A BBC sketch was right about Jimmy Savile

but for the wrong reason..... Interesting clip from Scotch & Wry with Rikki Fulton

[@johnevans8533]

At the time, Jimmy was a top advertiser for British Rail, hence the delayed traveller's anger.

[@nialloneill5097]

Imagine the anger now.

[@peterlawrence3152]

And Gary Glitter did their young persons rail card. Even sang wanna be in my gang.

[@G4RY1159]

Jimmy was a good man, he fixed it for me tae milk a cow blindfolded

[@johnevans8533]

So sick and twisted,,, 😉@@G4RY1159

[@punkypete1074]

​@@G4RY1159How many teats did it have? Let me quess... one! 😂😂😂

[@IM-io8ho]

They dont make paper plates like they used to

[@T-Bag13]

It wasn't paper. It was Jimmy's crusty spunk ladened pants.

[@freddiemeyer4563]

I M i knw right! if tht was today the plate wyd hav broke when she put the first splat on😂

[@richardbryant3169]

T-Bag what a lovely image

[@jameswatsonatheistgamer]

It's fucking bulletproof as-well.

[@tannerboy1991]

haha

[@Paul.Woodcraft]

The joke is being missed by many. At the time Savile was advertising British Rail "Let the Train Take the Strain" the protaganist was angry about the terrible journey. Many felt Savile was creepy but the enormity of his disgusting behaviour wasn't known until later.

[@laravelisbullschitt3281]

Shhh…don’t tell them that!! All the “they knew” brigade love their 2+2=5 theories…

[@andrewclavin7447]

What about his good charity works!!

[@dnmurphy48]

As a young child I thought he was creepy, but of course, I had no clue what he really was.

[@Moodymongul]

While that is true EVERYONE at the BBC. Especially the higher-ups. ALL knew he (and others) were at it. In fact, if you missed it, the Savile case was used to blind the public from all the other abusers and those who let it go on. PS: Heres a fun game for you. Look up the art scuptures, located throughout the original BBC building (the one they now use). Note the artists 'muses' in his work. And the fact (back in the 1920/30's) that he was a known serial abuser of the young. In fact, one guy tried to destroy one of the statues (outside the building), done by this artist. I believe, the media didn't mention the actual artists background/crimes. To finish, the BBC ...still have ALL that art work on display. Throughout the building. Its all 'list art' now. How nice. Hiding things ..'in plain sight'.

[@ralphhathaway-coley5460]

@@andrewclavin7447 ...... & Hitler liked dogs, still does not make them good people!

[@paullinford4510]

Reading threads like this always make me very proud of my dad, who died many years before Savile was exposed but always thought him a creep and a weirdo and would regularly say so when I was growing up. He turned out to be an excellent judge of character.

[@gerardfinnigan1539]

i thought every knew he was a noncy creep he didnt try to hide it

[@theoriginalbluey]

Oh yes my dad was exactly the same! It's funny also how dad's views rub off on us, as I felt exactly the same about everyone. He always ruled the remote in our house but it didn't bother us haha, he'd turn over Jimmy, and Bruce Forsyth funnily enough! Loved all of The Goons tho'.

[@COOLARUL]

The British defamation laws are too strict.

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

Cheers. RIP, be to your Father.

[@hughoxford8735]

I was too naïve to think anything sinister about him. But I simply couldn’t understand his appeal or attraction. I didn’t get what people liked about him. Quite different to Rolf Harris who seemed genuinely talented and humane.

[@mymusic7262]

Why arent the BBC staff who knew about Savile in jail !?!!?

[@stevenbrown2102]

Because the big money they make pays off the feds government and everyone else

[@benclasper2883]

In English please.

[@benclasper2883]

It makes sense sorry I

[@PK__44]

Money

[@Red-Red-Red-Red]

Because they're all dead, nugget!

[@cricketbat09]

The reference in the sketch is obviously relating to British Rail, however, many folks at the time thought Savile was a creepy weirdo. Used to hate him hosting TOTP.

[@ExtrackterYT]

Perfect: You think "Where is this going" the whole time and you get it in a split second.

[@someenglishguy]

I love that he picks the sloppiest option each time

[@Bren-j7q]

Many years ago, my late dad used to comment about him when he had a radio show on BBC radio 2, Sunday mornings, I recall, back in the late 70s/early 80s. JS would brag off about not actually at the radio station, but on a marathon, or some other event. My dad despised him, and always reckoned he was a wrong un! How true that became! Thankfully, my late dad was around to see JS's downfall, albeit after the appalling deeds committed being discovered after his death.

[@Manu-Official]

First time I saw him on the TV, I called him a creep. It's that thing behind the eyes, a twisted soul.

[@Rosie-tv3ki]

I grew up with him on the tv , I used to say I didn’t like him all the time just gave me the creeps, I wasn’t wrong 🤬

[@Ezzynah]

This is the definitive example of the term "that aged well".

[@BrianFeral1]

It's because at the time Savile was the face of British Rail. Savile did TV Adverts advertising British Rail. Savile probably abused Thomas the Tank Engine at the time too as poor Edward looked on.

[@steviewonder2049]

Brian Ferry Were Edwards eyes revolving really quickly as he watched ?

[@richardbryant3169]

poor Thomas, I heard he's an alcoholic now

[@stuartcrossland1746]

Heath?

[@davidkent8606]

Cyril Smith?

[@joshdean9105]

Robin Hood Hes a great guy

[@adrianred236]

Johnny Rotten spoke out about him in the 70s too.

[@dandlion7748]

Then continued to do nothing about it at all

[@millyjames7891]

@@dandlion7748 What was he supposed to do exactly? He wasn't management. He said it on live TV. Which would have got him in hot water in the first place. He's always maintained his position. He was a Punk musician not a Social Worker.

[@danielwilcox2878]

​@@millyjames7891he was supposed to run to a phone box and transform into Punkman and stop this evildoer! 😡

[@Tourist1967]

@@adrianred236 Yes. He said he had "heard stories". Do you know what hearsay is? It's inadmissible, that's what it is

[@J_C_CH]

I was wondering what this had to do with Jimmy Savile. When he lobbed the plate, I was dying XD

[@darrenwells2277]

Savile used to do the Ads for British Rail back in the 80s

[@J_C_CH]

@@darrenwells2277 I know

[@Baggerz182]

repent gg

[@markfox1545]

You were dying? What the fuck does that mean, moron?

[@davidgrahambrown3793]

No mud seems to have stuck on both St James hospital Leeds, and Stoke Mandeville, both of which gave him on site accommodation.

[@jjr1728]

Also: he was ugly and not very tall

[@cluds136]

It was Leeds Infirmary, not St James's, which is an entirely different hospital

[@davidgrahambrown3793]

@@cluds136 It was, thank you for your correction. I apologise for my error.

[@CHASTE57]

My dads job involved working to a tolerance of 100 thousands of an inch. He sliced the ham for British rail sandwiches. They later trained him to weld so he could put the crusts on the meat pies

[@roundboisnaxalot13]

Ricky Fulton was a legend. I remember this sketch well. I used to watch it frequently when I visited my grandparents.

[@alanjones5786]

What is the show ?

[@roundboisnaxalot13]

@@alanjones5786 Scotch and Wry.

[@alanjones5786]

Thanks, can't find any episodes, not on Netflix or iplayer. Love still game, has to be the best comedy show by far. Genius. I'm English BTW.

[@alanjones5786]

@@roundboisnaxalot13 found loads on KZbin thanks again for the heads up.

[@roundboisnaxalot13]

@@alanjones5786 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmG7k4GViM6IitEsi=GY44bowSOhKe6Cu0

[@ryanwhite7398]

why people saw savile as a national treasure when he walked on this planet i will never truly understand apart from the fact he did much to charity, which was only a disguise for his charitable acivities

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

catholic..........he was allegedly a practising Roman Catholic - maybe he thought instead of doing a few "Hail Mary's" for his Sins that doing 'good deeds' would somehow absolve him of them.

[@chrishenniker5944]

@@elizabethsheffield6609 He went to mass regularly, even having links to the Jesuits.

[@MrDanielvass]

It was a spell. The collective said “he was a great guy” and everyone went along with it, although they knew deep down he was a wrong un. People just go with the herd. It’s sad.

[@jamara3330]

BBC brain washing and covering up. They helped quite a lot of their male presenters who were child molesters.

[@skylined5534]

I think because most people (kids mainly) saw him as this affable, goofy bloke who was always having a laugh. Some people knew what he was I think, not because they'd necessarily worked it out but had experience of what he was really like or had had people confide in them. John Lydon's (Johnny Rotten) thoughts about him made for a chilling interview. He himself or someone he knew must have been affected by Savile.

[@DrMcMoist]

As someone who has taken the train from Ardrossan to Glasgow Central many times; I feel his pain.

[@G4RY1159]

Your lucky the trains were runnin

[@DrMcMoist]

@@G4RY1159 I mean, they sometimes weren't, Gary. I remember there being a replacement bus service on Sundays for what felt like an age. It was especially annoying because I worked on Sundays and had to get the last bus back to Ardrossan. A person could lose their will to live on the replacement bus service. Fortunately, having grown up in Ardrossan; I never had one to begin with.

[@G4RY1159]

@@DrMcMoist I'm in Ayrshire too 😔

[@bikeman123]

Everybody says 'the bbc protected him' but why would they have known? Youd do better to ask why Broadmoor and Stoke Mandeville hospitals allowed him to roam around children wards unsupervised out of hours.

[@Gary-le7dz]

Saville was on the British rail adverts of the time , the sketch is a go at him for the terrible train service …… nothing else !!!

[@jimsimpson1006]

I have to love how everybody says now, “Oh, I always knew Savile was a creep and a pervert”. Come on, let’s face it. He had us all fooled as we sat laughing our heads off at Jim’ll Fix It.

[@kamandi1362]

When I was a kid, I thought he was weird and creepy, but I had no idea what he was up to until it became public knowledge after he died.

[@mewesquirrel6720]

Bro no like I'm not even British and thought he was ugly

[@andrewb2475]

Yeh I agree, but even when I was watching Jim'll Fix It as a kid I thought him very odd

[@skylined5534]

@@mewesquirrel6720 Ugly doesn't equate to nonce in every scenario though. I agree with the OP. So many bs artists here claiming they knew. No you didn't. I believe some thought him odd and full of himself but unless you had inside information you didn't 'know'.

[@mewesquirrel6720]

@@skylined5534 if you're ugly you're suspicious to me

[@WeerdWulf]

I remember Saville being on tv in the 80s when i was a kid and he always seemed creepy

[@OliverGrumitt]

Of course, the target of this sketch was British Rail, known for its long delays, than Jimmy Saville. As has been noted in other comments, Saville was promoting British Rail at the time and the man in the sketch was venting his anger that the late Saville was promoting BR, not for his behaviour. . But years later after what is now known about him, this sketch is a damming indictment of the man and perfectly sums up how people now feel about him.

[@52memor]

FANTASTIC It's Rikki Fulton... What a guy ! one of the best.

[@Emulous79]

Good aim. It leaves the all-seeing eye.

[@tonywilson9343]

Everyone at the BBC was aware of him,people was told not to be left alone with him

[@horusbaals6206]

Nowadays you pay £9 for a cup of coffee and salted stale sandwich

[@TheKonga88]

Only if you're braindead

[@skylined5534]

And that's just from Starbucks...

[@ButchersBoys]

My dad who passed away 2 years ago age 79 never like jimmy. Always said there was something off about him and he wasn't surprised when it all came out about him.

[@itsawonderfulknife7031]

G’on yersel, Rikki!!!

[@simonmurphy3095]

I thought it would end with him seeing Jimmy Savile and saying he'd lost his appetite.

[@user-yl1xy5eg7b]

One of the rumours I heard about when I was a young soldier. No one gave specific evidence, but everyone was certain that 'Uncle Jimmy' liked children. Too much.

[@SiliconBong]

People knew. Hell it wasn't much of a secret by the late eighties...

[@user-yl1xy5eg7b]

@@SiliconBong The distressing part is the BBC's complicity, and it was not just Savile. Even his driver, and others. Glitter's 'This is your life' slot, with him telling someone to be quiet about young girls, well that said a lot about the man who 'put the gang in bang'. I used to sing his songs when I was very young. The Beeb appears to have been a haven for them.

[@SiliconBong]

'..the BBC's complicity, and it was not just Savile. Even his driver, and others...'@@user-yl1xy5eg7b That's the edge of an 'iceberg of allegations' that still remains hidden. Considering the amount of people working on a television set of the times.

[@nickdryad]

Filmed at the BBC canteen. I remember it well.

[@billbailey7193]

I think this was a reference to Jimmy Savile advertising for British Rail rather than his offending….let the train take the strain

[@serenagreen2600]

My sister and I were born in 1959 and 1963, respectively. As teenagers we thought Saville strange and creepy!

[@gold6813]

Rumours were around the public in the 90s just so you know

[@gerardjlaw]

Really? Then how come the public don't remember the rumours? Think about it (if you're capable); if we'd all had our suspicions, it wouldn't have been such a shock when the truth came out.

[@gunofapreacherman1340]

It’s not like the BBC didn’t have inside information on Savile.

[@miaash3870]

The BBC has & had always known about it! The BBC protects all paedophile employees! The BBC makes sure any employee who gets "noisy" about the BBC paedophiles ends up either with cancer, stroke, or simply a bullet in the head, such as the poor woman called Jill Dando! Funny enough, Jill Dando's fiance was promoted to be the gynaecologist for the royal family!

[@phsolos3126]

Saville’s close links to Royalty should have you asking serious questions and feeling very, very disturbed.

[@theodavies8754]

Jim fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded goes back a long way.

[@robertnichols6911]

On the world service this morning they did an interview with a former radio Caroline DJ, they failed to mention Jimmie's involvement with radio Caroline which lead to his employment at the BBC. I wonder if any girls bodies ever got tossed from that ship as so many of the people that worked as DJs went on to serve jail time

[@DavidEsp1]

Error: JS's "involvement" was with Radio LUXEMBOURG (not Caroline). I highly doubt that Caroline's founding-manager, Ronan O'Rahilly (since deceased) would have had any time for someone of his character and presentation style in any case. Caroline was at that time the epitome of anti-establishment. Luxembourg was instead corporate and locked in with the major record companies of the time - which wouldn't play Ronan's bands etc. - prompting him to start his own independent radio station - at sea, beyond the (then) UK law (since changed).

[@willyspinney1959]

Jimmy Saville used to call into the restaurant where my mum worked and she always said that there was something creepy about him. She died before he was found out.

[@gizus1]

Surely Esther Rantzen would have known? Staring into the camera promoting Childline

[@claymor8241]

Not seeing the logic of that. What’s promoting Childline got to do with knowing about the grubby antics of another BBC presenter?

[@turokforever007]

Yes she did hence childline trying to make things better in her mind

[@claymor8241]

As has been pointed out this was to do with Savile advertising British Rail, not the other stuff.

[@WildwoodTV]

My school-friend found a stone in her cornflakes - so went on Jim'll fix it - she came back different and said he was horrible, 1970's

[@johnmudd6453]

Was it mick jagger ?

[@anthonymullen6300]

I didn't quite know where this was going until the end...lol

[@fraserct533]

Don't think this sketch actually has much to do with hating Jimmy Saville ... its about the man getting his own back on British Rail for a lousey train journey .. its from late 70s / early 80s when Saville did adverts for BR ... thats the only link to him.

[@bungle3912]

That’s actually a funny sketch.

[@hinas_for_life]

I remember Jimmy when I lived in Connemara in the 80's, always thought he looked very creapy and weird.

[@maninwater5615]

They all knew

[@anonb4632]

Man In Water This sketch doesn't actually say Savile was a paedo. He was the face of British rail - that's why the character was angry.

[@anonb4632]

Rad Derry So which part of this sketch says that Savile was a paedo? Does it even suggest Fulton (or his writer) knew? He used to advertise how wonderful British Rail was all the time on TV. Hence the pissed off traveller does what he does. (British Rail was run into the ground so it could be sold off, but that's another matter.) By the way, Savile's perversions were not widely known amongst the general public. I can't speak for the BBC lot, but I never remember hearing about any of this until after he died.

[@NickSBailey]

They did there were rumours going around for years Johnny Lydon was one of the few that came right out with it back in the 70s.

[@Chalky.]

This was about British Rail but it is possible they included some hate for him being a kiddie fiddler.

[@SkunkMantraTechnoSkunk]

is this from the Sketch show Naked Video.

[@sewind6613]

This is a simple joke about British trains, what they are actually like to travel on compared to the rosy picture painted by Savile (in regular TV advertising) regarding their timekeeping, and comfort.

[@ianjames1179]

Same delays true, but back then some B.R. staff did a whole weeks work.

[@artemiszeus9735]

I don’t think this has anything to do with Savile as an abuser. It is a commentary on British Rail which Savile was the face of during that era in the 1980s.

[@fraserct533]

Completely right👍 - Saville's pic is only in the sketch because he did BR adverts - no other reason - classic misinterperitation - guess you had to be there in the 70s / 80s 😂

[@elainekerslake6865]

That's a strong paper plate.

[@saturn1returns]

I noticed this and was thinking why Rikki Fulton wrote it into a sketch. Weird eh?

[@bingola45]

Perhaps you missed the joke?

[@daniellarusso3392]

Of course they knew... They were there with him.

[@MIsaacs-p3n]

yeah. you could get an awayday return for 1£ . my beat mate and i went to london from salisbury at 14 without telling anyone at home. fell asleep on way home and ended up in portsmouth 😂 1982. those were the days.

[@michaeldean7220]

Everyone is wise now but he fooled the general public big time. Having said this I have no doubt he had influence and protection from people in high places as just too many red flags were ignored or not followed up properly. His famous Friday morning meetings at his flat in Leeds with senior Yorkshire police is a concern. As is the BBC perhaps treating him as too valuable a commodity to right off. The tragedy is he was never punished nor any that helped his massive deception.

[@johndoe-cm9qe]

Am not seeing how they where right? Jimmy always promoted Trains even in later life this is just more clickbait.

[@jadepixie2719]

He threw food on Savile's face and I bet in every person they'd like to throw something on Savile. I wish that this show got the actual Jimmy Savile put him in scenes where he opens the door 🚪 when he says "Hi there." someone just throws glass on his face it would make great TV. I bet the writer of this episode knew of Jimmy's true nature before he was revealed to being a child rapist and that's why he wrote this scene.

[@johndoe-cm9qe]

Jade Pixie Not really Jimmy Saville was the face of British rail just listen to how badly the guy complains about the train service even the woman severing food is a mess.

[@IM-io8ho]

Is that a J for Jimmy?

[@Pezled]

YES, you are not seeing how they *were* right.

[@thehellyousay]

of course it was right. they bloody well KNEW, didn't they?

[@j1701why1]

Why do we think that there is Justice?

[@mickharrison9004]

Real food in the old days ,in most institutions schools ECT but sadly those days have gone ,replaced by fast food and obesity .

[@jimbob2980]

ffs people...this sketch has nothing whatsoever to do with savile being a nonce. The fact is that at the time, savile spearheaded a tv advwrt campaign for British Rail, the catch phrase of Savile being "this is the age of the train". It has nothing to do with anything else.

[@fraserct533]

Completely right👍 - Saville's pic is only in the sketch because he did BR adverts - no other reason - classic misinterperitation - guess you had to be there in the 70s / 80s 😂

[@lewissowerby2149]

That was fucking amazing

[@rb1062]

As a child, we never watched Jim'll Fix It as my dad couldn't stand him.

[@Tempe1962]

lol.Well aimed!

[@scroticle]

That was beautiful. Didn't expect it.

[@hugoagogo9435]

Riki Fulton. Such a gentleman and outstanding comedian. Fuck Savile he doesn’t deserve a mention when the greatness of Riki is on show. Pure legend

[@jackcarter66]

Everyone is soooo wise after the fact. Actually Savile advertised ‘the age of the train’ and let the train take the strain’ at this time, the sketch was highlighting how bad the service was, not Savile’s behaviour.

[@danieljackson2322]

Burst out laughing when he threw his plate

[@evelynwilson1566]

Many viewers had their doubts about him but you wouldn't want to think anyone was capable of what he did. He presented himself as an eccentric oddball who was an easy target for false allegations. I have to say even as a kid I never liked him as a presenter but there's an huge difference between finding someone in some way repellent when presenting a tv programme and the reality of what Saville did. To most people he was just a tv presenter, they would dwell on him too much.. The joke is about the state of British Rail at the time. I remember going on family holidays by train. You ' d be excited to find out there was catering on board. Then you'd taste it😂. Yes this is what places looked like in the eighties - brown, cigarette stained, unloved. I

[@flipper2392]

I'm sure she worked in the cafe next to council yard in Crawford!

[@grahamwatson6570]

Could this type of protection ever happen again G. L . ??

[@AQSAPAL]

Its deeply disturbing to learn that many people knew what this animal was like...does that mean there are many people out there, that condone this sort of behaviour enough to be like him...and do similar things?? I blame the seniors at BBC and people that headed the charities and fund raising organisations that worked along side this Devil. When will more heads roll...when will more information come to light...i feel at times, that there has been a big blanket thrown over things to hide beastly goings on, eleborate networks of seediness, which if uncovered, would destroy the BBC and other organisations. It truly sickens me to the depths of my stomache !! Rot in HELL Jimmy, i do wish you were around to take those down with you, that walk the streets today and or are retired as their secrets lie with you, you fucking monster !

[@markfryer9880]

AQSAPAL I think it comes down to a number of things. Wanting to avoid any scandal, protecting "The Star of the show" to protect the show and the BBC, diminished group responsibilities. Not defending his or the BBC'S actions, just an explanation.

[@tonyvideos5]

AQSAPAL i

[@abigailweir7287]

Classic example of running a nationalised service down primed for unworkable/unworthy privatisation. Media and security services working together.

[@raylv6962]

Hopefully if Labour get in we can return to the good old days of nationalised rail.

[@FieldmasterFox]

I doubt that, they have 13 years to do it from 1997 - 2010, but they didn't bother.

[@mr-matt13]

Remember when the Tories took us into an illegal war based on total lies which caused all of the terrorism we are now dealing with in the UK and Europe? Oh no, wait, that was fucking Labour.

[@armycadetsteve]

"new labour" under tony blair were right-wing neoliberals, so basically tory-lite for those too lazy to google. remember when the tories took us into an illegal war? oh wait that was 12 hours ago.

[@ThePaperCreater]

FieldmasterFox The Labour party that was in power from 1997 to 2010 was not the Labour Party that we have today, it was neoliberal and led by a Tory so that doesn't count.

[@ThePaperCreater]

Giulia C please explain how Corbyn is a traitor? Did I miss something?

[@davidconnelly]

What a hilarious ending

[@Robbo766]

Well, that was certainly a waste of food. Could have fed a starving ethiopian.

[@bingola45]

Wouldn't have been as funny, though!

[@Robbo766]

Well, it's not like that kind looking man on the poster could eat it

[@Robbo766]

considering all the things he stuck his penis into, I'd say his homosexuality was the least of our concerns.

[@bingola45]

It isn't that he was a pervert, it's that he was the Wrong Sort of pervert!

[@sarahillingworth2718]

Saville also advertised The Scarborough Spa Express a few years ago before he got exposed :(

[@davidl9232]

I'm not seeing how, saying they all knew, means, automatically, no one cared. People have lives, and goals, and emotion going on. There definitely needs to be information/ education, that reminds of legal right and wrong( standards of society), making it so people are more likely to report and go for punishment. I know victims, sometimes reverse what happen to them, into doing to others what happen to them, to rationalize they have power over the events. When inside, even after becoming the perpetuater of the problem, they're still asking, how could that person do that to me, in themselves. But that's often because, there was nothing that ever got below the surface of the person, that set up in their head the questioning, ..is it right or wrong. An outside medium ( a standard) , because everyone wants to 'feel' part of something ( belonging), but it doesn't mean everything one experiences in their peer group is going to be right, which is where the outside medium (a standard) comes in. This rule is, we don't do that, because it keeps everyone confused ( as exampled with, adults having sex with kids( especially with kids who aren't even in puberty yet) , or we don't kill people for no reason ( even if killing someone just would make you feel 'good' for a moment (because it makes everyone emotional and steals our liberty) What about the groups health?. So theft(stealing), stealing a shirt, stealing sexual innocence, stealing someone's life, is wrong. And groups, the things we 'feel'we belong to, need reminding, there are standards. So even if you never figure out why this or that person did 'that' to you. At least you'll know, whether you ever figure it out or not, they NEVER had the right to do that to you. In states of fear, anger, and confusion it's known people think all kinds of stuff. But most people care, to some extent, about something. But how is it, saying everybody knew, means, no body cared?

[@limpet7r63]

Was there ever a time the railways weren't shit in the UK?

[@antonchristian873]

Jimmy Savile taught me how to milk a cow blindfolded, ( at least I think it was a cow )

[@farmbrough]

Umm... "right about" him in what way? That he was disliked by a lot of people, certainly, but there was no hint of the later revelations.

[@psychonaut689]

Cooked dinners at railway stations!

[@davidfalconer8913]

A ( good ? ) meal after a hard days work ... I met this ( geezer ? ) in 1969 , on my BBC ( ahem ? ) school work experience .. ( it certainly was ! ) ..... DAVE™🛑

[@ssn-5898]

Lmfao the food. Food in the UK has improved a lot, thank God.

[@masterknife8423]

100% agree

[@steveritt]

Except in Scotland...

[@davidcarter7337]

The morale of the clip was Jimmy Saville was mixed up in all sorts of shite back in the day

[@johnmudd6453]

The moral of the clip is aimed at British rails poor service and JS being the face of BR

[@johnwinton2209]

Did I miss any reference to Saville.?

[@bendenisereedy7865]

Saville owned a cottage halfway up the pass of Glencoe, which he bought from Hamish Macinnes. It's a derelict eyesore now and should be knocked down and landscaped.

[@gerardjlaw]

Why? It's only a building. Should we also track down his childhood home, evict the residents and demolish that, too?

[@raw5742]

Funnier because it some's up shop service in Scotland at least back then cheap service =cheap prices

[@SnortmeupbeforeyoutripTripp]

Or as they would say on match of the day, the strikers were useless, but the defence was brilliant 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@elleeway8060]

As an American looking from the outside I always thought Saville was creepy as fuck with that leering face...as the stories surfaced I wasn't surprised of who he was ....but the power and keys to Broadmoor?! Total madness

[@vordman]

He could also be highly intimidating. He was also super fit and had once been a professional wrestler, he also claimed to know IRA terrorists who would do a job on you on his say so, probably bullshit, but it would still make you think. Oh yes, Savile was a nasty piece of work.

[@neilsun2521]

El Leeway He raped dead disabled children too with his keys to the mortuary. Then the establishment made him the no.1 kids entertainer! They like to mock us with these false idols.

[@BIGSIXESFAN]

El Leeway the funny thing is, over here, that's how we see trump!

[@elleeway8060]

I'm sure, hahaha....I'm a native New Yorker so I've had to see his mug for decades

[@scarfhs1]

El LeewayIt seems total madness from this side of the pond as well. I don't know anyone who can understand how anyone could hand over the keys to Broadmoor to a tv presenter!! It is total madness and has never been explained. I also think his popularity was greatly over rated, he presented top of the pops which people watched for the music not the presenters and he presented Jim'll fix it which was a great format which would have worked with any presenter and like every other child I thought he was a creep.

[@budgietrousers8275]

I've watched this sketch dozens of times over the years. It still gets me every time. Fucking hilarious!

[@jokermaan1]

I once met up with Savile when we were both running in Regent's Park in the early '80s. I was jogging along with him for ten minutes or so and chatting and he came across as a rather obnoxious figure. I didn't warm to him at all.

[@goodplacereviewer2495]

How old were you lol ?

[@WEdwardsPortfolio]

@@goodplacereviewer2495 too old fortunately

[@albaproductions9602]

My wife and I lived in Leeds in the 90's and would often see him skulking around the headrow in his track suite and bling, My wife used to say he was a pervert back then.

[@DickheadCyclecam]

Weird... I've lived in Leeds since 1977 and never saw him once. Not complaining or anything. :D

[@Evzone1821]

DickheadCyclecam you’re lucky.

[@redhood7650]

@@DickheadCyclecam Really fooking lucky! No worry about a creepy pedo

[@md61211]

My mother used to say that about him in the 70's. And that was just from watching him on tv

[@anniemay4547]

I knew when he was hanging around Stoke Mandeville no one would do anything cos he brought money in for the kids so sick

[@waivedwench]

I remember this one! It's aimed at British Rail, but it has new meaning now.

[@clivesmith9377]

I think, that was the meaning all along.

[@janetwestwood9194]

🤔👍🇬🇧

[@fraserct533]

Completely right👍 - Saville's pic is only in the sketch because he did BR adverts - no other reason - classic misinterperitation - guess you had to be there in the 70s / 80s 😂

[@Baggerz182]

repent gg

[@caelidhg6261]

The Young ONes had a bit about British Rail. I don't think they ever did a bit about Savile though.

[@Chrishagen]

Genuinely looks like my school dinners in early 80’s UK

[@LowPlainsDrifter60]

A great improvemnet on the school dinners of the mid to late 70s.

[@johnbarry1965]

The Dinner Lady at my school had a massive mole on her face with hairs protruding and she always put me off my gruel

[@keltyk]

At that time JS was the face of BR. He was in all their ads. Announcer says the train was 7 hrs late- Rikki's character just arrived on it. He takes out his anger on JS poster. Hardly anyone knew what JS was really like in those days. I grew up with him on TV. He was cringe but also unique, and strangely mesmerising to kids. We were so used to seeing him on telly that he was just part of the establishment. There was nobody to compare him to. Personally, I was too young and innocent to even imagine what he was about.

[@TonyEnglandUK]

He made my skin crawl even before the revelations about him, he was so creepy.

[@ratusbagus]

They knew.

[@ElMexicanDonald]

@@ratusbagus of course they knew. He's and they are freemasons.

[@Gurnerman]

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[@iwillnotcomply2002]

Very true.. his eyes would amaze me as a child and flet a creepiness about him being too young I watch my family laugh and laugh so thinking he must be a great man..not

[@patavinity1262]

Actually a very well-written sketch.

[@moodobusiness]

Only on the basis he promoted the inter city trains.

[@KarmasAbutch]

Good point - 2 familiar and opposing stereotypes, destined to have their “moment” - but they got along absolutely fine and the punchline was off to the side.

[@Baggerz182]

repent gg

[@unholylemonpledge9730]

@@KarmasAbutch wtf are u waffling about

[@dougaldouglas8842]

It is what we all believed about Savile

[@derekwood91]

Having been born in 1946, I grew up through the Saville years. He became ubiquitous on tv, featuring in a lot of different programmes. I could never understand why. In comparison to the John Peels, DLTs and the rest, Savile stood out like the proverbial sore thumb! He simply never fitted at all into that world as far as I could see. It was very strange to me.

[@AndrewLakeUK]

You are so right, good old DLT only sexual assaulted women who were at least 15. Peely only admitted to having sex with "a lot of underage girls", and his wife was 15, but as far as we know all consensual.

[@gerardfinnigan1539]

@@AndrewLakeUK part of the bbc ,dj job requirement dodgy nonces only

[@Maxley..]

@@AndrewLakeUK Well said. Travis looked like a fumbling, chuckling ELO bear. Peel was the cool cassette-accepting beardy you really wanted to meet. What they did with underage children was to us civilians rock and, to a large extent, roll.

[@theoriginalbluey]

Yes my eldest sister included, her view is 'well that's just what we did back then'! Hmm. @@AndrewLakeUK

[@Teapot-Dave]

I seem to remember that even Tony Blackburn was sacked by the BBC at one point for having sex with a fourteen year old girl, but they reinstated him when he threatened them with some kind of exposure or legal action.

[@anthonygarner6194]

Margret Thatcher was instrumental in getting him his knighthood and they also spent many a christmas together!! King Charles was rather fond of him as well!! scary

[@RAXM-mk1kl]

Starmer failed to prosecute him and funnily enough they both have facial warts and a high pitched voice too lol

[@vanessaeden8174]

​​@RAXM-mk1kl Starmer was not working in the dept at time and had no involvement. Boris Johnson falsely accused him of covering JS case up and was made to apologise to Starmer. Get your facts straight.

[@alana8863]

@@RAXM-mk1kl Oh do stop this lie. If you really believe your lie to be true. then have the guts not to childishly hide it on here. Send your precise accusations to the Labour Party Central Office signed. Or grow up.

[@Willsey]

She wasn’t aware of his deeds or reputation. This is all down to the BBC