Do you know the one about a girl that brought her boyfriend home to stay the night? He had to stay downstairs and not use the toilet upstairs as not to wake her parents. He said what do I do if I need to go to the toilet? she replied, use the sink. later that night he shouts, wheres the paper!
0.28: "Ey up son - You'll never play for Yorkshire" - how very true with current events at Yorkshire CC. Amazing how Harry Enfield got this spot on 29 years ago.
Back then, to play cricket for Yorkshire you had to be born there. Up until the 1990s they wouldn't even accept outsiders from other parts of England - never mind overseas players.
@Tom Brown About 55 years ago I had a black work mate, we used to do the racial banter bit all the time " Good morning black man, Good morning White man" was typical so I've never seen any harm in banter because it's the intent that matters
@@steveforest8385 ...but that's the whole point of that part of the sketch. A racist 'plain-speaking, it's only banter' Yorkshireman saying that a black player can't play for Yorkshire, purely based on skin colour, automatically based on the assumption that they're not from Yorkshire. In reality, in the 1990's, there were tens of thousands of black and Asian players that could have played for Yorkshire based on the old 'born in the historic county boundary' rules.
knottlawhites This and 'The Four Yorkshiremen' [Python/ALT1948 Show] are amongst my favourite bits of comedy ever - I don't think that's all that unusual for a Yorkshireman. I don't know if it's peculiar to us, but things so proximate to one's native domicile are particularly stimulating to the ulnar nervous receptors. Is it the same for those shitey southern poofs?
knottlawhites it's an extreme stereotype, obviously, but I doubt any true Yorkshireman would be offended by it, we used to be very straight talking people, you bluntly said what you thought of someone new, they just as bluntly did the same back, now you understood one another, no offence taken and no bull, and you got on with life, 'twas t' Yorkshire way. Shame it's dying off.
Made me laugh . Reminds me of my late Dad , when I asked him why he married my Mam. He replied "She mekks great Yorkshire puddings and was 6 months pregnant!"
@Francesca Moss "Ok lass now run along an mek us cup o tea an be quick wiv it an den on tbed for a shag " P.S Your dad should said "she mekks great yorkshire puddings an twas a bread-cake in t oven"!!!
I'm a lancashire lad and I honestly have to say that I like Yorskhire and the people. They are good humoured folk and they were hard grafters in the coal mines and in the stone quarries. Some real tough guys too. There are some beautiful sites and breath taking views in the dales. Lovely place to visit on a hot sunny summers day. I like the heritage of the small villages. Sorry southerners - but the Yorkshire folk get my vote everytime :)
Not just saying it but at 77yrs and raised and lived them in Leeds I have always preferred Lancashire folk. I have found them more disposed to humour ,sympathetic and cultured in the everyday sense..but that's just me...
Its so subtle, signs of how subtle Harry and Pauls later shows could be. In this context though the sheer self delight in the fact that he had indeed travelled all the way to Leeds away from kith and kin. Beautiful, comedy this good is a dying art. Higsons pony tail is worthy of mention too, detail that just makes the scene.
Im a londoner, was in a pub in Yorkshire, on the dales. This character, was giving it the large about southern poofters. His misses came in. "George! yu dinners on't table! HOME!!! "Okay me duck. We ripped the shit out of him!!!! Love Yorkshire, and the folk that have kept it as beautiful as it is. And always be.
@@gibson4676 If you read the missive. I didn't quote him as a Yorkshireman, I stated, "A character" Read before you start putting your clog in it me old mate. And by the way, I lived in Nuneaton for four years. I know the lingo, Youth.
Yorkshireman, born in Halifax, raised in Morley (Leeds) now in South Africa. These natives here will never understand me, but this video should help them - loved it when it first aired, still funny now!
Yeah some places are big heads. Go to Liverpool, "it's the best city ever...." go to Yorkshire "It's God's country!" At least in Birmingham they are used to taking the piss out of themselves.
I'm a sophisticated Yorkshire man from Leeds and i find this totally hilarious. I did 20 years ago when it was on tv and i still do now. Slightly disappointed with any fellow Yorkshire man who can't laugh at this stereotype.
Watched this 20 years ago but never understood the " ....sophistication l been to Leeds joke. Assume it is about stereotypes but could someone please explain???
kingelvis Leeds (my home town) is seen as the cosmopolitan, big city capital of Yorkshire. We've got a Harvey Nichols, tha' knows! People from Sheffield will dispute this.
@@corporal747 You speaking for the nation there, or just yourself? Comedy is subjective. I can't help if his humour goes over your head. Point is, it's the same kind of sketch: the main character is the target. The bloke making good old traditional black jokes is the idiot.
Im from yorkshire and now live in hull,im seen as something of a sophisticate,I grew up in Bradford and i was 20 years old when I travelled the 15 miles to Leeds,it was worth it though!
The organisation I work has a head office in Leeds, everytime someone was summonsed to the office for training or a meeting we'd all come out with:- _"Dont talk to me about sophistication, I've been to Leeds."_
Not seen that clip since the show was aired back in the day and it is just as hilarious now as it was back then. As a Yorkshireman my self I think it's just bloody brilliant!
@@ericgeorge5483 I watched a lot of Benny Hill and Monty Python on my local PBS station when I was a kid. That's pretty much universal humor! (Was in graduate school in the UK when I saw this show.)
I remember when this was shown on Tv back in the early nineties. It was and remains my favourite Harry Enfield sketch. The irony is I work in advertising, but can see the parody. We are full of shite at times! I know every word, and still find it funny. Pure comic sophistication - from Leeds!
@@TomCat681 Shite! The exact reason why I don't watch TV at least much anymore because its all a load of bollocks now (not being confined to just comedy).
@@TomCat681 LOL can still remember when cancelling my licence fee, thought got the TV on in the background, then thought not really bothered about this. Went on the site and cancelled it and got a bit of a refund too haha! Never looked back since, not really anyway and when the BBC come out with something I consider daft (arguably most of the time they come out with something daft and stupid) I roll my eyes well theoretically speaking anyway.... when I'm at either of my parents or wherever I am and have to watch that crap.
No it wouldn’t because it’s taking the piss out of racism...? - I sometimes feel like the only people who don’t understand the difference between racist jokes and jokes about racism are the anti - SJWs trying to prove a point... Signed: a London student.
Oh god, A) we do not live in some weird PC dystopia that you seem to think we do, there's plenty of "offensive" comedy and B) This isn't even offensive, it is mocking racism, not being racist, and C) Students are all too busy taking MDMA to care about anything like that.
Bring back this attitude !!! Love this !!!! Made before life became too serious,and people were to sensitive about EVERYTHING !!! Crackin,thanks for posting,made my day !! 😆😆😆😆😆👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
It's satire and caricature . Typical of people to miss the point of this sketch 🤣 Look at their mickey taking of misogynistic rubbish like " On the buses".
I love how there’s so much in this to be offended by, but it’s northerners who should be the most offended 😂😂 and as I a northerner myself, it’s still one of my most favourite things in the world. I miss these days and always will.
As a southerner who lived in Yorkshire for the best part of a decade, I can safely say this is only a slight exaggeration of reality
Not where I'm from. 15-20 years ago folk were like this.
As a Yorkshire man I can assure you that it's not that long since this was not an exaggeration 😂.
Sadly.
Nope this is a gross stereotype of how Yorkshire people are, not even a close representation of us 🤢🤢
Leeds is sophisticated now but world was very different 25 years ago. As unofficapital of North we look down on Southerners eg Shedfielf
@@ChrisTopher-nr1vb facking southern fairies 😆😆
"Don't talk to me about sophistication, I've been to Leeds." That one cracked me up.
Hilarious!
Best line in the sketch.
The big city!
@@stp4281 Only good line in the sketch
Me too!!! 🤣
this type of comedy is even funnier now in 2023 than it was in the 90s.
Harry Enfield is a genius.
This will never age.
It has already aged. It is like watching Bernard Manning.
@@occamraiser don't be a poof, have some lard
@@occamraiser stick to watching Miranda and Mrs Browns boys then 😂
@@occamraiser It is supposed to be like watching Bernard Manning! I think you missed the point.
This is very funny! lighten up cupcake.@@occamraiser
Sophisticated Yorkshireman. Takes plates out of sink before pissing in it.
Do you know the one about a girl that brought her boyfriend home to stay the night? He had to stay downstairs and not use the toilet upstairs as not to wake her parents. He said what do I do if I need to go to the toilet? she replied, use the sink. later that night he shouts, wheres the paper!
who do'es? if ya've never slashed on 't plates in t'sink yer a lying twat, tha nos. r lass used to do it too. ( save walking upstairs, like.)
I'm from Yorkshire and that is funny,I mean it I'm not being sarcastic,are you from Yorkshire ❓
your lass likes it.
That’s my husband. Actually he leaves the plates so he can clean at the same time.
This was the pilot for the British version of "Mad Men".
Hahaha
This was twenty years before Mad Men
@@stevencassidy6982 But the time period Mad Men was set in was 30 years before this.
Mate you're that far wrong it's not funny. mad men was not even dreamed of back then ... unless your having a laugh - are you havin' a laugh!!!
FUNNY
The actors are on the edge of losing it on several occasions, great stuff. "You'll never play for Yorkshire" Pure Boycott, 25 years ahead of its time.
0.28: "Ey up son - You'll never play for Yorkshire" - how very true with current events at Yorkshire CC. Amazing how Harry Enfield got this spot on 29 years ago.
Brilliant satire never loses its relevance. Read a 30 year old copy of Private Eye, and pretty much everything in it will still have teeth.
Eee . No offence meant , lad . Its only Banter ...
Back then, to play cricket for Yorkshire you had to be born there. Up until the 1990s they wouldn't even accept outsiders from other parts of England - never mind overseas players.
@Tom Brown About 55 years ago I had a black work mate, we used to do the racial banter bit all the time " Good morning black man, Good morning White man" was typical so I've never seen any harm in banter because it's the intent that matters
@@steveforest8385 ...but that's the whole point of that part of the sketch. A racist 'plain-speaking, it's only banter' Yorkshireman saying that a black player can't play for Yorkshire, purely based on skin colour, automatically based on the assumption that they're not from Yorkshire. In reality, in the 1990's, there were tens of thousands of black and Asian players that could have played for Yorkshire based on the old 'born in the historic county boundary' rules.
Any Yorkshireman offended by this isn’t a proper Yorkshireman! Bring back these days
Your generation ruined it. Don't blame anyone else cuck
I'm from Yorkshire and while I'm nothing like that I have met SOOOOOO many people who are. the faces during the egg presentation are on point.
As a Yorkshireman. I find this hilarious. "Two words to say for that, shite! What's the other one, shite! haha!!
knottlawhites
This and 'The Four Yorkshiremen' [Python/ALT1948 Show] are amongst my favourite bits of comedy ever - I don't think that's all that unusual for a Yorkshireman. I don't know if it's peculiar to us, but things so proximate to one's native domicile are particularly stimulating to the ulnar nervous receptors.
Is it the same for those shitey southern poofs?
knottlawhites it's an extreme stereotype, obviously, but I doubt any true Yorkshireman would be offended by it, we used to be very straight talking people, you bluntly said what you thought of someone new, they just as bluntly did the same back, now you understood one another, no offence taken and no bull, and you got on with life, 'twas t' Yorkshire way. Shame it's dying off.
"you'll never play for Yorkshire"
How relevant.
😂
Yeah I thought the same 🤣
“No offense”!
Brilliant 👏love it
How did Harry Enfield predict this?🤣
Made me laugh . Reminds me of my late Dad , when I asked him why he married my Mam. He replied "She mekks great Yorkshire puddings and was 6 months pregnant!"
😂😂😂 Dear Old Dad!
@Francesca Moss "Ok lass now run along an mek us cup o tea an be quick
wiv it an den on tbed for a shag "
P.S Your dad should said "she mekks great yorkshire puddings an twas
a bread-cake in t oven"!!!
@@1414yorks made me chuffin laugh. 😀
Eeh your dad was ALMOST as romantic as mine.....
"Mum why did you get married in winter?"
"Dont ask"
I'm a lancashire lad and I honestly have to say that I like Yorskhire and the people.
They are good humoured folk and they were hard grafters in the coal mines and in the stone quarries. Some real tough guys too.
There are some beautiful sites and breath taking views in the dales. Lovely place to visit on a hot sunny summers day.
I like the heritage of the small villages.
Sorry southerners - but the Yorkshire folk get my vote everytime :)
Not just saying it but at 77yrs and raised and lived them in Leeds I have always preferred Lancashire folk. I have found them more disposed to humour ,sympathetic and cultured in the everyday sense..but that's just me...
Im a Lancashire lad and they are all mard arses! Nice bit of country like though.
I'm a proud Yorkshireman and wasn't sure about this at first but it was hilarious. "Bank with us and get a free packet of lard"
The lard killed me!!!
I like the way he emphasised 'been' rather than 'Leeds'. As if the fact he's travelled anywhere is impressive.
+LoafOfPint very good haha.
Yeah and he could have said York but it wouldnt have been so funny as Leeds is very second rate to York.... Genius right there....
Its so subtle, signs of how subtle Harry and Pauls later shows could be. In this context though the sheer self delight in the fact that he had indeed travelled all the way to Leeds away from kith and kin. Beautiful, comedy this good is a dying art. Higsons pony tail is worthy of mention too, detail that just makes the scene.
@@stevegrose6789 you are so right and very concisely put point!👍
@@kmmining1359 he cud a said barnsley.
the woman had a smirk on her face a few times in this she was trying not to laugh.
billywhitewolf It must have been difficult not to laugh its so funny
billywhitewolf Higson held back a couple of laughs as well
Yes, loved that.
Only been living up here 9 weeks and love the people already ,so friendly !!!!
I saw Harry live 20 years ago and I still laugh when I think about it , he’s one of the funniest ever
His wife never thought so shame 😂
This is hysterical. I'm a Scouser living in Yorkshire and find the locals warm, funny and plain spoken as you can be!! Love it here, I do!!
welcome Sharon.
@@skoltheviking1201 Aww thank you Skol! Viking eh? I've even been to your Jorvick Centre in York, that was a great day out too.
I'm from Leeds living in Liverpool - it must be the Leeds-Liverpool canal that does it. Great sketch
@@UA-cam_deleted_my_favourites 😂😂😂
Yorkshire and scouse, now all you need to do is head up t’ geordies and you’ve got hattrick of confusing southerners
Im a londoner, was in a pub in Yorkshire, on the dales. This character, was giving it the large about southern poofters. His misses came in. "George! yu dinners on't table! HOME!!! "Okay me duck. We ripped the shit out of him!!!! Love Yorkshire, and the folk that have kept it as beautiful as it is. And always be.
@@gibson4676 If you read the missive. I didn't quote him as a Yorkshireman, I stated, "A character" Read before you start putting your clog in it me old mate. And by the way, I lived in Nuneaton for four years. I know the lingo, Youth.
@@gibson4676 Only pointless to people that don't have a sense of humour. Haven't you got anything better to do?
@@gibson4676 All the best mate. Stay safe.
The best thing about this exchange of course is the fact that someone answered the OP NINE years later and then the OP replied!👏
@@roodersclive8654 Is that a Guiness World record?
Yorkshireman, born in Halifax, raised in Morley (Leeds) now in South Africa. These natives here will never understand me, but this video should help them - loved it when it first aired, still funny now!
Isn’t it pretty dangerous there?
@@54spatula Yeah... but somehow we survive
@@MatthewDeanCrabb are we talking bars on your windows etc?
@@MatthewDeanCrabb damn you downgraded in life lad. God's own county to the arsehole of Africa. What on earth where you thinking
@@54spatula What Halifax? Only after dark to be fair, especially kick out time at Acca.
Worked with a Yorkshire man in cardiff, wore a t shirt saying, if its not from Yorkshire its shite 😂
He's bang on there
Cardiff,,,,nice place,, lived there for a long time,, what part you from,, I was canton.
I've got a mug with that, but instead of Yorkshire it says Barnsley
Yeah some places are big heads. Go to Liverpool, "it's the best city ever...." go to Yorkshire "It's God's country!"
At least in Birmingham they are used to taking the piss out of themselves.
"You can always tell a Yorkshire Man!"
But you can't tell him much!
aye, were a simple lot
Ha
Someone once said if you ever go to Yorkshire don't ask for directions.
You will get a history of the area and family history.
@@Blazstabman90PWNZ A bit flat under't cap
Still the greatest sketch ever in all of TV. Every line is brilliant.
Couldn't agree more. I used to always quote lines from it
Not even close to the best,it's OK but the best ever,no way
@@davidmellish3295 Each to their own, but I'm curious as to which ones you think are better? :)
@@davidmellish3295 so whats your best ever sketch?
I'm a sophisticated Yorkshire man from Leeds and i find this totally hilarious. I did 20 years ago when it was on tv and i still do now. Slightly disappointed with any fellow Yorkshire man who can't laugh at this stereotype.
Watched this 20 years ago but never understood the " ....sophistication l been to Leeds joke.
Assume it is about stereotypes but could someone please explain???
kingelvis
Leeds (my home town) is seen as the cosmopolitan, big city capital of Yorkshire. We've got a Harvey Nichols, tha' knows! People from Sheffield will dispute this.
@@ianrhodes6928 No you've deffinitely got a Harvey Nichs up there.
@@ianrhodes6928 Nay lad for us in the north/East riding York is the Cosmopolitan big city
@@ianrhodes6928 I'm from Sheffield and although it is bigger than Leeds, Leeds does tend to have a better shopping centre!
Brilliant un PC classic, I miss the 80's & 90's, bring back please!
You need never forget.... there is plenty here on You Tube to remind you!
The joke is the offensive Yorkshire man. We are laughing AT him, not WITH him. That's what ppl don't get 🙄
Funny how people were complaining of PC in the 80s and 90s.
Imagine being so mentally impaired that you watch this and think the racism and sexism isn't the butt of the joke.
“I’m sorry, she’s my girlfriend”
“That’s alright lad we all make mistakes”
This is the joke from Eric morcombe more or less ? ‘ this is the wife ? Don’t laugh 😂 ‘
As a Wakefield man, I love this. It's pretty much every native Yorkshire man
I love the way the actress almost loses it, a very faint smile that wasn't in the script xx I think this might be the best sketch in history... Xx
I can confirm that this is what it is like in Yorkshire.
The whole place looks like the office they're in?
It's not like that in Harrogate!
Then long live Yorkshire .
Too right, mate! It’s exactly like this in good ol’ Yorkshire!
Up the tadcaster
I laughed so hard my stomach hurts 😂
I moved for work in Yorkshire and I love the sense of humour they have here.
George Whitebread should've been a regular on show. Enfield's funniest character IMO.
I'd say William Ulsterman is a good candidate too...
@@ytnsanw Yep, another underused one that was really good.
It was done about 2-3 times
@@robertexley5193 I've only seen one other one with him in it.
@@ytnsanwUnfunny and insulting.
As someone who was born in Yorkshire and lived here for 70 years, this is actually quite subdued. 😂😂😂❤
Love this 😂
Dude, I’m from the states and I’ve been watching Harry And Paul clips for the last week. Fucking amazing. My face hurts from laughing.
nubdys perfect lad.
Hi I, live about 4 mile from Leeds and we're all like that from up ere enjoy it mate😉.
@@christianbarrass2643 i know.
Paracetamol helps!
Good to see yanks with REAL humour.
I've never seen so many genius gags in such a short span
Why can't we have comedy like this nowaredays??!!
Snowflakes, george kirby, sjws and lefty loons. Thats why
We do: Borat, Pub Landlord, ...
@@NickDixon al Murray is about as funny as 4th lockdown
@@corporal747 You speaking for the nation there, or just yourself?
Comedy is subjective. I can't help if his humour goes over your head.
Point is, it's the same kind of sketch: the main character is the target. The bloke making good old traditional black jokes is the idiot.
"Don't talk to me about sophistication luv - I've been to Leeds" LOL 😀
I'm from Yorkshire and can tell you many work meetings are pretty much like this.
Thank you for the days when humour enlightened my life 😉
Funnist comedian ever, full stop.
Ive lived in West Yorkshire for a very long time...I love it!
I'm from yorkshire, and this is pure amazing! XD Harry Enfield gets me every bloody time
"open an account, get a free packet of lard!"
i'm sold. More than you'd get opening a feckin bank account these days
Im from yorkshire and now live in hull,im seen as something of a sophisticate,I grew up in Bradford and i was 20 years old when I travelled the 15 miles to Leeds,it was worth it though!
Hull is still in Yorkshire & Bradford is more like 5 miles from Leeds !
Am a Yorkshire man and am not offended. How can I be when it’s so accurate!
I'm off to Leeds but had to watch this again first! Sophistication....!
Don't forget your passport !
Harry Enfield, absolutely hilarious, he's a comic genius. Angry Frank, Loads a money etc
Harry's attitude towards the flip chart was bang on.
'A yorkshireman is just a scotsman with the generosity squeezed out'.
ta fa compliment.
SOPHISTICATION DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT SOPHISTICATION I'VE BEEN TO LEEDS LOL....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bahahaha lol
"I've got 2 words for that: SHITE!"
"what was the second word?"
"SHITE"
Shy T ha ha
Coldacre o
He just had to ask
"you won't play for yorkshire ....." (pans to black man) nearly died laughing
Ah well, always next time, eh?
Oh well done, still playing the drums.badly?
😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
Can you imagine the volume of complaints to Ofcom I mean really?
Rob Pitt I know. Too many people are getting sensitive over these jokes
Why delete your previous post Cameron was perfectly reasonable?
free pack of lard still better than the interest rate
SuperModwolf This deserves to be the top comment.
Back then you got a decent interest rate even on a normal savings account. No 0.01% interest crap.
The organisation I work has a head office in Leeds, everytime someone was summonsed to the office for training or a meeting we'd all come out with:-
_"Dont talk to me about sophistication, I've been to Leeds."_
I love how "tarty bit" tries to stifle a smile as she's being attacked.
I'm from Lancashire and I love this
West of England. Not quite dead centre north like sheffield
The online bank Egg launched in 1998, now I know where they got the idea.
Beat me to it haha
The bloke that set Egg bank up lives....... in Yorkshire, fact.
Harry Enfield went to York University. His Stavros character was based on a bloke from a takeaway near the uni.
With that amount of sophistication, a Leeds scholar, without a doubt. Now this is the assertiveness we've all been striving to display.
Freakin brilliant, Id forgotten just how good he used to be even though I watched most of his at the time
Nobody does sketch shows better than Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse genius
Not seen that clip since the show was aired back in the day and it is just as hilarious now as it was back then. As a Yorkshireman my self I think it's just bloody brilliant!
I was watching this when it aired. Died laughing then, just as funny now! (And I'm American.)
@@VIDS2013 Didn't think you would understand our British humour.
@@ericgeorge5483 I watched a lot of Benny Hill and Monty Python on my local PBS station when I was a kid. That's pretty much universal humor!
(Was in graduate school in the UK when I saw this show.)
@@VIDS2013 Yes it is indeed universal, that's how clever those guys were.
I remember when this was shown on Tv back in the early nineties. It was and remains my favourite Harry Enfield sketch. The irony is I work in advertising, but can see the parody. We are full of shite at times! I know every word, and still find it funny. Pure comic sophistication - from Leeds!
looking at todays ads on tv - well, I dont. Racist rubbish.
Absolutely brilliant. I have watched this many many times and it never fails to give me a laugh.
Best sketch ever, best video on youtube. End of.
Back when comedy was comedy not the shit we have on telly now a days
Now we have Miranda Hart laughing at penises instead. How comedy has fallen!
They'd have a meltdown "hey up (think thats what he said) there's a poof in town" kills me every single time I watch this! pmsl
@@TomCat681 I have two words to say to that crap on nowadays shite!
@@TomCat681 Shite!
The exact reason why I don't watch TV at least much anymore because its all a load of bollocks now (not being confined to just comedy).
@@TomCat681 LOL can still remember when cancelling my licence fee, thought got the TV on in the background, then thought not really bothered about this. Went on the site and cancelled it and got a bit of a refund too haha!
Never looked back since, not really anyway and when the BBC come out with something I consider daft (arguably most of the time they come out with something daft and stupid) I roll my eyes well theoretically speaking anyway.... when I'm at either of my parents or wherever I am and have to watch that crap.
My stepdad was a Yorkshireman - softer spoken, but just as outspoken.
LONG LIVE POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS !
I wish
Needs to be aired on breakfast tv n bbc 10 pm news,,, to remind we take the piss out ourselves n love it 😀,,
Ahh !!! Those were the days !! when we could have a laugh
"Ayup son, you'll never play get Yorkshire" hahaha that would spark student protests in London nowadays.
fer *
Except it isn't true now!
ayye.....on paper
No it wouldn’t because it’s taking the piss out of racism...? - I sometimes feel like the only people who don’t understand the difference between racist jokes and jokes about racism are the anti - SJWs trying to prove a point...
Signed: a London student.
Oh god, A) we do not live in some weird PC dystopia that you seem to think we do, there's plenty of "offensive" comedy and B) This isn't even offensive, it is mocking racism, not being racist, and C) Students are all too busy taking MDMA to care about anything like that.
As someone born and bred in Leeds. This is hilarious! "Sophistication, SOPHISTICATION.....!" love it! 🤣
I remember this so well from when it was first broadcast, such a shame he only did the character twice!
I also saw this back in '92. My flatmates were quoting it for months!
Bring back this attitude !!! Love this !!!! Made before life became too serious,and people were to sensitive about EVERYTHING !!! Crackin,thanks for posting,made my day !! 😆😆😆😆😆👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
It's satire and caricature . Typical of people to miss the point of this sketch 🤣 Look at their mickey taking of misogynistic rubbish like " On the buses".
I am a Yorkshire man born and bred I only fly Yorkshire Airways and only Alan Bennett class with my flat cap and whippet tha knows.
I love that Hale and Pace sketch too. I think it's the mushy peas that incites me to want to go on their airline.
Was this the CCTV from Jeremy Clarkson's meeting with Netflix?
ha ha ha genius comment
That’s to polite for Jeremy .
They cut out the bits where he just punches anyone with too much queer eye for the fat tall curly haired twat guy
@@Manintoga yeah, he's great.
😂😂😂🤣🤣fuck me I'm killing meself here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"You can play Tarty bit". Brilliant. Fancy another? Coffee? No shag!
Thanks for posting.
I like what I`m bloody well watching ... and I`ll watch what I bloody well like
Documented proof that this world used to have a sense of humor.
It's almost like looking at ancient hieroglyphics.
Yeah, but not a good one. Harry Enfield was garbage. Used to love it as a kid, though.
@@moodini99 hogwash, you just got converted mate.
I'm a Yorkshireman and I laughed my tits off at this!
If anything, it's a bit watered down from the reality.
Still does, just in different forms. James Acaster's great for one
This is 100% accurate, we are not a PC people
orate mate.
Why would anyone be offended by that? xD
I said no offence.
Tales From The Riverbank thanks for the compliment
Ch0plet, right, very good to stand up for what's right.
What do you mean this is from a comedy show, i thought this was a documentary. I should know, i was born in Leeds.
Yup, brought up in Wakefield (although not born there) this was a normal conversation.
Pudsey?
Center of the modern world!
Ey up son, you'll never play for Yorkshire.
BORN AND BREAD IN GIPTON :)
How that actress kept a straight face I'll never know
I love how there’s so much in this to be offended by, but it’s northerners who should be the most offended 😂😂 and as I a northerner myself, it’s still one of my most favourite things in the world. I miss these days and always will.
Harry Enfield is officially my favorite comedian ever
Ponytail guy is trying so hard not to laugh.
So is the girl. When he grabs her and pats her, she looks like she loves it but has to stay in character.
@@Scripture-Man Yeah they both look like they're struggling to not laugh, not surprising! ponytail guy is Charlie Higson from The Fast Show!
The very funny Charlie Higson from the Fast Show. Bob Fleming and others.
Bunny from "Is he a quare?" sketches
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This character should do a tour of every (Millennial inhabited) university.
When the yuppie starts banging on about his chart.
Hit the nail on the head, stupid HR bollox. I'd love to have a Yorkshireman as my boss.
Been from Leeds, I find this absolutely hilarious!!! 😂😂😂😁😁
I remember this back in the day, it’s even more hilarious now, harry enfield is very good
Brilliant! When we could have a laugh at ourselves. Love Harry and Paul.
Tbh, honest these sort of men built the Channel Tunnel
Yes, Jeremy Clarkson was born in Doncaster, so he really is a Yorkshireman.
That explains a lot.
Shame he changed his accent, he would’ve been even funnier if he sounded like this.
We've disowned him. He's like a cuckoo in the nest.
Enfield was in a class of his own 😂
I remember as a lad when me mum used to say... "don't be a puff... eat white bread."
Should have thousands of likes, this. No taste amongst he masses
15 stone tart in back off mini...could have been set today ....some things never change..... love this comedy .
Absolutely Brilliant, exactly how all board meetings should go!
"I say what ah like - and I like what 'ah l bloody well say 👍"
"THE NAME IS GEORGE WHITEBREAD! I'M A YORKSHIREMAN-- PLAIN SPEAKING; I SPEAK WHAT I LIKE AND I LIKE WHAT I BLOODY WELL SAY!"