Well, here in Norway we already do that. Classic children stories, Roald Dahl, etc is being dissected and censored east and west for containing words such as brown and fat. I think the problem is that we as a nation are too much a bunch of pussies to gather round and decapitate leadership and place their heads on stakes outside the parliament to ward off other potential leaders.
@Mark Johnson Transitioned to the next sketch by having someone go through a door as part of the previous sketch. I'm not saying that Fry & Laurie are plagiarizing Monty Python -- it could be a homage to them, or my memory could be faulty. I think Fry & Laurie are amazing comic geniuses!
I knew a girl who had a similar spine tickling voice. When she spoke, I had trouble keeping from tilting my head sideways, like a dog who hears someone whistle
According to Wikipedia the current post-war iteration of the SAS exists because "there was a need for a long-term deep-penetration commando unit." Hmmm...
Ted Cunterblast! One of the greatest comedy names ever. How on earth Fry & Laurie got away with the first syllable, and kept saying it through the skit, without the BBC censors kicking off, is beyond me. Brilliantly funny, still.
I was nine years old when I saw this sketch, and...umm: I rang the nearest library requesting said book. (The libarian was rather cheesed off with me and asked if it was a joke and being a naive wee chap I repeated my request and was quite jilted when the dial phone gave a disconnected tone.)
...especially if it was spoken before the 9:00pm "watershed"... as one of Stephen's vox pop characters asked about..! In this case "Who keeps water in a shed? ... And what's that got to do with cunt blasts?"
***** Strongly recommend you watch Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones--( Not the Nine O'clock News) in their terrific piss -take of --Mr. President (Ronald Reagan) meets the Press. This applies to All US Presidents since.
How dare you sir ?! As a Cunterblast from a long line of Cunterblasts going back to the Norman Conquest, I take strong exception to that comment ! Blast your eyes !! And a pox on your house !! Many of my ancestors have been named Ted. I demand satisfaction, sir !!
Lol, full circle for me when I read "appalled". Deborah Norton was great in Yes Prime Minister too where Bernard, Hacker, Humpy and "Weasel" all were just that, "appalled" in an episode 😁
@@jacketofdiamonds Just go and have a look at any news piece which has a headline that contains the words "experts say" or "fact checkers", and you'll have a general idea.
@@RabbiHerschel yeah, as the one who approached this conversation with an open mind up until you said to distrust experts on the basis of being experts I'm the one coping and seething
I can so much relate to this, the same thing happening in my country India right at present. Any criticism of the state and society is immediately branded as Anti-Nationalism, and any attempt at informed debate is dismissed with a rabid hostility towards all those with "fancy college degrees".
It’s almost like a discussion on RUclips: so much missing, and never agreeing with my pet theories... 3:51 “I am a librarian, but I am also an Englishman...” I’m here in March 2022, and it seems like Russia has not lost a game of cricket since the war... I love how much humor the Algorithm has, bringing these videos up at the right time...
Deborah Norton, turning 80 next year (2023). Hilarious in the 12 episodes of "Health and Efficiencies" as hospital administratrix. Btw. a Google search shows a picture of her looking lovely in a flowery mini dress in her twenties.
SAS is also an acronym for "sweaty arse syndrome" and Fry keeps saying "crack". Was expecting him to say "World War Number Two", but I guess that would have given away the joke too obviously.
I love how Laurie just walks into the next sketch.
Very Monty Pythonish...
@@BadWebDiver Bugger. I was going to say Pythonesque.
@@funkyalfonso Pythonic
Pythonian, Pythonarily, Pythoniptic
Cutting out words in a book to make it read something else is so funny, I hope my library thinks so too.
So you're the little rascal.
@@wayneurquhart7192 I read War & Peace twice yesterday at morning tea.
So engrossing, I finished the entire work in one sitting!
@@shotforshot5983 You should read "The West Indies, a Nation of Cricketers", by Ted Cunterblast next. You will be enthralled.
Well, here in Norway we already do that. Classic children stories, Roald Dahl, etc is being dissected and censored east and west for containing words such as brown and fat. I think the problem is that we as a nation are too much a bunch of pussies to gather round and decapitate leadership and place their heads on stakes outside the parliament to ward off other potential leaders.
I love how they transition to the next sketch by making him go through the door as part of the previous one. That was clever.
I believe that Monty Python's Flying Circus did the same thing 50 years ago...
@Mark Johnson Transitioned to the next sketch by having someone go through a door as part of the previous sketch. I'm not saying that Fry & Laurie are plagiarizing Monty Python -- it could be a homage to them, or my memory could be faulty. I think Fry & Laurie are amazing comic geniuses!
Deborah Norton, what a gem ❤️👍🏻🇳🇱
She was a superb addition to the cast. . Amazing performances always!
She has that kind of accent that just makes me want to hear her say, "DIRTY BOY! DIRTY, DIRTY, DIRTY!!!"
I just can't help but see her as Wayne Wright all the time.
That woman's voice is delightful
I knew a girl who had a similar spine tickling voice. When she spoke, I had trouble keeping from tilting my head sideways, like a dog who hears someone whistle
Very much like Basil Fawlty's Sybil, I thought. Delightful...in that context.
According to Wikipedia the current post-war iteration of the SAS exists because "there was a need for a long-term deep-penetration commando unit." Hmmm...
well can't do that without a propper crack assult force
@@ransherman1611 They have a good arsenal..😁
You forgot secret and elite.
Our Special Forces troops have to first graduate from.....Speshul skool.
Those two can deeply penetrate our commando units in Australia any time.
“Go ahead and take issue with him”
That woman was off Yes Prime Minister, right?
Dear Lady
I was thinking that too!
Yeah she was
Ted Cunterblast! One of the greatest comedy names ever. How on earth Fry & Laurie got away with the first syllable, and kept saying it through the skit, without the BBC censors kicking off, is beyond me. Brilliantly funny, still.
I was nine years old when I saw this sketch, and...umm: I rang the nearest library requesting said book. (The libarian was rather cheesed off with me and asked if it was a joke and being a naive wee chap I repeated my request and was quite jilted when the dial phone gave a disconnected tone.)
@@SiliconBong / Don't give up the day job will you!
"I envy you, sir, I can never read a book twice..." ....waaahhhahhahhhhaaaa
Right?! Hilarious. 😂😅
I've always wondered how they got away with Cunterblast.
Kunerblarghst.
At least it's not Dikkyblast!
...especially if it was spoken before the 9:00pm "watershed"... as one of Stephen's vox pop characters asked about..!
In this case "Who keeps water in a shed? ... And what's that got to do with cunt blasts?"
That was a first-class link between the two sketches.
I have watched the library sketch a dozen times! It is so well written!
I'm a westindian and I find this offensive and true.
I find the latter sketch a bit far-fetched, really. I mean, what sort of name is that for a man to have?
'Ted'? Honestly, I ask you...
***** And they say Americans don't have a sense for irony.
***** Be that as it may: "Ted"?
"Ted"?
***** Strongly recommend you watch Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones--( Not the Nine O'clock News) in their terrific piss -take of --Mr. President (Ronald Reagan) meets the Press. This applies to All US Presidents since.
How dare you sir ?! As a Cunterblast from a long line of Cunterblasts going back to the Norman Conquest, I take strong exception to that comment ! Blast your eyes !! And a pox on your house !! Many of my ancestors have been named Ted. I demand satisfaction, sir !!
If you would defend your honour, I must accept your challenge, Sir. Sword or pistol?
This episode is from the time when West Indies was one of the best in cricket
I love how Hugh's voice gets high when he says "anybody" at 4:48. Oh, and his facial expression is terrific too. =)
That transition- pure first-series Python.
"snide university?"
"or wherever you went."
Daily Mail comment section in a nutshell....
"Just so these people can keep their marriages intact" Ooh such scathing social commentary, Fry and Laurie are quality AND substance.
I'm pretty sure I'm studying at Snide University, though evidently they've changed the name.
Is that Dorothy from Yes, Prime Minister?
Yesss!
She really should have been on more episodes than she got.
She'll always be Mrs. Talliot to me.
That's Mrs. Toilet to you!
You may step down, Mr Lesbian
If you can have a town called Scunthorpe, you can have an author called Cunterblast
As a librarian, I'm appalled at their lack of customer service.
Lol, full circle for me when I read "appalled". Deborah Norton was great in Yes Prime Minister too where Bernard, Hacker, Humpy and "Weasel" all were just that, "appalled" in an episode 😁
If it had been at the Swedish Post Office it would've been "documentarish" accuracy 😁
as a non librarian, i'm just appalled.
i didn't know piers morgan used to be a librarian.
That Wainright female!!
I knew Ted in school, he was handy with the ladies, I can tell you that!!
It's Mrs. Toilet.
Will you be in for tea ?
😊👍🏻🤝🏻🇳🇱
That's my absolute fave sketch!
Well that was a very crack, secret, assault, crack, elite, secret, and crack sketch
This explains how they rushed headlong into brexit.
That ending was so freaking brilliant!
Fix your collar Fry!
fabulous. love em both!
Kinda, extremely appropriate for today's attitudes,yes?; Only much more polite and not merely so obtuse...🙄
What's that annoying ringing sound in the background???
Ted Kunerblarghst
A man looking for facts gets browbeaten by the custodians of knowledge who want him to follow another narrative.
Very prescient.
I'm curious what in particular you're referring to?
@@jacketofdiamonds Just go and have a look at any news piece which has a headline that contains the words "experts say" or "fact checkers", and you'll have a general idea.
@@RabbiHerschel ...don't...trust...experts. Got it. Anti-intellectualism at its finest.
@@jacketofdiamonds cope and seethe
@@RabbiHerschel yeah, as the one who approached this conversation with an open mind up until you said to distrust experts on the basis of being experts I'm the one coping and seething
Oh look...its UKIP supporters.
It's 2022 and not much has changed.
completely nonsensical and absolutely wonderful
The beginning seems very similar to the 'joining the army' sketch in Monty Python, right down to the character joining another sketch at the end...
Lady reminds me of Sybil from Fawlty Towers:)
She was in Yes, Prime Minister. Dorothy, Jim Hacker's political adivsor
feels so strange to see Bertram Wooster, Jeeves, and Dorothy in one scene.
Certainly not Sybil!
@@victoriousrufus6747 no, I think the OP agrees ("reminds me of...")
Hmmm. Sybil 🤔
That's a woman too. Good catch 👍🏻
Is that Dorothy Wainwright, political advisor to Prime Minister Jim Hacker?
How it is like to talk to an English cricket fan. It's 2022 and not much has changed.
wow, very nice of stephen fry to link us here, as I don't have every sketch on the top of my mind (regrettably)
Prof. Mijory Marjorie is one fine Librarian as well.
This is my second favourite sketch from this programme.
I can so much relate to this, the same thing happening in my country India right at present. Any criticism of the state and society is immediately branded as Anti-Nationalism, and any attempt at informed debate is dismissed with a rabid hostility towards all those with "fancy college degrees".
Literally what I was thinking as an Indian. Really cannot understate how hard this hits. Ultra-nationalism is a disease.
Ahh! . . So the 'elite' are starting to take over India too. . . Dangerous times ahead.
Found the bengali
It’s almost like a discussion on RUclips: so much missing, and never agreeing with my pet theories...
3:51 “I am a librarian, but I am also an Englishman...”
I’m here in March 2022, and it seems like Russia has not lost a game of cricket since the war...
I love how much humor the Algorithm has, bringing these videos up at the right time...
“As for me, If you want to know what I think: I’ll show you something...” (Monty Python “The French Waiter”) ruclips.net/video/mzlCdWwYn2I/видео.html
"Ted Cuntablast" @2:04 brilliant!
yep and it really deserves it. it was an awesome series. Xx
As a Texan, I find this relatable.
Deborah Norton, turning 80 next year (2023). Hilarious in the 12 episodes of "Health and Efficiencies" as hospital administratrix.
Btw. a Google search shows a picture of her looking lovely in a flowery mini dress in her twenties.
British comedy is so much more fres and original than american comedy
The part of John Cleese was played by Stephen Fry. Michael Palin, by Hugh Laurie. Female Librarian: Ethel The Aardvark
It's always good watching clips like this as a Welshman.
Are we sure this isn't a library in Texas or Florida? 😆
4:17 Her mouth doesn’t move once during her line! WTF her face is haunted! O,O
Is Stephen Fry wearing the sweater he wears playing Brigadier Blaster Sump on The Thin Blue Line?????
brilliant piece of satire
The answers to the questionnaire sound like me when I sign up for a new e-mail account
standard obligatory comment to salve the wounded RUclips machine. Liked@953
It's crazy that this is a comedy sketch but this shit is actually happening in the US right now!
Damn... The librarian has a good point! He's the strawman, for sure, but the strawman has a point...
Is it that Wainwright female?
Brexit.
Alternative facts, innit ?
I beg your pardon, but did you say "Inuit"?
JanetFunkYeah I thought they said "dimwit". But maybe that's just my hearing.
i love the "well apparently" and now i'm doing it all the time
Oh how the library segment has aged! It has become reflective of social and political norms now! It's not comedy, it's prophecy!!
it's funny how at the end he says "it's a bit of an exaggeration" well, not anymore xD
Nailed modern america in the library sketch.
Some people do worry about the fate of their home country, indeed.
That lady talks without moving her mouth. How is that possible?
SAS is also an acronym for "sweaty arse syndrome" and Fry keeps saying "crack". Was expecting him to say "World War Number Two", but I guess that would have given away the joke too obviously.
world war number 2? they are not americans
Huh? We call it World War 2, not "World War #2." Which Americans have you spoken to?
Wroughton! I went to school there, sadly.
Wow, she's "Dorothy Wainwright" from Yes, prime minister.
"Did you enjoy it Sir?" - hahhaa
I look good in black :P
4:00 Ironically This is how BBC media works these days lol
Prescient ...
Too many of these 'knockers' around today
I wish Stephen Fry would go under my desk! ^,~
Those books aren't quite cricket.
Which should push the viewing figures up by a few thousand in a matter of minutes ;o)
Did you get your wish?
The actress looks like Eleven from Stranger Things, but grown up.
i'm going to use this in my next interview... see how well this goes.
:D
Mrs Pert.
The second sketch will be always actual.
5 people are librarians... :P
A bit Monty-Pythonesque, this one. Still fully original, insanely brilliant and poignantly comic in a way that we can only arrogantly scoff at today.
I recommend trying it ASAP.
How does she speak without moving her mouth?
seems nothing's changed! wow
have you read the book before? then how do you know bits are missing?
can't argue with that.
2:50 Is it me, or does Stephen look a bit like John Major here?
Important for the SAS & SBS ... Looking good in black ! 😂
Lol this is post 9/11 America too
Anyone expressing the slightest criticism of England/Britain still gets dismissed in exactly the same way today, which is a depressing thought.
The library reminds me a bit too much of fox news.
Steven Fry playing an early version of Nigel Farage.