Hale and Pace - Mr.Popular

[@russellford5597]

When you think of what we have to settle for in TV comedy these days. Norman and Gareth are criminally underrated in the history of TV comedy. This sketch is a work of genius.

[@Funkstar124]

Russell Ford Too bloody right. Actually, I can see some material in their clips on KZbin that has been "recycled" by other so called comedians recently. They were brilliant weren't they? Latest thing they did was Benidorm. There is a video of them singing Smoky's "Alice" in the post filming party in Benidorm with the cast and they changed the words to, Chalice? Chalice? Who the f***k is Chalice?" as in Joh Chalice (Boycie) who is was also co-starring. It is on KZbin somewhere too.

[@MrJ-ro1yr]

@@Funkstar124 gavin and Stacy stole alot from hail and pace sketches, Cordan the fat unfunny prick made his name off stolen content.

[@BrianFeral1]

Doesn't seem to even be ANY sketch shows at all these days and decent sitcoms are very rare.

[@geoffpoole483]

Didn't watch much of Hale and Pace when these sketches were first broadcast, but I'm pleasantly surprised to find their sketches have withstood the test of time.

[@georgejacob3162]

I didn't take much notice of them when I was a kid but stone me they're funny!

[@colpope9361]

£2.23 for a pack of 20 and a newspaper?? Those were the days!

[@tasosdiaforetico7377]

Yes

[@julesviolin]

Yeah but wages were only 50p/hr😅

[@soeffingwhat]

That's only cos it seems cheap now, back then it was "pricey"

[@hermanthetosser4219]

Keep the change! And if you can't be good, be careful

[@hermanthetosser4219]

​@@lp7399 Ur joking, 17 quid for cigs?

[@GregKemp-t2z]

'Falling down water' Brilliant.

[@Madfattdeeb]

When I was younger and worked in a market, there really were customers like this. I didn't mind though, they actually made my day better :)

[@CraigNiel]

There was a contractor used to come into my old works a bit like this guy, always said the same shite jokes! His favourite was if you greeted him with a simple, "Hi, how are you! he'd say, "I'm good thanks, any better and I couldn't stand it"... every single time without fail!

[@granitesevan6243]

These guys made Sunday evening before school way less shit back in the day

[@earlofsandwich7884]

Sundays were a day off but the day before school. Was it on at 10pm? I used to enjoy the show.

[@randyborstol2491]

especially the Swedish sauna sketch - cor blimey!

[@criticalbill2090]

We all know somebody like this...and if you don't, chances are it`s YOU

[@deanthomas5977]

There's genuinely people like this and they don't even know it

[@GoogleGoogle-fd6do]

I work in Security, one of my team mates is a fat guy called gary, exactly the same as this guy, wont shutup for one minute, talks absoloute shit and bores everyone, we all try to hide when hes in the room

[@davemustaki134]

When I was growing up people like this got laughed at and they kept quiet now it's normal to act like a wanker

[@deanthomas5977]

@@davemustaki134 are you saying they suck or no?

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

I don't. Oh fuck...

[@Shuggy1973]

The bit that he spooks the stranger by going woof-woof cracks me up.

[@m.r.3694]

I’m sure we all know a person like that..so hilarious and true at the same time

[@Skipper-j2z]

Might try that today when they are on phone instead of calling them zombie walkers.

[@mkbuddy]

That is hilarious I work in retail and really do get customers like that

[@gungagalunga9040]

He's harmless. We need more characters.

[@Madfattdeeb]

LOL! I remember having customers like this too.

[@Madfattdeeb]

@NumptyMagnet That makes two of us.

[@laurencetitusoates6328]

Well I won't be patronising your establishment again !!!!!

[@motleymenace]

Those customers always mean well though

[@ashleyporter9547]

"Oh look. 3 aces. That'll be difficult to beat"

[@pumpkinhill4570]

He's so sarcastic though I would have thought it just as likely the guy had nothing and he was trying to help him out.

[@johnnyretro1975]

i forgot how blooy funny these 2 was lol love them

[@GK1976A]

There’s at least one of these types where I work. Strangely though, some people find them amusing.

[@TimZZR2]

You get people like that, i was a window cleaner for 15yrs always used to get "you've missed a bit haha" every bloody day, every person who said it thought they were unique. Only if they knew. Idiots! 😂 If you have a window cleaner don't tell them they missed a bit.

[@johnsmith-wx5fb]

I tell im to piss off

[@johnsmith-wx5fb]

If i had a window cleaner id tell him to piss off.

[@tomservo5007]

tim lightbrown, you seemed to have missed a bit in the corner

[@vladdracul5072]

What's a window and why does it need to be cleaned?

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

Thanks Tim. Have made mental note to tell the window cleaner he's missed a bit next time he comes round.

[@craigjeffs6733]

I’m actually jealous he gets to commute to work every day and pick up a paper and some darts. Things we took for granted.

[@neildempster2827]

That cake at the end. 😂

[@IsaacWale2004]

"Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful"

[@HeyDoNotSubscribe]

A say this at the end of phone calls

[@brandonp1038]

The thing that makes it funnier is the fact he laughs after each sentence.

[@angelamartin5003]

I never forgot this sketch fantastic

[@xx8ballxx]

im a bit of a lad... that bit always gets me lol

[@alanaspinall7147]

i always felt kind of sorry for him, after all in his own twisted way he's a positive person,yet he gose about it completely the wrong way lol

[@oddforestcritter]

No, he's just a wanker

[@alanaspinall7147]

@@oddforestcritter a wanker would imply intent to be an arse, he trying to be nice, he just fucks up on an epic scale

[@vladdracul5072]

@@alanaspinall7147 Obviously even his mother has given up on him.

[@alanaspinall7147]

@@vladdracul5072 a mother that gives up is no mother at all, no matter how anoying he is, he's not a bad person, at at lest should account for something

[@vladdracul5072]

@@alanaspinall7147 I didn't say he's a bad person, he's just thinking everyone else thinks as he does, and his mother, writing wanker on the cake, has given up to teach him otherwise. He's a positive person and that's the problem: being TOO positive makes one invariably lose some or all sense of reality.

[@IsaacWale2004]

"Fair to middlings the way I'm diddling as I always say"

[@PhflyDan1]

Flanders

[@foo4572]

Actually as I’m getting older I’m starting to get like this at times and you only just realise when you stop and think 🤔.... 🧐

[@CrystalGreymon]

Maybe you should just stop?

[@IsaacWale2004]

"I really think seeing me set ol' Bob up for the day"

[@philipharrison73]

What a duo the cake classic

[@HalePaceTV]

@aaronstately I wouldn't be surprised. I'm sure Little Britain got a few ideas from Hale & Pace too(especially the police line-up sketch)

[@bluegtturbo]

I can say I used to work with a guy just like that. He'd sweep into the office every morning with a 'Good morning campers!!' and all the heads would go down..

[@furtherafield1292]

Inspiration for Colin Hunt, Fast Show

[@SuckMeDidjeridoo]

Morning Tiddly Orning!

[@derrickdomino8210]

"Up at the crack of a sparrows fart eh milky?" "And if you can't be good be careful" Gold! Modern British comedy can't come close to this..

[@IsaacWale2004]

"Morning Bob me old mucka" "Fair to middlins the way I'm diddling as I always say"

[@gailal]

Bring them back ! Where are they now ?

[@IsaacWale2004]

I love this.

[@FirebrandVOCALS]

The days when comedy was actually funny 😂

[@IsaacWale2004]

Yeah... and when people didn't call everything racist...

[@hermanthetosser4219]

@@IsaacWale2004 I hear you're a racist now father, how did ye get inta that sort a ting

[@Alkatrask]

Back when we could have Saville and Rolf Harris and them on tv.

[@fookorf]

@@IsaacWale2004 snowflake. Try not being racist you pube headed seat sniffer. Your comedy is wank.

[@fookorf]

there's plenty of good stuff if you look for it. Pleb.

[@robchissy]

2.23 for a pack of smokes, and the paper, i remember i that cheap and even cheaper

[@stephendines1936]

That would be over a tenner in January 2020.

[@stephendines1936]

That would be over £11 now in January 2020

[@fasthracing]

I remember 10 Players No.6 being 14p. I ain't that old either

[@OdinzEinherjar]

@@fasthracing F off, 10 Regal were 80p when i was 12, im 41, you must be about 60?

[@drawincode1800]

Wanker section

[@rub1tan679]

You Forget how funny 😂 these guys are😂😂

[@James-jl4jt]

“Oh look 3 aces. That’ll be difficult to beat” hahahaha

[@stevesalt9005]

Hale and Pace the masters of using profanity. Minimal and perfectly executed.

[@johnsmith-wx5fb]

Fkn great

[@TallSilentGuy]

Like an early Colin Hunt prototype.

[@johnking-wm1oz]

You know him too ha

[@malcolmabram2957]

I like him, reminds me of myself. I also put on 'cow-pat' after shave. Great for queues, or crowded shops. Helps getting noticed in pubs too.

[@DunnGolfing]

Stay alert how did he forget that 😂😂😂😮 brilliant

[@BionicRasta]

Thesedays this type of person would be classed as aspergers, being socially awkward, of a nervous unnatural disposition & lacks general awareness of how he relates to others. In classic observational comedy its the local loon that sits next to you on the bus.

[@scannaunderscore1]

I forgot about these guys, subscribed.

[@darryllharden9141]

Like that bit where the cake says Happy Birthday Wanker and the audience reactions that roar with laughter.

[@IsaacWale2004]

The audiences laughs are so funny

[@WisdomQuotesLife-sw3xk]

I really have met a few people exactly like this : ))

[@simposayerman]

Happy Birthday W**ker 😂😂😂👍🏻epic sketch

[@georgeowain]

1:55 that today can land you in a lot of trouble with the law.

[@specialized29er86]

He'd be a fun catch for some lucky lady.

[@thomasdonau8]

'Be good, and if you can't be good be careful'. Catchphrase of a work colleague bore. Hope he reads this and know I'm referring to him.

[@andrewjames9996]

I think most co-workers are a bore to be honest.

[@drunkenmaster6434]

You do get people like that LMAO hilarious

[@rachel.mcgowan]

Colin Hunt with a side of Only Me. But this was before either.

[@leechilds3725]

Fantastic 😂😅.

[@barrygibbens1900]

Oh look 3 aces that'll be difficult to beat

[@franzherflek4116]

It's sad when you think there's actually poor sods out there like that ,we all know one..... Maybe it's me !

[@Jafmanz]

notice the drinks fridge in the shop? thats right metal, glass and cardboard. no plastic bottles. the good old days!

[@Jafmanz]

@a w Some shops are starting to bring in glass bottle returns. you just drop the glass bottle off at the machine and you get a token for the return value. a step in the right direction.

[@thestevenjaywaymusic7775]

The guy who played the milkman at the beginning, was a friend of mine. Nice guy.

[@BBoaBrim]

OMG! I think this is me!

[@etherealdreams7936]

And for any newcomers wanting to understand English culture start here and take notes !! :-)

[@KillingSpree193]

The Real life Flanders lol.

[@IsaacWale2004]

Yeah, but people like Flanders...

[@aaropajari7058]

If you dont know a guy like this YOU are this guy.

[@IsaacWale2004]

"Morning Bob me old mucka!"

[@CrashOrganism]

LMAO @ "Morning Bob me old mucka!" Translate to English Even google does not understand English Thats just made me laugh hard...

[@dnakatomiuk]

Every Sunday night guaranteed this was on the family TV, back when ITV has a spine

[@Grizzle38]

Used to work with a bloke like that, in the pub me and mate would have great fun fobbing him off on each other, then stand behind trying to make the other on laugh, mickey takers i know, but hilarious all the same.

[@IsaacWale2004]

"See ya" "Not if I see you first"

[@IsaacWale2004]

That sounds like a threat...

[@simonbellmusic]

£2.23 for 20 JPS and a newspaper. Those were the days.

[@rayblack2004]

@oddity3927 and a white guy running a newsagents

[@freesaxon6835]

Yeah amazing, now being squeezed out of every job in the country ....

[@BatteryExhausted]

Free Saxon THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!! You can go and pick fruit, dummy.

[@mr.x9566]

@@BatteryExhausted Gave you a thumbs up, hahaha. There are jobs here (in the U.K) that people wish not to do and some of those same people moan that foreigners/aliens/immigrants are taking 'their' jobs. Ive never heard anybody who is highly skilled within their field say "they're stealing our jobs". People don't realise that net migration and immigration generally balances out and has done for however many years.

[@freesaxon6835]

@@BatteryExhausted that comment fell flat with me

[@freesaxon6835]

@@mr.x9566 ye gods even the Uber liberal BBC, and Biden have slagged off ' buy in' job immigration, it lowers wages, and robs the country they have left of a work force, as any Romanian farmer

[@vikingfortiesfaeroes]

0:18 Clement Freud wasn't taking any chances

[@mikaelabowen5781]

Oh gawd, I've had to work with people exactly like him!

[@Kelly14UK]

03:18

[@Synbious]

I'm a bit of a lad. LMAO

[@spectron3]

There's people or someone I once knew who was just like him.

[@john207100]

Great, made me laugh!

[@AcidoTyke]

Err no thats NOT the actor who played Tony Angelino in Only fools ;)

[@jd5726]

I can tell this guy is pretty popular

[@justinboon3811]

These clips were so funny hilarious comedy gold what’s that on your tie I’m a bit of a lad happy birthday w n er

[@GEricG]

Was his neighbour 'Bullet' Baxter from Grange Hill?

[@tombstoneharrystudios584]

Looks like it!

[@Dannycwhite]

I literally worked with someone who is the spitting image of this guy

[@MrGlobbits]

£2.23 for 20 JPS and a paper? Farkin' 'ell...papers alone are approaching that much nowadays!

[@charliebrown1751]

Brilliant

[@IsaacWale2004]

Is there any way to get these without the laugh track...? Or at least make it quieter...?

[@propanbutan4634]

Oscar winning performance ... this is acting

[@milolee4746]

1.37...Gordon kaye from 'allo allo fame?

[@Gary-pe4ce]

"Falling down water"

[@IsaacWale2004]

Yes.

[@LScouser8]

Used to have that Head bag at 1:48

[@rotty66]

The little girl on the bus, is she the same one that went on to be in Benidorm later on? looks a lot like her

[@stratpluslover8391]

it's my birthday party the big 40 they will be here in a minute lol

[@liamdallimore807]

Sounds like Richard Ayoade in The IT Crowd 😂

[@mark4lev]

Autistic that’s why

[@IsaacWale2004]

Nowdays a newspaper is more than £2.23...

[@crazyfroggie6546]

i could totally see paul whitehouse and the fast show gang doing this as a sketch.

[@ferolcat2009]

£2.23 for twenty cigs and a paper, wow, this is old..

[@pauljordan4452]

About 1993.

[@qwadratix]

Last time I bought 20 Embassy would have been about half-a crown a pack. (Haven't smoked for a while)

[@Ian_Beale_Eastenders]

When I started smoking (stopped Jan 06) in 1999 it was around £3.40 - £3.90 for 20 and about £5.20 - £5.70 in 2006 iirc

[@planetrockford]

1991 based on the newspaper headlines, first Iraq war kicked off early 1991

[@MasterControl-MCP]

I refuse to believe that’s a real Nose on the Milkman.

[@shadowbanned5164]

Love the ending *HAPPY BIRTHDAY WANKER* roflmao

[@johnnyrotten5507]

I am so embarrassed - i laughed so hard that I regurgitated my dinner

[@aaronstately]

Did the fast show get the idea for Collin from this sketch?

[@tiberius5245]

Hum.....🤔

[@tiberius5245]

Also you made this comment seven years ago so this must hevs blast from the past.✌

[@TheSurviver72]

Ah, the good ol' days. 😁

[@anyamcclure3207]

this reminds me of my old neighbour

[@hollygoodson6025]

There is always that one service user…..ignorance must be bliss!

[@alexelsewhere404]

Laughing my arse off in 2020 😂😂😂

[@SiLatics56]

This guy reminds me of Colin Hunt from The Fast Show.

[@tomosburton1756]

Aww that's quite sad lol

[@jebbadiah]

Real life Ned Flanders.

[@dirge8982]

2.23 for a pack of cigarettes and a newspaper. Back when you didn't have to roll your own lol

[@moussetache1815]

02:18 straight up legendary spoiler

[@marclaw4511]

Proper telly back then.We laughed and didn't harp on about what was PC or not.