Harry Enfield - Christmas Tidings

[@VickersDoorter]

"Both educative and informativiitive". Excellentitative!

[@keithdonald6583]

Harry Enfield is an absolute comic genius and should receive an OBE for his services to comedy.

[@halfdome4158]

I agree. He is astounding.😃❤

[@__sirena__]

I think a knighthood, as well as Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell 'The Detectives' ^^

[@willmoore7582]

Simply fabulous. This is an example of a truly British Christmas - filled with Christian virtue and heartwarming tidings. Whatever those are..🤔

[@ffrederickskitty214]

The petrol and matches game is the best. Hours of fun 😂

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

Not really, it was over in a flash.

[@ketmaniac]

Much to ponder here whilst chewing the Yuletide goose. I'm particularly enthusiastic about the pick-me-up for tired drivers in the form of a dashboard attachment. But it occurred to me that cars with heaters are the coming thing. So this year my wife and I have anticipated that development and presented Uncle Reginald with a hose attachment that fits neatly over the exhaust-pipe of his Armstrong-Siddely and feeds warm air into the interior via the rear window. Happy motoring Uncle Reg!

[@Muckylittleme]

Is his surname "Plate" by any chance?

[@danw1374]

🤣🤣

[@petejones879]

Haha top comment my good fellow

[@jovetj]

Oh my days! The elegant ingenuity of progress marches on! If only I had come up with this miraculous invention first!

[@FrankieParadiso4evah]

Mr Enfield is a Harry of various comedic trades and master of all!

[@susi-emily]

I worked with an old boy back in the late 90s who used to tell me about his life in the army fighting the fuzzy wuzzies. He was hilarious.

[@paulsmith-ll9vg]

are you sure that you wasn`t just watching an old episode of dads army, or if this is indeed a true story, are you sure that this mans name was not mr jones.

[@therealisation5500]

Did he tell you they didn't like it up them?

[@davejackson5741]

Corporal Jones

[@spmoran4703]

They dont like it up them.

[@mchlbk]

Don't panic!

[@TommyGlint]

“Simon Shoots the Smiling Sambos”

[@eleanorhogan8643]

Just who is Simon and why is he shooting the happy natives?

[@mal_752]

😂😂😂🤔🤔🤫🤫👨🏿‍🦱👨🏿‍🦱👨🏿‍🦱👨🏿‍🦱👨🏿‍🦱👨🏿‍🦱👨🏿‍🦱

[@petejones879]

That gets me every time

[@andyrob3259]

I still crack up at the S word. I just found it so bad it’s so hilarious.

[@petejones879]

@@andyrob3259 S word? Oh smiling yeah I get ya

[@petersmith5219]

Many many years ago, my family emigrated to Australia. I was about six. My present that year was a box and arrows set so my four or five chums and I built a open bush fire in the middle of the lounge room and whooped around it like north american Indians as per TV shows. My mum came home, to a house full of smoke, the carpet on fire and a hole in the floor; it's a wonder the whole place didn't go up. Needless to say, she lost it and broke every arrow over my back and bum from the hiding

[@Westyrulz]

The important thing is that you were enjoying yourself. Your Mum should have been looking at the bigger picture.

[@26TptCoy]

I never had a scotch bottle hanging off the rear view mirror but I did have a can holder attached to the dash that held two cans of beer. I bought it from an auto shop. Times really have changed.

[@zachjones6944]

The posh accents of the period are spot on!

[@MrColuber]

I really need that whiskey pick-me up while I'm driving. I can barely keep my eyes open whenever I get behind the wheel.

[@jim8202]

I found this video to be both educative and imformatative,a splended guide to making the most of the festive season.

[@petejones879]

Well said my good fellow

[@briandufty5081]

Me also. Ummm what month r we. O yes.

[@kasimsultonfan]

Yes.

[@baldieman64]

There is a splendid book to accompany the film that is both educative and imformatative. It is called "A guide to making the most of the festive season".

[@mikeball6182]

@@baldieman64 I am so pleaseded to have hearded that you haved beenen both educateded and informatived. That is mostall heartenating.

[@EricIrl]

I fancy that Croydon Aerodrome game. Hours of simple fun.

[@susandumbill8805]

Fathers all over the country will be on standby to take over!!

[@mikeball6182]

They're all on time and no strikes

[@Hereford1642]

I made my own out of cardboard and paint.

[@Blobby192]

same

[@leoseries]

I had one of those Croydon Aerodromes as a present one Christmas. I remember playing with it for a whole five minutes!

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

I miss the 90s comedy so much

[@lukeycc67]

practical gifts for the whole Fami LEE made me pissmeself with laughter. enfield is a fookin genius.

[@williamwellington8668]

I used the Petrol and Matches game to set fire to the Aerodrome game......pretending it was the Battle of Britain.

[@robertmoulton2656]

Yep. And for extra fun use live .22 longs in the fire for bombs

[@howardbills2532]

Absolutely splendid!

[@bewildered5444]

That babies dummy made of pure lead - simple and effective. And I need one of those clip-on optics to while away those long, tedious journeys. See you at Halfords.

[@Sozymandias]

"At this time of year one should remember the poor." "Yes, they might try and break into your house while you're out at church." LOL!

[@janesmith9024]

Yes that was the best line.......

[@andyrob3259]

That’s much of the left wing philosophy. They want more social housing as long as it isn’t built next door.

[@drwhatson]

When we were kids in the 1960s, my friend Freddie and I would make a bonfire and melt lead that we'd "appropriated" from the roofs of nearby derelict houses, pouring it into crude sand moulds. One day it was raining so we melted the lead on the indoor coal fire, dropping the container into a tin bath of water to cool(!) Needless to say pellets of hot lead exploded everywhere. Luckily, we escaped harm, but some pellets stuck to the walls and curtains leaving holes... my mother thought it was moths! LOL

[@markburke2853]

Well done Mr Cholmondely Warner....

[@drwhatson]

@@markburke2853 Fun-nny...

[@petyrkowalski9887]

We did the same with pieces of asbestos off nearby garage roofs… when heated in a fire they explode.

[@drwhatson]

@@petyrkowalski9887 When we were about 9 or 10, my mate stepped from a high wall onto a neighbour's asbestos shed roof after a ball and fell through. The door was locked and he panicked, wrenching the door open which alerted the neighbour. He let his dog out, which chased my mate down the garden while I doubled up laughing. (True)

[@susandumbill8805]

I was a tom-boy. My best friend Steven and I loved climbing inside the partly-built houses around the back! Never fell off one joist, I'm proud to say! Kids just don't know how to enjoy themselves these days by Eck!!

[@diamondjoe100]

Educitive & informatitive, loving these uploads thanks 👍

[@elevensies]

Bravo Squiffy44 for uploading so many good quality clips of Mr Chomondley-Warner! Definately Playlisted.

[@ElysianG_20thcentury]

absolutely brill! beautifully portrayed with precise accounts on an era that was once prolific! I so appreciate good wit and humour, these guys and their "thespian performance" is bang on! thank you for the good soul food of the " stiff upper lip" that proceeds from stimulating chatting!" brill, brill, bluddy brill!!

[@vooveks]

Jacob Rees Mogg’s actual childhood.

[@mantabond]

Hahaha.

[@douglasgreen437]

Exactly..

[@peterpozman6972]

Surely he would have been enjoying the Financial Times Bumper Annual for Boys

[@thedasher98]

Classic!🤣🤣🤣

[@brunoalbano616]

Hahaha

[@benzone50]

this was a wonderful christmas tiding-most enjoyable. glad the film was saved from the gasoline & matches game LOL!

[@markfarrell4733]

"The day i shot a thousand fuzzy wuzzys " by the Right Reverand Sir Aubrey Bagshot. ..Haha! ..

[@jackyblue67same10]

I love these lil short stories they do it's so funny .British has the best sense of humor better than americans I can sure say that lol.

[@rippedtorn2310]

Are you from Idaho ?

[@14rnr]

I love Australian humour too, it's a lot like ours.

[@janesmith9024]

It is very kind of you to say so. We find a lot of US programmes very good of course too. We all have a lot in common in the US and UK.

[@jackyblue67same10]

@@rippedtorn2310 Nope I'm not why u ask that ?

[@jackyblue67same10]

@@14rnr It good too but not like British comedy they the best

[@VermilionStudios]

this is comedy gold.

[@munter100]

...with this handy whiskey pick me up... Class.

[@eleanorhogan8643]

I find the humour of the dummy very clever because lots of toys were made of lead in those days.

[@TheCampsies]

Very true, for example toy soldiers by the millions, which many little boys received from relatives.

[@eleanorhogan8643]

@@TheCampsies I red about Victorian toys in school, I see them in museums and antique shops, I heard that a great many of them are worth lots of money.

[@VincentBrownnashville]

Wish I'd found this in time for Christmas.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

'Educative' and informata-tive' had me rolling.

[@djhillfinger]

My 5 year old would love the croydon aerodrome game

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

But if it snows he'll have to ground them.

[@NicolaKaye]

Does he have to wait a long time for you to finish playing with it? Lol

[@MasterControl-MCP]

I always wanted a Croydon aerodrome game, but my parents couldn’t afford it.

[@mikeball6182]

My papa bought me a real aerodrome and a Lear jet to put on it. Richy Sachs aged 6

[@Hereford1642]

@@mikeball6182 I say Richy. Have you even seen a grown man naked ?

[@airex12]

Grayson playing with the Croydon aerodrome game is deeply embedded into my soul. Hwhat a fine game.

[@Harmonical1]

For god's sake when will we ever see comedy even half as funny as this genius again!?

[@jaynecliff1568]

Not while woke culture is around that's for sure

[@springyslinky2190]

Both educative, and informatitive

[@DpHsHd]

“Made in Belgium.”

[@markjohnson9476]

Nowadays it's made in the EU lol. Falls apart before unboxed

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

@@markjohnson9476 No ... you're thinking of 'made in France'. If it specifically says, 'Made in the EU', you can open it, but the box is empty, and you find that you have agreed to pay instalments of half your income, every year, until death. (Then there are death duties, of course.)

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

​@@markjohnson9476yeah because leaving the EU has been nothing but prosperity for us.. Oh wait

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

I had the Paris Aerodrome Game but couldn't play with it. The ATC kept going on strike.

[@DMBKristen41]

That dashboard attachment sure looks like fun LOL

[@stevenprickett6773]

Aaaah!!! Timeless classic TV!!!!

[@paulsmith-ll9vg]

i look forward to seeing more episodes of this old documentary series, perhaps a guy fawkes one where we find out that it`s fun to play with fireworks, a halloween one where we find out what a nice fire you can get by burning a witch, a safety in the home one where we find out that you can have a nice warm house by covering everything in asbestos, or indeed one about the working class that informs us that they think having an inside toilet is just not clean, and a bit dirty.

[@peteabrh-fairest9463]

I particularly liked the petrol and matches game, the perfect present for the children you regret having 😅

[@ironjohnlad]

remember the poor at christmas they may burgle your house when you are at Church ! Very funny John T

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

That's a clever idea. I think I'll give out packs of matches next Halloween.

[@johnanthonycafe2993]

This way of speaking was also common in Australian newsreels and docos up to the mid 70’s. Enter Les Patterson !

[@JamesDBlanc]

that petrol&matches game looks like fun

[@roberttelford745]

I think at this time of year we should take a couple of minutes just to remind ourselves that there are poor people among us who take this content seriously

[@blackpoolbarmpot]

I must try the "Petrol & Matches" game it looks exciting. It's Specially designed for Children. I'll ask Santa for one this Chrstmas.

[@jamegoldwaigh6410]

Its not as splendid and educational as the alcohol and unattended chip pan game! That's the ticket!

[@mikeball6182]

Give it to the kids next door

[@tomboz777]

"but don't let dad get hold of it" pmpl!

[@Bluesteel750]

The worst part is I find Mrs Grayson surprisingly attractive.

[@grahambamford9073]

Most invigorating.....

[@TheMusicianTom]

Mr Grayson has the conjugal rights though

[@Dec38105]

i'd like to take Mrs Grayson to Colchester

[@Tinker1950]

​@@Dec38105 I thought meant, 'in Colchester'?

[@free..to..air..]

Theres an element of truth in this wonderful parody...when I was 9 years old..my mother used to send me to the local chandlers shop for a gallon of paraffin for the two dalek heaters we used in the house...I kid you not

[@normanmeharry58]

We'd one of those in our bathroom in the 50s. After our Saturday bath we stank of paraffin.

[@Booster85]

State of that aeroplane game LOL

[@WolfieRich1]

I'm gonna buy you the Croydon Aerodrome Game next year :)

[@Noorlatgamer]

WolfieRich still funny 8 years on. well played sir. well played...

[@ewaf88]

No buy the new 2018 Heathrow game - but you'll needed very strong and fit arms to handle the 1400 take offs and landings per day.

[@georgebailey8179]

@@ewaf88 The Heathrow 2020 edition should be a lot less work. Just remember to wipe everything down between flights.

[@ewaf88]

@@georgebailey8179 Yes indeed as there's a lot of infected yobs arriving back from Greece

[@peterbustin2683]

My dad used to say to me "Go play on the motorway". Bastard.

[@BlookbugIV]

I probably would have loved that aerodrome toy, and I mean that in all honesty.

[@toshe.6690]

i had something similar called flight deck. a plane, a pulley and a cardboard deck to land on. i had minutes of fun with that.

[@jim8202]

yes,first class entertainment for the whole familee!!!

[@russellwilliams1071]

This is why I watch 1930s films lol

[@gtlfb]

When I was about 5, I was rushed to the doctor to check out a bizarre circular rash on my forehead. Seems that's what happens when you walk around all day with one of those suction cup arrows stuck to your face.

[@billhawkins192]

Using this in 2022...

[@robtaylor505]

Harry Enfield and all the team .. quality.

[@oscargrainger2962]

My dad used to say that if the ice cream van was playing his jingle he had no ice cream left.😅

[@parksyist]

Can u imagine giving kids that aerodrome game now lol

[@SSJfraz]

It still beats fortnite

[@Hereford1642]

Apparently the brats are going mad for telephones. The mind boggles.

[@CG-gr8xk]

1:24 this is me and my dad when i got a mega drive as a kid

[@rybuckisretro1523]

Zappa awesome

[@zeldalicious]

The author of 'The Day I KIlled a Thousand Fuzzy Wuzzies' was the Reverend Aubrey Bagshott. Good luck finding it Sir! A very Merry Christmas to you.

[@cheekyegg]

lol love the edits

[@jovetj]

Just as pertinent and festive today as 700 years ago.

[@EmmaYaBasta]

As much as I'd like to cancel Christmas and the "little baby jesus," I can't be a radical atheist while I still get a jolly good laugh out of Christos at this time of year!

[@lite4919]

I wish I could get that book "the day I killed a thousand fuzzy wuzzies " I always knew I was born a few generations too late...

[@SvenTviking]

The Fuzzy Wuzzies were a generation before this sketch is set. Fought with the “Mad Mahdi” and the Whirling Dervishes.

[@arcadianCA]

In Dad's Army, set during WW2, Corporal Jones often ranted about the Fuzzy-Wuzzies. As a small child in the early 1960s I was aware of the term.

[@christhomas7905]

@@arcadianCA As well as the Mad Mahdi and the Whirling Dervishes lol

[@Catubrannos]

@@arcadianCA It continued to be used and was also used for people like the Papua New Guinians during WW2. The term was meant to be endearing.

[@squeaksvids5886]

@@arcadianCA They didn’t like it up ‘em!

[@eleanorhogan8643]

That alligator would still be alive now.

[@russellwilliams1071]

I had only one plane in mine 😭

[@michaelhayes7888]

Russell Williams :: luxury.

[@mikeball6182]

That's just what she told you...................

[@Chappers158]

Oh man "The Day I Shot a Thousand Fuzzie Wuzzies" - I love that book, it keeps me "british"...... :P

[@BZPeru]

absolute fucking genius.

[@nigelcullinan5531]

The daughter is a very young Anna maxwell Martin.

[@jim8202]

I think you will find this fine book was the work of the Reverend Aubrey Bagshot.

[@MrStoneyburke]

This is the World Rees Mogg lives in.

[@Blobby192]

nah try 200 years ago

[@andypreston1524]

Croydon Aerodrome...........😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@twoslices]

I want the Croydon aerodrome game

[@R33Racer]

Has anyone else noticed how out of scale the UK is on that globe?

[@lite4919]

That's just to signify how superior Great Britain was having a large empire and ruling the seas, All fitting in with the sketch

[@PiggyWiggyO]

Yes they towed and joined England to all their foreign lands together....British ingenuity!!!

[@alangknowles]

Should be a lot larger.

[@andrewbarrett2685]

Great days.

[@seemoore]

😂 brilliant

[@ali3401]

Where can I buy those books!!!!

[@HugoOneYT]

Perfect (I'm Belgian)

[@DMBKristen41]

Does anyone know if "Simon shoots the sambas" is available for my NOOK?

[@zeldalicious]

Your post is inspired! Chin Chin Old Bean.

[@superpeer4796]

Always picking on Belgium. :P

[@erikroggeman7620]

At least somebody found a use for us

[@davehall1406]

@@erikroggeman7620 we love you really!

[@mikeball6182]

@@erikroggeman7620 Django regeert!

[@MileBoots]

Not a joke, in the 60's we used to get a "Junior smokers Kit" It was chocolate cigarettes and a pipe wrapped in gold foil.

[@marcushinton772]

I remember that and you could buy chocolate cigarettes and edible tobacco - barking 😂

[@Hereford1642]

I have a school text book of my mothers from the 1920's. Intended to teach English I think. In the inside cover my mother has attempted to spell Hereford. Herefurrd is my favourite. One piece is 'An Ode to Tobacco' followed immediately by a piece 'In Praise of Beer'. They are quite erudite pieces with many classical allusions.

[@swingingmonk]

No, they're both said everywhere in England, both meaning high spirits.

[@gspete1340]

....er, me too Bluesteel750!! D'you think it's the glasses?

[@davidtomlinson6138]

Awesome ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chrisbates7743]

Some of this is true !!!!

[@oldtimer4863]

From someone who can't stand Christmas I thought this was wonderful.

[@batmanofni]

OH yeah, we're good at that.

[@JSJ07]

@lunchisreadyfool really? wow

[@Bruce-vq7ni]

I oorf now to order those books on Amazon.

[@mjb4983]

Where can I get one of those Croydon Aerodrome game? Couldn’t find in the shops. Maybe on eBay?

[@Hereford1642]

In the countryside we used to make do with sticks and dead butterflies but I don't suppose that would satisfy these days. Such a shame.

[@snurfen]

HAHAHAHAHAHA Thats me ad Beanie, that is!

[@fordlandau]

I find I will prefer the British wireless with pictures..wonderful British technology..certainly not Made in Belgium

[@billmcclean6986]

😂 has jrm left his childhood yet