Harry Enfield - Mr Cholmondley Warner on The Working Class

[@brettjohnson536]

The "no" at the end kills me! 😂

[@sallybannister6224]

Me too guvnor

[@returnoftheredeye]

It was very well delivered.

[@MrBaldypete1]

I remember seeing this on telly when I was a kid and laughing my nuts off at it. Years later, I'm still laughing at it. And I'm an East Ender! :D

[@AmethystDew]

Good man, you are supposed to laugh. I'm Irish and have laughed my socks off at jokes about ourselves. It's supposed to be a joke and a good joke is funny.

[@misst.e.a.187]

Do you get your nuts back? 🤣🤣

[@MervinLambart]

Me too.

[@DuncanMcA]

"Goodnight Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, or should I say, 'ta-ra Guv'nor'?" "No."

[@sallybannister6224]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.. Mummmmm !!😮

[@valmarsiglia]

The way they absolutely nail the kinds of accents you see in the real film material from back then...

[@wildskel6350]

Jacob Rees-Mogg would fit seamlessly into this without costume or attitude adjustment.

[@Q3ark]

He probably thinks this is a genuine educational video

[@larry4789]

At the same time Nigel Farage was propaganda minister of Germany

[@zealman79]

@@larry4789 in 1933

[@laurenceellis8311]

😂

[@nicksmart5469]

....and people voted for lunatics like Rees mogg ! Like turkey’s voting for Christmas ! Ha ha 😂 Bet you’re sorry now !

[@Jestersson]

“What do I get for tuppence?” Mum!🤣

[@tomellis4750]

1/2 d for grandma.

[@tonymoruzzi]

@@tomellis4750or maybe grandpa

[@seasmacfarlane6418]

​@@tonymoruzziNot in those days!😂😂

[@petergambier]

Harry Enfield really hits the nail on the head with his comedy in his time on our TV screens.I loved watching his sketches they were so funny, with such great observational humour.

[@ianbailey3924]

@Criminals rule the world now! Stavros

[@buzby303]

This programme was brilliant 👍🏼

[@miamitten1123]

....or should I say _Ta-ra Guv’nor?_ No! Priceless 😂

[@jussikankinen9409]

And tara mean good bye or what, english england need translation translation

[@tynchytemper9618]

I've met a working class man before and this was pretty accurate.

[@JMxx6204]

You haven’t and it isn’t. It’s a comedy.

[@tynchytemper9618]

@JMxx6204 And how would you know that it's comedy🤷

[@MrDaiseymay]

MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE CHARACTER'S. A SUPERB PISS-TAKE - OF THE FILM NEWSREELS OF THE PERIOD. IT IS STILL HILARIOUS TODAY. I'M SURE THE 'TWO RONNIES' LOVED IT.

[@lizclegg7556]

Its really interesting how those films of the time talk about the "working classes" the way people talk about ethnic minorities now.

[@db111]

​@@lizclegg7556no we daren't talk about them now

[@jodu626]

Size of the UK is brilliant at start of vid

[@paulr3457]

And not in cold northern Europe but situated perfectly on the nice warm equator of course.

[@qwertyTRiG]

Heh. Somehow I didn't even notice that!

[@danielwoodruffe2938]

Where we deserve to be, although we'd miss the weather.

[@thenandnow111]

Well spotted

[@brunster64]

It will of course be this size again after Brexit

[@UnluckyAmulet]

"Thank you, you've reassurred me. I won't go there." That totally reminds me of, "No, on second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place." XD

[@philjamieson5572]

Even though I've seen it before, it made me laugh out loud and spill a bit of coffee down my shirt. Mind you, I'm quite old and do this anyway.

[@misst.e.a.187]

Haha

[@tinajones5641]

Me too, but luckily I wasn't holding a coffee at the time!

[@bobbbxxx]

😅

[@richardpetty6088]

Harry Enfield comic genius and national treasure

[@oliverpearson1577]

Harry was one of the shrewest observers of real life in comedy that has ever been. It's probably the reason why the BBC hate him now.

[@smith077906]

That's interesting mate. Why do the BBC hate him now?

[@christinarichie6171]

@@smith077906 The Bolshevik Broadcasting Company hates everyone!

[@RobWitchdoctor]

He made fun of some of their programs quite well as the correct person above says, there is a strange Marxist culture at the BBC

[@yup3398]

God I miss him

[@bobbbxxx]

@@christinarichie6171 You have been watching too many American programmes.

[@sallybannister6224]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Just the most hilarious masterpiece of our wonderful English humour ❤

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

"What do I get for tuppence? "Mum!"

[@carolsnook4659]

That was brilliant. .lol..

[@misst.e.a.187]

😂😂

[@manonamountain]

@Ben Bevan Tad late, ain't cha?

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

That was hilarious even though the subtitles said "man".

[@danw1374]

2 shillings to waddle up me whoops a daaaisy!

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Do they smell? Yes , most frightfully.

[@davidsullivan7743]

Whan I was a child, my Grandma couldn't abide it when were playing in the house without any shoes on. It wasn't until I grew up that I found realised why. She grew up in the grinding poverty of the depression in the interwar years when it was common to see people without shoes on their feet for the simple reason that they couldn't afford them. Seeing us in bare feet brought those memories back

[@admiralcraddock464]

I remember my old dad telling me that when he was a boy in the thirties street parties would be held in London`s East End on Empire day. All the children and parents would wave their Union Jacks and sing God save the KIng. He could never fathom why they did that as all of them lived in horrendous housing, went hungry, and many of the children didn`t even have shoes on their feet

[@henrybyrd5402]

The house we lived in in the East End was just how we liked it. No hot water, no bathroom, an outside toilet, a concrete scullery, gas lighting. Bloody luxury! I could never understand why they knocked the whole street down the minute we moved out!

[@fintonmainz7845]

Bloody Hitler

[@bobbbxxx]

@@fintonmainz7845 I think that should be "Bleedin' 'Itler". 😁

[@darthkek1953]

@@bobbbxxx Blood right. If we didn't win the war London would be speaking German instead of Bengali.

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@darthkek1953 Whereas before the war those streets spoke Yiddish.

[@Skippy19812]

As a member of the working class I can confirm that this video is scientifically accurate. Cor blimey guvnor, apples n pairs, dog n bone, etc.

[@robinbeckford]

Believed to be a corruption of 'God blind me' (thus avoiding accusations of blasphemy).

[@YorkyOne]

Skippy19812 You are clearly a Southern Nancy boy.

[@rickyj5547]

the james o Bryan grade to the work classes

[@fintonmainz7845]

Who wrote this for you?

[@nigelcarren]

Hello Skippy, I is new to the area so I is, so I wondered if you fancied a fight... Perhaps over a woman or football or summat?

[@Ampex196]

Lovely, lovely Helen! Many thanks for sharing!

[@xtraspecialmango]

My family has been fowling pavements since Queen Victoria took the crown! Gord Bless, ya Ma'rm.

[@joeaustin4472]

"Mind if I pop outside and foul yer pavement?" 😂😂😂 "Yeh caught me in the Queensburys" 😂😂😂 - Oh my God so incredibly hilarious, there's no better than Harry Enfield.. love this program so much, thanks so much for putting this on 👏😁 👍

[@MasimbaMusodza]

"Six pence ha'penny for acts of appalling depravity...."

[@Sunlight70]

+Masimba Musodza "And two shillings to waddle up me woops-a-daaaaayyyysie"

[@grahvis]

I've been offered half an hour for £40 and a choice of three. That might have been a special early Sunday morning rate though.

[@VCYT]

President Trump : ''book me in for a double portion''

[@bradleyweiss1089]

VC YT # Me Too!

[@Sensorium19]

@Richie Ingpiece Damn inflation.

[@PwnzorBob]

"Mind if I nip outside and foul yer pavement?" "Inside toilet, I aint never not heard of one of 'em nor I aint no know nothing."

[@Aztecius]

goodnight, mr cholmondley warner, or should i say "ta ra governor"? no

[@ZephyrGreene]

Thank you for posting this!

[@darylchambers5945]

My all time favourite Mr Cholmondley Warner.

[@stbu9709]

Americans....this is NOT an actual documentary! 😂

[@ahuddleston6512]

😂 Hilarious, I'm originally from the USA I'll bet you if I showed this clip to my old school friends they'd presume it was a genuine documentary.

[@manonamountain]

@Pixel chimp Aye, thez reet. It's ownly thruppence fer a gobble an now the cauld weather's settin' in, yer can often gerrit fer nowt as the hooers are often just glad of a warm drink.

[@MarkMastrocinque]

Are you sure??

[@sevenproxies4255]

Actually yes, yes it is.

[@cameraman655]

The elite mocking the elite mocking the working class..

[@ChrisMower]

Buckle up Nellie, I’ll have a quids worth of appalling depravity 😂

[@TheWizardOfTheFens]

This is the difference: I am “of a certain age”. I come from the East End, born of generations of East End stock, and, shockingly, I found this funny as fuck! No! I wasn’t offended. No! I wasn’t humiliated. I shall now go an foul my pavement.......

[@zhouwu]

@Chris Banks Bwahahaha!

[@kougerat5388]

Being an ex Londoner this sketch kills me every time😂 oh wait shit should I be offended that Harry is misrepresenting my people, how dare he 😂

[@stermindelves4251]

but that’s the state we’re in eh? Self deprecating humour now replaced by people looking to be offended.

[@marks238]

@@stermindelves4251 Spot on. As someone working class myself I found this funny not offensive :)

[@bazeye]

He is not misrepresenting "your people", he is mocking the idea of the working class that he assumes the upper/middle classes had of that period based on old films/public information films from that period. If he's misrepresenting anything in this sketch, it's the upper/middle classes.

[@jesusisapisces]

@@bazeye exactly. They are just like the people they're complaining about. The irony.

[@turboslag]

And that was highly civilised compared with what we now see in London.

[@andreharris7211]

Actually parts of the east end were no go areas and police went there in fear in the early 19th century. It is much safer now.

[@snagglepuss1st]

If you think its the working class that are the target of this sketch then you're completely missing the point

[@hatherlow]

Thanks Braniac.

[@johnedwards1685]

Helen Lederer, as always the jewel on the necklace.

[@davidmacgregor5193]

More like Jew in a neck brace, Funnily enough I've never found Jewish women attractive, Helen Lederer has a face for the radio.

[@jaseegee9293]

How she was talking I'd say she wanted a pearl necklace!🤣🤣👍

[@justvin7214]

@@jaseegee9293 A pearl necklace, ring and a whatchamacallit.

[@ImminghamIronhead]

She was in the bank heist episode of the Young Ones too

[@massdebate121]

It's 2014, and my Grandad has this attitude! He gave me a lift home once, and his friend was in the car with us. He dropped me off two streets away from my house, because he didn't want his friend to know that I lived on a council estate :)

[@massdebate121]

***** Well spotted, sweetie.

[@SvenTviking]

massdebate121 Back in the early 80’s I was going to get tickets for my mate and I to see a concert by the Police on Tooting common. Well, until his mother found out and went apoplectic at the thought of us going to Tooting! An awful place, full of crime, we’d never make it home. Home was Plumstead in South East London! Christ, but that women had the intelligence of a turnip.

[@r.martin3494]

Quite right too! It's an absolute discrace and there should be a law against it! "Living on an estate" indeed! How very dare you?!! Have you no shame?

[@donaldbrake5775]

@@r.martin3494 no shame with living on an estate, mine has it's own lake and 300 acres of shooting, you must call by sometime

[@royfearn4345]

@@donaldbrake5775 ree smog writes in..

[@keithfranklinkei4603]

One of the funniest things ever. Right up there with Mr Creosote and the B.B.C. snooker subtitles.

[@jauntyangle5667]

1:12 Drinks tea with a ciggie still in his mouth.

[@Kris.G]

Blimey!

[@Phil_A_O_Fish]

I know, @Jaunty Angle, it adds flavour to both of them and it is the traditional working class British way of indulging in both, isn't it?

[@jauntyangle5667]

@@Phil_A_O_Fish Separate breaks for tea and smokes if you don't mind! One out, all out.

[@markantony530]

I followed a link from the Labour Party website and it put me here 🤣

[@Emzdrav]

Mind if I pop outside and foul your pavement?

[@rankingtrevor]

"Blasted do-gooders, should've give us a perishing inside toilet, na!"

[@katrinamoore3520]

Glad to see everyone taking this in good spirit. Is called humour and not enough off it around these days. Totally hilarious.

[@IamSpartacus1984]

``What do i get for Tuppence``? `` MUM ``?? LMAO

[@binnieb20]

I actually got a letter from Mr Jon Glover after writing to him, some bizarre questions, but still he loved it, I'm going to write to him next year as well I think.

[@stoolpigeon4285]

"What do I get for tuppence?", 'mum!"

[@ricardoroberto100]

There now follows 264 comments quoting what we just watched......

[@timbeaton5045]

And there will now follow 265 comments quoting what we just quoted.... I'll get my coat.

[@mattdavies7398]

That's how he likes it.

[@buddhistsympathizer1136]

No . . .

[@billwellington4339]

You went to school the day they did counting then😊😊

[@nicennice]

Based on actual conversation between Jacob Rees-Mogg and Ian Duncan-Smith

[@marcokite]

more like Jeremy Corbin and any other member of the shadow cabinet

[@samtrotter7177]

@@marcokite That makes zero sense

[@HovisSteve]

@@samtrotter7177 It makes perfect sense.

[@voice.of.reason]

Typical leftish comedien

[@ironhand9096]

Sam Trotter it makes perfect sense because Corbyn is an ex private school rich kid playing cor blimey just like Lord Tony Benn.

[@garethglitter5932]

Poor people KNOW YOUR LIMITS

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

All people, know your limits.

[@Johnny-sj9sj]

Strewth guvnor! You’re a toff an no mistyke!

[@elizabethtaylor9321]

That’s what they think about us over Brexit.

[@tricky778]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6W7c3ZjbJaUkNU

[@darylchambers5945]

Utterly brilliant.

[@187nellybelly]

What do I get for tuppence? MUM! 😂

[@Sub-Kuch13.13]

Classic😂😂😂❤

[@clearlake3492]

First honest portrayal of the working class I have ever seen.

[@manchild3479]

just like now...

[@kevweeks4497]

And upper class....

[@davidthomas3826]

Ironically, the BBC now think that people outside of London are like the working class characters in this video

[@funkydanieluk]

I was thinking the same thing! Actually its worse, these days they also think the working class outside London are smelly AND racist.

[@Fyodor48]

David Thomas it’s not a case of “the bbc now think” the bbc have always thought like that!

[@christopherroberts7306]

The BBC think?

[@davidthomas3826]

@@christopherroberts7306 Sometimes

[@bazzatheblue]

Cholmondley Warner would now be a london remainer and the working class bloke would be the brexiter definitely.

[@philjamieson5572]

I think this is excellent. Thanks.

[@jonsnow7586]

The funny thing is the politeness and attitudes of the poor people portrayed in this would be considered upper/middle-class by today's standards. Nowadays we have chavs.. need I say more.

[@Englishgrammar]

+Jon Snow No, you've said about enough there to reveal yourself to be nothing more than an ill-informed snob.

[@jonsnow7586]

Englishgrammar I may be a bit of a snob (although that's only because the bars been set so low these days) but hardly ill-informed. Just take a walk through an average city near a council estate area and see for yourself.

[@tonycavanagh1929]

I spy a snob

[@boltar2003]

Nah. The middle of the 20th century was simply a politeness blip. The chavs are just reverting to type. Look at the amount of casual violence and general trouble that there was in the lower classes in the 18th and 19th century. Hogarths paintings are a visual illustration.

[@richiethepooh6878]

Chavs and townies are a new thing right? because commoners haven't existed throughout civilisation have they? It's just what the world has now come to isn't it? Get a clue...

[@cormackeenan8175]

Mr Chomondley Warner AKA Jacob Rees Mogg

[@bernardmcmahon5377]

It’s brilliant, Salford

[@josephgarvey5400]

Haha! Why, cor blimey governor! I left the cheese and kisses and the God forbids in the rat and mouse. Took a flounder and dab down the frog and toad where I had a very pleasant pint of pig’s ear and a large pimple and blotch. I left the missus and kids in the house, took a cab down the road where I had a very pleasant pint of beer and a large scotch.

[@hideouslyugly]

I'm glad you translated it. I didn't know what a flounder and dab was!

[@bradleyweiss1089]

Seems to lose something in translation. 🧐🤨

[@ronwhite8503]

Cab was always a sherbet dab when I was a saucepan in the smoke, guv'nah.

[@sicks6six]

someone told me to watch this on TV, they said it was a comedy show, haha very funny the joke was on me when I realised it was serious Socia-educational documentary show. . .

[@JONNOG88]

#Funfact The bloke on the left in this. Jon Glover. Was the voice of Badger. In ,The Animals of Farthing Wood. 90s Nostalagia-Gasm!

[@danw1374]

I aint never not 'eard o' one o' them nor i aint no nor nothing haha

[@Sawrattan]

The ancestors of Vicky Pollard

[@rankingtrevor]

"..,ere ya dirty rotter, ya caught me right jn the queensburys!" "Alls fair in a drunken brawl Sid" hahahaha

[@videowilliams]

Oh THAT'S what they said- I thought it was "hiiii" at the end so had no clue. Thanks, guvn'r!

[@fransb8543]

Two shillings to waddle up her whoopsy daisy. That's great value, actually.

[@GoodGuyChucky-666]

Now i know why Will McKenzie in the work experience episode of the inbetweeners is called cholmondley warner 😁

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

".....and two shillings, to waddle up me whoops-a-daisy!"

[@flybobbie1449]

Not far off the truth, it was said even Hitler was surprised how poor UK housing and people were considering Britain had an Empire.

[@jimjiminy5836]

Orwell used to say an Indian coolie was better off than the British working class.

[@nuntiusuk3345]

It hasn’t changed much. The British still live in the crummiest , smallest and most expensive homes of comparable nations

[@Pikestnt]

But according to the report, that’s how they like. Perishing do-gooders

[@nor0845]

In the 19th century, an Indian maharaja heard of the plight of an English village and paid for a well to supply clean water. This prompted other Indian benefactors to do likewise. The ornate well in Stoke Row in the Chilterns, is still there. Interestingly, some thought the ornate well was a bit too good/ornate for the locals.

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

German housing wasn't too great by 1945

[@markdurrant4174]

Absolute classic comedy

[@garypowell1540]

My grandmother was brought up in the East End as one of 9 children. She too had no shoes until she as 12 as her father although a skilled cabinet maker and French Polishers pissed most of his money away. However, I can assure you of this none of them were dirty or smelt and neither did their home. They all wore clean cloths every day and the inside of their slum was spotless. What is more, my grandmother along with all of her many brothers and sisters went on to have middle class lives large families and owned their own homes.

[@nettsinthewoods3029]

Waddle up me whoops a daisy. I like the sound of that. Lol

[@misst.e.a.187]

Absolutely brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ImminghamIronhead]

I'm British, and all I want to know is where I can buy a globe like that - take my money!

[@brettw90]

I was in the east end last week, and I can report it was as per this video

[@Suriel1981]

@ColonelAllan Reading your comment made me notice that map for the first time... and I watched these shows when they were originally broadcast in the early '90s! Thanks for pointing that out :-)

[@philjamieson5572]

Pure comic gold.

[@scottmarquis7624]

'slum housing's the order of the day'. 'You'd think they'd be happy in nice houses like ours'.. Hahaha. Hilarious ...

[@davidhayes4814]

Enfield and Whitehouse ..... amazing.

[@MrDaiseymay]

True--but Harry's with Jon Glover this time. I LOVE these characters, so perfectly recreated.

[@SEAL341]

"Mum...!"

[@Phelan666]

100% accurate.

[@jayaybe1]

+Yellow King Oh yes, most frightfully so ; )

[@leecullen7651]

Love it, and I'm working class.

[@Foebane72]

"Mum!" Just that one word elicits howls of laughter from the audience, once they figure out the context!

[@ichhasseamerika]

Harry Enfield is a comic genius, don't make them like him anymore. And I'm A Yank!

[@grumpyoldgit9498]

Absolutely pmsl at the street fight😂😂Mr Chulmleigh Warners tales of depravity & pavement fouling are most amusing....

[@andreharris7211]

That is why karl marx ( not one of the marx bros) wrote the communist manifesto in london and thought the first communist revolution would be in the uk. He obviously didnt understand how servile the british can be.

[@profile_01]

Timeless Middle-class humor, making fun of the rich and the poor at once.

[@roseg2239]

The point seems to have gone over your head. It's not making fun of working class people, it's making fun of rich upper class peoples ideas of what working class people are like.

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

The diseased Brit class-ridden interpretation lol. What a backwards society.

[@richardwebb5317]

@@roseg2239 Making fun of the past, when films, accents and attitudes like this were normal. Historical comedy and funny as.....

[@miamitten1123]

Massive Britain 🇬🇧 on that globe 🌍

[@ivanc-s]

When Britain was great..

[@michaelwalker1119]

The bit about turning a good house/estate in to a shit hole is spot on. .

[@museonfilm8919]

Yes, brand new association housing turned into hovels in about 3 months.

[@rajkhimani9119]

What do I get for tuppence?………mum😂😂😂

[@fanatamon]

Fuck these guys are funny.

[@tonyjedioftheforest1364]

Comedy genius.

[@bluegtturbo]

Another excellent documentary on London in the 40's...how lovely everywhere looked especially the East End...and now look at it , covered in foreigners..

[@crazyeyeskillah]

Ooh I blame dem foreigns i do, damn foreigns

[@johnmartinez7440]

Is this satire or are you just thick?

[@snagglepuss1st]

Clearly you have not a single clue what you're on about, ignorant twit

[@oddities-whatnot]

The only thing different about London these days is there are no Londoners anymore. Its now a migrant camp.

[@zetaconvex1987]

An informal but informatative presentation.

[@tommillard4193]

1:17 has to be the funniest thing I've ever seen

[@VCYT]

Q. "You've been to the East End of London, what is it like?" A. ''No one can afford to live there anymore''

[@ahuddleston6512]

The old East Enders have moved out except for a mere few. I've seen a dramatic change in the past 20years

[@cuebj]

@@ahuddleston6512 Yes. We couldn't afford a larger house in Newham so moved across to Greenwich so we could have children with grandchildren come to stay and visit. Right-to-buy gave many a windfall to sell up and move to Essex or Spain and have cash to live on. Often sold for renting out as homes of multiple occupation with nobody having a vested interest in maintaining the building or neighbourhood.

[@Puppy-lt5ur]

Pretty accurate description really

[@rickyj5547]

really reminds me of James o Brian from lbc

[@billyshearer1]

Toast of London does a brilliant East London pastiche too!

[@metalmick]

Grew up in Mile End. Oh I miss the old days. Gawd bless ya gov’nor. And we had an outside loo too!

[@chasleask8533]

Sixpence 'apenny for acts of unspeakable depravity. Oh my Lord.

[@motaltockery5191]

Haa, hello to both these fine upstanding stalwart men of honor and truth... (Bite-me Guv)... Another good clip...