Fun fact: after 50-year-old Alex Mitchell, of King’s Lynn, died from laughing at almost the entirety of this episode, his widow wrote to the Goodies thanking them for making her husband’s final moments so pleasant.
This show is so boring, weird and stupid as f_ck the guy that died of laughter that watched this show must of been high out of his freaking mind because this sh_t isn’t even slightly funny
+lorenzo vestrini never seen these before till I watched top trending about the guy that laughed himself to death and I am only across the pond in 🍀🍀DUBLIN IRELAND🍀🍀🍀
How this comment section works: 1) Someone who's never even heard of the Goodies reads that a man died while watching the Kung Fu Capers episode. 2) They do a random UA-cam search and pull up this video. 3) They watch the clip, have no idea what the context of the scene is, don't die, and leave snarky comments about how bad it is.
helpfully the context then (as i remember it) - during the 1970's kung fu craze one of the goodies (bill oddie from yorkshire) says that he knows of a better traditional martial art handed down in that county - called `ecky thump' - here oddie (an exponent of it) goes up against all comers to prove his point - so how did i do?
@@richardenglish2195 - i did say it has been a while since i saw it - i don't think that point affects the humour though since neither ecky thump or the county is named in the video..
They say this is the single episode that made the man laugh hysterically for 25 minutes straight, causing his death!? Makes you wonder if dude had DEI hires at work.
Imagine back in the 70's though, having no internet, no DVD/video player and maybe even no music to listen to for years.. and this comes on the TV, i'd definitely be on the floor laughing.
Bro it was the 70s. Even tho those digital mediums didnt exist, analog film and ways to listen to music through analog mediums were widespread. These were the 70s, not the 1890s
This is random funny, like the humor we're so used to now. Maybe not so much back then. The comedic timing of everything after the boomerang was thrown was near perfect; at the end is where I was laughing the most. I can see how someone could die laughing there - maybe someone with a weak heart or something.
I remember seeing The Goodies themselves say at one of the conventions after rewatching it that they wouldn't have personally chose it as their favourite. Graeme's reaction to the Muhammed Ali bit was still great though "If I ever find out who that was" xD
It was the part with the Scotsman that caused Alex Mitchell to laugh himself to death. There were many cases of which people died laughing. The king of Burma died laughing after a Italian merchant told him that Venice has no king. The incident was in 1599.
Actually makes you wonder what the actors in this scene were thinking or going through when they realized their humorous scene actually caused a man to die XD
To be fair, Bill let them throw their best shots at him and they still did no damage to him. Just shows, it ain't just the sausage that makes the man. Ha ha
@@Railwayman01 you've got a guy doing blackface though, what's seen as acceptable is going to change especially across 55 years. Just see the goodies episode about south africa
Pretty amusing, but I came nowhere near to death. In fact the closest I ever came was when my brother whispered me something stupid while I was sitting on the couch one day, I felt myself starting to black out from lack of air.
@littlemore Before making some cocky, sad comment attempting to correct someone do your research first. The title of the episode is called "Kung Fu Kapers" and that is why this is billed as the fight scene from that episode.
Did this scene really kill someone? I'm from LATAM and our humor is very different, although I must admit that the Scotsman's movements are really funny. Well, at least the guy died happy. R.I.P.
@anakso At the time The Goodies was hilarious. We've just been acclimatised by 35 years of comedy progression. Similar to music. I must admit though I nearly did die laughing when I first saw the walk in the park scene from the "Kitten Kong" episode of The Goodies and that was only a couple of years ago... I missed that one when I was a kid.
As much as, say, science is cumulative ie. building on what's been discovered before, I claim (having seen this video for the first time in 2023) that comedy is somewhat cumulative as well. Not that comedy and humor is a thing that has somehow been perfected since the late 20th century but TV, movies and subsequently the internet with its pranks, Vine and TikToks have made it so that we've been subjected to and bombarded by such a wide array of visual comedy that any "entry level" comedy, as depicted in this video, is largely not funny to us any more.
oh yeah, it was a black pudding i think. I was expecting to see an actual black pudding fighting the man, but i think the man is using a black pudding, not fighting it...sadly.
I just watched a clip of Alex Mitchell dying from laughing on the show called Curious And Unusual Deaths, a show that’s like a bit similar to 1000 Ways To Die
I'm just glad to see someone on here who cops to the fact that this is barely even amusing... Now. And I'm not talking about the black face. This show came AFGTER Python. From guys that worked with some of Python. They were taking the easy, lazy path to laughs, even for the time.
Really? Bill Oddie was born in Rochdale, Lancashire. In the episode of Ecky Thump he talks in a Lancashire dialect, not a Yorkshire one (there is a significant difference). A chip shop is featured, supposed;y based in Rochdale, and he hits his victims with large black puddings, not Yorkshire ones, the home of which is Bury, Lancashire. I think your attempt at humour might have been better had you realised Bill was taking the piss out of his own home county, which as a fellow Lancastrian who's never put ferrets down t'trousers, wore flat cap or clogs, I'm entitled to say. I do confess occasionally to eating chip butties and black puds myself, though...
On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers". After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure. Bring some respect,even if this video look stupid.
At the time, I was seven, there was nothing else around we had three tv channels and a newspaper, and listen up, it was either this or tomorrow’s world or panorama aid QED
Maybe that man mitchell was high... anyways, it reminds me monty python scketh that one with the deathly joke, if you read it you die by laughing. Love the hat!.
6 pm ABC. A time when we laughed at ourselves and everyone else. Laughter heals. It felt like things were getting better in the nineties, then 2005 something happened and everyone is becoming offended for everything?😢😢😢. WTF happened to the country I grew up in?
Fun fact: after 50-year-old Alex Mitchell, of King’s Lynn, died from laughing at almost the entirety of this episode, his widow wrote to the Goodies thanking them for making her husband’s final moments so pleasant.
Do you actually think that there's a single person here who doesn't know the story?
Pleasant..? Laughing to death sounds painful.
the fact that somebody died from laughing at this is almost funnier than the clip itself.
Guess it’s possible to die from laughter
so edgy
No entiendo como puede sacar un miligramo de sonrrisa este humor para downs
This show is so boring, weird and stupid as f_ck the guy that died of laughter that watched this show must of been high out of his freaking mind because this sh_t isn’t even slightly funny
Your comment had me laughing for 36 minutes. I'm serious. Not dead though.
You came here to laugh to death, didn't you?
Yep
+lorenzo vestrini never seen these before till I watched top trending about the guy that laughed himself to death and I am only across the pond in 🍀🍀DUBLIN IRELAND🍀🍀🍀
yes I did sir or ma'am.
No! I expect to come here and talk!
You alive?
The Goodies were the highlight of my week as a kid in the 70s . Bloody hilarious.
Absolutely non PC and all the better for it .
How this comment section works:
1) Someone who's never even heard of the Goodies reads that a man died while watching the Kung Fu Capers episode.
2) They do a random UA-cam search and pull up this video.
3) They watch the clip, have no idea what the context of the scene is, don't die, and leave snarky comments about how bad it is.
helpfully the context then (as i remember it) - during the 1970's kung fu craze one of the goodies (bill oddie from yorkshire) says that he knows of a better traditional martial art handed down in that county - called `ecky thump' - here oddie (an exponent of it) goes up against all comers to prove his point - so how did i do?
@@mrgobrien Close, but it's from Lancashire. 5/10
@@richardenglish2195 - i did say it has been a while since i saw it - i don't think that point affects the humour though since neither ecky thump or the county is named in the video..
@@mrgobrien I'm only joking, you know.
@@richardenglish2195 ok
i came here to take my own life, but I failed
Ok, so?
They say this is the single episode that made the man laugh hysterically for 25 minutes straight, causing his death!? Makes you wonder if dude had DEI hires at work.
That joke was so funny, I just died laughing.
Imagine back in the 70's though, having no internet, no DVD/video player and maybe even no music to listen to for years.. and this comes on the TV, i'd definitely be on the floor laughing.
We had music, record players, tape cassettes & radio... We managed fine....
Bro it was the 70s. Even tho those digital mediums didnt exist, analog film and ways to listen to music through analog mediums were widespread.
These were the 70s, not the 1890s
They didn't even have music. Then this come on. You're right. Imagine the riot.
if you remember the 70s, you weren't there, man
Came here after hearing that a viewer literally died of laughter watching this! Hopefully I don't suffer the same fate, wish me luck! 😂
This is random funny, like the humor we're so used to now. Maybe not so much back then. The comedic timing of everything after the boomerang was thrown was near perfect; at the end is where I was laughing the most. I can see how someone could die laughing there - maybe someone with a weak heart or something.
Thank's for the explanation.
I think he did have a hereditary heart condition because his granddaughter also had a heart attack
@@peternagy-im4beOuch
They usually leave out the Muhammed Ali parody in re-runs. It was that bit that caused a man to die laughing.
I remember seeing The Goodies themselves say at one of the conventions after rewatching it that they wouldn't have personally chose it as their favourite.
Graeme's reaction to the Muhammed Ali bit was still great though
"If I ever find out who that was" xD
IT WAS THE BLACKFACE THAT KILLED HIM?! NOOOOOOO LMAO
Oh cmon, it was the 70s. It's funnier than most sitcoms today.
I DO accept that it would play funnier in the past, but this is AFTER Python. 🤷♂️
It was the part with the Scotsman that caused Alex Mitchell to laugh himself to death. There were many cases of which people died laughing. The king of Burma died laughing after a Italian merchant told him that Venice has no king. The incident was in 1599.
Sounds like they laughed to death pretty easily back in the 16th century.
I find this funnier than most of todays bullshit comedies.
Exactly right
U alive alex?
Actually makes you wonder what the actors in this scene were thinking or going through when they realized their humorous scene actually caused a man to die XD
The comedy is to die for
Literally
This was one of the first clips I saw here on YT. Fifteen years on and this video is standing tall and proud.
[The fellow had a heart attack watching the kilted Scotsman scene.]
...Ha ha, that WAS funny!
Maybe that was Cousin Hamish, who supposedly has a black sporran in the Scottish martial art of Hoots Toots Och Aye the Noo.
Funny how exactly?
@@peternagy-im4befunny like a clown
@@peternagy-im4beyeah I’m struggling to laugh at this
1.59 "Ouch!" In an Australian accent. For some reason that really tickled me 🤣
The "strewth" with the disappointed click is also just too good
It recalls me Monty Python's "Funniest Joke ever told" sketch
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! 😂😂😂
To be fair, Bill let them throw their best shots at him and they still did no damage to him. Just shows, it ain't just the sausage that makes the man. Ha ha
But isn’t he supposed to be useless without his pudding?
It was a black pudding - the martial art of ecky thump
@@dariowesternAren't we all?
This is hilarious, I've been laughing for about 20 minutes now!
I heard if you laugh at this clip for 20 minutes and 1 second, you die.
... Are you still with us?
@PowerofRock24 nah I died, honestly surprised how good the wifi is in the afterlife
I'm going to hell for laughing at this 0:52.
I don't care who you are, I think Ecky Thump is Hilarious and always will be. EEEE BY GUM
The guy started laughing uncontrollably at 2:16... then he laughed for 20 minutes.... poor lad
I've survived.
They certainly wouldn't get away with stuff like this these days, how times have changed...
Unfortunately, for the worst....
@@Railwayman01 you've got a guy doing blackface though, what's seen as acceptable is going to change especially across 55 years. Just see the goodies episode about south africa
This is more like proto comedy than actual comedy; comedy before purification and straining.
Exacto. Parece una improvisacio hecha por niños de 10 años
Child
Plonker alert.🙄
Lol dude this is a scene from The Goodies. I uploaded it WAAAYYY back.
Pretty amusing, but I came nowhere near to death. In fact the closest I ever came was when my brother whispered me something stupid while I was sitting on the couch one day, I felt myself starting to black out from lack of air.
What did he whisper? "Tight enough yet, asshole"?
how can someone die because of this? holy fuck...
This comment and the fact that someone died of laughter because of this made.me laugh
Are you kidding? I had to control my laughter the whole time least I be the second casualty!
Another guy died watching another Goodies shot.
Fun context fact - kids at UK schools went around shouting "Ecky Thump" and hitting each other for months afterwards.
Good thing about this episode is it coined a phrase still used today...."I'm going for an Ecky"
@littlemore Before making some cocky, sad comment attempting to correct someone do your research first. The title of the episode is called "Kung Fu Kapers" and that is why this is billed as the fight scene from that episode.
worth it
I can't understand how a person could die laughing so mush to this. Poor guy he most been very depressive.
This was not a cause worth dying for
How can someone possibly laugh at this for 25 minutes
Cause it’s funny
Did this scene really kill someone?
I'm from LATAM and our humor is very different, although I must admit that the Scotsman's movements are really funny.
Well, at least the guy died happy. R.I.P.
I don’t know how this is funny at all.
I didn't even make a sound lol
@anakso At the time The Goodies was hilarious. We've just been acclimatised by 35 years of comedy progression. Similar to music. I must admit though I nearly did die laughing when I first saw the walk in the park scene from the "Kitten Kong" episode of The Goodies and that was only a couple of years ago... I missed that one when I was a kid.
FFS people, It doesn't make much sense unless you watch the whole episode.
As much as, say, science is cumulative ie. building on what's been discovered before, I claim (having seen this video for the first time in 2023) that comedy is somewhat cumulative as well. Not that comedy and humor is a thing that has somehow been perfected since the late 20th century but TV, movies and subsequently the internet with its pranks, Vine and TikToks have made it so that we've been subjected to and bombarded by such a wide array of visual comedy that any "entry level" comedy, as depicted in this video, is largely not funny to us any more.
freakin 2008! love it!!
The weird shit that I learn from wikipedia amazes me
Oh my god, that woman must have murdered her husband!
Eeee bah gum…Ecky thump. Love the signature northern flat cap taken to extremes.😅
They missed out the preamble ‘Kung Fu’ series intro which made this funnier
oh yeah, it was a black pudding i think. I was expecting to see an actual black pudding fighting the man, but i think the man is using a black pudding, not fighting it...sadly.
It's the martial art of ecky thump - hitting your opponent with a black pudding
I just watched a clip of Alex Mitchell dying from laughing on the show called Curious And Unusual Deaths, a show that’s like a bit similar to 1000 Ways To Die
RIP ALEX
This would be a good try not to laugh challenge that UA-camrs can do
Trust me, hilarious in the 1970s. Seeing it now, the funniest thing is Tim and Graeme collapsing from a light tap like NPCs on 1 hit point.
I'm just glad to see someone on here who cops to the fact that this is barely even amusing... Now. And I'm not talking about the black face. This show came AFGTER Python. From guys that worked with some of Python. They were taking the easy, lazy path to laughs, even for the time.
This is like goofy ahh humor but in the 1970s.
guys it's 50 year old man comedy...i think you're suppose to get it when you're 50 already.
@KINGoTHEnerds Agreed, the fellow that died watching this must have been laughing at the idea that this could be considered comedy.
I`m appalled. Absolute racism stereotyping a Yorkshire person. BBC, you should be ashamed.
Very funny 😂just for a moment you almost had us going there 😂
Really? Bill Oddie was born in Rochdale, Lancashire. In the episode of Ecky Thump he talks in a Lancashire dialect, not a Yorkshire one (there is a significant difference). A chip shop is featured, supposed;y based in Rochdale, and he hits his victims with large black puddings, not Yorkshire ones, the home of which is Bury, Lancashire. I think your attempt at humour might have been better had you realised Bill was taking the piss out of his own home county, which as a fellow Lancastrian who's never put ferrets down t'trousers, wore flat cap or clogs, I'm entitled to say. I do confess occasionally to eating chip butties and black puds myself, though...
imagine if that dude watched friends
He wouldve died from cringe instead
Yeah, I could imagine laughing to death at this
Yeah, I could imagine believing an untrue mythologized internet legend
@@MPHswayze yeah, I could imagine not understanding a joke
No laughter. No giggling. Not even a blasted smile from me. At least it was only 3 minutes of my life.
A rather empty life...
If I died from watching this I would be ashamed of myself.
I almost die of depression looking at this
Aaah Hell, this is still funny...
Ahh the Goodies. Classic.
I’m sorry I had to see wtf was so damn funny aaaaaand I get it 😂
tbh the French guy threw me off but it's probably because I'm also french
On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers". After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure.
Bring some respect,even if this video look stupid.
At the time, I was seven, there was nothing else around we had three tv channels and a newspaper, and listen up, it was either this or tomorrow’s world or panorama aid QED
Browsing Wikipedia eventually sent me searching for this clip.
Ole Bentzen also died by laughing his ass off while watching "A Fish Called Wanda".
@casdebom2 O.o wat u mean by QI my friend?
AJAJJAJAKJAKAJKAJKAJKAJKAJAKJAKAJKAJAKJAKAJKAJAKAJKAJAKJAKAJAKJAKJAKJAKAJAKJAKJAKAJKAJAKJAKAJKAJKAJAKAJKAJKAJAKAJAKJAKAJKAJ- *died*
Alguien de 2023😢
If you came here to find out why the guy died and got disappointed like this!
33 people's relatives disliked this video because someone they knew died watching this.
Bill Oddie in a dress in “Enter with Drag On” or, the movie I’d love to see, “Bill Oddie is Big Pud’”
This just made me laugh to death
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA *dead*
Omg I can't stop laughing I think I'm going to laugh to death
@undisputed4life they're?
the fact that this nearly killed someone is funnier than the scene itself.
Not nearly. It actually did lead to said person’s death.
@@JH14FANyou are like a decade late responding.
OH GOD, OH GOD I'M DYING AHAHAHAHA
the best goodies episode by far!
hard to belive someone dies for this....
Yall remember the sambucha vid
I also came from sambucha
I also came from sambucha
This is true that someone died from laughing, but I would definetly say it is not funnier than this episode.
Maybe that man mitchell was high... anyways, it reminds me monty python scketh that one with the deathly joke, if you read it you die by laughing. Love the hat!.
6 pm ABC. A time when we laughed at ourselves and everyone else.
Laughter heals. It felt like things were getting better in the nineties, then 2005 something happened and everyone is becoming offended for everything?😢😢😢. WTF happened to the country I grew up in?
the guy that died laughing over this must have been on some drug
is this the show that a man died from laughing to death.
OH HELP IM DYING FROM LAUGHTER HEEEELLPPP
now i know why someone would die while watching this !
The guy dying from this would've loved the movie Kung Pow!
Es increíble que alguien haya muerto de risa con esto.
@AdmiralZhao007 *Hands you buffalo jeez in a low fat pie*
im still here! The dude who died wouldnt last 10 minutes on the internet
@AdmiralZhao007 *Hits you with crowbar* >:O nobody eats MY pudding!!!
I smirked... a little... Still alive though...
Who came here to see if they would die of laughter?