Nice reference to Fry and Laurie sketch there!! Seriously though, the BBC are now widely and quite correctly regarded as total c*nts so you should really apologise to fry and laurie for associating 21st century BBC with any previous works, which had talent and/or originality.
The question should rather be, why has this a laugh track at all? Do we need to get told when it's supposed to be funny? Can't we tell without some artificial laughter in the background?
No Thank you - pretty much, in comedy recordings they would use a live audience... this clip would have been played in an auditorium and a sound crew would record their reaction... Canned laughter was not good enough back then to add without it sounding false.
I've never seen anyone fall as funnily as Hugh Laurie. The way he seems to hang in the air, head thrown back, limbs askew... truly the most artistic falls in comedy history.
"Name will be familiar to anyone that knows it" such a deadpan delivery it almost slipped passed me. I'm sure there are others that do. Need to watch these multiple times
@@staggabob I have no clue wtf you are talking about How about you rewind to the part and listen how he doesn't say "and", just pauses shortly. Where I come from, this magic is called a comma.
Only reason I watched House M.D. was because I wondered how Hugh could possibly play a "serious" american doctor (I'd only ever known him as a comedy actor). He played it extremely well and his comedy acting experience is what really helps make House a likable character even though he's a complete ass.
yeah, its a testament to his acting how many viewers of House had no idea he was English. Not to mention that from about the second season onwards he was allowed to lean into the comedic, albeit black comedy, a bit more.
As an American, who only knew him from House, it's the exact opposite for me. It's so odd seeing a young, goofy Hugh Laurie when I only know him as the middle-aged, cranky, drug addict. It'd be like seeing a super serious Rowan Atkinson.
That's my old secondary school in the background! Burlington Danes 1981-88. Science block three stories high with lead roofing etc etc. The building behind the goal looks like the hollowed out remains of Hammersmith Hospital. So yes, I did play football on that pitch, utterly forgettably... apart from the a single dummy, back-heel and spin to get out of right-back with the opposition top striker chasing me down as I waited for a slow pass. Thanks David.
Govan Squared The laughter in A Bit of Fry and Laurie is 100% not canned. It's from a real live audience, BBC even used the genuine laughter from this show as the canned laughter in some future shows.
I'm very impressed by Hugh Laurie's ability to take a dive and jump on the ground. I've never been able to do that (on purpose) and not hurt myself or look about as convincing as those old people in the "I've fallen and I can't get up" ads.
I remember Stepen Fry talking about Hugh Laurie as a genius of physical comedy, referring the Wellington episode of Blackadder s3. It wasn't until I watched this clip again some time later that I truly appreciated the extent of his talents. He should have played for Seville in the Europa League final...😏😆😂
I hold those times spent in Mr. Dave Wilson's school very dearly. I now play in Poland and this spring we've been promoted to 5th league. You don't take things like that for granted. You gotta work your ass off to be a professional footballer.
@@ravenshrike No it hasn't. You're just parroting what you think people want to hear. Players are punished for diving more frequently now. I haven't seen a blatant dive in the Prem for a while & VAR should get rid of it altogether.
Absolutely, it's an embarrassment to football, I was thinking the same, this clip is ahead of its time. Players should be issued bans for faking things, its cheating, yet they don't address it.
I was lucky enough to grow up with him and his group of other funny actors I.e. Stephen Fry absolutely fantastic all of them, I do miss those days because it was so new and natural weekends will never be the same without Black Adder and Jeeves and Wooster thank you guys for all you have done for entertainment and making our miserable little lives a little bit better thank you from the bottom of my heart 😘😘💞💞🤪🤪😛😘😘💞💞
Seems pretty simple. Just say whichever government is in power is wrong and promise to do it better and cheaper. Then hope you don't get the job if/when the time comes
Tbf, I'm not Welsh, I'm from another place that's even worse at football. Still, Wales has a tiny fraction of England's population, so of course they're going to tend to be worse. You aren't expecting Andorra to be world beaters are you?
Oh right, made an assumption on the Swansea picture. Who else other than the Welsh would support Swansea i thought lol. True about the population but *1)* apparently doesn't just include the population of Wales, just look at the Wales captain Ashley Williams, he's English. *2)* Portugal have a small population, there are other small countries that over perform aswell.
@@robertocafora1771 Good to know. I know nothing about football, you've saved me from embarrassing myself at some point in the future. Growing up I remember the Italians being famous for it.
@@221b-l3t They were, growing up in the UK I would have light hearted comments aimed at me whilst playing footy but thankfully it's not us Italians anymore
Thinking back, it's weird how the world actually looked like this in the 90's. There was like a 90's filter over everything. The colours were different. After HD came around, everything changed. It all looks sharp and unfriendly now.
More like time stamp, its the same for most decades 70s, 80s etc. I have to say it felt more gritty and real and quality than now where things are shiny with no substance.
@@yoya4766 Yeah. When I think of the 80's, for example, I think of the colour grey. It seemed to be the most popular colour at the time. Grey shoulder pads. Grey phones. Grey suits. Grey houses. I'm sure the colours of any given decade influence how we remember them. But I have no explanation for how the world seemed to be in standard definition before HD showed up. I suppose HD looks unnaturally sharp, so maybe that's why?
@@SpaceCattttt Individual memories differ. I think of the 80s as multicoloured/patterns, big hair and perms, loud makeup, and shoulder pads. The HD you see now does have alot to do with the picture quality. 90s was the last 'real' decade, where you activites didn't revolve around a screen. The world with its natural fuzziness. Now we see screens all the time, bright back lights and off course HD. In the environment its like a massive fast food place, with glass and steel everywhere. The hair is gone so baldy's everywhere shine, its very cold, speeded up and all about the money.
He must have been the assistant coach for the Italians for the past 100 years then lol the worst divers out of every single international team there is.
@@downtime-p8u Kane and Sterling have taken over that crown in recent years though. What Sterling did against Denmark was every bit as bad as Maradona's hand ball, so hopefully England fans will stop complaining about that now 👍
I saw an interview with Hugh and he talked about this sketch and the dive he did where he threw his head back. He said that, when he landed, he genuinely thought he'd broken his neck. Must have been a scary moment.
@@steviemac2681 Oh, sorry bud, here it is in Español. 3 years late, but it's here either way, still better than Royal Mail. Creo que esto es lo que los entrenadores realmente enseñan a los jugadores.
zissler watching something live is really different from watching something at home. You feed off of the energy of the room and you’re extra excited to see the people from your favorite show just feet in front of you. Makes you way more likely to laugh at stuff you might not laugh at if you were just watching at home by yourself
Wow sad fact, that was our exact PE kit in the late 80s, green rugby shirt that was reversible, the other side had a yellow stripe across the middle so you could make two teams wearing the same kit.
Say what you like about satire, parody, bitingly witty commentary, musically-enhanced humour... they all have their place but as far as I'm concerned, the true measure of one's accomplishments in the comedic arts is still the classic "falling with aplomb". It has stood the test of time as a most useful tool for turning a merely chuckleworthy sketch into an act of hilarious silliness, and nobody may doubt Laurie's authenticity in this regard. He is a true professional, evidenced by his ability to seemingly defy gravity for a brief moment before crashing to earth, limbs akimbo, then bouncing up again like he's ready to have a fight. Remarkable dedication to the craft, made even better by Fry's spot-on "British reporter covers Human Interest story with appropriate amount of joviality" intro. 10/10, would waffle about Fry & Laurie again.
Fast forward many years … and you’d swear that football players have had this training. Especially the rolling over and over on the ground while screaming and clutching a lower body part, usually the ankle area.
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If you'll pardon the pun, here is even more "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" here: bit.ly/2OJKqZD
BBC Comedy Greats what pun?
@@katjoe1974 wasn't there one?
lol
Nice reference to Fry and Laurie sketch there!!
Seriously though, the BBC are now widely and quite correctly regarded as total c*nts so you should really apologise to fry and laurie for associating 21st century BBC with any previous works, which had talent and/or originality.
@@JonSmith-cx7gr What a pleasant surprise - never saw these two in their early days.
Regards NZ
I don't understand why this documentary has a laugh track.
I don't understand why it's titled "worst coach" when he's the coach of the very best teams in the world.
The question should rather be, why has this a laugh track at all? Do we need to get told when it's supposed to be funny? Can't we tell without some artificial laughter in the background?
Quotenwagnerianer yes that is the point of a laughing track in any show you hear it in
The BBC always felt it necessary as the bourgeois wouldn't realise it was meant to be comedy without it!!!
No Thank you - pretty much, in comedy recordings they would use a live audience... this clip would have been played in an auditorium and a sound crew would record their reaction... Canned laughter was not good enough back then to add without it sounding false.
I've never seen anyone fall as funnily as Hugh Laurie. The way he seems to hang in the air, head thrown back, limbs askew... truly the most artistic falls in comedy history.
Bo Gardiner Clearly, you haven't seen actual footballers imitate this. They're funnier.
Bo Gardiner Idk about that, John Dunsworth from Trailer Park Boys has some classic falls
Calm down mate it wasn’t even funny
Bo Gardiner woo
reminds me of Klinsmann dives
The way Laurie falls actually looks like an athletic feat of brilliance though.
In an interview he cited this sketch and said that when he landed after throwing his head back he thought he'd broken his neck.
he trained a lot
Laurie was a top-notch athlete before electing acting. Oxford rower, Olympic hopeful. Elite-level.
Fry never was though...
@@statom985 As young as possible, even eight months.
God damn majestic
He acts good. He should try getting in a med drama or something.
Definitely
He tried he's hand at a lot of jobs and finally settled as one of the greatest diagnosticians in history...
For sure.
Name him Dr. Building or something
@@northrocks Dr apartment
This explains Dr. House's injury and why he had to walk around with a cane.
🤣
man i see the dive, im 46 im fit and strong but feel like i would damage a ligament or something if i did a fall like that.
😅
"Name will be familiar to anyone that knows it" such a deadpan delivery it almost slipped passed me. I'm sure there are others that do. Need to watch these multiple times
Fffuck, I also wasn't ready for it XD
"If you're a parent AND you have children"?
@@staggabob doesn't say "AND"... just states that parents have children
@@staggabob I have no clue wtf you are talking about
How about you rewind to the part and listen how he doesn't say "and", just pauses shortly. Where I come from, this magic is called a comma.
@@andrasziegenham6766 He clearly says "and" lmao
Neymar was trained by this lad.
Gaita Ponto an year later you are still relevant lmao
And that even though he stole it from someone who posted it 2 years before him
i don't follow football. before 2018 world cup, i would have never understood that joke XD
I was thinking the same.
and today earns millions
i remember Hugh Laurie mentioned injuring himself filming one of these sketches. i reckon this must be it
he falls over like a diamond!
+mxgirl918
The second time he falls over, he said it felt like it almost broke his neck, didn't he?
Yeah, people pick on the pros for doing it in the games but not as easy as looks, is it.
Leigh Foulkes absolutely 😂
Also when Steven slapped him in the Formula 1 sketch :D
He truly gives a masterclass in physical comedy. Not just falling, but a very aggressive manner of becoming useless.
Only reason I watched House M.D. was because I wondered how Hugh could possibly play a "serious" american doctor (I'd only ever known him as a comedy actor). He played it extremely well and his comedy acting experience is what really helps make House a likable character even though he's a complete ass.
yeah, its a testament to his acting how many viewers of House had no idea he was English. Not to mention that from about the second season onwards he was allowed to lean into the comedic, albeit black comedy, a bit more.
As an American, who only knew him from House, it's the exact opposite for me. It's so odd seeing a young, goofy Hugh Laurie when I only know him as the middle-aged, cranky, drug addict. It'd be like seeing a super serious Rowan Atkinson.
Massive credit to him. I certainly had no idea of his comedic past over here.
Watch The Night Manager. He is terrifying.
@@Brando56894 Off stage/camera, Rowan Atkinson *is* a very serious person, not naturally humorous at all. Also unfailingly polite and courteous.
Where he learned his limp
hahahah thats hilarious
Dsmmmnnnnnn
He make good joke
Where he GOT his limp
Although not the accent…
falls over like a diamond LOL
Hemanth taliya arent u hindu from india
Inherent Emperor Yes he's as his name suggests so you're going to say something racist?? or something else
Neymar took lessons there
James Wright how do you get that OP is hindu from their name? it's obviously Indian, but Hinduism is a religion, not a nationality
*SOMETHING RACIST*
Hugh Laurie repeatedly falling over makes me smile quite a bit for some reason...
"Run into the box and fall over" .. an advanced tactic still in use today 😁
Morecombe just got promoted that way.
The Wilfried Zaha tactic, kept palace up since 2015.
I do believe "Run into the box and fall over" is an acceptable synonym and common nickname for "foot ball" or "soccer" in Italy.
@@TT-fq7pl That was Wise of them.
That's my old secondary school in the background! Burlington Danes 1981-88. Science block three stories high with lead roofing etc etc. The building behind the goal looks like the hollowed out remains of Hammersmith Hospital. So yes, I did play football on that pitch, utterly forgettably... apart from the a single dummy, back-heel and spin to get out of right-back with the opposition top striker chasing me down as I waited for a slow pass. Thanks David.
neymar was his student
I think you mean Cristiano Ronaldo.
It's busquets' coach
Arjen Robben topped this training.
Didier Drogba as well.
Rubbish, Drogba used to run the entire length of the pitch defend like wall at one end and score at the other...
0:08 - "The Dave Wilson School in Ipswich in the heart of London's East End". Just love it. In reality Ipswich is in Suffolk, 82 miles from London.
I'm Irish and even I noticed that. LoL.
I'm Romanian and I bloody noticed that. XD
I'm a penguin and I fell over when I noticed that. It wasn't a dive though, it's slippy round here.
That's familiar to anyone who knows it
Sean Green well duh!
Many places here that didn't get any laughs. Like "the name is Dave Wilson, familiar to anyone who knows it"....
the laughter is canned
Govan Squared The laughter in A Bit of Fry and Laurie is 100% not canned. It's from a real live audience, BBC even used the genuine laughter from this show as the canned laughter in some future shows.
ProtoFenix How can it have a live audience if it isn't on a set?
Day Ja They projected the completed programme in a screening room and recorded the audience.
Dom Adams they show the video to a real audience after its shot.
Dave played in a total of 2 games until a Cartilage snapped in his head.
I’m sorry, worst? These are very important tactics. What if Sterling hadn’t fallen over against Denmark?
Ricky at 1:28 is actually Raheem.
"Shadow home secretary" gets me every time hahaha
Must have been in the dark days
@@TheArcher101 Ever so dark
FALLS OVER LIKE A DIAMOND. BRILLIANT.
a very british thing to say
this is the best sketch they've done for this show. I keep watching it and it never gets old
"premier league foot-ballers"
lol the way he mis pronounces it is so subtle.
First 10 seconds and it's already brilliant. They don't make comedy like this anymore
He also pronounces premier ‘premyear’
“In Ipswich in London’s east end”
hahahaha omg
"Found this in the change room, what is it?" "Never you mind what that is!" LOL
The line about the cartilage snapping in his head always gets me.
That's no laughing matter. All the bone in one's brain is held together by this cartilage! If it snaps, one gets headache!
I will never understand the RUclips recommendation algorithm.
Hey! Three's a crowd!
That's the point. I guess.
Ever watched House M.D.?
It got recommended now because Chelsea's Rudiger watched it so many times last week.
Compare it with suspention&blocking algorithm, and - bingo - you'll be gratified)))
I'm very impressed by Hugh Laurie's ability to take a dive and jump on the ground. I've never been able to do that (on purpose) and not hurt myself or look about as convincing as those old people in the "I've fallen and I can't get up" ads.
okay the "limping" bit did feel extra hilarious because of House
Probably how he ended up walking with a cane on House
Why is how Stephen says "footballers" so funny. I can't stop laughing at it.
So THIS is where all my Football Manager 14 regens come from. That clarifies things.
I think I have him as youth manager too :)
The new England manager
Hassan Radwan I wish
We should be so lucky
lucky, lucky, lucky, we should be so lucky in love
might as well have been
New England manager, old England manager... in 50 years time this comment will still apply.
But will it apply tomorrow?
I remember Stepen Fry talking about Hugh Laurie as a genius of physical comedy, referring the Wellington episode of Blackadder s3. It wasn't until I watched this clip again some time later that I truly appreciated the extent of his talents.
He should have played for Seville in the Europa League final...😏😆😂
If your comment wasn't a 3 years old, I would have thought you were talking about 2023 EL final, which is crazy 😭
@@lolam3450some things never change 😂
I hold those times spent in Mr. Dave Wilson's school very dearly. I now play in Poland and this spring we've been promoted to 5th league. You don't take things like that for granted. You gotta work your ass off to be a professional footballer.
Oh nah nah guv I just tripped me ass over Welsh in Wellies
What has working donkeys got to do with being a professional footballer? Oh! Wait a minute . . .
Hilarious foreshadowing of the future of football.
it wasn't foreshadowing, it was making fun of how football was at the time, it just hasn't changed.
The present of football now
@@nGUNNARp It's gotten worse.
296 actually Ian. Do keep up, my friend !
@@ravenshrike No it hasn't. You're just parroting what you think people want to hear. Players are punished for diving more frequently now. I haven't seen a blatant dive in the Prem for a while & VAR should get rid of it altogether.
We've been stressing the *ball* too much in foot*ball*, but this man - nay, this Beckham - is bringing us back to our roots. Good on you lads.
This sketch is old as dirt and more relevant than ever. But you'd have to rely on the FIFA to change something and we know that's not gonna happen.
It originally aired in 1995, so 22 years old and still funny
Absolutely, it's an embarrassment to football, I was thinking the same, this clip is ahead of its time. Players should be issued bans for faking things, its cheating, yet they don't address it.
I’m amazed that Laurie never laughs .... always a straight face! “I don’t ever want to see you with one of these things!”😂
I'm sure he will have done... they do repeated takes.
This is where house got his vikodin addiction .
The dark days of playing football for Reading in the 1970s!
Richard R reading reserves
Not to mention the side effect of changing his accent.
That's how Dr House paid his medicine career in college
House, Roadhouse
That too
Taught Naymar everything he knows.
‘run in to the box and fall over’ - yep, that’s it
I was lucky enough to grow up with him and his group of other funny actors I.e. Stephen Fry absolutely fantastic all of them, I do miss those days because it was so new and natural weekends will never be the same without Black Adder and Jeeves and Wooster thank you guys for all you have done for entertainment and making our miserable little lives a little bit better thank you from the bottom of my heart 😘😘💞💞🤪🤪😛😘😘💞💞
I think the German and Argentine teams of the 1990 world Cup final must have watched this before going out to play
Shadow home secretary? That's my dream job.
Seems pretty simple. Just say whichever government is in power is wrong and promise to do it better and cheaper. Then hope you don't get the job if/when the time comes
“PremEER League FootBALLers” 😂
"I want two lengths of the pitch limping!" 😆
Then he practiced that all across the Hospital
Too think this technique has only become more advanced now is wild
The kid who does the dive is all the money. Give him his own show.
Well, this explains England.
It certainly explains England 1 Iceland 2.
Sgt. Peppermint Now to explain England 2 Wales 1
Everyone learned it from the English, i agree Wales is worse but not by much.
Tbf, I'm not Welsh, I'm from another place that's even worse at football. Still, Wales has a tiny fraction of England's population, so of course they're going to tend to be worse. You aren't expecting Andorra to be world beaters are you?
Oh right, made an assumption on the Swansea picture. Who else other than the Welsh would support Swansea i thought lol. True about the population but *1)* apparently doesn't just include the population of Wales, just look at the Wales captain Ashley Williams, he's English. *2)* Portugal have a small population, there are other small countries that over perform aswell.
Ipswich in the heart of London's East End!
Oh no Italy!
This was a comedy sketch. Not an instructional video!
COMEDY
Lol
Spain*
Italy?? Maybe in the 90's and 00's it's Spain now
@@robertocafora1771 Good to know. I know nothing about football, you've saved me from embarrassing myself at some point in the future. Growing up I remember the Italians being famous for it.
@@221b-l3t They were, growing up in the UK I would have light hearted comments aimed at me whilst playing footy but thankfully it's not us Italians anymore
Thinking back, it's weird how the world actually looked like this in the 90's. There was like a 90's filter over everything. The colours were different.
After HD came around, everything changed. It all looks sharp and unfriendly now.
This is wierd but I completely understand you , your comment makes perfect sense , a 90s filter over everything hahahah
More like time stamp, its the same for most decades 70s, 80s etc. I have to say it felt more gritty and real and quality than now where things are shiny with no substance.
@@yoya4766 Yeah. When I think of the 80's, for example, I think of the colour grey.
It seemed to be the most popular colour at the time. Grey shoulder pads. Grey phones. Grey suits. Grey houses.
I'm sure the colours of any given decade influence how we remember them.
But I have no explanation for how the world seemed to be in standard definition before HD showed up.
I suppose HD looks unnaturally sharp, so maybe that's why?
@@SpaceCattttt Individual memories differ. I think of the 80s as multicoloured/patterns, big hair and perms, loud makeup, and shoulder pads.
The HD you see now does have alot to do with the picture quality. 90s was the last 'real' decade, where you activites didn't revolve around a screen. The world with its natural fuzziness. Now we see screens all the time, bright back lights and off course HD. In the environment its like a massive fast food place, with glass and steel everywhere. The hair is gone so baldy's everywhere shine, its very cold, speeded up and all about the money.
Was that Sterling in there? This coach deserves all the credit for England reaching the finals
Yeah at 2:23 I think
@@Suedeifel That's Reggie Yates, not Sterling.
Sterling isn't there, but the ref for England/Denmark was. Only way he'd think diving isn't a foul.
He must have been the assistant coach for the Italians for the past 100 years then lol the worst divers out of every single international team there is.
@@downtime-p8u Kane and Sterling have taken over that crown in recent years though.
What Sterling did against Denmark was every bit as bad as Maradona's hand ball, so hopefully England fans will stop complaining about that now 👍
It's ok that guy eventually became a doctor.
How did the BBC get their hands on an alternate dimension of the life of House.
I think this guy deserves a contract with Man Utd. 17.5 thousand pound a week for starters.
Classic British comedy and I love and miss it so badly.
I saw an interview with Hugh and he talked about this sketch and the dive he did where he threw his head back. He said that, when he landed, he genuinely thought he'd broken his neck. Must have been a scary moment.
LOVED HUGH LAURIE AS HOUSE MD!!!!❤😊
That looked more like a volleyball than a football they had there. xD
I think that it is. Probably to add to the fact that they wouldn't know what a football looked like?
Cthulhe They also had rugby shirts on 😂
The pronunciation of 'premiere footballer' at the beginning 😂😂😂
I dont understand
@@vikrantsubakade9281 he says prem-EAR foot-BALL-er, whereas in standard English the pronunciation is premmy-air FOOT-ball-er
@@jackholloway1 thank you!
1:32, a young Raheem Sterling?
"Dave played a total of 2 games for the side, before a cartilage snapped in his head."
House teaches them limping. Foreshadowing before he became limp.
I think this is what coaches actually teach players :D
In Spain.
Lol
@@steviemac2681 Put some sugar in your tea, be less bitter
@@steviemac2681 Oh, sorry bud, here it is in Español. 3 years late, but it's here either way, still better than Royal Mail.
Creo que esto es lo que los entrenadores realmente enseñan a los jugadores.
Still relevant today :D
Raheem Sterling went here
One of the best comedy sketches I have ever seen.
Those Umbro jackets 🤣😍
"Run into the box and fall over!"🤣🤣🤣
2:21 Reggie Yates
Surely it is, I thought so too
Stu Mackenzie
thought so
Good spot. Totally missed that.
Nah it’s deffo Will Smith
I thought that as well, young reggie yates
Falling like that indeed makes you take Vicodin for lifelong
The worrying thing is, professional players in the top leagues dive even more ridiculously than Hugh does here.
I never bore of this segment. "Run into the box and fall over." brilliant
This coach seems like he'd be a good doctor
Me Laurie in his younger days was an Athletic powerhouse .He was a world class rower.
It's never lupus
Well who would’ve have thought it, his English accent is excellent.
1:57 thats so perfect
His talent for accents is already in evidence, this is actually a Suffolk accent and this sketch was set in Ipswich! Amazing.
Tough accent to pull off as well
It doesn't get any better than this. 😂❤️😂
Even the way Fry says Premier League footballers is funny
Always love a bit of Fry & Laurie. Anthony Gordon must have been coached by this man
All that jumping and falling, no wonder he needed a cane in House! 😁😁
Scotsman Laurie and Englishman Fry what a couple best of British 🇬🇧
Did he just say Ipswich was in the heart of London's East End? How odd.
I think that Stephen Fry's "journalist" character was supposed to be as crap at reporting as the coach is at coaching.
That's the joke 😂
@@francesadesiree7753 Yeah. It's hilarious, I nearly wet myself
@@vampireducks1622 I hope you had some toilet paper🤣🤣🤣
@@francesadesiree7753 Oh that's extraordinarily solicitious of you (and not at all creepy), thanks!
the horrible laugh tracks in this period were very intrusive - same problem with Black Adder and other shows of this vintage
Except they were mostly filmed in front of a studio audience.
Kickstart 1.3 really crappy audiences
I really don't get you sad whiners.
zissler watching something live is really different from watching something at home. You feed off of the energy of the room and you’re extra excited to see the people from your favorite show just feet in front of you. Makes you way more likely to laugh at stuff you might not laugh at if you were just watching at home by yourself
It would be so funny anyone of those kids has actually become a professional footballer.
they're all chelsea players now.
Madhusudhan S one if the kids is deli alli
Oliver B Chelsea players out on loan
Yes someone did and his name is Neymar 😎😎😎
Euro2020 has its roots here...
2:13 He actually gave limping lessons! Sounding familiar... 😂
Dr House perhaps
This guy is a genius , this technincs are used all over the world
Wow sad fact, that was our exact PE kit in the late 80s, green rugby shirt that was reversible, the other side had a yellow stripe across the middle so you could make two teams wearing the same kit.
We had the same thing, red with a white stripe on the reverse. It was always Man U v Middlesborugh
We had green on one side, blue on the other. To camouflage against the grass or the sky as the occasion demanded??
Sterling brought me here
Oh, so that's where he learnt to limp so well 😁
Say what you like about satire, parody, bitingly witty commentary, musically-enhanced humour... they all have their place but as far as I'm concerned, the true measure of one's accomplishments in the comedic arts is still the classic "falling with aplomb". It has stood the test of time as a most useful tool for turning a merely chuckleworthy sketch into an act of hilarious silliness, and nobody may doubt Laurie's authenticity in this regard. He is a true professional, evidenced by his ability to seemingly defy gravity for a brief moment before crashing to earth, limbs akimbo, then bouncing up again like he's ready to have a fight. Remarkable dedication to the craft, made even better by Fry's spot-on "British reporter covers Human Interest story with appropriate amount of joviality" intro. 10/10, would waffle about Fry & Laurie again.
And here we all see where all the divers in football got their tips. Bloody good laugh though
Fast forward many years … and you’d swear that football players have had this training. Especially the rolling over and over on the ground while screaming and clutching a lower body part, usually the ankle area.
You don’t need to fast forward. It was obviously a feature of the game then otherwise the sketch would be meaningless
Or hamstring
I remember the dark days. They were ever so dark. Really dark days...ever so dark. Sometimes we could afford to put the lights on.
football-player: *falls over
italian opera: *starts singing tragical theme
Guess the English are taught to dive at a really young age! Sterling has made this sketch proud!
Its a joke.
@@elkpaz560 Oh, pardon the pun! I didn't know that!
@@vimaladhithan007 or the meaning of 'pun.'
And where did we learn it from? The rest of the football world
We owe the world a dive or two! Amount of cheats who've dived against us over the decades to win penalties! It's our turn to pay some back