Of course, Smith and Jones were famous even then of having more comedy writers then anyone else ever before. All they did was badly act it out but then make millions from owning the production company.
I was lucky enough to see Smith & Jones Christmas Show in Harrogate...I forget when...but a long long time ago. Well we had a whale of a time, and from the look of the corpsing going on on stage... they were having a whale of a time too.......Mel came on dressed as a Stand-Up Chameleon whilst Griff tried to explain tactfully how he must have misheard something..., and they did the entire Christmas Story complete with costume changes and general chaos. It was one of my 'great evenings out'. Thanks guys!
Yes people use to get there car radio stolen in the 80's it happen to my dad in the 80's he had a audi 80 Ls at the time and some horrible person broke into his car out front his flat.
With a few wires dangling off the side like it's freshly been removed. At the end of the sketch the host could be heard getting into his car and "what!? My radio's been knicked!"
Have to say.... this is pretty accurate ...having been to Lewisham.. where the only thing of value is the actual money people have in there pocket..🤔😂😂😂😂
I'm glad to report [as a London Borough of Lewisham resident] that absolutely nothing has changed since Spike Milligan lived here! Lewisham is a depressing, multi cultural, high rise, 100% Labour controlled abyss.
Lewisham is an oasis to me. Very little racial tension. Most people getting along. I bought 13 bananas for a pound the other week in Lewisham market. 👍🏽👍🏿👍🏽
I loved living in Lewisham (1982 - 2001). Warm, friendly, interesting people. I loved the annual People’s Day in particular, which was a fantastic multicultural event with music and food from all over the world. I worked at Lewisham Hospital for about 6 years. One of the happiest periods of my life. This clip is funny in that it gives pretentiousness a good dig in the ribs, but it’s not a reflection of Lewisham at all. Lots of posh bits of Lewisham just like any area. It’s far from all being sink estates.
I live near the area and this is spot on about the area and the people living there, quite easy to find drugs and other questionable things on street corners and questionable restaurants 🤗
Oh yes and it's all the fault of the people in the area, nothing to do with anything else. Been to Baghdad recently? It's a mess, those Baghdadians can't look after themselves at all...
@@pipster1891 That x15 figure is for average inflation since 1971. Inflation doesn't apply to all items equally. Shame about the insult, it's a common way for people who don't know what they're talking about to try to convince people they do. EDIT Furthermore, the inflation figure only gives an indication of what the price then is in today's money. It does not take into account what something would actually cost now, especially so with collectors' items whose value depends on what someone is prepared to pay for it
The Vanessa Redgrave Community Centre : D Would've been good to mention something like, "here in Gerry Healy Avenue". (Ah well, she could've been much worse, she might've had the same sympathies as Tony Blair.)
3:30 "It's a 1074 _Guardian._ There's a *printing error.* So, it's an authentic piece." Details like this little jab at The Guardian are what sets great comedy writing apart from the merely funny ones.
Who is the homeless man? His face seems familiar. At first I thought it was Charlie Boorman but perhaps it is Robin Driscoll (Mr Bean co-writer & occasional "extra"). Anyone know?
People getting the wrong end of the stick about this sketch! S&J are more taking the piss out of the boring middle and upper class twerp "experts"..also Mel Smith was a very clever man who might have gone to Cambrudge but his Dad was a bookie and his mum was a Greengrocer...he wasn't from a toff background.
Most comments seem to be the opposite. Anyway, just because your parents were from a working-class background doesn't stop you from being a capitalist. And how is calling it "The Vanessa Redgrave Community Centre" (huge canned laughter) an attack on the middle and upper classes?
It's funny in that such real slices of life like The Antique Roadshow leave themselves wide open to such parody, because they are so silly to begin with AND have such ridiculous twats on them.
That's an actual recording of an actual BBC audience watching an actual recording. Maybe they're laughing a lot because they think it's funny. Just a guess on my part.
I think this is one of the first shows to add the canned laughter normal seen on American shows Unwatchable when you hear canned laughter every other word
My understanding is that the producers for Alas Smith and Jones pulled back audience laughter for sketches filmed outside and then projected for audiences.
@@splodge5714 well yes absolutely brilliant but I don't like to be told when to laugh this crazy canned laughter normally seen on us shows like cheers every word is laughing is not necessarily the sketch is 100% funny i agree
I should hope so... it's satirizing the elitism of The Antiques Road Show, which typically filmed its programmes in middle- or upper-class settings. :) :) :)
Yeah, spot on... except Mel Smith was the son of a bookmaker from North London, Griff went to school in Essex and they're actually mocking the middle class. Other than that, your comment is piercingly and devastatingly accurate.
It’s amazing how many people below don’t get that this sketch is taking the piss out of the perceived elitist and snobbish bbc tv of the 1980’s and think it’s looking down it’s nose at working class areas and the people in them. These are the sort of people that want things cancelled without even taking the time to understand what they’re looking at. Go watch Fleabag. That banal, PC effort in safe, beige viewing is probably more up your street.
Absolutely correct. This sketch is satirising notions of class and perceptions of value from all perspectives. To see it as an attack on the working class is to view it at the shallowest possible depth.
@@pipster1891 And your point is... what exactly? That people with wealth can't satirise well? That they shouldn't be allowed to? That people can't satirise notions of class when they are beginning their careers and have yet to make the millions that offend you? That authors cannot be separated from the points they are making, making the two indivisible and their output circumscribed and limited always by their personal circumstances? It's very clear from your posts that you have a hair up your arse about Smith, or Jones, or both. I wonder why that is? Is it envy? Jealousy? Or are you one of the working class peeps who mistakenly see themselves as the target of this small piece of satirical humour? Whatever the lump that's stuck in your craw, spit it out and smile. It's COVID time and the world's an increasingly scary place. ;o)
Fantastic work, no woke windmill tilting or lefty dogma, this is really classic British comedy, both Mel and Griff great players in their own series and not the nine o'clock news. Modern 'comedians' take note!
What are you blithering about. 'Not allowed to laugh at these references ' who says.and why. ? What's offensive about laughing at an old radiator or newspaper you're moaning about nothing
As stated, performed in front of a studio audience. Then they would show the skits, the laughter is real. Many uk programs followed that setup. You don’t hear coughing and other discrepancies in canned laughter.
I enjoyed those back in the day but now they just come across as unfunny for some reason, easiest comedy in the world is to go to a deprived poor area & put a spotlight on people's lack of valuable possessions. Strange really because when they were in the Not the nine o'clock news show, the material put a spotlight on injustice & inequality in a good way.
I'd forgotten just how good they were. And just how spot on.
Of course, Smith and Jones were famous even then of having more comedy writers then anyone else ever before. All they did was badly act it out but then make millions from owning the production company.
“…printing errors so an authentic piece” 😀
I remember watching this sketch as a kid. It must be around 86, 87.
British humor is unbeatable.
i´m dying from how carefuly he unpacks the newspaper.... :)))))
I used to love this series
Me, too, but now I realise it's pretty poor.
I remember this sketch very well, so funny.
I was lucky enough to see Smith & Jones Christmas Show in Harrogate...I forget when...but a long long time ago. Well we had a whale of a time, and from the look of the corpsing going on on stage... they were having a whale of a time too.......Mel came on dressed as a Stand-Up Chameleon whilst Griff tried to explain tactfully how he must have misheard something..., and they did the entire Christmas Story complete with costume changes and general chaos. It was one of my 'great evenings out'. Thanks guys!
Queen Anne pasting table😂 Trigger should have been there with his broom.
And the legs were replaced at about the same time as the top layer.
The water bottles from deptford, during the 2018 marathon,are worth a fortune!
"1974 Guardian, Printing errors, so it's an authentic piece"
"Next week, the Antiques Roadshow visits Bath", "Thank god!!"LOL
I was waiting for someone to bring in a car stereo.
Yes people use to get there car radio stolen in the 80's it happen to my dad in the 80's he had a audi 80 Ls at the time and some horrible person broke into his car out front his flat.
With a few wires dangling off the side like it's freshly been removed.
At the end of the sketch the host could be heard getting into his car and "what!? My radio's been knicked!"
@@rickbarkley3617 HIS flat? Where were you? Not at school, I presume.
@@RatelHBadger nicked
A bit of social history from the depths of Thatcher's Britain, plus its quite funny.
I watched this on its first broadcast. Absolutely wet myself as a kid watching this
They were top of the league
The guy who bought the newspaper in also played The great Raymondo in Only fools and Horses
Have to say.... this is pretty accurate ...having been to Lewisham.. where the only thing of value is the actual money people have in there pocket..🤔😂😂😂😂
@MichaelKingsfordGray No, the people in Kensington and Chelsea stole them.
I'm glad to report [as a London Borough of Lewisham resident] that absolutely nothing has changed since Spike Milligan lived here! Lewisham is a depressing, multi cultural, high rise, 100% Labour controlled abyss.
Lewisham is an oasis to me. Very little racial tension. Most people getting along. I bought 13 bananas for a pound the other week in Lewisham market. 👍🏽👍🏿👍🏽
I loved living in Lewisham (1982 - 2001). Warm, friendly, interesting people. I loved the annual People’s Day in particular, which was a fantastic multicultural event with music and food from all over the world. I worked at Lewisham Hospital for about 6 years. One of the happiest periods of my life. This clip is funny in that it gives pretentiousness a good dig in the ribs, but it’s not a reflection of Lewisham at all. Lots of posh bits of Lewisham just like any area. It’s far from all being sink estates.
@fifthof You can thank that nice Mr Blair for opening up the floodgates, Apperantly only a few would come here.
Vanessa Redgrave Community Centre!! ha ha! Love it!!
Speaking from Goebbels House...
I live near the area and this is spot on about the area and the people living there, quite easy to find drugs and other questionable things on street corners and questionable restaurants 🤗
Oh yes and it's all the fault of the people in the area, nothing to do with anything else. Been to Baghdad recently? It's a mess, those Baghdadians can't look after themselves at all...
brilliant funny.........
ironically the radiator is worth money now,,,along with the dolomite and the mk2 mini outside.......oh and get that 74 guardian on ebay asap.......lol
It would be if it was cast iron and not plastic! I bought a brand new Mini in 1971 for £650, worth 10x that now.
@@rogerbarton497 Inflation means the pound is 15x than in 1971, you idiot.
@@pipster1891 That x15 figure is for average inflation since 1971. Inflation doesn't apply to all items equally. Shame about the insult, it's a common way for people who don't know what they're talking about to try to convince people they do.
EDIT Furthermore, the inflation figure only gives an indication of what the price then is in today's money. It does not take into account what something would actually cost now, especially so with collectors' items whose value depends on what someone is prepared to pay for it
Drew Pritchard would sell it for about £5,000.
So good, who puts the thumbs down?
Newspaper speculators
Me.
The Vanessa Redgrave Community Centre : D Would've been good to mention something like, "here in Gerry Healy Avenue".
(Ah well, she could've been much worse, she might've had the same sympathies as Tony Blair.)
I watched an episode where the real show was at Grimsby once,, it was just like this....😂😂.
@MichaelKingsfordGray It was at Grimsby! Part of the joke is, punctuation isn’t high on the list in Grimsby,, or the price of the things they own. 😂
Robin Driscoll before he wrote Mr Bean with Rowan Atkinson and the others
The late Pete McCarthy with the radiator...
lol the great raymondo from The Jolly's Boys outing
Well spotted 😂
3:30 "It's a 1074 _Guardian._ There's a *printing error.* So, it's an authentic piece." Details like this little jab at The Guardian are what sets great comedy writing apart from the merely funny ones.
Pride of place in your...errr..bus shelter
Being deluged by PBS's variant of this theme, I loved the skewering of the (sometimes) pretentious.
The late Pete McCarthy, so funny. Brilliant actor and stand up comedian.
MR. Beans place i think it was his car there in the begining. Or what ???
I wonder what the newspaper would be worth today?
62 of a p
1:12. Looks around at the other tables. “One of a set.”
Who is the homeless man? His face seems familiar. At first I thought it was Charlie Boorman but perhaps it is Robin Driscoll (Mr Bean co-writer & occasional "extra"). Anyone know?
Definitely Robin Driscoll. 🙂
Charley Boorman homeless?
His mate Ewan should help him out.
What about the cardboard box that brought the newspaper? They are valuable enough to be nicked by the pallet load in 2021.
The box enhances the value of the newspaper, assuming it's an original box.
@@rogerbarton497 He didn’t even look at the box. Missed an opportunity there.
Brilliant. Would it be allowed today? Probably not.
Wouldn’t be allowed today because the inhabitants of the estates back then were largely white so the sketch had no “ racist” connotations.
Very funny
People getting the wrong end of the stick about this sketch! S&J are more taking the piss out of the boring middle and upper class twerp "experts"..also Mel Smith was a very clever man who might have gone to Cambrudge but his Dad was a bookie and his mum was a Greengrocer...he wasn't from a toff background.
Most comments seem to be the opposite. Anyway, just because your parents were from a working-class background doesn't stop you from being a capitalist. And how is calling it "The Vanessa Redgrave Community Centre" (huge canned laughter) an attack on the middle and upper classes?
1980s comedy. Had it survived into the 2000s?
It's funny in that such real slices of life like The Antique Roadshow leave themselves wide open to such parody, because they are so silly to begin with AND have such ridiculous twats on them.
Ho ho ho
Take the hysterical laughter track off this and see what genius it is then.
I think yr a bit of a misery. They were funny. They didn't need to swear or be dirty to make people laugh
That's an actual recording of an actual BBC audience watching an actual recording. Maybe they're laughing a lot because they think it's funny. Just a guess on my part.
BBC doesn't use a laughter track.
The laughter ‘track’ was too loud and very irritating. I would have enjoyed it better without.
Surely it's near Shepherd's Bush. "QPR"
The audience must have been on laughing gas!!
A forerunner to Flog it lol
Suomi
Hyvä juttu
Now do the same sketch in Hampstead and see who laughs at the pleps at the other end of the social scale.
Boris Johnson walked in!😆
I think this is one of the first shows to add the canned laughter normal seen on American shows
Unwatchable when you hear canned laughter every other word
My understanding is that the producers for Alas Smith and Jones pulled back audience laughter for sketches filmed outside and then projected for audiences.
I didn't even notice it.
Well I was in stitches and laughed along with it.
@@splodge5714 well yes absolutely brilliant but I don't like to be told when to laugh this crazy canned laughter normally seen on us shows like cheers every word is laughing is not necessarily the sketch is 100% funny i agree
There's a stench of snobbery coming off this sketch.
I should hope so... it's satirizing the elitism of The Antiques Road Show, which typically filmed its programmes in middle- or upper-class settings. :) :) :)
There’s supposed to be. It’s taking the piss out of cozy 80’s middle class tv.
early appearance of Alan Davis
No Alan Davis in this sketch !
@@sickoftheleftwingscum I swear the guy that comes in with the newspaper is Alan Davis definitely sounds like him?
@@flu-tube his name is Robin Driscoll he was also in Mr Bean the series
The laughing BG quite annoying me
Just remember, they're not laughing at you, they're laughing with you 😀
They stole triggers joke, or did trigger steal Mel Smiths joke…..😅
There's nothing funnier than toffs mocking the working class.
Yeah, spot on... except Mel Smith was the son of a bookmaker from North London, Griff went to school in Essex and they're actually mocking the middle class. Other than that, your comment is piercingly and devastatingly accurate.
Obviously White City Estate....
The BBC wouldn't allow this today, It might offend someone.
What are you talking about?There's nothing 'offensive ' in this.
@David Hargreaves You have a point 😁
If they'd allow Fleabag, they'd allow this.
Background sounds are way too loud. And I can judge myself when to laugh ...
Would have been better without the appalling 'sweetening'. Firkin prats.
It’s amazing how many people below don’t get that this sketch is taking the piss out of the perceived elitist and snobbish bbc tv of the 1980’s and think it’s looking down it’s nose at working class areas and the people in them.
These are the sort of people that want things cancelled without even taking the time to understand what they’re looking at.
Go watch Fleabag. That banal, PC effort in safe, beige viewing is probably more up your street.
Absolutely correct. This sketch is satirising notions of class and perceptions of value from all perspectives. To see it as an attack on the working class is to view it at the shallowest possible depth.
@@Herpitor From the multi-millionaire Griff Rhys-Jones, who now gets paid to go on holidays all the time.
@@pipster1891 And your point is... what exactly? That people with wealth can't satirise well? That they shouldn't be allowed to? That people can't satirise notions of class when they are beginning their careers and have yet to make the millions that offend you? That authors cannot be separated from the points they are making, making the two indivisible and their output circumscribed and limited always by their personal circumstances?
It's very clear from your posts that you have a hair up your arse about Smith, or Jones, or both. I wonder why that is? Is it envy? Jealousy? Or are you one of the working class peeps who mistakenly see themselves as the target of this small piece of satirical humour? Whatever the lump that's stuck in your craw, spit it out and smile. It's COVID time and the world's an increasingly scary place. ;o)
@@HerpitorCOVID time.😂😂😂😂
Public school boys taking the piss out of the poor. You'll soon be able to retire from selling them old radiators.
I think you will find they were doing the opposite - taking the **** out of the middle class.
The English laughing at themselves.
Its called having a sense of humour.
Fantastic work, no woke windmill tilting or lefty dogma, this is really classic British comedy, both Mel and Griff great players in their own series and not the nine o'clock news. Modern 'comedians' take note!
“Vanessa Redgrave” not a lefty, then?
We're not allowed to laugh at a lot of these references nowadays, especially in liberal company. What a sad lot we are.
You're being satirical presumably?
AntonHu And one year on it’s getting worse
What are you blithering about. 'Not allowed to laugh at these references ' who says.and why. ? What's offensive about laughing at an old radiator or newspaper you're moaning about nothing
I’m liberal and I found it funny. Who’s been telling you you’re not allowed to laugh at something you find funny?
The canned laughter is so poor.
Too much canned laughter spoils the show
Discussed already. This was shown to a studio audience
As stated, performed in front of a studio audience. Then they would show the skits, the laughter is real. Many uk programs followed that setup. You don’t hear coughing and other discrepancies in canned laughter.
I enjoyed those back in the day but now they just come across as unfunny for some reason, easiest comedy in the world is to go to a deprived poor area & put a spotlight on people's lack of valuable possessions.
Strange really because when they were in the Not the nine o'clock news show, the material put a spotlight on injustice & inequality in a good way.