I am married to a Giselle 20 years. He has the French down to a fine art. They don’t mean to be rude, they just are. I find it quite charming. She really saw me coming.
I've been living in Paris for a year and the assistant is an absolutely spot on summary of my experiences as a consumer here! You are an inconvenience to them and they are doing you a big favour in accepting your money for their product/service of which you are barely worthy. It's hilarious!
@@Toghebon I will say that in my experience, it has to do with whether you at least try valiantly to speak French, if you're an English speaker, and if you're French, with what accent. A Quebecois friend who speaks a French I can't tell from metropolitan French and who tells me that she does speak good French, not just Quebecois, says that her accent is frowned on. I always found that even in Paris, my attempts at French, limited as they were, were accepted with courtesy, while people who think that the French speak English if it is loud enough are dismissed - which is as it should be.
@@puffin51 Although I agree on everything you say, my point is that person probably never lived in Paris at all. You might have unpleasant "experiences as a consumer here", just as well as any big city in the world where people are busy and stressed all the time. And that is it. In Paris, just like in any city big or small, people who chose to work as sellers are generally speaking welcoming, even though they might fake it in order to sell stuff. Just like anywhere else. But more importantly, no well-traveled person ever would only have a negative, stereotypical, blunt, unnuanced statement regarding their "experiences as a consumer" in a foreign city to share. Well-travelled people are positive, they don't fall for stereotypes. They're not bothered by a few poor experiences. And they're way too open-minded to take that litterally a simple humoristic tv sketch.
The ladies own this sketch. The little 1.5 second bit at the end when the blond is more or less pushed out... She does the best little move of total confusion. Perfect.
I agree!! its all to easy to see Sophie as the focus of the sketch but it would be nothing without Catherine's timidness....which is done so well in her voice.
I love how he just chucks the customer out, as soon as she's paid for the chair lol. He can't stand her presence for a second longer than he has to lol
@Albert_Br 🤣😅 You're probably right. It's been many years since I last visited Paris. I live in Normandy as it happens. Provincial French tend to think of Parisians the same as provincial English (used to) think of Londoners. But Sophie Winkelman is still brilliant in this sketch, even if it's a caricature. You're absolutely spot on about whining Poms. "How can they tell that a jumbo jet that's landed in Sydney came from Heathrow ?" "The whining goes on long after they turn the engines off."
As an Englishman who has visited France, willingly, MANY times over the last 40 years, even worked there, and have been in many regions of that wonderful country, the French are lovely people.. especially if you are English and can actually speak some French - they LOVE that! It's just the Parisians who are this notoriously rude... even the French despise them. So, please do not state "from the point of view of the English."... you're talking for yourself there, NOT "the English".
True. She's even mastered the not-quite-posh, modified vowel sounds ("quuckly", "hulp", "ameezing", etc.) that these women affect (vaguely guilty about their privileged backgrounds, but too timid to embrace even Mockney by way of attempted compensation). These are some of the best-observed of the Harry & Paul sketches, although only somebody who ventures into present-day Notting Hill from time to time can fully appreciate just how accurate a parody of the relevant types is achieved here.
Khayyam1048 You are veryobservant - I hadn't noticed those inflections like 'quuckly' but I think you're right, it's a sort of sub-mockney for the very timid...
Londonfogey Well I don't know, everyone in London now tries to talk like black kids with soft r's (bwuv) and RANDOMLY stressed words accompanied by emphatic hand gestures etc I think mockney is dead.
Nick Harman I think the upper middle class demographic still uses the mockney accent and its sub-variants, to try to appear less posh than they really are. 'Jafaican' is more of a lower middle/working class white accent isn't it? I don't live in London anymore so I find it hard to keep up...
Its a comic study in the way that the upper-middle classes get ripped off by rude tat shop owners...This is one of a series and takes it to an extreme where the nice but dim rich lady get ripped off and abused by a member of her own sex who is herself a parody of a rude upper-middle class Parisian.I love it.....
For anyone interested, Byres Road in Glasgow has this shop in it. In fact more or less every second shop in Byres Road is this shop (there's an over-priced cafe between each one and the next if you feel at all peckish while you're watching the buffoons being ripped-off).
Yep, This sums up much of French middle class and some of English as well. Did I tell you about the time I went to France and attempted to order in French!
It doesn’t work with the French lady. Rather then laughing at the customer from the way she’s usually treated by Marcus you end up feeling sorry and a sense of pity in this instance
Did I write French Canadians? Did I write Quebecers? No. I wrote French. As in from France. And I added immigrants, so OBVIOUSLY they are not from Canada. Your questions anger me so stop replying to me.
To anybody who loves this portrayal of steroetypical French/Parisian, allow me to recommend the books of Stephen Clarke, which are informative and hilarious in equal measure.
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I am married to a Giselle 20 years. He has the French down to a fine art. They don’t mean to be rude, they just are. I find it quite charming. She really saw me coming.
Yes, justifiable rudeness.
good for you 😆
That's absolute bullshit again.
that's probably the parisians.
On her face?
I've been living in Paris for a year and the assistant is an absolutely spot on summary of my experiences as a consumer here! You are an inconvenience to them and they are doing you a big favour in accepting your money for their product/service of which you are barely worthy. It's hilarious!
Move to literally anywhere else in France and people are lovely.
@@DrWhom Shop assistants in Bordeaux are lovely, in my experience.
That's just absolute bullshit made to fuel dumb stereotypes about French people.
@@Toghebon I will say that in my experience, it has to do with whether you at least try valiantly to speak French, if you're an English speaker, and if you're French, with what accent. A Quebecois friend who speaks a French I can't tell from metropolitan French and who tells me that she does speak good French, not just Quebecois, says that her accent is frowned on. I always found that even in Paris, my attempts at French, limited as they were, were accepted with courtesy, while people who think that the French speak English if it is loud enough are dismissed - which is as it should be.
@@puffin51 Although I agree on everything you say, my point is that person probably never lived in Paris at all. You might have unpleasant "experiences as a consumer here", just as well as any big city in the world where people are busy and stressed all the time. And that is it. In Paris, just like in any city big or small, people who chose to work as sellers are generally speaking welcoming, even though they might fake it in order to sell stuff. Just like anywhere else.
But more importantly, no well-traveled person ever would only have a negative, stereotypical, blunt, unnuanced statement regarding their "experiences as a consumer" in a foreign city to share. Well-travelled people are positive, they don't fall for stereotypes. They're not bothered by a few poor experiences. And they're way too open-minded to take that litterally a simple humoristic tv sketch.
The ladies own this sketch. The little 1.5 second bit at the end when the blond is more or less pushed out... She does the best little move of total confusion. Perfect.
i like the way she turns back for a moment
“Ok, I am going to ring your hozbent and he is RRRRRRAVAGING his secretary!” ... always cracks me up.
Tbh, he probably does.
The best thing of all is that this character is named Listeria.
oh that is SO TRUE! Thats exactly what those posh home/organic/designer/bespoke retail market is like. thats the tone they take! nailed it.
Catherine Shepherd is so brilliant ... and plain lovely.
I agree!! its all to easy to see Sophie as the focus of the sketch but it would be nothing without Catherine's timidness....which is done so well in her voice.
What a fine, fine actress. I got carried away and involved and wanted to step in for her.
Which is it? Plain or lovely?
@Miscellaneous Viewing
I know. I'm such a tease! 🥴
@rphrph167
Do you mean Lady Freddie Mountbatten Windsor ?
I love how he just chucks the customer out, as soon as she's paid for the chair lol. He can't stand her presence for a second longer than he has to lol
Many stores are exactly the same....Got your money/signature now sod off.... Nothing new there, eh?
@@patagualianmostly7437 Yeah true, especially nowadays.
love the way he shoves her out the door. so funny
She's a real see u next Tuesday.
Love that Sophie Winkleman!! Beauty and talent is her name...
So true .... fabulous actress.
God she's beautiful.
Rossco77 I like her more.
@@fanatamon no you don't! I love her times a zillion, so naa, naa, naa, naa, naa! 😜
Which one is which?
Amazing how they capture so exactly the French people from the point of view of the English.
Parisians.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw A Pommy view of Parisians. I find People in Paris most outgoing if you engage them. More so than Whinging Poms.
@Albert_Br
🤣😅 You're probably right. It's been many years since I last visited Paris. I live in Normandy as it happens. Provincial French tend to think of Parisians the same as provincial English (used to) think of Londoners. But Sophie Winkelman is still brilliant in this sketch, even if it's a caricature. You're absolutely spot on about whining Poms. "How can they tell that a jumbo jet that's landed in Sydney came from Heathrow ?"
"The whining goes on long after they turn the engines off."
As an Englishman who has visited France, willingly, MANY times over the last 40 years, even worked there, and have been in many regions of that wonderful country, the French are lovely people.. especially if you are English and can actually speak some French - they LOVE that! It's just the Parisians who are this notoriously rude... even the French despise them.
So, please do not state "from the point of view of the English."... you're talking for yourself there, NOT "the English".
@@sunnyjim1355 Nope! the French don't despise People from Paris. Thats just another English lie. Brexit was actually a good thing for France )
I love the names he gives to the women; Listeria, Bonjela etc 😂
Fellatia is another one, and Semolina. They sound like totally believable names said in the right accent. 😂😂😂
Tarantula
Nutella
Jennatellia.
And of course, Thicko. They all met up at R&R (Roedean and rehab).
Never thought I’d see big suze, april and james may all in the same room
This is exactly why I had spiritual enlightenment whilst living in London. Now it no longer matters anymore.
Reminds me of Reggie Perrin, And his Grot shop. David Hobbs was the writer I believe. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Brilliant show.
David Nobbs.
I didn't get where I am today by not knowing who wrote the series I'm in Reggie!
C.J would be proud
@@timthwaites9478if that chair had farted, they could've got vingt mille balles for it!
I had 18 months working in construction on Brompton Rd, Knightsbridge in the 1980`s .This was even on point back then !!!!!!!
This pulled at my heart strings too much!
Most polite French person
The deadpan voice is not the actress's own voice, she is accurately mimicking that kind of of West London woman.
True. She's even mastered the not-quite-posh, modified vowel sounds ("quuckly", "hulp", "ameezing", etc.) that these women affect (vaguely guilty about their privileged backgrounds, but too timid to embrace even Mockney by way of attempted compensation). These are some of the best-observed of the Harry & Paul sketches, although only somebody who ventures into present-day Notting Hill from time to time can fully appreciate just how accurate a parody of the relevant types is achieved here.
Khayyam1048 You are veryobservant - I hadn't noticed those inflections like 'quuckly' but I think you're right, it's a sort of sub-mockney for the very timid...
Londonfogey Well I don't know, everyone in London now tries to talk like black kids with soft r's (bwuv) and RANDOMLY stressed words accompanied by emphatic hand gestures etc I think mockney is dead.
Nick Harman I think the upper middle class demographic still uses the mockney accent and its sub-variants, to try to appear less posh than they really are. 'Jafaican' is more of a lower middle/working class white accent isn't it? I don't live in London anymore so I find it hard to keep up...
Thanks ever so for pointing that out.
You get the feeling that the actresses who play these parts really enjoy them.
and can never watch this sketch enough!!!.......the french lass is priceless but wonderfully set against the insecure buyer!!!...great work!!
Not seen this show before, but it definitely reminds me of Black Books.
Its a comic study in the way that the upper-middle classes get ripped off by rude tat shop owners...This is one of a series and takes it to an extreme where the nice but dim rich lady get ripped off and abused by a member of her own sex who is herself a parody of a rude upper-middle class Parisian.I love it.....
A mixture of french and German accents. But isn't she gorgeous!
For anyone interested, Byres Road in Glasgow has this shop in it. In fact more or less every second shop in Byres Road is this shop (there's an over-priced cafe between each one and the next if you feel at all peckish while you're watching the buffoons being ripped-off).
Something tells me that Harry isn't happy about his wife's spending habits.
I must get a french wife exactly like her, wonderful ❤️😊👍
You'll never have burglars....that's for sure.
Mee too!!
Think Samantha Cameron.
+Neil Kerr Nearly typed that! 1st thought!
Yep, This sums up much of French middle class and some of English as well. Did I tell you about the time I went to France and attempted to order in French!
Harry enfolds best series ever! Funnier than
Enfield.
the names of the people that come in to the shop are funny because these people do really have names like that.
Now ...that was customer service! 😂
Bless her.😥
Peter Serafinowicz found some absolute stars when he had them on his sketch show
Catherine Shepherd
😍😍😍
@@jasoncha1973facup You need more emojis!
Sometimes laughable things may gradually surface into reality..! Godspeed..
@Dungarth Right on bro. She's a stunner
I watch these for the excellent class reggae track at the beginning
Ah, yes - London, such a lovely place to live.
Better than being up North with all the riff raff
I found this incredibly sad. ☹️😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭
Is that shop still open😅
Listeria went over to Giselle's place later
Love to see a clip of that lol
@@dannyvine3605 you and me both
Man Next Door by Dennis Brown, originally a cover of I've got to get away by John Holt, also covered Horace Andy as 'Quiet Place'
The Paragons?
There are stores in Austin, Texas with this exact approach to customer service.
Plenty of shops like that not just in London but in and around the countryside ..
Especially Chipping Norton ..
Well, Jeremy and his girlfriend need to shop somewhere.
I like how English people pronounce 'perhaps' as 'paps'
I hold the opposing view.
We dont.
Listeria 😂😂😂
John Holt & The Paragons - I've Got To Get Away
Listeria ! 😂😂 its all shabby chic shops now ...bits of Tat with peeling chalk paint !!
Listeria! 😆
It’s still funny now, clever👍
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Poor lady; I feel so sorry for her and what's her husband going to say when he finds she's paid £10,000 on a chair? Life is so unfair. 😂
He won't even notice. He's shagging his PA
Don't you just absolutely hate it when someone disturb your reading.
Cause, aye aye XD
@Redtaghauer So you never saw the previous "I saw you coming" sketches? Yeah, I thought you probably didn't. ;)
great acting
What is that song that plays at the beginning of all of these
"Man Next Door" by John Holt/ The Paragons (1968.)
"Oh hi Listeria."
customer service pre covid love it lol
Thanks
That's the girl who did the voice of the vending machine Lister hit on in Red Dwarf X
Big Suz’s love her !
The shops that are in frome Somerset aren’t far off this 😂
@Rudadiz ....but the attitude was spot on
Catherine Shepherd ....wow
Is that the blonde?
Oh yes ...
@@MrDallman wow
This is the first one of these sketches that briefly made me feel sorry for the airhead!
Magnificent!!!!....
Hi Listeria LMAO
@merton8181
When the point i m making is about the actress's unconvincing accent for the character she is portraying, this is the point.
What's the intro music lol
Paragons, Man next door.
so brutal lol
Listeria, great name. I also like Glaucoma.
Giselle reminds my of ex which incidentally was French. Typical French, or as harry said "Real see you next Tuesday "
Amir Rad can you explain to me this "See you next Tuesday" thing?I dont get it.
C U Next Tuesday. That any help?
"Sorry!..." 😢
Pretty typical of the British attitude to service - this is only just satire!
+Ian Thomas depends on where you go.
I want one.
A Giselle, not the ugly chair ;)
Hi Listeria. Giselle..even ruder than me
Who's the actress playing the sales assistant?
Little do they know she's buying the chair so she can switch it for a replica she can return for a refund.
It doesn’t work with the French lady. Rather then laughing at the customer from the way she’s usually treated by Marcus you end up feeling sorry and a sense of pity in this instance
Listeria!!
That's me at Kempton market.....i sold a cabinet there to paloma faith....basically the same deal....
Listeria 😂😂😂😂😂
Upmarket car salesman are similar.
Who is the girl who plays the blonde listeria in this?
Is that a Russian accent Giselle is attempting ?
Indeed, she's definitely not French.
So true
Don't suppose anybody knows what the song at the start is?x
James May?
What’s that reggae song at the beginning
Did I write French Canadians? Did I write Quebecers? No. I wrote French. As in from France. And I added immigrants, so OBVIOUSLY they are not from Canada. Your questions anger me so stop replying to me.
@Rudadiz Must everyone agree with your opinion?
To anybody who loves this portrayal of steroetypical French/Parisian, allow me to recommend the books of Stephen Clarke, which are informative and hilarious in equal measure.
Fulham?! Do you think Harry lived in Fulham at one point?!
@Rudadiz i thought it was supposed to be polish
The Brexit negotiations with the European Commission. 🇪🇺
Cee U Next Tuesday big Suze.
Brilliant
Big Suz is simply gorgeous, with those big brown eyes I'll watch her in anything, especially when she's being posh.!
I get treated like this