Poppet on a swing

One of my favourite Harry Enfield sketches, I couldn't find it anywhere online so here you go.

[@momotheelder7124]

Harry Enfield is unbelievably good at capturing the essence of films from different decades-the mannerisms, accents-even the costuming is spot on!

[@eilrahc__]

I remember on one of those countdown shows that Mike Reid described Harry Enfield as a great impressionist, and he was absolutely right. Everything he does is so impeccably observed and the attention to little details is exceptional.

[@LeeGee]

He's so funny they use canned laughter to let you know when to laugh.

[@I_Am_The_Paulrus]

@@LeeGee That was standard policy for sketch shows in those days. It wasn't until the late 90s it was abandoned. Doesn't mean he wasn't funny

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Go on. Get out, you bitch. I like the star's name: Michael Hemingstamp. A composite of England's top movie sh*ts of the sixties : Michael Caine, David Hemmings (all the pointless driving around and parties in Blow Up) and Terence Stamp, who I don't know so well. It's very closely observed.

[@missgreeneyes56]

Way before the silliness of Austin Powers this was a true satire of the 60's. A gem. The antithesis of "The Family Way" starring Hywell Bennett and Hayley Mills.

[@frankbirch3877]

yes, the Family Way!

[@Geraint3000]

And The Knack.

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Antonioni's Blow Up as well. In the original David Hemmings drives around fairly pointlessly in his convertible. The Yardbirds make a cameo appearance. He (Hemmings) buys an aeroplane propeller on a whim and puts it over the back seat. The whole film is a weird visual stream of consciousness. Everybody is really groovy. Blow Up is like its very own parody.

[@MistyHazel]

"What are you laughing at?" "I don't know"... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@JMBluecoat8289]

This seems to sum up the 60s pretty well. If you were a spoilt rich bloke then I’m sure you had a bloody good time…

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Spoilt rich blokes and art school drop outs. Every second art school student / drop out was either in a band or starting one. In London it was King's Road, Carnaby Street and Chelsea, plus some music clubs scattered about. Most people weren't "groovy". For most ordinary people the sixties didn't "swing".

[@garrybaldy327]

To this day, over 30yrs later, when I walk into a dark room, I always say "WHO TURNED THE LOITS AIRT?"

[@TillyOrifice]

Well done. Someone is bound to tell you eventually.

[@michaelpowell6805]

I believe it's a satire on the actor David Hemmings and in particular his role in the 1966 film Blowup

[@bargainboymakem1]

I've used the I hope you die soon line many times over the years. It's amazing that no matter how much of a comedy voice you put on it, it nearly always manages to cause offence.

[@davidc4571]

20 years ago I used to bunk the trains, and upon receipt of a fine, that line was the one I gave to the ticket inspectors, bit harsh looking back now!

[@audiocue]

Get in you bitch.

[@samanthacook2688]

Oh dear Dave! If it's broke, ya wanna fix it mate lol

[@mhrgall]

hahaha!! Me too. It really is perfect for every occasion!

[@dat_boii]

@@davidc4571 You mean to say you didn't just put headphones on and pretend you couldn't hear the ticket inspector, while saying things like "What? Tickets for cheese?"

[@bonnieandclyde222]

Great memories watching Harry, nothing like him now sadly

[@JohnSmith-rk6jy]

Yea, Because we no longer have freedom of Speech.

[@harrylime8412]

Alfie springs to mind, right nasty bit of work.

[@thesprawl2361]

Watched The Graduate the other day, a favourite film of mine growing up. It has not aged well...it's basically the story of a privileged stalker. People complain about political correctness but you watch some of the shit from back then and fucking hell it's a good thing PC exists, at least a certain necessary minimum.

[@tucolalo8251]

@@thesprawl2361 Don't PC need to exist to stop that kind of movie. It existed because the directors and writers were creepy man children that used these characters as self inserts.

[@thesprawl2361]

@@tucolalo8251 Have you even seen the Graduate? Keep your projection to yourself.

[@momotheelder7124]

Perfect satire. It shows what many men thought of the sexual revolution.

[@jasonmichaels2689]

Next time a woman tells me she loves me, I'm going to respond "I thought you might, everybody does".

[@metalmick]

I tried talking to the missus like this. I'm one bollock short now. How I miss the 60's!

[@StonefieldJim4]

Gawd bless ya for posting this! I've been quoting it for years, but was unable to track it down. Priceless!

[@wrmty56413]

Good pisstake of David Hemmings in Blowup

[@mfrost71w]

Wow that girl's the spit of Rita Tushingham who starred in films like Taste of Honey and The Knack which this sketch perfectly parodies

[@cuebj]

Next stop for her, if parents reject her: Cathy Come Home. Mind you, the real girl portrayed in She's Leaving Home turned out OK

[@wobblertv8083]

I imagine Brian Jones being like this 😂

[@NewFalconerRecords]

I'm currently re-reading Keith Richards' autobiog -- yeah, I think you're not far off the mark. If anything, the bloke here is possibly a little more gentle.

[@cuebj]

Brilliant comment. There have been quite a few articles and a documentary about him in the last few weeks. As said below, Enfield portrays an equally empty but not as nasty character. Enfield has a genius for not bullying his characters and renders them all as oddly likeable or pitiable

[@Basilzaharoff1]

"Michael Heminigstamp" I take it he's based on Michel Cain, David Hemmings and Terrance Stamp. Come to think of it, essentially those films were like that. "Blow up" for example.

[@bonnieandclyde222]

And Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving

[@Harmonical1]

What a fantastic parody of certain 60s films!

[@zerowhite2286]

And a parody of 1960s actuality. I was in Aberystwyth Milk Bar in the late 1960s when a crying young girl at a nearby table told her boyfriend she was pregnant. The charmer replied that that he’d “broken in loads of chicks” and she wasn’t one, so there was no way of knowing. Still wishing her well.

[@KenLieck]

It pairs beautifully with "The Knock" (parody of Dick Lester's "The Knack" made by a young, edgy Benny Hill when that film was still current!)

[@I_Am_The_Paulrus]

Charlie Higson rocks a great Beatles moptop 😄

[@mjp8648]

Soon as I saw the character he was playing I thought Tony Blackburn.

[@russellwhite1581]

@@mjp8648 I thought Oliver Reed.

[@belch1889]

"Get in, yer bitch." I once said that to my best friend's girlfriend when we arrived to pick her up. Thankfully, everyone found it funny.

[@robertsweet5212]

I must try that myself.

[@bonnieandclyde222]

Reminds me of Alan Bates in quite a few 60s films

[@manjacovus5342]

Script, acting, photography, editing... everything absolutely pitch-perfect 😎

[@noeljames7759]

Observational comedy at its best!

[@SuzLa1]

About sums up Swinging 60s lol

[@WastedFrom1976]

and the 80's and 90's and so on. If the decade is a valid reason to be a vacuous pervert count me in.

[@michaelsinclair2731]

I watched a 60s Film with Michael Caine recently. He was almost just as rude and disrespectful as Enfield in this Film. But this is funnier

[@darganx]

Alfie?

[@michaelsinclair2731]

@@darganx Yeah thats the one!!

[@eltonlovell9898]

Shadows... on me lungs... I'm being eaten away!

[@missie504]

Just brilliant comedy

[@jamiesimmonds6597]

Absolutely fooking hilarious 🤣

[@journism14]

You might at least have said thank you!

[@GamingMuchTerry]

So bloody funny!

[@petesmith9472]

Appalling to think these cads exist.

[@Nullllus]

Women, know your limits!

[@generalpublic3744]

The swinging sixties. These films were very popular along with "Kitchen Sink" drama on the television. It was an opportunity for the middle classes to gaze into the lives of the working classes and degenerates safe from getting infected with something. It also assuaged their consciences with their drinking, gambling, drugs and wife swapping. The young were pretty clueless. Some idea from the idiot in the classroom caught on, they all tried it! Then there was the music and fashion that came on the scene at the right time to exploit them. Oh those halcyon days.

[@comfibold]

Exploitation at it's finest!

[@originalpickaxe]

I.m sure it's based on Hywel Bennett

[@tomkent4656]

Certainly looks like him!

[@Honkeysausage1]

Cheers Krayonfix, it seems we share the same kind of humour, I have been looking for it everywhere. Its a classic, love it.

[@cobralondon]

what you laughing at? i odn't know! LOL

[@JasonJason210]

Nobert Smith is also excellent if you can find it!

[@deacondawg1416]

Too funny. Captures that 69s essence.

[@mlynn9720]

Which series was this sketch from? I've never seen Blowup but a lot of films were like that in the 60s: Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush and The Knack and How To Get It to name two.

[@nix4pool]

When Harry was funny, the good old days

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Ahhh, the swing in sixties

[@AA-69]

Cannes material if ever I sawd it 😎

[@bizophone]

The real Austin Powers

[@HopeIanHope]

Spot on

[@juliawheeler8428]

Just so clever.

[@radarlove8893]

Nice and sick

[@johnvousden359]

I love this scene soo funny

[@catherinebarker1077]

Liam Gallagher as film critic.

[@felicitytoad]

😍

[@kernowarty]

Ha ha ha. What are you laughing at? I don't know.

[@stephenport4768]

Its a parody of a cross between the Beetles film Magical Mystery Tour and the David Hemmings character he played in the film Blow U0 😂😂😂

[@comfibold]

Treat them mean Harry, lol

[@Mors_Inimicis]

That actress is gorgeous.

[@Ichioku]

Rachel Fielding.

[@anaxscotia]

I remember seeing this when it first came out. It was a private screening in Soho. Marianne Faithfull was there, but she was an awful bore.

[@lukecoulson7470]

nice car.

[@henglongtanks1]

Ik, got it from the shit ha

[@tomhaskett5161]

Austin Healey 3000. Loved the detail where the starter was a separate button, not on the key! Petrol in those days was 5 bob a gallon (ie 25 pence).

[@michaelmouse4024]

Michael Hemmingstamp ...

[@rovercoupe7104]

Lovely Austin Healey, but the engine seems a bit worn. M.

[@octurn]

My god, is that Justin Hayward?

[@davidtruscott9309]

Do the washing up on your way out

[@spmoran4703]

Hilarious

[@invernessfan3017]

Satire.

[@johnsuekid]

Good old comedy

[@oliviahaste7234]

REEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@spindriftbeach6082]

Even the audio was 60s sound

[@kramnam4716]

Yep nothing much has changed as of 2023

[@HHM706]

Blow Up the most pretentious film of the whole era

[@NewFalconerRecords]

It was worth it for the Yardbirds scend with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, if nothing else.

[@pjones9088]

When comedy was funny 😂

[@Vampiregothmother]

I don't care!!!!

[@UtushoReiuji]

This is pretty good, except for the horrid abuse of the laugh track.

[@espenBredessenJones]

forward ( poppet on a swing ) to your favourite feminist . liberal , social justice warrior, or UN Secretary. LMFAO !

[@DenkyManner]

They would like it. The whole point of the sketch is he is behaving terribly.

[@kelzuya]

You're not really in on it are you? Christ.

[@vooveks]

Lol! Way to not get the joke at all and just see it as a chance to air your tired, cliched, pub-bore views on SJWs, feminists and...The UN secretary? What? 🧐

[@thesprawl2361]

@@vooveks The number of SJWs making themselves known in comment sections? Zero. The number of people complaining about SJWs and bringing them up at every tedious opportunity? Fifty fucking billion million zillion.

[@vooveks]

@@thesprawl2361 Yeah, and I’m sure the irony is completely lost on them. These people tend to lack a certain self-awareness, in my experience.

[@LEARSIKCIGAM]

Rich Boomers had way more fun than you

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

No such thing as chivalry in the 60's...

[@attentionaddicts]

what is this a spoof of exactly??

[@fumanchu1613]

it's basically just a spoof of that kind of genre. Kind of like an accumulation of all those tenapenny 'free love' romance movies of the 60's haha

[@llanbo]

"Blowup" with David Hemming

[@CoffeeConnected]

It also has elements of 'Alfie' starring Michael Caine.

[@buzby303]

Hahahahaha! I don’t care !

[@tombillington8564]

This is every cine illiterate KZbinr claiming to be a film critic

[@Eirinen_E34]

Misogyny reeeeeee

[@mediacopycatkillers]

God I hope Enfield doesn't find this. He's notoriously protective...

[@audiocue]

and a complete prick

[@keithrose6931]

@@audiocue in your opinion

[@TheUTubeTeamSucks]

Is that Fulton Mackay from Porridge?

[@briane5706]

TheUTubeTeamSucks It's not Fulton Mackay, the actor is Bernard Gallagher, who played a consultant in the very first series of Casualty.

[@russellwhite1581]

@@briane5706 and he's playing a parody of George A Cooper!!