Yes it was once called "taking the piss" and in all ways, especially at work for young people full of arrogance and know it all attitudes, was done to ensure they fitted in with the group they were joining. Now because of political correctness and now Woke young people are obsessed with their feelings not being hurt, which has led to so much of our society declining.
I'm so glad you laughed as we Brits don't have much idea what they were going on about either. Cockney slang can be bewildering to us you know. We just try to make head or tail of it, but find it funny anyway. That's what you did. Welcome to the club brother.
The point is you are not supposed to understand the various slang. It's just a satire on the slang, and you can't tell if the Inspector understands or not but then he comes out with his own unintelligible slang. However those who are well versed in rhyming slang would understand it but that's not the joke. This is a very British type of understated humour!
Neal I remember these sketches from back in the 90s. They are still as funny now. Sadly you would not be allowed to make any of these funny shows anymore. The younger generation really don’t know what they are missing😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
I know ,all the wokes would have a melt down now if these were on TV now , absolute class comedy ,I end up watching all the old shows ,Steptoe and son ,rising damp ,etc
Brit here. That second police sketch is funny to us because the senior officer identifies himself as being from Dorset (a rustic county way out in the Westcountry) whereas all the others come from the Metropolitan Police, which is Greater London's main force. The endless stream of cockney rhyming slang would baffle the shit out of anyone, let alone someone from out in the sticks of the countryside. I recognise maybe a third of the terms used, if that. (I come from Wiltshire, next to Dorset.)
@theradgegadgie6352 Hilarious your post ! I had to listen to the sketch a few times to try to understand some of cockney accent and words... ha ha i had a good laugh, as well as a good laugh at myself... french in France american speaking mother language... you may imagine the great time i spent All the Best to Dorset and Wiltshire
The pilot episode of The Detectives, which starred Jasper Carrot, is something you'd find hilarious. Two cops get taken hostage by an escaped convict who'd absconded to watch the FA cup. As the two cops want to see the game as well, they all end up watching it together. At one point, the convict passes the gun to one of the coppers so he can swig some beer. Engrossed in the game, the copper passes the gun back to him. 😅
My favourite is from the lacklustre Rowan Atkinson comedy The thin blue line with the outburst "do you realise your cockup has put my arse on the line, we're talking about your cockup my arse" and of course someone walks in just as he's saying the second part.😂
They had at least one "cock up / arse" joke each episode in the second series. Other favourites were "It's my arse on the line and I don't want a cock up" and "It's my arse on the line and if it gets stuffed I'm going to be very red in the face"
The second sketch with all the old London slang terms very few people I think would not understand now, I'm a 60 year old South Londoner & I didn't get ALL of that myself! 'Parking your breakfast'- Using the toilet. 'Skyrocket'- Pocket, 'jam jar' - Car. 'Mincers'= Mince pies - Eyes, 'Boat'= 'Boat race' - Face, 'North= North & South' - Mouth, 'Shell like' - Ears.
The copper was sitting outside and clocked ( spotted ) the man going in to the pub . When he followed him he was going into the toilets , where he also followed him in to . When he walked in to the toilet , the man was in possession of class a drugs ( coke - ayne ) , which he possibly had in his pocket , or up his jacksy ( backside )
Am from London, in my 60s. Some of my friends I've know for long time. Speak cokney slang. Still have a hard time understanding them. But I get them back with west Indian slang. Lol😂.
The first sketch is actually a parody of the case of the so- called Yorkshire Ripper, the whole case was appallingly handled ( the case did feature a tape and letter being sent to South Yorkshire Police).
Parking his breakfast in/on the Benghazi- Benghazi is presumably rhyming slang for khazi, which is a term for the toilet which the British took back from India. We don't make it easy.
Dropped into an old pub in Dorset many years ago, two old bloke chatting over a pint, I was mesmerised, they were speaking English, but I didn't understand a word they said.
So many laughs... so long ago. Mel, Grif and of course Rowan were huge in Sweden (where I live). Mel died far too early unfortunately. Grif has done many serious roles in later years and is damn good at it. Fine actor!
Griff RJ and Rowan Atkinson did the famous Constable Savage sketch only for Atkinson to complain about life replicating art with political correctness and wokeness destroying free speech in the last few years.
The whole fun of this sketch is - the normal 'propper' English speaking cop can't understand the language of the locals/ gangs - who each have a different kind of lingo. So don't worry if you can't understand it - neither can we 'proper' speaking law abiding viewers. It's sort of Cockney rhyming slang and I know some of that - but not any of what they're saying. Shows how a correctly spoken copper's life is not an easy one! Still said copper got his revenge and went into his own local dialect - which nobody there understood!
Good on you Neal, this from a UK satirical comedy series called Not The Nine O’lock News. In the UK the 9 o’clock news was the primary news programme. The closest we had at the time was SNL.
First sketch …This was one of the best tv comedy sketch shows of the early 80s in U.K. Called “Not the nine o’clock news” as it was on channel BBC2 when the news was on BBC1. The stupid cop, Mel Smith unfortunately died in 2013, he was only 60. He was Britain’s John Belushi.
I used to teach the Metropolitan Police interview courses a few years ago. The interview clip was part of the introduction. Times have somewhat changed. Thankfully.
If you can understand 50% of the London slang you’re doing much better than I am, doesn’t matter what they’re saying the fact that they are having such a full blown conversation while talking what’s absolutely nonsense to each other is hilarious 🤣
The copper was sitting outside and clocked ( spotted ) the man going in to the pub . When he followed him he was going into the toilets , where he also followed him in to . When he walked in to the toilet , the man was in possession of class a drugs ( coke - ayne ) , which he possibly had in his pocket , or up his jacksy ( backside )
Haven't seen these for many year's! 😂 & They are still great. Look up police comedy scenes 2024 !!! One of the most horrific things with government cover up that brings such great comedy.
In Britain we use irony (no goldie or bronzie allowed), sarcasm, humour, cynicism, wit, exaggerated stereotypes and mockery mixed together to express our opinions against something that we see as ridiculous, subversive, dangerous, unjust, racist, narcisstic, self serving, banal, cruel, idiotic or just down right stupid and incompetent. . As Reginal D Hunter said when he did a turn at the Hammersmith Apollo - "The British are the ONLY race on earth who can insult you with a compliment. Someone once said to me 'Nice hat' and i replied 'Thanks man', it was only when i was doing the hoovering 5 days, later that i suddenly realised that he'd insulted me". Here's an example - "WOW, what a great dress and how brave of you not to wear a bra with it........................ OH, you ARE, wearing a bra with it........................ well, that clears up that mystery"!!. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
That Rowan Atkinson sketch with Constable Savage - believe me, those offences DO exist in Britain, if you dare criticise our dear leader, sorry Free Gear Starmer!!
When I was a police officer many years ago. I had the pleasure of supervising an officer caller Savage. You can well imagine the leg pulling he got following the depiction of the fictional PC Savage. Fortunately after my wonderful training and guidance, he was a hard working, excellent and ethical officer. and good friend. Though a terrible driver.
These were all from 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' which at the time was at the forefront of a new wave of alternative comedy. It's the show that lauched Rowan Atkinson's career. The other two were Mel Sith who you might recognise as the Albino in 'The Princess bribe' and Gryth Rhys-Jones. The two of them went on to do another sketch show called 'Alas Smith & Jones'. The fourth member of the group was Pamela Stephenson who is Billy Connelly's wife. Billy makes a few appearances on the show today. The 'Constable Savage' sketch at the end is a classic and sadly still relevant today. You missed the end of the sketch where he's transferred to the SPG (Special Patrol group) which was notorious for being full of racist thugs. Rowan also played a very similar character in a show called 'The Thin Blue Line' Other classic sketches from Not the Nine O'clock news are: - Gerald the Gorilla - Rowan walking down the street. - Vicar. - The darts players - Monty Python worshipers. ruclips.net/video/qDgd-REk7-8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/GnO9aLvR77s/видео.html
utter trash, they are at the stage were they daren't arrest a man for breaking a female offers nose, or let grooming gangs go uncheck do to fear of being called racism. Ethic people will soon be untouchable or the race card comes out.
The first one is from the same sketch show as the Constable Savage sketch, Griff Rhys Jones who played Savage is on the left. The show is called Not The Nine O'clock News because it went out on BBC2 at 9pm while the News was on BBC1. I think the other two are from a show called Alas Smith and Jones which was a spin off from the earlier show with two of its stars.
I remember seeing all of these back in the day. The 'confession' tape is simply genius. Mel Smith (the plump one) and Griff Rhys Jones (not the plump one) were brilliant. One sketch they did was based around prisons being allowed in suburban homes. One of the houses had brought back hanging!! Nearly fell off the sofa with laughter 😃 😀
The really funny thing is that most UK shows on these type of channels are over 30 years old. The number of successful commedies made in the last 30 years can be counted on one hand.
Depends on personal taste I think. Some people consider The Inbetweeners as a successful comedy, whereas I...disagree 😬 First ones that come to mind as recent classics are Gavin and Stacey, The Vicar of Dibley, My Family, Outnumbered, and Miranda. I'm sure there are a couple of other proper decent ones too I've either missed or forgotten
10:05 the point of the sketch is not to understand the lingo if you ask for the explanation 'in their own words' in territory different from where you grew up.
“He’s a villain Sir!” “And a jailbird.” Although it’s in pretty good company here, it truly is the best comedy police sketch ever written. Comedy genius.
My guess is this is Alas Smith and Jones starring Griff Rhys Jones with the black hair and Mel Smith with the Reddish hai, the show aired between 1984=1988. The title was a pun on the American Western show Alies Smih and Jones
This is comedy duo Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith. The programme was called Alas Smith and Jones. The title spoofed an American cowboy show called Alias Smith and Jones, which was loosely based on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy. Pete Duel killed himself in 1971. Mel Smith did a Christmas duet with Kim Wilde and they were called Mel and Kim on the record after Mel and Kim Appleby who were 2 English singers in the 80s. Mel Appleby died in 1990 of liver cancer. Mel smith died in 2013 of a heart attack.
The TV series is "Alas Smith and Jones", except for the one with Rowan Atkinson in as that's "Not the the Nine O'clock News". The video cut off too soon, he gets rid of Savage by transferring him to the SPG. The SPG or Special Patrol Groups were disbanded in the 80s because they were extremely racist and violent. 10 male officers would drive around in minibuse and van with armoured glass and drop down mesh for the windscreen. They would pick on either known criminals or those they didn't like the look of, beat them up or put them in the van with a few officers and beat them up. Rarely taking them to the station. One unit picked up a man who was a police officer in the army and an unarmed combat instructor, when they didn't get the drop off signal they went to the station and got ready before opening the doors. He was sat there with his ID (he outranked them all) and the six officers in need of hospital. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner is the highest ranking officer in the UK, only the Home Secretary or Prime Minister could fire him then. There's about ten years between them, NTNON was 79-82.
The first bunch of sketches are from a show called "Alas Smith and Jones" and the one with Rowan Atkinson is from a show called "not the nine o'clock news"
This is exactly the quality of the British police. Not so much a comedy but more of a documentary. Most of that rhyming slang is correct. Parking the breakfast, taking a dump. squeezing a Malteser, mean 'going to the toilet' as in 'doing a number 2'/poo. Doing a 'number 1' would be 'having a jimmy riddle', 'shaking hands with your best friend', or having pee.
Cockney rhyming slang is the second sketch you'd just have to google.a Gregory is neck,Gregory peck after the film actor,i loved,smith&jones,you only needed to look @ them to laugh,a refreshing change for a reaction i couldn't stop belly laughing..
You have stumbled across the best comedy show from the 90s called "Not the Nine O'clock News". This was before the days of political correctness and spawned the careers of Rowan Atkinson (Before Mr Bean came about) Mel Smith, Griff Rees Jones and Pamela Stephenson (Later to become Mrs Billy Connolly, they actually met on a sketch in this show). Check out more of their shows, particularly Rowan Atkinson as a tame ape.
These sketchs are from 2 different programmes, Not The Nine O'clock News and Alas Smith And Jones. The second sketch is in cockney rhyming slang, which only some are still used. Mel Smith and Griff Rhyes Jones were a great double act, make after Not The Nine O'clock News x
Neal, we like it when people fail. One comedian that could not make it in the USA was Tommy Cooper. He was a fumbling comic magician. He was tall, wore a Fezz over messy hair. His catch phrase after the preparation was „ just like that“. And we would be hugely disappointed if the trick worked out OK. He took one attempt to perform in the USA, New York I think. All they saw was an incompetent magician. They did not ‚get‘ it.
The Cockney rhyming slang one is exaggerated but hilarious. Basically the criminal says he was in the pub and went to the toilet minding his own business but the police man says he was sat in his car and saw him dealing drugs so went into the pub toilet and caught him red handed with the drugs. The constable says he can’t confirm that but he is known for doing drugs. Very well done, there’s a lot more but that’s the basics
"All the toilets in 'New Scotland Yard', have been stolen". The police have nothing to go on... The best skits I've seen by 'Not the Nine o'clock news' are 'president Regan' and 'Is there a god' and the McEnroe house'
You missed the final punchline. _"I'm transferring you to the SPG!"_ The Special Patrol Group was a specialist unit with a terrible reputation for violence and racism. {:o:O:}
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The sketch with all the slang is incomprehensible to most British people too. That's what makes it so funny
Just love the British sense of humour. We should all be laughing at each other. Life's short.
Yip, life is indeed short...but don't mention it to Tom Cruise.
@@jamestrent-nw9zb Lol 🙃
Yes it was once called "taking the piss" and in all ways, especially at work for young people full of arrogance and know it all attitudes, was done to ensure they fitted in with the group they were joining. Now because of political correctness and now Woke young people are obsessed with their feelings not being hurt, which has led to so much of our society declining.
@@joycehayward6727 Not laugh at, but laugh with !
I found myself laughing at Neal's reactions to the comedy clips just as much as the clips themselves. Very funny 😂
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RIP Mel Smith one of my former Tutors London early 1970s
Maybe you would like to rewatch "Morons from Outer Space"🪐❤😂
loved mel smith who shared my love of horse racing....
I did not know he'd sadly passed, so talented. On not the 9 o'clock news too, brilliant and funny real TV back then
Kinda lingers, Mel
He was in a BBC drama a few years ago after a period of illness but he looked very unwell.
I’m old enough to remember when they were first showed on tv. There still funny now. Thanks for showing them
Mel Smith is dead but Gryff Rhys Jones is still funny.
Jones has been dead for years sadly
I love seeing Americans reacting to British comedy😂🤣
Glad you enjoyed it…you have a very engaging manner…and appreciate the comedy more than some in our own country 😂
Police recently found a massive hole near the Welsh city of Cardiff a police spokesman has announced they are still looking into it
Literally happened in Merthyr this week.
The public loo once stood where the hole now is, they have nothing to go on.
I'm so glad you laughed as we Brits don't have much idea what they were going on about either. Cockney slang can be bewildering to us you know. We just try to make head or tail of it, but find it funny anyway. That's what you did. Welcome to the club brother.
its in oz aS WELL
The point is you are not supposed to understand the various slang. It's just a satire on the slang, and you can't tell if the Inspector understands or not but then he comes out with his own unintelligible slang. However those who are well versed in rhyming slang would understand it but that's not the joke. This is a very British type of understated humour!
Not The Nine O'clock News always did love hedgehogs.
Think they ran over one or two.
They should have promoted the hedgehog flavour crisps they where delicious 🤣🤣
Neal I remember these sketches from back in the 90s. They are still as funny now. Sadly you would not be allowed to make any of these funny shows anymore. The younger generation really don’t know what they are missing😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
the re runs ?
originally broadcast 79 - 82
So true
I know ,all the wokes would have a melt down now if these were on TV now , absolute class comedy ,I end up watching all the old shows ,Steptoe and son ,rising damp ,etc
Us Brits have a warp sence of humour, always funny m8
Pity it has been curtailed by woke.
and even more warped sense of spelling, evidently.
@@markyoungman148 I hate people who have a go at people's spelling....chill out...
Brit here. That second police sketch is funny to us because the senior officer identifies himself as being from Dorset (a rustic county way out in the Westcountry) whereas all the others come from the Metropolitan Police, which is Greater London's main force. The endless stream of cockney rhyming slang would baffle the shit out of anyone, let alone someone from out in the sticks of the countryside. I recognise maybe a third of the terms used, if that. (I come from Wiltshire, next to Dorset.)
And when the Dorset officer says anything lengthy, no-one understands his Daarsett jargon.
@pabmusic1 Including me.
26 years since moving to the UK...I think I decoded ONE of those rhymes.
@theradgegadgie6352 Hilarious your post ! I had to listen to the sketch a few times to try to understand some of cockney accent and words... ha ha i had a good laugh, as well as a good laugh at myself... french in France american speaking mother language... you may imagine the great time i spent All the Best to Dorset and Wiltshire
You understand more than I did, and I'm from London! What a great channel this is, so glad I discovered it.
The pilot episode of The Detectives, which starred Jasper Carrot, is something you'd find hilarious.
Two cops get taken hostage by an escaped convict who'd absconded to watch the FA cup. As the two cops want to see the game as well, they all end up watching it together.
At one point, the convict passes the gun to one of the coppers so he can swig some beer. Engrossed in the game, the copper passes the gun back to him. 😅
My favourite is from the lacklustre Rowan Atkinson comedy The thin blue line with the outburst "do you realise your cockup has put my arse on the line, we're talking about your cockup my arse" and of course someone walks in just as he's saying the second part.😂
I quite liked the thin blue line
One of my favourites Thin blue line.👏
I loved it too.
They had at least one "cock up / arse" joke each episode in the second series. Other favourites were "It's my arse on the line and I don't want a cock up" and "It's my arse on the line and if it gets stuffed I'm going to be very red in the face"
That was an inspector Grim line though.
Yay, Alas Smith &Jones was such a funny comedy show.
The second sketch with all the old London slang terms very few people I think would not understand now, I'm a 60 year old South Londoner & I didn't get ALL of that myself!
'Parking your breakfast'- Using the toilet. 'Skyrocket'- Pocket, 'jam jar' - Car. 'Mincers'= Mince pies - Eyes, 'Boat'= 'Boat race' - Face, 'North= North & South' - Mouth, 'Shell like' - Ears.
Did you catch the ridiculous date on the ending card?
also gregory (peck) cheque
The copper was sitting outside and clocked ( spotted ) the man going in to the pub . When he followed him he was going into the toilets , where he also followed him in to . When he walked in to the toilet , the man was in possession of class a drugs ( coke - ayne ) , which he possibly had in his pocket , or up his jacksy ( backside )
Am from London, in my 60s. Some of my friends I've know for long time. Speak cokney slang. Still have a hard time understanding them. But I get them back with west Indian slang. Lol😂.
@@alanmon2690 Always thought that Gregory Peck was neck! As in ' get that down your Gregory ' meaning to eat?
The first sketch is actually a parody of the case of the so- called Yorkshire Ripper, the whole case was appallingly handled ( the case did feature a tape and letter being sent to South Yorkshire Police).
TODAY, IT COULD BE EVERY CASE.
And probably from 'Alas Smith and Jones' although both of them appeared as two of the four in ' Not the Nine O Clock News' .
West Yorkshire Police .. otherwise spot on
Parking his breakfast in/on the Benghazi-
Benghazi is presumably rhyming slang for khazi, which is a term for the toilet which the British took back from India.
We don't make it easy.
You ask how the British do such great comedy...the answer is simple...we know how to laugh at ourselves
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Because if we didn't laugh, we would be crying all the time!!
Born in Clapham ,now live in dorset for twenty years, so luckily understood all of it
Dropped into an old pub in Dorset many years ago, two old bloke chatting over a pint, I was mesmerised, they were speaking English, but I didn't understand a word they said.
The cockney rhyming slang, was so funny, it's hard to follow if you've never heard it. But they were all good. 😂
So many laughs... so long ago. Mel, Grif and of course Rowan were huge in Sweden (where I live). Mel died far too early unfortunately. Grif has done many serious roles in later years and is damn good at it. Fine actor!
Griff RJ and Rowan Atkinson did the famous Constable Savage sketch only for Atkinson to complain about life replicating art with political correctness and wokeness destroying free speech in the last few years.
Dont forget billy Connollys future wife the stunning pamela Stephenson
She was hilarious as Janet Street porter😅@@bartconnolly6104
The funniest clip on Police was BBC Scotland Comedy - The Chief Apologises. Best You Tube video. You have to watch.
The whole fun of this sketch is - the normal 'propper' English speaking cop can't understand the language of the locals/ gangs - who each have a different kind of lingo. So don't worry if you can't understand it - neither can we 'proper' speaking law abiding viewers. It's sort of Cockney rhyming slang and I know some of that - but not any of what they're saying. Shows how a correctly spoken copper's life is not an easy one! Still said copper got his revenge and went into his own local dialect - which nobody there understood!
Good on you Neal, this from a UK satirical comedy series called Not The Nine O’lock News. In the UK the 9 o’clock news was the primary news programme.
The closest we had at the time was SNL.
First sketch …This was one of the best tv comedy sketch shows of the early 80s in U.K. Called “Not the nine o’clock news” as it was on channel BBC2 when the news was on BBC1. The stupid cop, Mel Smith unfortunately died in 2013, he was only 60. He was Britain’s John Belushi.
i loved gerald the gorilla sketch.............it was so funny...
I used to teach the Metropolitan Police interview courses a few years ago.
The interview clip was part of the introduction.
Times have somewhat changed. Thankfully.
This programme is called Not the Nine O'clock news- co starring Rowan Atkinson
If you can understand 50% of the London slang you’re doing much better than I am, doesn’t matter what they’re saying the fact that they are having such a full blown conversation while talking what’s absolutely nonsense to each other is hilarious 🤣
The copper was sitting outside and clocked ( spotted ) the man going in to the pub . When he followed him he was going into the toilets , where he also followed him in to . When he walked in to the toilet , the man was in possession of class a drugs ( coke - ayne ) , which he possibly had in his pocket , or up his jacksy ( backside )
Charlie up the skidmark 😂 means he's carrying narcotics up the chocolate starfish 🤣 grew up with this slang hahaha
What always gets me is the way Rowan Atkinson pronounces "Kadogo".
People might recognise these two as being the 2 'policemen' that introduced Queen at Live Aid 1985
The Winston Cadogo sketch was hilarious
Haven't seen these for many year's! 😂 & They are still great. Look up police comedy scenes 2024 !!! One of the most horrific things with government cover up that brings such great comedy.
In Britain we use irony (no goldie or bronzie allowed), sarcasm, humour, cynicism, wit, exaggerated stereotypes and mockery mixed together to express our opinions against something that we see as ridiculous, subversive, dangerous, unjust, racist, narcisstic, self serving, banal, cruel, idiotic or just down right stupid and incompetent. .
As Reginal D Hunter said when he did a turn at the Hammersmith Apollo - "The British are the ONLY race on earth who can insult you with a compliment. Someone once said to me 'Nice hat' and i replied 'Thanks man', it was only when i was doing the hoovering 5 days, later that i suddenly realised that he'd insulted me".
Here's an example - "WOW, what a great dress and how brave of you not to wear a bra with it........................ OH, you ARE, wearing a bra with it........................ well, that clears up that mystery"!!.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The show was “Alas Smith and Jones” or not the 9 o’clock news.
Both, Smith and Jones was the inter view sketch and possibly a couple of others, the hedgehog and savage were not the nine o'clock news
That's it mate, I couldn't remember what it was called, I remember watching this when I was growing up.
That Rowan Atkinson sketch with Constable Savage - believe me, those offences DO exist in Britain, if you dare criticise our dear leader, sorry Free Gear Starmer!!
Thank you for bringing this to us 😂
When I was a police officer many years ago. I had the pleasure of supervising an officer caller Savage. You can well imagine the leg pulling he got following the depiction of the fictional PC Savage. Fortunately after my wonderful training and guidance, he was a hard working, excellent and ethical officer. and good friend. Though a terrible driver.
Not The Nine O'Clock News
These were all from 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' which at the time was at the forefront of a new wave of alternative comedy. It's the show that lauched Rowan Atkinson's career. The other two were Mel Sith who you might recognise as the Albino in 'The Princess bribe' and Gryth Rhys-Jones. The two of them went on to do another sketch show called 'Alas Smith & Jones'. The fourth member of the group was Pamela Stephenson who is Billy Connelly's wife. Billy makes a few appearances on the show today.
The 'Constable Savage' sketch at the end is a classic and sadly still relevant today. You missed the end of the sketch where he's transferred to the SPG (Special Patrol group) which was notorious for being full of racist thugs.
Rowan also played a very similar character in a show called 'The Thin Blue Line'
Other classic sketches from Not the Nine O'clock news are:
- Gerald the Gorilla
- Rowan walking down the street.
- Vicar.
- The darts players
- Monty Python worshipers.
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Stephenson was married to guy in the red leather jacket. Nicholas Ball. At some point she dumped him and latched on to Connolley.
Gerald the gorilla. Wild? I was furious!
Relevant today......yeah right. Except today they fit up the patriotic indigenous. Is that what you mean??
The bathroom sketch has me and my son in stitches every time. "Space there for another toilet"....
No, this is not a clip it is a true full look into the modern state of the uk police force as it is now.
utter trash, they are at the stage were they daren't arrest a man for breaking a female offers nose, or let grooming gangs go uncheck do to fear of being called racism. Ethic people will soon be untouchable or the race card comes out.
Yep these two see what was coming ❤️👍
lol. when you point out the truth and not hogwash, the post is removed.
The first one is from the same sketch show as the Constable Savage sketch, Griff Rhys Jones who played Savage is on the left. The show is called Not The Nine O'clock News because it went out on BBC2 at 9pm while the News was on BBC1. I think the other two are from a show called Alas Smith and Jones which was a spin off from the earlier show with two of its stars.
I remember seeing all of these back in the day. The 'confession' tape is simply genius. Mel Smith (the plump one) and Griff Rhys Jones (not the plump one) were brilliant. One sketch they did was based around prisons being allowed in suburban homes. One of the houses had brought back hanging!! Nearly fell off the sofa with laughter 😃 😀
My respect for landing (with both feet) in amongst British humour. We do have moments and it's nice to see you appreciating it... 👍
Love the content bro , I from lake district uk , I used to watch all these as a kid I am 50 now and dont make them like that no more 😂❤
doing a great job Neal
NOT THE NINE O' CLOCK NEWS CREATED IN 1979.
The Cockney rhyme one was funny, even though I did not understand most of it myself. It was funny because it wasn't understandable.
An accurate portrayal of our cops! 😮
The really funny thing is that most UK shows on these type of channels are over 30 years old. The number of successful commedies made in the last 30 years can be counted on one hand.
Depends on personal taste I think. Some people consider The Inbetweeners as a successful comedy, whereas I...disagree 😬
First ones that come to mind as recent classics are Gavin and Stacey, The Vicar of Dibley, My Family, Outnumbered, and Miranda. I'm sure there are a couple of other proper decent ones too I've either missed or forgotten
10:05 the point of the sketch is not to understand the lingo if you ask for the explanation 'in their own words' in territory different from where you grew up.
Sky-rocket=pocket. Jam Jar=car, we could go on for years.......
“He’s a villain Sir!” “And a jailbird.”
Although it’s in pretty good company here, it truly is the best comedy police sketch ever written. Comedy genius.
Uk 2024. This is clarification of the current state of the UK police force
The UK has some of the worlds best scriptwriters. That's why programmes like this, and Yes Minister work so well.
" ive bounced a few Gregories"....Gregory Pecks= Cheques
Great show used to watch it when i was growing up. FAF.
You're doing a fine job Neal
My guess is this is Alas Smith and Jones starring Griff Rhys Jones with the black hair and Mel Smith with the Reddish hai, the show aired between 1984=1988. The title was a pun on the American Western show Alies Smih and Jones
Fitted up like a toff at Tommy Nutter 😄
Last one, he gets transferred to the SPG. Special Patrol Group. Thugs basically
Special patrol group
@ . Knew it was something like that
SPG weren't they football hooligans, they were always in the shed causing trouble !
This is comedy duo Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith. The programme was called Alas Smith and Jones. The title spoofed an American cowboy show called Alias Smith and Jones, which was loosely based on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy. Pete Duel killed himself in 1971. Mel Smith did a Christmas duet with Kim Wilde and they were called Mel and Kim on the record after Mel and Kim Appleby who were 2 English singers in the 80s. Mel Appleby died in 1990 of liver cancer. Mel smith died in 2013 of a heart attack.
Your reactions have me creased 🤣🤣🤣
Congratulations on your first member. Little acorns and all that. You have a new sub as well.
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The TV series is "Alas Smith and Jones", except for the one with Rowan Atkinson in as that's "Not the the Nine O'clock News". The video cut off too soon, he gets rid of Savage by transferring him to the SPG. The SPG or Special Patrol Groups were disbanded in the 80s because they were extremely racist and violent. 10 male officers would drive around in minibuse and van with armoured glass and drop down mesh for the windscreen. They would pick on either known criminals or those they didn't like the look of, beat them up or put them in the van with a few officers and beat them up. Rarely taking them to the station. One unit picked up a man who was a police officer in the army and an unarmed combat instructor, when they didn't get the drop off signal they went to the station and got ready before opening the doors. He was sat there with his ID (he outranked them all) and the six officers in need of hospital.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner is the highest ranking officer in the UK, only the Home Secretary or Prime Minister could fire him then.
There's about ten years between them, NTNON was 79-82.
Jam jar is a car,squeezing a maltezer is having a shit..
London rhyming slang
The first bunch of sketches are from a show called "Alas Smith and Jones" and the one with Rowan Atkinson is from a show called "not the nine o'clock news"
8:38 Rhyming slang 'talked to the macaroon at the pumps 'bit naughty .
This is exactly the quality of the British police. Not so much a comedy but more of a documentary. Most of that rhyming slang is correct. Parking the breakfast, taking a dump. squeezing a Malteser, mean 'going to the toilet' as in 'doing a number 2'/poo. Doing a 'number 1' would be 'having a jimmy riddle', 'shaking hands with your best friend', or having pee.
Mel and Griff ! Miss those two ! 🇬🇧
They were talking in "Cockney Rhyming Slang," such as: Apples & Pairs = stairs. Jam Jar = Car, & then it gets really crazy.
Cockney rhyming slang is the second sketch you'd just have to google.a Gregory is neck,Gregory peck after the film actor,i loved,smith&jones,you only needed to look @ them to laugh,a refreshing change for a reaction i couldn't stop belly laughing..
takin a dump and parkin the breakfast= have a shit
You have stumbled across the best comedy show from the 90s called "Not the Nine O'clock News". This was before the days of political correctness and spawned the careers of Rowan Atkinson (Before Mr Bean came about) Mel Smith, Griff Rees Jones and Pamela Stephenson (Later to become Mrs Billy Connolly, they actually met on a sketch in this show). Check out more of their shows, particularly Rowan Atkinson as a tame ape.
1980s, Alas Smith and Jones went into the 90s.
"Wild? I was absolutely livid!" 😂😂😂
*80s
We have a sense of humour even if it upsets people
Sir Keir would probably lock the actors in jail and throw away the key. Somebody might think that somebody else might feel offended.
We need to reclaim the right to laugh at ourselves and others this world is depressing
I didn’t realise Mel Smith had died until reading comments here. RIP Mel, thanks for all the laughs ❤
Congratulations on your first of many members
Thank you!!
These sketchs are from 2 different programmes, Not The Nine O'clock News and Alas Smith And Jones. The second sketch is in cockney rhyming slang, which only some are still used. Mel Smith and Griff Rhyes Jones were a great double act, make after Not The Nine O'clock News x
Neal, we like it when people fail.
One comedian that could not make it in the USA was Tommy Cooper.
He was a fumbling comic magician. He was tall, wore a Fezz over messy hair. His catch phrase after the preparation was „ just like that“. And we would be hugely disappointed if the trick worked out OK.
He took one attempt to perform in the USA, New York I think.
All they saw was an incompetent magician. They did not ‚get‘ it.
The Cockney rhyming slang one is exaggerated but hilarious. Basically the criminal says he was in the pub and went to the toilet minding his own business but the police man says he was sat in his car and saw him dealing drugs so went into the pub toilet and caught him red handed with the drugs. The constable says he can’t confirm that but he is known for doing drugs. Very well done, there’s a lot more but that’s the basics
"All the toilets in 'New Scotland Yard', have been stolen". The police have nothing to go on...
The best skits I've seen by 'Not the Nine o'clock news' are 'president Regan' and 'Is there a god' and the McEnroe house'
It's the Smith and Jones Show.. Loved it..
Got only a few,sky rocket = pocket,mincers/ mince pies = eyes, jam jar = car , parking breakfast = Doing a number 2 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
'Your cock-up, my arse, Raymond'. The immortal Inspector Grimm in Thin Blue Line.
Mate, look up the Scottish police chief apologies… they’re beyond hilarious 🤣🤣
Hi my favourite was the first sketch where the two police men are really stupid! Brilliant comedy 😂😂😂😂
You missed the final punchline.
_"I'm transferring you to the SPG!"_
The Special Patrol Group was a specialist unit with a terrible reputation for violence and racism.
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Yeah the video you were watching cut off the last sketches punchline
So glad you like it guys :) 😂😂😮😊
This is how our Police Service is today in the UK. Totally useless.
This is the uk police now. This sketch was way before its time. looks like not the 9 o clock news
It's old time Cockney slang (London slang), don't worry about it, I also found it hard to understand 🇬🇧
The programme is called Grith and Jones. X
quite simply it starts at school and gets honed in the workplace or university, we take the rise out of one another daily
You should watch "the thin blue line " that too is very comical.