Not the Nine O'Clock News - 'Show Twenty Three' S04E02 (TBC image) 16 sep 1983

Show Twenty Three Episode 2 Season 4
Broadcast on BBC 8 feb 1982
Recorded on VHS on 16 sep 1983, Swedish subtitles
Credits: Ivan The Awful / Game For A Laugh / Public Toilet / Wine Tasting / Home Wine Kit / Aussie Pilot / Does God Exist? / Re-Altered Images / Cricket Commetary / Snooker commentary / Home Organ / Man outside phone box / Tomorrow's World / New Glee / Holiday Habits / Commission for Racial Equality / The Not Team At Home With Their Son / Grow Up You Bastards / Hamlet Advert Skit / Ploughman's Lunch / Mannequins / Pushing a car / Suicideless
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[@davidanderson3586]

Priceless comedy, let it never be forgotten ! :-)

[@marciolealg]

Wow! They were amazing! Great time in pure comedy! Fantastic!

[@43painter]

This was really a marvelous show !

[@malcolmdale]

22 minutes of pure comedy without a single F word. Those were the days.

[@Philrc]

Arrr we won't a-see the likes of those again, they be great an all and we are not just maudlin because they was a long time ago's when we was younger n had more hope.

[@dylanevans2498]

Needless swearing is fucking stupid. What does it fucking add to anything. Full all, that's what it adds fuck all!

[@markjolley3768]

So funny 40 years on !!!! RIP mel smith

[@steviesmiler]

Rowan probably thinking “hmm me being a spy. Now that could be a good movie idea” lol

[@aresmaximus1]

Or being a Russian's boyfriend hmmm now that's the story to tell..... Hence the never ending love story.....

[@jamespaley7139]

Mr Atkinson or sir Rowan Atkinson. Or queen Rowan atkinson Windsor the first. Have they died or ?

[@elias_xp95]

Game for a laugh is brutal 😂😂 I've not seen this one of theirs before hahaha

[@susanpeacock216]

A friend in Bath told me of this comedy. It's pretty funny. I also watch the Thin Blue Line and Fawlty Towers

[@samsmith1580]

In the early 80s they canceled all the 70s comedians and brought this lot on. We all thought they were edgy and cool but looking at it now they were all mean spirited and arrogant while the people they replaced were much softer and nicer.

[@Rayfaedundee]

Not the Nine O’clock News. Classic, timeless, comedy, when our tv shows could say anything and no one got offended. Bring back those days.

[@kellyj.azania4371]

I say, the Altered Images parody was spot on! 😅

[@L-mo]

God. Gregories Girl. Altered Images! Would still make a good band name today.

[@konstantinopoulos33]

Ahh so that's who it was parodying, hadn't heard of them.

[@GayRocker81]

....on a whole other level!

[@shiperobin]

Love how this show just plays straight up bluegrass over a sketch. Guys, it's a legitimate highly technical artform. Not a soundtrack for slapstick. 🤣 Brits shade for America knows no bounds

[@michaelhead4472]

9:30, hilarious.

[@lesvalernipi9871]

Had a few good laughs!

[@tobiaszb]

6:50 that must've been an inspiration for Monty Python sketch ^^

[@anneahlert2997]

Actually, Monty Python was before this.

[@Jackomac43]

What’s that groovy synthesiser music called at the end?

[@Rythsi300]

Altered Images

[@Jackomac43]

@@Rythsi300 As in the new wave band?

[@danielwilliamson6180]

15:22 LOL

[@danielgreen3715]

The English 👍🥴😆!!❤

[@mysterycrumble]

i remember seeing the game for a laugh sketch when i was about 5 or 6 and it really fucked with my head tbh

[@mysterycrumble]

my parents let me stay up late i guess.

[@thepsplayer6039]

It's a pretty violent sketch. I would've never seen this as a kid. But as an adult it's hilarious

[@keithdurose7057]

Pamela Stephenson. Probably Britain's most beautiful comedian. Billy Connelly probably Scotland's luckiest comedian! Sadly yes, I am that old! Lol

[@fredmila]

This was during the peak of Reagan's Contras affair.

[@MatgoStyles]

Can someone explain the airplane toilet sketch? Even the audience didn't seem to get it.

[@johnking5174]

Mel goes into the toilet. He does a large shit, which falls out of the plane and is caught by the cricket player in the following scene. That is the joke.

[@MatgoStyles]

@@johnking5174 Ah thank you - i didn't even connect it to the cricket clip! I can hear the flushing sound effect over the top of it now but it could have been a bit louder in the mix.

[@konstantinopoulos33]

The Muppet Show joke hurts given Chris Langham had guested on it... and Griff Rhys-Jones took his place in this show after Langham was let go

[@M-David-Hakoh]

I love that typical British snobbery... chewing on nothing before he starts to talk 7.03

[@M-David-Hakoh]

@vunderground1 7:04

[@MrDaiseymay]

@vunderground1 never mind old pal

[@Edo_Marinus]

18:30 Robbie (John Alford) from Grange Hill.

[@sepgorut2492]

I wonder how much of this the Swedes got, most of it refers to entirely British cultural phenomena.

[@Gongasoso]

I'm Portuguese and from a different generation and I get it. Probably not the same "it" a brit from then would get, but there is a degree of overlapping cultural refereciality.

[@shiperobin]

Saw a sweedish guy comment that he enjoys learning about the British culture and he probably understood the jokes after learning why they were funny. He obviously kept watching. So there's kindof an answer

[@danielwilliamson6180]

3:15

[@followtheboat]

Anyone spot a young Robbie from Grange Hill (John Alford)?

[@georgesduvales7160]

Yo goodies. Kepp me and I suppose all of us 🦎

[@bokhans]

Edward Heath painting his nails. So that much was known at the time! I wonder if his child abuse was known too?

[@LoneKharnivore]

Firstly, you clearly weren't alive at the time. 'Ted Heath might be gay' was a common joke but there's no actual evidence. Secondly, you might like to read the news. The accusations of child abuse have been conclusively debunked and the guy who invented it all is on trial for perverting the course of justice.

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@LoneKharnivore if you believe

[@dannydetonator]

@@MrDaiseymay I really hope you and the frigging likes of you get heavily accused of the same.

[@Phil_KaneONite_Wood]

Worst impression of Jeremy Beadle ever! Both of Mel's hands were the same size!! 😉

[@jimothybikael]

I didn't get the first joke 😣

[@LoneKharnivore]

Some or all of the Cambridge spies were gay.

[@L-mo]

Google ‘Guy Burgess and the Cambridge 5’

[@yordanosabera1465]

We wil See God D

[@colinfarren8326]

These were the days when you could offend anyone with shear comedy be you black, white, asian or american. Politician or pleb (both are quite similar). Comedy has died.

[@MrDaiseymay]

We are in a new age of suppression . The 18th century was awash with dirty jokes and accusations about the Church, the Prince Regent, Politicians downwards. They were all ridiculed excessively, by the likes of Gilray and Dryden etc. It will rise again, it's only natural.

[@cherylcummins5209]

Too many snowflakes today

[@ashlynndemorrow1037]

How very worse it is now....

[@brianmorecombe2726]

This was meant to be the new Monty Python.Unfortunately it looks dated and Monty Python who were doing comedy 10 years before this and still isnt dated.

[@CreativoErratico]

The guy looks like mr bean

[@nasskhan4543]

Just to let you know it isnt Mr Bean. Its actually Johnny English

[@rb93077039]

Nass is messing with you. It is the same guy who played Mr Bean. He's a British actor called Raymond Fowler.

[@pillockbrain]

Bollocks! It is a very young Rowan Atkinson.

[@Philrc]

His real name is Grytpype-thynne of squaddle-upon-sludge

[@billykranberry6077]

Thoroughly a great guy. Became a mayor and eradicated sugar tax. We called him mayor Plummid ever since his wife wounded a dog, allegedly

[@dannydetonator]

Memes, reality TV, religion, news, science, politicians, catastrophes.. It's so frigging modern, looking from the East of Europe at the time. It wasn't aired on TV here, unfortunately. Shure, we had our pisstaking in couple of comedies, namely out of commercials, religion and sport.. But these guys would be cancelled in a jiffy nowerdays. We don't even have decent comedians now here, never mind on Oscar-winning levels. Hats off to UK.

[@jamespaley7139]

No they all went back to Russia.

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

The Edward Heath gag in the intro probably had the effect, a gender oppression and act of genocide against personal identity, of keeping men socially deterred from feeling able to make the personal cboice to paint their nails.

[@LoneKharnivore]

You weren't alive then, were you? The joke reflects society's attitudes. I think the roving gangs of gay-bashing skinheads probably did more to deter them.

[@anonUK]

@@LoneKharnivore I think this comment's not entirely serious.

[@TheWelwyn21]

Little did we know that Heath was a NONCE

[@danielwilliamson6180]

18:52 LOL

[@danielwilliamson6180]

3:15

[@danielwilliamson6180]

22:34 LOL