The Day Today & Brass Eye were truly ground breaking........ My penance for loving this humour is to sit in an office with people who watch Mrs Brown's Boys.
I agree, British comedy has became too concerned with attracting a broad audience, though shows like 'People Just Do Nothing' are real gems. On a side note, please check out our development pilot ua-cam.com/users/edit?o=U&video_id=4rJGgPAOc40 #notthatbroad #justcheckthelackofviews
Absolutely brilliant. The Day Today is a comedy that is still head and shoulders above anything that’s on tv nowadays. Daring, sometimes though provoking but hilariously funny. Give me this any day over shite like Mrs Browns Boys
I’m watching the Office management training section from The Day Today now. It’s a bizarre masterpiece. I don’t think I’d really noticed before that beneath the bullying and nonsensical consultant speak and pointless roleplay, Marber actually has a preternatural insight into the minds of the people he’s torturing. Marber really has a threatening aura, I love it.
Dynamic cast. What an impeccable team! Everyone knows their craft - - they play off of each other so well, so joyfully. Brilliant little gem, down to the last detail. 🐖
For the last twenty years, I have thought of this sketch and the “defecation scenario” line every time I see a toilet with the words ‘Armitage Shanks’ on it.
Actually went on a similar course! Based on a New York fish market ethos. I'll never forget it, made some good friends and failed the course with flying colours
One of the funniest Day Today sketches. I believe it's a send-up of the Exegesis Seminar that ran "motivational" courses in the UK during the 70s and 80s. There's a couple of contemporaneous documentaries on youtube, as well as a Play for Today episode, "Instant Enlightenment Including VAT". You'll spot the similarities. 😉
fingerhorn4 This doesnt satirise office worklife though like The Office (the Gervais and Merchant show). This is more satirising corporate ‘team building’ programmes. The sketch is very different
There’s some relatively recent T.V. comedy that’s equal to or superior to Chris Morris’s work. Most of Sacha Baron Cohen’s work. Some aspects of Ricky Gervais’s The Office. A fair amount of Chris Lilley’s work. Aspect of Nathan Fielder’s Nathan For You.
@@arveyilleszender5809 Sorry,but the Day Today is better. You think Ali g is equal or superior(!!!) to this??? SB Cohen is good and can be very funny,but this is far more original,clever,eclectic and funny than any of his characters or shows. The Office isn't in the same league as this either.
@@arveyilleszender5809Your comment hasn't aged well, unlike the D2Day which is scarily prescient.... Cohen is a Zionist hack, Gervais tries but cant quite make up his mind and the 3rd one you cited was so the zeitgeist I've never heard of it (or him)
I remember a trading course a bit like this back in 83. Exegesis or something! There was a documentary about a sales office trained to this method. SALE!!
The genius thing about this is that they could have made this management consultant an idiot and the butt of all the jokes, but he does actually understand all the employees’ psychologies, hang-ups and insecurities.
It’s a mockumentary set in an office and the logo looks similar to the Ricky Gervais sitcom but that’s where the similarities end really. The Office was all about realistic social interactions and the documentary aspect was really just an excuse to loosen up the rules of more traditional acting. This sketch is more about surrealism, and one of Chris Morris’s big interests at the time was in meticulously and accurately recreating the tone and style of the type of show they’re making fun of, so kind of the opposite if The Office. If Ricky Gervais ripped off anyone it’s Christopher Guest.
@@MarkMathewsMusic Yes he does. I'm not going to get into some stupid back and forth over this. Feel free to go download the scripts if you really really don't want to hear it right.
I reckon they should do techniques to recovery/therapy like this in the working world, perhaps even social. I know it's all an act but the outcome looks outstanding and more civil. The entire sketch was astonishing. Felt like it was an actual documentary.
I mean it’s a standard typewriter font. I bet that if you asked 10 graphic designers who were born before 1970 to make a title screen for something called The Office 9 of them would use the same font.
@@Fumpage Yeah that's fair enough. But the font on black background is just one aspect; in its totality I think it's not coincidence - it's just my view but it seems likely that Gervais was, at the very least, inspired by this skit
The Day Today & Brass Eye were truly ground breaking........ My penance for loving this humour is to sit in an office with people who watch Mrs Brown's Boys.
Someone I used to know tried to get me to watch Mrs Brown's Boys, claiming it was really funny. I never really respected them very much after that.
Yeah, I had some friends claiming that I would laugh at Mrs Brown's Boys as well. I very much proved them wrong.
I agree, British comedy has became too concerned with attracting a broad audience, though shows like 'People Just Do Nothing' are real gems. On a side note, please check out our development pilot ua-cam.com/users/edit?o=U&video_id=4rJGgPAOc40 #notthatbroad #justcheckthelackofviews
Everyone here is being quite an arsehole to a bunch of people who just like a certain tv show.
F
This is the most bizarre masterpiece I've ever seen
20+ yrs later masterpiece seems the best word.
Wait till you see Chris Morris' Jam!
Absolutely brilliant. The Day Today is a comedy that is still head and shoulders above anything that’s on tv nowadays. Daring, sometimes though provoking but hilariously funny. Give me this any day over shite like Mrs Browns Boys
Right there with you.
Wtf have I just discovered, comedy gold? Having a shit day tbh, this has given me my first laugh all day.
"...an experiment they shall never forget, and from which one of them will never physically recover..." 😂
ricky gervis must have watched this and thought " hmmm i have an idea for a tv show"
OpinionDay007 yep without this skit there would be no Extras, Derek, Meet Ricky Gervais, or Life's Too Short.
@@CS-mo7xp no derek wouldn't be such a bad thing
james84 - it wouldn’t have been so bad if it wasn’t for that disgusting perverted character, he was just too much
@@parlay-music The same is often said of Jim'll Fix It.
I've noticed lots of coogan and morris influence on Ricky's work
Nice to see the origins of "The Office" training scene where Gareth is asked what his ultimate Fantasy is.
"You dress like an old lady and you've got a stupid face" is such a great insult.
I still have a crush on her though.
Doon Mackichan falling over at 9:35 is exceptional acting
its not even toward the pig, she just spaz's out XD
I love Doon xc
Doon was amazing on TDT.
I love The Office, but this makes me feel more uncomfortable than that ever did.
Adam Funnell even the interview with the female PA, where he tries looking up her skirt?
Coogan's character queuing up for another go at insulting Christine 😂
I was reminded of my last office job, and I experienced a horrible anxiety attack. Brilliant!
'The pig that's the anger inside us?' 🐖 😂
This sketch is a hidden gem.
22 people don’t have a very fulfilled home life
Make that 23 dislikes
@@Blackpool-no2vt make that 25 idiots
Management consultants should be required to watch this.
No, they'll get ideas!
I'm never going to say "can I borrow a stapler please" ever again. Haha..
K Russell you work in an office?
You couldn't borrow mine anyway, it's in jelly
"Christine, hit Anthony."
I’m watching the Office management training section from The Day Today now. It’s a bizarre masterpiece. I don’t think I’d really noticed before that beneath the bullying and nonsensical consultant speak and pointless roleplay, Marber actually has a preternatural insight into the minds of the people he’s torturing. Marber really has a threatening aura, I love it.
"I don't think she has a fulfilled home life".
Dynamic cast. What an impeccable team! Everyone knows their craft - - they play off of each other so well, so joyfully. Brilliant little gem, down to the last detail. 🐖
For the last twenty years, I have thought of this sketch and the “defecation scenario” line every time I see a toilet with the words ‘Armitage Shanks’ on it.
I love how when Steve Coogan cries in a Scottish accent he becomes Pauline Calf
"...and you're always there." 25 years later I want to add to the end of any sentence I say to any work colleague I speak to regardless of context
The full ensemble! Sublime!!
I forget how good the long cut is, thanks for posting this.
“It might have a baby”
“It will if you keep shouting”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
My laughter soon faded and became a blank stare as I remembered similar bleak encounters whilst wearing a suit!
At 8:12 you can see him barely hold it together but it was truly incredible.
I think Ricky Gervais owes these guys a few quid.
Actually went on a similar course! Based on a New York fish market ethos. I'll never forget it, made some good friends and failed the course with flying colours
Ms Front is truly amazing..
Put some paper down it might have a baby
Steve coogan is being Dennis nilson . The hair glasses , accent ,butcher history and psycho look in his eyes. I got you mr coogan.
Spot on
Stands up after all this time. So well done.
Can't stop watching this
Oh boy this made me crack up. Super well done. Thanks man
Patrick Marber is so funny in this. :D
Rebecca Front is brilliant in this
"Get a knife, lets kill it!"
farmers 😂😂😂😂😂
Thank the gods for this!!!! I know every line of this sketch off by heart and this extended version will very soon be at home there as well.
This extended bit is great. Thanks.
I like how they wear the same clothes even though it's different days
One of the funniest Day Today sketches. I believe it's a send-up of the Exegesis Seminar that ran "motivational" courses in the UK during the 70s and 80s. There's a couple of contemporaneous documentaries on youtube, as well as a Play for Today episode, "Instant Enlightenment Including VAT". You'll spot the similarities. 😉
I'm 5 minutes into that Play For Today and it's so similar already... even having to raise their hand to speak
So much better than "The Office" after countless episodes. THIS one sketch IS the office. The Day Today has never been surpassed.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHa of course they have
fingerhorn4 This doesnt satirise office worklife though like The Office (the Gervais and Merchant show). This is more satirising corporate ‘team building’ programmes. The sketch is very different
This is actually like a Gestalt group therapy session.😂😂😂
Buy a paper Anthony!
"Take your paper with you!"
Out of corporate life now, thank goodness. Couldn't watch this first time it was too realistic. Sell your soul. Still hard watching.
Chris Morris is a genius. Comedy has truly gone downhill ever since.
There’s some relatively recent T.V. comedy that’s equal to or superior to Chris Morris’s work.
Most of Sacha Baron Cohen’s work.
Some aspects of Ricky Gervais’s The Office.
A fair amount of Chris Lilley’s work.
Aspect of Nathan Fielder’s Nathan For You.
@@arveyilleszender5809 Sorry,but the Day Today is better. You think Ali g is equal or superior(!!!) to this??? SB Cohen is good and can be very funny,but this is far more original,clever,eclectic and funny than any of his characters or shows. The Office isn't in the same league as this either.
100% disagree. @@Vaudevillain121
@@arveyilleszender5809Your comment hasn't aged well, unlike the D2Day which is scarily prescient....
Cohen is a Zionist hack, Gervais tries but cant quite make up his mind and the 3rd one you cited was so the zeitgeist I've never heard of it (or him)
They are all such great actors
Hilarious send up, and 13:41 reminds me of so many so called ‘Blue Sky Thinking’ seminars I was forced to go on in the late 90s and 00s
Thanks for putting this up!
I remember a trading course a bit like this back in 83. Exegesis or something! There was a documentary about a sales office trained to this method. SALE!!
"I don't think she has a very fulfilled home life" 😂
"Will it be killed soon? Will that die?"
The genius thing about this is that they could have made this management consultant an idiot and the butt of all the jokes, but he does actually understand all the employees’ psychologies, hang-ups and insecurities.
Patrick marber is fantastic in this
Which one is Patrick Marber?
The guy doing the training. Buy a paper Anthony
I feel completely the opposite.
92RedRevolver Don't be a pussy, Red.
He reminds me of Marco Pierre White in this skit...
7p for a copy of the Mirror, I still wouldn't buy it!
27p
@@T0mat0S0up errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 😕 errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
is that because youre a racist?
"Buy a paper, Anthony!" :D
THE BEST sketch in The Day Today! 🤣🤣🤣
Also great to see this extended cut! 😉 O.O.K 👌🏼💙
It’s a mockumentary set in an office and the logo looks similar to the Ricky Gervais sitcom but that’s where the similarities end really. The Office was all about realistic social interactions and the documentary aspect was really just an excuse to loosen up the rules of more traditional acting. This sketch is more about surrealism, and one of Chris Morris’s big interests at the time was in meticulously and accurately recreating the tone and style of the type of show they’re making fun of, so kind of the opposite if The Office. If Ricky Gervais ripped off anyone it’s Christopher Guest.
Good comment i agree
“Two lesbians. Sisters. I’m just watching”
“I never thought I’d say this, but I’d like to hear more from Gareth”
tdurbo Thank you. What a show!!
Spot on
You're standing in a news grave.
@@al201103 ...”and what does it say on that grave Peter?”
“News”
😂
@@tdurb0 classic! "Rotate it 180 degrees in my favour"
You’ve got no sense of humour and you’re always there!
David Brent stole the brown leather jacket idea from Neil Godwin, who we now know stole it from Lester Beck
"Let's kick some ass into life" 😂
I love the way he plucks his beard 1:18
Then checks the hair fibre (not before stroking Doon's head) the creepy, subtle nuances are brilliant
'These are unwritten rules.'
“Shake Adnan’s hand, Anthony” 😂😂
"Can I borrow a stapler please?"
hilarious, gut wrenching, and various other superlatives
love that pig...so cuddly
Chris Morris Et Al. were allowed to be geniuses in those days. Nowadays, forget it.
Buy a paper Anthony! Errrrrrrrrr!!!
Even the voiceover (sounds a bit like Armando Iannucci) is odd in it's enunciation. Just adds to the brilliance.
“Always there” 😆
I've said "CaN i BorRoW A sTapleR, pLeAsE?" in the office. That is bang on.
Came here to rewatch because watching Episode 8 of The Vow reminded me of it. Horrifically close. Genius.
Ah, so this is where Ricky got his idea for The Office.
This is like a typical day in the NHS
I like meat, I like working with meat.
Way ahead of The Lobster of The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Mummy's gone, and you want to cry like a baby.
6 years before Ricky Gervais! Haha Ground breaking comedy 👍
Imagine if the meat that employee was cutting up at the end was actually the same pig that was playing around in the office.
and so "The Office" was born
powernoid except The Office wasn't funny.
Fuck off.
dfarmbrough I think there's been a rape up there!
Not really much similarity apart from the obvious name etc
theres definitely a lot of office in this skit - dawn is very like rebecca front in this....for example
"Open Mum to the carpet" 👌😂
He says 'help him onto the carpet'.
@@carpetfluff35 No. No he doesn't.
@@MarkMathewsMusic Yes he does. I'm not going to get into some stupid back and forth over this. Feel free to go download the scripts if you really really don't want to hear it right.
BUY A PAPER ANTHONY!
brilliant! thanks for uploading :D
welcome!
errrrrrrr
@@TheDEATHSTARIII Eerrr!!
"Are we human? Or are w dancers?"
I reckon they should do techniques to recovery/therapy like this in the working world, perhaps even social. I know it's all an act but the outcome looks outstanding and more civil.
The entire sketch was astonishing. Felt like it was an actual documentary.
You're exactly the kind of fucking bellend that would set one of these up aren't you
absolutely brilliant
I'VE GOT THE MIRRRRORR!!!
It's not a f8cking skit, it's a f8cking SKETCH
vignette
Let's kick some ass into life!
Gervais really knocked this off, even the font is the same
I mean it’s a standard typewriter font. I bet that if you asked 10 graphic designers who were born before 1970 to make a title screen for something called The Office 9 of them would use the same font.
@@Fumpage Yeah that's fair enough. But the font on black background is just one aspect; in its totality I think it's not coincidence - it's just my view but it seems likely that Gervais was, at the very least, inspired by this skit
This is genius
I have actually been on courses like this. Luckily they are illegal now.
I'd like to do one of these development courses with all my colleagues, it'd be a right gas
Is that Tony Hayers from the BBC with the moustache? :P
Bread Harrity yep!
@@TheUnperson 18 minutes. Wasn't expecting that! :D
"Mommy's gone"
The pig that's our anger?