Spike taking the wee-wee out of ITV's 'Game For A Laugh' from the early 80's.
@Wally-H3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant comedy - it's not difficult to see how this sort of sketch inspired programmes like Not the Nine O'Clock News, Harry Enflield and Paul Whitehouse etc. Spike's satirical brain was second to none.
@billyandrew3 жыл бұрын
Crazy as a bedbug, he was, but he made me laugh so much. RIP, Spilligan.
@schizoidboy12 жыл бұрын
Laugh At a Cretin... Don't they call it reality TV now days?;)
@paulhatherly5 жыл бұрын
No, just reality...
@ericellis35063 жыл бұрын
House of Commons.
@spikeybaby17353 жыл бұрын
You beat me to it ! '' and now your host, a man you've never heard of '' This happens nearly every night on TV, Spike must've been prophetic as well as a comedy genius lol
@fredfarnackle54553 жыл бұрын
You got that right!!
@schizoidboy2 жыл бұрын
@Noel Coward In America it's called legislative although the two other branches right now might qualify.
@McToddRidesAgain12 жыл бұрын
This is one of my all-time favourite Spike Milligan sketches. Everything about this sketch is spot-on, the dialogue, the stock footage they use, the music, the editing, costumes, it's an absolute blinder and basically says everything that needs saying about game shows. Thank you very much for uploading it!
@garthn25617 жыл бұрын
Pretty pathetic load of cr*p actually
@davidchamberlain54257 жыл бұрын
Arduous Andotherous Just like you really!!!!!!!Get a sense of humour.OK.
@janosk83926 жыл бұрын
From less appreciative comments here the current score of satirical thinkers vs literals is 10.5
@darganx3 жыл бұрын
That's the thing, nobody won a prize - just humiliation 😂
@whatshisname33042 жыл бұрын
i miss spike. an understated genius. he made the python team seem sane.
@musamor752 жыл бұрын
One genius does not efface another. Both had their place. When Monty Python came out, it was the most surrealistic comedy Britain had ever viewed. Well ahead of its time. Spike, like Benny Hill, was one man. The Pythons were a team. Anyway, long live British humour- nobody else does it that good.
@whatshisname33042 жыл бұрын
@@musamor75 I knew Monty when he was a solo act. he was brilliant with his stripping act. hence the name.. the girls went mad at his.... i should nt say..
@musamor752 жыл бұрын
@@whatshisname3304 I say, wasn't his first name something like Full? Full of laughs I'd say.
@whatshisname33042 жыл бұрын
@@musamor75 they were very much like the 'At Last the 1948 Show' style of sketch. the absence of Marty Feldman was a shame.
@cosycleaner14 жыл бұрын
Funny how masterly TV comedy predicts the future - this IS the X Factor!
@CastlesForEyes Жыл бұрын
😆😅😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣
@jamespasifull34243 жыл бұрын
Laugh at a cretin! What a title for a 21st Century reality show!! 🤣🤣🤣
@fredo10703 жыл бұрын
Spot on Game for a Laugh.
@fredferd9654 жыл бұрын
That's nothing! You've got Laugh At A Cretin, we've got Congress!!! Same thing, but more people!!!
@CastlesForEyes Жыл бұрын
The UK has parliament which is full in inbred upper-class twits. Which is worse?
@Codemanship14 жыл бұрын
@cosycleaner I think he's actually having a pop at "Game For A Laugh", which was big in the early 80's
@Luke-vf7et7 жыл бұрын
Codemanship I don't think there's any doubt about that. From what I remember of Game For A Laugh, this isn't that far from the truth!
@richardupton33236 жыл бұрын
eh plus game for a laugh had a irish guy, a woman, and a guy with a beard on it like this did.
@signalmanmusic42253 жыл бұрын
I think the first one is meant to be Jeremy Beadle....
@steveclamp44883 жыл бұрын
This is now " BGT"
@alyxbryce40316 жыл бұрын
Wet myself laughing🤣🤣...genius👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@gregtees99952 жыл бұрын
Gees, that's awfully accurate Spike. I wonder if he would be laughing if he were still alive or just like, see I told you.
@jamesdoggart5302 жыл бұрын
In these woke days, many Spike sketches will offend at least a couple of people. I'm glad to see you have found one that could offend several scores of thousands. Keep up the good work. RIP Spike, hope you're making the angels laugh as much as us humans did.
@ireallydidntwanttomakeanac575 Жыл бұрын
I've got to ask you something, and I do hope you know the answer, what does woke mean?
@daveabbott Жыл бұрын
@@ireallydidntwanttomakeanac575 In the old days we referred to them as busy-bodies, poking their noses into other peoples business, like the vegans, who, rather than just being vegan and getting on with it, insist on attempting to instil their life-style onto others, or the protesters who think that we should do what they want, even though they don't follow their own agenda, ie stop oil protesters who use signs and banners.... derived from oil products.
@morriganravenchild66134 жыл бұрын
A genius!
@chrisgibson52673 жыл бұрын
That beard fooled nobody Julia.
@fintanwardell5 жыл бұрын
Spike spoofs Game for a Laugh.
@tuulenkoti9 жыл бұрын
And thus Pop Idol was born...
@commentfreely54435 жыл бұрын
how the old age pension works at the Colosseum in Rome.
@angieetheridge63862 жыл бұрын
Laugh at a cretin, that could be used for any game show or reality show at this presant time or prime ministers question time
@lochead114 жыл бұрын
@LeeJTurnock Yeah, and you know what really gets my goat? The British public paid for all of that material to be made. By rights, we should have free access to ALL of the BBC's archive.
@jamesdoogan55282 жыл бұрын
Ace! Sad that you wouldnt get away with that now.
@fredferd9656 жыл бұрын
BARKING MAD!!!!!!!!! (But wonderful!)
@kevinjackson63872 жыл бұрын
Just nuts hahahaha
@stephenreeds36322 жыл бұрын
Bloody Game for a Laugh. What a nauseating programme that was.
@rlneesam14 жыл бұрын
Bluebottle and Eccles on each side of a locked door. Bluebottle says "Turn the knob on your side" Eccles replies, "I haven't got a knob on my side". Bluebottle tries to explain gravity to Eccles. "Eccles , when you jump up in the air what happens?" "I come back down again." "Why is that?" "Cos I live here". Good enough for me.
@dennislane1003 жыл бұрын
Another classic “existential “joke;-Bluebottle”Hey,Eccles-Wot you doin’ in ‘ere?” The reply-“Everybody got to be somewhere!”
@synthonaplinth59807 ай бұрын
Ying-tong-iddle-i-po!
@Mumon0107 жыл бұрын
More Spike.
@cameronalexander3596 жыл бұрын
Julia Breck under that beard.
@stevebrindle17244 жыл бұрын
The Squash game, genius!
@eggmangoogoogoojoob13 жыл бұрын
@bobojohns I couldn't agree more. UK Gold even bleeped out the word 'bastard' when Margaret was reminiscing as to the cruel fate of her budgie in 'One Foot in the Grave' recently.
@johnjohn-op1mo3 жыл бұрын
They call it X factor
@TheAgProv6 жыл бұрын
And hovering over the status bar, a picture of Sarah Palin popped up. Unintended, but perfect .
@Johniola113 жыл бұрын
True story: Terry Jones once got word that the BBC was going to begin wiping Python. (!!!!!!!!!!) Upon hearing this, he bought all the original masters directly from the network, and thank God for that! The wiping of classic original British comedy was almost tradition at the Beeb, and entire episodes of Q, 1948 Show, Not Only But Also, Frost Report and the first few seasons of the Goodies were all wiped so they could use the tapes for "Horse of the Year" show and news footage!!!
@blastfromthepast83446 жыл бұрын
A shame Patrick Troughton didn't do the same.
@cpa27882 жыл бұрын
All of the episodes bar 3 exist, 3 from Q5 and all of Q6, Q7, Q8, Q9. Since Johniola1's comment was written, the BBC has released them all on DVD
@rlneesam14 жыл бұрын
Tommy Handley, Just Fancy, Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, Breakfast with Braden, Stand Easy, Much Binding, Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch? Jimmy James and Eli
@rlneesam14 жыл бұрын
clip from 1982 original show 1954
@baconsandwich20072 жыл бұрын
Well it's still better than Saturday Night Takeaway.
@davidharrison66155 жыл бұрын
spike loved his big curvy woman . well done spike !!!!
@sillywalks11114 жыл бұрын
Now we know where the Python's 16 ton weight came from.
@Wally-H3 жыл бұрын
This must post-date Monty Python's series as the sketch is taking the piss out of 'Game for a Laugh' which didn't hit the screens until 1981 so this must have been made after that
@jerry23573 жыл бұрын
@@Wally-H Also, the SDP (as referred to in the clip) wasn’t created until the early 1980s, long after the last Monty Python TV programme was made.
@stephensmith13433 жыл бұрын
He was always ahead of the Pythons. They said so themselves.
@cpa27882 жыл бұрын
@@Wally-H Yes, It's from 'There's A Lot Of It About' (1982). The final series of Python was 1974. Python used the 16 ton weight in 'And Now for Something Completely Different' (1971) and possibly even before then.
@TheMrgaztop11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info Tech.
@goonerali35472 жыл бұрын
27th July 2022. 👍🏽
@milbomilbo14 жыл бұрын
@parlezuml Yes! I presume the cut price Wogan is Henry Kelly, the bearded she-man Matthew Kelly, the Richard III hunchback must be a reference to Jeremy Beadle's polio affected hand (which does seem in poor taste!) I think the blonde woman is meant to be Sarah Kennedy.
@maryfreebed98866 жыл бұрын
Polio-affected hand? He's in a full Richard III costume.
@spudgunn86956 жыл бұрын
Well, Spike never took the piss in any way other than full on! And no one ever said he had good taste. OTT was the way to go!
@cpa27882 жыл бұрын
Spot on in every department. The reference to Beadle's disability is quite cruel, yet hilariously exploited. Switching a withered hand for a hunchback is a stroke of genius.
@paulgradley71833 жыл бұрын
Love it
@davelaidlaw37953 жыл бұрын
Genius! 😂
@ThatsMrMoronToYou14 жыл бұрын
@LeeJTurnock The networks here in the US have the same lack of foresight. Where once there were hilarious B&W movies on late night TV, there are only infomercials now. As children, my siblings and I would wake up at 5:30am to watch a test pattern until 6:00am when the networks came on the air for an hour of cartoons before school. We became regular TV viewers at that early age. Now there are no cartoons. If the networks want to compete with cable, they should revert back to the classics.
@soundnicetome14 жыл бұрын
Hey dont forget even though you cannot get these programmes on dvd,just think of the fantastic option available today?What about X Factor,complete shit in every respect !!!
@TheAgProv3 жыл бұрын
Got it. They're piss-taking Jeremy Beadle. Although I don't remember Sarah Kennedy looking that pneumatic.
@Daniel-xv5jq2 жыл бұрын
Game for a Laugh?
@horsforthhe5 жыл бұрын
Spot on
@funfox81333 жыл бұрын
So that's where X Factor, Britain's Got Talent etc came from...
@mistie7102 жыл бұрын
Ah those were the days. Back when we could laugh at a cretin that wasn't supposed to be running the country.
@Lytton33313 жыл бұрын
@LeeJTurnock Blanket Snooker-coverage on BBC2 these days..says it all really..
@michaelbullock82794 жыл бұрын
1:22. Astonising.
@newspaperface Жыл бұрын
I live in Sydenham now that joke made me laugh i never heard anyone mention Sydenham in my previous 38 years
@LarzGustafsson11 жыл бұрын
But there's no stopping...
@threepot58743 жыл бұрын
Mad!😊
@PMC-jp2dg3 жыл бұрын
The good old days of comedy before pc took over !
@gentsw136 жыл бұрын
Funtastic!!!!
@SpineMillington14 жыл бұрын
@johnhalley974 I had to do this on a couple of videos - previously posted uncensored versions of some of my clips were reported by some prudish people as containing inappropriate content. We're living in tough times...
@jimbob29803 жыл бұрын
This one sketch alone is a microcosm of everything Python nicked. Yet I perfer Python as they were more controlled. Milligan's brain had at least two electrodes too many and he piled on unnecessary madness which clouds and distracts from his already great comedy.
@TetchedFlame11 жыл бұрын
some user on here has uploaded all of Q6 all the way through to Q10 on here, it was Q5 and before that were recorded over by the BBC as they didn't have any spare tapes and had (and still do) low budgets to afford new ones
@redpillnibbler44232 жыл бұрын
So this is where Jeremy Beadle got his idea!
@ChrisJones-it4qs3 жыл бұрын
You dont need this when you already have TOWIE and Love Island
@thephilpott2194 Жыл бұрын
.......or indeed ITVbe spin-offs like 'Billie & Greg's family diary'- a programme about orange people with glow in the dark teeth and spoilt children-where nothing actually happens.
@dannymaguire35733 жыл бұрын
Laugh .. act a Cretin... always accepted.
@arfacat15 жыл бұрын
the shadow puppet bit is brilliant
@MichaelKingsfordGray2 жыл бұрын
Why censor it?
@alternativefm3284 жыл бұрын
I know of a few
@vincentreynolds21276 жыл бұрын
Renall Quells.
@darganx3 жыл бұрын
So Python and the Goodies have Spike to thank for the Ton Weight joke?
@thewomble15093 жыл бұрын
Nah, this was early eighties. Python was from the late sixties/early seventies. The ton weight joke is as old as the hills.
@schizoidboy14 жыл бұрын
@leoseries Most likely;)
@Johniola113 жыл бұрын
While lame shows like Dad's Army, Are You Being Served and Eastenders remain untouched. Sickening!
@arthurpewtey5 жыл бұрын
@@andymerrett Indeed - much of it is still wonderful. I find it nothing short of amazing how well it even works on radio, let alone TV. He has a point with Eastenders though..... ;o)
@dpace23104 жыл бұрын
Look it's the Labour Party Conference.
@keithcarter21846 жыл бұрын
C
@Glenn1967ful14 жыл бұрын
@LeeJTurnock Oh yes and show such boring rubbish as Holby City and Eastenders as if they are great entertainment. Also the way they almost ignore Kenny Everett now is a disgrace.
@swallin1914 жыл бұрын
Blame the rights holders, Equity, PRS, and the BBC, they all share the contractual mess they wrote themselves into, along with other broadcasting unions who forced the restrictions on to archived material.
@owenlewis80068 жыл бұрын
There shouldn't be much need to for the BBC to wipe any more great comedy shows, they've got loads of footage of Jimmy savile and Rolf Harris they can tape over. I think julia Breck is wearing the beard here. I can tell by the eyes.
@marvinc9996 жыл бұрын
owen lewis - " I can tell by the eyes.." Something - call it 'intuition if you like - tells me that you're fibbing !
@dejavoue883 жыл бұрын
the new version is just films of trump.
@wanderer19553 жыл бұрын
I think you mean Sleepy Joe Biden.
@TheophilusPWildbeest3 жыл бұрын
@@wanderer1955 No, he got it right.
@wanderer19553 жыл бұрын
@@TheophilusPWildbeest Nah!! It's definitely about dementia man Biden 😂😂👍
@jamesdoogan55282 жыл бұрын
@@wanderer1955 deffo!!
@flappospammo13 жыл бұрын
@LeeJTurnock well said , the way they treat the goodies is beyond belief they say it's old fashioned - so dads army and porridge isn't ? and whats wrong with being old fashioned anyway %$£& the bbc