Funniest Sketches From Series 1 - Part 1 | Goodness Gracious Me | BBC Comedy Greats

[@BBCComedyGreats]

What's your favourite ever Goodness Gracious Me sketch?

[@CricketEngland]

Going for an English is one of the greatest comedy sketches of all time along side the likes of Monty Python - Spam, Silly Walks and Spanish Inquisition Morecambe and Wise - The Stripper and Audre Previn “All the right words…” Two Ronnies - Fork Candles and Mastermind Jasper Carrott - Motor insurance claim forms, The Mole and Magic Roundabout Peter and Dudd - One legged Tarzan auditions Abbot and Costello - Who’s on First Bob Newhart - The Driving instructors Victoria Wood - Two Soups and The Ballard of Barry and Freida Fry and Laurie - Your name That was the week that was - The Class Sketch At last the 1948 show - Four Yorkshireman

[@neelamcbeth9882]

Definitely going for an English!

[@pwareham61]

Going for an english

[@mahenbanomirzahi7715]

Ugh hush

[@anjansarkar9803]

The Everything is Indian sketches !!

[@wrightyy]

Going for an English is iconic. I enjoy showing it to people who haven't seen it. Brilliant.

[@cakes3958]

One of the best shows ever! Half the jokes wouldn’t get by today so I’m glad it was made back in the 90s

[@kwesiidun8512]

One of the best comedy skits ever. And such an accurate parody and reverse take on how we British are when we go to eat to Indian restaurants. Classic. 😂

[@SupaShrpSh00ter]

Still good

[@buckbumble]

I grew up a white kid in a very white suburban middle class neighbourhood. GGM helped me bond closer with my Asian mates. Now 33, still quote it to this day.

[@pauljordan4452]

Mr Indian is my favourite sketch.

[@josephinepeery6938]

Love it, reversing the roles, taking the michael out of the Brits behaviour after a night on the town going to a Indian restaurant 😆 👏👏👏

[@yolandajones4990]

The way he says “what’s the blandest thing on the menu?” gets me every time 😂

[@chandravadivale7864]

One of the best comedy ever Produced. I have been living in Uk for over 50 years.

[@CaersethVarax]

I'm going to order the blandest thing on the menu 🤣

[@CliffLewis28]

I love that Restaurant sketch! Lol!!!

[@superamario6464]

Written by Sanjeev Bhaskar who plays Navid from Still Game

[@eleanorferguson3421]

‘Clive of India’ sends me every time. The whole thing is so, so clever.

[@aliyaclare]

Fantastic spoof on British behavior at Indian restaurants.

[@coucoubrandy1079]

Oh my ! I remember watching a bit of the show years ago and had forgotten about it. I just read an article in the Guardian yesterday, and I looked up . Just love it ! The granny !

[@abbeyhall4624]

Going for an English, my fave sketch. A great poke!

[@thomasjames6680]

Going For An English and The Delhi Mail are two of the best sketches from Goodness Gracious Me.

[@OofusTwillip]

You don't have to be Asian to relate to this. I've a Greek uncle, who often claims things were originally created by Greeks, though the truth may be rather questionable.

[@littlechalkie8030]

just like the dad in Big Fat Greek Wedding hahaha

[@JohnDoe-dx7bu]

Back when everyone could have a laugh with eachother

[@passiveaggressive6175]

One of the best comedy sketches ever!😊

[@memyselfandi2506]

Dear fellow Asians. We started off so strong. How did our comedy go from this to citizen khan🤦‍♂️

[@DokkaChapman]

Mrs. Brown's Boys is what happened.

[@MK-rk4no]

I actually consider this to be awful, the comedy sketch "the real mcoy" was the original and the best, this goodness gracious me spin-off was crap.

[@memyselfandi2506]

@@MK-rk4no I don’t know how anyone can describe this sketch as “crap” but we all have different tastes. it seems like you may have a bias towards the real McCoy cos it was the original and the original of anything is always seen as the best. It doesn’t matter who covers the song “yesterday” it will never sound as good as when Paul McCartney sung it in 1965. maybe because i was an Asian lad in the 80s I could relate to 90% of the sketches in GGM. I loved the real McCoy but preferred GGM the fact the it wasn’t “the original” didn’t bother me

[@MK-rk4no]

@@memyselfandi2506 the original is not necessarily always the best...I just found ggm to be rather tacky and cheesy.. even citizen Khan gave me more laughs, which you probably would disagree with considering your first statement.

[@memyselfandi2506]

@@MK-rk4no 😮 dude we’ll just have to accept we have different tastes. GGM was always special to me I found a lot of the sketches like this one here very clever and many many things very relatable like how Asian keep the plastic covers on their remote controls etc Citizen khan to me is very lazy and very 70s. A crime against comedy …. Different tastes 🤷‍♂️

[@HookedOnSonics518]

I actually had to Google what a Gammon Steak was. LOL

[@dtaafe2857]

Your surname is Bland? FR? 🤣💀

[@AliceEade-st2yc]

Cleverly written shows taking Mickey out of the English yet themselves at same time, always makes me laugh

[@SpitFire1940]

I love this show. Those were days when we didn't get offended so easily.

[@DokkaChapman]

Steak a Kiddily Pi XD

[@alphadream953]

i love the exterminator bit lmao saw it when i was 12 and i never laughed so hard

[@narrowroads3696]

"Clive of India" 😂😂

[@trubadurleduc4468]

Thank you, classic

[@m1ke1981]

Char? char? char? 24 plates of chips.. 😀

[@Red-Red-Red-Red]

0:33 - Luke Davenport of Harchester United (Dream Team)!!

[@georgemwangi3868]

i learnt my english through this show

[@guitarlover302]

Brilliant 😂

[@panthakurai5267]

We're getting jaggy with it (jaggy with it) We're getting jaggy with it (jaggy with it) Not being funny with it Making money with it So everybody, can kiss my chaddie We're getting, jaggy 😂

[@jarrodnaidoo]

The guru guy is offensively funny😅😅😅. I love it

[@c.c8752]

The reversal 😂😂

[@monsieurmike2072]

The Indian Doctor..🤘⚡

[@rich_rich90]

"It's really nice & pasty you know!" :D :D

[@MKOA100]

Every waiter in a curry restaurant will identify with this sketch. There is a sad side to this. Invariably, the racist insults led to physical violence against the restaurant staff.

[@jehanariyaratnam2874]

You should watch Rowan Atkinson's Indian waiter sketch

[@CricketEngland]

Going for an English is one of the greatest comedy sketches of all time along side the likes of Monty Python - Spam, Silly Walks and Spanish Inquisition Morecambe and Wise - The Stripper and Audre Previn “All the right words…” Two Ronnies - Fork Candles and Mastermind Jasper Carrott - Motor insurance claim forms, The Mole and Magic Roundabout Peter and Dudd - One legged Tarzan auditions Abbot and Costello - Who’s on First Bob Newhart - The Driving instructors Victoria Wood - Two Soups and The Ballard of Barry and Freida Fry and Laurie - Your name That was the week that was - The Class Sketch At last the 1948 show - Four Yorkshireman

[@daevanbalvantpatel5239]

driving lesson Some Mothers Do Ave Em

[@CricketEngland]

@@daevanbalvantpatel5239 that’s not a comedy sketch it part of a comedy sitcom

[@lmn6440]

You forgot Brexit 2016 - 2023 by Westminster and the British public, possibly the best British comedy sketch of all time

[@The_Druid]

Coasters! 😂😂

[@robertbick986]

Watched this while getting tanked up on lassis.

[@ljmcdonald2703]

00:01 😂😂😂😂

[@lmn6440]

This is hilarious

[@Arnold_X3]

I just realized Humza Productions lifted his talking style right off the Asian gangsters sketch

[@PeterGreen-t8c]

All Right Mate? 😅

[@garthleckey9797]

Was that Amanda Holden in the last sketch?

[@80ssynthfan48]

Yes, she appeared in a number of episodes. She appeared with Sanjeev Bhaskar on Channel 5's "We Know Where You Live" from about 1997-98.

[@1406Pictures]

Coasters!

[@kingsgrilleruk6757]

Back when bbc was actually good at the job

[@TellyMan200]

8:54 always gets me. that is so how Asians think of affairs 😅😅

[@pharcyde110573]

back in the days when the BBC was worth the license fee

[@odinson8552]

I miss this show. It did a lot for white and Asian relations, humour connects us

[@atifarohman3342]

omg i didnt recognise Amanda Holden @ 13:00

[@AA-sh8dr]

waiter looks like Halbrand from Rings of Power

[@jamesvarty7752]

We dont do comedy like this anymore.

[@Pugwash864]

Liberals would be tearing their pink hair out if it was made today

[@onkarkitekt]

May be a long shot, but is Jamaz... Cillian murphy? 🤔

[@danielthompson4463]

No. It’s Neil Newbon

[@tablefork3248]

oh my god baby neil newbon

[@crimsondrake6453]

Is that neil newbon?

[@alejandracypher4882]

Yep

[@LeeONardo]

I never found Going for an English that brilliant, it's fine but eh ... My favourite was not here or in part either - HERO underpants pour la homme!

[@jimjames4348]

I loved The BBC so much until very recently. Now that they are morally bankrupt I begrudge paying my tv licence. They don't do comedy like they once did either.

[@dibyadarshinepal4604]

The Buddhist guy looks more like a ISKON preacher or a Vaishnavite Brahmin than a Buddhist

[@Lowe_164]

Only here for neil

[@DodiDods-o4y]

INDIA PAKISTAN FOREVER FRIENDS

[@Takeitlightly6]

I am an indian and we indians are exactly like this when drunk… Such a shame….we have no manners.

[@amajeet]

Lmao you're defo fresh. Most cultures do this when going for a piss up. This is a mid to late 90s comedy sketch, thanks for telling us about it.

[@leasamuel6233]

I don't judge you, no one is perfect so live and love yourself. 🇹🇹♥️

[@ionia2376]

If it helps the sketch is taking the mic out of English people at Indian restaurants, English people are exactly like this too!

[@karanjeetchohan8210]

Racism humererfied

[@tempo922]

:)

[@sayedtalhahassan6213]

These all belong to Delhi.. so disrespectful for sure... I feel sorry for a young gentleman who is working as a waiter; however, that's not a new thing in India, they all treat poor people in the same way. I don't know why. But the show is perfectly fine and based on reality.

[@danielthompson4463]

This is a comedy sketch show

[@lmn6440]

By today's standards this would be racist to Indians

[@umarrazvi]

Nope but by people trying to enforce their control. This is by pretending to be morally self righteousness in their feelings. That or they are delusional and actually believe it but the truth is having a good laugh at our own or other expenses due to our sterotypes actually brings us closer.

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

I thought muslims where looking for goodness? Has cult told them what goodness means?