I would have thought they would have said "mitigate" but "militate" maybe fits. They could both be used. "Being a good shot could militate or mitigate somewhat against his being a quare."
My favourite part watching this is that they're never offensive to Bunny, they're all just friends and he's just the more knowledgeable one about these matters.
The only man I knew of, called Bunny was N.M. "Bunny" Roger (1911-1997) and he was indeed a "Quare" and like many, did his bit in WW2. In Normandy (1944) there were reports of him leading his Rifle Company in the attack, with a green chiffon scarf around his neck; when later asked about the war, he once replied, "My dear, the people, the noise!" :)
Yes, the little cameos from Charlie Higson in these "Is he a Quare" sketches really are the icing on the cake of two brilliant central performances by Harry & Paul, aren't they? I liked his comment: "Perhaps Hislop and Attenborough quare away together when the cameras aren't rolling" lol
They had a hissy fit about Little Britain, imagine the outrage about 2 elderly upper class white men deciding who is or isn't quare... The quares would go ballistic.
Johnny Depp looks like a quare, dresses like a quare, wears his hare like a quare, and has (had) a very attractive wife. He's also on the television. Draw your own conclusions.
On Facebook I repeated this sketch in text about a lecturer in my university. Now my university is up in arms about why I did this. They have no sense of humour and are planning disciplinary action against me. Imagine if Michael Heseltine sued the BBC for broadcasting this show, it would make him look like a right humourless cow. Like the humourless cows at my uni. Bastards.
@@stevebinning977 .....of course, when Behan wrote the 'The Quare Fellow', [ 'quare' being the Irish pronunciation of "queer" ] Quare meant 'Strange' or 'Odd' in the colloquial Irish at the time, and not at all a sexual reference,. The play was about the eponymous "Quare" fellow [ who, like Godot, never actually appeared in the play ] but was a prisoner in the condemned cell next door to the main protagonist in the play, who referred to the condemned man throughout as ' De Quare Fella '......In previous times to this [ The Quare Fellow was first staged in the 1950's ] when I was growing up, "Queer" simply meant being 'not feeling well' in the English vernacular of the time; in much the same way as "Gay" simply meant feeling 'happy'....so yes, if he's referred to as a quare, he's probably a quare...so I'll put him down almost certainly as a probably happy quare
This ain’t mocking homosexuals, it’s mocking homophobes. You’d have to be thick not to get that. They’re arguing over whether his shoes or him being a good shot make him a “quare.”
Can we just enjoy the sketch without having an argument whether something is offensive. Like we did ten years ago when people were less sensitive about everything.
I do wish probable part-time quares would stop muddying the water by being good shots. Good grief man, we need some certainties in today's confusing world.
As someone pointed out Bozo the PM went to Eton so is probably a quare but as he has shagged about for years and left countless sprogs all over the place he is very likely to be a part time quare.
It doesn't refer to a person. It's just a variation of phrases such as "like mad", "like crazy", "like hell" (another one is "like nobody's business", which is a good one). Usual spelling is Billy-O, but there are others. It's from the late 1800s, and probably originated in Australia.
"He eats pizza with a knife and fork, like a queer." "He drinks alcopops through a straw, like a queer." "He takes it up the bottom, like a queer." "I'll put him down as a confirmed uphill gardening queer!"
It's a reference (exaggerated, of course) to the fact that as we age our ears get bigger. It can amount to about half an inch, or more in some cases, by the time we reach their age.
Many European old 'upper class' men tend to actually have ears like that, at least ones appearing on the news or panel shows. Its like sometimes it seems all old guard east European commie leader had enormously bushy eyebrows.
The best one by far. Bunny's smile after "incorrigible old queer" is priceless.
@@andymerrett Well if it sounds like a word, it looks like a word and it's on televishhhhun,
then I'd suspect that it's probably a frightful old word.
"That would militate somewhat against him being a queer" what a sentence. God-tier gold.
I would have thought they would have said "mitigate" but "militate" maybe fits. They could both be used.
"Being a good shot could militate or mitigate somewhat against his being a quare."
I expect "probable part time quare" will be an option on the next census.
An option on the next census and compulsory for the one after!
Stevie Wonder's hit single 'Part Time Quare' was probably inspired by this.
Lol! 😂
😂😂😂
My favourite part watching this is that they're never offensive to Bunny, they're all just friends and he's just the more knowledgeable one about these matters.
Token gay but he's actually respected
They do call him a stupid old queer but you can tell it's with love
Oh they were pretty cruel in the Angela Merkel sketch.
So many part timers in parliament. Even now. 😂
The old men’s big ears is fucking genius 😯
Paul Whitehouse...one of the greatest comedy talents of the last hundred years!
couldn't do it without whitehouse.
It's true that Housey is a great comedy talent - but he's very probably quare.
It's always nice to see Enfield and Housey together on television. It's good to see an openly quare couple doing so well.
They're both absolutely hilarious and really good actors who
Certainly in the last 40,45 years anyway
Wouldn't get away with this on TV now just 13 years later!
“I don’t think I shall sleep at all tonight!” Priceless!
It's always good to see Harry and Paul on television. It's nice to see an openly quare couple doing so well.
They probably quare together when cameras aren't shooting and wives aren't looking like a couple of probable quares.
Harry & Paul have been Quare together for forty to forty-five years..
@@drewyStyla 😂😂😂
Enfield and Whitehouse are the greatest comedy double act ever !
when they mark the newspapers in red it just cracks me up
Bring back this sort of telly, ill start watching it again =)
As a kwear myself, I find this highly offensive, I think.
I might have to ask Bunny.
BUNNY ?!
Mark Adderley You might be only a part timer.
*OH YES, I'M AN INCORRIGIBLE OLD QUAAAREEEE...*
A frightful quaaare even!
Never gets old and goes under the PC radar! 👊🏼
It sounds like you don't understand satire. Are you a quare?
You know this is taking the piss out of posh old gits gossiping about irrelevance and not at all about quares, don't you?
I cry everytime he says "however" it cracks me up every time ...never fails LOL probably my favorite one of the lot!
The only man I knew of, called Bunny was N.M. "Bunny" Roger (1911-1997) and he was indeed a "Quare" and like many, did his bit in WW2.
In Normandy (1944) there were reports of him leading his Rifle Company in the attack, with a green chiffon scarf around his neck; when later asked about the war, he once replied, "My dear, the people, the noise!" :)
Who's bit did he do?
He can't have been a quare, old chap; he was a very good shot.
Hope he didn't do his bit in.
Did his wife mind him quaring away?
Whoever uploaded this is probably a quare. Since watching it I myself have realised I'm a frightful quare and now I'm quare-ing away like Billyo.
Yes, the little cameos from Charlie Higson in these "Is he a Quare" sketches really are the icing on the cake of two brilliant central performances by Harry & Paul, aren't they?
I liked his comment: "Perhaps Hislop and Attenborough quare away together when the cameras aren't rolling" lol
I wish that "they" would put these gems on again. It's ages since Harry and Paul have been on the telly.
They had a hissy fit about Little Britain, imagine the outrage about 2 elderly upper class white men deciding who is or isn't quare... The quares would go ballistic.
"...Does your wife mind you quaring away ?"
Love the fact they don't care at all if he is a qware, but just want to know if he is indeed a qware or not.
Johnny Depp once said Whitehouse was the best actor he had ever seen :)
changed his mind once he saw Charlie Higson's performance as Bunnie :)
Johnny Depp gets abused by a stupid Hollywood actress so I don't think his opinion is worth jackshit
Johnny Depp is on television
Jonny Depp is a very clever one.
Johnny Depp looks like a quare, dresses like a quare, wears his hare like a quare, and has (had) a very attractive wife. He's also on the television. Draw your own conclusions.
Dislikes are from quares.
You'd never get away with this type of comedy these days unfortunately.
Because of the big ears?
On Facebook I repeated this sketch in text about a lecturer in my university. Now my university is up in arms about why I did this. They have no sense of humour and are planning disciplinary action against me. Imagine if Michael Heseltine sued the BBC for broadcasting this show, it would make him look like a right humourless cow. Like the humourless cows at my uni. Bastards.
A sign of the times.
They're probably quare
university's are the breading ground of malcontent.. and the liberal left time for a clear out..
Your university sounds like a quare
steve Apperley I think you mean ' breeding' ....breading is an entirely different thing.
Lol - their ears!
That chap Boris Johnson...do you think he's a quare? He has the hair of a quare.
Does he store all the newspapers after he has written on them? Forming a sort of archive of who is and isn't a quare?
Probably a quare.
yes he's been storing them for 40-45 years
Lairdyful i don't know what'w funnier that skiit or this
I expect it is not his newspaper but The Club's and therefore would be archived by The Club.
Paul Moss one of them is the Telegraph
Quaring away like billy-oh. What will you do in your old age?
"excellent" at the end
Stunning...so good!!!
Love the old man ears😂
no she's happy to let me queer away like billio
@wakofish "that would millitate somewhat against him being a quare" lmao, best sketch on the show, just in front of dragons den :)
So good!
love it!
Just perfection!
This is one of the first adverts I have never 'skipped. '
Paul Whitehouse doing his best King Charles impersonation.
What did I just watch
A very funny sketch.
So glad Harry gave back Charlie his job.
Ιmagine if Paul was Bilbo Baggins, Harry being Gandalf the Grey and Charlie as Tom Bombadil. Exactly this scene, in Shire, talking about quares.
Netflix pls do something and bring this 2 again together..BBC is xxxxxed up
Lovvvvvvvvvve😂😂😂😂
"He is an extremely good shot....." How confusing.
LOVE THIS. Part time quare. hahahaha!!!
He ties his Guards tie like a quare.
many a true word spoken in jest
LOOKS like a quare, SOUNDS like a quare. Put him down as a probable quare, yes.[could go on forever this bit lol]
He's the hair of a quare.
When Brendan Behan wrote his play The Quare Fellow, was he ahead of his time?
If he wrote a play called the Quare Fellow he's probably a quare.
@@stevebinning977 .....of course, when Behan wrote the 'The Quare Fellow', [ 'quare' being the Irish pronunciation of "queer" ] Quare meant 'Strange' or 'Odd' in the colloquial Irish at the time, and not at all a sexual reference,. The play was about the eponymous "Quare" fellow [ who, like Godot, never actually appeared in the play ] but was a prisoner in the condemned cell next door to the main protagonist in the play, who referred to the condemned man throughout as ' De Quare Fella '......In previous times to this [ The Quare Fellow was first staged in the 1950's ] when I was growing up, "Queer" simply meant being 'not feeling well' in the English vernacular of the time; in much the same way as "Gay" simply meant feeling 'happy'....so yes, if he's referred to as a quare, he's probably a quare...so I'll put him down almost certainly as a probably happy quare
Bunny the quare hare lol
QUARE!
I just discovered that Bunny is one of the guys from "Loadsamoney" song.
This ain’t mocking homosexuals, it’s mocking homophobes. You’d have to be thick not to get that. They’re arguing over whether his shoes or him being a good shot make him a “quare.”
Can we just enjoy the sketch without having an argument whether something is offensive. Like we did ten years ago when people were less sensitive about everything.
Frightful quare
It's not mocking homophobes you quare.
Bunny!
To to confusing. Indeed!
Lmfao! Great comedy
Quare away like Billy-o
"Im an encourageable old quare"
31 definitely probable queares.
Its not bilio, its Billyo.. as in 'she goes like the billyo' in other words, like hell, very well, very fast, with enthusiasm etc etc
Thanks for putting that into context, the difference in language and culture can need explaining. Funny, 8 years ago. Can you define grinder? 😂
“Excellent”😂
Im a part time quare
Well... if he sounds like a quare and looks like a quare...
I'm going to put down... probable quare...
Isn't it sad that this would not get on tv nowadays?
No, because I haven't got one.
Hilarious
Can anyone upload the Harry Redknapp one?
I like the fact that they have massive ears😅
Is Portillo a quare?
He wears pink trousers and went to Harrow and quared away like Billy oh when he was at University so I should say so.
A part time quare lmfao 🤣🤣
Well he looks like a quare, and he sounds like a frightful quare......
I do wish probable part-time quares would stop muddying the water by being good shots. Good grief man, we need some certainties in today's confusing world.
today
Three people are 'quares'
Bunny.
Do you know who I mean by Charles Windsor?
As someone pointed out Bozo the PM went to Eton so is probably a quare but as he has shagged about for years and left countless sprogs all over the place he is very likely to be a part time quare.
He may well be an Ex Quare
Jack Whitehall... is he a quare?
Yes, I should think he's probably a quare.
Shouldn't this be banned for Quarophobia?
However, he is an extremely good shot. And that would militate somewhat against him being a quare.
Who was or what was the reference to "Billeo", I don't know the proper spelling or language?
It doesn't refer to a person. It's just a variation of phrases such as "like mad", "like crazy", "like hell" (another one is "like nobody's business", which is a good one). Usual spelling is Billy-O, but there are others. It's from the late 1800s, and probably originated in Australia.
@@KonoShunkan OMG, thanks heeps, mate! :)
@@tomasinacovell4293 You're welcome! It was a good question.
Could be a reference to the Devil.
Always thought it meant doing something often and quickly, like a quare would
"He eats pizza with a knife and fork, like a queer."
"He drinks alcopops through a straw, like a queer."
"He takes it up the bottom, like a queer."
"I'll put him down as a confirmed uphill gardening queer!"
:-)
Whitehouses growl XD
Is this banned yet ? ..
probably part time quair
Quare lol
Bunny the Quare
Paul Whitehouse looks identical to the religious twat Pat Robertson.
who is playing bunny???
Charlie Higson.
@@RealIllumin Is Charlie Higson a quare?
@@powderedground78 He's on TV AND he's married. So yes probably a quare. Certainly looks a quare.
@@RealIllumin well if he looks like a quare, he's married and he's on televishhhun....
then he's probably an incorrigible old quare
@@kaiserswaghelmii9361 Bunny? You think he's probably an incorrigible old quare don't you?
Oh yes!
Problehaqware.
Never get these sketches.
I feel like im watching the hobbit
Frightful quares.
I would shave a cardiomyopathic lentiginosis porcupine to get into this club.
I suppose that makes you a... Quare.
Well, I do look like a quare, and I sound like a quare, and I have an attractive wife like Bunny and he's a quare.
@@shmookins Excellent! 👌
well, goodness me, this is all too confusing...
What's the whole thing with the big ears though, not that it isn't cool, I just wonder how fits into the English humor and lore?
It's a reference (exaggerated, of course) to the fact that as we age our ears get bigger. It can amount to about half an inch, or more in some cases, by the time we reach their age.
Many European old 'upper class' men tend to actually have ears like that, at least ones appearing on the news or panel shows. Its like sometimes it seems all old guard east European commie leader had enormously bushy eyebrows.
@@KonoShunkan NS, believe you, I'll have to read that up! :)
@@tbdkuphk I guess before you said it I only had more of an unconscious awareness for it. :)
there actually are people like this
How di Heseltine not sue....? Unless he was indeed a part time Quare