So when they used to say "PC gone mad" it was a prediction, they could see the logical endpoint. Or. Illogical endpoint. LOL. Or should that be COL - "cries out loud."
Either Ronnie B as a prophet and didn’t know it lol or the looney liberal leftists stumbled on it and thought ‘mm, the new normal’, or both!! Here in 2023 the likes of Lia Thomas who because HE says HE’s a SHE thinks he’s perfectly entitled to enter women’s swimming competitions, blow everybody else out of the water and then stroll into the women’s changing rooms with HIS junk hanging out!!! Insane perversion, not forgetting the criminal in Scotland who at trial all of a sudden decided HE was a woman and DEMANDED to be placed behind bars at a WOMEN’S prison and subsequently played a part in Sturgeon’s downfall! 🤔😆
"They'll stay in a nudist colony.. and air their differences" lol.. Barker, at his best.. Without doubt, one of the best comedy sketch writers of all time.. The subtle way he slipped in the 'members only' double entandre, (considered edgy for a 70's primetime family show) was pure, blink and you'll miss it, Ronnie Barker... "Comic genius in the morning... manic depressive in the afternoon"
The Two Ronnies, predicting the future since 1976. Ronnie Barker was a master of humour and timing. His delivery was impeccable, and I have no idea how he even keeps a straight face while saying and doing the absurd.
😧 Indeed. Do you remember ‘The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town’? Had me in hysterics 🤣! Or the grand finale musical productions? Absolutely hilarious 😆!
Holy fucking shit. Every sentence he's said so far has been bang on the money in terms of the current world we live in. The 'Personchester' after everyone took the piss out of Sam Smith by saying 'Themchester United' is particularly on the nose. How prophetic
Social engineering takes time, if we would look for that media company today I'm sure they would be found to have continued to advance their agenda on " The Ministry of Sexual Equality " Cheers all the same from your heavenly brother God the son Holy 1 Lord of the Apocalypse Christ the Grail, Zeal and Soul of Jesus in the flesh Charles Andrew Oyedele Ososami. OK Women and men are always going to be different and when it comes to how can I tell which is which, a man has XY Chromosomes and a Woman has XX Chromosomes. I remember a woman athlete that was told she would be unable to compete against other women as she had more testosterone. For me should a woman have more testosterone than Tyson Fury and here Chromosomes say XX then look out girls, she's probably gona knock you all out fairly lol. Cheers Charlie Peace.
Watch "I want to be a woman" life of brian monty python... yes british humour is lightyears beyond... we were taking the piss out of the absurdity you people have been stupid enough to accept here in the present!
@@gribwitch no comment. While I'm religious, I don't think that the government should call either union a marriage. They should simply be recognized as a civil union. That keeps the religion and morals out of the fair treatment of all citizens. Separation of Church and State right? So you can find a religion that will marry you, okay. The state recognizes your civil contract. Ez right?
I'm from that approximate corner of Society and even we cannot reason with these people who don't go outside, spend all their day in echo chambers, as they obsessively label themselves and everyone else in the name of anti-Fascism, segregate themselves from mainstream society, and think everyone else should obey people who can't even cope with facts, mild sarcasm, or non-bigoted insults. TL:DR my community has reached the most vicious infighting I've ever seen and it's even more the Far Left's fault than the Right. Absolute pondlife.
Little did he know the accuracy of this sketch when he performed it. Completely brilliant and sadly would be frowned upon if it were done today. The world of comedy will never be as great again.
I was about to write the exact same thing myself. Were on the verge of destroying the planet and all people are doing is arguing about the minutiae of idenity politics. We don't stand a chance if we don't pull our collective heads out of our backsides. Comedy like this is way of communicating the real problems in society and even that medium is been muzzled now. I miss those days, maybe I'm turning into a 'Grumpy old man', I don't know.
What people do not know, unless you're form the sixties, that all this woke stuff back then was excactly the same as it is today. DIFFERENCE: sixties made a great benefit for western society, while the current 'woke' (neo-sixties) putts society back into segregation and reversed racism.
No, it is actually a thing that they have researched and found a lot of different genders. LGBTQQIP2SAA+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, pansexual, two-spirit (2S), androgynous and asexual + Anyone can self identify in their chosen gender and one should use the pronouns that the person requests.
If I recommended this to one of my work colleagues I'd be sitting in front of the human resources manager desperately trying to save my job in, oh, about 2 minutes.
@@RomanesEuntDomus. I think YOU meant "huperson resources person-ager"! Hold the phone! Those words still have 'son' in them! 😱And (as I'm sure you know) it's 'Romani ite domum'.
@@gordontaylor5373 I'll bet he did. You have to take in mind the people pushing these things were talking like this and enforcing such policies amongst themselves, in their own tightly-knit circle, decades before it became mainstream. Given his line of work, he probably worked with many of them, walked among them... what he was saying was only novel to the general populace at the time, but in the swamp in which the disease was festering it was all too familiar.
What was considered lunacy, a subject fit for a comedy sketch has now become the cause du jour. I can hold this up as a shining example of how insane society has become.
Yeah but people used to laugh at the idea of abolishing slavery and countless scientific concepts we now have much greater comprehension of. As a society we will always laugh at new or different ideas regardless of how sane or not they truly are. I just simply can't use what the past found funny as a measure for how dire or not modern issues truly are
@@AhHighlights I wasn't talking about the sketch specifically just that the idea of something being considered silly and comedic in the past should influence how we look and approach issues now. We're humans and we're stupid, we're going to laugh at outlandish ideas even if they turn out to have some truth. I never said that no one finds this funny now nor did I even say I don't find it funny but on what you said, I'd be shocked if the same ratio of people find it funny now as they did 40 odd years ago
Context: The Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 entered into force a year before this skit. Also in 1975, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) published a set of guidelines on the use of “non-sexist” language. This was a second-wave feminism idea from the sixties and seventies.
Yes - worth noting.....I vaguely remember this stuff manifesting in the 1970's...But little did I, or most people, realize that it would gather a momentum and become so toxic in our culture...And now many of our political leaders would not be able to define a woman. Perhaps our rapid move away from our Christian heritage - has left us with no magnetic north to our moral compass. In a post Christian world - things get darker and darker...May God help us.
@@IssacharGR.. Religion has nothing to do with it. It's insidious ideologies and sinister players that are the issue. Much of this has it's roots in Marxism.
That may have been second-wave feminism, but most of today's feminists have stopped waving... now we've entered a period of fascist salute feminism... and anyone who doesn't agree has, of course, the freedom to do so, .... but will be shot afterwards.
@@IssacharGR They do, have faith. All will turn out well, after having to go through the desert of suffering, where there is no end in sight, we will come out better at the other end. Let's just hope it doesn't take 40 years.
@@IssacharGR "But little did I, or most people, realize that it would gather a momentum and become so toxic in our culture" See, I think you and most everyone else in their heart of hearts did know this; at least, everybody had a vague sense that something sinister was around the corner and the movement wasn't quite what it appeared to be at face value, hence why there was always some pushback against it. As with all the LGBT policies. Even after it reached the point where most people would publicly claim to support it, when push came to shove the majority would vote against it - why? They aren't quite sure, but they had a sense, an intuition they couldn't quite explain, that it was leading us all into a dark direction.
☘️ Barker was an absolute genius, a one off never to be equalled. All too often today's comedians rely on the word 'fuck' which people seem to find hilarious for some reason.? TV standards at the time ruled out any such coarseness & highlighted genuine talent, which could find no match today. 😏
If I'm not mistaken, didn't someone seriously say that that should happen? Even if they didn't, I can well imagine someone claiming such idiocy in this insane world.
I would of loved so much to see these outstanding comedian's the Two Ronnie's,what is a world without the laughter and happiness they give to each and every person,applause! applause!
When this came out there was a little glimpse of this insanity and we laughed at it.Little did we know that the lunatics would take over our institutions and suddenly it’s all too real
Your right there as it was filmed when you could laugh at shit that was funny, now snowflakes being harmed on the VIEWING of this video, there's another story 😂 I hope the figures are high .
Yeah because the crackpots would ban him. A lot of the 2 Ronnies stuff has been banned by UA-cam. For instance when they dress up as P*k1 women. And when he sings "Im your big black momma and Im blacker than a black eyed pea". All brilliant sketches.
Here we are, 45 years after this was made, and if he did it today he'd go to jail for it. The funny bit is that I found it funnier today than I did 45 years ago.
Nowadays Barkers character in this sketch probably has his/her own church. Welcome to the 21st century where everyone is outraged by everything which I find completely outrageous
That's because, despite what most people think, political correctness isn't something that was invented 10 or 20 years ago. The shift towards gender neutral language in the workplace (such as chairman to chairperson) is something that's been happening since women started getting equal rights in the workplace. Most of the other stuff in this sketch is just silly jokes. Sure, some people like to get worked up imagining other people getting worked up over silly things, such as renaming Manchester to Personchester or removing all references to gender in film titles. But most people know that such things would be absurd; only the furthest fringe of the left would even dream of championing such a cause. Even the renaming of manholes, which I will genuinely credit this sketch with predicting, was only implemented in one city back in 1990 or something. My point is that people these days paint political correctness is some kind of vast, all-powerful creature that all must obey. It's really not. We should see it like they did back in the '70s; as just a loose bunch of ideas put around by an even looser collection of individuals. The good ideas we'll accept, and the bad ideas we'll mercilessly mock on a successful BBC comedy show.
Absolutely, couldn't agree more. Thank God for comedy and its ability to not only see the elephant in the room but also its courage to dress it up in frilly knickers and a silly hat. Keep smiling :)
+Bob McBob have you seen what's happening on campuses? the most radical left Marxist's are the power now and not just in America, it's happening in the UK too. for example Milo being banned from speaking at Manchester University. the next wave of people to run our country will be the most radical marxists you can imagine unless it's stamped out now.
I've seen literally no evidence that universities are infested with Marxists. What I have seen is a lot of right-wing idiots who label anything vaguely left wing as "radical Marxist Communist Stalinist PC-gone-mad regressive liberalism". Milo was banned for being a shitty rape apologist, and for stirring up hatred. In the same way that no university in their right mind would let an Islamic extremist rile up hatred at an event, neither would any sane university let a misogynistic sack of shit go around spreading his idiocy and his hatred.
The word "batsman" in cricket is BAD in England now, the BBC have to say "batters", because women play too. I don't think the women had a problem with it, but isn't that nearly always the case?
I still make fun of it now. Nothing changes for me. I'm as politically incorrect as ever. I relish it ! I will NEVER call anyone by their "preferred pronouns" and I will NEVER approve of homosexuality.
@@gribwitch It does change for you, at least in terms of being able to communicate this to people. Most mainstream channels you'll find that post wouldn't make it past the c3ns0rs. Many platforms would ghost or ban you outright for it, if you were reported saying it at work you might well be fired, caught on camera you may find yourself slapped with a fine or punished some other way. They can effectively push you out of the public square and out of the mainstream conversation.
+justachannel I'm a bit late to reply, but Get Smart made a very similar joke to this, and so did The Munsters, Gilligan's Island, F Troop... In fact, it was almost a staple in American comedy, to make fun of guys in drag or to make fun of women being in men's shoes or men being in women's shoes. The Get Smart one about Gertie-Jerry was especially funny, about a half-man, half-woman employed as a freak in a circus. "My hobbies are weight-lifting and embroidery." "What do you think about diamonds?" "Diamonds? Pah, who needs them. Well... they do have a certain charm! In fact, Larry the Midget proposed to me with a diamond engagement ring just last week." "Did you accept?" "Are you kidding? With him around?" /points to the "jerry" side/ now, if that isn't an under-the-radar joke about transgenderism, I don't know what is :P Though, on American TV you wouldn't be able to say words like "boobs", "hell" or "damn", at least, not until the 70's, but even then it wasn't treated lightly. Get Smart got away with saying "Satan's Place" lol
Superb. Aaah the Two Ronnies were awesome so ahead of their time and so spot on. They are up there with all the greats like Morecambe & Wise, Bernard Manning, Mike Reid, Chubby Brown, Frankie Boyle. Admittedly a different type of humour than some of the more savage and barbaric types of the late great Manning but utterly spot on none the less.
R Barker had an amazing ability to manipulate the English language. Just wait and in a few years I'm sure the four (fork handles) candles sketch will be considered almost a prophesy in one way or other. 😁
These two guys were so clever. They never needed bad language, just pure comedy. Where has it all gone? They want us all to be miserable and fearful with no joy in our lives. DO NOT COMPLY!!!
The Two Ronnies had a series of short skits called " The Worm That Turned ". Set in 2012. Men sneeking out at night hiding from the feminist government authorities. " Do you know you can get 3 months hard labour for watching a Humphrey Bogart film ?".
It's nice to be able to read aroom of people. Him tricky. So you must be good at assessing how different people experience a given situation ,or all of the situations you have never experienced
Would you believe how accurate this is in 2022? Way ahead of it’s time.
absolutely crazy... these two were top of the top... and even funnier now lol
The reality's outpacing their satire
So when they used to say "PC gone mad" it was a prediction, they could see the logical endpoint. Or. Illogical endpoint. LOL. Or should that be COL - "cries out loud."
@@SEIFER69 Look up a song called 'Masculine women and feminine men'. Thank me later 👍🏻
Either Ronnie B as a prophet and didn’t know it lol or the looney liberal leftists stumbled on it and thought ‘mm, the new normal’, or both!! Here in 2023 the likes of Lia Thomas who because HE says HE’s a SHE thinks he’s perfectly entitled to enter women’s swimming competitions, blow everybody else out of the water and then stroll into the women’s changing rooms with HIS junk hanging out!!! Insane perversion, not forgetting the criminal in Scotland who at trial all of a sudden decided HE was a woman and DEMANDED to be placed behind bars at a WOMEN’S prison and subsequently played a part in Sturgeon’s downfall! 🤔😆
We truly are living in a comedy show.
Yes, our public are the ones that don't live in Europe or US. I'm sure they are laughing like crazy right now.
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it is a 24/7/365 sick and twisted comedy show with teeth.
The joke has become reality. Degenerates got control and power.
@@badas45 And you're a total loony
"They'll stay in a nudist colony.. and air their differences" lol.. Barker, at his best.. Without doubt, one of the best comedy sketch writers of all time.. The subtle way he slipped in the 'members only' double entandre, (considered edgy for a 70's primetime family show) was pure, blink and you'll miss it, Ronnie Barker...
"Comic genius in the morning... manic depressive in the afternoon"
Couldn't agree more every word you said I agree with all your sentiments
Comedy genius
"you won't be expected to dress like this. This sort of costume is far too expensive. Half a knicker certainly doesn't cover it." comedy gold.
Spike Milligan, another comic genius, was afflicted my mental illness and would find it hard to express his comedy in today's joyless woke atmosphere.
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"Half a knicker certainly doesn't cover it". Classic. So glad I grew up on 70's comedy.
This was not a sketch... This was a documentary.
Or a warning
@@KingFahtah grow up douche
@@geminienigma4421 Pointless insults? Is that what you have to say?
A portent of the future...
More of a public service broadcast
"Half a knicker certainly doesn't cover it." LOL
And by then (1976),we were decimal ,so half a nicker was 50 p instead of ten bob.Hang on----a ten bob note might *just* have covered it.Heh Heh
Half a Knicker, or 1/4 of a "pair of knickers" XD.
The Two Ronnies, predicting the future since 1976. Ronnie Barker was a master of humour and timing. His delivery was impeccable, and I have no idea how he even keeps a straight face while saying and doing the absurd.
Absurd? Shits just normal life these days isn't it?
Ronnie Barker predicted the future in a hilarious way
Yeah, he did. I wonder if he realised that when he wrote this classic slot?
He didn’t realise just how dangerous the times would become for anyone with a contrary or challenging view to air
If only it were so funny now the insanity has taken over not only the asylum but the whole of society.
Preparation for the future as did George Orwell
The future is hilarious.
Smart, inventive, satirical, funny.
The very antithesis of BBC comedy today.
Well there's The Lineker Show. That was pretty hilarious.
As soon as he walked on I was in stitches 🤣
I miss the 2 Ronnies
I was waiting for the "Good evening" 😂😂
Miss The Two Ronnies
😧 Indeed. Do you remember ‘The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town’? Had me in hysterics 🤣! Or the grand finale musical productions? Absolutely hilarious 😆!
@@sirmeowthelibrarycat 🤣 The Phantom Raspberry Blower was ridiculously funny.
Precious memories.
Holy fucking shit. Every sentence he's said so far has been bang on the money in terms of the current world we live in. The 'Personchester' after everyone took the piss out of Sam Smith by saying 'Themchester United' is particularly on the nose. How prophetic
God Sam Smith is a huge waste of space yet is a multi-millionaire.
Social engineering takes time, if we would look for that media company today I'm sure they would be found to have continued to advance their agenda on " The Ministry of Sexual Equality "
Cheers all the same from your heavenly brother God the son Holy 1 Lord of the Apocalypse Christ the Grail, Zeal and Soul of Jesus in the flesh Charles Andrew Oyedele Ososami.
OK Women and men are always going to be different and when it comes to how can I tell which is which, a man has XY Chromosomes and a Woman has XX Chromosomes. I remember a woman athlete that was told she would be unable to compete against other women as she had more testosterone. For me should a woman have more testosterone than Tyson Fury and here Chromosomes say XX then look out girls, she's probably gona knock you all out fairly lol.
Cheers Charlie
Peace.
Well it’s all by design and long ago too.
Watch "I want to be a woman" life of brian monty python... yes british humour is lightyears beyond... we were taking the piss out of the absurdity you people have been stupid enough to accept here in the present!
He's a great singer but a bit of a wanker. Gotta separate the art from the artist.
A video made 47 years ago uploaded 11 years ago recommended today.
From Sketch Comedy to Government Policy in only 43 years!
When do we get the ministry of silly walks?
@@rareram "...When do we get the ministry of silly walks..." ?
When a newly "married" same sex "couple" walk down the aisle.
@@gribwitch no comment. While I'm religious, I don't think that the government should call either union a marriage. They should simply be recognized as a civil union. That keeps the religion and morals out of the fair treatment of all citizens. Separation of Church and State right? So you can find a religion that will marry you, okay. The state recognizes your civil contract. Ez right?
Ministry of Silly Walks? Where do you think they got their idea of brexit, mate? LoL
@@stevenhuffnagel Brexit has happened (and a bloody good thing too) get over it.!
Well this was just straight up prophetic
It gets better every year. wild isnt it
We all know that Ronnie Barker, was a comedy Genius, but what we didn't know was, he could predict the future . Kind of scary really, but still funny.
That's comedic*
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 Many thanks, Socrates.
I think he did know… too many sketches of this nature…
I'm from that approximate corner of Society and even we cannot reason with these people who don't go outside, spend all their day in echo chambers, as they obsessively label themselves and everyone else in the name of anti-Fascism, segregate themselves from mainstream society, and think everyone else should obey people who can't even cope with facts, mild sarcasm, or non-bigoted insults.
TL:DR my community has reached the most vicious infighting I've ever seen and it's even more the Far Left's fault than the Right. Absolute pondlife.
@@TheHorseshoePartyUK oh no not anti fascism because disliking fascism is bad
Little did he know the accuracy of this sketch when he performed it. Completely brilliant and sadly would be frowned upon if it were done today. The world of comedy will never be as great again.
Eerily prophetic...
no bloody frowned on by me. Todays society is sick
He/she looks very like the American Admiral-person.
I was about to write the exact same thing myself. Were on the verge of destroying the planet and all people are doing is arguing about the minutiae of idenity politics. We don't stand a chance if we don't pull our collective heads out of our backsides. Comedy like this is way of communicating the real problems in society and even that medium is been muzzled now. I miss those days, maybe I'm turning into a 'Grumpy old man', I don't know.
@@DuncanCaddick “grumpy old man”, you and me both. Something to be celebrated, not hidden.
Just looking at Ronnies clothes wow! that was a masterpiece of tailoring. I think a lot of work went into making this sketch.
Nearly half a century ago he predicted the absurdity of today’s society.
Ridiculously funny back then.
Tragically a reality today.
When was the equalities minister created by government?
What people do not know,
unless you're form the sixties, that all this woke stuff back then was excactly the same as it is today.
DIFFERENCE: sixties made a great benefit for western society, while the current 'woke' (neo-sixties)
putts society back into segregation and reversed racism.
@@R3tr0v1ru5 Where did he specify anything beyond general absurdity? 🤖
No, it is actually a thing that they have researched and found a lot of different genders.
LGBTQQIP2SAA+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer, intersex, pansexual, two-spirit (2S), androgynous and asexual +
Anyone can self identify in their chosen gender and one should use the pronouns that the person requests.
@@R3tr0v1ru5 in Spain.....
If I recommended this to one of my work colleagues I'd be sitting in front of the human resources manager desperately trying to save my job in, oh, about 2 minutes.
Me too.
I think you meant the "huperson resources manager"
@@RomanesEuntDomus. I think YOU meant "huperson resources person-ager"! Hold the phone! Those words still have 'son' in them! 😱And (as I'm sure you know) it's 'Romani ite domum'.
@@joesix-pack4022 Brilliant !
This comment started off sensible then became Totally Person-Tal....,
Now it’s People Operations (at least in places I have worked) because Human Resources is apparently offensive.
Brilliant! Ronnie Barker - Comedy genius, way ahead of his time. 🤣
British comedy being prophetic yet again
Yes
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Never seen prophetic sketches about Brexit
Predictive Programming
@@steffenrosmus9177 Wasn't this before the EU was set in its current form, 1993?
Just imagine Ronnie still alive today. 2023. What would he make of it. RIP to the Two Ronnies. Classic
I thought back then this was a comedy skit! I didn't realise it was a future documentary!
I don't suppose Ronnie did when he wrote it.
@@gordontaylor5373 I'll bet he did. You have to take in mind the people pushing these things were talking like this and enforcing such policies amongst themselves, in their own tightly-knit circle, decades before it became mainstream. Given his line of work, he probably worked with many of them, walked among them... what he was saying was only novel to the general populace at the time, but in the swamp in which the disease was festering it was all too familiar.
Just how prophetic is THIS? Unbelievable!
Prophetic or programming, I sometimes wonder what's intentional
The days when this was an actual joke rather than a nightmare.
and we all have to live in this nightmare,with no end in sight.............
@@manchild3479 Unfortunately, more than a few perverts are putting their ends in sight-- in front of children, no less.
Spot on...
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You are right, we live in a nightmare nowadays...
What was considered lunacy, a subject fit for a comedy sketch has now become the cause du jour. I can hold this up as a shining example of how insane society has become.
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Yeah but people used to laugh at the idea of abolishing slavery and countless scientific concepts we now have much greater comprehension of. As a society we will always laugh at new or different ideas regardless of how sane or not they truly are. I just simply can't use what the past found funny as a measure for how dire or not modern issues truly are
@@faceless1434 It's still as funny now as it was in the past.
@@AhHighlights I wasn't talking about the sketch specifically just that the idea of something being considered silly and comedic in the past should influence how we look and approach issues now. We're humans and we're stupid, we're going to laugh at outlandish ideas even if they turn out to have some truth. I never said that no one finds this funny now nor did I even say I don't find it funny but on what you said, I'd be shocked if the same ratio of people find it funny now as they did 40 odd years ago
@faceless...it is still funny because the concept is stupid, so it's hilarious.
Yes, very relevant to what happening in 2023!! I'd love to go back to those gd ol' days!!
Absolutely 👍👍
We NEED this kind of comedy back. Literally need it.
We have it every day, actually, it's just not comedy anymore.
They want to teach it to 3rd graders at school.
You would lose your job and livelihood. Sign of the times. Very sad
Context: The Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 entered into force a year before this skit.
Also in 1975, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) published a set of guidelines on the use of “non-sexist” language.
This was a second-wave feminism idea from the sixties and seventies.
Yes - worth noting.....I vaguely remember this stuff manifesting in the 1970's...But little did I, or most people, realize that it would gather a momentum and become so toxic in our culture...And now many of our political leaders would not be able to define a woman. Perhaps our rapid move away from our Christian heritage - has left us with no magnetic north to our moral compass. In a post Christian world - things get darker and darker...May God help us.
@@IssacharGR.. Religion has nothing to do with it. It's insidious ideologies and sinister players that are the issue. Much of this has it's roots in Marxism.
That may have been second-wave feminism, but most of today's feminists have stopped waving... now we've entered a period of fascist salute feminism... and anyone who doesn't agree has, of course, the freedom to do so, .... but will be shot afterwards.
@@IssacharGR They do, have faith.
All will turn out well, after having to go through the desert of suffering, where there is no end in sight, we will come out better at the other end.
Let's just hope it doesn't take 40 years.
@@IssacharGR "But little did I, or most people, realize that it would gather a momentum and become so toxic in our culture"
See, I think you and most everyone else in their heart of hearts did know this; at least, everybody had a vague sense that something sinister was around the corner and the movement wasn't quite what it appeared to be at face value, hence why there was always some pushback against it.
As with all the LGBT policies. Even after it reached the point where most people would publicly claim to support it, when push came to shove the majority would vote against it - why? They aren't quite sure, but they had a sense, an intuition they couldn't quite explain, that it was leading us all into a dark direction.
Ronnie barker will never be topped. Just was a comedic genius
This is so 2020! This needs to go viral.
Classic British comedy! I miss those days.
This is so 2020 ish ... Ronnie was a genius✌️
"Half a knicker won't cover it" boom boom 😂
Absolute genius I think one of the best sketches ever.
In 1976, this was a joke. Today it's reality
Correction, this "is" a joke!
Let's forget politics for one moment and bask in the glory of "half a nicker doesn't cover it"
☘️ Barker was an absolute genius, a one off never to be equalled. All too often today's comedians rely on the word 'fuck' which people seem to find hilarious for some reason.? TV standards at the time ruled out any such coarseness & highlighted genuine talent, which could find no match today. 😏
Oh Stella, the F word has been replaced with the N word, and of course the B word.
Barker and Corbett remember, it wasnt just one Ronnie.
@@GeoffGummer I think most of this kind of sketch writing was done by Ronnie Barker. Corbett wrote the armchair soliloquy each week.
@@LeoDragon34 correct amundo
Language Timothy
0:54 ''Manchester must now be called Person-chester'' - this material is so prophetic!
If I'm not mistaken, didn't someone seriously say that that should happen?
Even if they didn't, I can well imagine someone claiming such idiocy in this insane world.
This has aged well
Oh Ronnie, you had no idea how accurate you were all those years ago.
"My name is Mr.-stroke-Mrs. Barker. But I don't advise anybody to try it.
Stroking Mrs. Barker, that is."
I would of loved so much to see these outstanding comedian's the Two Ronnie's,what is a world without the laughter and happiness they give to each and every person,applause! applause!
When this came out there was a little glimpse of this insanity and we laughed at it.Little did we know that the lunatics would take over our institutions and suddenly it’s all too real
'The Worm That Turned' has now become a reality. So perceptive. The Two Ronnies are much missed.
No snowflakes was harmed during filming of this sketch.
Or maybe they were, who cares!😊
I just thought they went into meltdown and went full rage mode
Your right there as it was filmed when you could laugh at shit that was funny, now snowflakes being harmed on the VIEWING of this video, there's another story 😂 I hope the figures are high .
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1976 was a Glorious Summer, but now is the winter of our discontent......Great one Ronnie ☻
Bloody legend, never see the likes of his genius again. 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah because the crackpots would ban him.
A lot of the 2 Ronnies stuff has been banned by UA-cam.
For instance when they dress up as P*k1 women.
And when he sings "Im your big black momma and Im blacker than a black eyed pea".
All brilliant sketches.
The joke about the pub in the West Country seeking an bartender was classic Ronnie Barker.
Barman / maid .
Attractive in Bristol area 😂
Here we are, 45 years after this was made, and if he did it today he'd go to jail for it. The funny bit is that I found it funnier today than I did 45 years ago.
Yes Agreed it is more fun to watch today.
Seriously? Go to jail?
@@itsjemmabond Yes, you would be arrested in England for making this sketch.
Well it’s far more relevant and subversive now
@@spongebobsquarehead8121 "These days, if you say you're English, you get arrested and thrown in jail"
My firm belief is that you can make fun of anything as long as it’s funny.
That’s why this works.
Ronnie Barker ahead of his time and anyone elses time
Well this aged well
Hilarious!! The PC police would have a cow now. Classsic Ronnie Barker here 😂
The 'People and Culture' chief in my workplace would think this was a 'Cultural Sensitivity' training video.
And to think this was a joke 30 years ago.
+Joe Snow 40 years ago :)
+Joe Snow It still is.
It's still a joke today and always. When I can jam half my cock into a pair of panties, I'll call the nuthouse on myself.
Nowadays Barkers character in this sketch probably has his/her own church. Welcome to the 21st century where everyone is outraged by everything which I find completely outrageous
What has the world come too a man is a man and a women a women liberal loons come from anouther planet.
Christ the writers of this sketch must have possessed a time machine. An hilarious sketch that would now be “cancelled”.
Brilliant, hilarious and unexpectedly prophetic!
This was way ahead of its time, itcrazy how they predicted this modern day insanity
Comedy back in the day, every day madness now.
its like he had a clue what shit we was going to have to put up with.. brilliantly executed
Yesterday's comedy, today's reality!
It's all a joke either way
Reality is funnier
Oh bloody hell it came true
We live in a stupid world these days
Its almost like in the absence of any real problem, everything becomes a problem
Bloody love you. Brilliantly done.
"Tolerence will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles." Dostoevsky.
There is no way the Beeb would dare run this today!
Soo ahead of their time!. Priceless!. Nuff said!. 🤣🤣
Brilliant... Needed now more than ever
Such foresight.
As a kid in the 70s l remember job adverts in the newspaper for smart attractive barmaids.😂🤣
How we laughed when this was made, and indeed still do. Unfortunately now we’re actually living the nightmare.
Uploaded 10 years ago. What a pearl! :D
LOL the scary thing is that alot of this is actually enforced today by the PC police - what a brilliant sketch :)
That's because, despite what most people think, political correctness isn't something that was invented 10 or 20 years ago. The shift towards gender neutral language in the workplace (such as chairman to chairperson) is something that's been happening since women started getting equal rights in the workplace.
Most of the other stuff in this sketch is just silly jokes. Sure, some people like to get worked up imagining other people getting worked up over silly things, such as renaming Manchester to Personchester or removing all references to gender in film titles. But most people know that such things would be absurd; only the furthest fringe of the left would even dream of championing such a cause. Even the renaming of manholes, which I will genuinely credit this sketch with predicting, was only implemented in one city back in 1990 or something.
My point is that people these days paint political correctness is some kind of vast, all-powerful creature that all must obey. It's really not. We should see it like they did back in the '70s; as just a loose bunch of ideas put around by an even looser collection of individuals. The good ideas we'll accept, and the bad ideas we'll mercilessly mock on a successful BBC comedy show.
Absolutely, couldn't agree more. Thank God for comedy and its ability to not only see the elephant in the room but also its courage to dress it up in frilly knickers and a silly hat. Keep smiling :)
+Bob McBob
have you seen what's happening on campuses?
the most radical left Marxist's are the power now and not just in America, it's happening in the UK too.
for example Milo being banned from speaking at Manchester University.
the next wave of people to run our country will be the most radical marxists you can imagine unless it's stamped out now.
I've seen literally no evidence that universities are infested with Marxists. What I have seen is a lot of right-wing idiots who label anything vaguely left wing as "radical Marxist Communist Stalinist PC-gone-mad regressive liberalism".
Milo was banned for being a shitty rape apologist, and for stirring up hatred. In the same way that no university in their right mind would let an Islamic extremist rile up hatred at an event, neither would any sane university let a misogynistic sack of shit go around spreading his idiocy and his hatred.
Bob McBob Well then you aren't looking or you don't want to look.
Still a classic
The word "batsman" in cricket is BAD in England now, the BBC have to say "batters", because women play too. I don't think the women had a problem with it, but isn't that nearly always the case?
They'll stay at a nudist colony and air their differences, what an exquisite double entendre.
Members only
Political correctness and the attempt to avoid sexism gone mad. Very witty and relevant 41 years later.
Two Ronnie's were far beyond they time and predict a lot of things, so much has come true today w
It was always mad. Now it's extra insane and reaching for fascistic power.
The fact that the audience were able to laugh at this without being victimised and cancelled shows how far we have fallen in the last ten years.
Comedy was so great then. Not now. Glad I lived through these great tv shows
Fantastic comedy from a talented man. No such Comedy today. The B.B.C. has gone potty.
The whole country has, not just the BBC.
BBC is now something else entirely different
used to love that prog (Micheal Bentine's Potty Time)
@@stevenlewis9234 the BBC doesn't do 'news' anymore only propaganda and brainwashing.
@@flipper2392 the BBC has made the country potty with its relentless propaganda.
Ah, the good old days... When making fun of such things was still allowed...
And when they didn't exist.
We can still make fun of so called same-sex "marriage" though. I do.
@@gribwitch Good on you!
I still make fun of it now. Nothing changes for me. I'm as politically incorrect as ever. I relish it ! I will NEVER call anyone by their "preferred pronouns" and I will NEVER approve of homosexuality.
@@gribwitch It does change for you, at least in terms of being able to communicate this to people. Most mainstream channels you'll find that post wouldn't make it past the c3ns0rs. Many platforms would ghost or ban you outright for it, if you were reported saying it at work you might well be fired, caught on camera you may find yourself slapped with a fine or punished some other way. They can effectively push you out of the public square and out of the mainstream conversation.
My goodness, British TV was far more advanced than U.S. TV at that time. I wonder what it's like now.
+justachannel What do you mean? Milton Berle was doing this kind of thing in the 50's.
MaskedMan66 They dressed in drag in the 50's--for laughs. But it wasn't as a transgender reference.
justachannel Nor is this.
+justachannel
I'm a bit late to reply, but Get Smart made a very similar joke to this, and so did The Munsters, Gilligan's Island, F Troop... In fact, it was almost a staple in American comedy, to make fun of guys in drag or to make fun of women being in men's shoes or men being in women's shoes. The Get Smart one about Gertie-Jerry was especially funny, about a half-man, half-woman employed as a freak in a circus.
"My hobbies are weight-lifting and embroidery."
"What do you think about diamonds?"
"Diamonds? Pah, who needs them. Well... they do have a certain charm! In fact, Larry the Midget proposed to me with a diamond engagement ring just last week."
"Did you accept?"
"Are you kidding? With him around?" /points to the "jerry" side/
now, if that isn't an under-the-radar joke about transgenderism, I don't know what is :P
Though, on American TV you wouldn't be able to say words like "boobs", "hell" or "damn", at least, not until the 70's, but even then it wasn't treated lightly. Get Smart got away with saying "Satan's Place" lol
@MaskedMan66 - I beg to differ.The writing was on the wall in 1976.We just didn't think the USA would take it to extremes,as usual
Superb. Aaah the Two Ronnies were awesome so ahead of their time and so spot on. They are up there with all the greats like Morecambe & Wise, Bernard Manning, Mike Reid, Chubby Brown, Frankie Boyle. Admittedly a different type of humour than some of the more savage and barbaric types of the late great Manning but utterly spot on none the less.
Yer dead right mate
"Slippery slope arguments are fallacious"
Who'd have thought Ronnie Barker was psychic, unbelievable
Maybe he read his bible and studied history.
He isn't? It clearly says in his wikipedia page that he is a comedian
@@chimpazoo1143 No , he's a comedy actor .
@@pparrker5420 Blimey, you are right!
@@chimpazoo1143 Was rather 😁
The two Ronnies were very smart men, I wonder if they thought this was just a joke or if they believed that it may one day come to pass.
Truth is stranger than fiction !
R Barker had an amazing ability to manipulate the English language.
Just wait and in a few years I'm sure the four (fork handles) candles sketch will be considered almost a prophesy in one way or other. 😁
Reminds me of that scene in Bronson. Brilliant
Prescient satire aside, just him walking into the room like that is funny enough for me.😂
These two guys were so clever. They never needed bad language, just pure comedy. Where has it all gone? They want us all to be miserable and fearful with no joy in our lives. DO NOT COMPLY!!!
Ronnie never realised how brave and stunning he was.
The man was a modern Nostradamus!!.♥️🇬🇧
Genius at work!
Predictive programming been going on since the ‘tel a vision’ came out. 😂
Tel lie
Comedy as prophecy; brilliant!
How have I only just found this. How accurate in 2023 😂
The Two Ronnies had a series of short skits called " The Worm That Turned ". Set in 2012. Men sneeking out at night hiding from the feminist government authorities. " Do you know you can get 3 months hard labour for watching a Humphrey Bogart film ?".
A year ago I encouraged a friend in her 20s to watch it...a good gateway drug into the world of The Two Ronnies! 😂
🫣😱 my god how accurate is this in 2023!!! Mental!
Brilliant and how correct this has turned out to be 2023😂
It's nice to be able to read aroom of people.
Him tricky.
So you must be good at assessing how different people experience a given situation ,or all of the situations you have never experienced
Brilliant stuff
He must have had a time machine to the future to collect his stand up material lol.