I saw this in my youth too and have just watched this to reminisce . I did not laugh out loud once. I was so disappointed. Maybe it is just me, I am old school and love watching things from my youth but after watching this I realise that The Inbetweeners , Friday night Dinner, Plebs, The Young Offenders, The Office, Extras and other comedies of the 21st century are so much funnier than the shite we watched back then. I hate to admit it but it is true.
The Internet Killed Music Mmm, first option would be no, but the second option would be yes. I'd take it under both circumstances. I'd be 13 in '81 and I'm not sure I'd want to be that small again but I loved the post-punk time. And as you know the music was great unlike today's nonsense.
I would had liked to had seen it from the very first episode. I've got The Best of... Volumes 1 and 2 on DVD which is an edited compliation of all the best sketches.
I have always had a vivid memory of watching the skit with the petrol pump when I was a child. I don't remember anything else about this at all, apart from that. It's strange what you remember as a child. I'm pleased to have seen it again.
Being a huge Blackadder fan, Atkinson's talent is a given, but Mel Smith was Years ahead of his time. His humour is like it was made yesterday. RIP Mel
Mel Smith as Frances Morell is pure genius 23:35 and I love the petrol station sketch, £5.00 worth of petrol would hardly get you home from the bloody petrol station these days.
Still remember the petrol station Sketch myself as I had only started driving. As I'm a lot older now., The dog sketch will take over. Not that I will bring telling anyone about it in forty years. Tomorrow for sure.
This makes me laugh today! I love the silliness of British humour, wonderful piss-take quality to it. Takes me back to younger years of my life... Love the 'fisherdog' - reminds me of a sign I saw in the door of a pub outside Cambridge (well-known, can't remember the name) which read: No children, no dogs, and no long-haired lefties. (Would have been about 1971 I think.)
Remember watching this on friday nights in Denmark with my parents the four years it was on..Oh watched the reruns to obviously. Mel always made me laugh...RIP.
The sketch featuring the bank is very good. Sometimes I wish the banks had kept our savings in little boxes as they would have been a lot safer. Pamela also did a great job in turning herself from a super attractive babe to a dowdy looking bank clerk. The petrol joke is a classic - how little forecourts have changed (and our attempts to get to the nearest whole number)
It's fun to spot young comic actors ( some serious ones) in old series like these. Jim Carter ( Downton's Carson) is at 9.00. Mad Mike Hoare--was a real mercenary soldier, who was in the news a lot back then. the show was mostly topical of it's time.
This was such a good comedy show inventive and really funny. This is Brit humour at its best. It had such a talented group of hilarious individuals. Its a shame it only ran for 3 seasons on British TV and deserved many many more seasons of this gem of British tv comedy from this era which coincided incidentally with the first 3 years of the Thatcher Govt in the UK and jokes about the Thatcher Conservative Govt featured a lot on the show, but the show ending after only just 3 seasons may have something to do with Pamela Stephenson having other plans and wanting to move on and because they were all good friends and tight nit group decided to call it quits if one of them left the show, Pamela Stephenson who was popular in the UK in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s as an actress and being constantly in the UK media at the time in the early 1980s, who was very talented personality herself preparing for an expanded career in America. Because she joined SNL in the mid 1980s and moved to America from the UK after that and has been there ever since after marrying Billy Connolly. I think she has given up acting in the early 1990s after being in several movies and tv shows for memorably appearing in minor role in Superman III but she was in a lot of other movies too not big roles, but she was a good looking lady in the 1980s and she left an impression on me, then she went back to education and studied psychology and became a qualified doctor in the States. How people re invent themselves and change careers and who they are after many decades. Not the nine o clock news showed the good quality of tv shows and the talent that was on British television at this time.
BBC 2 Mondays at 21:00 if I recall correctly ? The sketch in the bank was built on the same premise as the 'Gramophone' sketch in the hi-fi electrical shop with Mel Smith again playing the unsuspecting customer being the butt of the jokes of the staff. I love the Rowan Atkinson idea of the shop thief being lured by the tea in the 'Special Offers' section - brilliant !
Francis Morrell: "Well I'm amazed i mean we're sitting here talking about a nuclear holocaust, casually discussing the destruction of the entire planet and ignoring the major issue. Which is the appalling record of this Conservative government and the real tragedy here is that 3 million people will die......unemployed...and here I would like to drone on about Conservative economic policy...." Brilliant.
The 'punchline' for the spoof "Contact 1,200" advert at about 18:00 (which is cut short in this video) is Rowan Atkinson with a capsule stuck up each nostril.
And thus is over 35 years old? Weirdly relevant in places. I don't know if I should be impressed by the scope or depressed by the evident lack of change in almost 40 years.
That is because school and university do not delevop young people in self thinking subjects any more. The change began in the late seventies. And since the eighties people often even look like today. New technology has only brought even more superficiality.
The show was made at a time when the world seemed to be progressing ahead but somewhere in between, possibly mid to late 90's the world became more corporatised, social media was in its infancy and since then the world has done a u-turn and gone backward without us realising it...that's why the comedy seems relevant...the world has gone nowhere since the 80's...if anything, it's more darker and scarier.
@@zapkvr Sounds like it's too easy for you to not want to know who the bad guys are. Well I'll tell you, The bad guys are a handful of people who own the combined wealth of the world's poorest half. And people like you are compliant and obedient to these handful of people FFS.
Has anyone got a video of the sketch of a radio controlled model powerboat driven by Rowan Atkinson on a park pond interfering with the electric wheelchair of Mel Smith in the background? Priceless!
They were quite lefty really, but the big difference is they could get away with insulting all and sundry. That has gone. I remember after "Death of a Princess" was aired they (Jones) joked about rich Arabs coming over here to gamble, screw and get pissed. Not a cat in hell's chance of that airing now.
@Freddo Flintstono - This is a matter of policy. They are gradually including more and more ads to make watching intolerable and to encourage people to take up the ad free subscription service.
This is NOT the full uneditted version. I have them all full unedited and this is not full or uneditted. Once I can get at mine I will upload them, im afraid they are in the store room and I am in a wheelchair, so I cannopt get into there.
It is still brilliant after 43yrs 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Shit. It really is 43 years, well thanks for that.
Saw this in my youth and decades later it still makes me laugh out loud😀
I saw this in my youth too and have just watched this to reminisce . I did not laugh out loud once. I was so disappointed. Maybe it is just me, I am old school and love watching things from my youth but after watching this I realise that The Inbetweeners , Friday night Dinner, Plebs, The Young Offenders, The Office, Extras and other comedies of the 21st century are so much funnier than the shite we watched back then. I hate to admit it but it is true.
what is wrong with people that watch this. a load of weird idiots.
@@lennywebb6740 I agree those are good comedies, but this is clever and funny. you aren't you are a sad bitter little knob.
This is as funny as anal cancer.
The gag with the pencil during Question Time is pure genius!
Thumbs up if you would quite happily go back to 1981
I was born in 1984, but I would like to go back to 1981 and watch Not the Nine O'clock News.
The Internet Killed Music Mmm, first option would be no, but the second option would be yes. I'd take it under both circumstances. I'd be 13 in '81 and I'm not sure I'd want to be that small again but I loved the post-punk time. And as you know the music was great unlike today's nonsense.
I would had liked to had seen it from the very first episode. I've got The Best of... Volumes 1 and 2 on DVD which is an edited compliation of all the best sketches.
The Internet Killed Music Not sure I could say that. I did most things worse when I was young.
The Internet Killed Music for sure, for sure :)
The bank sketch is wonderful. Highly amusing.
I remember watching some of these skits when they were first aired.
It's such a shame that most Americans just know Rowan for being Mr. Bean. He's so much more than that!
I have always had a vivid memory of watching the skit with the petrol pump when I was a child. I don't remember anything else about this at all, apart from that. It's strange what you remember as a child. I'm pleased to have seen it again.
Sultans of swing just makes this even better.....🎵🎵
Being a huge Blackadder fan, Atkinson's talent is a given, but Mel Smith was Years ahead of his time. His humour is like it was made yesterday. RIP Mel
Gordon Urquhart ...Mel who?
Yebbut Mel Smith is a bloody useless copper though in my experience. Germany calling. Germany calling.
@@AsadAli-jc5tg educate yourself sweetie 😀
This show is something that we all need right now. But it seems people don't have the guts anymore...
I have been looking for the Question Time sketch on RUclips for ages. Brilliant.
Mel Smith as Frances Morell is pure genius 23:35 and I love the petrol station sketch, £5.00 worth of petrol would hardly get you home from the bloody petrol station these days.
2021 ..... struggle to get off the forecourt!
@@Antonhein Or in 🤣
Still remember the petrol station Sketch myself as I had only started driving. As I'm a lot older now., The dog sketch will take over. Not that I will bring telling anyone about it in forty years. Tomorrow for sure.
The unemployed wildebeest had me in absolute tears😂
A great example of an act that was ahead of its time
i miss times like this so much, where you could make a sketch and not have to worry about anything because it was a joke.
I was only born in 1981 so missed a lot, but now im catching up
I hope you enjoy it and understand something of the times
That motorbike stunt team pursuit is a great sight gag.
Brilliant wasn't it!
Lot of work for a 15 sec bit...
Great watching these old episodes with Griff,Mel & Rowan in them.
This makes me laugh today! I love the silliness of British humour, wonderful piss-take quality to it.
Takes me back to younger years of my life... Love the 'fisherdog' - reminds me of a sign I saw in the
door of a pub outside Cambridge (well-known, can't remember the name) which read:
No children, no dogs, and no long-haired lefties. (Would have been about 1971 I think.)
us loves brit humour.. its why they copied so many :)
“Your box. You know, the little cardboard shoebox that we keep your money in.” 🤣🤣🤣
they all should have been given OBEs for this. Can't get enough. can anybody get enough of this?
I was a kid when this was on but my mum used yo let me stay up to watch it and 'Gob on you' will always favourite comedy tune.
absolutely hilarious even now, in fact especially now
"And I'm pretty sure, he would have shat in his pants!" Hilarious delivery.
Love this old British comedy! 😎👍
Glad you enjoyed it - R.I.P. Mel
Remember watching this on friday nights in Denmark with my parents the four years it was on..Oh watched the reruns to obviously.
Mel always made me laugh...RIP.
Jeg husker det også haha
wow!! I live in Denmark and have always thought how similar British humour is the Danish!
"Bevan would have shat his pants" got me laughing 40 years ago and again right now! Brilliant!
I love the bits where they're in their pajamas with teddy bears 💜
Better days and better men😊!
I'd forgotten how good this was.
I haven't discovered this series but recently however I believe that it was really innovative at its time and really brilliant...
These guys were the best ! I almost forgot how good they were. Today's comedy does not even come close
Good/ intelligent huomour never gets old.
Not the nine o'clock, Assaulted nuts, KWTV... those were the days when comedians knew how to be hilarious and make us happy no matter what.
The sketch featuring the bank is very good. Sometimes I wish the banks had kept our savings in little boxes as they would have been a lot safer. Pamela also did a great job in turning herself from a super attractive babe to a dowdy looking bank clerk. The petrol joke is a classic - how little forecourts have changed (and our attempts to get to the nearest whole number)
ewaf88 I've seen the half penny joke, but instead of the cassier prssing a button it's Thatcher, so they changed it in reruns?
Except now you can punch in the exact amount you want to purchase
Well said
That £5 today hardly buys you half a gallon!!!
I grew up with this, pure gold. The skit about the kangaroo meat a little too close to home, kangaroo meat is, sadly, eaten here and used as pet food.
British comedy at its best ! Classic and unforgettable.
Super! Thanks!
Mel Smith RIP/*\💥
If only!
At 20:47 sketch Question Time is absolutely one of their best ones! Fricking brilliant!
Especially relevant as of 27 February 2022. Just like old times. Hide under the dining room table!
It's fun to spot young comic actors ( some serious ones) in old series like these. Jim Carter ( Downton's Carson) is at 9.00. Mad Mike Hoare--was a real mercenary soldier, who was in the news a lot back then. the show was mostly topical of it's time.
If you weren't there at the time then maybe you won't get it.. fecking class.
Pure gold!
- Kids?
- Can't have any unfortunately
- Oh, that's not so bad then
Even the music is great. Dr. Feelgood, Dire Straits, just great!
Stands up well. There was a pace to NTNOCN, that felt very contemporary at the time. The music helps too. It just caught the mood of the moment.
RIP Mel Smith and Mary Tamm
Thanks a load for sharing !
This was such a good comedy show inventive and really funny. This is Brit humour at its best. It had such a talented group of hilarious individuals. Its a shame it only ran for 3 seasons on British TV and deserved many many more seasons of this gem of British tv comedy from this era which coincided incidentally with the first 3 years of the Thatcher Govt in the UK and jokes about the Thatcher Conservative Govt featured a lot on the show, but the show ending after only just 3 seasons may have something to do with Pamela Stephenson having other plans and wanting to move on and because they were all good friends and tight nit group decided to call it quits if one of them left the show, Pamela Stephenson who was popular in the UK in the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s as an actress and being constantly in the UK media at the time in the early 1980s, who was very talented personality herself preparing for an expanded career in America. Because she joined SNL in the mid 1980s and moved to America from the UK after that and has been there ever since after marrying Billy Connolly. I think she has given up acting in the early 1990s after being in several movies and tv shows for memorably appearing in minor role in Superman III but she was in a lot of other movies too not big roles, but she was a good looking lady in the 1980s and she left an impression on me, then she went back to education and studied psychology and became a qualified doctor in the States. How people re invent themselves and change careers and who they are after many decades. Not the nine o clock news showed the good quality of tv shows and the talent that was on British television at this time.
Loved this show x
Mel Smith just had one of those faces that could make me laugh, same as Gareth Hale.
Best line of all time - I'm pretty sure he would have shat in his pants!
1981? They make reference to the pound coin. This did not enter service until 1983.
BBC 2 Mondays at 21:00 if I recall correctly ? The sketch in the bank was built on the same premise as the 'Gramophone' sketch in the hi-fi electrical shop with Mel Smith again playing the unsuspecting customer being the butt of the jokes of the staff. I love the Rowan Atkinson idea of the shop thief being lured by the tea in the 'Special Offers' section - brilliant !
Yup, good timing as we had all been out on the grog over the weekend, had no money left and a bit fragile. Happy days
So a head of it's time.. Laughing my as off.. Saw this when it originally aired.. Brilliant!
It looks incredibly dated now.
First time I've heard ""Roland Davies" Brilliant!
I'd completely forgotten the military briefing sketch. Rowan Atkinson at his absolute barmiest!
No mistaking that guitar work...Mark Knopfler
The dog doing everything that was forbidden, was lovely and nose stuck up in the air
Thanks for uploading this!
"To my left, and indeed, to everybody's left, Frances Morrell"
Francis Morrell: "Well I'm amazed i mean we're sitting here talking about a nuclear holocaust, casually discussing the destruction of the entire planet and ignoring the major issue. Which is the appalling record of this Conservative government and the real tragedy here is that 3 million people will die......unemployed...and here I would like to drone on about Conservative economic policy...."
Brilliant.
Love the 'creases' bit - nobody seemed to say this before NTNON did !!
Absolute classic not a woke in sight RIP Mel
The good days when people had a sense of humour and laughed at tv. You can’t even look at someone nowadays without them being offended
Back when you could buy petrol by the half-penny.
Pure gold
We actually eat Kangaroo in Australia. And no, it's not beef. It tastes like deer.
So, you eat Bambi?
@@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers No, Skippy.
The transitional cutaway edits in this show is just AAA.
Thanks. The mugger sketch, train song and jungle army sketches I didn’t recall at all..
The inspiration for NNtN! Ty for the upload, delightful!
Filling a MK1 Ford Escort with a fivers worth of petrol ?
Just one gallon of petrol is now around £7.15 😳
R.i.p. Mel, gone far too soon,
😮
The 'punchline' for the spoof "Contact 1,200" advert at about 18:00 (which is cut short in this video) is Rowan Atkinson with a capsule stuck up each nostril.
I was just about to post pretty much the same comment but I see I beat myself to it.
I don’t know why but Mel Smith in “Not Nine O’clock News” reminds me of James May in “Top Gear”.
The production value is superb.
Absolutely Perfect ending- the Michelin man had me in tears!
The Michelin Man has tremendous dignity because he crossed his legs.
And thus is over 35 years old? Weirdly relevant in places. I don't know if I should be impressed by the scope or depressed by the evident lack of change in almost 40 years.
That is because school and university do not delevop young people in self thinking subjects any more.
The change began in the late seventies. And since the eighties people often even look like today.
New technology has only brought even more superficiality.
The show was made at a time when the world seemed to be progressing ahead but somewhere in between, possibly mid to late 90's the world became more corporatised, social media was in its infancy and since then the world has done a u-turn and gone backward without us realising it...that's why the comedy seems relevant...the world has gone nowhere since the 80's...if anything, it's more darker and scarier.
Relevant how precisely you dope? Jesus.
@@terrythekittieful oh FFS it was the fall of the Berlin wall dummy. Now we don't know who the bad guys are. It's not friggin complicated.
@@zapkvr Sounds like it's too easy for you to not want to know who the bad guys are. Well I'll tell you, The bad guys are a handful of people who own the combined wealth of the world's poorest half. And people like you are compliant and obedient to these handful of people FFS.
Has anyone got a video of the sketch of a radio controlled model powerboat driven by Rowan Atkinson on a park pond interfering with the electric wheelchair of Mel Smith in the background? Priceless!
I'm unsure if Not the Nine O'Clock News had that sketch, but it is part of a Mr. Bean episode.
£5 petrol wouldn't take me to the shop now and i only live a few doors down 😂
I was 8 at the time watching these awesome 👍
Half pennies 😂 wow that is a blast from the past 😱
I think they abolished them as they were tiny and worthless. Now we have the tiny 5p and for that matter, the wothless pound coin
Fun Fact: Mike Hoare was also a chartered accountant.
i enjoy thr "hot air" joke about 5:25 in
Hahaha, Kangaroo meat is now readily available in Australia at many supermarkets and is an acceptable alternative to beef! 😄
Tesco did kangaroo meat a few years ago - delicious!
Mine kept jumping out the trolley 🦘🤣
Best thing ever on TV!
No back to Thatcherism. Great talent on the show
Surprised they got away with the anti Thatcher gags. Imagine the BBC doing that in 2023?
Thanks for this. It annoys me that the BBC can only issue a compilation video.
It seems a lot of people are desperate for this to be politically uncorrect, when infact it's remarkably progressive by even today's standards.
They were quite lefty really, but the big difference is they could get away with insulting all and sundry. That has gone. I remember after "Death of a Princess" was aired they (Jones) joked about rich Arabs coming over here to gamble, screw and get pissed. Not a cat in hell's chance of that airing now.
incorrect
@@roadrunner1337 British Rail (public) has 20,000 jobs and 110,000 employees. In other words it's very very very wasteful.
@Iain William Davidson
OwO 🥵
Stop talking shit
4:43 Dr. Feelgood - Down at the Doctors
Pretty good! Stands the test of time, just about 😂
Back then, when this was on TV, I didn't think much of it. Now, I think the same.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love comments like this. They are rare but I cherish the moment.
Proof that you don’t need swearing and cussing to be funny.
Mishima Sword swearing and cussing are the same thing
Armando Blue exactly, but too much of it makes it multiply.
Was proof required? How many people have argued to the contrary?
Nx Doyle only You. There’s the proof.
Is it just me or is Google infesting clips with more and more ads? It's becoming almost unwatchable.
@Freddo Flintstono - This is a matter of policy. They are gradually including more and more ads to make watching intolerable and to encourage people to take up the ad free subscription service.
Freddo Flintstono it’s called monopoly capitalism. No competition and making as much profit as possible. Add blocker is the way of fighting back.
If you are using Chrome, install Adblock Plus. If you're watching on your phone, youre screwed.
Opera and uBlock Origin. Never see any ads.
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome youtube vanced
Lord Carrington hahaha! He is brilliant.
took me a few minutes to realize it was Rowan
23.47 sums up Question Time...dont matter what anyone asks, make it a political platform !!
24:47 - Mary Tamm (The First Romana from Doctor Who).
This is NOT the full uneditted version.
I have them all full unedited and this is not full or uneditted.
Once I can get at mine I will upload them, im afraid they are in the store room and I am in a wheelchair, so I cannopt get into there.
24:23 '...I'm pretty sure he would've shat(shit) in his pants.' LMAO
They should release all episodes on dvd,but then again the BBC probaly wiped half of them