Back in around 2006 or 2007 there was a radio program in the U.K. on Radio 4. I can’t remember what it was called, but it was a spoof phone-in show. Each week would have a theme and a variety of comedians would play ‘ordinary’ people calling in with their views on that given theme. Harry Enfield played a character with a dog barking in the background and he’d never finish what he was saying because he was constantly shouting “shut it” at the dog. I suspect that was the forerunner of Paul’s character in this.
I remember watching this last year, and the next day out in my taxi, going through the 'rough' part of town, seeing a chav with a dog stood talking to some people, and it was barking just like that dog, and despite my car windows being closed, I could clearly make out he was telling the dog to 'shut it'....😂 Cue me in the car......😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The UK was so blessed to have the vast list of characters that Harry and Paul, and the likes of the Fast Show, threw, or perhaps in many cases, vomited, into our living rooms decades ago. I have not seen this one for years but laughed as, as others have commented, we all knew, and indeed still know people like these three in our towns.
That clip was just about to be followed by the best Paul Whitehouse character ever - you need to google Rowley Birkin - a series of sketches where Paul Whitehouse plays a bumbling old man recounting exploits from his youth - you can only hear half the words (if that) but it's absolutely hilarious.
Benefits means welfare. Some people on benefits live on council estates and are a bit rough. Small minority but unfortunately others get tarred with the same brush. The actual rough ones are called Chavs and typically often have those kind of dogs and unruly children.
Benefits = the old name for unemployment money. Also used to be referred to as "The dole" (Dole is an old english word meaning your allotted share/portion of something) or "Your Giro" as in Girobank cheque. Nowadays its called Universal credit. This type of folk is known as a "Chav" which stands for "Council housed and violent" they usually wear burberry clothing (or addidas track suites) a big gold chain (to give the impression they are well off) and own a stafforshire bull terrier (with a spikey collar) You can usually find them hanging around the town center drinking cheap piss beer and causing mayhem.
I had 18 months on "The Old King Cole" back in 1990/91 after I had worked since 1971 and got a decent redundancy. The only problem was that, occasionally,they wanted me to try to find some gainful employment. Naturally,I told them to "Shut It"...some people,eh...:(
@@videogamesandfilm6821 There are about five related breeds that have the legal classification of 'pitbull' in the States. Staffordshire Bull Terrier is one of them. So KB, with an American perspective, is not wrong.
There are quite a few feral families - not very many, and Harry and Paul were slated for portraying them. My personal opinion is that they are a great subject for humour, otherwise we might go mad.
You’re correct, there aren’t very many. I lived in a working class area and there were these people but they might be 1 in 2000 families. This is what the middle think the working classes are.
You're SO right about that one being re-watchable. The second time you watch it, that first "SHUT IT!" is even funnier because you know whats coming after it.
Check out Harry and Paul - The Self-Righteous Brothers, there are quite a few of them. Harry plays and extremely angry man called Frank Dobermann who has a really short fuse. He always explodes into a psychotic rage when Paul accidentally triggers him.
I always go to Harry and Paul when i need a laugh. The Benefits are def my favorite. Then that shit Marus "i saw you coming". The old surgeons clips are genius. 😂😂
Benefits It's now called universal credit which is when you don't work and you can claim money called back then benefits which is paid by tax payers and government for the unemployed. The place is called the jobcentre where you can claim benefits. In uk we call them chavs and paul and harry are making fun of them because some people in UK are like that lol
It's a parody of some members of the British underclass on benefits (welfare), typically 'disability'. Of course it's a stereotype but rings true for me 🥰. Have you tried Harry and Kathy Burke - Wayne and Waynetta Slob ... further examples. Edit: More sketches of The Benefits on YT ... Harry and Paul - The Benefits - Library Harry and Paul - The Benefits - Polling Station Harry and Paul - The Benefits - Ask The Dysfunctional Family Harry and Paul - The Benefits - Church
@@iangee3311sure is, they go round in their posh cars mummy and daddy buy them doing doughnuts in McDonalds car park trying to terrorise pensioners and women with kids playing Gangsta music and rapping along with a posh accent, then they go down the beach to kick the shit out of seagulls, Chavs have more manners than these wankers!
Check The Fast Show, there is a character called Dave Angel Eco Warrior who's character is a far removed from an eco warrior as one can get depicting an East End London / Essex gangster type . Also Ralf & Ted
It's a shame there has never really been a US equivalent sketch show which introduces to the World's viewers all the different kinds of Americans that actually exist.
Harry and Paul did a few sketches featuring this 'distinguished' family, Ask the Dysfunctional Family, Church, Polling Station etc - you should check them out too. They all feature my favourite character 'GhostFace' too! Just brilliant.
benefits here in the uk are are welfare in the us. This is a parody of what the tories and others thought of people on benefits (welfare) at the time, This was way before chavs even existed.
That dog is a little Staffordshire Bull Terrier (aka a staffy), beautiful little dogs and as soft as shit. I had one years ago crossed with a pit bull, she was a horrible snob who would tip toe around dog poop and didn't like grass tickling her lady parts when having a wee, she didn't like people looking whilst doing her business it upset her karma. The best dog I ever owned was a staffy x jack russell (think jack russell on steroids). They have a bit of a rep as they were originally fighting dogs and used for bull baiting, honestly there has been a few incidents with them but generally they're big old soppies. I have scaled down to a little patterjack now, she is fiercer than any staffy I've ever owned or met and keeps humping my husband😅
The Owners love them as they are brilliant with the kids and grandchildren.The Males are not always so keen on other males though and if it kicks off,as you know,it is not like a Jack Russell and difficult to stop. Owned dogs for 35+ years and boarded over 250 dogs while owners were away and only had 5 incidents(all with my own dogs) and out of the 200 Breeds ,they were all with the same breed starting with "S" and ending with "shire". Odds ,at random of all 5 being that same breed are ,roughly, 320 BILLION TO ONE....
It’s a Staffordshire bull terrier which u guys tried to breed but u used a Boston terrier instead of a British fox terrier amongst the 5 different breeds needed and you’re version was larger and thus became the American Staffordshire terrier aka the pit bull
They're supposed to be people on unemployment or disability benefits. Harry and Paul are great, and this is a funny sketch, but it and several others from this series were heavily criticised for 'punching down'.
Try the Royal Henley northerners show 2008 . It’s a damning indictment about how patronising Londoners ( southerners) are to people from the rest of the country especially the north. Genius
I live in the north east of England close to a place called the Meadowell. This behavior and these people exist living on social 'Benefits' within my neighbourhood - but its probably a lot worse in Hartlepool!
At least they had some taste - the boy drove off in a Bentley! BTW, it would be great to watch this extreme characterization alongside one of Harry and Paul's 'surgeon' sketches; quite a difference! 😃
Harry & Paul comedy sketch called Bookies & Pub reaction. There's a video on RUclips that you will see first where it says Where you going then Dave that's the sketch.
Walk around any run down council estate here,and you will inevitably encounter the types Harry and Paul are portraying.And the teenaged girls are vocally even louder
These are not working class, they are an underclass who feed off the system and contribute nothing. The working class do the vast majority of the work, without which the country would grind to a halt
@@shelleyjackson8793 One used to reside in social housing and was working-class (WC) but now one has established oneself in the Outer London Suburbs and classifies oneself as Middle Class, owning 2 medium-sized Businesses. I simply must dash as I am in the most fearful rush as I have 8 coming for Supper,ce soir. Toodle Pip...
Back in around 2006 or 2007 there was a radio program in the U.K. on Radio 4. I can’t remember what it was called, but it was a spoof phone-in show. Each week would have a theme and a variety of comedians would play ‘ordinary’ people calling in with their views on that given theme. Harry Enfield played a character with a dog barking in the background and he’d never finish what he was saying because he was constantly shouting “shut it” at the dog. I suspect that was the forerunner of Paul’s character in this.
The programme was called Down The Line'.
@@danielferris7960 Thanks. I used to love listening to that and it’s always bugged me that I can’t remember it’s name.
@@GrilloTheFlightless brilliant programme. And Felix Dexter was great in it too.
@@GrilloTheFlightless Oh yeah it was great. It got on TV for a while too
Paul whitehouse the best actor hollywood never got the pleasure of having!!!!!!
Did you miss The Death of Stalin?
Paul Whitehouse was excellent as Mikoyan!
@@onbedoeldekut1515 excellent film that far more should see and comprehend was mostly based on truth
I hope he reads your comment. He deserves such love!
These people are called Chavs
Or pykies
@@AnthonyCook78or scum lol
Or neds
Or scousers
scallies
Every single one of us in Britain have encountered people like this. It's clearly an exaggeration, but there's no smoke without a fire!
You mean no smoke without pot
Not really that much of an exaggeration
Incense sticks
@@harrynelson9203 Incense like being your own cousin?
Red necks of the uk
I remember watching this last year, and the next day out in my taxi, going through the 'rough' part of town, seeing a chav with a dog stood talking to some people, and it was barking just like that dog, and despite my car windows being closed, I could clearly make out he was telling the dog to 'shut it'....😂
Cue me in the car......😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
in the Netherlands we call these people "tokkies" 😂
I keep coming back to this sketch.It's hilarious 😂
The UK was so blessed to have the vast list of characters that Harry and Paul, and the likes of the Fast Show, threw, or perhaps in many cases, vomited, into our living rooms decades ago. I have not seen this one for years but laughed as, as others have commented, we all knew, and indeed still know people like these three in our towns.
This is just too funny.. I keep coming back for repeats!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have been waiting patiently for this particular bomb to go off. A resounding success, I think.
That sketch is just genius. Their timing is impeccable 👌
That clip was just about to be followed by the best Paul Whitehouse character ever - you need to google Rowley Birkin - a series of sketches where Paul Whitehouse plays a bumbling old man recounting exploits from his youth - you can only hear half the words (if that) but it's absolutely hilarious.
The following clip where you ended there is great. 'Is He A Quare?'
He's an actor... so probably quare
I’m a frightful old quare
@@jameshudson2352 are you now, ooh matron.
@@keefsmiff if he sounds like a quare, looks like a quare, acts like a quare, he's probably a quare.
@@jameshudson2352this line lives in my head 😂
Benefits means welfare. Some people on benefits live on council estates and are a bit rough. Small minority but unfortunately others get tarred with the same brush. The actual rough ones are called Chavs and typically often have those kind of dogs and unruly children.
We call them scallies in Liverpool, lol
@@robanks3895I'm from the south, we call everyone in Liverpool scallies 😜 only joking 🙃
@@robanks3895 Oh yes I remember that word from Brookside 😂
@@robanks3895We call them pond life in Yorkshire.😂
Armstrong & Miller (RAF Pilots) 'Your mum goes chippy in her slippers'
Essex is full of these People
Way to stereotype, pal.
Oi you! Shut it.
@@fredshred5194 Shut it 😂
South east Essex lol 😂😂
@@charlottehardy822 cockney rejects... literally 😆
Benefits = the old name for unemployment money. Also used to be referred to as "The dole" (Dole is an old english word meaning your allotted share/portion of something) or "Your Giro" as in Girobank cheque. Nowadays its called Universal credit.
This type of folk is known as a "Chav" which stands for "Council housed and violent" they usually wear burberry clothing (or addidas track suites) a big gold chain (to give the impression they are well off) and own a stafforshire bull terrier (with a spikey collar) You can usually find them hanging around the town center drinking cheap piss beer and causing mayhem.
I had 18 months on "The Old King Cole" back in 1990/91 after I had worked since 1971 and got a decent redundancy.
The only problem was that, occasionally,they wanted me to try to find some gainful employment.
Naturally,I told them to "Shut It"...some people,eh...:(
As a kid i used to be extremely hyperactive and my mum banned anything blue for me to eat or drink 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is that why you never dated a Smurf ? 😆😆
@@iangee3311 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Periwinkle Blue got me hyper...
Showroom guy is michael from alan partridge
Yeah, he also did voice work on every episode of Monkey Dust.
And Alexander the meerkat
I didn't know that, but I recognise him now you pointed it out!
This was my favourite, these two are are brilliant together.
I think the dog is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier
a shutiterrier?
AKA a staffiewaffie❤
Looks proper young too and definitely not a pit bull
@@harrynelson9203 a lot of Americans call different breeds pit bulls, including the amstaff. If I remember correctly.
@@videogamesandfilm6821 There are about five related breeds that have the legal classification of 'pitbull' in the States. Staffordshire Bull Terrier is one of them. So KB, with an American perspective, is not wrong.
There are quite a few feral families - not very many, and Harry and Paul were slated for portraying them. My personal opinion is that they are a great subject for humour, otherwise we might go mad.
Not very many???
You’re correct, there aren’t very many. I lived in a working class area and there were these people but they might be 1 in 2000 families. This is what the middle think the working classes are.
I have a pit bull. That's an English staff.
Pitbulls are banned in Britain. Staffies are an old breed here, some people love them.
Not a Pitbull terrier, but a Staffordshire Bullterrier aka a Staffie, although you’re not entirely wrong since staffies are under the Pitbull umbrella
The "be lucky" at the end!!
You're SO right about that one being re-watchable. The second time you watch it, that first "SHUT IT!" is even funnier because you know whats coming after it.
That's the same kid that beat up Simon at the under 18 disco in the inbetweeners.
Well spotted ..
He's got 'form' then? He's in danger of being typecast :)
Northwood are in the house now
I’LL FUCKIN DO U 🫵🏻
I'll do you!
More Harry & Paul comedy geniuses
Check out Harry and Paul - The Self-Righteous Brothers, there are quite a few of them. Harry plays and extremely angry man called Frank Dobermann who has a really short fuse. He always explodes into a psychotic rage when Paul accidentally triggers him.
Another tip: Harry and Paul - The Henley Royal Northerner Show 2008
Absolutely ridiculous :)
Not to the forget the Double-Take Brothers too
lol the dog was called Ghostface 😂
I worked with someone like that once 😂
That's a staffie
Shut it Ghostface!!!!
😅😅😅
"Ghostface -- shut it!" 😂
Shaht it
my neighbours - bless them
Condolences. Hopefully, you have top notch security in place and they don't see you as prey.
I always go to Harry and Paul when i need a laugh. The Benefits are def my favorite. Then that shit Marus "i saw you coming". The old surgeons clips are genius. 😂😂
SHUT IT! 🤣🤣🐶
my mate had his photo took with paul on the mersey ferry a few years ago lol
Benefits It's now called universal credit which is when you don't work and you can claim money called back then benefits which is paid by tax payers and government for the unemployed. The place is called the jobcentre where you can claim benefits. In uk we call them chavs and paul and harry are making fun of them because some people in UK are like that lol
Loved the reaction !!
It's a parody of some members of the British underclass on benefits (welfare), typically 'disability'. Of course it's a stereotype but rings true for me 🥰. Have you tried Harry and Kathy Burke - Wayne and Waynetta Slob ... further examples.
Edit: More sketches of The Benefits on YT ...
Harry and Paul - The Benefits - Library
Harry and Paul - The Benefits - Polling Station
Harry and Paul - The Benefits - Ask The Dysfunctional Family
Harry and Paul - The Benefits - Church
Underclass!!, hark at the snob!
Welcome to the uk council estates 😆
Think rednecks but with 50 all living on the same block 😊
It's not just the council estates, it's rife in posher places too !
@@iangee3311sure is, they go round in their posh cars mummy and daddy buy them doing doughnuts in McDonalds car park trying to terrorise pensioners and women with kids playing Gangsta music and rapping along with a posh accent, then they go down the beach to kick the shit out of seagulls, Chavs have more manners than these wankers!
@@iangee3311 The posh don't speak like that.
I work with people from council estates and you obviously don't get out much,you self righteous prig
Check The Fast Show, there is a character called Dave Angel Eco Warrior who's character is a far removed from an eco warrior as one can get depicting an East End London / Essex gangster type . Also Ralf & Ted
Chavtastic!
I think that was Michael the work geordie from Alan Partridge
Tru Say,Mi Bredda..
Yeah it is him, also did the voice for the meerkat on compare the market
@@davidridge6429 Clearly,a canny lad...
What you just watched was about 25% of the British public.
Nowhere near that many.
The rest are muslims
Shut it
Can it get any crazier? Love it!
It's a shame there has never really been a US equivalent sketch show which introduces to the World's viewers all the different kinds of Americans that actually exist.
Harry and Paul did a few sketches featuring this 'distinguished' family, Ask the Dysfunctional Family, Church, Polling Station etc - you should check them out too. They all feature my favourite character 'GhostFace' too! Just brilliant.
Dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier, Pits are banned over here as well as XL Bully types now
Thry are standard council estate chavs. Its a staffordshire bull terrier. Pit bulls are illegal in the UK.
There is a Harry and Paul sketch with the same characters but they're in a gameshow 'Ask The Dysfunctional Family' - it's worth a watch
benefits here in the uk are are welfare in the us. This is a parody of what the tories and others thought of people on benefits (welfare) at the time, This was way before chavs even existed.
Benifits = Welfare/Food Stamps in American, but these are our bad ones.
The dog is a Staffie🏴
I think it's a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
average day in the UK
Star stories so funny u will die laughing, love ur channel
I like the refined scaffolders sketch - haven’t seen that in AGES 😂
That dog is a little Staffordshire Bull Terrier (aka a staffy), beautiful little dogs and as soft as shit. I had one years ago crossed with a pit bull, she was a horrible snob who would tip toe around dog poop and didn't like grass tickling her lady parts when having a wee, she didn't like people looking whilst doing her business it upset her karma. The best dog I ever owned was a staffy x jack russell (think jack russell on steroids). They have a bit of a rep as they were originally fighting dogs and used for bull baiting, honestly there has been a few incidents with them but generally they're big old soppies. I have scaled down to a little patterjack now, she is fiercer than any staffy I've ever owned or met and keeps humping my husband😅
Says more about you than the dog....chav skum
The Owners love them as they are brilliant with the kids and grandchildren.The Males are not always so keen on other males though and if it kicks off,as you know,it is not like a Jack Russell and difficult to stop.
Owned dogs for 35+ years and boarded over 250 dogs while owners were away and only had 5 incidents(all with my own dogs) and out of the 200 Breeds ,they were all with the same breed starting with "S" and ending with "shire". Odds ,at random of all 5 being that same breed are ,roughly, 320 BILLION TO ONE....
Allright u muppet you haven't done a Billy Connelly reaction in ages he never fails to delight
It’s a Staffordshire bull terrier which u guys tried to breed but u used a Boston terrier instead of a British fox terrier amongst the 5 different breeds needed and you’re version was larger and thus became the American Staffordshire terrier aka the pit bull
I've got to share that on the socials hilarious! . The 'benefits' part of benefits car shop refers to people on social security benefits
They're supposed to be people on unemployment or disability benefits. Harry and Paul are great, and this is a funny sketch, but it and several others from this series were heavily criticised for 'punching down'.
Like that try Shameless , a documentary about life up North.
Brilliant 😂
I've forgotten to mention crazy good british tv comedy show called 'Allo 'Allo!, you got to check that out!!!
Benefits is government welfare
Try the Royal Henley northerners show 2008 .
It’s a damning indictment about how patronising Londoners ( southerners) are to people from the rest of the country especially the north.
Genius
This is real life in the UK...lol, i love it
I live in the north east of England close to a place called the Meadowell. This behavior and these people exist living on social 'Benefits' within my neighbourhood - but its probably a lot worse in Hartlepool!
Everybody in the UK will recognise this type of people - you must have something similar in the US.
Harry & Paul - When Harry met Sally parody
Just our typical council estate residents 😀
In American you could call them urban hillbillies. 😂
At least they had some taste - the boy drove off in a Bentley! BTW, it would be great to watch this extreme characterization alongside one of Harry and Paul's 'surgeon' sketches; quite a difference! 😃
At the very end of this clip was another sketch called is david camoron qweer. so funny
Harry & Paul comedy sketch called Bookies & Pub reaction. There's a video on RUclips that you will see first where it says Where you going then Dave that's the sketch.
Unemployed from a council estate 🏡 and the dog 🐶🤣🤣🤣
Just a normal Tuesday in England
Could anyone please tell me the film from which the Intro. ('Who is this ghastly man?') clip is taken? Many thanks! 🙂
Ace ventura when nature calls
@@Red-Eyez420gaming Many thanks!
The car is a July 2001 6750 cc Bentley Azure
In the States, I think you'd call them trailer trash.
"Are you discriminating against my human rights ?"
"Shut it Ghostface shut it !" 😄
''The Benefits'' translates to American as ''The Welfares''
Chavs bruv. Hilarious😂
Shut it!
I guess the closest comparison is in the USA these would be Trailer Trash.
He was Maximus Chavicous!
A very accurate portrayal of UK chavs.
Walk around any run down council estate here,and you will inevitably encounter the types Harry and Paul are portraying.And the teenaged girls are vocally even louder
They are on ' Benefits ' , basically they don't work , and probably don't want to either , at least not legitimate work !
Essex personified
Harry and Paul - David Cameron Quare is really good
They are called Chavs in England and Neds in Scotland and yes they exist
British working class. Gotta love it.
Not ‘working class’ surely?
Underclass!!
These are not working class, they are an underclass who feed off the system and contribute nothing. The working class do the vast majority of the work, without which the country would grind to a halt
@@shelleyjackson8793 One used to reside in social housing and was working-class (WC) but now one has established oneself in the Outer London Suburbs and classifies oneself as Middle Class, owning 2 medium-sized Businesses.
I simply must dash as I am in the most fearful rush as I have 8 coming for Supper,ce soir.
Toodle Pip...
There are a few of these, the gameshow one is good
He could be his own cousin ha!
The two pervy taylors are funny the one with Johnny Depp is excellent
There are plenty of people like this, generally try to avoid though. They're the kind that are fine alone but a real risk in a group.
Benefits (UK) = Welfare (US)
These portray people on benefits in the UK. Try Harry and Paul the builders