The Armstrong and Miller Show | Olden Days Musician Sings "Gonna Take You To A Gay Bar"

A bold pianist tries to jazz things up for his persistently traditional audience, by playing a couple of songs they are unlikely to have heard before.
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[@pauljackson1029]

I've lost track how many times I have watched this and it is still hilarious

[@neofox.]

"YOU SIR" ...lmao

[@nerdymermaid2784]

*I wAnNa TaKe U tO a GaY bAr!!*

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

Nerdy Mermaid **SERVING TRAY TO THE HEAD**

[@baltymora2]

😂

[@gallit81]

Its like a cherry on top

[@pollyfoofoo8703]

Kills me every time lol

[@victoriaevans3481]

Brilliant! Can we just stop and admire how well a pianist Alexander Armstrong is?!! He's bloody good.

[@jacobleetaylor]

Classically trained

[@lordeden2732]

How well?

[@Dunk1970]

@@lordeden2732 To be fair, he didn't seem to be unwell. Well, not until the lady struck him with a silver tray.

[@tomwelsh989]

Classically 😉​@@lordeden2732

[@klaxoncow]

@@jacobleetaylor Classically trained. At the gay bar. Also learnt how to play the piano as well.

[@jameretief8327]

The way the party is just talking casually about horrible unusual deaths is a skit in itself.

[@mattjackson9859]

I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet... but your great-great-great-grandkids are gonna love it...

[@wasshisface]

Fine reference

[@mattbland2380]

They definitely should have done more of these. I'd like to see them eventually getting into it. Having Armstrong and Miller back for a new series would be great.

[@jamestinsley3110]

The juxtaposition of the guests talking about horrible things that have happened to people nonchalantly getting horrified by the music and lyrics is hilarious!

[@smok4101]

His reactions to the audience are spot on. I could watch this over and over. Such perfect timing.

[@zhongwenren]

Just for reference here are the songs and the parts featured in the skit. 1st song Mouse T - Horny (around 50 seconds in), 2nd song is Ride on Time - Black Box (around 1minute 50 seconds in), 3rd song is Gay Bar - Electric Six (the whole song)

[@Grizzly01]

That would be 'Mousse' rather than 'Mouse'. The whole name of the act for that song is specifically 'Mousse T. feat. Hot 'n' Juicy'.

[@ALAH13]

"All that was left was his top hat and silk scarf the rest was just dust." That line makes me piss myself laughing every time.

[@samuelholmes3696]

Kind of makes you want to hear the rest of THAT story, doesn't it?

[@satireisnotdead5804]

@@samuelholmes3696 All of the anecdotes sound pretty wild to be fair

[@ID-8491]

@@satireisnotdead5804 Drinking the 12 shots of absinthe and trying to swim the channel.

[@samuelholmes3696]

@@satireisnotdead5804 definitely! I want to hear more about the guy who was hypnotised into believing he was a steam locomotive!

[@satireisnotdead5804]

@@samuelholmes3696 I want to know how he entirety of a man's being is reduced to dust, but his top-hat and scarf remained un-spoiled

[@marklamley3826]

There aren't many comedy sketches that reduce me to hysterical laughter but this is 1. Even though you know where its going it somehow becomes even more funny

[@LOVEDAVEGAHAN]

I wish Armstrong & Miller would do more together......it's way overdue!

[@rockawaydatasystems4294]

Even after hundreds of views, this is still my go-to video for whenever anything makes me angry or sad - and it still never fails 😆

[@jonnydarkfang2816]

Started watching this everytime it appears in my feed. Which of course makes it appear more often. Still love it though, I'm gonna have to rewatch the whole show again!

[@Jalkoth]

Same here

[@johnhewlett4872]

Me too! I wish they had done more of these sketches :)

[@thefifthhorseman555]

Seen this hundreds of times still makes me laugh

[@mxgirl918]

I always loved the Armstrong & Miller skits in which they juxtaposed the 21st century with some other era. Like this Victorian pianist playing modern songs that completely go against Victorian era sensibilities, cavemen doing job interviews, posh RAF pilots talking like modern teenage girls, etc

[@robertybob]

Isn’t it though

[@frankshailes3205]

@@robertybob Blud.

[@thehumancrayon3264]

Many have claimed to have been born too late. Some are obviously born too early.

[@Electricshrock]

Even in that context, the chords from Ride On Time sound great.

[@ledichang9708]

It's so weird to see Jim and Martha from Horrible Histories in the background.

[@weirdTedE91]

And the woman that hits him with the tray at the end is April from IT Crowd in the episode where Jen breaks the "internet."

[@TheHutchy01]

He should just grow that moustache, it really works

[@machina4279]

@@weirdTedE91 Lucy Montgomery. An absolute queen.

[@jeffreystewart9809]

This is how my musical mind works. All it takes its a single note. 🤣

[@oldbarnsleyincolour]

Isn't it though...Isn't it

[@Juan-wo7zu]

“All that was left was his top hat and his silk scarf, the rest was just dust”

[@historygrad7493]

I keep watching this and laugh just as hard as the first time I saw it. 😂 It always cheers me up.

[@Soloman_Gumball]

I could watch 10 hours of this with inappropriate modern songs.

[@AmirBrooks]

One gets knocked down, but one gets up again...

[@alisonbryant5799]

Queen's "Fat-Bottomed Girls" would be perfect.

[@JBOsurf]

@@alisonbryant5799 Nine Inch Nails - Closer..

[@alisonbryant5799]

@@JBOsurf I don't think the audience would make it to the chorus. Mass fainting would ensue by line three of the first verse.

[@Dark_Autumn]

I'd like to see: "Sex On The Beach" - T Spoon; "Smack My Bitch Up" - Prodigy; "I Touch Myself" - Divinyls; "Sex Bomb" - Tom Jones.

[@jamesfish18]

We need more of this, it quite often has me in tears

[@kingdarkem]

The fact that they are probably snorting powdered mummy remains during this and get mortified by the music is comedy gold...

[@thomascassidy8347]

Simply Divine, their expressions!!

[@fins59]

I'm laughing so hard it actually hurts, but I'm going to watch it again anyway.

[@erikarneberg11]

Does anyone else wish he could have made it through at least one more chorus or verse of “Gay Bar” before he was so unceremoniously bashed in the head? As my ex-wife used to say; “I just wish it would last longer…” ; )

[@lufsolitaire5351]

Yea, Armstrongs musically talented on top of being hilarious.

[@rio_reds]

0:06 is the woman in the centre Martha Howe-Douglas?? I swear Jim Howick appears straight after as well. Edit: Just watched the rest and yes, yes it is. Absolutely wild to see some of the Horrible Histories cast 1. In other sketches and 2. Separated from the rest of them.

[@WolfTheMartin]

absolute joy... such a great show before its time

[@MrDaiseymay]

NO it wasn't--it would NEVER be allowd NOW !

[@browngaymethodistjesuschri1361]

@@MrDaiseymaywhy not did someone say the N word?

[@davidsmith5523]

Yeah but it was though.

[@elliotchinneryhinks8554]

This scene is so hilarious 😂

[@bsfbestshortfilmsonyoutube]

Brilliantly done

[@dr.yangvan6930]

You sir!

[@mikaelabowen5781]

This is just epic!

[@Halfdanr_H]

Stuff like this needs to be on tv instead of the over-saturated schedule of crap reality tv shows.

[@LukeFaulkner]

I should definitely give this a go...

[@richardsmith6995]

I've loved English humor since I was a kid, can't beat it...

[@MrDaiseymay]

class eh? bang on old boy

[@richardsmith6995]

@@MrDaiseymay I'll have to break out my 'English to English ' translation book.......

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

It's humour*

[@galexeqe]

I envy anyone who can casually play a musical instrument like that

[@TheVickersDoorter]

He was hypnotised into believing he was a steam locomotive. A very rum affair...

[@flankspeed]

A man of God and with such enthusiasm. Well of course they ate him... ^_^

[@tmp3477]

Caught it in a Turkish bordello, of course he is quite insane now. 🤣🤣🤣

[@gergelycsuros2051]

Yes, he drank twelve shots of absinthe, and tried to swim the channel.

[@PeterW-ski]

My favorite of all A&M 🤣🤣🤣

[@addressedtokill]

Hahaha- great stuff. My mates and I used to slowly sing in Gregorian chant 'I'm so holy- holy, holy holy'.

[@GEOindustries0]

That Electric Six album is so good.

[@paulrhodesquinn]

That really got me! 😂😂

[@zyazyaya3797]

가끔씩 보러오는데 진짜 급발진 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 개웃끼넼ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@1292liam]

crazy paving, i don't know how else to say it!!

[@SamuelThomasFraser]

*three verses in* "I say, I've forgotten to put the bins out."

[@mike-fj4vd]

Yes he drank 12 shots of Absinthe and then tryed to swim the channel...

[@johntoland6696]

Armstrong is now(2022) one of the Classic FM presenters.

[@MsGnor]

@johntoland6696 And isn't it ironic, don't you think? 🤣🎻🎶

[@JavertRA]

These should have been done full length... on Armstrong's next CD perhaps?

[@butthz8850]

I'd pay several doubloons for such a thing!

[@pawebrodzinski6094]

ahhh...! in you! 🤣🤣🤣 dyin

[@footbru]

" a man of god with SUCH enthusiasm .... of course they ended up eating him"

[@Kris.G]

I could easily simp for Jessica Ransom.

[@BabelColour]

Gave me a belly laugh!

[@michaelofarrell9637]

Excellent.,pity. They dont reform..this is. Class

[@marklees2603]

i'd love to take modern music back in time

[@SakariWolf13]

It's probably not quite what you mean, but you might want to check out PostModern Jukebox. They do covers of songs in retro styles.

[@flankspeed]

Armstrong and Miller: Kings of Anarchronism 😄

[@muninraven3327]

I'm addicted to watching our American friends reacting to our quirky comedy. Why isn't this right up there? The WWII pilot sketches? Almost nothing. I fear it is our duty to hammer suggestions in the comments. It's that, or we are stuck with the likes of Michael McIntire reactions. Not good. No, Sir/M'aam. Not good at all!

[@chasidahl8563]

A much missed addition to our tv viewing!

[@MrDaiseymay]

what a sick world around us, great comedy no longer permitted, in the name of whimps, who should be sectioned. Poor guys having to head up piss-poor quiz shite. etc

[@butthz8850]

@@MrDaiseymay it must be like a glass grave to them.

[@AvitalShtap]

LMFAOOOO that's so accurate cuz he's singing so aggressively and so fast, they probably think he's having a panic attack at 0:55 HAHAH

[@TheWinjin]

Fun fact: that kind of music did exist for centuries, I mean, fast and aggressive, it's just not something that you would play in a salon during conversations. And I also think that "gay" have got its modern connotation in like 1950s, so in the period portrayed it would mean "I want to take you to a *frivolous* bar" which still means that it's not uptight and "I have something to put in you" would be understood completely perfectly in context ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Link on this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay#Shift_to_specifically_homosexual

[@juchetony1910]

"he had twelve shots of absinthe and tried to swim the Channel".

[@signalmanmusic4225]

‘Bought it in a Turkish bordello. Of course he’s quite insane now…’

[@PurushaDesa]

The raspy voice Lucy Montgomery is using here cracks me up.

[@h1nicolas]

He is receiving a broadcast from the future

[@80sman21]

GAI BAH GAI BAH GAI BAH!!!

[@Norkindar]

"All that was left was his top hat and a silk scarf, the rest was just dust." I'd be pissed off if that conversation was interrupted by an upstart pianist too.

[@dereksawle]

Hilarious! 😂

[@vivekvicky2595]

From 1:30 that was a great tune

[@EekEek77]

Eleven people thought she was, "from Iran"

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Now it's 14 people who think it's the IT Crowd.

[@ryankim9203]

Dat gaybar never gets old.

[@ARBC2024]

I’ve just noticed a lot of those people were the Horrible Histories /Ghosts guys.

[@OLDMANTEA]

Tough to find quality entertainment back then lol..

[@simonmadsen4802]

RIIIIGHT ON TIME XD

[@mistergekiga2455]

Man. Real talk, his cover of Ride On Time... Thats... Thats really good. Lol

[@onesyphorus]

knowing he played an entire chorus of greensleeves just to land on D minor for gaybar lol its just absolutely hilarious 😂

[@wellofbeersheba]

I only discovered recently that this is a real song by Electric Six.

[@iwasglad122]

Really? OMG I thought it was just a funny and original part of the sketch. I must investigate further! Thanks for the info!

[@butthz8850]

@@iwasglad122 the video features Gaybraham Lincoln.

[@americasnudeerection604]

A great song, though neither their best nor their whackiest.

[@uptoncriddington6939]

Excuse me, but I already felt rather faint when I noticed all those dangerous electrical lamp thingies.

[@Calligraphybooster]

Ah. Time to play some Stranglers!

[@ketmaniac]

400 years ago they had "Fine Knacks for Ladies".

[@topologyrob]

Indeed. There was no lack of ribaldry in songs of the last few centuries, though they tended not to appear in such polite society I suppose (with some exceptions, eg. Mozart's canon on "lick me in the arse").

[@MrDavey2010]

So funny!

[@vibraphonics]

Always hilarious when the uploader ruins the punchline in the title. Oh wait...

[@Soloman_Gumball]

Helps people find it if they're searching for it.

[@dodgyb2001]

APRILLLLLLLL!

[@night_angel_FB]

Hahaha brill

[@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740]

Gay bar sounds Kina like "Come as You are" by Nirvana.

[@butthz8850]

Other way 'round.

[@BlowmeRoger]

A euphemism for how society still works

[@Isack_g2]

I wish I could play gay bar on the piano

[@felipemonsalve5231]

Damm it sound fucking good. I wisht it too

[@TheVickersDoorter]

Or better still, play Gay Bar on the piano, in a gay bar.

[@Isack_g2]

@@TheVickersDoorter lol

[@JavertRA]

Prize to anyone who has the sheet music

[@albion.hlafweard]

Right on time... right on time

[@Kris.G]

it's 'ride on time'

[@ketmaniac]

It's "Rydon Thyme"

[@robs5688]

What's the name of the first song?

[@JavertRA]

Is it just me who wants the sheet music? Also, two Horrible Histories vetes. to be spotted in this scene.

[@Turniplord]

Is Armstrong and Miller back on or is this an old episode?

[@cynicalpenguin]

old

[@ShinKamaitachi]

I didn't know that they knew about electric six.

[@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

he didn't protest for teh "gay bar" as he did to the previous songs XD

[@keuroe]

1:27 웨이러 미닛 저 멜로디 왠지 익숙한데...

[@user-ci2lc6pc3u]

he looks like John Stuart Mill😂

[@RobinHartJones]

I think the young woman was Morwenna from Doc Martin.

[@lucianadurangomensoro]

0:32 Milei sos ese?

[@Makeitso2023]

Who’s the actress next to Ben miller? Sure I’ve seen her in other things but can’t think of her name

[@chriswaring5565]

WONDER IF A.A ENJOYED DOING THAT PROGRAM OR DID HE THINK IT WAS POINTLESS? THANK VERY MUCH INDEED😂

[@alisonbryant5799]

17 people are afraid they'll be spotted in a gay bar.

[@Oj12323]

😂😂😂😂💀 omfg

[@SashDustown]

frriggin genius XD XD XD