That one small, fading line at the end provides the mother's motive. "I don't think [Daddy will] go when he sees your pipes." Chris Morris is on another plane.
It also proves just how absolutely batshit she is. I imagine the extended version of this in which the husband does come home and has to deal with the fact that his newborn is now a central heating system. This being Jam, he may actually come around to the idea, come to think of it.
Her motive is simply wanting her baby back. The daddy line is just fleshing out the details, like her saying earlier that her husband was going to leave if she didn't stop talking about the tubes.
@Daisy Dan I think it adds depth, but it's not "the mother's motive" as he put it. She's crazy because her baby is dead, it seems really odd to feel like her husband's leaving is the real reason she wants her baby alive again.
"He's only three weeks, they're meant to last longer. My sister, she's had one for years." Fantastic! The Day Today crew wiped the floor for the next 30 years, and counting. The Midas touch indeed!
Every generation has their version of "Shit was better in my day, you kids of today don't know anything." I'm 41, and my version of that cliche is trying to explain to younger people what unparalleled masterpieces The Day Today/Brass Eye/Jam are.
@@6abial I guess she had a baby to keep the father around, and fearing he would leave after they died, made a plumber bring it back to life as some half boiler/half baby creature type thing.
I absolutely agree. I first heard this when it was broadcasted on the radio on “Blue Jam” before the tv series version Jam was made. It was even more disturbing on the radio because it was left completely up to your imagination. And what you imagined was absolutely horrific.
I think the 'tell' (as in the core theme of the sketch) is at the end when the mother says 'I don't think he'll go...' The tragedy of child death is often what comes after, framed by the raw inciting trauma...
This is the kind of sketch that never appears on those 100 best type shows but it should. Everything about it is sheer class. It is one of the few occasions where Chris Morris has total empathy for the characters.
In *_The Great Divorce,_* C.S. Lewis gently explained that a mother's love for her child, considered one of the most sacred things in conventional English society, could become her very literal damnation if it curdles in an unhealthy fashion. This is a perfect example of how post-partum depression can cause a similar form of destruction in the human mind.
One of the most disturbingly dark and surreal sketches ever written. As I dare to chuckle a brief laugh, I feel a shiver chill me to the bone. Edit: I have since learnt that this sketch resulted in a huge number of complaints.
It is the first two chords from the second movement of the ninth symphony by Antonín Dvořák … ‘From The New World’ … ua-cam.com/video/l4DLatly4tg/v-deo.html
It's not necessarily incorrect to say that Chris Morris is ahead of his time. The problem with saying it is that nobody has caught up, nor do we know if anyone ever will. Like Black Mirror, Jam is not natural binge watching material, due in part to the discomfiting thread that runs throughout, as well as its implied request that you don't flick to the next one until you've spent a little time reflecting on the last one.
I don't think there has to be honest. But it's a very interesting dichotemy. Chris Morris was an expert at this. His 'dark' is a lot darker than I imagine the brains of some serial killers. But he's also an excellent satirist. And yet, at a time when the UK is crying out for his ilk, open season for satire and the divisions of Brexit kicking all of our tits and arses so hard that we need surgery, I've witnessed nothing of the BBC Radio-helium-pumping darklord. Maybe he's the Devil!
Watched Jam whilst trying psychedelics for the first time. I vividly remember the "£1000 an hour" line and wondering why her eyes kept expanding and shrinking...
Yes I distinctly remember the first time I watched Jam on LSD , Late 2010 by myself at a room at some college party. Actually it was "Jaaaam" the remix version, so the visuals were even more distorted. Highly recommend searching that version out.
I recognize some of these actors from Big Train and Spaced. It’s funny how the UK is such a huge country but they have such a small cottage comedy industry.
Great piece of dark surrealism from Chris Morris - where is that talent now? Reminds me of the “baby” in David Lynch’s surreal masterpiece “Eraserhead” still the scariest movie I’ve ever seen!
"it's just tubes isn't it? My husband will be so pleased, he says he's going to leave if i keep talking about the tubes, can you please fix him for $1000 an hour??" OMFG the dark insanity of this....
I first heard this as a sketch on Blue Jam, the original Radio 1 programme. The imagery here is about as nightmarish as what the audio version conjures up.
Love this sketch. Love it when you get silly people claiming that Dark Comedy is being offensive then i show them this and they get all weird and upset.
Something say the "sex for houses" sketch is worse for it's subject, but this to me is worse because there's more of a sense of true insanity, desperation and tragedy underlying the idea.
That's incorrect. There were some Richard D. James tunes played in the series but mainly It's just great incidental music selections from various artists chosen by Chris Morris.
Because he put hot water pipes through the baby's body and added a tap to it on the side so the baby could gurgle. How is this not dark? Or I'll put it this way, what do you consider dark?
Can't answer for everyone, but my baby brother died when I was little. The sheer desperation of the denial and bargaining phases of the mother's grief here hit home so hard that this physically hurts to watch. For me the worst part is the insane amount of money she throws at him as she begs him in a hysterical panic to solve a literally unsolvable problem. And the impending divorce. It all just creates such an atmosphere of inescapable pain and hopelessness.
The thing with Jam, was it was fucking great, but at times went so dark to the point of pretensiousness, and this is one of them IMHO. A brilliant series but i always thought it could have used tighter editing, or at least a bit of light and shade...
IndependentGeorge76 I go along with all of that.This one clearly goes a step too far/up it's own arse.The 'Sticko' sketch on Big Train is superb,similar stuff but lighter.
the entire point of the show was a satirisation of postmodernism, most people don't get that and consider it to just be really abstract. The entire show is intentionally pretentious.
I don't think so. The brilliance of it is the untold story that it references either side of the sketch itself. The horror of a mother going insane over the loss of her child, the devastating effect on her marriage and the tragedy of knowing what comes after when the husband returns to find his happy wife telling him their dead child has been mended. There are genuine characters and stories behind the sketch. Including Robin Lomax, to a lesser extent. It's not just about the absurdity of the suggestion of fixing a baby, it's the tragedy that led to it and will follow it, which is alluded to in the dialogue.
The only thing dark about this is her total lack of understanding and denial. It is so illogical and unbelievable. I assume her infant is dead and a plumber had rigged up flowing hot water and steam to it? It's preposterous and mostly weird.
Kevin Eldon is such an amazing actor, his reactions in this are just sublime
That one small, fading line at the end provides the mother's motive. "I don't think [Daddy will] go when he sees your pipes." Chris Morris is on another plane.
It also proves just how absolutely batshit she is. I imagine the extended version of this in which the husband does come home and has to deal with the fact that his newborn is now a central heating system.
This being Jam, he may actually come around to the idea, come to think of it.
@@paulbottomley42 "The little fella's finally getting some work done, and it'll mean some wonderful savings on the water bill"
Her motive is simply wanting her baby back. The daddy line is just fleshing out the details, like her saying earlier that her husband was going to leave if she didn't stop talking about the tubes.
Ah, isn't it? The punchline is hidden
@Daisy Dan I think it adds depth, but it's not "the mother's motive" as he put it. She's crazy because her baby is dead, it seems really odd to feel like her husband's leaving is the real reason she wants her baby alive again.
"He's only three weeks, they're meant to last longer. My sister, she's had one for years." Fantastic!
The Day Today crew wiped the floor for the next 30 years, and counting. The Midas touch indeed!
Considering one of their gang wrote succession I think you’re absolutely right
Accidentaly listened to Blue Jam on radio after the Friday rock show when i was heavily stoned,thought i had realy lost it.
This is the absolute best way to discover it!
Did the same but I was on a tablet, it came on half way through a dance mix and it was the doctor (prescribes H) sketch.
1:07 "He's only three weeks, they're meant to last longer" OMG this is fucking amazing!
Every generation has their version of "Shit was better in my day, you kids of today don't know anything." I'm 41, and my version of that cliche is trying to explain to younger people what unparalleled masterpieces The Day Today/Brass Eye/Jam are.
i’m 20 and i fully understood the genius of them when i was 15 lol
Every generation needs a healthy dose of lighthearted insanity
You OBVIOUSLY haven’t seen Mocking the Week or The Last Legs then 🤪
im 23 and im yet to see anything as mind bending and genius as Jam. this and blue jam are untouchable.
"I think daddy will like those pipes! I think he'll like them a lot! I don't think he'll go when he sees your pipes." … My gawd.
AGD4 I don't get it
@@6abial I guess she had a baby to keep the father around, and fearing he would leave after they died, made a plumber bring it back to life as some half boiler/half baby creature type thing.
This sketch is seared into my memory from the first time I saw it on the TV back then.
Same, I just showed my husband in an ad break as we were watching current creepy late night channel 4, "the sketch that scarred me 23(?) years ago"
Seared into mine since I first heard the radio edit whilst tripping on LSD
"no i don't think he'll go when he sees your pipes" my word that is some line.....heartbreaking and the darkest of dark humour
I remember seeing this when it was originally screened.
Still gets under the skin to this day.
I’m not sure which one of the team wrote it, or even conceived of the idea, but they need either knighting or help..
Symptomless coma sketch is far more disturbing
I absolutely agree. I first heard this when it was broadcasted on the radio on “Blue Jam” before the tv series version Jam was made. It was even more disturbing on the radio because it was left completely up to your imagination. And what you imagined was absolutely horrific.
“£1000 pounds an hour? Well, I could have a look.”
Chris Morris man
God bless you mr Robin lomax
I’m not promising
I think the 'tell' (as in the core theme of the sketch) is at the end when the mother says 'I don't think he'll go...'
The tragedy of child death is often what comes after, framed by the raw inciting trauma...
This is the kind of sketch that never appears on those 100 best type shows but it should. Everything about it is sheer class. It is one of the few occasions where Chris Morris has total empathy for the characters.
I know what you mean, but actually this was number 26 on channel 4's 100 scary moments.
One of the darkest of all the jams.
Dead baby jokes, they never get old.
It's not dead, it's warm, gurgling, a happy baby that just happens to double as a central heating system
@@mergieismoronic That's the joke 😉
"I's this horror or comedy?" "Yes!"
This has to be one of my favourite Chris Morris sketches. The execution of the whole thing is outstanding ❤
This really walks that line. Only Morris can do this
"He said he's dead or something..."
No holds barred bleak.
Never knew a mother could love her child so much
You would if they were so nice and warm.
Or rather her husband.
@@Jollyboy111 fucking hell mate 🤣
In *_The Great Divorce,_* C.S. Lewis gently explained that a mother's love for her child, considered one of the most sacred things in conventional English society, could become her very literal damnation if it curdles in an unhealthy fashion.
This is a perfect example of how post-partum depression can cause a similar form of destruction in the human mind.
One of the most disturbingly dark and surreal sketches ever written. As I dare to chuckle a brief laugh, I feel a shiver chill me to the bone.
Edit: I have since learnt that this sketch resulted in a huge number of complaints.
The Beast I don't get it
@@6abialAre you ‘avin a laugh? He’s ‘avin a laugh.
Christ..makes league of gentlemen look like tellytubbies..
Dude, thank you. I was just thinking that this is even darker than the darkest shit LoG pulled.
This music sounds like the Statue Park level in GoldenEye 64.
I haven’t played that game in like 20 years and I can hear the similaritiy.
It is the first two chords from the second movement of the ninth symphony by Antonín Dvořák … ‘From The New World’ … ua-cam.com/video/l4DLatly4tg/v-deo.html
Sounds like they sampled the opening of Dvorak’s 2nd movement from his new world symphony
It's not necessarily incorrect to say that Chris Morris is ahead of his time. The problem with saying it is that nobody has caught up, nor do we know if anyone ever will.
Like Black Mirror, Jam is not natural binge watching material, due in part to the discomfiting thread that runs throughout, as well as its implied request that you don't flick to the next one until you've spent a little time reflecting on the last one.
Yes, because you're good at mending! I love her intensity.
there has never been a darker sketch. Ever.
CjR I don't get it
too right
What's to get? It's a dark, surreal comedy sketch. Whether you find it funny or not is a matter of personal taste.
I don't think there has to be honest. But it's a very interesting dichotemy. Chris Morris was an expert at this. His 'dark' is a lot darker than I imagine the brains of some serial killers. But he's also an excellent satirist. And yet, at a time when the UK is crying out for his ilk, open season for satire and the divisions of Brexit kicking all of our tits and arses so hard that we need surgery, I've witnessed nothing of the BBC Radio-helium-pumping darklord. Maybe he's the Devil!
Nahh I think there were darker sketches on Jam
The way he tries to explain, "Well yeah, I fixed the taps..!" Cracks me right up! 😂
Watched Jam whilst trying psychedelics for the first time. I vividly remember the "£1000 an hour" line and wondering why her eyes kept expanding and shrinking...
That seems ill-advised!
@@27Dionysis I watched it on E's. Wrong vibes.😬
Yes I distinctly remember the first time I watched Jam on LSD , Late 2010 by myself at a room at some college party. Actually it was "Jaaaam" the remix version, so the visuals were even more distorted. Highly recommend searching that version out.
This whole show reminds me of an anxious mushroom trip, so watching it while tripping sounds like it could be quite traumatic!
An extremely good combination.
Spellbinding. Perfectly executed and wonderfully fucked. I adored this show.
God bless you Mr. Robin Lomax
I got Peta's footage of a marmoset as an opening ad and first thought it was an interstitial segment from the show!
Best sketch of all time, so sad and real.
Chris Morris does not give a F&%#. I wish more Americans I know could appreciate someone like this.
We elected one as President, what u mean
Chris Morris should do an episode of Black Mirror
He influenced Charlie Brooker when they did 'Nathan Barley' together
Mugsey B he apparently came up with the concept of the waldo moment.
Forget an episode they should give him the entire next season
I recognize some of these actors from Big Train and Spaced. It’s funny how the UK is such a huge country but they have such a small cottage comedy industry.
"They're meant to last longer."
£1000/h
1:23 the change of music is perfect
Great piece of dark surrealism from Chris Morris - where is that talent now? Reminds me of the “baby” in David Lynch’s surreal masterpiece “Eraserhead” still the scariest movie I’ve ever seen!
"it's just tubes isn't it? My husband will be so pleased, he says he's going to leave if i keep talking about the tubes, can you please fix him for $1000 an hour??"
OMFG the dark insanity of this....
There's also Blue Jam, the radio version. Some pretty dark stuff on there too!
Dark!
ashamed to admit i love this sketch... he's nice and warm! ew....
I think Amelia Bullmore is bloody lovely.
Genius
😂
but really, i'm laughing... and crying.
I first heard this as a sketch on Blue Jam, the original Radio 1 programme. The imagery here is about as nightmarish as what the audio version conjures up.
I'll get my tools 😂
‘Is he better?’ Dreamworld stuff
A big error you can make with Morris:
"Is this supposed to be funn?!"
Not always.
3 hours he was in there mangling a baby corpse.
Love this sketch.
Love it when you get silly people claiming that Dark Comedy is being offensive then i show them this and they get all weird and upset.
He's not quite... He's changed a bit.
Song(s) name?
It’s her eyes.
Aaaahhh ... a don't know....
I think You're gonna need a whole new one
They're meant to last longer.
Amelia Bullmore. What a lovely, beautiful English woman.
Just slightly psychologically deranged.
Invesigator maybe they just don’t like you or your sweeping generalizations.
can someone explain?
There is no subtext, just morbid, surreal humour.
Pablo Gonzalez explain jam? ...good luck
+allways28 asdgashash did ok... but Pablo its a morbid, surreal comedy show with no subtext :)
Can you explain what you want explained ?
Plumber brings dead baby back to life. What is there to explain about that?
Anyone know the song at the end?
It's Lisa Germano - Guillotine. That album takes me right back...
music?
+Bob Page Les Rythmes Digitales - Kontakte
+theshaunmeister thanks very much!
@@onc-g9z Wow I clicked the link not expecting it to be that track - sooo different to the 80s influenced LRD stuff that came not too long after!
Amelia Bullmore 😍
Boiler Spoiler, it only took him two hours
Christopher Nolan level soundtrack.
this is fucking horrifying
Such dark, dark humour. Love it.
I miss the days of dark humour.
So from what i understand this guy frankenstiened a baby to a boiler to keep it alive... holy fuck
not sure that baby's very alive
@@resiseven7407 "the doctor won't do anything, he said it's dead or something"
Something say the "sex for houses" sketch is worse for it's subject, but this to me is worse because there's more of a sense of true insanity, desperation and tragedy underlying the idea.
Sex For Houses is being cynical about propery owners.....This is pure grief. Both get to me in subtly different ways.
This just made me feel sad. I like Morris' other stuff though.
What's this sketch supposed to represent?
It's just a satirical sketch, people will do anything for the right price.
it represents dark UK humour and not obvious U.S levels of humour.
KingBennett92 It represents the grief and desperation of a bereaved parent.
@@BL1TZEN This is not typical British dark humour - Jam is probably by miles the darkest sketch show on British TV ever.
Gluemonkey I know. Ace isn’t it.
This is the darkest.
Matty!
aphex twin scored every episode i believe
That's incorrect. There were some Richard D. James tunes played in the series but mainly It's just great incidental music selections from various artists chosen by Chris Morris.
Sounds like a sample from the opening of the second movement from Dvorak’s new world symphony
@BhagwantB this tune is by Les Rhythmes Digitale, believe it ir not
Thanks for everything! Here’s a little something for fun: ua-cam.com/video/Uer7pmXVh5I/v-deo.html
no, man... noooooooooooo
He added the Gurgling option for no extra charge…The Best of British right there. 🫡
OMG
Can someone please explain why this is considered really dark?
Because he put hot water pipes through the baby's body and added a tap to it on the side so the baby could gurgle. How is this not dark? Or I'll put it this way, what do you consider dark?
Can't answer for everyone, but my baby brother died when I was little. The sheer desperation of the denial and bargaining phases of the mother's grief here hit home so hard that this physically hurts to watch. For me the worst part is the insane amount of money she throws at him as she begs him in a hysterical panic to solve a literally unsolvable problem. And the impending divorce. It all just creates such an atmosphere of inescapable pain and hopelessness.
Hilarious.
dear me
The grim reality of wishful thinking.
This one is so messed.
Jesus Christ
I'm gonna be real I don't understand what happened.
The woman's baby was dying, and she asked a plumber to save him, however, he could only do it by combining it's body with taps.
The baby is actually dead already, not dying.
@@Kris.G He didn't "save" it, he created the illusion of life with hot water pipes and a tap to make it gurgle.
The thing with Jam, was it was fucking great, but at times went so dark to the point of pretensiousness, and this is one of them IMHO. A brilliant series but i always thought it could have used tighter editing, or at least a bit of light and shade...
IndependentGeorge76 I go along with all of that.This one clearly goes a step too far/up it's own arse.The 'Sticko' sketch on Big Train is superb,similar stuff but lighter.
the entire point of the show was a satirisation of postmodernism, most people don't get that and consider it to just be really abstract. The entire show is intentionally pretentious.
...Come on...
I don't think so. The brilliance of it is the untold story that it references either side of the sketch itself. The horror of a mother going insane over the loss of her child, the devastating effect on her marriage and the tragedy of knowing what comes after when the husband returns to find his happy wife telling him their dead child has been mended. There are genuine characters and stories behind the sketch. Including Robin Lomax, to a lesser extent. It's not just about the absurdity of the suggestion of fixing a baby, it's the tragedy that led to it and will follow it, which is alluded to in the dialogue.
How do you show to people a pretentious world, without showing their pretentiousness.
partner told me about this. he's now my ex and I'm getting him committed. This show is beyond fucking sickening.
He? I thought you’d be a bit more open minded being gay
The only thing dark about this is her total lack of understanding and denial. It is so illogical and unbelievable. I assume her infant is dead and a plumber had rigged up flowing hot water and steam to it? It's preposterous and mostly weird.
bruh what? this feels like some junji ito shit
You need a sense of humour transplant.
Genius