For younger viewers that don't understand PC Savage's joy at being reassigned to the SPG ... The Special Patrol Group was a Metropolitsn Police squad tasked with preventing outbreaks of public order and crime prevenion, particularly in London’s African-Caribbean communities. It oft instigated the very problems it was supposed to prevent. It had a reputation for being heavy-handed. It was disbanded in the late 80s.
Did you forget commas? Prevention of ... Outbreak of publick order. Outbreak of crime preention. Like public order an crimeprevetion should be avoided.
Rowan Atkinson's brilliance is that he plays every comedy role completely straight: he knows the lines are funny, he knows he'll get the laughs, but he also knows perfectly how to deliver them, with believability and sincerity and doesn't need to 'milk' them with a funny turn. He's absolutely a comic genius. Today's BBC comedians couldn't hold a candle to this man. And this is clearly a precursor to his Police Inspector character in The Thin Blue Line.
with a good script we could even make you look funny.shame these days we got the very imbodyment of unfunny called hannor gadsby you get kicked out of her show after paying to see her for asking where the all the funny.this won awards recently .we "told" her man hating rape jokes are comedy gold ? i highlight the word told as we not sure when the right time to cry is .i rather watch concrete dry than trust a critic.
The point is, he's a comic actor, not a stand up comic. So naturally he delivers the lines straight because he is playing a part, not presenting himself.
Boomer spotted. People have an issue with humour if it kicks down since then it's bullying. Some people have a problem with humour that kicks up since they're unable to understand that the machine that's being raged against is their own.
Rowan Atkinson is his own parody taking the piss out of attitude he now agrees with. Same with Cleese who now thinks the Four Yorkshiremen sketch is a blueprint for good family life. Thank Christ Mr Bean is silent!
@@Jizzlewobbwtfcus There's no such thing as "Just humour," unless you have a bias of that any joke you make is unable to be offensive. These are the kind of people who'll hide the most bigoted "jokes" you've ever heard behind, "It's just humour, can't you take a little humour?" What's being said there, right down to the syntax is the same vapid statement from people who have a smug superiority of existing "in better times," aka. Conservative ideology, who are unable to understand that saying something generally has the consequence of other people countering it.
If you're of a certain age you will know this sketch off word for word. NTNOCN was a brilliant comedy satire on UK society. Way ahead of its time and very near the knuckle
Many years later Rowan Atkinson spoke about how this fictional comedy sketch pretty much foreshadowed reality with Section 5 of the Public Order Act of 2013, and he led a successful campaign to get it amended.
This was in the days when "two tier" policing was real, and was tolerated by those who scream loudest about it now. Being in possession of an Irish accent or a black skin was grounds for stop and search, or planting evidence.
@@davey1602 that's not how politics works dude. Once Tony Blair signed stuff into law it's very difficult to repeal (not impossible but very difficult) therefore it's Tony Blair's fault.
@@simonsmith1974 It's very easy to repeal stuff, if you have the monarch's consent and it does not conflict with other legislation. Take it all back to common law, say I. That cannot be repealled by an act of parliament.
Well they hardly need to. It's actually happening in the real world. Bundling a disabled girl off to the police station for commenting that a police woman resembled the girl's lesbian nan. IN THE PERSON'S OWN HOME!
Classic. I checked this after seeing Rowan's latest speech in defence of free speech where he laments the fact that the country has gone almost to the state which was satirised in this sketch.
@@RalooRocker Really? Does it seem that way to you? In the 1950s there was a campaign to protect public health with the slogan "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases; catch them all in a handkerchief." Today, who even has a handkerchief? And that's even during and after COVID I think you'll find people today are freer than they've ever been and don't even care. So less of this absolute bollocks about being so oppressed you can't cough or say anything you want.
@@nthgth "Looking at me in a funny way" "Wearing a loud shirt in a built up area after dark" "Possession of an Offensive Wife" Yep, Public Order Offence could be applied to those
@@matthewyabsley it’s the other way around. They were lampooning the talk show where Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark debated the alleged blasphemous connotations of the Life of Brian with John Cleese and Michael Palin. In there comic version however they were saying the story of Jesus Christ was blasphemous and plagiarised from the story of Brian. They switched it around. That was the joke of the sketch.
@@billymcnomates7764 You can't blame all white people for the ignorance of a minority. Yes it's sad we still have people like Savage in the police but there are fortunately less and less of them around these days.
Ooh yes.... I've said it loads of times..... where's the comedy of 70s,80s,90s and 2000s ? Comedy offends and that's why it's really funny. Couldn't make this bugger up !!!! Nah they did sleepers!!!!!!
@@philippankhurst6680 Yes, it's starting that when your racism is recognized in the force, you get promoted. In other words, highlighting that institutional racism gets rewarded. It was a satirical sketch
@@philippankhurst6680 'Strong moral statement ? Transferring him to the SPG (Special Patrol Group) ?' - Yes, because the SPG were known thugs and in one notorious case as murderous thugs. Perhaps you didn't know that.
yes. well kind of. the oldbill can now use a person looking at them in a way that is "suspicious" as grounds to stop and question the person. as the copper will then try to "calm the situation down and deescalate". yah its going to get you arrested 9 times in 10. :)
Brilliant, both of them. Unfortunately, these kinds of sketches are no longer possible in today's "politically correct" times. There are simply too many overly sensitive people who spew their hate, anger, intolerance and sheer stupidity on social media channels.
There'd probably be like, 50 angry emails along the lines of "Why are you calling constable savage racist? He didn't do anything! This sketch is too politically charged smh"
A modern version of this sketch would be a coroner with an American cop, going through the cadavers listing the causes of death. "Juvenile suspect was believed to be in possession of dark skin, with malicious intent to grow older despite repeated warnings."
Nothing's changed. My local PD stole my life's work and life's savings, ruined my business, lied in their reports, falsified records and arrested me for complaining. Good job Thames Valley Police.
Definitely agreed. Still at school at the time but it was a must watch so that you could have a good laugh with all your mates the next morning in maths instead of your times tables or Algebra. Lol.
Nothing has changed in years, it was true then and is now. Brilliant satire. If you are not old enough to remember the SPG was the Special Patrol Group (in the Young Ones the same name was given to Vyvian’s pet hamster) It was a notorious hangout for racist thugs, they were later disbanded or rather were just renamed the Tactical Support Unit.
The irony is that it was and was for many years after indicative of the police, being institutionally racist as the McPherson report concluded following the botched murder investigations after the killing of Stephen Lawrence in Eltham, SE London.
Yes, all the "offences" apart from "caught in possession of curly black hair and thick lips" could apply to anyone, irrespective of race, creed, colour etc. The sketch would have worked equally well without the racist overtones to Savage's allegations - a general hatred of "the public".
@@vincepeterbilt3450 I understood the point of sketch perfectly well once the thick lips were mentioned. My point was that the racial component wasn't essential - and indeed some might say that if it was remade nowadays, the whole sketch could be reproduced without the racial reference and it would still be funny from the "police hate the public" aspect. Do you feel differently? Would it have worked substantially less well for you if the thick lips line had been removed but otherwise the sketch was unchanged?
@@ChuckieFinzter No, it's Not The Nine O' Clock News. It's some years before Thin Blue Line. Rowan Atkinson is younger in this. But if you are asking Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler, yes you are correct. That's Thin Blue Line.
Really is that it. ? U need to concern yourself with helping the casualties of conflict. This is absolutely blown up from over sensitive people who live in a bubble and let this one go. I will give u some advice here. Take it or leave it. There are people dying in Gaza why not focus your energy in gathering some money to send to the destitute. I see both sides views and getting shirty over a policeman trying to avoid conflict is woefully inadequate. A complete joke in my opinion.
"Coughing with out due care and attention" is now a serious offence! It can get you put in prison! Constable Savage must be from the future. Or is it from the present.....
Loved NTNON, it never gets the attention or recognition it rightly deserves. I had the cassette of the Hedgehog Sandwich album and listened to it all the time, I can still recite the PC Savage sketch word for word. This, the Young Ones and Blackadder formed my sense of humour (such as it is) at a time when mainstream comedy was Jim Davidson, Russ Abbott and The Krankies.
One big thing has changed, most people have a mobile phone to record this ongoing injustice. So much of it can now at least be exposed for the whole world to see. The American Police can attack reporters and cameramen but not every witness with a phone.
@@MrDiddyDee because you have a gob. Gobs are the most dangerous idiots in the world. You.opened yours, you had to spoil it. How old are you? Attacking reporters? Why would anyone do that? To think of that tells me youbare an idiot first class, you are rare thankfully, thank God!
@@MrDiddyDee The American police,don’t have The PACE Act 1984 & Britain does,so over there,if a cop hits someone,its harder to get them prosecuted than over here. Look at 1980s police actions on camera & you’ll see multiple-baton strikes to the head & torsos as well as vans driving into people.
They got disbanded with allegationd of their officers making racist comments about pakistanis and using radios and axes as weapons if they lost their batons 😂
@@pteppig 😂😂 arguably. They scared the shit out of everyone and their mere presence was iften enough to make people flee, so yes they did their job well in a sense.
The Senior Officer (at that time) would never have given such a hard time to a racist junior officer. Racism was institutionally embedded in large sections of the Police Force at that time (1979-80) and continues to this day.
Hmmmm.. I'd have said it was far more reality at the time personally. When did you last read or hear about a black person being arrested for ANYTHING? Never mind on petty trumped up charges.
I can't believe this if from 1979. Forty years, and still relevant the same. Makes you wonder... Did people who were actually alive during the time of the Nazis, and then were watching this in 1979, feel the same thing?
I think the sketch was in 1980 since you have Griff already playing Savage. He joined in the second season and replaced Chris Langham who is part of the original 1979 cast.
Sadly a hell of a lot of dyed in the wool racists also fought bravely against the Nazis and their hideous regime, and yet saw nothing unusual about going back home and continuing in their racist beliefs, there just was not the education or backlash against it back then. My parents generation is mostly casually racist to this day, not a bad bone in their bodies except they are programmed to think of any one coloured as Pakis, Coons, Golliwogs etc, if you bring them up on it they just look at you as if your from outer space.
Oh dear !!!!!! I just laughed my head of at that.......... I suspect I will have to disappear shortly..... Anybody know where I can get a small boat to get me to France 😂😂😂
Made in the day when political correctness had not invaded our country. Today that sketch would not even appear on the TV. Sadly the British people suffer because of censorship in the highness form.
@@Megaspartan23 not to mention the whole of west midlands police force.i was stopped and abused by armed police walking my dog .apparently my crime was being on the doll.i should of took his name and badge but he had a gun and was very threatoning .you might be able to take offense of what i just said.accept we not on facebook.
Rowan Atkinsons speech brought me here.
Same
I always knew he was a genius!
Me too, but I remember this when it aired in 1980..... I was 10😂😂😂😂
Ditto
Same
Ironically someone was arrested for looking at a police officer in 'the wrong way'. Life imitates art.
I saw that one - that police officer was himself arrested and charged with impersonating a human being.
Was that the crimebodge case ? Where the "perp" was giving them the evils?.
Or maybe "Shouting at a police dog!"
It is àn offence sir!
@@stevemayandleilaroehead870 it's an offence.
Why?.
Because I'm offended.
Welcome to the new law system of the western world.
Rowan gets all the applause but Griff plays his part perfectly, comedy gold.
"Thank you very much sir!"
For younger viewers that don't understand PC Savage's joy at being reassigned to the SPG ... The Special Patrol Group was a Metropolitsn Police squad tasked with preventing outbreaks of public order and crime prevenion, particularly in London’s African-Caribbean communities. It oft instigated the very problems it was supposed to prevent. It had a reputation for being heavy-handed. It was disbanded in the late 80s.
New version today
I think that should be “outbreaks of public DISorder”😉
They’re called the TSG now, unless they’ve changed the name again🙄
They murdered Blair Peach
Did you forget commas?
Prevention of ...
Outbreak of publick order.
Outbreak of crime preention.
Like public order an crimeprevetion should be avoided.
Rowan Atkinson's brilliance is that he plays every comedy role completely straight: he knows the lines are funny, he knows he'll get the laughs, but he also knows perfectly how to deliver them, with believability and sincerity and doesn't need to 'milk' them with a funny turn. He's absolutely a comic genius. Today's BBC comedians couldn't hold a candle to this man.
And this is clearly a precursor to his Police Inspector character in The Thin Blue Line.
with a good script we could even make you look funny.shame these days we got the very imbodyment of unfunny called hannor gadsby you get kicked out of her show after paying to see her for asking where the all the funny.this won awards recently .we "told" her man hating rape jokes are comedy gold ? i highlight the word told as we not sure when the right time to cry is .i rather watch concrete dry than trust a critic.
And he had me on Kidodo.
The point is, he's a comic actor, not a stand up comic. So naturally he delivers the lines straight because he is playing a part, not presenting himself.
The BBC (the Black Broadcasting Corporation) has comedians today?
Thin blue line was very good. Got a real kick out of Grimm and Boyle.
Rowan played a slightly milder version of this character in the series 'Thin Blue Line' if anyone remembers it
He played Inspector Fowler
The quiz championship episode was my favourite.
The Thin Blue Line would have been as famous as Dad's Army if it had gone on as it begun. Brilliant.
So thankful to have had my youth in the 80's when humour was possible , and nobody got offended , great times 😊
We were made of sterner stuff back then. Nowadays so many are just plain pathetic, snow flakes i believe they call them.
Boomer spotted. People have an issue with humour if it kicks down since then it's bullying. Some people have a problem with humour that kicks up since they're unable to understand that the machine that's being raged against is their own.
Rowan Atkinson is his own parody taking the piss out of attitude he now agrees with. Same with Cleese who now thinks the Four Yorkshiremen sketch is a blueprint for good family life.
Thank Christ Mr Bean is silent!
@@nielsjensen4185 Or you're over thinking shit and it's just humour.
@@Jizzlewobbwtfcus There's no such thing as "Just humour," unless you have a bias of that any joke you make is unable to be offensive. These are the kind of people who'll hide the most bigoted "jokes" you've ever heard behind, "It's just humour, can't you take a little humour?"
What's being said there, right down to the syntax is the same vapid statement from people who have a smug superiority of existing "in better times," aka. Conservative ideology, who are unable to understand that saying something generally has the consequence of other people countering it.
If you're of a certain age you will know this sketch off word for word. NTNOCN was a brilliant comedy satire on UK society. Way ahead of its time and very near the knuckle
Very near? At the end of the final season, because the team knew that they wouldn't be returning, they closed with a song called "Kinda lingers"!
@@mikehipperson Yes that's right, the memory kinda lingers.
I like truckin', I like truckin'. I like truckin' and I like to truck!
Many years later Rowan Atkinson spoke about how this fictional comedy sketch pretty much foreshadowed reality with Section 5 of the Public Order Act of 2013, and he led a successful campaign to get it amended.
I'm here because of that video
@@shanecabbage2187 I never even knew he'd gotten involved in it, now I have to find and watch the video.
2024 August "UK:- Arrested for re-tweeting" this Section 5 public order video is doing the rounds on twitter!
Rowan's video just uploaded 7 hrs ago and making the rounds on YT as well.
Not that the amendment actually made any difference. You can still be arrested because someone thinks you looked at them funny.
1:30 ironically many police officers in the UK and USA have recently accosted, searched and arrested people for looking at them in a funny way.
This had to be the genesis of Thin Blue Line a decade later. Brilliant!
“Possession of curly black hair and thick lips.” Savage indeed. 😳
you would think it was a crime to exist the way we're treated
@@ellie-tk4jyAnd you didn't do anything to deserve it
It’s becoming a crime to be white and middle aged now
@@ellie-tk4jy It is a crime now. Because we are White. Anglo-Saxon!
Unless you commit more knife crime than anyone else and are in gangs and have made parts of london a no go zone of course
closer to the truth than one would imagine.
This was in the days when "two tier" policing was real, and was tolerated by those who scream loudest about it now. Being in possession of an Irish accent or a black skin was grounds for stop and search, or planting evidence.
I was 13/14 when that fabulous sketch came out.
The school play ground was reciting it the next day. Timeless classic!
School playgrounds can recite that is amazing can it do Shakespeare
Similar here. I probably was 15. Constant repetition in the school yard, along with most sketches from Life of Brian.🤣
@@neilfranklin5644 If only they could talk.
I still know every word of every sketch on Hedgehog Sandwich. And I dont regret a thing x
Totally agreed, a must watch back in my school days, be about 14 at the time, great laugh the next day. Great times.
So prophetic!
But I think even they would be shocked by the state of the police today (June 2023)
1979 comedy ,, WHO KNEW THIS WOULD BE BRITAIN 2024?❗️
Tony Blair
I think Tony Blair thought he was being given a blueprint
@@simonsmith1974 He passed the instructions onto the Conservative party and eventually Keir Starmer
@@davey1602 that's not how politics works dude. Once Tony Blair signed stuff into law it's very difficult to repeal (not impossible but very difficult) therefore it's Tony Blair's fault.
@@simonsmith1974 It's very easy to repeal stuff, if you have the monarch's consent and it does not conflict with other legislation. Take it all back to common law, say I. That cannot be repealled by an act of parliament.
Walking around with an offensive wife. That definately needs to become law.
"Karen". :)
Was her name Karen?
Tony Blair wouldn't stand a chance.
@@pk1645 neither would your Dad
Classic line
The clock on the wall....Not quite Nine O Clock !! brilliant : )
To think this was only two years before Brixton and Toxteth erupted. Pre 1981 style two tier policing.
I can't believe it's 45 years old.
Sadly true now
No it can't be, I refuse to admit i've aged that much already
@@dasbruce5337 I just tell people I read about it in the history books, lol.
They knew... 😑
Now he is 69
Now in 2020, "coughing without due care and attention" WILL get you arrested or fined!
Lol so true
Oh my goodness we are there in 2020/21😳! Coughing without due care and attention
Just ask Marilyn Manson.
Honestly people who don't cover their mouths when they cough should be shot. Also people who open their mouths while chewing.
Anything a Liberal doesn't like gets you arrested now!
Constable Savage would have risen through the ranks to Chief Constable Savage before retiring on a fat pension.
Not in the Metropolitan Police...that's a counties forces rank
Current state of the British Police.
Wouldn't be allowed to do this sketch now.
Well they hardly need to. It's actually happening in the real world. Bundling a disabled girl off to the police station for commenting that a police woman resembled the girl's lesbian nan. IN THE PERSON'S OWN HOME!
Didn't know the British Police still existed useless beyond belief
Classic. I checked this after seeing Rowan's latest speech in defence of free speech where he laments the fact that the country has gone almost to the state which was satirised in this sketch.
Indeed, it seems it is now actually an offence to cough without due care and attention!
@@RalooRocker Really? Does it seem that way to you?
In the 1950s there was a campaign to protect public health with the slogan "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases; catch them all in a handkerchief."
Today, who even has a handkerchief? And that's even during and after COVID
I think you'll find people today are freer than they've ever been and don't even care.
So less of this absolute bollocks about being so oppressed you can't cough or say anything you want.
Same! 😂
"Coughing without due care and attention"
[laughs in coronavirus lockdown]
Good point! You could probably be arrested for that now.
A lot of these charges are becoming more realistic
@@nthgth Certainly. Rowan Atkinson himself thinks so. ua-cam.com/video/BiqDZlAZygU/v-deo.html
You can see where that’s going 😂
@@nthgth "Looking at me in a funny way"
"Wearing a loud shirt in a built up area after dark"
"Possession of an Offensive Wife"
Yep, Public Order Offence could be applied to those
This sketch is definitely many years before it's time how appropriate for now in these present times
It was the same then.
Except now with colours reversed
I love the way Rowan says Savage!🤣
I think the best sketch in that series is still " Gerald the Gorrila".
Yes I believe my school pals and I could pretty much recite that scene word for word the morning after it was aired 😂
Wild? I was livid. David bloody Attenborough. Classic lines.
One of the funniest Not The 9 O'clock News sketches.
Brilliant
Funnier than the church complaining at the life of Brian being a rip off of the life of Jesus Christ sketch?
@@matthewyabsley yet he denys it at evey chance and still told how lucky he is.
@@matthewyabsley it’s the other way around. They were lampooning the talk show where Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark debated the alleged blasphemous connotations of the Life of Brian with John Cleese and Michael Palin. In there comic version however they were saying the story of Jesus Christ was blasphemous and plagiarised from the story of Brian. They switched it around. That was the joke of the sketch.
Game for a laugh skit was good too.
Funny sketch, and right on the money. Sad that we are over 40 years on and it's still relevant today.
You're 100% correct.
Yes especially if your white.
Ha lookin at me in a funny way hililerious
@@billymcnomates7764 You can't blame all white people for the ignorance of a minority. Yes it's sad we still have people like Savage in the police but there are fortunately less and less of them around these days.
The problem is that the only change you would make today is that the senior officer would be a woman.
(A transgender black lesbian woman)
Its tells you how far Britain has fallen that this sketch could not be put on TV today.
Ooh yes.... I've said it loads of times..... where's the comedy of 70s,80s,90s and 2000s ? Comedy offends and that's why it's really funny. Couldn't make this bugger up !!!! Nah they did sleepers!!!!!!
Just plain marvellous. Thank you so much. June, 2023.
It is brilliantly done, starting comically, building up to a strong moral statement
Strong moral statement ? Transferring him to the SPG (Special Patrol Group) ?
@@philippankhurst6680 Yes, it's starting that when your racism is recognized in the force, you get promoted. In other words, highlighting that institutional racism gets rewarded. It was a satirical sketch
@@philippankhurst6680 it clearly went over your head. The SPG was eventually disbanded
@@philippankhurst6680 'Strong moral statement ? Transferring him to the SPG (Special Patrol Group) ?' - Yes, because the SPG were known thugs and in one notorious case as murderous thugs. Perhaps you didn't know that.
@@bettyss6824 'The SPG was eventually disbanded.' - Its name was changed for cosmetic purposes.
"Looking at me in a funny way." Isn't that now an arrestable offence these days?
yes. well kind of. the oldbill can now use a person looking at them in a way that is "suspicious" as grounds to stop and question the person. as the copper will then try to "calm the situation down and deescalate". yah its going to get you arrested 9 times in 10. :)
It appears to be , resulting in a swift prison sentence .
Brilliant, both of them. Unfortunately, these kinds of sketches are no longer possible in today's "politically correct" times. There are simply too many overly sensitive people who spew their hate, anger, intolerance and sheer stupidity on social media channels.
There'd probably be like, 50 angry emails along the lines of "Why are you calling constable savage racist? He didn't do anything! This sketch is too politically charged smh"
@@FixTheWi-Fi True
Probably my favourite ever NTNON sketch. Rowan is brilliant as ever in playing the officer, but Griff was always brilliant at playing the thicko
did you seriously put your "my production" intro at the start of the video when you're just reuploading piracy?
I always thought this was a prequel to Rowan's other Police comedy The Thin Blue Line.
He absolutely carried some mannerisms over to thin blue line!
A modern version of this sketch would be a coroner with an American cop, going through the cadavers listing the causes of death. "Juvenile suspect was believed to be in possession of dark skin, with malicious intent to grow older despite repeated warnings."
Funny how most of these charges are now feasible in todays police force
"Looking at me in a funny way.." always was and always will be a sure way of unwanted police harassment.
😑
As any number of UA-cam videos will testify.
Agreed
Or now saying a female Police officer looks like my lesbian nana.
Yes that is a crime in 2023.
Nothing's changed. My local PD stole my life's work and life's savings, ruined my business, lied in their reports, falsified records and arrested me for complaining.
Good job Thames Valley Police.
Loser
On TV over 40 years ago, now more relevant than ever before.
".. against the same man?" 40 year s alter i can still recite that sketch word perfect. It was genius.
This is actually happening in this Orwellian state.
What's accurate about Rowan Atkinson's senior role is how concerned he is with public image.
Not much has really changed.
Still funny as fuck. I remember back in the early 80s we'd get the landlord at our local to turn the tv up loud. Terrific stuff.
Definitely agreed. Still at school at the time but it was a must watch so that you could have a good laugh with all your mates the next morning in maths instead of your times tables or Algebra. Lol.
Nothing has changed in years, it was true then and is now. Brilliant satire.
If you are not old enough to remember the SPG was the Special Patrol Group (in the Young Ones the same name was given to Vyvian’s pet hamster) It was a notorious hangout for racist thugs, they were later disbanded or rather were just renamed the Tactical Support Unit.
Group. Tactical Support Group. Not Unit.
@@samfyfe2949 👍
Think most of the PC brigade would say the Police in general these days. LOL.
I was down South Bank a few weeks back, and bizarrely TSG officers were on routine patrol.
Maybe they expected the ‘living statues’ to kick off.
Not the 9'oclock news took piss taking to a whole new level, there has been nothing like it since except maybe blackadder goes forth.
i just love this sketch and if people think its racist they are not listening properly its completely not ,just hilarious
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The irony is that it was and was for many years after indicative of the police, being institutionally racist as the McPherson report concluded following the botched murder investigations after the killing of Stephen Lawrence in Eltham, SE London.
Yes, all the "offences" apart from "caught in possession of curly black hair and thick lips" could apply to anyone, irrespective of race, creed, colour etc. The sketch would have worked equally well without the racist overtones to Savage's allegations - a general hatred of "the public".
@@Mortimer50145 if you didn't understand the pouint of the sketch that's fine, but making that public here was a bit silly really 🙄🙄
@@vincepeterbilt3450 I understood the point of sketch perfectly well once the thick lips were mentioned. My point was that the racial component wasn't essential - and indeed some might say that if it was remade nowadays, the whole sketch could be reproduced without the racial reference and it would still be funny from the "police hate the public" aspect.
Do you feel differently? Would it have worked substantially less well for you if the thick lips line had been removed but otherwise the sketch was unchanged?
Arrested for the crime: "Walking around in a loud shirt in a built-up area during the hours of darkness." 😂
Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler is another fabulous perfect performance
Thin blue line?
@@ChuckieFinzter No, it's Not The Nine O' Clock News. It's some years before Thin Blue Line. Rowan Atkinson is younger in this.
But if you are asking Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler, yes you are correct. That's Thin Blue Line.
@@chandrashekharv9824 Yes I recall a very pretty Indian girl.
Constable Habib.
@@ChuckieFinzter Yes Mina Anwar
@@chandrashekharv9824 Yes, Maggie Habib... That the lovely lady
"Walking around with an offensive wife" 🤣🤣🤣
I've seen police detain people for "looking at me in a funny way" ...a dystopian future
I’ve seen examples ‘looking at me in a funny way’ actually used for charge in UK, Is and AU….
Like Humberside Police want to criminalise people for "giving you the ick".
“Looking at me in a funny way” 😂
Now a Met Police training video.
Loud shirt is homaphobic racicst and anti lesbian
Yup im goose steping to the pub 4a sub
Against the indigenous working class.
"Looking openly Jewish" ~ London MET Police April 2024
I know you couldn't make it up !
Amazing, very little has changed, except the victim group of the SPG
Really is that it. ?
U need to concern yourself with helping the casualties of conflict. This is absolutely blown up from over sensitive people who live in a bubble and let this one go.
I will give u some advice here. Take it or leave it. There are people dying in Gaza why not focus your energy in gathering some money to send to the destitute. I see both sides views and getting shirty over a policeman trying to avoid conflict is woefully inadequate.
A complete joke in my opinion.
@@stephenpitt9558 cheers turned to tears. They voted hamas in now they're bearing the consequences.
He was an activist and was deliberately trying to provoke a reaction.
Sounds normal charges today. Who expected comedy to become reality?
Elon Musk's Twitter post brought me here.
Similarities to some of the ridiculous arrests in the past weeks. Our Country is a joke!
Love it......the good old days of comedy...sadly missed
40 years ahead of the reality
and they still are today, even more so
maybe skip the useless intro?
and the outro?
@@corkygobshite9941 Well said. And the fucking awful music.
Dean Wilkinson do you mind? That's the Pet Shop Boys.
Oh yeah, I see your point.
@@corkygobshite9941 And the middletro?
RealityCheck6T9 It’s Electronic, actually. It features Neil Tennant, but it’s not The Pet Shop Boys
Sounds like typical American charges, these days!
I’m here because of Rowan’s freedom of speech speech. 👍
Same here 🤟
same
The comedy art of the past has predicted the future/present time,very accurately I think!
Remember this clearly. 16 years old and laughing my bo***cks off. Brilliant.
We need to share the shit out of this
Current police policy.
3:06 'Is he a coloured gentleman?'
'I can't say I really noticed sir'.
Easily missed but one of the funniest lines ever.
Ah life imitating art! Modern UK.
Life imitates art, UK is lost.
"Coughing with out due care and attention" is now a serious offence! It can get you put in prison! Constable Savage must be from the future. Or is it from the present.....
This is the Metipoliton Police London
Loved NTNON, it never gets the attention or recognition it rightly deserves. I had the cassette of the Hedgehog Sandwich album and listened to it all the time, I can still recite the PC Savage sketch word for word. This, the Young Ones and Blackadder formed my sense of humour (such as it is) at a time when mainstream comedy was Jim Davidson, Russ Abbott and The Krankies.
I really cant make it in the end what he saya at 3:48
@@viktor.madarasz s.p.g, special patrol group. the violent police mob sent in to crack heads
Absolutely, but don't forget Hale and Pace. Or Dave Allen.
@@viktor.madarasz He says ''Is this your hedgehog Sir?''
@@viktor.madarasz.. is this your hedgehog sir ? ( And that refers to another sketch where a hedgehog gets squashed ) 👍
Sounds like today’s policy of police officers
40 years on, nothing has changed....
One big thing has changed, most people have a mobile phone to record this ongoing injustice. So much of it can now at least be exposed for the whole world to see. The American Police can attack reporters and cameramen but not every witness with a phone.
@@MrDiddyDee because you have a gob.
Gobs are the most dangerous idiots in the world.
You.opened yours, you had to spoil it.
How old are you?
Attacking reporters?
Why would anyone do that?
To think of that tells me youbare an idiot first class, you are rare thankfully, thank God!
Erm, alot has changed actually, as this was about 6 years or so, before The PACE Act 1984 came along.
Agree. It's as funny now as it was then.
@@MrDiddyDee The American police,don’t have The PACE Act 1984 & Britain does,so over there,if a cop hits someone,its harder to get them prosecuted than over here.
Look at 1980s police actions on camera & you’ll see multiple-baton strikes to the head & torsos as well as vans driving into people.
Used to love watching this my nan laughed proper Rest In Peace thinking of you always
For anyone wondering, this is where the sergeant transfers Savage:
SPG
British police
abbreviation for
Special Patrol Group: a unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service, providing a mobile squad to combat public disorder and crime
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
..and with the reputation of being yobbo’s
or a glaswegian hamster
They got disbanded with allegationd of their officers making racist comments about pakistanis and using radios and axes as weapons if they lost their batons 😂
@@user-sc9oy1kz8g so, they got disbanded for actually doing their job and enforcing the law against illegals?
@@pteppig 😂😂 arguably. They scared the shit out of everyone and their mere presence was iften enough to make people flee, so yes they did their job well in a sense.
Art reflects life, if only they knew back then how relevant that saying would be for 2024…
Whos coming on to compare after rowan Atkinson interview ❤
Sadly the U.K is now a police state so this is no longer satire.
The Senior Officer (at that time) would never have given such a hard time to a racist junior officer. Racism was institutionally embedded in large sections of the Police Force at that time (1979-80) and continues to this day.
Nothing has changed much in the Police to this day.
fast forward to 2024 and what do we have - life imitating art
If it wasn't funny it would be sad but here we are
This is no longer comedy, its reality.
Hmmmm.. I'd have said it was far more reality at the time personally. When did you last read or hear about a black person being arrested for ANYTHING? Never mind on petty trumped up charges.
the police will arrest anyone for so much as breathing nowadays. Fancy a dance at a pride parade?😂
It had always be reality, it's just not taboo anymore.
@@frankbrodie5168 happens every day now. thats how out of touch you are
I love rowan atkinson
I can't believe this if from 1979. Forty years, and still relevant the same.
Makes you wonder... Did people who were actually alive during the time of the Nazis, and then were watching this in 1979, feel the same thing?
I think the sketch was in 1980 since you have Griff already playing Savage. He joined in the second season and replaced Chris Langham who is part of the original 1979 cast.
Sadly a hell of a lot of dyed in the wool racists also fought bravely against the Nazis and their hideous regime, and yet saw nothing unusual about going back home and continuing in their racist beliefs, there just was not the education or backlash against it back then. My parents generation is mostly casually racist to this day, not a bad bone in their bodies except they are programmed to think of any one coloured as Pakis, Coons, Golliwogs etc, if you bring them up on it they just look at you as if your from outer space.
SHEER BRILLIANCE 🤣🤣🤣🤣I remember this when it 1st came out. I was 13, I'm now 57, and it STILL makes crack up laughing.
Takes me back to the days of true British comedy...before the PC brigade Shite.
Yawn.......
Its 3 dots after a statement...
Oh dear !!!!!! I just laughed my head of at that.......... I suspect I will have to disappear shortly..... Anybody know where I can get a small boat to get me to France 😂😂😂
I don't think those rubber dinghy do return trips !
Thank you. Came very useful to Suffolk police today.
Made in the day when political correctness had not invaded our country. Today that sketch would not even appear on the TV.
Sadly the British people suffer because of censorship in the highness form.
"Do you get some kind of perverted gratification in going around stirring up trouble"
"Yes sir".
Hilarious
Sums up many terrible UA-camrs
@@Megaspartan23 not to mention the whole of west midlands police force.i was stopped and abused by armed police walking my dog .apparently my crime was being on the doll.i should of took his name and badge but he had a gun and was very threatoning .you might be able to take offense of what i just said.accept we not on facebook.
It's the reason people join the police. You have to be some kind of psychopath to want to join.
I guess this was made before Facebook posts were a thing. He'd have had a field day arresting old men for mean tweets
Forty years later and this satire is still relevant. Depressing.
It’s hilarious how”coughing without due care and attention “ became illegal in 2020.
The 2024 UK riots brought me here
Aha was it a white riot