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The barman in the pub scene was played by Peter Sallis. He's best known as the voice of Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. He was also in all 294 episodes of long-running sitcom 'Last of the Summer Wine'.
Heh, that's a generational thing; he's best known to me as Clegg from Summer Wine, much as I love Wallace.
He's a recurring character and former Hangman, if that wasn't already apparent to new viewers!
Ironically of all the crazy characters Rik has played this one is the craziest as he has shit loads of power and is utterly ruthless.
The monster raving looney party always bought a smile to my face, I think my fave policy was a 99p coin 😁
Mine was to help asylum seekers by putting up more signs directing them to the asylum.
I liked their proposals to allow skiing down the EEC Butter Mountain, and sailing on the Wine Lake (if you remember those things).
@@peterbrown1012 one of their policies in the 70's was all day opening of pubs, so they had some success
@@richardholmes4552 they even managed to have councillors elected.
My fave was 'A statue of Tommy Steel to be erected in every town.'
They built that smaller scale version of the house of commons specifically for this show.
I visited as a kid because it was part of Granada Studios tour.
Once again, there's absolutely no way any other American, below the age of 40 has ever heard of this, let alone seen it.
It's never been repeated in the UK and rarely gets talked about. It was maybe too close to the bone.
Doubt it would ever even have been shown by PBS in the states, tbh.
You're a unique dude.
The theme is a classical piece called 'Pictures at an Exhibition'.
Alan is a real evil bastard through the whole series. I love the sinister way he holds his hands together and makes waves with both his index fingers pushed together.
something I only found out a few years ago
the actress that plays Alan B*Stards wife is the daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk
Hi Noah, always loved (The New Statesman) whenever Politicians did something you did not like, you immediately thought of his character. As far as I`m concerned that applied to Politicians from any Party. The elder M.P. whose speech he swiped, was played by John Nettleton who played the Senior civil servant Sir Arnold Robinson in the earlier Political comedy, (Yes Minister/Prime Minister).
So pleased you reacted to this! I'd love to see more of it. I really enjoy the first episode but it gets even better as it goes along. A Goodnight Sweetheart reaction would be amazing too.
Screaming Lord Sutch (The candidate in the top hat at the beginning of the episode) was a genuine candidate in many UK elections for the official monster raving looney party (as opposed to the unofficial monster raving looney party). He also had a hit single in the early 60s with a song called Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately he suffered from severe depression and took his own life sometime in the late 90s.😢
Hiya. As it goes on, it gets even better. You might also like to see Rik in the film "Drop Dead Fred" (1991). Stay safe. All the best to you.
I can't watch that film since Rik died. 😢
@@robertwright7937 Its weird he didnt do well in movies. but it happens a lot. I miss him, check out MAN DOWN for his last brilliant performances.
@@DomBrownyo I've seen em mate, and I agree. I followed his career since the Kevin Turvey days, all through the Young Ones and beyond. I always think it's weird when people mourn someone they never met, but I felt like I lost a friend when he died. Same with Norm Macdonald, oddly enough. Both geniuses. (Genii?😄👍)
Screaming Lord Sutch at the beginning is an actual electoral candidate who contested in dozens of elections for the Monster Raving Loony Party as well as having a career as a musician, working with some of the biggest names in the business.
I hadn’t watched this since the original airing, I completely forgotten that they got Peter Sallis involved in this XD
Definitely like to see you do more of these!
Classic show, I still have my old video tapes with it on. It's great 👍🏻
Mayall was a gem. Sadly missed.
This show might mainly be mocking right-wing Conservatives, but Labour don't get a particularly flattering portrayal either.
Yorkshire Television made some great programmes. The merger of all of these regions was a real blow to television.
I think they made Harry's Game, which was an excellent drama.
That bald bloke appeared in two episodes of Only Fools
1) The person Del sells the car to
2) Jumbo Mills (the Australian)
Weren't both characters Australian?
John Woodvine (Chief Constable) and Rik Mayall appeared in the film 'An American werewolf in London' together.
5:58 Michael Troughton is the son of the second Doctor actor in Doctor Who Patrick Troughton
The guy playing piers fletcher derbish is the son of second doctor who actor Patrick throughton
I don't think that Noah needs to worry about having difficulty relating to late 1980s politics - they're similar to today's politics, at least in the UK!
The crazed policeman was based on James Anderton, who was real-life Chief Constable of Greater Manchester at the time. Dubbed "God's Cop" by the media, he made pronouncements about various moral issues of the day; for instance that homosexuals were "swimming in a sewer of their own making", or words to that effect, in relation to AIDS/HIV.
The Superintendent Ginsberg character does seem very, err, stereotypically Jewish - just as well that the show's writers, Gran and Marks, were Jewish themselves!
Could you please try an episode of goodnight sweetheart. I’m pretty sure most are on UA-cam
I would love to see this and Jonathan creek. Also rik is actually in a couple of Jonathan creek’s as a ‘normal’ human being! (S2 e7)
@@Live-by2vk actually yes I believe I have seen him that. Well remembered 👍
9:20 It's Del Boy's old business partner and used car purchaser.
Fuck me, that's really David Such. Screaming Lord Such. Leader of The Monster Raving Loony Party. A real political party that contested dozens of elections form the 60's onwards. A legend.
There's one more sitcom Rik Mayall starred in 2002 after Bottom : the six episode series 'Believe Nothing'.
By the same writers as The New Statesman but has a very different vibe, it's about the most intelligent man in Britain and the Illuminati!
Might be worth checking out (seems to be uploadable on UA-cam, too...)
Also, for any other Rik Mayall fans, his last appearances in a few episodes of MAN DOWN are brilliant.
He was a genuinely great actor.
In my opinion Rik Mayall was also good in episodes he appeared in, in Jonathan Creek and Ade Edmondson who also was in Jonathan Creek later on in the Series.
I think Nigel planer might be in one of them too actually
6:50 Sir Steven Baxter played by John Nettleton, who played Sir Arnold Robinson, cabinet secretary, in Yes Minister and was excellent in that.
From the most powerful man in Britain to sharing an office with Piers Fletcher-Dervish.
PS: Yes please do more New Statesman
Rick mayall and Ade Edmondson did sketches called The Dangerous Brothers
The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir Adrian Dangerous". Originally appearing on stage in London at the comedy club 'The Comic Strip', the characters were well developed before appearing on TV. First appearing on television on a one-off 1980 BBC TV show 'Boom Boom Out Go The Lights', they were also featured in a TV short documentary film 'The Comic Strip', directed by Julien Temple, before they appeared in a number of brief sketches in the TV programme Saturday Live from 1985 and into its first series in 1986.
I'd never seen this first episode, and I definitely enjoyed your reaction and summary.
John Woodvine played the religious maniac police chief, itself a reference to the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Sir James Anderton.
Screaming Lord Sutch played himself.
The House of Commons Chamber is a 3/4 scale set at Granada Television Studios in Manchester, used by many other film and TV productions over the years, and still in use.
John Woodvine (Chief Constable) and Rik Mayall appeared in the film 'An American werewolf in London' together.
It was a Granada Television set but was moved over to Yorkshire Television in Leeds for this.
@@stickytapenrust6869 Thanks :)
Nice to see the actual 'Screaming Lord Sutch' playing himself in the election scene at the beginning.
As an American you may not have heard of him, but he was a real British politician (as well as being a musician) - Founder and leader of the 'Monster Raving Loony Party', and would stand in many elections as a satirical or 'spoof' candidate - and actually holds the record for having stood the most times in British elections.
One time I even voted for a member of his party which had morphed into being the 'Rock'n'Roll Loony Party' after Sutch died, around '99 or 2000.
I lived in the same constituency as ex-Prime-Minister Tony Blair... I didn't agree with Blair's policies, and there was no way any other party than Blair's would win in my area, so my vote went to the Rock'n'Roll Loonys that year - 2001 IIRC
Why do I love it so much when the Bentley goes around the corner like it's on rails, then the cops slide and understeer awkwardly after it.?.?.
The casual high speed chase appeals to me for some reason... :D
B'Stard would definitely be in Johnson's cabinet.
Happiness is a warm gun is a Beatles song off The White Album.
Do more of filthy rich and catflap!!!! Thats my fav
policeman is the doctor in american werewolf in london.
The writers wanted to make a Rik Mayall sitcom and he days he'd only do it if he could play the most grotesque, outrageous and vile character possible. They said he could play a Tory MP and he jumped at it.
The Dire Straits bit at the end is very 80s
These days, this is a hard hitting documentary....
So good to see Rik in this role. It gets crazier and very enjoyable. Good to see Peter Sallis to - from 'Last of the Summer Wine' also.
Great show thanks!
I am convinced that Tony Hancock is Rik Mayall and Rik Mayall is Tony Hancock. Hancock's Half Hour is hilarious. The episode of 'Wild man of the woods' (basically Bottom - S'out) or 'The Blood Donor' is Bottom without the slapstick violence.
Love the channel sir 😁
Noah you should react to Mind Your Language
This very interesting I would be open for more.I think with regard to political side of things you be fine.
Another satire comedy series I'd recommend is jeeves and wooster which has been recently 4k remastered on UA-cam
It's another one of those I didn't appreciate much at the time, it came out around the same time as Brittas Empire and those were my older sisters shows whereas I was more into Red Dwarf. It was good, look forward to you doing more. PS. Have you got Man Down on the list? Greg Davies and Rik Mayall in the first season were unreal together, just incredible. And then sadly that was one of the last things he did.
The New Statesman started in 1987, Red Dwarf started in 1988, Brittas Empire started in 1991.
@@sierraromeoromeo2444 Like I said, around the same time.
@@PaulEcosse 5 years apart is not "around the same time", by any stretch of the imagination. They didn't even start in the same decade!
@@sierraromeoromeo2444 It's around the same time, to me. And I'm all that matters.
@@PaulEcosse "I'm all that matters" Not in my world, or most other worlds. You only matter in one tiny little world, that nobody else has heard of!
Brilliant choice. Perfectly relevant. There's many B'stards amongst the Tories. Look along the Conservative front bench.
Alan B'stard has now become the archetype of what people think the average Tory MP is, and with the way the current government is now they're not far off.
He unfortunately had quite a lot of influence over the Tories of the time. They actually saw him as kind of aspirational.
This is real gem of a show
Can't wait for the planned revival/reboot
If anyone is thinking that this stuff is far fetched i recommend that they take a look at the diaries of Alan Clark. He makes Alan B'Stard look like an asexual blow with the wind pragmatic centrist.
Hun I cannot wait for the second episode
My mates got Alan bstards Bentley!
Never knew the writers of this also did Birds of a Feather not really seen this apart from the odd episode but sure this much better
I guess now you’ll have to react to ‘Mr Jolly Lives Next Door’ & then where it all began for Ade & Rik ‘The Dangerous Brothers’…..
Whatever your politics, it feels even closer to the truth, now, than it did then.
Have you watched Chris Morris’ ‘Jam’ yet?
Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran who wrote the New Statesman also wrote another TV Series for BBC Called Birds Of A Feather...
Birds of a Feather (commonly abbreviated to BOAFis a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC One from 16 October 1989 to 24 December 1998, then revived on ITV from 2 January 2014 to 24 December 2020. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote many of the episodes.
For Cockney sisters Sharon Theodopolopodous and Tracey Stubbs, life is never the same again when their husbands are convicted of armed robbery and sent to prison. Sharon, a common, fun-loving, large and loud-mouthed character from a council flat in Edmonton, moves into her sister's luxury home in Chigwell, so that she can support Tracey, after her husband's imprisonment.
Dorien GreenEdit
The sisters' neighbour is the wealthy, snobbish, man-eating Dorien Green, a middle-aged woman who strives to create the impression that she is a glamorous beauty, dressing in a sexually provocative style, preferring mini-skirts, high heels and leopard print. She is played by Lesley Joseph. Dorien is married to Marcus, but is frequently involved with other men, with hilarious consequences. Dorien and Marcus are Jewish. Her marriage is also childless, due to her vanity and the lack of affection between her and Marcus. She is a regular, if uninvited, guest at Tracey's house and mocks Sharon about her weight whilst Sharon teases Dorien about her lifestyle and age. However, Sharon and Tracey become the best friends Dorien has ever had and the mutual teasing is friendly and playful and it is often shown that Sharon and Tracey care for Dorien and vice versa.
I never watched this when it was first aired; but as a teenager in the 80’s if it was political it wasn’t of interest. I’ve really love Yes (Prime) Minister, but I only got into that when it was repeated, this I don’t recall being repeated.
It’s not as clever as Yes Minister and I regard that as one of the best comedy’s; this was good but it never was & never will be a classic IMHO….
4.14 now you know how Donald Trump made it to the Whitehouse lol
WHY HAVENT YOU DONE, "YES MINISTER"?
I have
honestly this has to be my favourite of his shows. am not really a fan of the crazy voices and all of the stuff in his other shows
No life on Mars this month?
Made a community tab post about that a few days ago
This kind of satire simply wouldn't work today. A concise example of ethically deficient, morally repugnant socio-economic beneficiary, who acts as if the rules don't apply to them. Ineffectually held to account by like minded bedfellows and impotent opposition. A relic of a bygone age that lends itself to no present comparisons that I can think of.
I see what you did there
Well said but there's only one s in concise
This sounds like wiff waff too me...
@@ratatat9790 Thanks, missed that typo. Gotten too used to auto correct with my dyslexia. Not provided on this device within this configuration.