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  • @ahlishaholloway233
    @ahlishaholloway233 2 роки тому +250

    It really is an honor to see Jacob Rees Mogg in his early years.

  • @iamthehawk1
    @iamthehawk1 2 роки тому +129

    “While the audience throws quietly up” genius, Stephen’s conductors encouraging face makes it

    • @TheEvilCheesecake
      @TheEvilCheesecake Рік тому

      shame he's a tory now

    • @jeanpaulsinatra
      @jeanpaulsinatra 5 місяців тому +1

      It's a rare talent making a weird turn of phrase sound almost normal. Pretty much him and Chris Morris

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 7 років тому +273

    1:04 - "The lights are going down behind us as you can probably hear"

  • @PaulCarr1
    @PaulCarr1 6 років тому +929

    "Andrew is in his second year at Exeter University, reading Human Bigotry and Libertarian Nonsense."

    • @dmonarredmonarre3076
      @dmonarredmonarre3076 4 роки тому +27

      I guess when you can't defeat them on the grounds of reason, argument and logic, you need to straw man and satire

    • @dmonarredmonarre3076
      @dmonarredmonarre3076 4 роки тому +7

      @@gorahindu3196
      Once again, as Thomas Sowell would say, that is simply "An argument without an argument." ("Intellectuals and Society," Thomas Sowell pg. 54)
      arguments

    • @dmonarredmonarre3076
      @dmonarredmonarre3076 4 роки тому +3

      @@gorahindu3196
      You don't because you don't want to expose your infantile "ideas" to scrutiny. Like I said, "No skin in the game."
      Tacit attacks without revealing your prescriptions, strategies and courses of action is the definition of cowardice.
      Hahaha, goofy collectivists! LOL

    • @dmonarredmonarre3076
      @dmonarredmonarre3076 4 роки тому +3

      @@gorahindu3196 Whoa whoa whoa, I made assumptions? Look back at the thread. The person INITIAITING assumptions was you!
      I was simply REACTING to the assumptions.
      It's called LOGICALLY FOLLOWING. The very anti-thesis of a libertarian (One who believes in maximum freedom for the INDIVIDUAL) is a collectivist. A probabilistically valid INFERENCE to make regarding your comments would be that since you denigrate LIBERTY, you laud collective action.
      Why would you engage me then if you you didn't want to "waste time."
      You are aware YOU started the thread right?
      This is like the thief trying to say he isn't a bad guy in the middle of committing a robbery. All of your statements are EMPTY.

    • @vaclavmiller8032
      @vaclavmiller8032 3 роки тому +35

      @@dmonarredmonarre3076 Hahahaha you are transparently triggered, and I can't even see what you're responding to.

  • @swt8866
    @swt8866 5 років тому +184

    "Every bit as insulting as a Tory twice his age." ROFL "At one point I thought he was going to say something that made sense! -Oh yes, but he JUST avoided it!" Here we are years later and still just as relevant! LOL

  • @ticklish1991
    @ticklish1991 7 років тому +409

    Very assured, very ghastly, completely sucked dry of youth, energy, ideals, imagination, love, passion, or intelligence.

  • @nightw4tchman
    @nightw4tchman 7 років тому +145

    3:10 "I thought at one point he was going to say something which made sense" XD

    • @landochabod7
      @landochabod7 6 років тому +24

      "Yes, he just avoided it."

    • @richardlaversuch9460
      @richardlaversuch9460 5 років тому +3

      The truth does not make "sense"; that is why so few people understand it.

    • @danielcrafter9349
      @danielcrafter9349 3 роки тому +10

      @@richardlaversuch9460 - lol! Nice attempt at a save!

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra 2 роки тому +5

      @@richardlaversuch9460 "that is why so few people understand it."
      And you think that tories know what the "truth" is, do you?

  • @YourXavier
    @YourXavier 7 років тому +197

    "...the endless variations in J major."

    • @ajmeyers5661
      @ajmeyers5661 7 років тому +21

      I missed that until you brought attention to it, tks!

    • @eta2670
      @eta2670 2 роки тому

      I’d never noticed it!

  • @rakelodakel
    @rakelodakel 2 роки тому +475

    This is almost, actually, literally how Ben Shapiro was made.

    • @matthewodonnell6906
      @matthewodonnell6906 2 роки тому +37

      This would be Ben Shapiro 100% if he were British.

    • @emmanuelgoldspleen2905
      @emmanuelgoldspleen2905 2 роки тому +31

      @@matthewodonnell6906 I can't imagine what Ben Shropshireo would be like.... 🤮

    • @matthewodonnell6906
      @matthewodonnell6906 2 роки тому

      @@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 Absolutely horrifying, a Thatcherite Tory through-&-through who actively campaigned for Boris Johnson.

    • @libertycowboy2495
      @libertycowboy2495 2 роки тому +9

      Have you ever watched a Shapiro speech or debate? He uses actual documentaries empirical evidence in his arguments, and his opponents seem to only be able to use emotional arguments.

    • @emmanuelgoldspleen2905
      @emmanuelgoldspleen2905 2 роки тому +1

      @@libertycowboy2495 That may be the case, some of the time. Liberty Cowboy, unfortunately Ben is not interested in liberty for either of us.
      He’s completely bought and paid for, and he will shamelessly do whatever it takes to secure a fat pay packet.
      He has said as much himself, and his sponsored videos also attest to that. Fame has gone to his head, and has corrupted all of the other well-known talking heads out there who think they know it all.
      Trust your own instincts and your own insights instead of always agreeing and accepting the sentiments of that horrid worm. Don’t let him do your thinking for you.
      It’s very important.
      Also, I can think of a multitude of times where Ben has made emotional arguments, without any facts. Especially when it comes to a particular place in the *COUGH* Middle East *COUGH* .

  • @Macho_Fantastico
    @Macho_Fantastico 7 років тому +615

    It's scary how some things don't change.

    • @NameNotAlreadyTaken2
      @NameNotAlreadyTaken2 6 років тому +16

      humans never change. still the same old bronze age shit.

    • @KbcBerlin
      @KbcBerlin 6 років тому

      Are you well ? Evi etc;

    • @livb6945
      @livb6945 6 років тому +45

      Isn't that exactly what conservative means?

    • @sbhatti534
      @sbhatti534 6 років тому +29

      It’s the kind of competition Rees Mogg would probably have entered when he was young.

    • @fwwdadwdwafefhawedweddewaw6711
      @fwwdadwdwafefhawedweddewaw6711 4 роки тому +3

      good on you for finding out what conservatism is moron.

  • @angeliquejoy1
    @angeliquejoy1 4 роки тому +296

    That aged disturbingly well.

  • @wolfpackscrum284
    @wolfpackscrum284 6 років тому +87

    I think the contestant was a young William Reece-Mogg.

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra 5 років тому +7

      Did you mean Jacob Rees-Mogg?

    • @alpeshabhijitchowdhury6895
      @alpeshabhijitchowdhury6895 4 роки тому +2

      Did you mean Ben Shapiro?

    • @georgerubypoppy1063
      @georgerubypoppy1063 3 роки тому +5

      @@pineapplepenumbra Maybe not. William R-M was J R-M`s father.

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra 3 роки тому +13

      @@georgerubypoppy1063 Bloody hell, you're right!
      I didn't know that he had a father, I thought he just stepped out of an old documentary or something.

    • @tonybates7870
      @tonybates7870 2 роки тому +3

      William Rees-Mogg was the guy who wrote a newspaper editorial in 1967 that criticised the law's treatment of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards over trifling offences that wouldn't normally have seen the light of day.
      Hard to imagine his son being quite so sympathetic to the 'counterculture', isn't it?

  • @EyebrowsGaming
    @EyebrowsGaming 2 роки тому +169

    This was satire once.
    Now it's an improvement on the current Tory leader.

  • @leishayoung4124
    @leishayoung4124 2 роки тому +22

    "Genuine displays of ignorance and prejudice" - I lost it! 🤣🤣

  • @BeachMonstr
    @BeachMonstr 4 роки тому +308

    The beginnings of Ben Shapiro.

  • @jackmonaghan8477
    @jackmonaghan8477 6 років тому +173

    If this is what the Young Conservatives competition is like, I'd hate to think what the UKIP youth division competition would be like.

    • @bilbofaggin5
      @bilbofaggin5 5 років тому +94

      Just young skin heads hitting each other with sticks.

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 4 роки тому +35

      Springtime for you-know-who.

    • @alteumaen4820
      @alteumaen4820 3 роки тому +18

      Best Hitler Salute Competition maybe?

    • @alisonmiller7212
      @alisonmiller7212 2 роки тому +15

      Blackest shirt contest ?

    • @gaiusjuliuspleaser
      @gaiusjuliuspleaser 2 роки тому +7

      They say the same things, just really loudly and in a thick German accent.

  • @zlognorpbrimbio4252
    @zlognorpbrimbio4252 6 років тому +149

    Some skits endure the passage of time better than others and this one has aged like a sea sponge.

    • @Plethorality
      @Plethorality 4 роки тому +3

      ?

    • @waltonsimons12
      @waltonsimons12 4 роки тому +64

      @@Plethorality Sea sponges (well, some of them) can live for one to two hundred years. He's saying that the skit has aged really well; i.e. it's still as applicable now as it was back then.

    • @Plethorality
      @Plethorality 4 роки тому +18

      @@waltonsimons12 thank you!

    • @itookallthenames
      @itookallthenames 2 роки тому +8

      @@waltonsimons12 thank you, I had no idea if that was good or bad!

    • @drottercat
      @drottercat 2 роки тому +1

      Ummm... how does a sea sponge age?

  • @MarxistKnight
    @MarxistKnight Рік тому +1

    The number of times I've seen, and laughed at, this sketch, I've never noticed the line "...and the endless variations in J Major." Brilliant!

  • @OctopusOwl
    @OctopusOwl 2 роки тому +86

    Sounds exactly like Auto-generated cloud speech based on all other Torie speeches. Absolutely brilliant

    • @4nc3st0r
      @4nc3st0r Рік тому

      How far we have come in terms of auto generation by now

  • @LGranthamsHeir
    @LGranthamsHeir 2 роки тому +27

    3:15 "Very assured, very ghastly: completely sucked dry of youth, energy, ideals, imagination, love, passion or intelligence."
    Looks like a review of BoJo's "Peppa Pig" speech 😄😃

  • @NoaLives79
    @NoaLives79 6 років тому +50

    A perfect sketch, relevant probably anywhere in the world

  • @captainreagar
    @captainreagar 10 років тому +128

    I wouldn't be able to say why but that little moment "it doesn't sound" at around 0.50 is one of my favourite moments of TV ever

    • @malcolmsepulchre7713
      @malcolmsepulchre7713 3 роки тому +15

      They interrupt each other with such perfect awkwardness.

    • @newlife.vanessacalfan
      @newlife.vanessacalfan 2 роки тому +3

      I feel that Susan and the judge are just at the realization that they like eachother.
      The dim lights, Stephen`s soft voice asking questions and Hugh’s sensing that his opinions are highly valued are giving off an attraction vibe.
      Their gradually appreciation of eachother is another supblot here. Brilliantly done.

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 7 років тому +68

    "In the Daily Mail Hall, Horrorgate".

  • @seanharmon713
    @seanharmon713 5 років тому +183

    Only Hugh can make the word ‘awesome’ sound upper class.

    • @xenolalia
      @xenolalia 2 роки тому +26

      The increasingly uncommon but original sense of 'awesome' (to mean, as here, 'awe-inspiring' rather than generically 'good') is entirely typical of upper-class speech.

  • @sesfilmsllc
    @sesfilmsllc 2 роки тому +4

    Who knew that they got Alan Davis as the conductor. Seriously that wig Steven wears cracks me up.

    • @vis7139
      @vis7139 Рік тому

      Haha it's fantastic how he can play "susan" and the conductor - while appearing to be 2 totally different characters. Same for Hugh Lawrie!

  • @WhiteManBehindADesk
    @WhiteManBehindADesk 9 місяців тому

    Just one of my favourite sketches of all time. Perfect. So good. Important to rewatch every few months.

  • @drottercat
    @drottercat 2 роки тому +3

    I love the musical accompaniment. Spot on.

  • @DoubleBread
    @DoubleBread 6 років тому +26

    I've never seen A Bit of Fry and Laurie written as ABOFAL, for a while I had no idea what I'm looking at

  • @MarianDouglasUngaro
    @MarianDouglasUngaro 2 роки тому +11

    BRILLIANT. Keeping this bit as a touchstone point of reference. There’s an accurate transcript which I will share soon. The “transcript” here on youtube is well-intended, yet hopeless- too many errors. This sketch appeared originally in 1995! Was only posted to Internet in 2008- it did not originally appear in 2008, just to be clear. 👍🏽

    • @johnstanley3939
      @johnstanley3939 9 місяців тому

      Any update on the transcript? Or a link to it?

  • @37Dionysos
    @37Dionysos 7 років тому +113

    American politics in 2 minutes! "Every bit as insulting as a Tory twice his age." "At one point I thought he was going to say something that made sense!"

  • @quantumshark_5350
    @quantumshark_5350 2 роки тому +11

    These must be those "trendy young people in their 60s".

  • @mistahimaskwa
    @mistahimaskwa 15 років тому +41

    "Well, the lights are going down behind us as you can probably hear"
    Love it!

  • @jamessolly3030
    @jamessolly3030 Рік тому +1

    Never seen this before, brilliant! So many quotable remarks in there....

  • @richardbrown1189
    @richardbrown1189 2 роки тому +15

    Uncanny how Hugh giving his speech is a dead ringer for Rory Stewart!

    • @peterwoodhouse4314
      @peterwoodhouse4314 Рік тому

      That's ironic as Rory Stewart comes across as a human being...

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones 7 років тому +22

    Kind of reminds me of The Upperclass Twit of the Year race from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

    • @bicolouredprawn
      @bicolouredprawn 6 років тому +4

      I'm sure there'll be some car door slamming in the streets of Kensington tonight.

    • @richardlaversuch9460
      @richardlaversuch9460 5 років тому

      And that was inept too.

    • @06alepea1
      @06alepea1 2 роки тому

      @@richardlaversuch9460 alright gammonface

  • @wotireckon
    @wotireckon Рік тому +1

    Truly prophetic...and here we are in 2023.

  • @Napoleon4778
    @Napoleon4778 4 роки тому +2

    The orchestra is playing Vaughan Williams' Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus.

    • @vibraphonics
      @vibraphonics 3 роки тому

      I hope you're joking

    • @EddieGaster
      @EddieGaster 3 роки тому

      Sounds more like "Jupiter" by Gustav Holst.

    • @nicolasmartinez839
      @nicolasmartinez839 2 роки тому

      @@EddieGaster you were right the part they play is around 3:20 it sounded so familiar it was driving me nuts trying to remember

    • @majst6
      @majst6 9 місяців тому

      The music is a theme by Gustav Holst called Thaxted. He first used it in the movement Jupiter from The Planets, but it was also used for the patriotic hymn "I Vow to Thee, my Country", and it's probably this hymn that is being referenced in the sketch.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Vow_to_Thee%2C_My_Country

  • @andrewmaccallum2367
    @andrewmaccallum2367 2 роки тому +10

    2 simple rules for life;
    No.1 - Never trust a tory
    No.2 - Never forget rule number 1

    • @jozefserf2024
      @jozefserf2024 Рік тому +2

      Rule 3 - Never trust any politician

    • @vis7139
      @vis7139 Рік тому

      @@jozefserf2024 Rule 4 - if a politician had been saying the same thing for 40 years, they become a bit more trustworthy!

    • @0w784g
      @0w784g Рік тому

      The sad thing is you could've made an identical skit about Labour though couldn't you?

  • @derrickpohl7191
    @derrickpohl7191 Рік тому +2

    So, the UK was a good decade, if not two, ahead of US in culture wars & right wing lunacy. One of the values of history is seeing how seemingly new social pathologies always turn out to have deep precedents & the far right has always been full of it in pretty much the same way they are now.

  • @RedRattt
    @RedRattt Рік тому +2

    "Human bigotry and libertarian nonsense." killing me lol

  • @MarkNealon
    @MarkNealon 2 роки тому +11

    To think that promising young Tory grew up to be the current prime minister

    • @jameshughes7946
      @jameshughes7946 2 роки тому +1

      But somehow lost the eloquence that was shown here

  • @eleni1968
    @eleni1968 6 років тому +4

    THis is a brilliant sketch!! Dionysos 37 is correct this IS American politics in less than 60 seconds; These guys were a 2- man circus.

  • @davidwatton
    @davidwatton 6 років тому +64

    "Devoid of love, passion or intelligence" - some things never change!

  • @SunnyIntervalsORG
    @SunnyIntervalsORG 2 роки тому +2

    "And why not...trickle down economics...austerity measures...I make no apologies!"

  • @neonom1024
    @neonom1024 16 років тому +5

    that music is jupiter from holst's the planets

    • @cangokce9107
      @cangokce9107 5 років тому +2

      THANK YOU SO MUCH FROM 10 YEARS LATER

    • @zoepadmore9922
      @zoepadmore9922 5 років тому +3

      No it isn't, it is, "I vow to thee my country'.

    • @JohanHerrenberg
      @JohanHerrenberg 3 роки тому +2

      @@zoepadmore9922 'I vow to thee my country' puts words to the melody Holst wrote. It came later.

  • @pacificostudios
    @pacificostudios 2 роки тому +13

    This is the first time I have seen Stephen -- whom I admire immensely -- performing in drag. His ability to be knee-slapping funny without cracking up is heroic!

    • @sathrielsatanson666
      @sathrielsatanson666 2 роки тому +3

      There is plenty Vox Pop segments from ABOFAL when Fry was dressed as a woman.

  • @weirdloopyloo
    @weirdloopyloo 16 років тому +48

    "the young and hip-trendy", is a phrase I feel should from now on be used in national newspapers in place of "hoodies"...no reason I just think it's funnier

  • @lucillerrose
    @lucillerrose 6 років тому +33

    Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Early Years

  • @acorn1014
    @acorn1014 7 років тому +10

    "Am I not even, perhaps God?"

  • @dougpryce92
    @dougpryce92 10 років тому +8

    my favourite ABOFAL sketch!

    • @theradgegadgie6352
      @theradgegadgie6352 Рік тому

      You forgot the air quotes, m'colleague.
      "A Bit of Fry and Laurie."

  • @shakesmctremens178
    @shakesmctremens178 7 років тому +15

    Mindblowing. That English judge looks almost identical to that grouchy American doctor with the hot lady boss.

  • @tristanroberts
    @tristanroberts 7 років тому +31

    as true now as ever

  • @stephen_pfrimmer
    @stephen_pfrimmer 3 роки тому +3

    The endless variations in J major i love best.

  • @godfric
    @godfric  16 років тому +17

    A bit of Fry and Laurie - it's the name of TV series Hugh Laurie (of recent House MD fame) and Stephen Fry did in UK in, I think, 70s-80s.
    It has a lot of masterfuly done sketches - both guys were (and are) true, top-class actors and it shows even when they are essentialy fooling around!

    • @hennobrandsma4755
      @hennobrandsma4755 5 років тому +5

      godfric Between 1989 and 1995 in fact. Quite a bit later.

  • @mathieugariepy2948
    @mathieugariepy2948 2 роки тому +2

    Strong contender for next year's Upper Class Twit of the Year Contest.

  • @happeningfish77
    @happeningfish77 15 років тому +15

    "we're returning you to the shop where we bought you."

  • @ytimynona
    @ytimynona 15 років тому +16

    Lol "The lights are going down behind us, as you can probably HEAR." :D

  • @landochabod7
    @landochabod7 3 роки тому +1

    1:29 "Forward With Into Britain Tomorrow Right Step"

  • @JFKJrJrPlanetX
    @JFKJrJrPlanetX 5 років тому +31

    Ben Shapiro sounds exactly like this

    • @oliverlambkin3412
      @oliverlambkin3412 5 років тому +3

      And honestly, I could not care less if you are triggered by that fact.

    • @KZ-xt4hl
      @KZ-xt4hl 4 роки тому +15

      @@oliverlambkin3412 Nobody asked you, seems like you are looking for conflict

  • @kartikpandey1353
    @kartikpandey1353 2 роки тому

    I vow to thee, my country... Such a beautiful hymn

    • @LGranthamsHeir
      @LGranthamsHeir 2 роки тому

      You should see the song played in "The Day Today" parody and Penny Mordaunt's PM campaign video as well 😆

  • @stevolution666
    @stevolution666 7 років тому +63

    Mogg

  • @Matt-cz6ti
    @Matt-cz6ti Рік тому +2

    NatCon Conference 2023

  • @therealcaldini
    @therealcaldini 2 роки тому +3

    The young conservatives then are our cabinet members now. Was this used as training material?

  • @addisonfloyd1008
    @addisonfloyd1008 Рік тому

    The song is Jupiter from Gustav Holst's The Planets

  • @PurushaDesa
    @PurushaDesa 14 років тому +24

    And absolutely nothing has changed.

  • @Rose_Blue87
    @Rose_Blue87 16 років тому +3

    the correct short for "a bit of Fry and Laurie" is ABOFAL what is with a bit imagination above all. coincidence I don't think so :)

  • @donmurray3638
    @donmurray3638 6 років тому +24

    I'm watching Stephen's conductor thinking of a young Jeremy Clarkson! It's an awful thought!

  • @scionofdorn9101
    @scionofdorn9101 3 роки тому +7

    I see that conservatism in the Old Country didn't differ much from conservatism in the modern USA. It was just better dressed and far less obese.

    • @mattpreece6106
      @mattpreece6106 3 роки тому +3

      and then there is Boris ... the spitting image of T***p ... we are just as adept at stupid

  • @simonzmugg4204
    @simonzmugg4204 Рік тому +2

    I Wonder how they think of it these days….

  • @purpledanube
    @purpledanube 12 років тому +71

    Yeah....that's pretty much the American conservative elite. Universal mentality of the privileged class from time immemorial.

    • @KbcBerlin
      @KbcBerlin 6 років тому

      Be bold let it show sometime,

  • @thetooginator153
    @thetooginator153 4 роки тому +1

    Is that music “Fanfare For The Common Man”? That’s genius!

    • @EddieGaster
      @EddieGaster 2 роки тому +1

      I think it's 'Jupiter' by Gustav Holst.

  • @koookeee
    @koookeee 2 роки тому +6

    Whoever thinks this is unsubstantiated satirical nonsense might just as well take a close look at the current state of the great nation now...

  • @gutsy3597
    @gutsy3597 Рік тому

    1:39 Good lord! the resemblance to ben shapiro's voice caught me off guard.

  • @damechastain
    @damechastain 14 років тому +5

    @VinewoodSniper I couldn't believe it when I saw that the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler version wasn't even a parody. It was just a transcript. Hilarious and perfect.

  • @stephaniecarrow4898
    @stephaniecarrow4898 3 роки тому +2

    "I thought for a moment he was going to say something that made sense."

    • @DuncanMcA
      @DuncanMcA 2 роки тому

      Yes he JUST avoided it

  • @unsound64
    @unsound64 6 років тому +21

    36 conservatives watched this video it seems

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra 5 років тому +2

      The thumbs down is now up to 61, but more Tories have watched it, than that. It's just that some have thumbed it up as they believed that he put on a good show, and they want to vote for him.

  • @theghostoftom
    @theghostoftom Рік тому +1

    If only Sunak was half as coherent and on point with his replys to any questions as to why he does f all in the face of several crisis situations he helped cause.

  • @susantunbridge4612
    @susantunbridge4612 6 років тому +33

    "Tory" is Irish for bandit or thief.

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra 5 років тому +11

      Yes, and when I found that out I nodded and said, "that explains a lot".
      I refuse to call them "Conservatives" as they are not even attempting to conserve anything remotely British or traditional.

    • @70AD-user45
      @70AD-user45 4 роки тому

      @@pineapplepenumbra
      Looney left comment no doubt from a Corbyn voter who was humiliated at the last general election. Hahaha.😂😂😂

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra 4 роки тому +7

      @@70AD-user45 I'm neither a Loony nor humiliated by the election (although I am Economically left wing, as in I want workers to be treated decently, and for there not to be a massive disparity between the richest and the poorest; only cunts would disagree with those two), as it was a given that Boris would win. The last election was purely about Brexit, not that the Labour party or the BBC (or most of the msm, or that matter) could admit that that was what the election was about.
      They are too insulated from the realities of most peoples' lives, that and they are faux PC.
      "Hahaha.😂😂"
      Very childish.
      Btw, what happened in 70 AD that you want to commemorate?

    • @thetooginator153
      @thetooginator153 4 роки тому +2

      pineapplepenumbra - Annexation of the island of Samothrace by the Roman Empire under Vespasian? Seven years before Pompeii was destroyed? The Roman siege of Jerusalem? I have no clue what 70 AD is commemorating.

    • @lizardlegend42
      @lizardlegend42 4 роки тому +1

      Not to be a downer, but it isn't and idk where you heard that from. The Irish for theif is gadaí. Now my Irish is a little rusty so maybe there's another word that I don't know. But there's no letter y in Irish either so it'd have to be spelled differently.

  • @TranscendentLion
    @TranscendentLion 6 місяців тому +1

    Well, here we are for Election 2024.

  • @eldrago19
    @eldrago19 5 місяців тому

    The speech:
    Conference,
    Core values:
    - real punishment to offenders
    - family standards
    - opportunity for individual enterprise
    - roll back the frontiers of the state
    - Michael's bold and imaginative initiative
    and yes why not corporal punishment? Really crackdown young offenders. Rule of law. And yes I make no apology.
    Respect for ordinary decent vast majority welfare sponges. As Norman said so clearly, "Individual enterprise, culture, opportunity, attack on trendy liberal, education, wishy washy."
    John's wonderfully forceful point. Sloppy thinking, sixties, media, knockers in Michael's bold and imaginative... values, standards, decency, family, law.
    Yes I make no apology. And why not even perhaps God and pride in country?
    Decent ordinary sloppy people. Vast majority of bold new initiatives.
    Decent family values, standards, core values, return to 50s, responsibility, individual respect, standards, values. And yes why not value, respect, standards? [INDISTINCT]
    I make no standards. Vast family law. Why not sloppy corporal law punishment individual decent sponges wishy washy trendy family [?] values.
    Thank-you

  • @simonpryor877
    @simonpryor877 8 років тому +9

    Never noticed the "Exeter" reference until I went there. Boy, do they merit their reputation.

    • @EebstertheGreat
      @EebstertheGreat 7 років тому

      I have only heard of Exeter in reference to the prestigious (and effete) Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. For most of the country, it is famous only insofar as it is disdained. In reality, it is probably just another private school like any other.

    • @jaredbowhay-pringle1460
      @jaredbowhay-pringle1460 7 років тому +8

      Errr... pretty sure any reference in the sketch would be to the University of Exeter, which has a bit of a (reasonably valid) reputation as being a destination for white upper-middle class students. In fact, the actress Emma Thompson (who is also a good friend of Fry and Laurie) had a bit of a rant about the university following her adopted black son's experience there.

    • @isabellenaylor501
      @isabellenaylor501 7 років тому +5

      Exeter, as in the city in England- not America.

    • @rachelthomas5801
      @rachelthomas5801 7 років тому +1

      I went to Exeter. it was full of Sloanes and rich Arabs. Apparently Saddam Hussein had spies there, too. I was in a class with Santa Palmer Tomkinson

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 6 років тому +2

      Exeter, like Durham and St Andrews, is full of Oxbridge rejects. I have a St Andrews degree and tried for Edinburgh though not Oxford.

  • @djstarr-lowery4047
    @djstarr-lowery4047 2 роки тому

    And I understand that I will be condemned for my American ignorance, but I didn't know you guys had your own Trump. "God Bless us, Everyone."

  • @owenrichardson8476
    @owenrichardson8476 4 роки тому +2

    Lucky's speech from Waiting For Godot

  • @MrBabylon
    @MrBabylon Рік тому

    The BBC will never air a comedy sketch like this today.

  • @HSMiyamoto
    @HSMiyamoto Рік тому

    This is remarkably similar to the BBC Radio show "Saturday Night Fry" which also featured Stephen's fantastically dry humor.

  • @dmann1115
    @dmann1115 3 роки тому +11

    "Every bit as insulting as a Tory twice his age."

  • @wbertie2604
    @wbertie2604 2 роки тому +1

    In some of these sketches, I feel that Fry and Laurie are sometimes improvising and trying to trip each other.

    • @vis7139
      @vis7139 Рік тому

      Haha it is hard to tell isn't it?!

  • @robertolecki7492
    @robertolecki7492 Рік тому +7

    And nowadays Tories don't disappoint and sing exactly the same tune... how wonderful! 😂

  • @lornablewettandlee504
    @lornablewettandlee504 Рік тому +1

    donald trump must have watched this, and taken notes, bigly.

  • @dougpryce92
    @dougpryce92 13 років тому +11

    i love how high pitched he say "conference" at 1:39 hahaha

  • @annepoitrineau5650
    @annepoitrineau5650 2 роки тому

    Oh, and still fully relevant today!!

  • @thomasmurphy8323
    @thomasmurphy8323 2 роки тому +3

    Endless variations in J Major...

  • @BritishComedyUK69
    @BritishComedyUK69 6 років тому +2

    wonderful timing

  • @akib2542
    @akib2542 7 років тому +1

    2:00 lol.. isn't that just Nigel farage????

  • @leon2901
    @leon2901 5 років тому +8

    Jeffrey Archer clapping in approval at the end lol 😂

    • @georgerubypoppy1063
      @georgerubypoppy1063 3 роки тому +1

      Whilst Mary sat there stone faced and motionless. I assume this was post Monica Coghlan.

  • @djstona5284
    @djstona5284 5 років тому +1

    bloody brilliant this should get replayed on tv somewhere for the uk would be a good laugh we need more comedy like the old days open all hours.. on the buses .. the last of the summer wine.. flowery twats xD! ,, monty python .. the 2 ronnies all funny old stuff hey im only 29!

  • @tanya.24
    @tanya.24 2 роки тому +2

    THAT SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE BEN SHAPIRO JUST CADENCE WISE HOLY SHIT 😭😭

    • @vis7139
      @vis7139 Рік тому +1

      I thought at one moment he might make sense, but he just avoided it!

  • @LGranthamsHeir
    @LGranthamsHeir 2 роки тому +8

    So funny, but it's also scary to think that by 2022 Andrew could've been a member of BoJo cabinet (or at least a Tory backbencher)

  • @SunnyIntervalsORG
    @SunnyIntervalsORG 8 місяців тому

    Hugh Laurie went to Eton so he probably spent a lot of his time alongside people like this!

  • @user-qi8fn8cg6o
    @user-qi8fn8cg6o 2 роки тому +2

    Still true after all these years.