@@theobot2000 I'd love to see that too, but it's unlikely. This has been upscaled from the DVD, but there's no DVD version of TMWRNJ, and the only publicly-available copies are all poor-quality - I think they've been sourced from RealVideo, if you can remember that.
Now I think about it, back in 1995 I did feel disgusted, disenfranchised and disenchanted with the hollow vacuum of modern life. But nothing could have prepared me for 2024.
Watching this and seeing Kevin Eldon back then, 30 years ago, and what he looks like now in 2024, i think he must have a painting in his attic that looks like an older version of himself.
I was at a Richard Herring gig in a small hall about 15 years ago. He mentioned that the weirdest heckle he ever received was: "Your hair looks like it’s a hairnet." For some reason, that stuck with me.
I love Stew - but he couldn't be the comedian Stewart Lee when he was young. I saw him in around 2001 and he was still not old enough to be "that", he had to wait till he'd let himself go and the sands of time had ground him down physically and mentally into the beloved wreck of today :)
This justifies the existence of the internet, all by itself. Apart from Stu & Rich, there's Kevin Eldon - an unsung hero of British comedy...with a calculator watch 😂
Wow, proper nostalgia! Also shout out to young Kate Ashfield (Liz out of Shaun of the Dead) at the end of episode 1.. Also young Al Murray at the beginning of ep.2..
Peter Baynham should be on the secondary syllabus. Remembering Peter Baynham helped me to sort out my personal hygiene as a youth. Come to think of it, does anyone think he (the character) has a learning disability?
Do you remember "Dare to Believe"? No one else does, I think I might have imagined it and every one I told about it at the time also thought I imagined it but it has to be real. Although, I did enjoy shouting out Dare to Believe catchphrases at people who just shouted out Fast Show catchphrases to be funny instead of you know, being funny, because I hate people like that, and then watching their confusion at having every time they said "only me" answered back with a "you, in the second half, be better at football" or an "Aguar Moose" and them not knowing what the sweaty frick was happening. It would somehow be funnier in retrospect if I DID imagine it, than it was quoting a less popular sketch show that really existed.
Thank you very much for doing this, all the version I'd had stumbled upon thus far seemed even smaller than 144p somehow... Any plans on giving TMWRNJ the same treatment?
Thanks so much for this! Looks fantastic and just as funny as I remember. Don't suppose you'd have a way of doing The Mary Whitehouse Experience as well would you? :D
I loaded it into the software and told it to do certain things which amount to magic. Then the PC whirred for a day or so and out popped this little beauty.
I'm from the US, so I don't know this show at all. But I'm a Stuart Lee fan, and it seems fitting that he would have this kind of show in his youth. It's like how Jon Stewart got his start on MTV in the US. It's an odd, but endearing, start for both of them - assuming Stuart doesn't have something predating even this. He doesn't does he?
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I forgot that young Lee and Herring were a snooker player and a deck chair.
😂😂😂😂
Aah!
Ray Reardon has let himself go.
@@MrMusicbyMartin Reardon died the other day
@@straitJacketFashion Oops, no disrespect to him, I used to love watching him clean up the table.
This looks mint with the upscale work, hoping to see S2 get the same treatment! Thanks for all you do to preserve media
TMWRNJ too, please!
@@theobot2000 I'd love to see that too, but it's unlikely. This has been upscaled from the DVD, but there's no DVD version of TMWRNJ, and the only publicly-available copies are all poor-quality - I think they've been sourced from RealVideo, if you can remember that.
OMG I’ve just seen Stewart Lee in a clip of his older work. He was doing comedy with Richard Herring. He looked thin, happy and thin
Happy is stretching it a bit
and thin
Morrisey didn't let himself go
I got the joke mate
@@wcw4life931Stewart Lee has really …
i was in the audience for this recording, man this brings back memories.
jealous!!!
Absolutely loved these back in the day, amazing to watch them now seeing all the future stars who were featured in small roles. 😁👌
Thank you so much for upscaling this.
Lee & Herring & Eldon are comedy gods
Yeah I don't think much of Peter Baynham either.
@@greenaum what's wrong with Baynham?
I rang Norris McWhirter at exactly 3.00AM and it was engaged.
Now I think about it, back in 1995 I did feel disgusted, disenfranchised and disenchanted with the hollow vacuum of modern life.
But nothing could have prepared me for 2024.
You were crying than, you are crying now. Nothing changed.
Watching this and seeing Kevin Eldon back then, 30 years ago, and what he looks like now in 2024, i think he must have a painting in his attic that looks like an older version of himself.
You mean "The actor Kevin Eldon"
the actor Kevin Eldon's attic portrait has let itself go
@@Carpetf Who knew the secret to anti-wrinkles wasn't expensive face cream, it was weak lemon drink.
Weak Lemon Drink!
This is where it came from😂
❤
Thanks for uploading 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Stuart Lee hasn't let himself go!
Who?
I forgot this existed. Excellent. 👌
I was at a Richard Herring gig in a small hall about 15 years ago. He mentioned that the weirdest heckle he ever received was: "Your hair looks like it’s a hairnet." For some reason, that stuck with me.
Thank you for uploading this. Kevin Eldon is astonishing.
The actor, Kevin Eldon?
@@martincruse-stoddart6528 Yes, he's 'King of all hobbies' Simon Quinlank.
@@martincruse-stoddart6528 Actor Kevin Eldon the Actor, who is an actor.
Don’t forget some weak lemon drink.
Hell yeah. I'm watching this at work.
Aah!
@@scottandrewbrass1931No, not Aah...
You can drink your weak lemon drink now, or save it for later.
Peter Baynam, Rebecca Front, John Thompson. The Partridge Crew is in full effect!
Nice one for uploading this!!! I remember watching it on my tiny telly in my bedroom as a kid
Absolutelt brilliant. Used to love this show back in the day!
This holds up surprisingly well. Feels very similar to some of the youtube comedy that you get these days.
on the old youtubes and the slightly less old tiktoks?
I always feel like a lot of RUclips comedy resembles UK comedy from the 90s.
Stewart Lee is going to let himself go
OMG!! Absolute LEGEND for doing this!
Wow not watched this since it aired. Nice work
I love Stew - but he couldn't be the comedian Stewart Lee when he was young. I saw him in around 2001 and he was still not old enough to be "that", he had to wait till he'd let himself go and the sands of time had ground him down physically and mentally into the beloved wreck of today :)
William Shatner let himself go
Quite.
I saw Stewart Lee on Fist of Fun. He looked slender and emotionally well-balanced.
Look up the doctor doctor joke :)
@@HarryRedders Ted Bovis has really...
"Peter".. one of the geniuses of comedy writing!
This justifies the existence of the internet, all by itself. Apart from Stu & Rich, there's Kevin Eldon - an unsung hero of British comedy...with a calculator watch 😂
omg omg omg! You, sir, are a genius! Thanks for this :D xxx
“You don’t have to put in Patrick Marber’s name, but it’s better if you do”
Beautful work by the way
Thanks for this! It has made me so happy. The nostalgia is incredible. I still use lines from FoF almost daily!
Wow, Ratko Mladic is looking well!
Wow!! Thanks for not motion smoothing. This is perfect!
I like green flavoured jelly. Please do series 2. I AM HIM!
amazing upscaler!!!
Huh, my comment vanished. Anyway, many thanks for the great upload. The upscale looks brilliant.
It's still there, cheers.
I can't believe i forgot about this another class 90s when comedy was intelligent 🎉🎉😂
This channel keeps on giving!
Great comedy is timeless. When was this, it looks about 1995.
11:30 Graham Coxon has come a long way
I still use ‘No, not “aaah!”’
Never knew this existed, thanks for uploading. Looks 👌
no problem - glad you appreciate it.
@@couchtripperyou're a legend
Do this 400 or 500 times, brilliant.
When you said "Peter from Wales", I knew it was going to be Peter Baynham, even though I'd forgotten.
Do you remember now? Or forgotten again?
That trip to the University of Life really exacerbated things for Jill.
Wow, proper nostalgia! Also shout out to young Kate Ashfield (Liz out of Shaun of the Dead) at the end of episode 1..
Also young Al Murray at the beginning of ep.2..
Thank you SO much!!
Fist of Fun was great
Alistair McGowan, John Thomson and Al Murray are in there.
Peter Baynham should be on the secondary syllabus. Remembering Peter Baynham helped me to sort out my personal hygiene as a youth.
Come to think of it, does anyone think he (the character) has a learning disability?
1995 - 29 years ago ? No, no, no ! Nobody consulted me, I wasn't at the meeting when that shizz was decided.
How did I miss this go up? Some quality nostalgia.
Look how slim they both are, they've really let themselves go, but so have I.
That's the actor, Kevin Eldon!
I'd forgotten all about this show.
The surprising appearances are my favourite, eg Sue Perkins.
How did I forget this show? Answer me!
Refreshing to see stuart before he let himself go........ But not as refreshing as a pear cider made from 100% pears
You want the moon on a stick!
Stewart Lee has forbidden himself to stay.
And he has not allowed himself to be imprisoned.
Thanks for uploading 👏
Back in the days where you had to put some work in to pause & see the quick messages flashing up...Not like nowerdays 😡...& another thing...
These days - you’d get yourself arrested…
@@majordelays4909 if it hasn’t happened by now….it never will 😡
@@majordelays4909 what? just for recording BBC content onto a VHS?
@@majordelays4909 If it ain't happened by now...
Fat Bob hasn’t let himself go yet.
Ian Humphreys is now retired, I wonder how many crank calls he got after the show.
Does anyone else lie awake at night thinking about how Stew and Rich inspired Ant and Dec to become TV presenters?
Thanks for this great stuff
This is what upscaling qas made for
Do you remember "Dare to Believe"?
No one else does, I think I might have imagined it and every one I told about it at the time also thought I imagined it but it has to be real.
Although, I did enjoy shouting out Dare to Believe catchphrases at people who just shouted out Fast Show catchphrases to be funny instead of you know, being funny, because I hate people like that, and then watching their confusion at having every time they said "only me" answered back with a "you, in the second half, be better at football" or an "Aguar Moose" and them not knowing what the sweaty frick was happening.
It would somehow be funnier in retrospect if I DID imagine it, than it was quoting a less popular sketch show that really existed.
This is brilliant! I loved this TV show! Comedy at it's irreverent best! :)
Thanks for this, funny is i would have told you this was on Channel 4, didn't realise it was BBC.
Rebecca Front? In the dating scene? And the guy from Start Stop!!!! Omg
This is still as funny as it was! And if you've not heard Richard Herrings Leicester Square Podcast you've got to give it a listen.. from the start!
Thanks I’ll give it a go
So that Rate-Rentac Rentacrate advert was pinched from here. Probably
Is it just me, or is that Holywood actor Sam Rockwell in the in link bits wearing the hat with the braids hanging down?
Thank you very much for doing this, all the version I'd had stumbled upon thus far seemed even smaller than 144p somehow... Any plans on giving TMWRNJ the same treatment?
You can't make good content from rough arsed VHS rips. I'm a nerd, not Rumpelstiltskin.
@@couchtripper 😂👍👍
Before the Tom O’Connor rivalry. Looks like he’s out on weight
The Casio CZ-1000 at 2:02:57 wasn't released until 1984
Will the rest of the episodes be coming too??
hey it's that eskimo guy from the 90s.
This is amazing work! Theoretically speaking, where might one download a copy of this?
Thanks so much for this! Looks fantastic and just as funny as I remember.
Don't suppose you'd have a way of doing The Mary Whitehouse Experience as well would you? :D
Watching in 144p on a 4K monitor to spite the upscaling 🤢
How did two such talents sink without trace?
How did you upscale this ? It looks like it was filmed yesterday.
I loaded it into the software and told it to do certain things which amount to magic. Then the PC whirred for a day or so and out popped this little beauty.
I had a piss next to Stewart Lee outside the green tent at Glastonbury in 1995.
Anyway, night xx
Did he look fat and depressed?
Do you? You sound it
@@abrax23I saw Stewart Lee at a comedy club not long ago and can confirm that he looked fat and depressed
So your the twat that pissed on my leg...i forgive you..😮
I saw Stewart Lee do a comedy gig recently and he was really funny and intelligent. He addressed the fat & depressed issues.
Jeez...forgot how gorgeous Stew was 😂! Before he let himself go of course...
The shaking Paxman hands hasn't aged well lolololololol.
Yes it has. Like a fine wine. Or a week lemon drink.
is that a school aged Al Murray ??!
I'm from the US, so I don't know this show at all. But I'm a Stuart Lee fan, and it seems fitting that he would have this kind of show in his youth. It's like how Jon Stewart got his start on MTV in the US. It's an odd, but endearing, start for both of them - assuming Stuart doesn't have something predating even this. He doesn't does he?
I don't think so. I think this is it.
Maybe on BBC radio 4. Most of the new BBC comedy talent starts there.
Balhams finest 😎
22:25 says so much about the world today.
Wonder what the Conkeys would make of 2024… 😂
Kevin Eldon doesn't look like he has aged at all.
The actor Kevin Eldon?
That's Sue Perkins of Mel and Sue at 1:24:00 right?
it certainly is - all on the BBC gravy train. Wish I was.
The intense sexual energy between these two has never faded. They’ve let themselves go in this compilation though.
WEAK LEMON DRINK how could I forget about this character
Ikr!
Got my flask of weak lemon drink
It's fitting that the set resembles a nineties first-person shooter.
Morrissey hasn't let himself go.
Those days...
Ben Elton's YOUNG ADULT sketch
25:25 This is where Reform UK Ltd get their policy ideas.
Stewart Lee has let himself go
Blimey, Kate Ashfield at 26:02!