American Reacts to Street Cleaners Song by The Two Ronnies

[@sightsounds9453]

The Queen was reportedly impressed and amused by this sketch at the time.

[@paulmurphy5648]

I spent more time looking at your face, Squirrel. Pure joy watching 2 absolute genuis' at work. It is clear you love the 2 Ronnies as much as we do. Thank you for all your 4 Ronnie Fridays...Hope life is treating you a bit better...

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Wife has been very good as of late thank you I hope that I don’t get any streaks so I can continue to do new material this way. Appreciate your regards Paul. I hope you are well.

[@paulmurphy5648]

@@TheRealSquirrel ❤❤All good here, mate, thank you.

[@pauldickinson3809]

Never watched this one before. Just brilliant.

[@MrE1871]

Don’t think I’ve seen that before. It didn’t seem to try to be funny in the usual way but it was fun to see it anyway. Parts of it seemed like some sort of tribute to the Queen. Thanks for letting us see it Squirrel.

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Hope it stays, glad you enjoyed it!

[@corringhamdepot4434]

Reminded me of how all outdoor manual workers in the UK used to wear "Donkey Jackets" when I was growing up. A loose woollen jacket with PVC on the shoulders. Seems to have become a fashion item now, like the US peacoat.

[@Chris_GY1]

A traffic warden, policeman, postman and lollipop lady as backing singers, I think it’s late 70s as the uniform for postmen was different in the 80s.

[@davidjack9217]

Loved it! Never saw it first time around.

[@williambilly3269]

I used to love watching these as a kid with the family.. Good clean entertaining comedy 🇬🇧👍👍👍cheers mate.

[@michaelhurley1497]

The song mentions that the Queen is 'acting like Anna Neagle'. Dame Anna Neagle was a popular British actress who often appeared in upper crust roles, including playing Queen Victoria in two feature films.

[@melaniefrontage9217]

The dance they do is clearly a little tribute to Stan and Ollie.

[@lextex3280]

They did some great song sketches. They bring back great memories.

[@peterhall2810]

There is a short film (about 27 minutes long) of the 2 Ronnies. Made in the style of the old silent films but with sound and not voices (more like a mumbling sound). It's called 'The Picnic'.

[@darthdmc]

There are 2 of these films, both written by Ronnie Barker. Full of seaside postcard humour.

[@cs8106c]

Hi Squirrel, I thought I had seen every 2 Rons’ sketches but definitely haven’t seen this one. Love their usual fast wordplay and especially love their little dancing bit towards the end…. Reminiscent of Laurel and Hardy’s Blue ridge mountains of Virginia. 👍🐿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Someone said the dancing was meant to be similar

[@davidtilstone4814]

The dancing was similar in parts to the dance to the Avalon boys (at the ball) in way out West. It's got to have been a small tribute to them.

[@davidtilstone4814]

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[@susanashcroft2674]

Thanks Squirrel I enjoyed this little ditty and trip down Memory Lane.

[@honestyandtruth6847]

A lovely sketch, thank you. I have never seen that one before. Both were wonderful comedians and actors and missed, Squirrel have you seen 'Porridge' with Ronnie Barker and 'Sorry' with Ronnie Corbett, both are fabulous.

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Still need to get to those but they are on my list

[@anitahargreaves9526]

Sorry annoyed me as made me uncomfortable about a mummy's boy, made my teeth itch. Imo. 😫

[@TheRealSquirrel]

@@anitahargreaves9526 I don’t know why but I’m laughing at this a lot.

[@anitahargreaves9526]

@@TheRealSquirrel watch it for squirm but I loathed it with all my being.

[@ltsecomedy2985]

Hey Squirrel, i remember seeing other comedians doing that shuffle dance prior to when they did this. In fact, I believe I may have seen the Marx Brothers do it in one of their films. I think, Laurel & Hardy & The Crazy Gang also did the same. Holding each other`s hand & moving in & out while lifting up the edge of the jackets, was taking off one of the dances you would see in ballrooms. The idea being, the edge of the jacket imitated a lady holding the edge of her ballgown.

[@antiqueinsider]

with Victoria Wood's "Lucky Bag" poster in the background. That was nice of the boys!

[@margaretnicol3423]

The ''musical instruments'' were a nod to a very popular Lonnie Donegan who had a skiffle group in the 50s. He had a few big hits like the silly ''My old man's a dustman'' and the better ''Battle of New Orleans'' or ''Rock Island Line''.

[@weedle30]

Loved that! Nope not seen by my minces before! A new one, so thank youuuuu 😘

[@Sparks127]

Lovely clip Squirrel, a fine homage to the workers from way back when...

[@angelavara4097]

How they sing a last word that rhymes each time is how I write my children's stories.

[@timglennon6814]

I must say that was the first time I’ve seen that 2 Ronnie’s skit.

[@richardbrown8966]

The Ronnie's dancing at the end is based on Laurel and Hardy in Way Out West.

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Ah always a little something thrown in with these two

[@quarkwrok]

It had a bit of a Flanagan and Allen (not Micky and Dave!) feel in the music and walking with the hand on the shoulder.

[@richardbrown8966]

@@quarkwrok Yes, Underneath the Arches.

[@wenglishsal]

I thought it looked familiar.. Class acts both duos.. The Two Ron's and Laurel & hardy.. They both make me chuckle :D Thanks Squirrel, looking forward to more posts from your Video Tapes (God I feel old now) ;)

[@blindarchershaunhenderson3769]

Classic two ronnies sketch done in the best tradition of the British musical Ealing Studios comedies

[@charlestaylor3027]

We don't call them letter-carriers - we call them postmen.

[@misolgit69]

did you ever have anything like 'Lollipop Ladies' in US ? over here they were stationed outside schools usually for younger children and they 'patrolled' the pedestrian crossing outside to keep kids safe, of course that's from days with Schools not on main roads, way way less traffic and then most children were walked to school no big yellow buses in UK

[@TheRealSquirrel]

No never have heard of that

[@melaniefrontage9217]

Still operating to this day. There's a lollipop person on patrol at the crossings of the two primary schools near my house. The term comes, as you may have gathered from the one in this sketch, from the circular reflective sign attached to a long pole, that they hold out to stop the oncoming traffic.

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

Ahhh, classic gentle comedy! Great stuff mate. 👍👍

[@eddiemglass]

Thanks

[@seank5271]

The box n broom wot Ronnie is playin was an old 'omemade way of a bass sound. My uncle played one

[@garyrichardson8934]

A couple that I'm sure you haven't done are the Cleaning Ladies and The Opticians. I think they were S5E3 and S6E1 respectively.

[@mickt3390]

I remember this lol still quality lol

[@cudwieser3952]

One of their cleaner skits :)

[@TheRealSquirrel]

@@cudwieser3952 🤣🤣

[@jackgarty9393]

In the 60s all the skiffle groups had the box with the string

[@rlosangeleskings]

I know that there's an 800+ page book of Ronnie Barker/Gerald Wiley sketches... If he wrote it...it's in there...

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Looked in my barker book and online it’s just referenced as street cleaner skit

[@charlestaylor3027]

The Scottish word for a street cleaner is a Scaffie.

[@GinaBeana_Tootsie]

This is great I luv it 🎶 so funny 😂😹🤣♥️🐿

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Glad it wasn’t blocked. Like three months on Now they will catch up to me.

[@GinaBeana_Tootsie]

@@TheRealSquirrel oh darn them 😠

[@livestocknetwork320]

Haven't seen this one before. Been fuming to the council though to remove the Extinction Rebellion posters because it's fly posting...

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Extinction rebellion?

[@livestocknetwork320]

@@TheRealSquirrel Eco hippys...

[@peterblake3474]

Reminded me of a Laurel and Hardy routine

[@CarriadEagerHobden]

Could you react to Piggy Malone and Charley Farley please?

[@scottwebb1978]

# The Squirrel has to watch it...and react to it..and somebody has to block it and that the bloody B...B...C..... #

[@melbeasley9762]

Their dance reminds me of Laurel and Hardy.

[@Westcountrynordic]

IMDB dot com is a good place to find details of what Eps etc on shows and films

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Tried that and they kind of passed over like there was this and this and a street cleaner thing and this and this. Lol

[@777petew]

Loada rubbish. I've never seen a road sweeper, traffic warden, policeman or a lollipop lady that cheerful.😉

[@TheRealSquirrel]

🤣🤣

[@199422adam]

Thanks

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Thank You Very Much