Hilarious Reaction to The Two Ronnies "Four Candles"

[@XoticCamel_]

Bill hocks - Bollocks 🤣🤣🤣 absolute legends The Two Ronnies 💚🇬🇧

[@ElunedLaine]

I live in a tiny village in N. Lincolnshire, UK and we have a hardware store exactly like that. Has everything - maybe not tins of peas, but he'll sell you a packet of seeds to grow your own

[@brianito7779]

1969 born and raised in Chicago, and about the time I was 12 I would look forward to Sunday night because the local PBS channel would air The Two Ronnies, Dave Allen At Large, and Doctor Who at night. Some of my favorite programs along with Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, and all the rest. They will forever be classics. Well, except the current Doctor Who series. Yikes. A billhook is a curved blade with a hook on one side.

[@Really-hx7rl]

Yep the new Doctor Who needs to be taken off air. Its an insult to the legacy. 🙄

[@RobertKincaid-vq3hn]

Really good to see an Amercian liking British humour

[@patriciamcl54]

Ronnie Barker was a talented comic writer and wrote a lot of the duo's material under a false name. This seems like one of his, as he was fascinated by words and the lunacy of the English language. He was also a very talented sctor. Towards the end of his life he was able to engage in his passion for dealing in antiques. At his funeral, when the coffin was carried into the church, it was preceded by - you've guessed it, four candles.

[@gilliandrysdale5306]

absolute classic the word at the end is b*ll*cks Ronnie Barker wrote that sketch

[@johncrwarner]

Just add his two Os

[@Really-hx7rl]

When I used to work on the building sites years ago we used to send our new boys down to the site manager and get them to ask for a.... Sky Hook or tell him to say that he needed a Tinkle. A really good one was "A long wait (weight)" and if you had a site manager that would play the game he would tell him to sit down in the office leave it 20 mins or so and then tell the lad that he could go. When they asked about the "long wait (weight)" he would say "well you've just had one!" and then the penny would drop 😁😂🤣 Tartan Paint was another good one...the amount of fun we had with those little gems! 😁

[@Llydrwydd]

Also 'A bucket of steam' is one I've heard of.

[@darren100880]

Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield did a more modern version called "My blackberry is not working"

[@edmitchell528]

This is one of the classic greats. Every older English person knows this one. As the man said billooks.

[@raycope2086]

The awful weak ending prevents it being a masterpiece though. Corbett however is genius in it.

[@RobertKincaid-vq3hn]

about what Scottish people

[@ColinGames974]

I used to watch them when they were on TV and I love the sketches they do

[@morethanaveragejoe8224]

Lol...that was brilliant word play!! I'm from the States and grew up in the 70's - 80's. I think the only Brit comedy stuff we got here at that time was Monty Python, at least the stuff I got to see. But for some reason this skit feels nostalgic to me even though I didn't grow up in Britain.

[@Rodgerslicker]

How about benny hill.

[@morethanaveragejoe8224]

@@Rodgerslicker Yes! I forgot about Benny!

[@CamcorderSteve]

Shame that you picked the wrong version where the uploader cut the video short. You could have heard the other ending which they did at the London Palladium. It's worth looking for.

[@1aleckman1]

Lowel, you'll have to listen to the ending of the skit. He explains what it meant. Have a great day!

[@TheOverlord2010]

A billhook or bill hook, also called a pruning knife or spar hook, is a versatile cutting tool used widely in agriculture and forestry for cutting woody material such as shrubs, small trees and branches. It is distinct from the sickle. It was commonly used in Europe with an important variety of traditional local patterns. reference to Bollock

[@PhilH919]

Bill Hooks - Bollocks. There is a bit more at the end of that video that explains it.

[@PatrolNation]

Oh man, I should have got that lol

[@theotherside8258]

@@PatrolNation lots of reviewers miss that bit

[@aliciamartin2024]

I LOVE your laughter! 😜

[@Rodgerslicker]

Bollocks, Bill hooks, were to hang things on you'd have to be 150years old to appreciate that bill hook's line,i knew the punch line was getting mixed with Bollocks but as a kid didn't really have a clue what bill hook's were sadly i had to google it.for years it played on ronnie barkers mind that ending so he came up with a much better ending decades later you can view this on when as older men they come back on tv & show their older clips they also show a much better alternative ending to bill hooks..😮

[@chrisrickards1087]

bill hooks can be used for hedging (tool)

[@MMc-uc3yd]

Other great Two Tonnies are Argentina Racing Pigron & The Worm That Turned 😊

[@sharonellis8776]

This is a classic sketch by them. Now do the sweet shop sketch. xx

[@hnl-8]

I loved the old hardware stores. They sold more or less everything. They always had a different natural newness smell throughout the shop. Same thing with the old department stores. Nowadays department stores newness smells chemically

[@patriciacanadiansenior8130]

Always used to watch them without fail.

[@Pickersgill48]

He actually had a different ending which he explained after the clip, that was cut off this video version, when you get a chance to find the longer version to hear his alternative ending

[@christinestromberg4057]

Ronnie (who wrote their skits) said he wasn't really happy about the ending, but he couldn't think of anything at the time, other than billhooks maybe mistaken for b*ll*ocks if you drop the H.

[@blackenreed1425]

What do you mean "how's he supposed to know?" He's English!

[@Pomdownuder]

Bill'ook's, low swinging marbles, crown jewels, family jewels😮

[@morethanaveragejoe8224]

I'm from the States and am new to British slang. Is bill'ooks similar to bollocks?

[@PhilH919]

Absolute classic comedy mate. Watched them for years. Sadly they are no longer.

[@ritahamblin1043]

Bill-hooks Think gentlemen undercarriage

[@cynthiamiller483]

This was funny, like I Love Lucy. But you were funnier!! 🎶 Cyd

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

He said ohs, not ohs!!! 😂

[@ajivins1]

That last bit used to puzzle me as I've never heard of a Billhook neither had my parents, but it's a type of machete for dealing with thick overgrowth. It's possible to mistake the name for a swear word with bad sight/handwriting! They're both gone now but I think they'll live forever.

[@herberthartwig8544]

Bollocks mate

[@TheStruggleUK.]

Bollocks! 😊

[@Mouse2222]

You need to watch the rest where they are at the desk,, Ronnie Barker explains how he was never happy with that ending as it was too obscure,, it was only later he said they changed it as a better ending came to mind at a live show,, instead of the shopkeeper being called on at the end a big buxom girl was called on, she took the list, looked at Ronnie C then at Ronnie B and said "Right sir what size knockers are you looking for"?

[@peterlewis5151]

Means bollocks....

[@puppyash9656]

Either "Pillock" or "Bollocks", i think both works

[@wrorchestra1]

In the accent Ronnie B is using, "billooks"

[@Fallopia5150]

You needed to watch the bit at the end when they're explaining.

[@BlueShadow777]

You stopped the video toooooo early! The Two Ronnies give a full explanation afterwards!

[@Llanchlo]

Including what would have been a better ending - asking for knockers.

[@dougca7086]

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[@NeilAngus-we2gh]

Its bollocks my friend, at the end

[@andystacey2687]

Bollocks sounds like bill hooks

[@WHuds01]

Everybody who says billhooks means boll@@ks are wrong billhooks mean knockers not boll@@ks

[@harryfarrar1540]

Billhooks = bollocks

[@redthorpe]

"Billhooks".... say it fast...

[@himarkburdett9378]

Bill Hooks bollocks

[@vallee3140]

should have played through to the end

[@PatrolNation]

? I did

[@vallee3140]

@@PatrolNation at the very end Big Ronnie explains about Billhooks

[@PatrolNation]

@@vallee3140 must be a different video the one i watched it just finished.

[@vallee3140]

@@PatrolNation oh I saw one of the Ronnies flash up on screen after it? shame there is an explanation for Billhooks and what they would rather have used.

[@RobertJames-fe2pd]

Porridge

[@spritbong5285]

Means Bollocks

[@TerranSol]

Bill hooks.....bollocks

[@marja-leenakhan1964]

It’s bollocks

[@Mo05sar]

billhooks Bollocks