I am from Poland and I consider these two guys an absolutely genius. When we understand and ACCEPT own limitations and characteristics we can laugh at them with a clear conscious of not offending anyone. Those who don't find it appropriate are not there just yet..
What about lampooning Nelson Mandela ? It's very funny (like all of it) but feels uneasy, maybe it's too recent, ppl are alive who knew him, actually he was alive then ? A lampoon of eg Ghandi's unusual appearance is different ?
Just the funniest thing, not often i actually laugh out loud on youtube , and every bloody time as well. Its so simple, yet so complicated , absurd yet clever, brilliant ,but on the edge
Weirdly thinking how good an actor he was when watching the Eeny Meeny Miney Mole sketch the other day. In a making of the Fast Show type program, Simon Day (who was 'just' an actor not a comedian then) mentioned that Paul said to him something like "Well I'm a comedian, I can be funny and act." Love to ask him if he ever wished he'd done anything serious(!), although Ted and Ralph was incredibly moving sometimes.
They type like quares. Most of them are on Reddit like quares. I should say if they type like quares and they're on Reddit like quares and they're complaining that it hasn't aged well like quares then they're most probably quares.
It came out around the same time as Little Britain which was way more popular than it (which is unfortunate, because Harry and Paul are both legends and this was way better in my opinion), but more importantly it came out very close to the time when western culture went insane about racism, sexism, etc. so it kind of got memory holed.
dunno how anyone could get offended over this, i consider myself pretty progressive, this is just satire, taking the piss out of stereotypes and the peoples perceptions of stereotypes.
I was there in 2007 when this aired, I don't recall there being any push back on TV, Radio or in the newspapers. Everyone was delighted Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were finally working together again. This is a hilarious show.
To be fair, Harry's pretty good at standing up for comedy: I've seen his arguing for blackface still even and he's very defensive of his old work, I believe.
I was absolutely gutted when Keith Lemmon's alter ego did just that, apologizing for his black characters. When BLM were destroying cities. Thank God Harry and Paul haven't.
We really have seen the death of comedy on mainstream TV. It's hard to believe this was BBC and it was only something like 11 years ago it was shown. It was a completely different world, and an infinitely better one.
These two comic geniuses must be brought back to our television screens immediately - they are simply hilarious. The TV needs PROPER comedy again. Much respect - and laughter! Keep making sketches Harry and Paul!
@Steve Terry Neither of them disappeared - they went on to do better things. Harry did loads of character comedy - Paul most recently did the fishing stuff with Bob M
It's even funnier this time around. It's almost impossible to believe that the BBC used to be able to make programs that were actually really funny. Now the corporation is just a virtue signalling national embarrassment.
I'm over 40 but still, I must confess that I haven't heard of these guys before !! - Hilarious ❗😁 But I would have loved the option of (english) subtitles, just to help me understand the spoken text better. -Anyhoo, thank you, & my best regards from Iceland 🇮🇸 😄
These two are simply the best. The sketches are absolute gold dust delivered in an incredibly accurate stereotypical manner. The cultured scaffolders are the work of comedy genius....like a bit of Derek and Clive swinging from intelligent articulation into base low brow crass shouting.
The funny thing is that their comedy is actually right on (archaic for woke) but, as comedy should, does not spare anybody. Everyone of us is laughable one way or another.
It`s alright for you lot, watching this, i had to endure them for six weeks on Tour with Harry, Paul, Kathy Burke, and the warm up act for them namely `The Craig Ferguson`, six weeks on Tour as their coach tour driver, was just a hoot from start to finish, anddddddddddddddddddd, every one of them a real Gentleman/Lady, away from the Madness lol What fun times, yes i was a lucky guy and fortunate to be their driver, as the Original driver Richard, on day one after picking them up from the Airport(prestwick) got them to Edinburgh, got out of the coach, picked out a few Suitcases from underneath on kerbside, walked in front of the Coach and out into the road and was duly hit by a Taxi, i got the call within 15 mins of it, and Travelled from Bristol on overnight Train to take over, the driver survived with a few broken bones and was Flown home to Bristol . . . . . . . Yes i was very lucky indeed to have taken it on, but, enjoyed every second of it!!!
Fantastic! (apart for the getting hit by a taxi of course...) Craig Ferguson is also an incredibly funny man, Cathy Burke is amazing too... wish I could have seen that show!
Showed this to my daughter who's 17 and her friends a few days ago. They couldn't stop laughing. All said it was refreshing and couldn't believe it was only a few years ago since proper comedy became 'cancelled', Jesus the Custard scenario just about sums up today even though it was years ago. HOW PROPHETIC.
I'm a black American and democratic socialist. Harry and Paul are fucking hilarious. Comedy is art and art is subjective, so if people don't like it they can change the fucking channel. The real world is fuck up enough as it is for me to worry about to guys trying to make us laugh.
As a straight, English, white, male, cis-gendered, heteronormative, nominally culturally Christian (but atheist) working class, plumber. Radical centrist (though tending libertarian) politically, I'd have to agree. Absolutely fookin' hilarious. By the way, I think George Carlin was a deeply philosophical, comedic genius. I believe that there was an incredibly racist man in the 1960's, who stated that people should be judged as individuals and "by the content of their character, not by the colour of their skin." (Deep sarcasm... whilst it's still legal) This PC identity politics boils my piss. Recommend Steve Hughes (Bull Brand channel) the lefty, liberal mentality and George Carlin's political correctness is oppression pretending to be manners. Keep laughing, pal! It's a pressure relief valve. Trust me, I'm a plumber.
@@loafersheffield As a straight, half-Scottish, half-Russian, white, male, electrician (higher IQ than plumbers), I concur with my learned friend. I can only recommend Billy Connolly. The greatest stand up comedian.
@@paddymuldoon6718 " the one making fun of the woman in the hijab is disgusting" I think brainwashing people into corrupt cults is much, much worse (and yes, I do include other cults, like catholicism, in that category, just because they're big and old doesn't stop them being immoral, illogical, damaging cults).
Half of it’s just blatant racism or sexism. It’s funny it your a white male but most other people don’t find it funny and it actually makes them uncomfortable
@@paddymuldoon6718 Just because you don't find it funny doesn't mean you are right. Maybe we should have to enter our gender and race when we switch on our TV then certain programmes will be available to us based on that criteria (Good grief).
@@vinnyvasquez Funny is subjective so I believe that you and many others would find this funny but this kind of comedy encourages and breeds a culture of racism and sexism that has only really started changing in the last few years. If you were a Muslim woman wearing a hijab I can’t imagine you being delighted about watching one being made a mockery of and talking about being groped. It would make you feel uncomfortable as hell. That’s not what tv comedy’s should be about. Why should people pay their license fee for white, straight privileged males to attack your race, sex or sexual orientation
@@paddymuldoon6718 If you had an ounce of intelligence instead of the moronic misery you seem content with and had actually watched the show on this video you'd see its actually those who are doing the perceived mocking who are being ridiculed and laughed at, and are the subject of the jokes. Your lack of awareness is hilarious.
I'm trying to find all the old chums, harry and paul material, without audience laughter. Everything without canned laughtrr/Live audience sounds is so much better.
Irony is the opposite of what's expressed. 'No pressure', 'Thanks a bunch'. The offensive characters are the joke but the joke is lost on hysterical condemners so those of us who get it are denied to save those who don't from their thumb-sucking distress.
Fucking hell mate - are you trying to say that woke-types don't get irony? I hope so - and if that's the case, they certainly won't have the brain-power to mentally digest your comment.
It seems incredible that most of this was allowed only 10-15 years ago. I remember the hilarious gentlemen's club sketches guessing about how 'fwightfully quare' well known people were, and also the 'Arab' celebrations - and thinking at the time - who allowed this? I'd never seen that Dragon's Den custard sketch. Blacked up 'I and I are Ken and Brian' is the funniest thing I've seen for ages.
Even more recent was Come fly with me with Lucas and Walliams. They dressed up as nearly every race on earth!! By the way, wtf am I actually watching here,...the Arab celebrations 😆😆
@@leonskum.5682 That show actually was offensive though, because the targets of the humour actually were gay people and non-white people. That is not what the sketches in H&P did.
Their simply cheeky silliness where nothing's sacred is mighty clever of them to get me laughing so hard that my face hurts, my belly's still tingling from being in stitches, plus it's muddling to figure out what I obviously must've been crying about..hee hee.
I would say amen to you Ray dickinson but I'm not sure... Should I be saying awomen or aperson. Also am I being religiousist by saying amen. Is religiousist a word?... It is now!
They don't like sketches with Filipino maids but they vote for Duterte. I could say the same about Russia, Saudi Arabia and any other country in this sketch.
Check out 'George Whitebread'. 'Eyup lad, you'll never play for Yorkshire'. English satire at its best. Also take a watch of 'Friday with Devvo'. British humour is unparalleled.
I used to work with the girl playing the Filipino maid at a tv facility in London. She was super lovely and found the whole debacle ridiculous. She’s Filipino but she understood the joke and that the point of it was the aristocratic guy’s attitude was so awful and entitled.
I know. Its crazy considering this was 2007 when it was made, but even back then they knew how increasingly disingenuous people in general were becoming & they called it that companies would jump on the bandwagon
Oh I so miss these guys! I love your selection of offensive Harry's bits - hysterical viewing as they are so wacky and off the wall. Cleverly written at the time. I'm surprised the Oliver and Hardy families didn't complain (or maybe they did.) A laugh riot for me this morning. I remember evenings of on the floor laughing watching them with my husband, tears running down our faces, viewing this unbelievable comedy. But no one was spared, which is why I love Harry Enfield.. Love the upper class builder yobs, the craziness of it all. LOOOOOL. Yes agreed, you won't see this stuff anywhere now, not pc, but I loved how the show had no sacred cows - the Queen shooting her automatic rifle in the air celebrating. Why not?
I must stop you momentarily there, there seems to be a young lady at street level eating a fast melting ice lolly...SAAACK IT YOU SLAAAAG!!!! Absolutely brilliant, I really miss shows like this!!
@@jeremymerrifield7244 yeah, ‘critical race theory’ that gives people a ‘racial consciousness’ is harmful to all of us. Especially our senses of humour.
I've just finished watching Harry Enfield's Television Programme and Harry Enfield & Chums. I loved it but was disappointed that it was so short. I never knew this show existed but I am so glad I know now XD
As a gay guy, I find that "gay son-dad" skecth pretty relatable. And funny. Why the hell people think this offensive? It's not about mocking gay people, but about people who don't understand.
My guess is people who are NOT a minority themselves want so badly to appear to be “an ally” that they seek things to claim offended about FOR minorities. It is getting to a point where people are scared to speak, that literally any word can be used to punish you. I think those fearing this the most are the very people who do it.
Exactly, the joke is on the dad not the son. But these woke sorts just like to look for any opportunity to be 'offended' on someone else's behalf. Very sad people indeed.
@@Cartoonman154 ..and it's usually the self appointed 'spokespersons' who make all the noise. The vast majority of the gay community that I know are hilarious, they make fun out of themselves and pretty much everything else. They've said it many times that the loudmouths neither speak for nor represent themselves. Which is something we should all remember when the minority of idiots spout their drivel..
The sketch with the Americans was actually not inaccurate. I remember waiting in T5 for a flight to Colorado and being a nosey sod, saw one of the other passengers going through photos on this camera. I saw about 10 of them which were just far-away, but zoomed in, shots of women wearing Burkhas. Absoloutley insane.
The problem is, it's the British poking fun at themselves. From our standpoint (Yes i'm British) this is "Us" completely destroying "Us". We understand the context and we know it's far from complimentary. But view it from the opposite side and it's easy to understand how it could appear gloating. Don't get me wrong, i laugh my arse off every time i watch this, but like i said i understand the context. And i firmly believe it was written for damned good reasons. I just can't assume it's the same for everyone.
i find the british media offencive ,look at old tv news where the BBC repeatedly called for mandelas execution & winnie as well,hypocrites,this wasnt the funniest mandela sketch- when he became a crack dealer was better- also he did a south african rugby player,always in a gym,he was brilliant - should be on other harry enfield eps
I love Harry and Paul but object to all the 'wouldn't be made today' and 'PC nonsense'. In the Sixties, Irish and Jewish jokes abounded. These were offensive to many of us. For me H&P actually send up a lot of the stereotypes of their own time. Everything needs to be seen in context. And if you don't see that, you are probably quare.
As a resident of Badiddilyboing, Odawaidaho, USA, I would like to thank Harry & Paul for the shoutout. Not many people know about us!
Funny thing is, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is an actual place.
@Steve Terry 😎😂
Ha Ha
No shit? :o!
What a guy
British comedy really has sunk so low when you have to come to UA-cam to watch amazing shows like this.
What comedy? Can't think of any nowadays.
yeah times do really suck nowadays
In the 70's there was a comedy on every night. I think the government made the tv channels make these comedies to cheer the nation up every night.
Paul Oneill just John Pie. The rest is shite, BBC’s idea of funny these days can be found on BBC, literally none of it if funny.
Its likely this will also soon be removed by UA-cam. Someone will get wind of it and rush to write an angry article about it.
I’m a “northerner”, but find the northern sketch hilarious, it’s a pity others who are being poked fun at don’t see the funny side.
Likewise, but aye, that's an absolute fookin classic.
I am from Poland and I consider these two guys an absolutely genius.
When we understand and ACCEPT own limitations and characteristics we can laugh at them with a clear conscious of not offending anyone.
Those who don't find it appropriate are not there just yet..
Bika Beja Exactly.
Thank you from a brit that loves comedy
Dose cappuccino!
Yes my thoughts exactly
What about lampooning Nelson Mandela ? It's very funny (like all of it) but feels uneasy, maybe it's too recent, ppl are alive who knew him, actually he was alive then ?
A lampoon of eg Ghandi's unusual appearance is different ?
As an Arab, I confirm that this is indeed how celebrate important occasions.
No, seriously, we really do.
don't worry we all know we've seen the videos
Not really...... Thats like saying all English speakers do Morris Dancing.
@Joe Ç .... and Welsh people, and their sheep "dance"... I mean errr "not guilty m'lud"!
Just the funniest thing, not often i actually laugh out loud on youtube , and every bloody time as well.
Its so simple, yet so complicated , absurd yet clever, brilliant ,but on the edge
I’ve experienced it in parts of Greece...
Johnny Depp called Paul Whitehouse the greatest actor who's ever lived.
Weirdly thinking how good an actor he was when watching the Eeny Meeny Miney Mole sketch the other day.
In a making of the Fast Show type program, Simon Day (who was 'just' an actor not a comedian then) mentioned that Paul said to him something like "Well I'm a comedian, I can be funny and act."
Love to ask him if he ever wished he'd done anything serious(!), although Ted and Ralph was incredibly moving sometimes.
Depp is a Peeb
Amazing this was the BBC just seven years ago.
@@mysticx0 thanks matey! :)
Looking at the bbc today I think we have lost out
i miss old skool comedy sign of getting old :(
Oh hello you.
Is it? Inside number 9 is still airing and they're making the exact same kind of jokes today? Think a lot of people here are blinded by nostalgia.
The people complaining that it hasnt aged well are most probably quares.
They type like quares. Most of them are on Reddit like quares. I should say if they type like quares and they're on Reddit like quares and they're complaining that it hasn't aged well like quares then they're most probably quares.
😂😂😂
This Quare is not complaining but highly amused as are all Gen X squares.
Suits you Sir.
I'm a quare and I enjoy this
As a fan of brit humor, I'm shocked that I'd never seen any of this. This is comedy gold!!!!
I've never seen a lot of this stuff -- Don't know what I was doing at the time -- and I live here in the UK !
It came out around the same time as Little Britain which was way more popular than it (which is unfortunate, because Harry and Paul are both legends and this was way better in my opinion), but more importantly it came out very close to the time when western culture went insane about racism, sexism, etc. so it kind of got memory holed.
*Isn't she probably pretty??*
What a guy!
Whadda guy
Oh say can you seeeee the cello tape
That character is taken from Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond I reckon.
@@mrsubject1 Sellotape. Cello is a musical instrument, you humourless prick.
dunno how anyone could get offended over this, i consider myself pretty progressive, this is just satire, taking the piss out of stereotypes and the peoples perceptions of stereotypes.
I think it's too meta for most people.
builders are the funniest characters
When you say "progressive" what are you progressing towards?
entitlement
This could never get made now ........
I was there in 2007 when this aired, I don't recall there being any push back on TV, Radio or in the newspapers. Everyone was delighted Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were finally working together again. This is a hilarious show.
There wasn't any pushback or controversy over this show at all.
And there wouldn’t be today. If you don’t understand it’s satire poking fun at sexist fascist small minded bigots then you must be a frightful quare.
Thank you for this - amazed it hasn't been taken down and replaced with Harry sobbing and issuing a heartfelt ' apology'.
To be fair, Harry's pretty good at standing up for comedy: I've seen his arguing for blackface still even and he's very defensive of his old work, I believe.
@@billyfox6368 He said ' it was so wrong, it was right'
I was absolutely gutted when Keith Lemmon's alter ego did just that, apologizing for his black characters. When BLM were destroying cities. Thank God Harry and Paul haven't.
Every time they spontaneously bust the guns out & the Arabian music kicks in, I can't help but laugh. It doesn't get old.
It does
ok
We really have seen the death of comedy on mainstream TV. It's hard to believe this was BBC and it was only something like 11 years ago it was shown. It was a completely different world, and an infinitely better one.
Tories ran the BBC 11 years ago ....
Tories were running the BBC 11 years ago ....
These two comic geniuses must be brought back to our television screens immediately - they are simply hilarious. The TV needs PROPER comedy again. Much respect - and laughter! Keep making sketches Harry and Paul!
@Steve Terry Neither of them disappeared - they went on to do better things. Harry did loads of character comedy - Paul most recently did the fishing stuff with Bob M
@@dennisgreene7164 Yet sadly most young people have no idea who they are.
It's even funnier this time around. It's almost impossible to believe that the BBC used to be able to make programs that were actually really funny. Now the corporation is just a virtue signalling national embarrassment.
I'm over 40 but still, I must confess that I haven't heard of these guys before !!
- Hilarious ❗😁
But I would have loved the option of (english) subtitles, just to help me understand the spoken text better.
-Anyhoo, thank you, &
my best regards from Iceland 🇮🇸
😄
Mandela doing the "Blurs" got me crying in laughter
WAAAAAAAYYYYY HOOOEEEEEEE
Funny as took
Wouldn’t get made today.
Lost my lungs laughing somewhere between "Whoo Hooo" and "iiiiiin de country".
Brian Badonde
She's not scared of me. I'm decomposing.
These two are simply the best. The sketches are absolute gold dust delivered in an incredibly accurate stereotypical manner. The cultured scaffolders are the work of comedy genius....like a bit of Derek and Clive swinging from intelligent articulation into base low brow crass shouting.
Bloody Greta Garbo.
I love Derek and Clive- absolute filth but genius! Derek and Clive Live had me OTFL! Great album.
The funny thing is that their comedy is actually right on (archaic for woke) but, as comedy should, does not spare anybody. Everyone of us is laughable one way or another.
2 of the greatest comedians in history. Harry and Paul are British legends. We love them unconditionally and they will forever be known as icons.
What! The nuts that fall from oak trees,?
I love the way Americans do indeed give a running commentary when they are walking about. The thought vocalisation is so on point.
That french car advert was scary accurate, warm memories of us caravaning and watching the bonkers ads on french tv in the 90s
😂 outstanding, British comedy genius 👏
love the youtube algorithm suggesting this to us years later
It`s alright for you lot, watching this, i had to endure them for six weeks on Tour with Harry, Paul, Kathy Burke, and the warm up act for them namely `The Craig Ferguson`, six weeks on Tour as their coach tour driver, was just a hoot from start to finish, anddddddddddddddddddd, every one of them a real Gentleman/Lady, away from the Madness lol What fun times, yes i was a lucky guy and fortunate to be their driver, as the Original driver Richard, on day one after picking them up from the Airport(prestwick) got them to Edinburgh, got out of the coach, picked out a few Suitcases from underneath on kerbside, walked in front of the Coach and out into the road and was duly hit by a Taxi, i got the call within 15 mins of it, and Travelled from Bristol on overnight Train to take over, the driver survived with a few broken bones and was Flown home to Bristol . . . . . . . Yes i was very lucky indeed to have taken it on, but, enjoyed every second of it!!!
You lucky, lucky bastard
Fantastic! (apart for the getting hit by a taxi of course...) Craig Ferguson is also an incredibly funny man, Cathy Burke is amazing too... wish I could have seen that show!
I’m in the USA and I love your British comedy! ❤️👍🏻
Love you back!
Showed this to my daughter who's 17 and her friends a few days ago. They couldn't stop laughing. All said it was refreshing and couldn't believe it was only a few years ago since proper comedy became 'cancelled', Jesus the Custard scenario just about sums up today even though it was years ago. HOW PROPHETIC.
I love Paul Whitehouse. Bring back Harry n Paul!!!
“Oh say, can YOU SEE... the sellotape 😂
Yeah-that was marvellous!
Harry's inappropriate dad is still brilliant.
Right in the middle of the facking road
I'm a black American and democratic socialist.
Harry and Paul are fucking hilarious.
Comedy is art and art is subjective, so if people don't like it they can change the fucking channel. The real world is fuck up enough as it is for me to worry about to guys trying to make us laugh.
As a straight, English, white, male, cis-gendered, heteronormative, nominally culturally Christian (but atheist) working class, plumber. Radical centrist (though tending libertarian) politically, I'd have to agree. Absolutely fookin' hilarious. By the way, I think George Carlin was a deeply philosophical, comedic genius. I believe that there was an incredibly racist man in the 1960's, who stated that people should be judged as individuals and "by the content of their character, not by the colour of their skin." (Deep sarcasm... whilst it's still legal) This PC identity politics boils my piss. Recommend Steve Hughes (Bull Brand channel) the lefty, liberal mentality and George Carlin's political correctness is oppression pretending to be manners. Keep laughing, pal! It's a pressure relief valve. Trust me, I'm a plumber.
@@loafersheffield As a straight, half-Scottish, half-Russian, white, male, electrician (higher IQ than plumbers), I concur with my learned friend. I can only recommend Billy Connolly. The greatest stand up comedian.
@@loafersheffield what the eff is cis -gendered
@@loafersheffield i think « Libertarian », is the latest trendy, identititarian pose
Does anyone else remember the good old days when you were allowed to have some harmless fun?
This is pure comedy gold...
Yep and promote a culture of hatred towards Arabs. I remember
@@paddymuldoon6718 are you serious
@@michaelharrison3602 yes the one making fun of the woman in the hijab is disgusting
@@paddymuldoon6718 " the one making fun of the woman in the hijab is disgusting"
I think brainwashing people into corrupt cults is much, much worse (and yes, I do include other cults, like catholicism, in that category, just because they're big and old doesn't stop them being immoral, illogical, damaging cults).
@@paddymuldoon6718 It’s actually the Americans being ridiculed in the Sketch, where was this so called promotion of hatred? Exactly, there was none.
Imagine the stick this would get now. I fear we'll never see such wonderful comedy ever again.
@@sithlord6119 The fact there is nothing on TV like it proves the point.
Half of it’s just blatant racism or sexism. It’s funny it your a white male but most other people don’t find it funny and it actually makes them uncomfortable
@@paddymuldoon6718 Just because you don't find it funny doesn't mean you are right. Maybe we should have to enter our gender and race when we switch on our TV then certain programmes will be available to us based on that criteria (Good grief).
@@vinnyvasquez Funny is subjective so I believe that you and many others would find this funny but this kind of comedy encourages and breeds a culture of racism and sexism that has only really started changing in the last few years. If you were a Muslim woman wearing a hijab I can’t imagine you being delighted about watching one being made a mockery of and talking about being groped. It would make you feel uncomfortable as hell. That’s not what tv comedy’s should be about. Why should people pay their license fee for white, straight privileged males to attack your race, sex or sexual orientation
@@paddymuldoon6718 If you had an ounce of intelligence instead of the moronic misery you seem content with and had actually watched the show on this video you'd see its actually those who are doing the perceived mocking who are being ridiculed and laughed at, and are the subject of the jokes. Your lack of awareness is hilarious.
Harry and Paul have always been my heroes. Even since watching '...and Chums' in the 90s as a kid. x
Right on, bud! :)
Crap? Like the young ones?
Harry started with voice overs for spitting image, pobably the best show on tv at the time :)@Natmanprime
granted, as a topical show you would have to remember the atrocities committed by the 80s Tory gov. just to crack a smile now
I'm trying to find all the old chums, harry and paul material, without audience laughter. Everything without canned laughtrr/Live audience sounds is so much better.
"Do you like smack? Do you like crack? Then you'll love Nelson Mandela's smack and crack party pack."
Irony is the opposite of what's expressed. 'No pressure', 'Thanks a bunch'. The offensive characters are the joke but the joke is lost on hysterical condemners so those of us who get it are denied to save those who don't from their thumb-sucking distress.
Fucking hell mate - are you trying to say that woke-types don't get irony? I hope so - and if that's the case, they certainly won't have the brain-power to mentally digest your comment.
I’m glad you said it; otherwise I was going to. If people can’t work out the over the top characters they don’t deserve to.
It seems incredible that most of this was allowed only 10-15 years ago. I remember the hilarious gentlemen's club sketches guessing about how 'fwightfully quare' well known people were, and also the 'Arab' celebrations - and thinking at the time - who allowed this? I'd never seen that Dragon's Den custard sketch. Blacked up 'I and I are Ken and Brian' is the funniest thing I've seen for ages.
Even more recent was Come fly with me with Lucas and Walliams. They dressed up as nearly every race on earth!! By the way, wtf am I actually watching here,...the Arab celebrations 😆😆
@@leonskum.5682 That show actually was offensive though, because the targets of the humour actually were gay people and non-white people. That is not what the sketches in H&P did.
“I love you because I’m not racist.” Exactly.
Good old hearty unsensored comedy
I haven't laughed this much in a while thank you good sir
My pleasure - I'm glad it cheered you up ;-)
Their simply cheeky silliness where nothing's sacred is mighty clever of them to get me laughing so hard that my face hurts, my belly's still tingling from being in stitches, plus it's muddling to figure out what I obviously must've been crying about..hee hee.
I have not laughed so much, since Auntie Mabel caught here left tit in the mangle . . . .
@Trance_World_Artists 2014 I'd say your some buzz at parties!
This has aged like fine wine
This was peak British comedy.
Being from america those americans are spot on hahaha 😂
You speak for all 320 million.
_'Oh Say Can You Seeeee..._
*The Sellotape.'*
Please tell me you are from Badiddlyboing Idaho! 😁
@@pseudonayme7717 no haha im from a small town in new Mexico
@@NxDoyle I remember when it was 248m!
Now it's stuck in my head.... Right in the middle, right in the middle... RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKIN ROAD.
Absolutely Brilliant.
The 'Gaystappo' are the funnist in this 18mins in brilliant
Agreed
And the jamaican dragon den is fkn good too
Definitely a very humorous way of depicting a set of histories.
Speaking as a human being I can confirm that the jokes about human beings don’t offend me.
Don't let that worry you, I'm "woke" so you can rely upon me to be offended on your behalf.
@@fibber2u tosser
My wife is a northerner, now a US citizen but she always gets a kick out of watching the Clive the Geordie sketches!
Nelson Mandela sings the "Blurs" is the funniest thing I've seen in a long while.
Brilliant!!..:).... When the world became so bloody sensitive to.. everything!!... It killed comic talents like these.
I would say amen to you Ray dickinson but I'm not sure... Should I be saying awomen or aperson. Also am I being religiousist by saying amen. Is religiousist a word?... It is now!
Does that mean we can make fun of you?... 😆
So refreshing and funny - cheers from a 60 yo bloke from Sweden.
Phwoar, Sophie Winkleman...
Lady Frederick Windsor
lovely int she
big suze
I had forgotten the majesty that was "oh say can you see... the sellotape"
Absolutely hilarious. No danger of seeing these on tv any time soon.
That Arab like Middle East celebration still cracks me up after all these years
I think of it whenever I see someone just grinning to themselves.
no wonder we never saw this in Australia. in stitches
We did see it in Australia, it was broadcast on ABC.
Ales Zak But you have Ronnie John's Half Hour
Conway79 Neville fucken Tomatoss.
The French TV parody is horrifically accurate
As a French, I can confirm that the ads are this crap.
still better than ad no-one cares about and forgets immediately after they watched it
@@snooks5607 XD I guess you can say that!
@Anthony Johnson Baguette.
They don't like sketches with Filipino maids but they vote for Duterte. I could say the same about Russia, Saudi Arabia and any other country in this sketch.
Check out 'George Whitebread'.
'Eyup lad, you'll never play for Yorkshire'.
English satire at its best.
Also take a watch of 'Friday with Devvo'.
British humour is unparalleled.
I used to work with the girl playing the Filipino maid at a tv facility in London. She was super lovely and found the whole debacle ridiculous. She’s Filipino but she understood the joke and that the point of it was the aristocratic guy’s attitude was so awful and entitled.
Well do you have her phone number or anything useful?
@@Benedict401 eeeerm what?
“Is Angels Merkel a queer - he’s wearing a dress” 😂😂😂
a frightful german qware married to a man
22:33 They were VERY ahead of the curve… considering that’s basically what major organisations do now.
I know. Its crazy considering this was 2007 when it was made, but even back then they knew how increasingly disingenuous people in general were becoming & they called it that companies would jump on the bandwagon
Woke is nothing new, been around (and rightly mocked) for years. Corporates are the worst offenders for insincere virtue signalling nonsense.
Back when TV was worth watching.
Nelson Mandella Blur cover was hilarious 😂
They never angered the public what a load of tosh!!!! You either liked it or you didn't, but it wasn't offensive, just amusing.
The Arab celebration got me everytime
Good to see these sketches again. I forgot how funny this show was lol!
Oh I so miss these guys! I love your selection of offensive Harry's bits - hysterical viewing as they are so wacky and off the wall. Cleverly written at the time. I'm surprised the Oliver and Hardy families didn't complain (or maybe they did.) A laugh riot for me this morning. I remember evenings of on the floor laughing watching them with my husband, tears running down our faces, viewing this unbelievable comedy. But no one was spared, which is why I love Harry Enfield.. Love the upper class builder yobs, the craziness of it all. LOOOOOL. Yes agreed, you won't see this stuff anywhere now, not pc, but I loved how the show had no sacred cows - the Queen shooting her automatic rifle in the air celebrating. Why not?
Good times. Used to enjoy watching this sketch show. Really was one of if not the last comedy sketch program. Fond memories.
Sophie Winkleman. What a gorgeous woman.
Lady Frederick Windsor
My favourite Harry and Paul 'Clarkson island' sketch is hilarious.
It's a version of Monty Python's Alan Whicker Island, isn't it?
Selinor578 it certainly is. You sir, know your stuff. Whicker island was my favourite python sketch, so was nice to see it lovingly re-imagined
It's proper comedy, no PC rubbish.
I must stop you momentarily there, there seems to be a young lady at street level eating a fast melting ice lolly...SAAACK IT YOU SLAAAAG!!!!
Absolutely brilliant, I really miss shows like this!!
Me too.... 🍪pocket.
Thanks for the memories. It could never be made in 2022 but perhaps 2026 when people are less offended about the fucking weather
You're not allowed to make fun of builders anymore. Or American tourists. Or rich powerful men. Or people with guns. Or big ears. Or Nazis.
Time to bring back that timeless retort to all feigned offense: So what?
Says who? Stupid society
@@GLarrr-dd5wf Sadly they’d get cancelled now
Snowflake society means we can only laugh at certain things. I grew up with real and raw comedy. Will never forget it.
Comedy is dead on television these days all we have is Ant n Dec now.
When we were free from politically correct shit.
Wish we were free of racist shit
@@jeremymerrifield7244
You're not gay ...but your boyfriend is.
At least you didn’t use the w word, you big old fart
@@jeremymerrifield7244 sorry you see racism in everything.... it's a sad way to live... I laugh, you get offended.
@@jeremymerrifield7244 yeah, ‘critical race theory’ that gives people a ‘racial consciousness’ is harmful to all of us. Especially our senses of humour.
I've just finished watching Harry Enfield's Television Programme and Harry Enfield & Chums. I loved it but was disappointed that it was so short. I never knew this show existed but I am so glad I know now XD
these are fucking gold. more people need to see these.
As a Scotsman i found the Dragons Den sketch very offensive!!!!.................hahaha.......BRILLIANT!
'what ar' yu' men ba' that, eh?' :D It is funny and this tripe that passes for Television programming needs to be ridiculed all the way and beyond.
Ahm oot.
Nelson sings the Blurs. Fantastic
TEARS 😂😂
When we used to get decent comedy instead of the crap stand up “comedians” we get nowadays
Yeah, like Russel Howard
@@averagegilo He's absolutely shit.
Obviously haven't looked very hard for comedy today then. There's tonnes of great stuff, you're really missing out.
@@watmun I agree, there is a lot out there still
Even Frankie Boyle has toned it down nowadays...
As a gay guy, I find that "gay son-dad" skecth pretty relatable. And funny. Why the hell people think this offensive? It's not about mocking gay people, but about people who don't understand.
My guess is people who are NOT a minority themselves want so badly to appear to be “an ally” that they seek things to claim offended about FOR minorities. It is getting to a point where people are scared to speak, that literally any word can be used to punish you. I think those fearing this the most are the very people who do it.
Exactly. They are not mocking the marginalised, they're poking fun at ignorance.
Exactly, the joke is on the dad not the son. But these woke sorts just like to look for any opportunity to be 'offended' on someone else's behalf. Very sad people indeed.
The irony is that some LGBT can't take a joke these days.
@@Cartoonman154 ..and it's usually the self appointed 'spokespersons' who make all the noise.
The vast majority of the gay community that I know are hilarious, they make fun out of themselves and pretty much everything else.
They've said it many times that the loudmouths neither speak for nor represent themselves.
Which is something we should all remember when the minority of idiots spout their drivel..
Fantastic compilation cheers from Sydney, Blue Mountains
posh men saying que'er is the type of joke that will never be made again and i weep for that
Funniest thing I've watched for years , British comedy at its finest .
What a find. Headphones on and giggling. Wife thinks I’ve lost the plot!
The sketch with the Americans was actually not inaccurate. I remember waiting in T5 for a flight to Colorado and being a nosey sod, saw one of the other passengers going through photos on this camera. I saw about 10 of them which were just far-away, but zoomed in, shots of women wearing Burkhas. Absoloutley insane.
“Probably a German queer” 😂😂😂
The Mandela Blur sketch is just priceless😂😂
The problem is, it's the British poking fun at themselves. From our standpoint (Yes i'm British) this is "Us" completely destroying "Us". We understand the context and we know it's far from complimentary.
But view it from the opposite side and it's easy to understand how it could appear gloating.
Don't get me wrong, i laugh my arse off every time i watch this, but like i said i understand the context. And i firmly believe it was written for damned good reasons.
I just can't assume it's the same for everyone.
Aye yeh I think bull brand got the wrong end of the stick ahahaaa
Another fucking analyst just what we all need .
@@damienoleary8171 Another fucking brainless response. Ditto
@@damienoleary8171 Another fucking analyst who is right...what's your point?
@@AEGIPAN101 And who the fuck are you exactly?
That Americans with Muslimah sketch was perfect.
Love it much better than todays rubbish .
That American impression is absolutely fantastic.
I want to see them at a Trump rally.. They are definitely magats today.
As a South African I found the Nelson sing the Blurs sketch very offensive!!!! He he he!
Good. I like it when people get offended.
i find the british media offencive ,look at old tv news where the BBC repeatedly called for mandelas execution & winnie as well,hypocrites,this wasnt the funniest mandela sketch- when he became a crack dealer was better- also he did a south african rugby player,always in a gym,he was brilliant - should be on other harry enfield eps
not to forget his "thieving jacket"@@mcfcguvnors
I love Harry and Paul but object to all the 'wouldn't be made today' and 'PC nonsense'. In the Sixties, Irish and Jewish jokes abounded. These were offensive to many of us. For me H&P actually send up a lot of the stereotypes of their own time. Everything needs to be seen in context. And if you don't see that, you are probably quare.
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