My Top 10 // Will Hay Comedy Moments

[@densalbeach1]

From an age of brilliant comedy and real characters. Will Hay was one of the greatest.

[@Ian2844]

My Learned Friend very funny and good film and unfortunately his last.

[@tomhaskett5161]

I thought I knew all his films, but My Learned Friend was a surprise! Funny dialogue when he is contesting the charges from the dock.

[@jonbolton3376]

My Learned Friend is my favourite.out of those that don't have Albert and Harbottle in.

[@talcumpowder1000]

His best film

[@AB-kx4nc]

Absolutely 💯 my late dad got me into will hay as a kid ,poor old Graham moffat died relatively young at 45 with 3 kids, great times, Moore Marriott was my favourite growing up.

[@jonbolton3376]

I was similar, my mum got me into him when i was 6, the first of his films i saw was Where's That Fire, and i loved it.

[@rossobantam]

for me? gotta be 'from Ask a Policeman': where they visit Harbottles' father to get the last line to the rhyme....then ends with the marvellous sweet joke..."I always put 'em back'

[@milliewilkie1969]

love Will Hay ..my favourite is Oh Mr Porter

[@Robutube1]

I'm so glad that the "Windbag The Sailor" navigation sketch made it on to your list - it never fails to raise a chuckle!

[@DANGERGOUGH]

my grandad born in 1909 loved Will he got me into comedy then i never ever looked back -god bless you Cyril

[@jamesgraham679]

Fire alarm goes off and Will Hay says "oh, whats that, lunch?" simple words, simple comedy but always will be the funniest forever!!!

[@Daveonthelevel]

Thanks for these - great stuff. My favourite funny moment is when the young girl goes to the Police Station screaming "I've seen it, I've seen it!" Sgt Dudfoot (Hay) turns to Albert (Moffat) and demands," Ere, what have you been showing this girl?" Priceless.😂

[@jantyszka1036]

My favourite "Oh, Mr Porter!" moment comes in the breakfast scene where Murphy comes to collect his pigs: Porter: "Well, they're his property, give them to him." Harbottle: "Can't - not now." Porter: "Why not?" [Pause. Looks at his fork.] Suspiciously: "Where'd you get this bacon?" [Harbottle nods]

[@eliotreader8220]

you see it was explained by Harbottle I believe that the railway company had forgot about them since they had come to Buggles Kelly, so they had never got any pay from them. because of this they had to live off the Country as Albert put it. this caused trouble later on. my favourite scene is when the new Station master finds out that they have a steam engine hidden away in one of the sidings

[@BattlestarDamocles]

A brilliant comedian, and when together with Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriot, hilarious!!

[@MARKMANIATT]

“According to that, we’re three and a half miles from Birmingham “ Brilliant!!

[@AB-kx4nc]

Quality

[@travsd]

Thanks for this. I'm only just discovering him. A great crash course

[@MrsSlocombesPuddyCat]

😀🤩💕 Brilliant British humour. LOVE Will Hay films

[@annabelle_official7338]

So do I cause he’s my great great grandad

[@martinshepherd626]

I'm 50 and I grew up on Will Hay and I love it....got all his films on dvd

[@alisonwunderland9900]

The "Windbag" sequence - wonderful!

[@jamesgraham679]

Best comedy ever made. beats all rubbish today

[@dcsMagazine]

Agreed 100%

[@annabelle_official7338]

Aww ty I’ll tell him when I see my great great grandad in heaven 🥺🥺

[@markrobinson1458]

Class act,the three of them 😂

[@wutang6020]

I absolutely loved these films an absolute class act

[@russcooke5671]

My favourite is when they are putting the new pole up in the fire station it’s hilarious I’ve watched it many times but it’s still funny

[@ghostdestiny1]

“Multiplied by the sun up there “😀

[@williamnethercott4364]

I would have loved to see the scene from Where's That Fire where they turn the pole around in the street but I enjoyed these moments anyway.

[@jonbolton3376]

My favourite scene.

[@alexe5461]

that's a young tommy handley in the first sketch.

[@Wotsitorlabart]

Not many years later Jimmy Hanley, who plays the head boy in the first clip, would suffer a serious leg wound on a commando raid in Norway. He would continue with his successfull film career.

[@Steve-cs8nd]

Also in there was Charles Hawtrey as well as the Hugget lad lol. My Learned friend , the Bells of St Michaels and Oh Mr Porter are my favourites. All heavily plagiarised by British cinema; why waste a good gag?

[@mrmethane10]

@@Steve-cs8nd Do you mean "The Ghost Of St Michael's?

[@annabelle_official7338]

Omg my great great grandad 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@chrisg27]

"What about the net income?" "That's no good that's for fisherman" One of the next lines in that Old Bones of the River clip looool

[@jamesgraham679]

"what day is it? Listen its our last if we don't get this thing shifted"

[@jamesgraham679]

Ah yes, 20 miles each you see, there's three of us that makes it 60 😂

[@Steve-cs8nd]

I replayed the way he runs in Ask a Policeman and when he’s in the school soccer game that was plagiarised by an early George Cole comedy where he plays a spiv in Bells of St Trinians where the plot is near identical !

[@montyzumazoom1337]

Ya missed the best one…. Old Bones of the river. The bit where they bath the black baby they are looking after. After the bath they put talcum powder on its botty, they look and say “that don’t look right does it”. Will Hay says “no it doesn’t -got any cocoa?” (May not be politically correct but it’s all harmless). Also when the natives attack in bare feet, the gang find some tin tacks and sprinkle them on the ground… the battle is won. All schoolboy stuff but really funny.

[@russcooke5671]

I should cocoa is an East London saying it means I should think so.

[@montyzumazoom1337]

@@russcooke5671 Yup my Dad used to say that quite often.🤣

[@pjmoseley243]

I remember these old black and white films on the TV in the 1950s lol, used to love them along with Billy Bunter at Grey Friars and Mr Quelch! great fun.

[@trevordance5181]

Gore Blimey! is a typical British exclamation that can be said in amazement when something unexpected or surprising occurs. I think it comes from the phrase, "God blind me!"

[@albertgainsworth]

"May God blind me if......"

[@Steve-cs8nd]

Yeh, my old Cockney Grand Father constantly employed it God and Lord conjoined and also Gord Stone the Crows, and “whasit awl abuh nen?”

[@Armoured.Goomba]

Where's that fire with the pole should be on this list, pure gold.

[@brummiesteve3825]

Convict 99..😁

[@trevordance5181]

In many of Will Hay's films he wore a special wig to make him appear balding. In real life he had a full head of hair.

[@rm71991]

He wore toupees in real life you mug he was actually balding

[@ianhampton1208]

In his later films he ditched the bald wig

[@Steve-cs8nd]

He was also a very accomplished Astronomer. It was his Telescope in the the “Venus” episode of the Avengers with Emma Peel and John Steed, that he used to see an white astronomic anomaly.

[@andrewcorlett4795]

What about my carpet ? Oh darn the carpet Yes but who's gonna do it ? Will Hay top Top bloke, Thanks 4 making were that fire available ( Cheers The British Marx Brother's they were that sharp.

[@keithg1xfl]

He was the Ronnie Barker of the 30's & 40's

[@johnrushworth360]

the master

[@soppdrake]

Nine weeks!!!! 😂 It takes six weeks to get to Australia 😅

[@davidlee6720]

Will Hay a great scholar and astronomer in reality who discovered a white spot on Saturn I think.

[@soppdrake]

Moore Marriots dad: "You been breaking windows again?"

[@999carpet]

thx great films

[@Bodragon]

(9:30) - "Well boys, I'd like to introduce to you our new governor Colonel Willoughby-Gore" "Willoughby who?" "Gore." "Blimey." "No, just Gore..." I wonder how many people missed (or got for that matter), that particular joke. In fact, how about this: If anyone can respond to my comment by explaining the "joke", I will be most impressed. Anyone? I will give you all a week or so, then I will have to reveal... .

[@trevordance5181]

Posted an explanation above.

[@jamb027]

As Gore Blimey means God Blind Me. “No just Gore” maybe has something to do with Willoughby-Gore thinking he’s a God like figure?

[@Bodragon]

@@jamb027 You're over-analysing it.

[@an-tm3250]

No idea as I'm across the pond. Would like to "get it".

[@jamesgraham679]

1512.....i did it in my head

[@Steve-cs8nd]

Yeh! In between Blackpool and Birmingham 😂

[@eliotreader8220]

pretty sure he meant the port side of the ship

[@paulhollett7183]

Next train's gone !

[@Steve-cs8nd]

One of the most plagiarised comics in British History. Even the Historic Narrative of the great pirate Sir Ben Cutlet was plagiarised by Chinese restaurants the world over by Sir? Prawn Cutlet ?

[@Steve-cs8nd]

But! Did you realise that “Oh Mr. Porter” was based upon an Edwardian music hall song even performed by my Great Grand Father ! ( this one is actually true unlike Sir Prawn Cutlet) My family all, including T.W. Connor ( Thomas Widdicombe Connor) were from Hackney until emigrating to the antipodes in 52 - huge mistake as there is no more a corrupt bunch of supercilious frauds than those in control here now. Last at 32 Annis road just off the Victoria Park Circuit where the Cutlet was invented by Sir Rawson Prawndom. Isn’t sad all are taxed by people that hate you and abuse and extort the trust of the great British people. It’s a fact. I love the British people and they have been exploited by psychopathic spoilt brats long enough.