PUNCH and JUDY (Public Domain)

[@kitosdigiovanni5926]

A little bit of the old Ultraviolence...

[@racontoor]

I finally understand my terrible parenting.

[@2020Bookworm]

So this is what the impressionable young kids were allowed to watch back in 1948.

[@adonaiyah2196]

I watched a real life one back in 2007

[@robbymonaco3738]

That explains a lot

[@courtneywiley4228]

Wow I grew up watching this. Must have seen It a hundred times. It was on a VHS tape containing other xmas videos. Ah the good old days

[@kevincoss5234]

I grew up with the same tape lol. I rummage around KZbin for many of the clips every year

[@Blaisefiyah]

Same!!! I used to watch on vhs in the 80’s

[@bethmichelle4157]

Same here! I remember that tape

[@monarc200]

😂😂😂same

[@taten007]

I know that EXACT VHS you’re talking about. Wild

[@thecreepoid901]

I legit geeked abit when the cat just started walloping him

[@zmanproductionsthepuppetan4607]

Punch and Judy will always remain a classic puppet show.

[@reaganwiles_art]

This profesori is badass, that slapstick work is bangin'! One thing that differentiates this for many Punch and Judy shows is that the puppets are so simple and not particularly flashy in any way. It's the action, the drama that makes them come alive

[@cubinoid]

That was a superb puppet performance! Some of the audience reaction shots were very funny too!

[@ahappyshow]

I had only ever seen Punch and Judy in films and I never saw them performed in real life. Yeah, they are a dysfunctional, violent couple, no doubt. I believe Punch and Judy goes back many centuries, too. Thanks, Billy! Yayy!!! -- Matt

[@billieeegan]

Hi Matt, Love this footage, do you have a link to access it on archive.org? Can't seem to find it.

[@coletanner5193]

And we wonder why the British are the ones always getting in fights at the bars

[@aquatiger8]

I remember seeing this short in a movie when I was a kid. real nostalgic to be watching it again at age 20

[@darkforestzombie218]

What film was it ?

[@aquatiger8]

@@darkforestzombie218 I honestly don't remember. I've just been finding the various shorts that were in it recently

[@BillyBughead]

I found these disturbing when I was a child, as my classmates would latter act these things out and beat each other up. Things always got out of hand. Watching the kids in the vid go hyper brought back some scary memories. The kids I went to school with were monsters. We had to watch this one very graphic movie with people being murdered by gladiators and fed to lions, and the "little angels" were rooting for the lions and asking to see it again. I prefer friendly puppets, like Happy. YAY!

[@Xsopit24631]

ah the 40s, where domestic violence was the norm

[@eunthealien]

😭

[@Blaisefiyah]

Omg!!!! I haven’t seen this since the 80’s ❤️

[@matimus100]

Is Zeus!! You're personal God belief

[@ahappyshow]

I believe it was a short shown at the movies, Kate. Thanks for watching! -- Matt

[@bluemagic3533]

Domestic violence is funny

[@matimus100]

Your not well both of you

[@BrianWalters-ei7sd]

Before there was Tom and Jerry, there was Punch and Judy, the original Dysfunctional Duo.

[@krishtgw8596]

PERFECT COMEDY

[@MrNEStalgia]

Well, santa certainly enjoyed the show!

[@systemshocker2875]

0:56 ok, the stick getting grabbed that fast got me laughing

[@pipermintpat854]

"Wow, that was a pretty funny monkeigh slapstick reference. Can magnus top the number of...HA'S!?!"

[@RoughPuppets]

Just brilliant. If anyone is interested, the puppeteer is George Prentice, an absolute master at his art.

[@geoffreyburgess7639]

Professor George Prentice. And yes he is a master of his art. Made me smile and I'm seventy three

[@jungastein3952]

Awesome. Perfect. Lovely lovely

[@fbabdiver]

those poor children! some of them were visibly upset or wondering WTF. punch and judy i think affected me too growing up whats up with all the beatings?

[@Realpoweronearth]

@Texas Rancher well said I agree people are way too oversensitive. Getting offended by puppets kids loved it!!!

[@darkforestzombie218]

Its no more violent than tom and jerry really.

[@svetlana60656]

My God-I've seen some other Punch\Judy shows on YT, and while they did have some literal slapstick, overall the shows had some HUMOUR in them. This is just beating on each other .... 4.36 was too long, ugh

[@darkforestzombie218]

@@svetlana60656 this isnt the whole show

[@anglonrx2754]

It’s so amoral it’s so unadult, outrageous unprofessional that’s exactly what the children love about it so much it’s the same reason such crude and gross jokes about bogies and the like appeal to them too

[@robertwhitford2145]

Terrifying! Make for a great Horror film!

[@darkforestzombie218]

Rubbish! Punch and judy is not scary

[@JDdr86]

@@darkforestzombie218 You go proudly beat the ever living $h¡† out of your wife.

[@matimus100]

@@darkforestzombie218 says the zombie from the dark forest 🤡

[@darkforestzombie218]

The crocodile looks mint !!!!

[@kateam1975]

it alway neat to see the ole clip was it for TV or movies

[@austinhorton997]

3:00

[@bigblockman11]

Only heard about this thanks to history debunked, now i want the oldest recorded punch and judy i could find

[@ahappyshow]

I'm sure there's even earlier examples, but there is a Punch and Judy show shown in a part of the Marx Brothers film, "Monkey Business" (1931).

[@bigblockman11]

@ahappyshow thanks, these pieces of history need to be preserved. Already, many have been torched by the need for "sensitive audiences"

[@----.__]

@@bigblockman11 And look where "sensitive content" has gotten us. I fear the next major war that involves the west, anyone under the age of 30 are complete softies these days. Don't know what gender they are, don't know if they should wear trousers or a dress, don't know how to deal with "micro aggressions" and need safe spaces and inclusion policies. The closer we edge to WW3, the more I realise I'll more than likely have to serve a second time just to protect the youth from themselves!

[@RoughPuppets]

there's one from 1901 here on youtube, with Henry Bailey of Buxton. But P&J in Britain dates from the 17th century. It came from Italy and the Commedia D'ell arte, same place we get Harlequin and Pierrot from. :)

[@hxqyl5933]

Mark does punch and Judy

[@MattHawes]

Thanks, Paul! Yayy!!! -- Matt

[@joydime]

Hello from the future...couldn't resist replying to a ten year old post. Good times.

[@claudelebel49]

We could all live without Punch and Judy.

[@darkforestzombie218]

Nope, I would die from lack of entertainment.

[@anglonrx2754]

@@darkforestzombie218 same lad Punch and Judy is essential to a rounded childhood

[@RoughPuppets]

Oh no we couldn't....

[@StrahaoftheRace]

This is PSYCOTIC!

[@ahappyshow]

LOL! That may be true, Wyrd! Thanks! Yayy!!! -- Matt

[@ahappyshow]

I don't think so, but he still wasn't being very nice to Judy. -- Matt

[@joshperry6700]

Thomas Ligotti brought me here.

[@Starrytchi]

LMAO I'M-

[@alejoh3179]

Awesome

[@snakemaster2901]

Puppet Judy and her Mormon master.

[@MattHawes]

LOL! That's true. Maybe we should write Congress to enact a new law. -- Matt

[@carlosrodriguezborges2990]

Funny puppet

[@Femaiden]

i can't understand a thing they're saying. I thought maybe it was in a different language, but at one point it did sound like english words. the camera keeps panning over the audience and half the kids , i can't tell if they are genuinely amused or genuinely disturbed. at one point, it looks liek this one girl was terrified. and then there was this boy that was just sitting there with a blank look, like was he catatonic or just thinking real hard, trying to process what he saw? . . . I wonder how much mental trauma these characters potentially caused. . .

[@gg_rider]

Another staple that goes way back, before I was born: Larry, Curly, and Moe. The Three Stooges. Three adult men, Moe was more violent, slapstick comedy. Years later, Iggy and the Stooges (punk band a decade before the punk era). "Dirt" is a one raw song.

[@darkforestzombie218]

Who else saw santa throughout the clip ?

[@HaloMachinimaFilms]

This is a Christmas special from 1948 by Castle Films.

[@darkforestzombie218]

@@HaloMachinimaFilms nice

[@matimus100]

@@darkforestzombie218 sounds like you miss his lap

[@Mdriver1981]

Who is Papa tearing those puppets? It seems apparent bat nobody is inside that showcase bikes with the exception of Harpo who is clearly not controlling them.

[@craigime]

lol

[@motherramsay3776]

Before Tik Tok this is what the children watched

[@jeffreyrichardson]

This is kind of violent, don't you think?

[@Realpoweronearth]

Funny as hell I think!!! i could not stop laughing!!

[@darkforestzombie218]

Yeah but it is funny and entertaining

[@anglonrx2754]

The amorality is the kind of the point

Punching Judy!

[@ahappyshow]

LOL! -- Matt

[@michaelmann7367]

It's obvious

[@bernardharrisjr]

What in the entire $&@#

[@SuperNormalMan]

I keep watching it, and it's STILL funny.

[@TitchLDN]

Funny af

[@johnconner7394]

Love the kids reactions they are transfixed this is the way it SHOULD be done!!! not like the wishy washy crap now.

[@bradbucknerfl]

What’s the way it should be done?

[@lambsauce1468]

Like deer in the headlights?

[@TitchLDN]

Wot kids are exposed to today . Is alot worse than punch n judy.

[@TheFirstManticore]

Very true.

[@DonVueltaMorales]

Which is why my generation of white people vote for Donald Trump.

[@colleen4ever]

WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN AND WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THIS?!?! TRUMP NEVER EVER HIT HIS WIFE!!!

[@JDdr86]

Well said.

[@matimus100]

Ok 🐑

[@MattFrost224]

Man, talk about reaching. Your TDS is TERMINAL!

[@dillon8395]

Let me be honest with you I seen this quite a lot and in my opinion it’s not for kids it shows punch beating a cat and hitting Judy which is assault now am 15 and my mum shows me this from the old days and this shows domestic violence and in some episodes racism and I don’t like this show and yea it might be stupid complaining about this even tho there puppets but it’s still no right and it’s showing kids violence

[@ahappyshow]

While I do believe that too many people these days takes things to extremes in regard to being overly sensitive about certain aspects of entertainment and also there is a failure to understand things within the context of the period in which it was originally presented, I actually agree with you that Punch and Judy shows were not truly appropriate children's fare. Punch and Judy shows go back literally for centuries, and the humor is definitely crude. It's mostly a slapstick style of humor, but it appears to be based on violence for its own sake with no actual comeuppance for the abuser that I am aware of. Such shows seem to have faded away by the mid-20th century, as I don't recall having ever actual seem a modern Punch and Judy show performed publicly for children. Maybe they still are going on somewhere, and I am just unaware of it? Even then, I wonder if a modern performance would be done as part of some educational presentation on the historical forms of entertainment? Thanks for your comment and view.

[@mccardieclan1755]

what in the wotld??!! How is this funny?? Looks like an abusive relationship!!

[@elainerosefelder4986]

A truly horrid, German woodcut's take on Domestic Violence...

[@dianecheshire4750]

This is why capTain kanGaroo was such a loved show..we were rough countryside kids..an wouldn't even watch that crap show