American Reacts to Harry Enfield - Loadsamoney (Doin' Up The House) REACTION
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
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King Boomer's Reaction to Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse performing the song Loadsamoney in this wacky music video from the UK. ENJOY!
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Loadsamoney was inspired by a high-earning plasterer's mate from the 1970s called Max Quaterman. Appearing in the national press, he had the nickname "Superhod" because he used an extra-large hod that enabled him to carry much more plaster than normal. Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson, who were writing for Harry's Stavros and Loadsamoney characters, had worked as plasterers and would have been aware of people like Max. The character was also a reaction to the "greed is good" mentality of the 80s. Loadsamoney and Stavros both appeared on a show called Saturday Live, a few years before Harry got his first BBC series.
Both Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse were actually working as plasterers on Harry Enfield's house. Harry heard them being hilarious while working and he decided to employ them as writers.
He wasn't a plasterer he was a hod carrier, you carry bricks in a hod, theres a saying in the building trade that goes, 'labourers are ten a penny but a good labourer is worth his weight in gold', they could earn good money loading out a scaffold, and keeping the brickies supplied.When a gang gets paid by the brick, they don't want to be waiting for bricks, and each brickie can lay between 500 and a 1000 a day, depending on the work
This is a great fact to learn after all these years, nice one!
@@jjcustard6378anyone who thinks you carry cement in a hod shouldn’t be commenting.
@@dannjp75 who said cement,?
This was genuinely released into the charts and peaked at #4, lol.
Ah back to the late eighties when Harry and Paul were regulars on Saturday live/Friday night live.There was also his Geordie counterpart Buggerallmoney.
I loved the Yorkshire man too
Loadsamoney was a very iconic character and the song became very popular. It even got to No 4 in the British music charts 👋
This was a character brought about by the yuppie generation of high-rolling young people - starting with those in stocks and shares and down into trades and industry. A time of huge wealth generation and sometimes the ugly side of exhibitionism. I remember being a care free 15yr old cycling with my mates from Birmingham to Stratford on Avon and singing this as we went - the irony being we had no money nor really cared. We had the sun and freedom. Bliss.
Don't forget the filofax and the brick Vodafone.
@@harry2.01 Even the mafia has filofaxes. They were into VERY organised crime. :)
I remember Loadsamoney was a very big character that made a big impression. I just remember people from my work place and friend group doing Loadsamoney impressions.
Stavros was also a good character of harrys from the same era
Whya you kicka ma dog and call it a f**koff 😂😂😂 ello peeps, wanna buy a ford cortina, very cheapness, 50p
Paul Whitehouse playing vacant like an absolute boss! They even performed it on Top of the Pops back in the day.
The Harry Enfield sketch show had many characters, one of which was a plasterer called "Loadsamoney"
It does help if you have seen the sketches before the music video peeps.
yessss absolutely love this, it actually charted in the UK charts. i beleive it was either Paul Oakenfold or William Orbit on the keyboards
Both gods of the turntable ❤
Off topic, I know, but have you ever heard William Orbit’s mix of Justify My Love by Madonna? A classic 😊
@@infidelcastro5129 i have not i shall look it up
@@infidelcastro5129, yes, brilliant mix by William Orbit.
It was William Orbit, credited as Billy Orbit on the single.
Loadsamoney had a Geordie, from Newcastle, cousin called Buggerallmoney lol 😆😆
King Boomer, I know you like your comedy from yesteryear, one of my favourite sketches is 'Johnny Nice Painter' from The Fast Show. A man that paints lovely scenes but goes into the depths of despair when he has to get the black out. It's just hilarious. They are all short sketches but there's a 17 min compilation by Rewind TV on RUclips. If anyone will appreciate this humour, it will be you, I think you'll love it.
This is Harrys satire of British Yuppy culture from the 1980s before the stock markets crashed, greed was seen to be good by a lot of people at the time including a certain female politician from the UK who I won't name but you will know!
Ask people up north in Yorkshire and places like that.... they'll tell you who she is. Mostly in expletives.
Before they got their break in television Enfield and Whitehouse worked as decorators. At one strange point they decorated for Stephen Fry 😱
Bet Fry wanted to decorate them back with his plaster trowel
Loadsamoney was one of Harry Enfield’s characters on a TV programme called Friday Night Live (or Saturday??) hosted by Ben Elton. It was known as alternative comedy.
Ben Elton is probably the least funny comedians in the history of the world
The very first appearance of the character, he was introduced as "The Plasterer" but by the second appearance on
the following week's edition of Friday Night Live, he'd been renamed after his catchphrase "Loadsamoney".
The character was "killed off" during Comic Relief Night in 1989. Loadsamoney reappeared briefly at the end of
first series of "Harry Enfield's Television Programme" on BBC2 standing on a cloud in Heaven wearing an all
white version of the outfit he wore on Friday Night Live in 1998, and that Comic Relief skit in 1989.
Friday Night Live was brought back as a one-off for Comic Relief in 1993, featuring the return of Loadsamoney,
back from the dead in a black leather jacket, but no longer as a plasterer. The character had become a bailliff!
Friday Night Live was brought back again as another one-off in 2022 for Channel 4's 40th anniversary, and once
again Loadsamoney was brought back. Harry Enfield also brought back his other well-known character Stavros.
There's a totally different incarnation of Friday Night Live nowadays ... albeit on GB News of all places!
Like the Roy from the IT Crowd t-shirt tribute 👌
He did something similar with his " Considerably Richer Than Yow."(You). He plays a rich bloke with Cathy Burke as his spoilt wife, & he always boasts until he finds out that his target of ridicule actually has more money. Which of course makes him angry & insulting.
He's great as David Mitchell's dad in "Upstart Crow"
Have you seen his Stavros sketch which he plays a North London Greek kebab seller.
Hello pips, innit
That’s the trio. Paul Whitehouse, Harry Enfield and Charlie Higson.
Got this on 12" with a great picture of him on cover. The B- side is basically a discussion between him and Lance (Paul Whitehouse) about they need to do something for the B side. 'Gotta do a B side? Yeah, B- side. What shall we do? Gotta do a song. Shall I do a song? - Yeah, gotta do a song - man said. What song ? ( Awful attempt at a song.... until tape runs out!
Some parts of the song are referencing samples used in Coldcut's remix of Paid In Full by Erik B & Rakim, which starts with "This is a journey into sound" in the BBC presenter voice. That & Pump Up The Volume by MARRS were massive hits using loadsa samples.
Loads o’ money was a character he created for a show called Friday night live. This was actually released as a single.
My history teacher at school used this song-skit as an example of the changing working and pay climate in the late 80s. I will never EVER forget him doing an impression of Harry in class saying Loaaaads-A-Moneeeeeeyyyy and adding his own 'yeeeeahhh bhooooyyyyyyy!' to it. Of course we cracked up because mixing RunDMC with Harry is just icing on the cake lol
This was epic at the time, not just the humour, but yeah as an example of the start of change to pay grades (at least the masses starting to add to it rather than the late 70s), self employment rules and such, fantastic stuf!
Cheers as always King Sir!
PS - Mr Malloy, if you are still out there "Here, Sir!" :P
Well tough, cos I wanna talk about your arsehole ring! :O
The 1980s….
Has it really been that long since everyone had money 😂
This was at the peak of Thatcherism in the late 1980s. He famously killed the character off during the second Comic Relief Telethon on the BBC in 1989. Which itself was a perfect representation of the politics at the time.
'sprinkle it with crack' -bosh, bosh, bosh
song about plasterers that used to earn loads of money back in the day..still do.. fun fact , paul whitehouse and charlie higson were either plasterers or painter and decorators back in the day
They did up Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's place!
@@ajivins1 thats right..and they couldnt believe they were funnier
For a slot in time around 1984 you could make (loadsa) money as a tradesperson in southern England. Loadsamoney was a strangely specific caricature of such.
During the Thatcher era there was a wealth divide between the South East (London and surrounding counties) and the rest of the country esp the North. It was common on the terraces when teams from London played teams from the North for fans to chant "We pay your benefits" to Northern fans and to shake wads of cash of them shouting "What's this then? Loadsamoney"
Harry Enfield is probably one of my favourite comedy sketch performers. Top class.
Now that’s a step back in time
Wow, i still have this on vinyl 😂
-It was inspired By the UK building boom of the mid-to-late eighties after the recession at the start of that decade.
I was a young newly allowed to-be self-employed carpenter, earning then easily £150 to £200 plus a day, 37yrs ago for about three and a half years until the property and building boom crash of 1989/90 followed by the deep recession of the early 90s.
Trades are just about earning that now in the UK after nearly 40 years later.
That's what the fictitious Loads Money character represented
Wow, this is going back some decades! 🙂
There are some great sketches with Lance. The one where he sings "who's that girl"...
This song has been in my regularly listen to playlist for about 12 years, it ain't going anywhere.
Oh god, I feel old - I remember this in the uk charts & on Top of The Pops 🤣🤣
This song was released 25th April 1988.
The Yuppie era.
I know a series you'd love it ran for four seasons and starred Johnny Vegas in my opinion the best thing he's ever done. Its called - IDEAL. So gutted when it ended. Its a dark kind of sitcom but hilarious.
So i bought this single at the time but never seen the video before. Amazing.
That was brilliant!
good stuff i enjoyed that. it IS a goldmine trust me
A lot of the characters shown are parodies of politicians and public figures in the UK at the time.
This song will come back to you again and again
My cousin is this. He was part of the crew that fixed up Windsor Palace after the fire in 1992.
It's actually a dig at the government.
Who then took it as a compliment 🤦♂️
Found out about this sketch myself when the game Killing Floor 2 put the character in
it's very Max Headroom his other early character who had a lot of screen time was Stavros the kebab shop guy "Hello everybody peeps"
Before he was known as a name, he did a weekly stint on Saturday/Friday Night Live (UK) as Stavros (see link), then introduced Loadsamoney in reaction to yuppies, and the lesser remembered Buggerallmoney.
ruclips.net/video/uHeLuPsOJJ4/видео.htmlsi=mM_tL7TaRcwzQwDL
Got to say, I can't remember this and am maybe only slightly as perplexed, I do obviously remember Loadsamoney. Enfield's comic creation on the UK's version of SNL 'Saturday Live', which made him and many other comedians household names.
"All This Scratching Is Making Me -Itch- Rich"
Top ten hit in the UK in the '80's, taking the piss out of Thatchers Britain, where you could only make money out of building work or banking. And Loadsamoney was a pastiche of every plasterer (except one) I ever met back then!
This was class back in the day
PLEASE react to Dave Allen Supermarkets. It is hysterical and you will never look at grocery shopping in the same way again, with smirking and giggling to yourself. It is so relatable and fantastically funny. Keep the videos coming, loving the channel. 🇬🇧😀
You need to watch one of the sketches of him, to understand how he was made. He was intune with the people, and the trends of the 80's and 90's. This was at the height of 'Loadsamoney' s fame. I loved this song at the time. I think it was a few years before i bought 'do the bartman'
Loads of money was supposed to be a plasterer hence the trowel and bosh bosh shum shum wallop.
Other Harry Enfield stuff worth having a look at are the Tim nice but dim sketches or the ones with Mr Dead.
Loads of money was one of his first characters I like his other early character Stavros
Harry was a legend in the 90s.
I said "Shut your mouf" to a canadian visitor and she kept saying "say it again! say it again!". Foreign birds are weird.
"Bish Bosh Loads of Dosh" (How to plaster by Harry Enfield)
That character was my favourite in its day
Reminds me of a piss-take of Paul Hardcastle's tune Just For Money. Bob Hoskins appeared on screen a few times going "Manay....fink abou' tha MANAY....it's the loife av laxury, moi san...MANAY...imagine whot you could do wiv it!"
Watch "right in the middle of the fuckin road" with Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield - hilarious bit of music
Bloody hell. I'd have never listened to this again. Cheers Muppet.
This was huge in the 80’s when I was a teen , all the kids were running around shouting shut your maaath and we all started calling our money Dosh 😅
This had so many culural references to the 80s.
This was a satire on the eighties economy. The 80s was very polarised because of the way that the country was being run, you were either very poor or had obscene amounts of money. This led to lots of rich blokes going around flashing their cash everywhere.
It was cool for a while to have a massive keychain hanging from the front of your belt.
As far as I am aware, Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson used to be painters and decorators until they made it in comedy. Hence the bit about doing up the house.
This song made it into the top ten.
Here it is on Top Of The Pops. If you get on Top Of The Pops it means you have made it in Britain from a music point of view.
ruclips.net/video/iwjKeKXhA_8/видео.html
This was the late eighties so the music was merging into the 90s a bit which you managed to notice. You had this influencing early dance music and then on the other side you had the Pixies influencing early Grunge.
It was even strange when it came out
One Harry Enfield sketch to watch out for is Loads visiting the countryside. His car registration AR5E
It's a comment on the boom that happened in and around London in the mid to late 80's and 90's, which didn't really spread to the rest of the country. With an overheating economy, and demand outstripping supply, certain tradespeople were in heavy demand and could (supposedly) make very good money.
This is combined with the fact that, in the UK, flaunting money was (and generally still is) seen as very vulgar but, at that time, the 'yuppie's in the financial services started to do this and it filtere4d down. It never really happened outside that little London bubble, to my recollection. Again, London is not really part of the mainstream UK, but rather an anomaly.
This was so iconic for the uks 80s cultural history . Thatchers Britain and Yuppys on the make
As others are saying this is from the Thatcher years when greed was good, profit everything and the devil take the hindmost. A time of rocketing house prices when there was a lot of money for anyone in the housing and construction industries. A time when boasting about your wealth was nothing to be embarrassed about.
It was definitely of its time.
You really need to watch the sketches with this character before seeing this. This is the like seeing a Christmas special without watching any preceding episodes.
DO THE FAST SHOW!! :) Brilliaaaaaaaaant!
The government had made changes in the 80s that made it much easier for individuals to be self-employed and make a fortune compared to being slave employees. Suddenly there were plasterers, plumbers and electricians earning healthy six-figure salaries. Lee (Loadsamoney) and Lance (his pal) were characters spawned from those halcyon times. The song came along later at a time when everybody was shouting "shut up and look at my wad" and "Loadsmoney" at each other.
Living Doll by The Young Ones and Cliff next, hopefully.
Hard to believe that this actually charted here in Englandlland
This was during the Thatcher years when there was opportunity to make lots of money for doing very little like on the stock exchange and young professionals (yuppies) were driving round in Porsches and banks were virtually throwing money at people even if they couldn't really afford to pay it back. Skilled tradesmen like plasterers, which is one of Harry's most popular characters here, could charge loads a money for jobs. Naturally it wasn't sustainable and it all crashed. Think of American Psycho and you're there.
Have you seen upstart crow David Michell and Harry Enfield as Shakespeare and his annoyed dad
Also check out Harry doing his Stavros character, as mentioned a few times in the comments previously. 😊😊
You should check out "Ullo John Gotta New Motor" by Alexi Sayle
I forgot this ridiculous tune exists 😂
You should check out the White van anthem Right in the middle of the fu##ing road by Harry Enfield & Chums
1980s equivalent to Saturday night live / launched careers of Ben Elton and many more / comic strip presents / Young ones /not the nine o’clock news / all very famous plied there trade during that era
You need to watch ‘this county’
So many 80s working class references and impersonations.i doubt many people outside of the U.K. would get the references.
‘On your bike’ refers to a Norman Tebbit saying the poor should get on their bike to get out of poverty.
This song was a load of pony anyway.
@King Boomer. The record is made up from umpteen other successful chart entries from early to mid 80's.,‼️ Harry Enfield got around copyright by re-recording each individual "sample" and sound alike's for the vocals. Looking back that was no easy task especially when every 2-3 seconds the "sampled" tracks change‼️ Enfield's Loadsamoney character actually took the piss out of the "YUPPIES"
(Y. U. P. P Y.) Slang standing for Young Urban Professional) They'd typically congregate in the trendy wine bars, sipping wine coolers, as they'd flicked through the pages of their Filofax all dressed in various shades of grey suits by Paul Smith or Hugo Boss, and stinking of Paco Rabanne aftershave‼️borne out of Thatchers Britain, where the incredibly well off made money and kept it too, whilst the working man (the backbone of our country and workforce) were all losing the industries that they and many generations of men in that family had in their blood. Meanwhile the YUPPIES raced around Chelsea, Sloane and Knightsbridge in their Porche 911's trading on the Stock Market, using the very first of the car phone's‼️
I preferred his character Buggerallmoney 😂😂😂
Good Grief, i bought this atrocity!
You should do a reaction to Focus singing Hocus Pocus on the Midnight Special in 1973. Yes I know you don't do music reactions but I think this particular one should be the exception. But you need to react to it completely cold knowing nothing (then get Queen Boomer to do the same), no spoilers 🤐
Please watch Brass Eye. A classic show from the 90s
If you can dig it out watch Harry sketch doing the rugby lads ( Totty alert ) well crazy
LODS OF EMONE!
Hey you got a ‘Roy’ t shirt!!
I was aware of the character but never saw the video.
in the 80s they were going through a booom of yuppies wide boys and moon lighters
Please tell me you got your t-shirt because of Roy in the IT Crowd 😁
QB got it for me, and yes lol.