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  • Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
  • Basil Fawlty is back. 35 years after he last prowled the Reception area of Fawlty Towers, John Cleese’s legendary comedy creation has returned to our screens for Specsavers.
    In Fawlty Car, it’s clear the present-day Basil hasn’t lost his notorious ability to self-destruct spectacularly when events conspire against him. Throw in a should’ve gone to Specsavers twist (Fawlty eyesight?) and you have an irresistible comedy cocktail leading to inevitably calamitous results.
    Watch: John Cleese talks Fawlty Towers and bringing back Basil for Specsavers • John Cleese Interview ...
    Watch: Behind the scenes of Fawlty Car • Behind the Scenes - Sp...

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  • @LiamHannon98
    @LiamHannon98 8 лет назад +310

    Wow even at 76 John Cleese is still perfect. This really does feel like Basil Fawlty and not just Cleese phoning it in.

    • @sebflamo
      @sebflamo 8 лет назад +9

      +cabshdun I genuinely can't tell if you're being sarcastic.

    • @LiamHannon98
      @LiamHannon98 8 лет назад +12

      +sebflamo I'm genuinely not lol

    • @DarthRushy
      @DarthRushy 8 лет назад +1

      +sebflamo Every genius has the capacity to not care.

    • @Synbious
      @Synbious 8 лет назад

      It's funny but feels phoney.

    • @LiamHannon98
      @LiamHannon98 8 лет назад +3

      Synbious Yeah, re-watching it it does feel like a bit of a cash grab tbh. Like, Cleese is still great and all but this does feel like a bit of a paycheck sort of thing.

  • @MrElias760
    @MrElias760 8 лет назад +235

    Fawlty Towers is definitely one of the best comedic shows Britain ever produced.

    • @Weird-City
      @Weird-City 8 лет назад +1

      +MrElias760 comedic shows...lol.

    • @MrElias760
      @MrElias760 8 лет назад +2

      ***** What exactly would you call it?

    • @Weird-City
      @Weird-City 8 лет назад

      MrElias760
      A comedy show - but I am just nit picking. Settle yourself doon.

    • @susanbasma6362
      @susanbasma6362 8 лет назад

      🎅🎅🎅🎅.

    • @Godzirra-San
      @Godzirra-San 8 лет назад +4

      +MrElias760 The World*

  • @beckscald3855
    @beckscald3855 8 лет назад +56

    Clearly, he doesn't use his eyes as it wears the batteries out.
    - Polly

  • @moviepenguin
    @moviepenguin 8 лет назад +82

    A DAMN GOOD THRASHING!

  • @andyfieldmagic
    @andyfieldmagic 8 лет назад +74

    This was brilliant.

  • @LegendHidde
    @LegendHidde 8 лет назад +53

    Best advertisement I've ever seen, so glad this aired in the Netherlands.

    • @SpecsaversOfficial
      @SpecsaversOfficial  8 лет назад +15

      We're glad you enjoyed this!

    • @LellePrinter82
      @LellePrinter82 8 лет назад +3

      +Legend Hidde
      So it did here in sweden aswell :)

    • @LOVETOYOTAS
      @LOVETOYOTAS 8 лет назад +2

      +Legend Hidde We have this ad in New Zealand to. I like it.

  • @DavidCruickshank
    @DavidCruickshank 8 лет назад +50

    That was great, I don't care if it was an ad =)

    • @wordsmith1
      @wordsmith1 8 лет назад +11

      +David Cruickshank This is exactly the sentiment they're looking for. I agree. Wonderful sketch, even if it happens to be an advert.

  • @54GodzillaFan
    @54GodzillaFan 6 лет назад +36

    The way he tried to play it off is priceless XD
    "Oh, dusty bonnet."

    • @ashleyt8897
      @ashleyt8897 Год назад +1

      That's exactly something Basil Fawlty would do

  • @jackcollins707
    @jackcollins707 8 лет назад +31

    'I'm gonna give you a damn good thrashing' 😂😂😂 Hillarious

  • @biggusdickus2312
    @biggusdickus2312 8 лет назад +97

    I was such a big fan of fawlty towers... This has to be the only time I have ever clicked on to an advert and not wanted it to end lol.

  • @freeformaniak
    @freeformaniak 8 лет назад +59

    hahaha cant beat a little john cleese what a comedy legend

  • @Class158
    @Class158 3 года назад +23

    Even after all this time he still IS Basil effortlessly. The "Yes yes I AM inserting it thank you" was perfect.
    Wonderful advert, well done to all involved. 👍🏻

  • @STG-66
    @STG-66 8 лет назад +41

    Haha this is just Amazing love it!
    47 people Need a damn good thrashing!

  • @thebrummierailenthusiasts5329
    @thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 Год назад +13

    Even at 83 years old which is where John Cleese is currently at now he’s always been funny especially in the tv show Fawlty towers

  • @alextaylor3015
    @alextaylor3015 8 лет назад +30

    Nice one. Specsavers are proof an in-house ad agency can work.

  • @AllYourBlocks
    @AllYourBlocks 8 лет назад +56

    Haha - classic! :)

  • @stealthattack2209
    @stealthattack2209 8 лет назад +33

    Awesome advertisement :)

    • @SpecsaversOfficial
      @SpecsaversOfficial  8 лет назад +6

      We're pleased you enjoyed this, Ashar :)

    • @imsascha4497
      @imsascha4497 8 лет назад

      +SpecsaversOfficial Just saw it here in Denmark and it's the only Commercial right now that makes me laugh everytime. Are there going to be more than just this one with John Cleese? :)

  • @billymace5167
    @billymace5167 8 лет назад +23

    haha, nice one fawlty

  • @smellypies813
    @smellypies813 8 лет назад +4

    he put on alot of weigh since faulty tower

  • @russellpointer4731
    @russellpointer4731 8 лет назад +18

    Still as funny as ever

  • @DamiensTrainsandTravels
    @DamiensTrainsandTravels 6 лет назад +8

    Manuel should appear at the end being questioned by the police, "I KNOW NOTHING!"

    • @ph89787
      @ph89787 5 лет назад +2

      Damien Le Maistre I think Andrew Sachs has shuffled off the mortal coil at this point. May he Rest In Peace.

  • @AndrewChapman
    @AndrewChapman 4 года назад +6

    Love how the police officers don't bother chasing after him lol

  • @thewhippetbeans
    @thewhippetbeans 8 лет назад +10

    Divorce is expensive 😉

  • @jakehughes735
    @jakehughes735 2 года назад +6

    Never lost his touch 😂💯💯
    It’d be great if we could see him do it just one more time 💯

  • @leonpotts7358
    @leonpotts7358 6 лет назад +9

    I always like to think it's actually John Cleese sprinting down that road but it definitely isn't, not at 76 😂

    • @borhaptrash5454
      @borhaptrash5454 2 года назад +2

      Well, I don’t know. I mean he still does workouts at home, and it wasn’t a long distance so who knows? I mean look at kiss or The Rolling Stones on Stage. It is possible to be pretty fit at that age

    • @whatausernamethisis8893
      @whatausernamethisis8893 Год назад

      @@borhaptrash5454 He's talked about having a knee replacement in one leg and a hip replacement in the other. But he might still be able to sprint, IDK.

  • @Mortthemoose
    @Mortthemoose 7 лет назад +3

    Haha.....I usually hate adverts, but I love this one....Weirdly, I've never seen the end bit though, with him running off.

  • @paulgregroy1986
    @paulgregroy1986 8 лет назад +18

    it's true Fawlty Towers is the best comic shows Britain's ever produced thanks to John Cleese

    • @WelshWing98
      @WelshWing98 8 лет назад

      I have to disagree u can't beat Mrs brown's boys even though it's Irish.

    • @matthewhill4636
      @matthewhill4636 8 лет назад +3

      +58goj58 well trolled sir.

    • @mahamoodhassan5575
      @mahamoodhassan5575 8 лет назад

      dako

    • @paulgregroy1986
      @paulgregroy1986 8 лет назад +1

      58goj58 im Glad everyones Different nice to know that you think other comedies are better

    • @nigelblumenthal
      @nigelblumenthal 8 лет назад +2

      +Paul Gregroy And one of the most interesting things about Fawlty Towers is the fact that there were so few of them ever made. I think there were only twelve episodes. Those six hours of TV had an amazing influence on TV comedy.

  • @taragrace2928
    @taragrace2928 2 года назад +7

    God this was so good. Felt exactly like Basil Fawlty, John Cleese hasn't lost his touch at all. This might be the only time ever I didn't want an ad to end!

  • @rantingsw3de
    @rantingsw3de 6 лет назад +4

    Had this been the US then Basil would've been shot on the spot 😂

  • @ladsontour9623
    @ladsontour9623 6 лет назад +3

    I laughed so hard I shat myself!

  • @lorcanwooster6576
    @lorcanwooster6576 8 лет назад +6

    What a funny advert! Perfectly homaging the scene where Basil wacks his car in the episode Gourmet Night.

  • @HighTen_Melanie
    @HighTen_Melanie 8 лет назад +6

    Best Spec Savers advert yet! 🤓
    Absolutely hilarious loved the bit when you saw the Police car for the first time!

  • @thribs
    @thribs 8 лет назад +4

    He seems rather agile there. TV magic I suppose.

  • @rickenfatania
    @rickenfatania 8 лет назад +7

    The original was shot down the road from me in Wembley. The restaurant in that episode was also Wembley and is still there!

    • @BloodyRoses666
      @BloodyRoses666 3 года назад +1

      Were you the one peeking their head out during that scene? 😂

  • @Sarcastix7
    @Sarcastix7 8 лет назад +2

    Brilliant ad. I laughed my arse off watching it

  • @patrick.tjones2792
    @patrick.tjones2792 8 лет назад +8

    never changed...

  • @Cyrus-3D
    @Cyrus-3D 2 года назад +1

    "Dusty bonnet there." I see Basil is still making the terrible excuses. 35 years later and John Cleese still makes this sketch hilarious.

  • @up4itgal
    @up4itgal 8 лет назад +9

    I love John Cleese. Legend.

  • @antonincorsham1
    @antonincorsham1 8 лет назад +4

    Absolutely Brilliant !!!. The man's a genius.
    Most staff at hotels, pubs, and restaurants near me have staff or are owned by "Basils".
    but I have to admit to being a curmudgeonly Basil myself.

  • @Phydeaux777
    @Phydeaux777 8 лет назад +3

    Very good...was afraid it would taint the Fawlty image...very well played, John...

  • @v8powerr771
    @v8powerr771 8 лет назад +4

    This ad is an instant classic and it's already the best ad that's ever gonna be made in 21st century.

  • @Hollycalvey
    @Hollycalvey 8 лет назад +8

    One of my favorite ever shows :D

  • @rickevans6710
    @rickevans6710 8 лет назад +2

    wasn't the thrashing sketch from the film clockwise ??

  • @caatcher
    @caatcher 8 лет назад +2

    Omigod! A bit of new Fawlty after all these years. Perfect! Thanks!!!

  • @cnpadds9000
    @cnpadds9000 8 лет назад +4

    The best ad ever!

    • @Smithjones12
      @Smithjones12 8 лет назад

      what about the Mr bean Mars and or specsavers vet and with the hat that was funny :)

  • @MattDownerUK
    @MattDownerUK 8 лет назад +4

    Well played Specsavers.

  • @MTTT19
    @MTTT19 5 лет назад +4

    Cop: "I was just going to ask him for an autograph!"

  • @Yimello
    @Yimello 8 лет назад +5

    A man's gotta pay his alimony somehow.

  • @BritishComedyUK69
    @BritishComedyUK69 8 лет назад +3

    Best show ever made x

  • @freeformaniak
    @freeformaniak 8 лет назад +2

    hahaha cant beat a little john cleese what a comedy legend

  • @grahamwarner4760
    @grahamwarner4760 8 лет назад +4

    Great re-make of a classic sketch but can anyone tell me why the Police have both got Royal Engineers cap badges ?

  • @meels5159
    @meels5159 8 лет назад +2

    Best ad ever I love fawlty towers!!! you'll only get that if you've watched the episodes

  • @PointyTailofSatan
    @PointyTailofSatan 5 лет назад +3

    Not only a brilliant comedy writer, but one of the greatest physical comedy actors of all time. Easily up there with Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Curly Howard.

  • @DamiensTrainsandTravels
    @DamiensTrainsandTravels 7 лет назад +4

    I work in a hospital and had fun viewing this in one of the waiting rooms with a patient.

  • @CoriBurns123
    @CoriBurns123 8 лет назад +4

    Love it. Laugh everytime I see the ad. A timely return for old Basil! Kisses to John for bringing him back mwah mwah mwah mwah mwah x x x x x

  • @AMCmachine
    @AMCmachine 5 лет назад +2

    "Start! START, YOU VICIOUS BASTARD!!!"

  • @beforethefallofrome
    @beforethefallofrome 8 лет назад +3

    Hahaha! Best specsaves advert ever! So simple yet so amusing :) Great stuff, Fawlty!

  • @soundjarvis81
    @soundjarvis81 8 лет назад +2

    Welcome back Basil!

  • @debbieSparkle8t5
    @debbieSparkle8t5 8 лет назад +3

    ah Mr Fawlty

  • @wonderwoman7443
    @wonderwoman7443 3 года назад +3

    5 years already! Should of kept it going 😆

  • @kingandrewcecil348
    @kingandrewcecil348 7 лет назад +1

    0:42 lol the cops' faces are like "what the hell''s wrong with this guy?" XD

  • @Desslar
    @Desslar 2 года назад +3

    The hilarious sideways leap at the end is the cherry on top.

  • @villagernumber77
    @villagernumber77 8 лет назад +2

    Fiat with custom body by cgi

  • @Popisms
    @Popisms 8 лет назад +1

    *Here's the song:* www.popisms.com/Song/91733/Fawlty-Towers-by-Dennis-Wilson.aspx
    The music in the Specsavers advert is the #FawltyTowers theme by #DennisWilson

  • @bffs4life384
    @bffs4life384 8 лет назад +1

    PERFECTION loving the Fawlty Towers ad! If i ever need glasses, Im now going to SPECSAVERS!!!!!!!

  • @kirschrot77
    @kirschrot77 8 лет назад +4

    I love the fawlty towers music, want to watch fawlty towers now

    • @KazuyaMain2001
      @KazuyaMain2001 8 лет назад +1

      It's made me as well want to watch fawlty towers

  • @iwasrightonce1403
    @iwasrightonce1403 8 лет назад +6

    For that alimony, eh, Mr. Cleese.

  • @divicenzo
    @divicenzo 8 лет назад +2

    LOVE IT!!! Saw it today for the first time :-)

  • @wisteela
    @wisteela 8 лет назад +3

    Superb. Great to see he's still got it.

  • @BasedSpectre
    @BasedSpectre 8 лет назад +6

    The memories...

  • @superfurryfox1
    @superfurryfox1 8 лет назад +1

    Brilliant! I will defo buy my glasses from you guys.... Wait I don't need glasses....

  • @TolNoodle
    @TolNoodle 8 лет назад +2

    Watching Cawley towers at the moment! Fawltception!

  • @brianrunyon266
    @brianrunyon266 3 года назад +1

    Ah, Fawlty Towers, one of the UK's best comedies, and I'm American. Big John Cleese fan.

  • @faizet2
    @faizet2 7 лет назад +2

    With 3 divorces behind him, John Cleese sold out & made a parody of a classic Fawlty Towers scene to Specsavers!!

  • @benstevinson764
    @benstevinson764 2 года назад +1

    Lol lol 😂🤣 Brilliant Absolutely Hilarious! 😂🤣 John Cleese is Classic! 😂🤣👍

  • @k4nil300
    @k4nil300 5 лет назад +2

    oh this is so funny ! LMAO !

  • @mysterioussquirrel4456
    @mysterioussquirrel4456 8 лет назад +1

    You'd have thought Specsavers could come up with something much better and more original than this.

  • @10bencook
    @10bencook Год назад +2

    I love this advert.

  • @cringe7088
    @cringe7088 8 лет назад +2

    That was a funny commercial, unlike those other sad, depressing ones normally. For some darn reason I thought it was going to be a film so when it ended I literally cried! 😜

  • @Godbestaatniet2005
    @Godbestaatniet2005 4 года назад +1

    A bit painful and unfunny, he shouldn't have done it. 😐

  • @jacquelinebell6201
    @jacquelinebell6201 2 года назад +1

    We have a similar one in Australia. For Specsavers too. They're so funny!

  • @Soopytwist
    @Soopytwist 8 лет назад +1

    Bring it back Cleese. You know it makes sense.

  • @kbeckford92
    @kbeckford92 8 лет назад +1

    still funny as ever John Cleese

  • @amcghie7
    @amcghie7 8 лет назад +4

    Specsavers ads are the best.

  • @MissFroglover
    @MissFroglover 8 лет назад +1

    Best Specs advertisement ever! :)

  • @davidhabert
    @davidhabert 3 года назад +1

    Let me guess, he got busted and the charge was Assault with a deadly weapon 😂😂😂😂

  • @skyemiddletonx9006
    @skyemiddletonx9006 8 лет назад +1

    Hahahahahahah Thank you John Cleese, please never change and thank you for letting Basil out.

  • @christianjohnson9977
    @christianjohnson9977 8 лет назад +1

    Started using reading glasses just last year, hope to God I don"t end up like Cleese here!!!

  • @johnnythunders78
    @johnnythunders78 8 лет назад +1

    Fawlty Towers and Father Ted are the two greatest british shows of all time. Both have the initials FT. Wild.

  • @napsterbenz1081
    @napsterbenz1081 8 лет назад +1

    Excellent Ad, great job Basil and Specsavers 😎

  • @hurkydoesntknow
    @hurkydoesntknow 8 лет назад +3

    Makes me laugh more and more each time I watch it!

  • @Gearoidmcnaught
    @Gearoidmcnaught 7 лет назад +1

    I don't blame him I used to get really annoyed at talking elevators.

  • @TheMushtyroo
    @TheMushtyroo 8 лет назад +1

    Well done Specsavers & Mr Cleese! Lets have ad another featuring John :)

  • @joshandrob8174
    @joshandrob8174 8 лет назад +1

    Lol classic British ads making me good to be British 😂

  • @TralfazConstruction
    @TralfazConstruction 2 года назад +1

    Wish I could hie myself off as briskly as that. 0:56

  • @darkshade2k7
    @darkshade2k7 8 лет назад +1

    How the hell does this have dislikes??

  • @lukecoxon2381
    @lukecoxon2381 8 лет назад +1

    Looking at his house he should of gone to Shakespeare's XD

  • @DeanRead
    @DeanRead 8 лет назад +1

    Hilarious :-)

  • @semteunis5580
    @semteunis5580 8 лет назад +1

    Genius. Greetings from Holland

  • @albert7721
    @albert7721 8 лет назад +1

    Dusty bonnet tho!...great advert.