I’m glad you found this so funny! It’s not a pantomime as such but a parody of one. It’s fondly making fun of amateur dramatics and the people who partake, hilariously. BTW, the narrator is none other than Hercule Poirot himself!
This group started by creating the theatre show "The Play That Goes Wrong" and it was such a big hit, I believe this was their next big project and put them even more in the spotlight, so that they then made "A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong" and then during the Pandemic they released a TV show called "The Goes Wrong Show" which is lots of small plays that go wrong. They are hilarious!
I have the bit with the ledger from The Play That Goes Wrong permanently etched in my mind because the actor sat there for almost a full minute, screaming and red in the face because "he couldn't find the ledger" 😂
@@Snifferth I know it doesn't work at all in text but "oh... the lager bear" is one that's snuck into our house. That and " a drooped the swooo, in tha mooo, who do you noo understoon".
When David Suchet started speaking with a Belgian accent, he went into his old Poirot character, until someone removed the moustache, then he went back to himself.
@@reactingtomyrootsThe first indicator was when he started walking with very short steps, which is his Poirot walk. There are episodes of his series on UA-cam if you want to try and solve a murder mystery. His series, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, is easily recognisable from other series with a different actor. Here’s a cheeky little short of David explaining how he found his gentle Poirot accent when his own voice is deeper. ua-cam.com/users/shortsJpQ0uOIiN3o?si=zhwtmco1cSr-OWWD
@@reactingtomyroots Hercule Poirot is a famous Belgian detective in the murder mystery novels of author Agatha Christie. You may have heard of murder on the orient express or Death on the Nile.
I love these guys, and yes, it's definitely on purpose, they have several plays like this that all go wrong. It's actually very impressive how they manage to fail so successfully over and over. 😂
All drwho actors did pantomime,its part of there theatre work,, we in Australia watched then all, of course SID JAMES & WILLIAM HARTNEL turned their panto.. into the CARRY~ON series ,,.. THROUGHTON was continual panto actor ,, SYVESTER McCOY would do Summer Panto in AUstralia as its high~end smutty comedy most breach youtube decency, but aussies , we loved it ,, also Micheal Crawford ~ Frank Spenser ,, is laugh a minute chuckles ,,.. as well the actors from ARE YOU BEING SERVED ,, did Summer Panto in australia to escape the cold 4 months of British Winter.
Its worthy to note that JM Barrie signed off the rights to Peter Pan, to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. It has since entered the public domain, but CDPA ensures that GOSH still gets the benefit from stage shows, audio books etc.
No. Disney bought the rights back in 1939. Since then Disney has given money to Great Ormond Street Hospital, and in acordance with JM Barrie's wishes the actual amount is kept a secret except for the British Charities commision who over see all British Charities. Indeed in the last few years they have started to give more money because of Public outrage that the rights supposdely belong to Disney. Britsh cpoyright law, and patents acts 1988 (in a singular act for Great Ormond Street alone) mean that in perpetuity (forever that is) Great Ormond street has to be paid by Disney, or anyone else using Peter Pan trade names, with proceeds from films, theme park actors, and any merchandise they produce based on JM Barrie's wishes. 1988 is the first time the House of Lords or any version of parliament anywhere has singled out a single charity for the wishes of a single will. GOSH (Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity) runs the scheme for Peter pan around the world. It is NOT in the public domain, and never has been. The rights to Peter Pan were given by JM Barrie to GOSH in 1929. They admister the sale of rights, and collection of funds atributed to Peter Pan, which go to GOSH itself!!
This is how a cross between panto and farce should be done, they've captured the core personalities of amateur dramatics perfectly. The 'Goes Wrong' series has been so successful that there are several troups touring around the world playing them. 'Robert' (the dog, shadow, etc) is the son of an old friend, so I've had the pleasure of watching their success grow from the earliest days. Watching them live is breathtaking - they're very skilled actors and lovely people.
One of the essential elements of a pantomime is lots of things going wrong! The skill for the actors (and crew!) is to make it look accidental but trust me, every one of those mishaps has been carefully planned and rehearsed ... and it's a lot harder to pull that off convincingly than for it to all run smoothly!
Totally agree, when our dear Victoria Wood (RIP) wrote and performed the TV sketch series Acorn Antiques which used the same method, initially it was said the TV camera crew couldn't believe she wanted them to film things out of shot in the wrong places or have wobbling sets and props. As you say it takes a lot of skill to get making things go wrong on purpose.
I think it's done so well that people don't realise the skill and professionalism of not just the actors but the crew both stage and production. It would've had a H&S assessment longer than War and Peace! Just picking one thing, at random, the bunk bed collapsing. That was technically brilliant. If not done right and rehearsed over and over and over, people could have genuinely got hurt. Even if a facades were balsa, it's still hurt and all you can do in those situations is plan an minimise damage, not eliminate it.
@@hellsbunniestv584I think Dave (playing Max) said that the underneath of the bed above him had to have padding put on it so it wouldn't hurt him when it fell
The cast are all pretty unknown, however the narrator is a MASSIVELY famous UK actor. 1:01:27 When he puts on the moustache, falls into a French accent, here and everyone cheers, he's actually falling into his most famous role, Hercule Poirot, based on the Agatha Christie books.
That is British humour at its best, it’s bonkers crazy stupid and a little bit naughty. Thank you for giving me a great laugh, to understand us you have to understand our humour I think the British humour is the best in the world 🌍.
Spinal Tap, which tapped a similar vein aeons ago; does anyone else remember when the bassist couldn't open his pod? This also puts me in mind of the wonderful stage play by Michael Frayn; Noises Off. So effectively, yes, you're absolutely right.
The Goes Wrong Show is some of the best television ever made. The Mischief crew are endlessly inventive, and they are masters at setting up jokes with a long payoff. You can see the inevitable mishap coming a mile off, but it never fails to get a laugh anyway. Fantastic stuff.
We went to see this a few years ago instead of our usual panto. So unbelievably funny. Peter came round signing programmes in character as the actor playing Peter. Mad. The whole Goes Wrong team are fantastic. The Play that Goes Wrong is the original and is so funny. Also the TV show as mentioned.
This was originally a stage production which got adapted for television. The TV production proved so successful that they got another show the following year - the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, banned from the BBC after their disastrous show, decide to hijack a live broadcast of "A Christmas Carol". They also got a couple of short series of "The Goes Wrong Show" The company, Mischief Theatre, was formed by a group of students at a drama school. Their first major production, "The Play That Goes Wrong" (originally "The Murder Before Christmas") was based around genuine mishaps that have occurred in theatre productions. Your reactions to this were priceless. I'm so glad you enjoyed this as much as I did when it was first screened in 2016.
I saw the US tour of "The Play That Goes Wrong" right before the pandemic and it was such a blast! I was impressed by how they built the set so that it deliberately fell apart, but kept the actors relatively safe.
Innuendo, self deprecation,slap stick, dark and dry humour, all found in panto, are sort of ‘normal’ humour for Brits you two 😊 Yes it’s perhaps strange to non Brits, but we are a weird lot, and proud of it !
@@__Black_Sheep__ started off in Muswell Hill... now live on Cape Breton Island.. east coast of Canada. Yes you are right.. Britspeak works quite well here.
@@__Black_Sheep__ nice to meet you dear.. I'm just a few miles from Lake Ainslie.. it's the largest freshwater lake in Nova Scotia. It's a beautiful peaceful place, unspoiled nature, lots of wildlife, plenty of music.
I'm British so I am very familiar with pantos. I just spent an hour or so with tears running down my face. Absolutely made my day. Thanks for that. Your reactions and comments added to the fun.🤣😂 (70 year + bloke).
1:33 David Suchet is my definitive Hercule Poirot. Wonderful actor. You guys may be more familiar with him as the bad guy in the family comedy bigfoot and the Hendersons.
Did you get all the tips, prompts and audience participation parts in the booklet - I absolutely loved it we were singing Duran Duran mid way through, booing, ad-libbing alongside the cast - bloody brilliant 😂😂😂
Ive seen The Play That Goes Wrong twice and was in utter hysterics both times and ive seen Peter Pan Goes Wrong and was equally impressed. It's genius. Executed with chaotic perfection.
I loved The Play That Goes Wrong and keep meaning to see it again. We also saw Mind Mangler when that went on tour and it was also incredible. I’ve got tickets to their new show, The Comedy About Spies, when that starts in May and I can’t wait for it!
This was the absolute epitome of British pantomime! Thank you so much for reacting to it! Your laughter is the finest praise possible for the genre! 🤣🤣🤣
@@davebox588 The play that goes wrong it's the origin of everything, I think. You can see an extract in youtube with the original cast, search: "The Play that Goes Wrong performing at The Royal Variety Performance 2015" =)
The main thing to understand is that this is NOT a pantomime. It's a comedy play. The 'actors' you are meeting are not real, they are the characters played by members of Mischief Theatre Company (who have a long running play in London, plus others that are no longer in London). The only person playing themselves in this is David Suchet. It is a take off of any bad amateur theatre group - we call them 'am dram' (amateur dramatics) but you would call it 'community theatre' in the US
You’d love our Pantomimes. David Suchet is actually a highly acclaimed actor who’s done Shakespeare and played Hercule Poirot the Belgian detective and many other film and tv drama roles. I think you may be confusing the talking teacup with the Disney movie ‘Alice in Wonderland’. You should watch Peter Pan, though it never ceases to amaze me how Disney portrays Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh etc, all with American accents when they’re in fact British characters written by British authors.😂
This is a troupe of comedians who write “goes wrong” plays that have been playing in the West End for a few years. They have also produced a series of “goes wrong” televised plays on the BBC (such as this one). The comedy is that they are playing a group of amateur dramatics players who put on plays where everything that could go wrong with whatever play does go wrong. These TV ones are filmed in front of a live audience, to mimic the actual plays. They always play the same members of the am-dram players and it’s just the play that changes. I’ve seen the courtroom drama and the WW2 spy drama - hilarious stuff.
Stefanie Powers, David Rooney, Jimmy Osmond, and David Hasselhoff are the best Known American actors to do Pantomime shows here. Even Mr Sulu, George Takai, who was the first American actor to do Pantomime in 1987 got in the act he called to the Audience "Yoo Hoo," to which the audience replied "Yoo Hoo Sulu." Even the Fonz Henry Wikler has done British Panto.
Watching this in the theatre was crazy - this was a west end show that ran for a while, and the end bit was really quite a spectacle, its incredible no one ever got hurt.
You've picked a spectacularly well done comic presentation. There's probably some sort of expression that describes belting out a lullaby at the the top of your lungs over a chainsaw. It seems to have momentarily escaped me.
My 6 yr old at Puss in Boots Panto. Scene people have been washed ashore on an island and are unconscious. One by one actors are looking for them. First actor “Where is everyone?”, Audience shouting they’re behind you. Son shouts “look over there, over there”. Actor & Audience laughs at him. 2nd actor “Where is everyone?”. Before audience can respond son shouts “Can’t you see? Over there, look”. Audience and actor crack up. 3rd Actor comes on “Where is everyone?”. Son stands up on theatre chairs and yells at the top of his voice. “They’re behind you, over there, are you blind?”. We are all in stitches actor has tears laughing. Main actor comes on, he looks at the audience and at son, he is laughing his head off “ I can’t do this”. Waves at son and goes off. It was the funniest. Son had big round of applause.
Reminds me of my little brother many many moons ago aged about 3/4, not understanding the routine of panto and shouting things out just a minute later than everybody else as he copied the rest of the audience, but doing it really really loud out of sync and cracking everybody up (though he couldn't see why).
Sounds a bit like my niece when we went to see Mother Goose (John Bishop and Sir Ian McKellen) and there's the scene where John's character is querying the audience what he should tell the lady he's falling for. My Niece pipes up at the top of her voice, "I love you" and got a round of aaws, laughter and applause from both audience and actors. The joy of panto.
I've seen these guys in the theatre, I have never laughed so much, it was absolutely hilarious from the moment you walked in to the moment you left. Wish they would tour again so I could go for a second show.
I would absolutely LOVE to see you both react to the Goes Wrong Show, its like this but has multiple episodes and they're each a different story. I love rewatching them, they never get old
I love this company. They also have The Play That Goes Wrong and a sketch show called the Goes Wrong Show which was on the BBC and you might be able to find.
This actually gets funnier every time I see it. You've got some time before Christmas... find A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which they did the year after, it's fantastic too.
If you go to a live show the ‘stage hands’ are normally walking about in the auditorium as the audience come in, interacting with them and getting them to help with something, especially the kids - like looking for a lost dog or feeding a massive extension cable from the stage to the back of the theatre (I got roped into that one at the live version of this one last year)
Peter Pan has a special place in our hearts in the uk. The writer, JM Barrie gifted the rights to Peter Pan in 1929 to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) which is a charitable children’s hospital in London ❤
I’ve seen The Play That Goes Wrong twice …once in the West End & the other in Hull & it just cracks me up with laughter proper tears down the cheeks LOL 😂 😂….They are so full of energy and slap stick!!… must be a health & safety nightmare! 😂😂 Have loved you reaction to this one guys ❤X
Am glad I mentioned watching this. They are a perfect example of a pantomime made for a wider age audience, a well-known story with slapstick comedy and great timing, they are a pretty unique troop of actors, so glad the humour translated well for you
I've just realised there's some bits missing from this. In the broadcast version, before the pirate ship crashes the Teletubbies set, it also goes through the set of the quiz show "Eggheads" and a rehearsal for the ten o'clock news, which is announcing that the BBC is ending the scheme that put Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society on air.
The imaginary food eating sequence is not in the version on the iPlayer in the UK either. The Christmas carol one is also on there but the Nativity one doesn't seem to be at the moment.
Hi Steve and Lindsay, I watch your videos daily and love every single one. But today ,I want to realy thank you. I was having a bad morning and fed up of feeling alone until I sat down with my coffee and put youtube on. I've wanted to watch this myself but I must say that watching it with you is so much better. I used to take my son to a chuckle brothers panto every Christmas if there are any of them on UA-cam I think you 2 and Sophia would love it. Anyway thank you for all your lovely videos and laughter. Have a lovely Christmas and new year. Jacqui
Thank you, Jacqui, for being part of the Roots family. ❤ We appreciate your support! We'll have to save that suggestion. I'm glad we could bring a smile to your face and hope that you have a very Merry Christmas as well!
@reactingtomyroots Thanks to you and all the lovely people in your comments for being a caring bunch. It's always good to laugh and it definitely brightened my day for sure. ❤️
I’ve not been to pantomime for so many years ,my grandchildren used to go every year but I don’t they do know they are in their late teens.I had to watch this with you and it gave me a great laugh.Growing most people knew what pantomimes consisted of but our parents never took us.we missed out on some great fun.
I've had an absolute blast watching this with you today! The ' Goes Wrong' series of plays has been hugely successful in the UK in recent years - both on the West End stage, and on TV. The guy doing the narration is David Suchet who is a very well known and respected stage and TV actor by the way. That adds to the hilarity when things go wrong! Where he steals the Captains moustache and adopts a funny little walk and starts to speak with an accent, he is referencing his most famous TV role as Agatha Christie's Poirot. To a British audience that in itself is hilarious!
I really believe that panto is why the UK produces so many good actors. From such a young age kids are shown so many different aspects of theatre and learn to embrace it. It also gives a different sensibility which think you may be missing. Your daughter would love this and take it with her for the rest of her life.
Welcome to British pantomime guys. These players have their own show in London’s West End been playing for many years. They also are playing in Broadway.
The actor doing the reading was David Suchet who plays Poirot! A lot of pantomimes have things go wrong its part of the fun although this was obviously intentional but often the scenery falls over because a lot of amateur groups put them on! Great fun!
Wow, thank you guys so much for sharing this, never knew this existed, have seen Peter pan plenty of times but this is amazing, am going to watch again with my boys later as they will love it 😀, and David suchet is a brilliant actor obviously well know for poirot but so many others, was very good playing deputy pm in flood 😊
@reactingtomyroots it's fantastic, they've also done there own version of "a Christmas carol" too, have just found them on bbc iplayer so could be on you tube too 😀
Glad you enjoyed! I saw it on the UK tour this spring having no expectations but it was fantastic. There's a big difference between this and standard panto, this show has elements though 😊
David Suchet playing the narrator is a very famous actor. Well known for playing Poirot in the adaptations of Agatha Christies books. Hence ppl cheering when he put Hooks curly moustache on
I saw this show at our local theatre. It was absolutely hilarious. Peter Pan Goes Wrong is not the only 'goes wrong' play that they do, but I haven't seen any of the others.
I've seen two different productions of this at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham. It's funny on screen, but it's even more hilarious live. The performances start well before the play does with last minute rehearsals that inevitably go horribly wrong while stage hands try (and fail) to resolve technical issues and complete the set on time. Needless to say, all the disasters are staged and meticulously worked out before hand. It's really a multi-layered performance. Cornley Polytechnic is a fictional institution; the group is actually the Mischief Theatre Company. The performers, too, are not real people, but actors playing characters within the play
Yes, we saw The Play That Goes Wrong live, and the cast were roaming the auditorium "looking" for someone to play the dog. My grand-daughter was really up for it !
This was a wonderfully bonkers, inspired and mad version of the classic Peter Pan Pantomime, and I laughed so much!! Thanks for reacting to this, otherwise I would never have seen it as my time for Pantomimes I thought was over! But this was so funny! Eccentricity is a great description, but with extra madness thrown in for spice! 🤣🤣
Panto is itself a satirical play on current news, and a comedic send-up of legitimate theatre. So, this play, being a spoof on a panto is truly hilariously bonkers. The next dive you might consider taking into British comedy theatre is a look at Gilbert and Sullivan plays. My son's school in DC during the six yrs we spent in the US had a G&S society. Today, 35 yrs later, he still remembers much of the comedic verse he learned to sing on stage when he was 12!!
I swear i weed myself at some point watching you guys watching this. I thought Steve had stopped breathing as he was laughing but no actual sound was coming out. This is britishness at its best. So glad you found this. I agree to get that many things to go wrong at the right time, everyone be in exactly the right place so no one actual does get injured. Plus to get david Suchet involved was genius. Nobody but the BBC would get behind something like this which is why I'm happy to pay my licence fee.
I love that you both love this and I cried with laughter whan watching this. This is a very meta pantomime experience because it includes the 'Gone Wrong' team. Every major town in the UK has a pantomime each year and some include US actors. Pantomimes are bonkers, fun, rude and often only best experienced in real life.
‘Oh no it isn’t’ and ‘they’re behind you’ are the two staples of pantomime audience participation
Oh yes it is
@@englishlin7020 oh no it isn't
@@theborderer1302 oh yes it is 🤭
@@tiassmile Booh
I’m glad you found this so funny! It’s not a pantomime as such but a parody of one. It’s fondly making fun of amateur dramatics and the people who partake, hilariously. BTW, the narrator is none other than Hercule Poirot himself!
This group started by creating the theatre show "The Play That Goes Wrong" and it was such a big hit, I believe this was their next big project and put them even more in the spotlight, so that they then made "A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong" and then during the Pandemic they released a TV show called "The Goes Wrong Show" which is lots of small plays that go wrong. They are hilarious!
"Halo, hello" and "higher, hiya" have become staple phrases with my kids since the nativity goes wrong.
I have the bit with the ledger from The Play That Goes Wrong permanently etched in my mind because the actor sat there for almost a full minute, screaming and red in the face because "he couldn't find the ledger" 😂
@@Snifferth I know it doesn't work at all in text but "oh... the lager bear" is one that's snuck into our house. That and " a drooped the swooo, in tha mooo, who do you noo understoon".
The Goes Wrong Show is amazing. I wish they'd made more seasons
This is so funny. Me and my fa6were watching this only a few days ago. We laughed so much, it hurt 🤣🤣🤣
When David Suchet started speaking with a Belgian accent, he went into his old Poirot character, until someone removed the moustache, then he went back to himself.
Yes, but they didn’t get that. Probably haven’t seen Poirot!
@ That’s why I explained it. They can google the rest.
Okay, yeah, we hadn't heard of him before otherwise we probably would have understood. 😅
@@reactingtomyrootsThe first indicator was when he started walking with very short steps, which is his Poirot walk. There are episodes of his series on UA-cam if you want to try and solve a murder mystery. His series, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, is easily recognisable from other series with a different actor. Here’s a cheeky little short of David explaining how he found his gentle Poirot accent when his own voice is deeper.
ua-cam.com/users/shortsJpQ0uOIiN3o?si=zhwtmco1cSr-OWWD
@@reactingtomyroots Hercule Poirot is a famous Belgian detective in the murder mystery novels of author Agatha Christie. You may have heard of murder on the orient express or Death on the Nile.
It’s all deliberate. Very well acted. British sense of humour.
British eccentricity at its best! Bloody Bonkers and proud 😂
I noticed our dark humour regarding Mr Bumble did not register with Steve and Lindsey bless them 😅
It's when we all become kids again lol
@@claregale9011 I guess they haven't seen Oliver twist
Amazing fun going to London to watch
Oh no it isn't! 😄
I love these guys, and yes, it's definitely on purpose, they have several plays like this that all go wrong. It's actually very impressive how they manage to fail so successfully over and over. 😂
Yup real skill - more so than not failing
@RaXXha they do have genuine mistakes too, but just leave them in. The cast talk about them on their UA-cam channel.
All drwho actors did pantomime,its part of there theatre work,, we in Australia watched then all, of course SID JAMES & WILLIAM HARTNEL turned their panto.. into the CARRY~ON series ,,.. THROUGHTON was continual panto actor ,, SYVESTER McCOY would do Summer Panto in AUstralia as its high~end smutty comedy most breach youtube decency, but aussies , we loved it ,, also Micheal Crawford ~ Frank Spenser ,, is laugh a minute chuckles ,,.. as well the actors from ARE YOU BEING SERVED ,, did Summer Panto in australia to escape the cold 4 months of British Winter.
Its worthy to note that JM Barrie signed off the rights to Peter Pan, to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. It has since entered the public domain, but CDPA ensures that GOSH still gets the benefit from stage shows, audio books etc.
I never knew that an amazing thing for him to do
I did not know this, what a fantastic idea and gesture.
No. Disney bought the rights back in 1939. Since then Disney has given money to Great Ormond Street Hospital, and in acordance with JM Barrie's wishes the actual amount is kept a secret except for the British Charities commision who over see all British Charities. Indeed in the last few years they have started to give more money because of Public outrage that the rights supposdely belong to Disney. Britsh cpoyright law, and patents acts 1988 (in a singular act for Great Ormond Street alone) mean that in perpetuity (forever that is) Great Ormond street has to be paid by Disney, or anyone else using Peter Pan trade names, with proceeds from films, theme park actors, and any merchandise they produce based on JM Barrie's wishes. 1988 is the first time the House of Lords or any version of parliament anywhere has singled out a single charity for the wishes of a single will. GOSH (Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity) runs the scheme for Peter pan around the world. It is NOT in the public domain, and never has been. The rights to Peter Pan were given by JM Barrie to GOSH in 1929. They admister the sale of rights, and collection of funds atributed to Peter Pan, which go to GOSH itself!!
@@garypierce8392 The OP isn't correct in what he says, at all!!
@@emmarogers948 The OP isn't correct in what he says, at all!!
This is how a cross between panto and farce should be done, they've captured the core personalities of amateur dramatics perfectly. The 'Goes Wrong' series has been so successful that there are several troups touring around the world playing them. 'Robert' (the dog, shadow, etc) is the son of an old friend, so I've had the pleasure of watching their success grow from the earliest days. Watching them live is breathtaking - they're very skilled actors and lovely people.
One of the essential elements of a pantomime is lots of things going wrong! The skill for the actors (and crew!) is to make it look accidental but trust me, every one of those mishaps has been carefully planned and rehearsed ... and it's a lot harder to pull that off convincingly than for it to all run smoothly!
"Is that a true story?" ... 45 minutes in, and you _still_ think that anything might be remotely true 😂
Totally agree, when our dear Victoria Wood (RIP) wrote and performed the TV sketch series Acorn Antiques which used the same method, initially it was said the TV camera crew couldn't believe she wanted them to film things out of shot in the wrong places or have wobbling sets and props. As you say it takes a lot of skill to get making things go wrong on purpose.
I think it's done so well that people don't realise the skill and professionalism of not just the actors but the crew both stage and production. It would've had a H&S assessment longer than War and Peace! Just picking one thing, at random, the bunk bed collapsing. That was technically brilliant. If not done right and rehearsed over and over and over, people could have genuinely got hurt. Even if a facades were balsa, it's still hurt and all you can do in those situations is plan an minimise damage, not eliminate it.
@@hellsbunniestv584I think Dave (playing Max) said that the underneath of the bed above him had to have padding put on it so it wouldn't hurt him when it fell
Even here in Cyprus we enjoy a good pantomime ( it's one of the best thing the Brits leafed us )
The cast are all pretty unknown, however the narrator is a MASSIVELY famous UK actor.
1:01:27 When he puts on the moustache, falls into a French accent, here and everyone cheers, he's actually falling into his most famous role, Hercule Poirot, based on the Agatha Christie books.
Belgian :)
@@thegrinderman1090 French. While Hercule Poirot is indeed Belgian, the language he speaks is French.
@@Wishbone1977 No, that's like saying Americans have an English accent just because they're speaking the English language
It isn't going wrong. It's going just perfectly.
Oh no it isn't!
OH YES IT IS! 😂
@@lottie2525 Oh yes it is! :D
Just as it was meant to go! LOL
@@readMEinkbooks Oh no it isn't!
David Suchet is just amazingly brilliant which is why he is one of our greatest actors ever
That is British humour at its best, it’s bonkers crazy stupid and a little bit naughty. Thank you for giving me a great laugh, to understand us you have to understand our humour I think the British humour is the best in the world 🌍.
Spinal Tap, which tapped a similar vein aeons ago; does anyone else remember when the bassist couldn't open his pod? This also puts me in mind of the wonderful stage play by Michael Frayn; Noises Off. So effectively, yes, you're absolutely right.
I love this one! And the fact they managed to get Sir David as the narrator...spot on!!!😂😂😂😂
Loved their series
When he morphs into Poirot, i just lost it.
There is a whole series of these plays that go wrong have been shown on the BBC. The series is called "The Goes Wrong Show".
I have seen two of them live in Manchester. They were great.
Oh, that's awesome! Didn't realize it was a whole series. We'll have to look up some others. :) Thanks
The Goes Wrong Show is some of the best television ever made. The Mischief crew are endlessly inventive, and they are masters at setting up jokes with a long payoff. You can see the inevitable mishap coming a mile off, but it never fails to get a laugh anyway. Fantastic stuff.
The episodes in The Goes Wrong Show are much shorter, but equally brilliant.
We went to see this a few years ago instead of our usual panto. So unbelievably funny. Peter came round signing programmes in character as the actor playing Peter. Mad.
The whole Goes Wrong team are fantastic. The Play that Goes Wrong is the original and is so funny. Also the TV show as mentioned.
This was originally a stage production which got adapted for television. The TV production proved so successful that they got another show the following year - the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, banned from the BBC after their disastrous show, decide to hijack a live broadcast of "A Christmas Carol". They also got a couple of short series of "The Goes Wrong Show"
The company, Mischief Theatre, was formed by a group of students at a drama school. Their first major production, "The Play That Goes Wrong" (originally "The Murder Before Christmas") was based around genuine mishaps that have occurred in theatre productions.
Your reactions to this were priceless. I'm so glad you enjoyed this as much as I did when it was first screened in 2016.
It's such a simple concept but executed so well and so cleverly it's funny every time.
I saw the US tour of "The Play That Goes Wrong" right before the pandemic and it was such a blast! I was impressed by how they built the set so that it deliberately fell apart, but kept the actors relatively safe.
Innuendo, self deprecation,slap stick, dark and dry humour, all found in panto, are sort of ‘normal’ humour for Brits you two 😊
Yes it’s perhaps strange to non Brits, but we are a weird lot, and proud of it !
Canada (at least the Atlantic provinces) also shares these styles of humour. I wish America was this way as well.
@@__Black_Sheep__ started off in Muswell Hill... now live on Cape Breton Island.. east coast of Canada. Yes you are right.. Britspeak works quite well here.
@@jasminejones7389 I'm named after Cape Breton except I got two "t"s in the name. My dad was born in Lake Ainslie.
@@__Black_Sheep__ nice to meet you dear.. I'm just a few miles from Lake Ainslie.. it's the largest freshwater lake in Nova Scotia. It's a beautiful peaceful place, unspoiled nature, lots of wildlife, plenty of music.
@@__Black_Sheep__ Does Canada have annual pantos I'm not aware of?
I'm British so I am very familiar with pantos. I just spent an hour or so with tears running down my face. Absolutely made my day. Thanks for that. Your reactions and comments added to the fun.🤣😂 (70 year + bloke).
Thanks for hanging out with us! :)
spot on (another 70+) English guy
1:33 David Suchet is my definitive Hercule Poirot. Wonderful actor. You guys may be more familiar with him as the bad guy in the family comedy bigfoot and the Hendersons.
I was just about to comment this, surprised there was no reaction to him, he must not be as famous in America anymore.
We gathered he was an important guy, but we've never seen the movie you mentioned.
He is *the* definitive Poirot
I've seen these plays live and the whole audience is in fits of laughter all the way through.
Did you get all the tips, prompts and audience participation parts in the booklet - I absolutely loved it we were singing Duran Duran mid way through, booing, ad-libbing alongside the cast - bloody brilliant 😂😂😂
So incredibly British in it’s humour. Oh god. I love it.
I’ve not seen this before and haven’t laughed so hard in years.
That's why we love pantomimes 😂
They're not meant to go right. Pure comedy and silliness and lots of audience interaction.
Ive seen The Play That Goes Wrong twice and was in utter hysterics both times and ive seen Peter Pan Goes Wrong and was equally impressed.
It's genius. Executed with chaotic perfection.
Same here
I loved The Play That Goes Wrong and keep meaning to see it again. We also saw Mind Mangler when that went on tour and it was also incredible. I’ve got tickets to their new show, The Comedy About Spies, when that starts in May and I can’t wait for it!
@@MJScrivens89 I'm sure you'll have a blast and looking forward to the theatre is one of my new passions.
It’s made me want to see it . This was hilarious
Me too. It was hilarious, so clever.
This was the absolute epitome of British pantomime! Thank you so much for reacting to it! Your laughter is the finest praise possible for the genre! 🤣🤣🤣
David Suchet is a very famous British actor. I've been to see the Play That Goes Wrong twice - brilliant
David Suchet played the part of Hercule Poirot for years and years! Incredible actor!
Hi, can I ask where you saw this. John, Portsmouth Uk. Totally brilliant.
"the Play That Goes Wrong twice". Is that the sequel?
Mischief Theatre at its best!
@@davebox588 The play that goes wrong it's the origin of everything, I think. You can see an extract in youtube with the original cast, search: "The Play that Goes Wrong performing at The Royal Variety Performance 2015" =)
honestly nothing makes you realise just how crazy your culture can be than seeing it through the eyes of an outsider.
We are a bonkers country aren't we?
And I love that we are
It's Hercule Poirot. Oh no it's not. Oh yes it is!
He's behind you!
The main thing to understand is that this is NOT a pantomime. It's a comedy play. The 'actors' you are meeting are not real, they are the characters played by members of Mischief Theatre Company (who have a long running play in London, plus others that are no longer in London). The only person playing themselves in this is David Suchet.
It is a take off of any bad amateur theatre group - we call them 'am dram' (amateur dramatics) but you would call it 'community theatre' in the US
You’d love our Pantomimes. David Suchet is actually a highly acclaimed actor who’s done Shakespeare and played Hercule Poirot the Belgian detective and many other film and tv drama roles.
I think you may be confusing the talking teacup with the Disney movie ‘Alice in Wonderland’. You should watch Peter Pan, though it never ceases to amaze me how Disney portrays Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh etc, all with American accents when they’re in fact British characters written by British authors.😂
So glad you enjoyed it, these type of shows are a staple of a UK Christmas season.
Amazing! The Mischief Theatre Company are brilliant! This has made my week
Agreed but I think this is the best one I've seen so far.
We loved it! Definitely makes us want to see more from them. :)
A Christmas Carol? It’s out there!
This is a troupe of comedians who write “goes wrong” plays that have been playing in the West End for a few years. They have also produced a series of “goes wrong” televised plays on the BBC (such as this one). The comedy is that they are playing a group of amateur dramatics players who put on plays where everything that could go wrong with whatever play does go wrong. These TV ones are filmed in front of a live audience, to mimic the actual plays. They always play the same members of the am-dram players and it’s just the play that changes. I’ve seen the courtroom drama and the WW2 spy drama - hilarious stuff.
Stefanie Powers, David Rooney, Jimmy Osmond, and David Hasselhoff are the best Known American actors to do Pantomime shows here. Even Mr Sulu, George Takai, who was the first American actor to do Pantomime in 1987 got in the act he called to the Audience "Yoo Hoo," to which the audience replied "Yoo Hoo Sulu." Even the Fonz Henry Wikler has done British Panto.
And don't forget Pamela Anderson!
Watching this in the theatre was crazy - this was a west end show that ran for a while, and the end bit was really quite a spectacle, its incredible no one ever got hurt.
You've picked a spectacularly well done comic presentation.
There's probably some sort of expression that describes belting out a lullaby at the the top of your lungs over a chainsaw.
It seems to have momentarily escaped me.
A power ballad, maybe? (Or maybe not...)
Thank goodness there was no "blood"!
Hair Metal.
This has to be the most brilliant play i’ve ever seen, absolutely crying my eyes out 🤣
This is great , all the traditional pantomime bits with an extra hilarious twist . Loved it .
My 6 yr old at Puss in Boots Panto. Scene people have been washed ashore on an island and are unconscious. One by one actors are looking for them. First actor “Where is everyone?”, Audience shouting they’re behind you. Son shouts “look over there, over there”. Actor & Audience laughs at him. 2nd actor “Where is everyone?”. Before audience can respond son shouts “Can’t you see? Over there, look”. Audience and actor crack up. 3rd Actor comes on “Where is everyone?”. Son stands up on theatre chairs and yells at the top of his voice. “They’re behind you, over there, are you blind?”. We are all in stitches actor has tears laughing. Main actor comes on, he looks at the audience and at son, he is laughing his head off “ I can’t do this”. Waves at son and goes off. It was the funniest. Son had big round of applause.
@@Burglar-King 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's great! 😂
And THAT is what panto is all about....😂😂😂😂
Reminds me of my little brother many many moons ago aged about 3/4, not understanding the routine of panto and shouting things out just a minute later than everybody else as he copied the rest of the audience, but doing it really really loud out of sync and cracking everybody up (though he couldn't see why).
Sounds a bit like my niece when we went to see Mother Goose (John Bishop and Sir Ian McKellen) and there's the scene where John's character is querying the audience what he should tell the lady he's falling for. My Niece pipes up at the top of her voice, "I love you" and got a round of aaws, laughter and applause from both audience and actors. The joy of panto.
I've seen these guys in the theatre, I have never laughed so much, it was absolutely hilarious from the moment you walked in to the moment you left. Wish they would tour again so I could go for a second show.
Me too! I have checked a few times but only the West End show appears to be on so far.
Hope Americans understand this.... its very British with a quirky sense of humour.
I would absolutely LOVE to see you both react to the Goes Wrong Show, its like this but has multiple episodes and they're each a different story. I love rewatching them, they never get old
Glad to see you get the British sense of humor...this was a great production...
I love this company. They also have The Play That Goes Wrong and a sketch show called the Goes Wrong Show which was on the BBC and you might be able to find.
I laughed just as much to your reaction, as the show itself. I hope you get your 100k subscribers soon, you both deserve it.
David Suchet is an amazingly talented actor
These are very talented actors and there are others , the play that goes wrong is great , so please watch some more xx
I had seen this before but I was still crying with laughter. Wonderful. Best panto ever 🤣
This actually gets funnier every time I see it. You've got some time before Christmas... find A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which they did the year after, it's fantastic too.
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll see if we can get to it. :)
I've seen one of the Goes Wrong plays. Laughed so much it hurt. Brilliant timing and acting.
If you go to a live show the ‘stage hands’ are normally walking about in the auditorium as the audience come in, interacting with them and getting them to help with something, especially the kids - like looking for a lost dog or feeding a massive extension cable from the stage to the back of the theatre (I got roped into that one at the live version of this one last year)
Brilliant, British humour at it's best, couldn't stop laughing,and the brilliant Sir David Suchet,😂😂❤
Peter Pan has a special place in our hearts in the uk. The writer, JM Barrie gifted the rights to Peter Pan in 1929 to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) which is a charitable children’s hospital in London ❤
I remember seeing this when it first broadcast, so many brilliant comedians and actors.
I’ve seen The Play That Goes Wrong twice …once in the West End & the other in Hull & it just cracks me up with laughter proper tears down the cheeks LOL 😂 😂….They are so full of energy and slap stick!!… must be a health & safety nightmare! 😂😂 Have loved you reaction to this one guys ❤X
Children as well as adults , get mesmerised watching a good old panto .
They all have slapstick humour, innuendo , corny jokes, and great acting.
This is why we LOVE Xmas pantomimes, for their silliness, hilarious and crowd participation
Great choice! Brilliantly British humour which combines panto with farce (2 staples of our much loved theatrical entertainment)
Off the wall, that's the eccentric Brits for you 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it Steve & Lindsey !
loved your enjoyment of our quirky sense of humour... Merry Christmas x
It was such a joy to see you two laughing so much 🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆😆
I am in the UK and this is the first time I have seen this, my face is aching I have laughed so much, it is brilliant.👏
Am glad I mentioned watching this. They are a perfect example of a pantomime made for a wider age audience, a well-known story with slapstick comedy and great timing, they are a pretty unique troop of actors, so glad the humour translated well for you
I've just realised there's some bits missing from this. In the broadcast version, before the pirate ship crashes the Teletubbies set, it also goes through the set of the quiz show "Eggheads" and a rehearsal for the ten o'clock news, which is announcing that the BBC is ending the scheme that put Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society on air.
The imaginary food eating sequence is not in the version on the iPlayer in the UK either.
The Christmas carol one is also on there but the Nativity one doesn't seem to be at the moment.
The Nativity is definitely on BBC iPlayer. I watched it in December 2024 @@welshworrier
Hi Steve and Lindsay,
I watch your videos daily and love every single one. But today ,I want to realy thank you.
I was having a bad morning and fed up of feeling alone until I sat down with my coffee and put youtube on. I've wanted to watch this myself but I must say that watching it with you is so much better.
I used to take my son to a chuckle brothers panto every Christmas if there are any of them on UA-cam I think you 2 and Sophia would love it.
Anyway thank you for all your lovely videos and laughter.
Have a lovely Christmas and new year.
Jacqui
Hope you're feeling better, and I hope you have a nice peaceful day x
Bless you , can be hard this time of year for a lot of people . Stay strong 😊❤
It was good fun watching Steve and Lynsey watching the fantastic panto wasn't it!? Its a lovely community on this channel, you are not alone.
Thank you, Jacqui, for being part of the Roots family. ❤ We appreciate your support! We'll have to save that suggestion. I'm glad we could bring a smile to your face and hope that you have a very Merry Christmas as well!
@reactingtomyroots Thanks to you and all the lovely people in your comments for being a caring bunch.
It's always good to laugh and it definitely brightened my day for sure. ❤️
I’ve not been to pantomime for so many years ,my grandchildren used to go every year but I don’t they do know they are in their late teens.I had to watch this with you and it gave me a great laugh.Growing most people knew what pantomimes consisted of but our parents never took us.we missed out on some great fun.
I've had an absolute blast watching this with you today!
The ' Goes Wrong' series of plays has been hugely successful in the UK in recent years - both on the West End stage, and on TV.
The guy doing the narration is David Suchet who is a very well known and respected stage and TV actor by the way. That adds to the hilarity when things go wrong! Where he steals the Captains moustache and adopts a funny little walk and starts to speak with an accent, he is referencing his most famous TV role as Agatha Christie's Poirot. To a British audience that in itself is hilarious!
Glad you had fun, Caroline! We absolutely loved this and had no idea they were a series. Excited to see more.
The same company have done 2 other plays in the same vain: The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery which are also hilarious 😂
They've also done Magic goes Wrong. They got Pen and Teller as the magic advisers for the show.
They did Groan Ups too, although that was slightly different, and next year is the Play about Spies (or something along those lines)
A Christmas Carol version too.
we watched the bank robbery that goes wrong and then 2 days later the rocky horror show in Southamptons Mayflower theatre such a laugh both hilarious
I’ve seen both shows..plus “Grown Ups”. All in the West End… Mischief Theatre are unparalleled.
I really believe that panto is why the UK produces so many good actors. From such a young age kids are shown so many different aspects of theatre and learn to embrace it. It also gives a different sensibility which think you may be missing. Your daughter would love this and take it with her for the rest of her life.
I also think it helps that there’s always a good chance that basically most people will study a Shakespeare play in school
Pantomines are such fun. This weekend, my grandson and I are off to sèe Cinderella in Peterborough. Love your channel.
Thanks, Sue! Have a great time. :)
Welcome to British pantomime guys. These players have their own show in London’s West End been playing for many years. They also are playing in Broadway.
That was hysterical and so British
Wonderful quick-changing for Mother and Maid - really clever.
So so many English jokes that went totally over your head and you missed but still lots of fun
The actor doing the reading was David Suchet who plays Poirot! A lot of pantomimes have things go wrong its part of the fun although this was obviously intentional but often the scenery falls over because a lot of amateur groups put them on! Great fun!
I forgot how much I loved this play. Seeing it live is amazing, it's so funny.
I watch this every Christmas, go to all of their shows when the original cast do it - they’ve just announced a new show for next year
Oh guys! Theatre - real theatre is incredible.
You need to get out more. 😊
That we do 😂
The plays that go wrong, can't beat them.
Pantomime is a staple of British Christmas, audience participation is encouraged.
Other “plays gone wrong”, have been made. It’s definitely on purpose. It’s all for fun, and everything that can go wrong, goes wrong.
Wow, thank you guys so much for sharing this, never knew this existed, have seen Peter pan plenty of times but this is amazing, am going to watch again with my boys later as they will love it 😀, and David suchet is a brilliant actor obviously well know for poirot but so many others, was very good playing deputy pm in flood 😊
We're glad so many recommended it on our last panto video! One of the most hilarious things we've seen in quite awhile.
@reactingtomyroots it's fantastic, they've also done there own version of "a Christmas carol" too, have just found them on bbc iplayer so could be on you tube too 😀
They have also a done a TV series, which is worth checking out. It was on BBC iplayer, don't know if it still is :)
Glad you enjoyed! I saw it on the UK tour this spring having no expectations but it was fantastic. There's a big difference between this and standard panto, this show has elements though 😊
To see David Suchet messing about in this is quite a thing!
i would LOVE to see more reactions to these goes wrong. Especially summer once again and Christmas carol but they are all fantastic!
This is so good,i never seen it before, and i'm cracking up even more with how these guys are laughing so much 😂
David Suchet playing the narrator is a very famous actor. Well known for playing Poirot in the adaptations of Agatha Christies books. Hence ppl cheering when he put Hooks curly moustache on
We've seen this live, it was amazing and is still hilarious seeing it over and over! Love it 😍😍
Its just good old fashioned English wholesome hummer,
Please do a video on Great Ormond street hospital. It's a wonderful childrens hospital and has a very special relationship with Peter Pan.
trouble is that panto and hospital involved saville
It is such a great feeling to be in panto, especially when things go wrong whilst making the audience really laugh hard. It's very addictive.
A Panto should make huge uncontrollable laughter at Christmas time.... You are now honoree Panto Brits .... Love you BOTH
I saw this show at our local theatre. It was absolutely hilarious. Peter Pan Goes Wrong is not the only 'goes wrong' play that they do, but I haven't seen any of the others.
I love the "Goes Wrong" plays.
I've seen two different productions of this at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham. It's funny on screen, but it's even more hilarious live. The performances start well before the play does with last minute rehearsals that inevitably go horribly wrong while stage hands try (and fail) to resolve technical issues and complete the set on time. Needless to say, all the disasters are staged and meticulously worked out before hand. It's really a multi-layered performance. Cornley Polytechnic is a fictional institution; the group is actually the Mischief Theatre Company. The performers, too, are not real people, but actors playing characters within the play
Yes, we saw The Play That Goes Wrong live, and the cast were roaming the auditorium "looking" for someone to play the dog. My grand-daughter was really up for it !
33:12 oh no it isn’t / oh yes it is is a classic panto call & response between cast and audience, in case you weren’t aware 😊
Oh no it isn't!
Oh yes it is! 😅
This was a wonderfully bonkers, inspired and mad version of the classic Peter Pan Pantomime, and I laughed so much!! Thanks for reacting to this, otherwise I would never have seen it as my time for Pantomimes I thought was over! But this was so funny! Eccentricity is a great description, but with extra madness thrown in for spice! 🤣🤣
Panto is itself a satirical play on current news, and a comedic send-up of legitimate theatre. So, this play, being a spoof on a panto is truly hilariously bonkers. The next dive you might consider taking into British comedy theatre is a look at Gilbert and Sullivan plays. My son's school in DC during the six yrs we spent in the US had a G&S society. Today, 35 yrs later, he still remembers much of the comedic verse he learned to sing on stage when he was 12!!
That's amazing that he can still recall so much! Sounds like it was a very impactful time for him. :)
I swear i weed myself at some point watching you guys watching this. I thought Steve had stopped breathing as he was laughing but no actual sound was coming out. This is britishness at its best. So glad you found this. I agree to get that many things to go wrong at the right time, everyone be in exactly the right place so no one actual does get injured. Plus to get david Suchet involved was genius. Nobody but the BBC would get behind something like this which is why I'm happy to pay my licence fee.
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I love that you both love this and I cried with laughter whan watching this. This is a very meta pantomime experience because it includes the 'Gone Wrong' team. Every major town in the UK has a pantomime each year and some include US actors. Pantomimes are bonkers, fun, rude and often only best experienced in real life.
And after copious amounts of alcohol.
I saw this show live in London when it was first on, and it’s the only time I’ve laughed so hard I genuinely couldn’t breathe 😂