(The Death of Comedy) HARRY & PAUL
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2016
- Harry & Paul (originally titled Ruddy Hell! It's Harry & Paul) is a British sketch comedy show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 13 April 2007 and ran until 2nd December 2012
Even though Harry and Paul were "poking fun" at stereotypes, we would be hard pushed to see comedy like this on TV today due to all the PC nonsense. The sketch with the Filipino maid angered the Filipino government so much they started a campaign to condemn the sketch and eventually the BBC Director General had to officially apologise.
This is a selection of some the sketches that angered the public, but of course are the most funny, cut into one episode. 
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Johnny Depp called Paul Whitehouse the greatest actor who's ever lived.
Weirdly thinking how good an actor he was when watching the Eeny Meeny Miney Mole sketch the other day.
In a making of the Fast Show type program, Simon Day (who was 'just' an actor not a comedian then) mentioned that Paul said to him something like "Well I'm a comedian, I can be funny and act."
Love to ask him if he ever wished he'd done anything serious(!), although Ted and Ralph was incredibly moving sometimes.
As a resident of Badiddilyboing, Odawaidaho, USA, I would like to thank Harry & Paul for the shoutout. Not many people know about us!
Funny thing is, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is an actual place.
@Steve Terry 😎😂
Ha Ha
No shit? :o!
What a guy
I am from Poland and I consider these two guys an absolutely genius.
When we understand and ACCEPT own limitations and characteristics we can laugh at them with a clear conscious of not offending anyone.
Those who don't find it appropriate are not there just yet..
Bika Beja Exactly.
Thank you from a brit that loves comedy
Dose cappuccino!
Yes my thoughts exactly
What about lampooning Nelson Mandela ? It's very funny (like all of it) but feels uneasy, maybe it's too recent, ppl are alive who knew him, actually he was alive then ?
A lampoon of eg Ghandi's unusual appearance is different ?
The people complaining that it hasnt aged well are most probably quares.
They type like quares. Most of them are on Reddit like quares. I should say if they type like quares and they're on Reddit like quares and they're complaining that it hasn't aged well like quares then they're most probably quares.
😂😂😂
This Quare is not complaining but highly amused as are all Gen X squares.
British comedy really has sunk so low when you have to come to RUclips to watch amazing shows like this.
What comedy? Can't think of any nowadays.
yeah times do really suck nowadays
In the 70's there was a comedy on every night. I think the government made the tv channels make these comedies to cheer the nation up every night.
Paul Oneill just John Pie. The rest is shite, BBC’s idea of funny these days can be found on BBC, literally none of it if funny.
Its likely this will also soon be removed by RUclips. Someone will get wind of it and rush to write an angry article about it.
As an Arab, I confirm that this is indeed how celebrate important occasions.
No, seriously, we really do.
don't worry we all know we've seen the videos
Not really...... Thats like saying all English speakers do Morris Dancing.
@Joe Ç .... and Welsh people, and their sheep "dance"... I mean errr "not guilty m'lud"!
Just the funniest thing, not often i actually laugh out loud on youtube , and every bloody time as well.
Its so simple, yet so complicated , absurd yet clever, brilliant ,but on the edge
I’ve experienced it in parts of Greece...
I'm a black American and democratic socialist.
Harry and Paul are fucking hilarious.
Comedy is art and art is subjective, so if people don't like it they can change the fucking channel. The real world is fuck up enough as it is for me to worry about to guys trying to make us laugh.
As a straight, English, white, male, cis-gendered, heteronormative, nominally culturally Christian (but atheist) working class, plumber. Radical centrist (though tending libertarian) politically, I'd have to agree. Absolutely fookin' hilarious. By the way, I think George Carlin was a deeply philosophical, comedic genius. I believe that there was an incredibly racist man in the 1960's, who stated that people should be judged as individuals and "by the content of their character, not by the colour of their skin." (Deep sarcasm... whilst it's still legal) This PC identity politics boils my piss. Recommend Steve Hughes (Bull Brand channel) the lefty, liberal mentality and George Carlin's political correctness is oppression pretending to be manners. Keep laughing, pal! It's a pressure relief valve. Trust me, I'm a plumber.
@@loafersheffield As a straight, half-Scottish, half-Russian, white, male, electrician (higher IQ than plumbers), I concur with my learned friend. I can only recommend Billy Connolly. The greatest stand up comedian.
@@loafersheffield what the eff is cis -gendered
@@loafersheffield i think « Libertarian », is the latest trendy, identititarian pose
As a fan of brit humor, I'm shocked that I'd never seen any of this. This is comedy gold!!!!
I've never seen a lot of this stuff -- Don't know what I was doing at the time -- and I live here in the UK !
It came out around the same time as Little Britain which was way more popular than it (which is unfortunate, because Harry and Paul are both legends and this was way better in my opinion), but more importantly it came out very close to the time when western culture went insane about racism, sexism, etc. so it kind of got memory holed.
Amazing this was the BBC just seven years ago.
@@mysticx0 thanks matey! :)
Looking at the bbc today I think we have lost out
i miss old skool comedy sign of getting old :(
Oh hello you.
Is it? Inside number 9 is still airing and they're making the exact same kind of jokes today? Think a lot of people here are blinded by nostalgia.
I was there in 2007 when this aired, I don't recall there being any push back on TV, Radio or in the newspapers. Everyone was delighted Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were finally working together again. This is a hilarious show.
There wasn't any pushback or controversy over this show at all.
And there wouldn’t be today. If you don’t understand it’s satire poking fun at sexist fascist small minded bigots then you must be a frightful quare.
Mandela doing the "Blurs" got me crying in laughter
WAAAAAAAYYYYY HOOOEEEEEEE
Funny as took
Wouldn’t get made today.
Lost my lungs laughing somewhere between "Whoo Hooo" and "iiiiiin de country".
Brian Badonde
I’m a “northerner”, but find the northern sketch hilarious, it’s a pity others who are being poked fun at don’t see the funny side.
Likewise, but aye, that's an absolute fookin classic.
*Isn't she probably pretty??*
What a guy!
Whadda guy
Oh say can you seeeee the cello tape
That character is taken from Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond I reckon.
@@mrsubject1 Sellotape. Cello is a musical instrument, you humourless prick.
fucking ak-47 scenes got me every time....
mangatic776 fucking genius
That Arab like Middle East celebration still cracks me up after all these years
I think of it whenever I see someone just grinning to themselves.
"Do you like smack? Do you like crack? Then you'll love Nelson Mandela's smack and crack party pack."
“Oh say, can YOU SEE... the sellotape 😂
Yeah-that was marvellous!
The funny thing is that their comedy is actually right on (archaic for woke) but, as comedy should, does not spare anybody. Everyone of us is laughable one way or another.
I love Harry and Paul but object to all the 'wouldn't be made today' and 'PC nonsense'. In the Sixties, Irish and Jewish jokes abounded. These were offensive to many of us. For me H&P actually send up a lot of the stereotypes of their own time. Everything needs to be seen in context. And if you don't see that, you are probably quare.
None of the sketches angered me. What angers me more is the state of the BBC these days and it’s continual pandering to every minority and promotion of any and every activist cause
dunno how anyone could get offended over this, i consider myself pretty progressive, this is just satire, taking the piss out of stereotypes and the peoples perceptions of stereotypes.
I think it's too meta for most people.
builders are the funniest characters
When you say "progressive" what are you progressing towards?
entitlement
This could never get made now ........
Every time they spontaneously bust the guns out & the Arabian music kicks in, I can't help but laugh. It doesn't get old.
It does
ok
“I love you because I’m not racist.” Exactly.
I love the way Americans do indeed give a running commentary when they are walking about. The thought vocalisation is so on point.
love the youtube algorithm suggesting this to us years later
2 of the greatest comedians in history. Harry and Paul are British legends. We love them unconditionally and they will forever be known as icons.
What! The nuts that fall from oak trees,?
Thank you for this - amazed it hasn't been taken down and replaced with Harry sobbing and issuing a heartfelt ' apology'.
To be fair, Harry's pretty good at standing up for comedy: I've seen his arguing for blackface still even and he's very defensive of his old work, I believe.
@@billyfox6368 He said ' it was so wrong, it was right'
I was absolutely gutted when Keith Lemmon's alter ego did just that, apologizing for his black characters. When BLM were destroying cities. Thank God Harry and Paul haven't.
The fact these sketches angered the public just goes to show how pathetic the public are.
When were the public ever angered by these sketches? That never happened.
These two are simply the best. The sketches are absolute gold dust delivered in an incredibly accurate stereotypical manner. The cultured scaffolders are the work of comedy genius....like a bit of Derek and Clive swinging from intelligent articulation into base low brow crass shouting.
Bloody Greta Garbo.
I love Derek and Clive- absolute filth but genius! Derek and Clive Live had me OTFL! Great album.
We really have seen the death of comedy on mainstream TV. It's hard to believe this was BBC and it was only something like 11 years ago it was shown. It was a completely different world, and an infinitely better one.
Nelson sings the Blurs. Fantastic
TEARS 😂😂
It`s alright for you lot, watching this, i had to endure them for six weeks on Tour with Harry, Paul, Kathy Burke, and the warm up act for them namely `The Craig Ferguson`, six weeks on Tour as their coach tour driver, was just a hoot from start to finish, anddddddddddddddddddd, every one of them a real Gentleman/Lady, away from the Madness lol What fun times, yes i was a lucky guy and fortunate to be their driver, as the Original driver Richard, on day one after picking them up from the Airport(prestwick) got them to Edinburgh, got out of the coach, picked out a few Suitcases from underneath on kerbside, walked in front of the Coach and out into the road and was duly hit by a Taxi, i got the call within 15 mins of it, and Travelled from Bristol on overnight Train to take over, the driver survived with a few broken bones and was Flown home to Bristol . . . . . . . Yes i was very lucky indeed to have taken it on, but, enjoyed every second of it!!!
You lucky, lucky bastard
Fantastic! (apart for the getting hit by a taxi of course...) Craig Ferguson is also an incredibly funny man, Cathy Burke is amazing too... wish I could have seen that show!
“Is Angels Merkel a queer - he’s wearing a dress” 😂😂😂
a frightful german qware married to a man
These two comic geniuses must be brought back to our television screens immediately - they are simply hilarious. The TV needs PROPER comedy again. Much respect - and laughter! Keep making sketches Harry and Paul!
@Steve Terry Neither of them disappeared - they went on to do better things. Harry did loads of character comedy - Paul most recently did the fishing stuff with Bob M
@@dennisgreene7164 Yet sadly most young people have no idea who they are.
Sophie Winkleman. What a gorgeous woman.
Irony is the opposite of what's expressed. 'No pressure', 'Thanks a bunch'. The offensive characters are the joke but the joke is lost on hysterical condemners so those of us who get it are denied to save those who don't from their thumb-sucking distress.
Fucking hell mate - are you trying to say that woke-types don't get irony? I hope so - and if that's the case, they certainly won't have the brain-power to mentally digest your comment.
I’m glad you said it; otherwise I was going to. If people can’t work out the over the top characters they don’t deserve to.
I haven't laughed this much in a while thank you good sir
My pleasure - I'm glad it cheered you up ;-)
Their simply cheeky silliness where nothing's sacred is mighty clever of them to get me laughing so hard that my face hurts, my belly's still tingling from being in stitches, plus it's muddling to figure out what I obviously must've been crying about..hee hee.
I have not laughed so much, since Auntie Mabel caught here left tit in the mangle . . . .
@Trance_World_Artists 2014 I'd say your some buzz at parties!
Harry Enfield is so talented.
That American impression is absolutely fantastic.
I had forgotten the majesty that was "oh say can you see... the sellotape"
Phwoar, Sophie Winkleman...
Lady Frederick Windsor
lovely int she
big suze
Now it's stuck in my head.... Right in the middle, right in the middle... RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKIN ROAD.
Absolutely Brilliant.
I’m in the USA and I love your British comedy! ❤️👍🏻
Love you back!
“Probably a German queer” 😂😂😂
Right in the middle of the facking road
I love Paul Whitehouse. Bring back Harry n Paul!!!
It's even funnier this time around. It's almost impossible to believe that the BBC used to be able to make programs that were actually really funny. Now the corporation is just a virtue signalling national embarrassment.
"Isn't she probably pretty" I started dying 😂
"A south American Cleaner" Had me in stitches!!!!
RIP BBC
No no no no no no no.....
these are fucking gold. more people need to see these.
The French TV parody is horrifically accurate
Does anyone else remember the good old days when you were allowed to have some harmless fun?
This is pure comedy gold...
Yep and promote a culture of hatred towards Arabs. I remember
@@paddymuldoon6718 are you serious
@@michaelharrison3602 yes the one making fun of the woman in the hijab is disgusting
@@paddymuldoon6718 " the one making fun of the woman in the hijab is disgusting"
I think brainwashing people into corrupt cults is much, much worse (and yes, I do include other cults, like catholicism, in that category, just because they're big and old doesn't stop them being immoral, illogical, damaging cults).
@@paddymuldoon6718 It’s actually the Americans being ridiculed in the Sketch, where was this so called promotion of hatred? Exactly, there was none.
The 'Gaystappo' are the funnist in this 18mins in brilliant
Agreed
And the jamaican dragon den is fkn good too
Definitely a very humorous way of depicting a set of histories.
Nelson Mandela sings the "Blurs" is the funniest thing I've seen in a long while.
♥️🇬🇧😀 thanks for posting. The best actor/comic duo, ever, and perhaps the last. Maybe the UK doesn't get irony anymore. But if you're going to get hung for stealing a sheep, you might as well fuckkit. National treasures, both.
This was peak British comedy.
Being from america those americans are spot on hahaha 😂
You speak for all 320 million.
_'Oh Say Can You Seeeee..._
*The Sellotape.'*
Please tell me you are from Badiddlyboing Idaho! 😁
@@pseudonayme7717 no haha im from a small town in new Mexico
@@NxDoyle I remember when it was 248m!
As a Northerner, I'd have mounted the Filipino Maid!
The Mandela Blur sketch is just priceless😂😂
Fucking excellent...,
Miss the old england
This was literally being made and broadcast 10 years ago. What the hell are you talking about?
@@Gerishnakov The lack of anything worth watching these days on that old dinosaur known as Television, that no one under 60 watches any more. British TV was the best. Now its as bad as American woke rubbish.
Baddidalyboing Idadidaliho! Gets me everytime!
I love the French car ads.
As a French, I can confirm that the ads are this crap.
still better than ad no-one cares about and forgets immediately after they watched it
@@snooks5607 XD I guess you can say that!
@Anthony Johnson Baguette.
Harry and Paul have always been my heroes. Even since watching '...and Chums' in the 90s as a kid. x
Right on, bud! :)
Crap? Like the young ones?
No, like Hale & Pace. Can't remember the other rubbish but it wldn't have aged well.
Harry started with voice overs for spitting image, pobably the best show on tv at the time :)@Natmanprime
granted, as a topical show you would have to remember the atrocities committed by the 80s Tory gov. just to crack a smile now
I used to work with the girl playing the Filipino maid at a tv facility in London. She was super lovely and found the whole debacle ridiculous. She’s Filipino but she understood the joke and that the point of it was the aristocratic guy’s attitude was so awful and entitled.
Well do you have her phone number or anything useful?
@@Benedict401 eeeerm what?
22:33 They were VERY ahead of the curve… considering that’s basically what major organisations do now.
I know. Its crazy considering this was 2007 when it was made, but even back then they knew how increasingly disingenuous people in general were becoming & they called it that companies would jump on the bandwagon
Woke is nothing new, been around (and rightly mocked) for years. Corporates are the worst offenders for insincere virtue signalling nonsense.
“Isn’t she probably pretty?”
And “what a guy!”
😂😂😂
Thanks for the memories. It could never be made in 2022 but perhaps 2026 when people are less offended about the fucking weather
posh men saying que'er is the type of joke that will never be made again and i weep for that
Back when TV was worth watching.
Snowflake society means we can only laugh at certain things. I grew up with real and raw comedy. Will never forget it.
Comedy is dead on television these days all we have is Ant n Dec now.
You're not allowed to make fun of builders anymore. Or American tourists. Or rich powerful men. Or people with guns. Or big ears. Or Nazis.
Time to bring back that timeless retort to all feigned offense: So what?
Says who? Stupid society
@@GLarrr-dd5wf Sadly they’d get cancelled now
This has aged like fine wine
Imagine the stick this would get now. I fear we'll never see such wonderful comedy ever again.
@@sithlord6119 The fact there is nothing on TV like it proves the point.
Half of it’s just blatant racism or sexism. It’s funny it your a white male but most other people don’t find it funny and it actually makes them uncomfortable
@@paddymuldoon6718 Just because you don't find it funny doesn't mean you are right. Maybe we should have to enter our gender and race when we switch on our TV then certain programmes will be available to us based on that criteria (Good grief).
@@vinnyvasquez Funny is subjective so I believe that you and many others would find this funny but this kind of comedy encourages and breeds a culture of racism and sexism that has only really started changing in the last few years. If you were a Muslim woman wearing a hijab I can’t imagine you being delighted about watching one being made a mockery of and talking about being groped. It would make you feel uncomfortable as hell. That’s not what tv comedy’s should be about. Why should people pay their license fee for white, straight privileged males to attack your race, sex or sexual orientation
@@paddymuldoon6718 If you had an ounce of intelligence instead of the moronic misery you seem content with and had actually watched the show on this video you'd see its actually those who are doing the perceived mocking who are being ridiculed and laughed at, and are the subject of the jokes. Your lack of awareness is hilarious.
" Peekaboo !" Made me spit my drink out . Thanks H & P
There portral of dragons den was spot on
I'm lucky that I was around with comedy like this, when no one was safe and that's what comedy is about, rip the piss out of everyone and everything, love it
Oh wow it’s Big Suze 😂
Oh I so miss these guys! I love your selection of offensive Harry's bits - hysterical viewing as they are so wacky and off the wall. Cleverly written at the time. I'm surprised the Oliver and Hardy families didn't complain (or maybe they did.) A laugh riot for me this morning. I remember evenings of on the floor laughing watching them with my husband, tears running down our faces, viewing this unbelievable comedy. But no one was spared, which is why I love Harry Enfield.. Love the upper class builder yobs, the craziness of it all. LOOOOOL. Yes agreed, you won't see this stuff anywhere now, not pc, but I loved how the show had no sacred cows - the Queen shooting her automatic rifle in the air celebrating. Why not?
The Bob Marley Davidson 😂😂😂
I'm over 40 but still, I must confess that I haven't heard of these guys before !!
- Hilarious ❗😁
But I would have loved the option of (english) subtitles, just to help me understand the spoken text better.
-Anyhoo, thank you, &
my best regards from Iceland 🇮🇸
😄
To those of us who lived and worked before they introduced calculators to school maths, the last sketch is absolutely spot on! 🤣🤣🤣
I agree
Slide rules were the order of the day
Love it much better than todays rubbish .
That gun shooting in hospital really got me ahahahaha
Good old hearty unsensored comedy
"She's not scared of me. I'm decomposing." Brilliant.
Julia Davis said the BBC sent her a list of what was considered unPC at the time and she said she thinks she got them all in her second season of Nighty Night.
Probably a quehh
Most definitely a quare
rb93077039 You are married of course? , so that rather muddies the water a bit. However, you’re on RUclips , you replied to a chap, so you’re probably a Quare . So, I shall put you down as “ A probably Quare , who is married and your wife let’s you Quare away like billyoh, just like Bunnies wife. 😂😁👍
It seems incredible that most of this was allowed only 10-15 years ago. I remember the hilarious gentlemen's club sketches guessing about how 'fwightfully quare' well known people were, and also the 'Arab' celebrations - and thinking at the time - who allowed this? I'd never seen that Dragon's Den custard sketch. Blacked up 'I and I are Ken and Brian' is the funniest thing I've seen for ages.
Even more recent was Come fly with me with Lucas and Walliams. They dressed up as nearly every race on earth!! By the way, wtf am I actually watching here,...the Arab celebrations 😆😆
@@leonskum.5682 That show actually was offensive though, because the targets of the humour actually were gay people and non-white people. That is not what the sketches in H&P did.
Harry plays the nervous Dragon's Den contestant perfectly. The freeze, the gulps of air... perfect.
That Americans with Muslimah sketch was perfect.
They don't like sketches with Filipino maids but they vote for Duterte. I could say the same about Russia, Saudi Arabia and any other country in this sketch.
Isn't she probably pretty? I died...
what a guy !
'Appen.
My wife is a northerner, now a US citizen but she always gets a kick out of watching the Clive the Geordie sketches!
I must stop you momentarily there, there seems to be a young lady at street level eating a fast melting ice lolly...SAAACK IT YOU SLAAAAG!!!!
Absolutely brilliant, I really miss shows like this!!
Me too.... 🍪pocket.
Every day, there's always someone or some group 'outraged' at something. I think they look for things to be 'outraged' at and actually quite enjoy being 'outraged'.
If that's a problem for you, you're clearly outraged by it yourself.
@@theothertonydutch And the problem is...?
@@sithlord6119 You seem confused.
"me kyan believe it not custard" has always been one of my favourite comedy sketches of all time. The sheer audacity of it is mind blowing
Mine too. Also, I'm from near Brian Farnet. I mean, Friern Barnet.
Jesus - you're easily pleased. Let me enlighten you ...
I've just finished watching Harry Enfield's Television Programme and Harry Enfield & Chums. I loved it but was disappointed that it was so short. I never knew this show existed but I am so glad I know now XD
Nelson Mandela singing Parklife was great hahaha
Brilliant!!..:).... When the world became so bloody sensitive to.. everything!!... It killed comic talents like these.
I would say amen to you Ray dickinson but I'm not sure... Should I be saying awomen or aperson. Also am I being religiousist by saying amen. Is religiousist a word?... It is now!
Does that mean we can make fun of you?... 😆