I remembered this from years ago, especially the comedy trip, and looked it up on YT. So glad you posted this. It's just had me in stitches again...after a near 40 year gap! ...And don't you start!
This actually makes complete sense: e.g. Morecambe and Wise used recycled materials from old variety shows, sometimes even recycled their own sketches, sometimes the jokes weren't even funny per se. But they made them hysterically funny due to their talent.
Great villain actor, that Stephen. Must have been challenging. Heard he was better as the Cheshire Cat, but didn't realize that was him til he said so. Nice fella.
It’s so frustrating when you KNOW you’ve seen the type of comedy they’re referencing, but can’t remember one specific example. Pulling the camera in, laughing, Northern accent, typical variety show fare- can anyone cite an example we can find online?
Sorry, the town was extremely small, so much so that the signposts with the name of the town when you enter it were next to each other as there wasn't enough room for spacing between them, the joke being that if the entrance signposts were back to back there wouldn't be a town at all.
The general form of this category of joke: "I'm not saying A, but B". Where B is a fact which graphically demonstrates the extreme validity of A. Eg. "I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat but when she was lying on the beach last summer, Greenpeace came along and pushed her back into the sea."
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When Stephen demonstrates it all those things actually make sense
XD
"... the way you handled your Bottom in my Dream"
I don't want to add to the like as it's presently saying 69. 😂
"Don't worry about the Northern accent that'll come later"
'No. Stop it. Don't. Shush.' pure Frankie Howard's genius 😁
I remembered this from years ago, especially the comedy trip, and looked it up on YT. So glad you posted this. It's just had me in stitches again...after a near 40 year gap! ...And don't you start!
Both actors are superb. Stephen Fry is no doubt lovely in real life, but he is such an insufferable git in this piece. I just loved it :)
Actually, it's the other way round. He's an insufferable git in real life.
😂😂
This actually makes complete sense: e.g. Morecambe and Wise used recycled materials from old variety shows, sometimes even recycled their own sketches, sometimes the jokes weren't even funny per se. But they made them hysterically funny due to their talent.
They're taking the piss out of mainstream acts of the time. Like Jimmy Cricket.
This Hugh chap should do some more comedy.
Needs practice.
I highly recommend you watch the sitcom "Blackadder", it's got these two in them, Tim McInnerny, and Rowan Atkinson
@@Sam-qc6sz that sounds like a cunning plan.
@@Sam-qc6sz Oh god youre right! thank god, i thought i landed sausage side
Or acting. Sure he'd go down well in the States.
Stephen is so good in this.
Great villain actor, that Stephen. Must have been challenging. Heard he was better as the Cheshire Cat, but didn't realize that was him til he said so. Nice fella.
Thing is, it's VERY difficult to act badly. I can only imagine what it's like having to do comedy badly...
That "Laugh at your own jokes," reminded me of Richard Herring. A prompt to please laugh now.
These chaps have potential! 👍
This was brilliant LOL.
5:19 foreshadowing the House-limp... also took some work to perfect it, like his comedy
I thought the same thing. 😂
Thos must have been the influence for when George IV practices his speech in Blackadder III.
Your very posture tells me, “Here is a man
of true greatness.”
Either that or “Here are my genitals, please kick them.”
Oh dear… im crying 🤣
"Never analyze comedy" and goes on analyzing it for another 2 minutes.
It’s so frustrating when you KNOW you’ve seen the type of comedy they’re referencing, but can’t remember one specific example. Pulling the camera in, laughing, Northern accent, typical variety show fare- can anyone cite an example we can find online?
Tommy Cooper.
Peter Kay
The mannerisms are Jimmy Cricket, the gag is Les Dawson.
Max Miller
@@paulmichaelconnell495 Methinks this is a satire, and a brilliant one at that, on the man - except for the northern accent.
4:16 ❤😂
Just twigged that Stephen is telling Hugh how to pinch Frankie Howard’s typical routine.
An homage to Frankie Howerd, despite appearances to the contrary. Now then, missus, he was a comedy genius.
Don't try to analyze it. Don't smash it up. It's lovely as it is 😂
They're basically deconstructing Jimmy Cricket's act. Which at the time would be taking a big sarcastic sledgehammer to a mainstream comedian
If Max Miller and Frankie Howerd had a
dim love child.
the art of Patronising....
Oh shit...I do that!
They were designed for stand up double act but they added a string to their bow abit like ian bothem trying baseball or steve davis playing pool
ALRIGHT!
So these two were Filthy Frank's masters, makes sense
I wonder if this came before or after the Blackadder episode with the actors.
I believe this was before Blackadder, just, both were late 80s
It a Jimmy cricket Mick take minus wellies indicting left and right
i saw this one i think in the 80's? late ones that is
Yes, I read that in the comments too.
Never analyse comedy
But I have to explain the jokes to myself later, else I won't know if what I was laughing at was funny or not.
He looks a bit like Robbie Williams
Baaaaahh
at 5:54 he looks like the red head on harry potter...
I genuinely don't get the joke.
It's a satire on how all comedy masterclasses focus on a certain formula to create their 'comedy' rather than focusing on creating a good joke.
Oh, I got that joke. I don't get the joke they were trying to tell about the sign posts :P
Sorry, the town was extremely small, so much so that the signposts with the name of the town when you enter it were next to each other as there wasn't enough room for spacing between them, the joke being that if the entrance signposts were back to back there wouldn't be a town at all.
AH, I get it.
...yeah, that's terrible.
The general form of this category of joke: "I'm not saying A, but B". Where B is a fact which graphically demonstrates the extreme validity of A. Eg. "I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat but when she was lying on the beach last summer, Greenpeace came along and pushed her back into the sea."
What happened to these guys?
I think Fry was hilarious back in the 80s and 90s but, a bit like John Cleese, as he's got older he's become less funny
He hasn't become an insufferable, out-of-touch blowhard like Cleese though.
@Pluckin' A True but I do find him a bit precious and a bit like a pompous old woman these days lol! He never used to be like that!
not funny
That was the point lmao it was meant to make fun of “comedy teachers” not actually being funny
no, it was very funny
Not funny to YOU, maybe.
why? didn't it blend the moral categories enough?