What put Cowards head and shoulders above their contemporaries was the quality of the writing but moreover, the brilliance of their acting. They way they performed together was utterly convincing and the comic timing of all four was perfection. Why they weren't given more episodes is mystifying.
I took it as something about what aduts lose when they stop being children. The whole scene is children in the playground talking. But it is looked at sideways by being adults, dressed in work clothes from their mundane job, drinking can of lager. I dont think it is about a magic hat, its about loss of innocence. It assends though, I find something in it unexplainable. Very similar to the Kevin Elden/sex pistols/amish sketch. I just can put my finger on what makes it work. For the Kevin Elden one it not that the sex pistol are amish, it not that Bill Grundy is amish. It that the whole world is amish, and has still spawned the sex pistols. In this one the supermarket work tabards are an important feature. It echos school uniforms, are they all just on a break from work, just got out of work so meet up in the park. Both sketches are not "funny". Oh my trousers have fallen down funny. I think they are absurdist in an artistic sense, aproaching Samual Becket or Michael Cheval. There is something in the magic hat sketch that feels like it contains a key to understanding the human condition, but it constantly remains out of reach. And Im left with a feeling of strange combination of loss and hope. An empty happyness. The existential meaningless of existance. So what do we fill the void with if nothing means anything. Do we fill it with working at the supermarket and morgages and bills. Or do we fill it looking for magic hats
I wouldn't trust that lot with my magic hat. The closing music makes it poignant! Goes to show that gifted comedians can make thought-provoking sketches with just a few people sat around in a wasteland.
I thought exactly the same...and how, maybe, the comedians are showing how people (working class) find their magic to live in places where there is no magic - gotta make your own
What put Cowards head and shoulders above their contemporaries was the quality of the writing but moreover, the brilliance of their acting. They way they performed together was utterly convincing and the comic timing of all four was perfection. Why they weren't given more episodes is mystifying.
lovely little detail that that one guy's uncle is obviously really ill, and he just asks if he can be Robert De Niro.
"I'm sorry, I don't understand the question"
Gorgeous Shit
Piss off! Piss on !
Job gloves?
magic gloves
Cowards was a gem!
My Cousin Derek Lost a Magic Hat around the Edinburgh area some years ago. Now we know what happened to it.
I've heard what you had to say....
........and I enjoyed it!
Now let me introduce you to, your friend and mine, Magic Hat.
Penelope Pitstop.
@@truthwillout1980 job gloves? She's a socialite!
Lovely. And lovely to see this on such familiar territory for me!
Where abouts is it?
I need to see the hat
Tim is hilarious
A glorious thing.
This is fucking genius
fantastic
No more magic hats
Bully Poetry at it's Finest.
Thought was a virtual reality headset. Then figured it's something better that's flown over my unphilosophical head
I took it as something about what aduts lose when they stop being children. The whole scene is children in the playground talking. But it is looked at sideways by being adults, dressed in work clothes from their mundane job, drinking can of lager. I dont think it is about a magic hat, its about loss of innocence. It assends though, I find something in it unexplainable.
Very similar to the Kevin Elden/sex pistols/amish sketch. I just can put my finger on what makes it work. For the Kevin Elden one it not that the sex pistol are amish, it not that Bill Grundy is amish. It that the whole world is amish, and has still spawned the sex pistols. In this one the supermarket work tabards are an important feature. It echos school uniforms, are they all just on a break from work, just got out of work so meet up in the park.
Both sketches are not "funny". Oh my trousers have fallen down funny. I think they are absurdist in an artistic sense, aproaching Samual Becket or Michael Cheval. There is something in the magic hat sketch that feels like it contains a key to understanding the human condition, but it constantly remains out of reach. And Im left with a feeling of strange combination of loss and hope. An empty happyness. The existential meaningless of existance. So what do we fill the void with if nothing means anything. Do we fill it with working at the supermarket and morgages and bills. Or do we fill it looking for magic hats
Water boy
I'm not having it.
Sheep
I wouldn't trust that lot with my magic hat. The closing music makes it poignant! Goes to show that gifted comedians can make thought-provoking sketches with just a few people sat around in a wasteland.
I thought exactly the same...and how, maybe, the comedians are showing how people (working class) find their magic to live in places where there is no magic - gotta make your own
@@ElJaf17 and all it took were 4 middle class comedians 👌
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