I remember this!! I was 11 years old and I remember Sky magazine getting complaints saying it's nothing but disgusting crude toilet humour! Still find it brilliant 21 years later!!
I was just thinking the same thing. They actually seem like a bit of a misfire by his high standards of general jollity. There's a bit of sub-conscious pseudo-Fast Show in it, which is nice.
There are a couple of problems with this series that stopped it from being a good show. Main one was that Enfield had just had a new baby and a lot of his time was taken up with the usual duties there, so he didn't devote as much time to learning the material. The other problem is that the material kind of veers between broad and subtle, but the show was billed as follow-up to Enfield's previous work, which was big on big laughs, so that's what the audience was expecting more of, but that's not what was delivered.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!! I remember these and I've been looking for them online for ages. I think it stands up better than it did at the time, in my opinion.
defo I remember when first broadcast on Sky and was viewed as under whelming, the richard and Kenneth skethces are amazing so is the Irish priest so goood
Harry wasn't scared playing the bigot in whatever guise..bold and provocative even for the eighties..but hugely entertaining with dollops of humour...and considerably funnier than today's new..
I rate Harry Enfield very highly but by this stage (2000) he wasn't even trying anymore and this frayed collection of rehashed ideas only lasted one series. It took until Harry and Paul in 2007 before any semblance of his mojo returned and he was often outshone by Whitehouse throughout.
This is 24 years ago but it wouldn't look out of place today. Funny how culture seems to have reached an equilibrium. 24 years before this came out was 1976....
you think that is too much or too little? I'm from Oldham and i was paying around one pound fifty for a pint in a pub back then, but in the city centre it was more expensive, and I don't know how much beer in London cost then but i think a lot more
@@krisinsaigon I remember paying £3.30 for a pint of real ale in Hammersmith about a decade ago. Not Wetherspoons or anything, just an average looking pub. I was living in Belfast in 2000, and city centre pubs averaged about £2 a pint if memory serves me well. Or maybe 20p more in the popular pubs. Northern Ireland pub prices are traditionally a bit higher than most of Britain, partly because there are more restrictive laws on alcohol sales so they could get away with it. There is a set limit of how many pubs can open for example, and licenses are traded for tidy sums.
Oh the days when you could poke fun a someone without having the PC police coming to shut you down because someone is butt hurt over what was said..... Oh the good old days
Urgh - the notorious Sky series. I remember even as a teen I thought this was pretty unfunny and low brow. Plus those titles are tacky and vile. Harry had done so much better before this and - thankfully - did much better afterwards too. Thanks for uploading!
I was at the recording of some of these sketches (the chemist for instance). There was plenty of real laughing but Enfield corpsed so often it was often 10 takes. The laughing was more forced by then. Was recorded at south bank studios I think.
@@incarnateTheGreat from memory, the ones they did that night were: Chemist, Bored Couple Shagging (she was introduced to us as ‘cassandra from only fools’), Sleazy Dad, Rude Man Who Interupts and Manky Street. They record the full series of sketches for a character at once. No short bloke sadly. The Cornish Ladies man had been prerecorded and was played out to get our laughs (not many of them though!) Sorry but Manky Street was the worst! Although all the swearing was bleeped in the broadcast version, they actually did swear in then studio (Fs and Cs the lot) so it felt really ‘off’ and unpleasant. It looked a lot better on screen, more cartoonish and less menacing.
@@richardjames712 wow! That's a great memory! Thank you! Yeah Manky Street did seem kind of stupid. Not sure why they introduced the woman in the Border Shagging sketch as Cassandra when she was in several other sketches (Insult at Dinner). It makes sense that they would record all of the sketches for a character at once because it would be a pain to setup the sets, blocking, cast, etc. I loved the Sleazy Dad sketches. My least-fav sketches were the Cornish Man. Never funny. Did you tell "Wanker!" when Enfield fluffed up a line?
I love Harry Enfield's work in general but I couldn't finish this episode as its full of shouty characters and seriously shouting does not make a script funnier it's just annoying as hell also the reason Phil Jupitus get on my t**ts
I find this one single episode funnier, than the complete series of anything in production at the moment. ☺ But tastes differ and arguing comedy is like two bloodcells arguing about the dark-space antimatter root-warp function when deployed in kitchen-line appliances.
Yes I do, I love Harry Enfield but this was shit at the time and it still is...And I'm this thread for the same reason you are to express my opinions.¬_¬
I wonder how the JK appearance occurred. Was he asked, or did he ask to be on it? Either way, he was shit and I'm disappointed with now knowing Harry and him are mates. "Ooh, I'm a pop star who bosses my band around even when they're the talent and I'd be nothing without them." - One of his less memorable quotes
A more generous take away would be he needs good writing and collaboration. My bet is a sketch show with just Whitehouse wouldn’t be half as good either.
This is the same predictablerubbish he's been peddling for years. He's a great character actor, inspired at times. The trouble for me is that every sketch is so predictable, you can see the punchline coming from the start.
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I remember buying this on VHS from Poundland (when things were only a £1) 😊
I remember getting it in a 5 for £1 deal at cash converters(when things were all stolen)
I remember this!! I was 11 years old and I remember Sky magazine getting complaints saying it's nothing but disgusting crude toilet humour! Still find it brilliant 21 years later!!
I was 17 at the time and me enfield mad friend introduced me to him, we'd watch it while getting drunk, Kenneth and Richard for the win
@@danielbyrne5402 I was 17 too, good times.
You could show a blank screen in silence and people would write to say they were disgusted :)
These episodes are from over 17 years ago. I'd no idea about them until now.
I was just thinking the same thing. They actually seem like a bit of a misfire by his high standards of general jollity. There's a bit of sub-conscious pseudo-Fast Show in it, which is nice.
@Stoneryoda 937 Halibut.
Me too. Just found them in 2020. Cant touch HE & chums tho.
@@sapphire7424 this is very different from Chums. It's alright. Some characters are great, others are forgettable.
@@incarnateTheGreat very true
I love this show! The only tv-show me and my dad used to watch together when i was a kid, every episode. ☺
How did he manage to swing Samantha Bond (money penny)from 1990s-early 2000s bond !!! That’s a perfect addition 😂
She might be Moneypenny, but he's Harry Enfield.
She was in lots of British comedy shows including Outnumbered as Auntie Angela.
A rare gem!! Look at that old Sky One logo!
There are a couple of problems with this series that stopped it from being a good show. Main one was that Enfield had just had a new baby and a lot of his time was taken up with the usual duties there, so he didn't devote as much time to learning the material. The other problem is that the material kind of veers between broad and subtle, but the show was billed as follow-up to Enfield's previous work, which was big on big laughs, so that's what the audience was expecting more of, but that's not what was delivered.
Well said there.
only watched a couple of minutes but the Suf Affricann chemist was hilarious
theres one on youtube of all the Sef Effriken chemists clip put together :)
I really loved these , cant see why people wouldn't.
Am I the only one that really likes this show? I adore the Rodney Bond sketches!
I love this show, I think it's the best that Harry has done.
Taz Blizzard I think it defo deserves a full series dvd release. But then again so does Harry Enfield ad chums
I love it a lot
I prefer Harry when he's with Paul Whitehouse.....some of their comic pairings are genius.
whitehouse is shit,
thats why he does them stupid insuarance adverts
Them two work like mint in toothpaste, Whitehouse brings his own fe-fe-fe-fe-fe-fe-fe fe-fe-fe-fe-fe-fe fenomenal rudeness to it all. 😂
@@lordgeoffrey78 Shut it!
Shut it! Shut it! Shut it! Shut it! Shut it!
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!! I remember these and I've been looking for them online for ages. I think it stands up better than it did at the time, in my opinion.
defo I remember when first broadcast on Sky and was viewed as under whelming, the richard and Kenneth skethces are amazing so is the Irish priest so goood
These are exceptionally good. Even better than I remember from 1st time round. Good to see Jamiroqui's front man there, fab music. Nice one! 🌟👍
Harry wasn't scared playing the bigot in whatever guise..bold and provocative even for the eighties..but hugely entertaining with dollops of humour...and considerably funnier than today's new..
This series wasn't in the eighties as it aired in 2000.
whitehouse + enfield = best
That pint was definitely short.....
The Kenneth and Richard pieces are brilliant, the music is great as well. I also like the sketch where Harry plays a lechy father. :D
My favorite! They're brilliant in this.
It's so absurdly charming and hilarious.
Remember watching this when it first aired it was on Sky One the same night that Time Gentleman Please I preferred the latter! 24 years ago wow
Enfield was great
£3.47 for a pint of lager in 2000? I was just down my local in the West Midlands this evening and it's only just got to 3.40 in 2022!
I can’t tell you how
Many times I’ve called someone a wop frog bastard 🤣
I love that line from him "Why else would you expect me to believe what is biggest load of wank I've ever heard in my life".
I rate Harry Enfield very highly but by this stage (2000) he wasn't even trying anymore and this frayed collection of rehashed ideas only lasted one series. It took until Harry and Paul in 2007 before any semblance of his mojo returned and he was often outshone by Whitehouse throughout.
It seems Harry and Paul elevated both of their skills to a higher level
Let down by poor material and some unimaginative characters.
I really liked this series very much
For a solo project it was brilliant. I really enjoyed it
Surved him right for eating at Rupert's table.
At first I thought he said nail me Campbell.
Fabulous SA accent. So hard to hold it for a whole sketch...
Is that the _real_ Miss Moneypenny (well, one of them) in the Rodney Bond bit?
Yes it 's Samantha Bond who was Brosnan's Moneypenny and playing the part when this show was made [2000]
Wow. I hadn't seen this show before (didn't have Sky) and have been an Enfield fan since Stavros,
but that was baad! Innit matey peeps!?
That was Caroline Langrishe in the background of the chemists sketch! I think?
Yeap
Not as good without Paul but the short bloke was so funny.
How did they make him so short? CGI?
jeffrey44 they got everyone else to stand on boxes. It’s all on the last episode which is a behind the scenes
17:37 a nod to Kev and Perry go large. Classic
Richard and Kenneth are well with it! ❤️
Love them 😂
My favorite part of the series. "You've got to let me in!" 😂❤
His south African impression is so so good
Samantha Bond !! 😍
This is 24 years ago but it wouldn't look out of place today.
Funny how culture seems to have reached an equilibrium.
24 years before this came out was 1976....
"someone put poo through our letterbox" - superb delivery pardon the pun
Are you saying i'm short! haha! hillarious!
And we know who's the Jockey.....
That South African pharmacist he plays is not very realistic. They generally aren't that subdued.
I have a South African geneticist. He jumps up and down like Rumpelstiltskin when he's in a rage, which is frequently.
Breen Whitman I’ve never been that subdued 🤣
Good job u had all of these taped cos although rare and not as good as chums, I think it still deserves repeats on gold mabye
Jeez never knew this existed, pissin it 😂
2016....that's the dude from the show "CHEF".
I love that show.
These aren’t that great. I’m glad Harry bounced back to form in Harry & Paul.
Somehow this all seems very familiar. Where are Paul and the other friends?
What show is 'Kenneth and Richard' taking off?
Not the same without Paul Whitehouse
Yes hé IS. Harry Enfield is like Harry Enfield.
What a genius. Also whitehouse
That bloke on the plane hahahah
Harry and Paul>Television Programme>Brand Spanking New
Anybody know who is Strange Bob supposed to be based on?
I would guess Bob Hoskins.
£3.47 for a pint in the year 2000??
No way a pint was £3.47 in 2000
you think that is too much or too little? I'm from Oldham and i was paying around one pound fifty for a pint in a pub back then, but in the city centre it was more expensive, and I don't know how much beer in London cost then but i think a lot more
@@krisinsaigon I remember paying £3.30 for a pint of real ale in Hammersmith about a decade ago. Not Wetherspoons or anything, just an average looking pub. I was living in Belfast in 2000, and city centre pubs averaged about £2 a pint if memory serves me well. Or maybe 20p more in the popular pubs. Northern Ireland pub prices are traditionally a bit higher than most of Britain, partly because there are more restrictive laws on alcohol sales so they could get away with it. There is a set limit of how many pubs can open for example, and licenses are traded for tidy sums.
@@rachel.mcgowan I moved abroad in 2004 so I don’t know what happened to beer prices
@@MarkSmith-sn5xj I think that’s the joke.
£3.47 for a pint over 20 years ago!
Miss money penny at 13 mins 30 seconds-Is this prior to her fitting the money penny job for real?
I wonder if "Rodney Trotter" knows what his missus is getting up to.
I was just thinking how weird it was seeing her here
Where are you Harry??.. talk about a premature retirement.. we want you back mate!
Almost 25 years old, it's official I'm old
Imagine a chemist was like that in real life complaints will be through the roof.
It's a rip off of a Python sketch.
Is that young Asian pharmacy assistant that brilliant actress I see all over in good US etc crime shows nowadays in 2020? It think it is.
IMDB
@@dickterpene8697 Did Elon Musk and Grimes name her?
After checking IMDB she doesn't even seem to be credited.
The short bloke ,I'll fkn do you hahaha
Cassandra is cheating on Rodney ?!
what a comedic genius
Very clever.
Oh the days when you could poke fun a someone without having the PC police coming to shut you down because someone is butt hurt over what was said..... Oh the good old days
This show is tame compared to what's on TV today so you are either sheltered or stupid.
Ok boomer 🙄
Urgh - the notorious Sky series. I remember even as a teen I thought this was pretty unfunny and low brow. Plus those titles are tacky and vile. Harry had done so much better before this and - thankfully - did much better afterwards too.
Thanks for uploading!
Is that a Rhodesian accent?
'' I Loath Popstars!!''
Are you in position
Lol😂😂😂
Wow, pretty sure I went to university with short bloke.
MEENA!
the canned laughter is a humour killer
I was at the recording of some of these sketches (the chemist for instance). There was plenty of real laughing but Enfield corpsed so often it was often 10 takes. The laughing was more forced by then. Was recorded at south bank studios I think.
You need to learn to recognise canned laughter then because you've failed this time, this was a studio audience.
@@richardjames712 oh nice. Would have liked to have been there for the Short Bloke and Manky Street sketches.
@@incarnateTheGreat from memory, the ones they did that night were: Chemist, Bored Couple Shagging (she was introduced to us as ‘cassandra from only fools’), Sleazy Dad, Rude Man Who Interupts and Manky Street. They record the full series of sketches for a character at once. No short bloke sadly. The Cornish Ladies man had been prerecorded and was played out to get our laughs (not many of them though!) Sorry but Manky Street was the worst! Although all the swearing was bleeped in the broadcast version, they actually did swear in then studio (Fs and Cs the lot) so it felt really ‘off’ and unpleasant. It looked a lot better on screen, more cartoonish and less menacing.
@@richardjames712 wow! That's a great memory! Thank you!
Yeah Manky Street did seem kind of stupid. Not sure why they introduced the woman in the Border Shagging sketch as Cassandra when she was in several other sketches (Insult at Dinner).
It makes sense that they would record all of the sketches for a character at once because it would be a pain to setup the sets, blocking, cast, etc. I loved the Sleazy Dad sketches.
My least-fav sketches were the Cornish Man. Never funny.
Did you tell "Wanker!" when Enfield fluffed up a line?
Seems a slight desperation to establish new catchphrases. Not bad but not a patch on earlier or later BBC work
Loved Harry and Paul, didn't love this. Be like Laurel and Hardy without Hardy. Or Morecambe and Wise without Morecambe, or Wise.
10:00 Gorgon Brittas deserves better
Classic gold , a reminder of real comedy before our new woke mad world evolved .👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼
Ok boomer 🙄
Ere people fink were sisters! Dun they kell?? But were not are we?? Im her MUM!!
Ive met women like that in pubs 🤣
Where Paul?
I enjoy thinking about the SJWs who get triggered by this.....then I remember that hey would never watch it
I'm watching/loving it as I type this...
I'm the pinnacle of what you'd call an 'SJW' yet I watch and enjoy this all the time?
@@lavenderandred_ good for you :)
I had a short mate. This was basically him.
I love Harry Enfield's work in general but I couldn't finish this episode as its full of shouty characters and seriously shouting does not make a script funnier it's just annoying as hell also the reason Phil Jupitus get on my t**ts
Paul Whitehouse saved his legacy from going right down the shitter by the looks of things
19:24 hhahahahahha
13:09
Not at his best here by a mile. Actually dreadful, for such a funny man,
I remember this did not watch it
Thanks for all your inspired comments on my channel..
Harry Enfield performs brilliantly but the material is absolute shite.
Simply not that funny anymore.
You wot, mate? I'll 'kin do you!
You really need to check out "Harry & Paul" which came several years after this and is as good as ever.
I find this one single episode funnier, than the complete series of anything in production at the moment. ☺
But tastes differ and arguing comedy is like two bloodcells arguing about the dark-space antimatter root-warp function when deployed in kitchen-line appliances.
Never was...
Yes I do, I love Harry Enfield but this was shit at the time and it still is...And I'm this thread for the same reason you are to express my opinions.¬_¬
I wonder how the JK appearance occurred. Was he asked, or did he ask to be on it? Either way, he was shit and I'm disappointed with now knowing Harry and him are mates. "Ooh, I'm a pop star who bosses my band around even when they're the talent and I'd be nothing without them." - One of his less memorable quotes
Not his best series at all but still ok
Good grief I'm glad I didn't watch this rubbish
Sure Enfield is devastated by that silly bit of news…🙄
@@thesaintst1851 normally he's hilarious and I love his shows this particular one not so much
Harry Enfield had lost it by now. The only character remotely amusing was Short Bloke.
Nah there all funny
what utter nonsense.
they are all derivative of earlier characters, whatever he says.
Yet you watched it
Cringefest.
Pretty weak stuff. Harry and Paul was way better
Somewhat tedious, sadly.
This series must be amongst his less enjoyable work. The canned laughter doesn’t help. Makes me wonder if it were added Asan ironic comment
Filmed in front of a studio audience.
@@paulbats6996 which doesn’t mean a laughter track isn’t added or edited post studio recording …
@@hossoneninesixtwo It does in the UK as canned laughter is considered misleading and so is not allowed.
@@krashd show me the law that states that and I’ll buy you a beer or five the next time I’m back in Blighty…. Seriously
Terrible scripts.
Awful … not even close to any of his bbc series
It's obvious from this that it's Whitehouse who has the talent and Enfield rides on his coat-tails
Absolute rubbish… both as talented as each other
That's a bit harsh. Both are very talented
A more generous take away would be he needs good writing and collaboration.
My bet is a sketch show with just Whitehouse wouldn’t be half as good either.
Strange then that Harry's shows have made him 10x as much money as Paul's have.
This is the same predictablerubbish he's been peddling for years. He's a great character actor, inspired at times. The trouble for me is that every sketch is so predictable, you can see the punchline coming from the start.
You’re on your own there o judgemental one…. He’s a genius
fkin hell should have stopped after the fast show. this is bobbins. worse than that lenny henry radio show on bbc radio4 and that was shite
Harry, of course, wasn't in The Fast Show...
Nah, this show is great.