As I understand it, Gobstoppers are basically the same thing as Jawbreakers.
@stephengodsmark43537 ай бұрын
What a great actor Ronnie Barker was. Absolutely carries it.
@trevorveail8 ай бұрын
I was lucky to see the two ronnies being filmed. It is real laughter on this clip.
@Lee.Willcox8 ай бұрын
My father and I too but not this series. 4 Candles 😆
@hamilton94798 ай бұрын
Hundreds and thousands = Sprinkles in the US
@songsmith31a8 ай бұрын
Their gift was the mastery of language in a comic situation.
@Xoferif8 ай бұрын
Gobstoppers are a traditional type of sweet that is made in layers of different colours, so as each layer wears away it reveals the next which is a different colour.
@henrygibson91078 ай бұрын
KB would know them as jawbreakers
@BuyOneGetOneFree7 ай бұрын
And were completely tasteless as I recall ….!
@HughShower8 ай бұрын
I used to have a short fuse, but now I prefer to take the path of John Gielgud’s manservant character in the film Arthur - quiet, dignified and direct insults, such as “You may well be right. On the other hand, why don’t you go screw yourself.”, or “How delightful to meet you. One would normally have to go to a bowling alley to meet someone of such refinement.”
@tango6nf4777 ай бұрын
There is no doubting the fact that American Humour or Humor (American version) are different in many ways so it is nice to see one of our Cousins appreciating The Two Ronnie's. I highly recommend "By the sea" , which can be found on KZbin and is a 40 minute or so film set in an English seaside resort. I wont spoil it for you but it is a film that relies not on dialogue but situation and double "double entendre" for which this wonderful pair were famous.
@jaynadiah54987 ай бұрын
''Four candles'' is widely regarded as their best sketch...... also swedish lessons is one of my faves
@maxthecat148 ай бұрын
Didn't like Liquorice allsorts?!!! wash your mouth out !! I love them, and could (and have) eat a whole box. Gobstoppers are large round sweets that change colour as they get smaller . They are a bit boring, I am not even sure they make the big ones we used to have when i was small, because they must have been a choke hazard. Hundreds and Thousands are usually used for topping in baking, and there are ....... hundreds and thousands in a box.
@lisemartino19957 ай бұрын
I seem to remember that there was an aniseed in the middle of gobstoppers?!
@MrBulky9927 ай бұрын
I think "hundreds and thousands" are called "sprinkles" in the USA.
@MrBulky9927 ай бұрын
Wasn't there an everlasting gobstopper in Willy Wonka which Charlie handed back at the end of his visit to the chocolae factory?
@GHar948 ай бұрын
So much nostalgia, I’m 29, and in my early teens I’d go to a ‘penny sweet’ shop because you can get small haribo sized sweets for 1-2 pennies each, you’d fill up one of those paper bags you saw in the beginning and that’d last you through school. It was great until it got too costly for the owners and these penny sweet shops pretty much vanished over a month, the ones you still see are either too expensive and very tourist trappy because of their ‘ye olde’ branding and stock American candies. Not like it was.
@simondobbs44808 ай бұрын
I'm 62, and remember buying "sports mixtures" sweets at the local shop at ten for one old penny, so that's 20 odd for a penny in decimalised money. Used to love watching the two Ronnie's with my dad in the seventies.
@vernatudos8 ай бұрын
@@simondobbs4480 I loved them & remember that...I much prefer the original licorice tasting black ones.
@adambattersby89348 ай бұрын
The plural of "penny" is "pence."
@simondobbs44808 ай бұрын
@@adambattersby8934 “penny /penˈi/ noun (pl pennies /penˈiz/ (as material objects) or pence /pens/ (as units of value))’ chamber’s dictionary. So both are correct.
@Isleofskye8 ай бұрын
Nostalgia @ 29? LOL I enter my 8th decade in May.THAT is when you really get nostalgic as I do for the England of The early 1960s :)
@chrisofnottingham8 ай бұрын
In general, the real problem for 2R's reactions is that the context is often very British and contemporary to the time.
@4Kandlez8 ай бұрын
I don't agree, the majority of their humour is based on everyday things that are recognisable in anyone's life, this sketch for example could be anywhere in the world and made yesterday
@HJ-uh7to8 ай бұрын
The Two Ronnies "Swear Box" sketch is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
@helenroberts11078 ай бұрын
Have you seen the Four Candles sketch? It’s a classic 😂. I wish we still had these prices! Hundreds and Thousands are the little colourful bits people put on cakes and ice cream etc
@sjbict8 ай бұрын
I think they are called sprinkles in the US
@mancuniangamecat82888 ай бұрын
He's already done four candles.
@Coxy-b348 ай бұрын
Yes thats what Hundreds and thousands are although in the sketch itself it looks like they use kali/kaylie (not sure of the spelling) as the consisctancy isn't the same as 100's and 1000's.
@StefanWB8 ай бұрын
There's an episode of Dad's Army where Pike has 100s and 1000s with that very fine texture, almost like powdered sherbet, it's so fine you just lick your finger to get it wet, stick it in the bag and then lick them off your finger. That's more the traditional sort of thing you'd have in a shop like this, rather than the ones we now mostly call sprinkles as that's what the Yanks call them. Four Candles is absolutely hilarious, the most iconic Two Ronnies, but it's also a sketch that I've seen several Americans be very baffled by, and not understand the humour. I know King Boomer has reacted to it and I don't remember how he reacted. For sharing 2R with the Colonials, you're safer to go with sketches like this one, or the Racing "Pigeon", or similar silly ones that are less based on dialects and wordplay.
@Coxy-b348 ай бұрын
@@StefanWB I guess the terminology for 100' and 1000's has probably changed through the years or is referred to differently in various parts of the UK.
@mycolliesandme2687 ай бұрын
Take a look at an old school British comedian, His name is Jethro, he's a Cornish man from Cornwall England so he has a thick Cornish accent. A stand up comedian from the 70s to the 90s . Absolutely hilarious story teller.
@user-of9mh5ov6dАй бұрын
Jethro -"Why do divers fall backwards out of the boat?" ANSWER - "Cos if they fell forward, they'd still be in the boat!" 😂🤦
@l.l.coolray7 ай бұрын
Great to see you reacting to the two rons. I agree it is smart comedy, they do some fantastic scketches just talking, playing with the English language. It's so well done it blows the mind. True master class in comedy👍👍😎🇬🇧
@SeeJay818 ай бұрын
Hundreds and Thousands are what you'd call Sprinkles.
@bigbird21008 ай бұрын
Great video 👍King boomer you filthy guy 😅 you been watching far too much UK sketches "suck it till it goes pink"😂. Two Ronnie's is all about the writing and timing of the sketches 😊
@Writeous0ne8 ай бұрын
when i was a kid in the 90s we could go to a sweet shop and get a big bag of sweets for like 20p
@elemar57 ай бұрын
Soo, 19 or 21p then. 😵💫
@tommason8708 ай бұрын
I would love for KB to react to 4 candles 2 Ronnies skit. That's great.
@nuthinnew8 ай бұрын
Gobstopper = jawbreaker
@JoeThornhill8 ай бұрын
I love how the hundreds and thousands were still flying off the brim of Corbett's fedora every single time he moved his head. They must've kept toping them up in-between camera shots.
@annagray64917 ай бұрын
Oooo, that did make me chuckle! 😂 I’m from the Uk but I don’t remember that particular sketch. Brilliant! Thank you! 😂😂
@topguydave8 ай бұрын
Hundreds and thousands are those very small multi coloured candy granules that get sprinkled onto iced doughnuts or trifles, for edible colourful decoration.
@Seagull68198 ай бұрын
The “Bert & Charlie” sketch to be found on DM is another 2 R’s classic.
@inishireland8 ай бұрын
Naughty boy, as my mum would say, "get your mind out of the gutter, definitely double entendre.
@vallee31408 ай бұрын
Love The two Ronnies and love Liquorice in any form.
@elemar57 ай бұрын
I don't mind liquorice but hate licorish.
@vallee31407 ай бұрын
Licorish is that healthy form isn't it?@@elemar5
@elemar57 ай бұрын
No. It's the wrong way to pronounce it.@@vallee3140
@millybug10197 ай бұрын
in hull where i come from, my generation used to call licorice spanish its the only town in england that called it that
@RltchieI8 ай бұрын
The wonderful Patsy Smart aka the old lady at the start of the sketch.
@paulguy25458 ай бұрын
I haven’t seen that one in a while but it still had me in stitches 😂🤣. You should look up Hale & Pace from here in the 90’s because they did ALOT of sketches and they were legends!
@russellfrancis62945 ай бұрын
Willy Wonka's gob stoppers were everlasting.🤣
@stephenjdutton8 ай бұрын
If you haven't seen it already then you should check out The Two Ronnies' "Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town." There are several short episodes.
@heatherarnott54578 ай бұрын
The best! 😊
@stevetheduck14257 ай бұрын
Possibly the best thing Spike Milligan ever wrote.
@tonystavely671919 күн бұрын
Gobstoppers my favourite in the 60s
@jamesdignanmusic27658 ай бұрын
Haven't seen gobstoppers for years. Very hard sugar balls in thin coloured layers with a tiny aniseed centre which flavours the sugar. Hundreds & Thousands are called Sprinkles in the US - used for decorating cakes.
@albertwarren69178 ай бұрын
13p in todays money is very cheap but this was released in 1980 where 13p is roughly 53p in todays money. Or about 68 cents US.
@SpeccyMan8 ай бұрын
I can still remember when a packet of Polo mints was 2p.
@marieparrott79445 ай бұрын
Have you seen the hardware shop scene with Two Ronnies? 4 candles 🕯️😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
@Finchie_978 ай бұрын
Hundreds and Thousands are what we call Sprinkles
@r.a.marriott63148 ай бұрын
I am old enough to remember farthing chews. In sterling coinage (before decimalisation in 1971): £1 (L, Latin libra) = 20 shillings 1 shilling (s, Latin solidus) = 12 pence 1 penny (d, Latin denarius) = 4 farthings (fourthings) Until the farthing ceased to be legal tender in Britain in 1961, anyone affluent and greedy could buy 960 farthing chews for £1 ... which would also pay for a week’s shopping, when ‘1d off’ signified a bargain. In ‘Dad’s Army’, set in the early 1940s, Private Pike used his sweets ration to buy hundreds and thousands, because ‘you get more for your money’.
@elemar57 ай бұрын
I remember getting four caramels for a penny.
@maxalder18498 ай бұрын
Been binge watching a load of your guys videos, especially the idiot abroad ones! They sum up the dry sense of humour we have in the UK. Big fan of you guys from the UK🇬🇧🇺🇸
@cheryltotheg28808 ай бұрын
My 7 year old daughter loves plain Licorice, has it every year in her Xmas stocking. Weirdo😂
@russellpetrie1198 ай бұрын
so glad theres no mrs hulk with the gobstopper lol
@smatthew9908 ай бұрын
You have to check out the two Ronnies Master Mind and theirs one with Harry Enfield called My blackberry is not working.
@sharonellis87768 ай бұрын
I know that you would love the Four Candles sketch by them ! So funny xx
@jasonsolway17198 ай бұрын
Walking the service industry down to a T 😂👹😩
@fredneecher17467 ай бұрын
Gobstoppers were massive balls. When you had one in your mouth (slang: gob) it stopped you speaking. And yes, they changed colour, so we all pulled them out of our gobs every few minutes to see what colour they were now. Yuk! At the very centre there was a single aniseed
@TyMarshall0078 ай бұрын
the Revenge of the Four Candles
@leonardburgess85277 ай бұрын
These two were light years in front with comedy..
@stuartandrews43447 ай бұрын
The Two Ronnies - 2000 Today sketch still makes me smile..
@adambarker68678 ай бұрын
The two Ronnies racing duck is my favourite.
@brendagilson9347 ай бұрын
Four candles!!!!!!😂
@ScruffyNerfer8 ай бұрын
Hundreds and thousands are what Americans call sprinkles
@hoonaticbloggs54027 ай бұрын
Pinnacle British comedy
@ramonalavigne89538 ай бұрын
A gobstopper is a large sweet that you can't break with your teeth so you have to suck it. The ones in Charlie and the Chocolate factory are 'everlasting gobstoppers' that you could suck forever without them ever shrinking in size. Hundreds and Thousands are 'sprinkles' in America.
@carolinejohnson227 ай бұрын
The pink, blue and coconut are the best ones.. sweets like gobstoppers were 1penny childrens sweets from the olden days! 😆😆🇬🇧
@davidchamberlain54257 ай бұрын
Now that was funny😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
@catherinemontgomery71307 ай бұрын
100's and 1000's are what americans call sprinkles
@Kevinattheabbey8 ай бұрын
Liquorice allsorts - helps if your constipated
@johnpoile14518 ай бұрын
I would describe their comedy as Wordy.
@denisebell84227 ай бұрын
Laughing here lol 😂😂😂 love the 2 ronnies 🇬🇧🇬🇧
@led00738 ай бұрын
Find the two Ronnie's four candles sketch- their best know sketch. Play on words
@Kwstr428 ай бұрын
we have gobstoppers in america. they are a box of small jawbreakers
@hoonaticbloggs54027 ай бұрын
Big gob or little gob 😂
@yambo592 ай бұрын
If you want a laugh from a real old time comedy sketch look for the W.C. Fields sketch in the candy shop where hes selling candy from an old time candy store counter, kids coming in for candy and driving him crazy with their requests - lolol
@G023728 ай бұрын
Hundreds and thousands are called Sprinkles in the states I believe
@petermclelland2788 ай бұрын
Post-war Britain, liquorice was a popular remedial go to, for many home ailments. It was purchased at your local 'Chemist' (Pharmacy). It was then popularised as 'Liquorice Allsorts' at most 'corner' shops. .
@garydunn17588 ай бұрын
Hundreds and thousands are like sprinkles
@Partyanimal10667 ай бұрын
It just shows how different British humour differs to American humour.We British don’t need to say anything and certainly don’t try to explain the humour,you either get the joke or you don’t,no need to analyse it.The humour isn’t lost on us,we recognise it ,Americans have to explain it to each other.
@peterbackhouse86508 ай бұрын
I think 100s & 1000s are called "sprinkles" in America
@pginvoice39958 ай бұрын
I think 'Hundreds and Thousands' is called 'Sprinkles' in America.
@steelpanther95688 ай бұрын
The Two Ronnies shop sketches are funny, There is four that I know of:- The most popular one is the four candles sketch, There is also this, The sweet shop sketch, There’s an Ice cream parlour sketch, which is quite like the Sweet Shop sketch, There’s also a Pronunciation Problems sketch, There is also the one with Ronnie Corbett & Harry Enfield:- My Blackberry is not Working, Which is a modern version of the three sketches, 🇬🇧🤣👍🏼
@markrunnalls72157 ай бұрын
These pair were absolute legends … Can you please cover the sketch with fork handles ..and or 4 candles.
@mikethedigitaldoctorjarvis8 ай бұрын
That video is the perfect way to describe how people are on the internet on social media !
@Bullitthiphop8 ай бұрын
Hundreds and Thousands are sprinkles.
@jackclements21638 ай бұрын
Liquorice. I'm from the main place in the universe for liquorice, Pontefract in Yorkshire. Pontefract/Pomfret Cakes etc. I live in Japan now and brought a batch to give to school principals as gifts. It did cross my mind as to whether they might not like Pontefract Cakes but, everyone's been kind so far and not spat them out. Yup, can be an "acquired" taste.
@cass55208 ай бұрын
God I love your laugh mate, I've said it before but it makes me smile. Happy New year to the royal boomer palace from Cass Manchester UK.
@melanieatkinson51147 ай бұрын
Fork skit is brilliant
@StephanHG8 ай бұрын
It reminds me of my favorite movie Falling Down.
@moogdome25627 ай бұрын
Enjoyed this. Have you seen the Harry Enfield South African chemist sketch?. Or Monty Python, Dirty Hungarian phrase sketch. Or their Yorkshire men sketch. Brilliant. :
@user-tr3do5xw9s7 ай бұрын
Cadbury Gorilla - In The Air Tonight (Extended Mix) worth a look at.
@easterdeer8 ай бұрын
If my old Ed Edd and Eddie knowledge is right, I think gobstoppers are sometimes called jawbreakers in the US 😄 Love the Two Ronnies. It's all innuendo. 100% of the time. 😂
@craighughes49068 ай бұрын
Always remember the phantom raspberry blower of ye old london town!
@SpeccyMan8 ай бұрын
You clearly do not remember, since there was no "ye" in the title at all!
@craighughes49068 ай бұрын
correct but in the original sketch in 71 written by Spike Milligan he did say in an interview ye olde London town & was adapted by the two Ronnies in 76' @@SpeccyMan
@natmanprime42958 ай бұрын
great stuff
@earlofnythe8 ай бұрын
The Two Ronnies were brilliant. Very very good old English humour though. Some of it may get lost on you Boomer me 'ole mate
@snafufubar8 ай бұрын
Gob stopper in America is a jaw breaker.
@bluemuffin8878 ай бұрын
Hundreds and thousands are sprinkles
@markgibson30348 ай бұрын
Hundreds and thousands are what you would call Sprinkles in America
@paulphillips6757 ай бұрын
Have you checked out the most famous 2 Ronnies sketch, i.e. The Four Candles sketch?
@ETM20248 ай бұрын
KB this sketch reminded of something similar which you might get a quick giggle from, especially from some of your comments to QB about your temper. Look up Ballistic Bob. The quality will probably suck but they are all short as its from an old sketch show.
@shauntromans24048 ай бұрын
Hundreds and thousands, you'll know them as rainbow sprinkles.
@kiino0018 ай бұрын
You should check out Morecambe and Wise. VERY traditional British humour so be aware of that but they were, and still are, one of the most loved comedy duos. They were at their peak in the 70s so their style was very much based in variety rather than sketch comedy. They had the must see show on Christmas Day evening for many years. One year the BBC dared to move it to the 26th and there was outrage and even questions in Parliament. Good place to start is the Andre Previn sketch. Suggestion re your love of tea and the baby bump. I used to take 2 heaped spoons of sugar in tea but gradually weaned myself off it. The way I did it is to reduce gradually so go to 1.5 for a few weeks then to 1 then to 0.5. The hardest step is the final 0.5 to 0.
@michaeldowson69888 ай бұрын
I'll eat anything with liquorice, fennel or anise in it. My favourite is the Dutch double-salted liquorice.
@adamsanderson19868 ай бұрын
Liquorice allsorts are a sweet preferred by older generations in the UK. I don't know anyone my age (36) or younger over here who likes them.
@andyc76668 ай бұрын
I didn't mind liquorice allsorts but it were the aniseed balls that you used to get i hated
@jackclements21638 ай бұрын
Young kids/toddlers still eat the small packets from time to time. Not the sweets, the packets. Kids are weird these days.
@sac56088 ай бұрын
gobstopper is a jawbreaker
@roymillsjnr51728 ай бұрын
gob means mouth in Yorkshire speak ,hence gob stoppers they was giant round pink balls of candy 😂
@petejones8798 ай бұрын
That wasn't hundreds and thousands the the shop keeper poured over his head.. That was more like kali
@vallejomach67218 ай бұрын
Arkwright wouldn't have stood for that guy in his shop.
@StephenGoddard-MiisterSpiice8 ай бұрын
13p in early 70's was not bad price fore the sweets.