Not the Nine O' Clock News Series 2, Episode 1

[@tregotha]

40 years on Rowan Atkinsons sketch as candidate for the US presidency make him look like a serious contender now.

[@frflinstone]

Yep tragic isnt it ??

[@starsoffyre]

40 years on, the comedy is still so relevant to us

[@vondas1480]

I know right. I’m always dropping my rampant bull jelly.

[@Maid-en-Head]

they are getting better and better each year!

[@FatNorthernBigot]

Dad used to let me stay up and watch this when I was ten. I don't believe I've laughed so much before or since.

[@mikehudson8884]

Yes kids liked it too. I was 14 when this show first aired. My friends and I loved it. Absolutely brilliant, is what we needed.

[@goodfes]

11 for me, didn't realise it was so many years ago, wow I've laughed hard tonight. I remember everyone at school the next day singing 'I like truckin' !

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@goodfes ...and I like to truck!!!!

[@Pitmirk_]

Same. I was ten. Happy, inspiring times.

[@kjamison5951]

Proper. Comedy. No holds barred and no punches pulled. GOLD!

[@clavichord]

"I like trucking" was filmed on an old UK three lane single carriage way, with the mid lane used for overtaking by BOTH sides. They've all been converted now... they were too lethal, too many oncoming cars crashed in the mid lane.

[@andyfredericks6205]

'The Suicide lane'!

[@brianbrains5322]

Personally I still love “Ball or Aerosol” if anyone remembers!

[@blatherskite3009]

"I'd like to buy a deodorant." "Certainly, sir. Ball or aerosol?" "Neither; I want it for my armpits." :) Swedish chemist shop, iirc. Works better with the mock-Swedish accents! Arresol :)

[@jesswright8279]

Yeah while I wholeheartedly commend HIGNFY -about the best there is now, it doesn’t come close to this which is in a field of it’s own

[@juliebone4929]

Yes I do. Very funny.

[@bonitahirst7760]

That's my absolute favourite 😂😂

[@markmiller6402]

Remember it well👍

[@JokerUK1963]

was building a 70's music play-list and found I like trucking - then had to go searching on you tube for not the nine oclock news episodes - enjoyed it so much, really takes me back

[@donlaight5943]

A class act in its day, still keeps me highly amused and laughing til my ribs ache. This would successfully replace a lot of the crap on the Beeb today!!

[@jimothybikael]

Careful. You might offend some Big Bang Theory enthusiasts

[@adrianlang6550]

How good was that? A top top show. So topical at the time, and incredibly relevant still. Nothing was sacred, and Pamela's impersonations are superb. 40 years later and it still made me laugh out loud. Pure class.

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

I was born in 1980 so was JUST a smidge too late to be able to watch this show but thanks to uploaders like this I can finally enjoy it as the Beeb never really repeated it as I think they thought it was too topical

[@dannydetonator]

Have you heard of Dave chanell? It appeared while i was living in UK and had all the classics repeated in the late '00s. I'm asking because i never saw Nt9oCN there.. Found it only like 7 years ago after returning to my small country. How on earth a gem like this got so obfuscated only obscure YT chanells have it?

[@josefkonderla8947]

“The typewriter ribbons in the ice box.” I love that the technology has changed but the jokes still work so well.

[@Davidbirdman101]

God I love English comedy. I grew up in the southern United States and there just wasn't anything funny on the television back then so my brother and I would watch shows like this and monty python and of course Benny hill. Terrific!

[@philhawley1219]

I remember this like it was yesterday. Priceless!

[@GlasgowGallus]

Thanks for the upload MCL, you're a legend. Gryff's Cyril Fletcher is absolutely top... 🤣

[@stephendines1936]

The That's Life parody is brilliant.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

This has got nothing to do with us.

[@stevedunningduckinggiraffe6296]

A camp old twat…!

[@aw-h3875]

One of their best. Pamela's Rantzen impression is spot on, with the huge crappy dress too lol!

[@bendingspring]

22.59! Classic Mr rubber-faced Atkinson! Just brilliant! Nearly 40 yrs ago but Pamela S exuding more class than any fame-hungry tart we’ve see on the box in the last 20 years!

[@contessa.adella]

At 20:30 when Gryff pulls out that ringing phone.....I collapsed😂

[@tvsv9095]

I like trucking, brilliant 😂😂😂

[@gerrysmith1782]

What a fantastic funny show brilliant

[@AzraelPercussionNEO]

"Stolen more than enough bread rolls to get train rolled" 😆

[@thefog7067]

2:14 " A british rail catering manager has been dismissed after he was caught loading a train with the more than regulation amount of sausage rolls" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@henrietta1066]

Rowan Atkinson as potential President reminds me of a previous President.

[@weltonvillegal6258]

My husband brought one of the cassettes of this show when he moved here to America. Favorite skit was two members singing as Simon and Garfunkel. I miss my cassette tape player......

[@CanadairCL44]

Thank you for uploading this, it is one of my favourite episodes. Some of the best comedy comes from that era. What have we got now that comes close to matching this?

[@zapkvr]

Wet hot American summer. Hilarious. The good place. Pure genius. Disenchantment. Wonderful. Have you been ASLEEP for forty years?

[@lmm2103]

There's been lots, to be fair. Although this was one of the starting points.

[@guidomotshagen7541]

Atkinson is a very convincing punk 😂

[@AndrewNewZealand]

Now he's a has-bean.......

[@SkyeMpuremagic]

@@AndrewNewZealand Don't quite know what you mean by that statement. Atkinson is a master of comedy and masters don't become "has beens". I actually just came across Rowan 6 months ago. Never knew of his existence before that and I adore him now as though his career had just started. People will come across him decades from now and he'll still be brilliant. Even long after he's gone from the earth his skits will remain.

[@SkyeMpuremagic]

@@AndrewNewZealand unless it was just a jest... I know you put "bean" instead of "been"

[@1ACL]

This brings me back to the 70's like nothing else.

[@anonUK]

Or even the early 80s.

[@thomastom888]

Brilliant show

[@kevinbernard9791]

The days of comedy when you could take the piss out of everything and everyone without anyone complaining but just LAUGHING HISTORICALLY 😃

[@victoriousrufus6747]

Thanks to PC commies, woke loonies n fruitcakes running the BBC it has all but ended the golden era of British humour on TV !

[@brianpetersen1179]

Wish we had this on tv back in the day

[@charlieskelton4600]

9:13 in , Rowan Atkinson US Presidential candidate, wierdly prophetic!

[@1ACL]

THE HAIR!

[@MrDaiseymay]

YEAH---REGAN GOT IN

[@paulbantick8266]

@@MrDaiseymay And it steadily got worse until Obama left office in 2016

[@hommi4273]

Andi Kaufmann

[@zubairhaleem5907]

I think this is a great.. or British prerequisite for American SNL.. Very ahead of their time.

[@Fyodor48]

Zubair Haleem the difference being whilst this will always be funny 😁 SNL stopped being funny a long time ago.

[@helenlauer9545]

Is anyone jumping up and down with glee at 11:00 for the candidate of the US prez --- how prescient, eh? This was WAY back. Yet it couldn't be more current, right down to the hair problems.

[@MrDaiseymay]

YOU HAVE SHIT FOR BRAINS, BUT DON'T KNOW IT. CHECK IT OUT.

[@helenlauer9545]

@@MrDaiseymay Thanks, Phil! Your comment reveals the nature and quality of the incumbent's support base! Q.E.D.!

[@22Phantasm]

A lot of these skits are on their 2nd LP.... Hedgehog Sandwich. Nostalgia.

[@therickpound]

Ha yeah still have em all, comedy on a record, who would know that now lol

[@AndrewNewZealand]

I have the cassette

[@gbrewster72]

I love the series.

[@richardjharris255]

" Camp old Twat" 😂

[@carribob1992]

Lesson learnt: If life starts to go to pot, complain to The Electricity Board. Although they must be getting inundated with calls at the moment so its best not to bother.

[@stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@noriemeha]

The That's Life rip actually foretold the kind of social age that would soon come where happenstance has to be somebody's fault... somebody preferably with money...that you can sue.

[@guidomotshagen7541]

Can't stop 😂😂😂 Subscribed. (Anyone called @Mad Cat Lady deserves a subscription.)

[@marguskiis7711]

Gorbachev mentioned here surprisingly accurately, nobody knew he would kill Soviet Union within 10 years.

[@colinluckens9591]

And let's face it - it needed to be killed

[@andrewmorrice9139]

Sylvester jumper and a 'THINK PINK' motto - Rown a Friz Freleng fan confirmed.

[@dph3ams1]

Well President Richard Head would definitely beat the current contenders.

[@iainritchie3]

In this time off stay at home the BBC should be showing this type off shows to get us laughing in stead off crap that claim to be comedies they show !

[@MrDaiseymay]

IT TAKES BALLS, TO SHOW THIS STUFF NOW---AND BE PROUD OF IT.

[@deniseking2541]

iain titchie 👏👏👏 totally agree with you ! ....

[@zapkvr]

@J.E.H indeed. The sixties were great but I don't listen to the Beatles any longer. I've grown up.

[@fluxington]

@J.E.H How is watching a comedy show selfish? It's not a case of one show or the other, there's plenty of air time, mostly filled with nonsense. Why does everyone have to agree with changes such as being woke? They show what they think is trendy, and lots of people don't watch anymore - hence much lower ratings these days. The 'youth' don't even watch TV, they use youtube, etc. By the way if you click 'reply', instead of typing their name, the OP will know you've replied and might answer back.

[@fluxington]

@@zapkvr Well done for you, gold star. Why is that growing up? How about your tastes have changed? Are you listening to drum and bass, dubstep and grime now?

[@goodiesguy]

This is Series 3 Episode 1

[@adb9231]

thanks

[@mikehudson8884]

I thought that too with the reference to Breakfast TV couldn't be 1980

[@terrygooglewassgoogle1767]

The "vote for Dick Head" sketch seems to have come true.

[@MrDaiseymay]

BE FAIR---STARMER HAS ONLY BEEN IN THE JOB A FEW DAYS

[@lindarooney3833]

@@MrDaiseymay Nurse! My sides!

[@paulbantick8266]

Yes! right up to when he left office in 2016.

[@wrmty56413]

22:49 Can we take a moment to admire Pamela's legs?

[@domoreilly5147]

She had it all - brains, talent and beauty. And now she's got Billy Connolly as well.

[@whatshisname3304]

she was fit.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@domoreilly5147 POOR WOMAN

[@blatherskite3009]

Not just her legs... Blessed in all areas, mental and physical! "Put your head between them and go bbl bbl bbl with American Express" - I was 12 when that was broadcast and, yeah, probably exactly the right age for it to be burned into my memory forever :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHeQhmykgZ58pdU

[@SonicEntertainment]

@@blatherskite3009 Thanks for that

[@markpearson8184]

I've seen some of these sketches before but never realised they were in the same episode!

[@AuroDHikoshi]

They get mixed up depending what sketches they're showing

[@konstantinopoulos33]

Interesting mention of Gorbachev some years before he got the top job

[@rowanaboat4523]

I was walking along a canal path when a swordfish leaped up and skewered my dog, when I got home my parents thought I had skewered the dog with one of the local oak trees. Our house then spontaneously combusted and was destroyed and we were all left homeless. Naturally I called the Electricity board and they said: This has got nothing to do with us.

[@willman85]

This is actually series 3.

[@speedformercy]

@1:22 choking the chicken first thing in the morning

[@KuroMicra]

Why can't the BBC release these comedy classics on DVD or blu ray? Instead of a couple of greatest hits compilations.

[@jj9749]

because some of the sketches are racist in today's terms?

[@tombrunila2695]

Mostly because they are funny! And today entertainment is not supposed to be funny!

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@tombrunila2695 YEAH--IT'S A SIN, APPARENTLY

[@MrDaiseymay]

THESE GREAT SHOWS WILL NEVER BE EQUALLED WHILE TV/FILM MAKER'S HAVE NO BALLS.

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

People would get OFFENDED by the Gurkha soldier skit and PETA would start screaming about cruelty to hedgehogs skit. Today because of all this comics rely on saying shit,fuck,cunt,dick,and about 1000 others worse because they deem this to be acceptable in modern era. Just once love to see a movie which didn’t resort to this. But as long as Adam Sandler and his ilk are around this won’t happen. Today’s motto don’t try humour your audience just swear at them

[@atomiccritter6492]

thanks for uploading this

[@anonUK]

The last sketch (after the We Like Trucking song) was a reference to the play The Romans in Britain, in which a Roman soldier raped a Celtic man. The final line is meant (semi) literally.

[@prf147-13]

Thank you for finally solving a 40-year-old mystery for me - never understood that last sketch at the time, neither did any of my college mates or family!

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Griff corpsing at 19:39, hahahaha

[@sebbastianm7453]

"insatiable hairdresser..." 😂

[@stephenhill9448]

Fondly remembered. How different live seemed in the 1980’s……….far better me thinks!

[@warrenharding103]

@9:15 Is that Donald Trump? 🤔🤣

[@cocodriloco7780]

Pam's teeth are my favorite characters.

[@JayPabalat]

1:28 No one: Literally no one: All of us now: I'm working from home and that's my toaster.

[@dantaylor7344]

4:34 MMmmm two days after the 19th February isn't the 17th.

[@EddieGaster]

Sorry to say but this is from Series 3.

[@lexifillems]

14:28 - Smith is basically wearing an old German police uniform. Except the police wore them until the 2000s.

[@druss69harad61]

9:30 a better candidate

[@wilsonwilliamtorresdiaz8044]

Well, thank you.

[@Stadtpark90]

12:33 GEZ in Germany could have made those reminders

[@yakacm]

I watched the BBC documentary about NNON the other day, and I never realised that it was supposed to be a vehicle for Rowan Atkinson, he was supposed to be the start, according to the documentary, and the rest were just support for him. It never came across that way, I always thought they were all good, Pamela Stephenson just made you laugh just from the impression she did of contemporary British female stars. Rowan Atkinson always seemed to be very much a 1 trick pony, I mean it's a trick that's got him very rich.

[@kunalsingh4418]

Really? Always felt that Rowan was the stand out among the four of them. Even in this episode for example, Rowan's expressions are impeccably perfect at every point, his acting is superb and my god his delivery. Every little tensing of shoulders is intentional, every pause deliberate. Several of my friends in theatre can't stop gushing about Rowan everytime we watch this series. Tbh rest were also good especially Mel, but Rowan was easily (and considering his future unsurprisingly) the best. I think he even got a Bafta award for his role in this series.

[@victoriousrufus6747]

Rowan is a multi faceted personality delving into various genres from the last 40 years! Perhaps Diecast Jam has no knowledge nor the experience of viewing all his shows! Bloody woke! Calling him one trick pony!

[@AndrewNewZealand]

@@victoriousrufus6747 Bloody snowflake! Some medicine from your own cabinet.

[@jodyhowell9164]

Neil from the "Young Ones" is in the Sex Shoppe Sketch.

[@richardlbowles]

What would the NTNO'CN team make of our current clown world? They would have just stood there slack-jawed at the things we get up to today.

[@paulwarren9854]

🤔 2020 - ''History Repeats Itself''.!! 😉

[@MrThecarebear]

British Leyland plugging their new trucks....

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Great one those. State-of-the-art for 1981.

[@floatysarah]

Classic British humour!

[@guidomotshagen7541]

(And i keep expecting Dustin Hoffman to walk in and out doing a cameo.)

[@nicflatterie7772]

Drive in optician ! Nice!

[@rayceeya8659]

I'd take Rowan Atkins over all the other options for POTUSA right now.

[@barrysmith5164]

Back when Britain was a safe place I was lucky enough to grow up in this era Playing out till dark with no worries Everyone new everyone up and down your street

[@joyoulaghan6168]

Miss that when knew all neighbours not these days

[@kc8181]

Not enough of Pamala. But a legendary show.

[@guidomotshagen7541]

Should have started off with an eery version of "Dies Irae".

[@GirGir183]

22:32 No vomit???

[@Sjmby95]

Roland Atkinson has the ability to bend his head and face

[@SkyeMpuremagic]

Who's "Roland" Atkinson???? 😂 You mean ROWAN 😋

[@grimTales1]

Who is Pamela supposed to be in the "This really has got nothing to do with us" sketch?

[@MrThecarebear]

Esther Rantzen. A skit on BBC series "That's Life", which ended in 1994.

[@grimTales1]

Thanks!

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Who is Griff supposed to be, then?

[@MrRichards68]

@@synthonaplinth5980 Cyril Fletcher

[@pigknickers2975]

@@MrRichards68 Does it brilliantly IMO.

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoCyZZ-oicifhLs

[@HunterZolomon]

I love Griff! Especially when he feels indebted to a gentleman from Swansea.

[@letsseeif]

On the first of August, nothing happened.

[@ArtmonkeyProductions]

Wrong episode. This is series 3, episode 1, not series 2.

[@mancitynightmare]

Ahem - this is actually Series 3 Episode 1.

[@robinsoncrusoejr7089]

The funny thing is [well, the sad thing, really], that now at the end of 2023 THINGS ARE BACK TO BEING AS BAD AS THE 1970s!! Great show, still relevant after all these decades...

[@philhawley1219]

They have missed out Princess Anne running over a hedgehog at the end of the trucking song

[@paulukjames7799]

Where is the mandatory warning that is on most older comedies these days

[@unchattytwit]

Great foresight in the prediction of potential presidential candidates. If this guy was around today he'd be a sure bet especially with his sincerity about women and slogans. Progress eh?

[@Smudgie]

Mel choked his chicken.

[@domoreilly5147]

Nice one

[@vickianderson8175]

Now I get it

[@weckar]

I'd vote for Richard.

[@SkyeMpuremagic]

Think pink

[@MeanMrMustard85]

Still funny

[@jeffreyberry4780]

ELECTRIC BOARD FUNNY SKETCH BTW THIS COMMENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME

[@scrumpyhunter8561]

The first skit is so relevant under lockdown, UK 2020, all the presenters are at home "working" doing their normal shit... premonition or what??

[@jeansandjumper]

What

[@Sjmby95]

No PC or anything just comedy

[@johnmanning5568]

Atrocious proofreading regarding the That’s life sketch. As the script said: “On February 19th their son was rushed to hospital with appendicitis and two days later on the 17th February….”!

[@damianleah6744]

Erm that was the joke

[@johnmanning5568]

@@damianleah6744can you explain the “joke” to me? Is it a time travel joke? A freak typhoon occurred on 17th February which was two days AFTER the 19th February!?

[@xTerminatorAndy]

@@johnmanning5568 it's the absurdity that's the joke

[@jakubkrcma]

How innocent jokes became 100% reality.

[@marvinc9994]

Question: If Pamela Anderson = x Hollywood celebrities. What is the _value_ of x? (You have one day to answer)🤔

[@RoverWaters]

11:23 thats going to happen in reality very soon with the first PC elected president

[@AndrewNewZealand]

The US has had Dick Heads for president since the beginning, still it's hard to out-dickhead Trump.

[@scottdittmer5597]

An Insatiable Hairdresser. Goodness Me, I miss Mel Smith.