I've sat in cigar places in London (1a St James before it closed, run by Dunhill), and had a less funny version of Rowley set next to me, several times. There are still many of his ilk in SE England and no doubt elsewhere. We shall miss them when they are gone.
I met such people as a very small boy in the early Seventies when visiting my ex-Para Dad's Regimental CO whose ancient but mental and inbred Norman landed family were the very leadership of England and later Britain for nearly a thousand years, and the loony Edwardian great-great uncles and maiden aunts who dressed like ravens who wrote off my great-grandad in 1917 on his Mention in Dispatches at Ypres because they wished him dead and wanted the land that our Anglo-Saxon people won fifteen hundred years before by the same bravery that he had and they coveted. I miss them all because they were our people and remain such as our past. Thanks, Toby. Through the decades we remember because we had the victory to do so by our people, no matter how completely mental we thought them. Anyone else is jealous.
Next a tiger jumped out in my back garden “AWWWWWW” gave me a frightful jump! My keys went right up in the air and would you believe it a giant albatross swept down and carried them right off!! Anyway where was is, this was before those awful things that go ring ring ring ring, send out some savage with a tool kit and brooom broooom 45 mins later you’re off again! By a stroke of luck, a springer spaniel was walking past with a tennis ball, you can use a tennis ball! Cut in half, so I said “Theres a good boy” he very politely dropped the ball for me “Hoorah” at which point i reached for my Great great great grandads pen knife handed down generations to me, cut it in half, put it over the, lock thingy and “BANG”! gave it an almighty whack and bingo! Door came flying right open! Off and running again! Unfortunately I don’t remember a thing cos I was very very drunk
So true. I once sat next to Lord somebody or other at a dinner, and he spoke exactly like this. I just nodded and smiled a lot. He warbled on like Rowley for a long time and the only bit I heard clearly was 'the man was a DREADFUL socialist - dreadful!'
I've had this too, at a private school christmas dinner evening. Trouble was is it was neither one thing or another so all the upper class members turned up in tuxedo style dress and others in half casual and some the HOST in jeans and rugger top. I distinctly remember one guy in full tux about 60 odd with a schooner of port in one hand a cigar in the other banging on incoherently about an African tribe who had no means of a parting gift (he was a former surgeon) so they had "a whip round" (sic) and "got me a cow horns and everything" by which point the laughing gates were just wide open, pissed myself silly, no control. talked just like Rowley. Wonder what happened to him.
apparently he was based on a person Paul met on a skiing holiday once, who was recounting tales at the hotel bar/lobby, and all Paul and Charlie could make out from him was "firework display" and "one girl was very badly burned..." (hence the first Rowley sketch)
I call it the "Looney Tunes effect". You know what's coming, but that makes the delivery and pauses / timing of it all all the more funny. Dynamic tension.
This sounds like most of my stories. Although I tend to start them with "I was very drunk when..." I wonder if I could be as cool as him if I ever make it past the age of 40.
I always like to imagine an elderly and decrepit James Bond in the drawing room of a gentlemen's club, telling the stories of his adventures in just this way.
If anyone knows The Wheel casino Brum, friends Dad was in their sat in a chair, brandy in one hand cigar in the other, cigar ash down his suit front, mumbling away Birkin style. Very funny. Hadn't a clue what he was going on about.
Or Trump on his Sudofed, doing his classic two hour run on sentences that lead nowhere, and all you can hear is "terrific, terrible, great, huge, genius, windmill, bleach, nasty, hydroxy, nuclear"
The diversity of characters that Paul Whitehouse portrays is truly astounding - what a guy!
I've sat in cigar places in London (1a St James before it closed, run by Dunhill), and had a less funny version of Rowley set next to me, several times. There are still many of his ilk in SE England and no doubt elsewhere. We shall miss them when they are gone.
I met such people as a very small boy in the early Seventies when visiting my ex-Para Dad's Regimental CO whose ancient but mental and inbred Norman landed family were the very leadership of England and later Britain for nearly a thousand years, and the loony Edwardian great-great uncles and maiden aunts who dressed like ravens who wrote off my great-grandad in 1917 on his Mention in Dispatches at Ypres because they wished him dead and wanted the land that our Anglo-Saxon people won fifteen hundred years before by the same bravery that he had and they coveted. I miss them all because they were our people and remain such as our past. Thanks, Toby. Through the decades we remember because we had the victory to do so by our people, no matter how completely mental we thought them. Anyone else is jealous.
Don’t worry , we have Boris and his offspring !
@@RobertLocksley385😂😂😂😂
Next a tiger jumped out in my back garden “AWWWWWW” gave me a frightful jump! My keys went right up in the air and would you believe it a giant albatross swept down and carried them right off!!
Anyway where was is, this was before those awful things that go ring ring ring ring, send out some savage with a tool kit and brooom broooom 45 mins later you’re off again!
By a stroke of luck, a springer spaniel was walking past with a tennis ball, you can use a tennis ball! Cut in half, so I said “Theres a good boy” he very politely dropped the ball for me “Hoorah” at which point i reached for my Great great great grandads pen knife handed down generations to me, cut it in half, put it over the, lock thingy and “BANG”! gave it an almighty whack and bingo! Door came flying right open! Off and running again! Unfortunately I don’t remember a thing cos I was very very drunk
@@RobertLocksley385 You forgot to add at the end, “I was very, very, very drunk at the time”.
Ol' Rowley talking about experience on set filming 'The Thing'
"Snow storm... She arched her back and scuffled across the room like a giant spider": Sounds like he describing "The Thing" (1982)...
zoetvanham
Tied to this FUCKING COUCH!!!
Could be The Exorcist too
It`s how she become prime minister in the `80s!
Maybe that’s the idea, he’s so old and confused and drunk that he’s mixing up things that really happened with films he once watched.
*scuttled (I think)
“She was the saddest women and the tallest woman I’ve ever met.”
😂😂
Thank goodness for You Tube I thought I had lost Rowley Birkin forever...Love you ❤❤❤❤ from Australia xxoo
Cure for depression. Great stuff!
So true. I once sat next to Lord somebody or other at a dinner, and he spoke exactly like this. I just nodded and smiled a lot. He warbled on like Rowley for a long time and the only bit I heard clearly was 'the man was a DREADFUL socialist - dreadful!'
I've had this too, at a private school christmas dinner evening. Trouble was is it was neither one thing or another so all the upper class members turned up in tuxedo style dress and others in half casual and some the HOST in jeans and rugger top. I distinctly remember one guy in full tux about 60 odd with a schooner of port in one hand a cigar in the other banging on incoherently about an African tribe who had no means of a parting gift (he was a former surgeon) so they had "a whip round" (sic) and "got me a cow horns and everything" by which point the laughing gates were just wide open, pissed myself silly, no control. talked just like Rowley. Wonder what happened to him.
apparently he was based on a person Paul met on a skiing holiday once, who was recounting tales at the hotel bar/lobby, and all Paul and Charlie could make out from him was "firework display" and "one girl was very badly burned..." (hence the first Rowley sketch)
***** /watch?v=7pRAxOsMLhw fishing in Iceland.
@@schpleeb my dad met a guy a few yyears ago in Spain called Rowley Beaumont who was the spit of this in stories and look and rambling
As all socialists are utterly dreadful it could have been literally any of them.
Vwery vwery dwunk.
Genius show!
Thank you 🤗
''Did I ever tell you about what happened to me in nineteen-hundred-and-fiefflflerr? ....
Ah... so it was you that was telling me about that. I get so confused in my dotage.
I was very, very, drunk at the time. :)
Pure comedy gold, whitehouse is a great actor
AyeeDee87 Johnny Depp
arched her back and scuttled away like a giant spider😂
Rowley, your great man!!
I actually had a lot more to say about this clip, but I was very VERY drunk.
I dont understand how the last line still cracks me up even though I see it coming evey time
Its the same in all the best comedies, you know that Crabtree will appear saying Good Moaning in Allo Allo, but its still funny everytime.
I call it the "Looney Tunes effect". You know what's coming, but that makes the delivery and pauses / timing of it all all the more funny. Dynamic tension.
'Bugger off!' - Brilliant.
The BEST character of all,I ADORE THIS MAN.
brilliant
Paul Whitehouse simply unsurpassable !!!
Brilliant. Pure gold.
Paul Whitehouse....genius of our time!
This sounds like most of my stories. Although I tend to start them with "I was very drunk when..."
I wonder if I could be as cool as him if I ever make it past the age of 40.
I met a man very similar to this, he was filling up his Mercedes at petrol station I was working at, with a cigar on the go..
Genius
It is quite sad, but i understand evry word he says.
I plan to act like Rowley in front of my grandchildren in a few years time 😂
Why wait?
Ahh it’s been 2 yrs, I hope you’re keeping it up?
Definitely!
These guys are utterly superb actors..absolutely incredible
Johnny Depp was right when he said that Paul Whitehouse is Britain's greatest actor,a living legend x
Every time I see Rowley Birkin... I nearly wet myself laughing. No. 'Tis 'true. This sketch never gets old. Much love.
Alice Hughes
Laugh? I nearly shat!
I watch and never tire of his sketchs he and harry enfield are pure gold so funny
This is quite insanely superb.
CLASS
'Bugger off!'
I lost it.
This is basically Boris Johnson.
I instructed a QC just like this. We won - god knows how and went on the piss afterwards.
bugger off!
One of the best comedy characters ever.
This story is like the first draft of the script of "Resident Evil 8: Village"
"Bugger off!" 😂
- uuhummuhuhummuh
- BUGGER OFF
“Nineteen hundred and fift-fnargh”
Soo good
0:02 - 0:04 "Bang! Right up the arse!" LOL
BANG! Right up the arse!
Great character!
Boris Johnson at the Covid 19 enquiry
I always like to imagine an elderly and decrepit James Bond in the drawing room of a gentlemen's club, telling the stories of his adventures in just this way.
Bertrand Russell
Can someone please upload the sad love story one? I see it no longer exists. THANKS
ruclips.net/video/MlQ9KLrC4Us/видео.html
Genuinely one of the greatest pieces of acting of all time
glorious! HAHAH!
..but I'm afraid I was varie.. varie drunk. xD
"She opened her mouth to spit..."
Love it - I don't get most of the mumble, but I'm a huge Paul Whitehouse fan!!
Is that Francis Foster supplying the drink.?
Rowley Birkin QC , could also have been a retired star rank military officer , esp a retired General. Paul Whitehouse is a master of character comedy.
Is that lord Sumption ! :-)
Whitehouse, predicting Boris decades before he became PM.
Rowley is more intelligible than usual in this - it must be early afternoon before he's hit the sauce..))))
The way he got that drink down he must have been drying out .
Steady the Buffs .
Let's start a campaign to see this happens instead of some dead beat politician getting one!
I'd pay for an audible book to be read by this character
He's a bit like PROF STANLEY UNWIN.
Brilliant stuff!!!
Boris Johnson reminiscing about his time in No. 10 - 2052.
captions make this 10000000x better. I promise.
Bilbo has aged terribly.
Quite mad you know,such tales from a drunken fellow
Pathos
Boris Johnson, I'm your real father, Rowley Birkin QC
I was very very drunk 😆😆😆
Stanley Johnson brought me here.
Boris Johnson 😂😂
Paul Whitehouse....giant talent. ❤️
Is he on about the Winter of 1947?
Paul, why have you deprived us of your talent post “Fast Show”. You are an epic comic genius.
Prince Philip does Jackanory.
face cheeks actually aching from laughing - oh bring it back please!
Paul Whitehouse, giant of comedy and fun!
0:32 1:11 1:37 1:49 and 2:02 LOL
Paul Whitehouse should get a knighthood for services to making me laugh!
Outrageously funny! 😊😊
If anyone knows The Wheel casino Brum, friends Dad was in their sat in a chair, brandy in one hand cigar in the other, cigar ash down his suit front, mumbling away Birkin style. Very funny. Hadn't a clue what he was going on about.
0:33
I remember improv-ing stuff just like this 92-93 using a very similar voice, some bullshit about 'there were three guinea-grass snatchets...'
"Did I ever tell you what happened to me in nineteen hundred and feefeefler"
Fucking love it!
Boris Johnson in 10 years time.
Oh blimey, it takes a alsdkjaslekrjker,.....channel.
Paul - Please Please Please do a version with Biden!
Or Trump on his Sudofed, doing his classic two hour run on sentences that lead nowhere, and all you can hear is "terrific, terrible, great, huge, genius, windmill, bleach, nasty, hydroxy, nuclear"
This man should lead the UK through Brexit.
I know its the point of the sketch but turn on captions, it has no chance lol.
PW.. brilliant.. the LAFTRAK is annoying and unneeded..
The creators of the show didn't feel that way. I'd defer to them.
This show would have been better without audience laughter.
Prince Charles in a few years
days.
Strangely reminds me of Prince Charles
when have socialists been dreadful????????????????????
just terrible..:D
just terrible..
JOE BIDEN
🤣😂 oh sugar forgot how funny Paul were
just terrible..:D