothing around today that is anywhere as good as him.
Twenty quid in 1982? A bloody fortune!
The versatility of Mel Smith was overwhelming.
His delivery of " The legend FRAE Bonny Scotland " cracked me up LOL .
Griffs face is so funny, summed up the type of person running a shop like that.
Mel Smith was just so great. RIP
One of the Greats.
@@metsot Yes. I was very disappointed that he became a director and stopped being a perfomer, as I think there are many great directors, but not as many truly great comedians, and Mel Smith was just so amazingly talented when it came to comedy, be it the acting, the timing, the voice, the facial expressions, etc, he had it all, as few other comedians had.
Still, like all the great comics of the past decades, even though he's gone, we can still see his performances when we choose. I'm so glad that this Covid situation, if it had to happen at all, happened now, when we have access to UA-cam, DVD box sets, so many cable/satellite channels, etc. Imagaine if it had happened fifty years ago, when in the UK we only had three TV channels, no video recorders, no computers, etc. How boring would that have been?
love this, it brings back my childhood memories, I always remember the F*** I forget the baby sketch.... half of those ornaments were in most households in the seventies and early eighties.... looks like half of my mums old front room in there....
I just see Griff Rhys Jones expressions and laugh.
Ploni Almoni Oddly, no one has that reaction now.
methven Arundell Every time I’ve seen Griff in recent years, usually on some show about UK riverboats or some such, he seems like a moany, bitter, man now. I don’t know why.
All through this I was wondering how it would end. The actual ending took me by surprise.
Been lookiong for this for years as I only have it on Audio.
My PC Gaming name is sometimes Rampant Mackerel and people always ask me where it came from!
It's meant to be imitating heraldic language, isn't it? The mackerel is sort of rearing up after all...
Not sure that a fish CAN be rampant (as it has no feet to 'rear up' on) - but that somehow adds to the charm I've always thought.
Ha, I have a twist on that where my online moniker for years has been Skoora, from Kids in the Hall Skoora the gentle shark. Almost no-one gets it.
Heraldically, it's not rampant as that is for 4 legged predator/beast . For that particular posture, it would have been called urinant. The closest posture for a fish to rampant would be haurient. Would probably spoil the humour if they do use the heraldically correct term though.
I have listened to this sketch on The Hedgehog Sandwich on Vinyl many times over - it's the first time I've actually seen the sketch since it aired.... classic!
At last I have found this sketch and want to place it in my possession......Love this sketch...
😏😏😏
I thought the whole thing would be leading up to a homosexual advance towards Griff.
that would've been gay
@modern studies wheres your comedy show? Oh wait yr just a spazz .
@@nasskhan4543 No, modern studies collect this junk and it is heartbroken that a piece that he/she does not own but love is destroyed.
@@lukechandra6233 is nt that stating the obvious, describing a gay joke as gay, is n't that redundant.
Simon, it was leading you to think it was going to be that, it did fall on its arse though.
Mel is doing his best John Cleese imitation. Love it.
Perfection. Not The Nine O'clock News was brilliant.
Mel Smith was an amazing actor.
Totally brilliant show. I have the dvd
I did remember this sketch in part - it has been a very long time since the original airing. I recalled Mel’s wonderful use of language in describing the many delights he spied while browsing the inventory…
I just didn’t remember the end...
That cracked me up. I thought he was going to say Griff
Could have ended with the customer leaving the shop and the shop owner putting another copy of the exact same piece from a lot of many back on display.
"...And for our next lot, another Cayman Blue. Anyone?"
@@NivMizzet89 mo... monty python?
That would go against the joke of the sketch
Just as well you weren’t writing for them then eh?
@@petittrainguernsey3297 - I mean, it wasn't terribly funny anyway.
Just think those 2 greats went on to do the brilliant Smith and Jones at the table sketches, and i loved watching when my kids were young Mel doing the voice over for the animation of Father Christmas, comedy great.
Brilliant. Everyone had those fucking shire horses in the 70's, they were utter crap. Wherever you went on holiday in Britain they'd be in all the gift shops, along with whimsies, and those tacky bits of rock with a plastic seagull on the top and the name of the place crudely written on the front
£19.95?? I'd gladly pay £1995.00 for such a magnificent piece.
"This charming bulsa wood windmill with the musical barometer"
Encrusted with seashells and marked "fra Bonnie Scotland!"
Balsa wood.
Mel Smith was so incredible.
Been a long time since I watch that sketch Fantastic
completely understand his emotions after seeing a particular artificial water fountain in my local market. An exquisite piece that deserves an appropriate treatment.
cheers for uploading this. A wonderful homage to the late Mel Smith bless 'im.
I felt a bit sorry for the shopkeeper. He looked so chuffed to have such an enthusiastic customer....
Pure genius
have being looking for this sketch for years.class a1
I had the Hedgehog Sandwich LP. Loved it so much.
I love them so much!!!
I looked for years for a rampant mackerel ashtray, I haunted charity shops until, eventually, I found the orange version. It took pride of place in the loo for a number of years. Now I'm going back to my corner with a bag on my head.
Lol love it
Every time I enter a seaside (crap)shop, I am unable to resist the urge to ask if they have a ‘rampant mackerel ashtray’ in their inventory! Suffice it to say, no one has ever picked up on or recognised my attempted tomfoolery 🤣
Excellent! I'll try it myself - I live in a seaside area and there are some 'quality' crap goods shops locally. I doubt anyone under 50 remembers the sketch now anyway!
@@skyboswell my group of friends frequently break out into sketches from the ‘not the 9 oclock news’ era! Many of the times we can be heard extolling the production of the Johnny Mathis album (when a child is born) as we run through the perfectly memorised ‘gerald the gorilla’ sketch. Constable Savage was another favourite too 🤣
Love this ,thanks .
one of my favourites
utter brilliance
Huge Monty Python influence in this sketch, it's not dead it's asleep
There's literally nothing completely new you can do in comedy after MPFC.
@@neithere - Hmm, not sure about that. As much as I love Monty Python I do think that a lot of the sketches became absurd just because they were known for that style, but it didn't always translate to funny.
I think lots of comedians have done new styles of comedy since Monty Python but these discussions never end well unfortunately.
it has seized to be...this is an ex-ashtray...
It rests! It rests? Yes, it was pining for the fjords PINING FOR THE FJORDS?
I met Mel smith in a pub in the 80s once sipping a pint then he went to the khasi
He had a white rolls Royce outside
He was drinking a pint of old badger
oh, how I knew he was going to smash it to the ground the moment he picked it up! Intuition level: 10000000000
Yep, the best sketch they did! Love it.
Aah, the grammophone beats it, I think :)
@@airprimus Another timeless classic! Love the way he draws the word out:"Gram-o-phone".
lol you're kidding, this sketch is awful 🙄
Like to see John Cleese play the customer.
If you're wondering if shops like this still exist, take a wander along Regent Road in Great Yarmouth during the summer... you might even be able to get yourself a lovely rampant mackerel ashtray!
Oh, and GRIFF'S FUCKING FACE at 1:10 is priceless!
Didn't see that coming a joy to watch 😆😅😄😃😂😁
'I must say how impressed I am by the high standards of your wear' woehaaaa
Wares
+hiroji 95844 I think it's "your wares" and not "your wear" which really makes no sense.
*ware
Adults having a willy waving contest by correcting each other's spelling, on UA-cam of all places.
None of you are the winners here.
Yep, my mistake..
Mel Smith & Gryff Rhys Jones are there alongside Laurel & Hardy.
I have to admit that I actually bought the shire horse for my Dad. Sorry, Dad. If you're looking down (or up) at me now, I thought it was a nice present at the time :-)
Fuck I love British comedy!
Griff reminded me of Lloyd or mr. Grady in the Shining..
Getting his own back over the Gramophone shop…
The rampant mackerel ashtray. I think my Nan had one....
Well, he got the money for It anyway.
He didn't even wait to get back home 😂
Absolutely.
He reminds us of no one, other than Jeremy Clarkson
RIP Mel Smith : (
our rugby team had a similar object ,that when you made a massif blunder in a game ,you had to display it on your mantelpiece ,until another player made another boob during play.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 absoloute class
The "Mona Lisa" in the small oval frame.
He nearly lost it there a couple of times :D
Predictable.
But two great actors who knew how to use their faces.
And other things like language etc.
I didn't predict it
I want a rampant mackerel statue now!
The Mona Lisa in the small frame.
This was on Hedgehog Sandwich!
Brilliant! Not sure why people keep comparing it to Monty Python except that it's two men in a shop doing a sketch. I doubt that originated with MP.
Greatness. LoL
Playback at 1/2 speed, Mel does a great impression of Alf Hitchcock
I thought that seemed quite expensive.!!!
Thought he was going to say the till!
Sue Van Ayers brought me here.
£19.95 in 1980 is the same as £120.24 in 2023
Mel smith in the show ,colins sandwich ,was mel smith best show.
Douglas bader was legless most of the time
Very funny so he was
Sadly, Perryscope Corp and their rufty tufty rock band 'Merch' reminds me of this sketch.
Why did he broke that?????
i would kill for the contents of this shop. these items are like priceless antiques compared to the junk we have around now
Why do they remind me of James May and Richard Hammond?
very funny..
Aww, not fair, I like onyx! But then again, I like this sketch just a little bit more!
Jones looks a bit like Sebastian Vettel :D
I'm looking for a present for my aunt
...
Hmmmm funny (!)
rrrrock pool
Not the punch line I expected either. I thought it was going to be
'It's not for sale. We're not an antique shop, none of it's for sale.'
'Not an antique shop, then why the antiques? What do you do here?'
'We do circumcisions, what do you want me to put on display?'
That would be the Monty Python version.
NAUSEOUS OFFAL!!
Wot, no flying ducks, shame, low class shop.
Stolen from Terry Pratchett.
Shame the punchline is so crap 😕
A poor attempt at Monty Python style shopkeeper/customer sketch.
Did we laugh at that shit back then?
There's a kind of 'event horizon' with comedy.
Once you pass beyond or over it...things which once seemed funny...just don't.
I'm afraid I find this rather second-rate.
This sketch is far too white & uses far too much of the English vocabulary 👀👀👀👀
Not funny. NTNON is the most overrated show in history. Start of good careers, comics who went in to do extraordinary things (Pamela Stephenson excepted), but in and of itself, it's mostly garbage. Not all, some scenes are quality. 95% of it is insipid garbage.
Fun at parties
I guess for some people, it hasn't aged well. It was quite legendary for its time.
Barney Os. And still is. Probably the best British sketch show ever. Can't think of anything better.
@@cloudfactory2000 It is not even in the same league as Monty Python, the Two Ronnies, or A Bit of Fry & Laurie, among others. It doesn't even come up to the level of Morecambe & Wise: it ranks alongside the bloody Benny Hill Show. Occasional brilliancies - mostly thanks to Rowan Atkinson - but mostly flat.
@@DieFlabbergast, don't be ridiculous. It's miles better than M&W, who were a bit overated. Benny Hill is also brilliant. There's nothing around today that is anywhere as good as him.