Spike Milligan - Laugh At A Cretin

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[@ysthafellgynghori8423]

Spike taking the wee-wee out of ITV's 'Game For A Laugh' from the early 80's.

[@Wally-H]

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.

[@billyandrew]

Crazy as a bedbug, he was, but he made me laugh so much. RIP, Spilligan.

[@schizoidboy]

Laugh At a Cretin... Don't they call it reality TV now days?;)

[@paulhatherly]

No, just reality...

[@ericellis3506]

House of Commons.

[@spikeybaby1735]

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

[@fredfarnackle5455]

You got that right!!

[@schizoidboy]

@Noel Coward In America it's called legislative although the two other branches right now might qualify.

[@McToddRidesAgain]

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!

[@garthn2561]

Pretty pathetic load of cr*p actually

[@davidchamberlain5425]

Arduous Andotherous Just like you really!!!!!!!Get a sense of humour.OK.

[@janosk8392]

From less appreciative comments here the current score of satirical thinkers vs literals is 10.5

[@darganx]

That's the thing, nobody won a prize - just humiliation 😂

[@whatshisname3304]

i miss spike. an understated genius. he made the python team seem sane.

[@musamor75]

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.

[@whatshisname3304]

@@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..

[@musamor75]

@@whatshisname3304 I say, wasn't his first name something like Full? Full of laughs I'd say.

[@whatshisname3304]

@@musamor75 they were very much like the 'At Last the 1948 Show' style of sketch. the absence of Marty Feldman was a shame.

[@cosycleaner]

Funny how masterly TV comedy predicts the future - this IS the X Factor!

[@CastlesForEyes]

😆😅😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@jamespasifull3424]

Laugh at a cretin! What a title for a 21st Century reality show!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@fredo1070]

Spot on Game for a Laugh.

[@fredferd965]

That's nothing! You've got Laugh At A Cretin, we've got Congress!!! Same thing, but more people!!!

[@CastlesForEyes]

The UK has parliament which is full in inbred upper-class twits. Which is worse?

[@Codemanship]

@cosycleaner I think he's actually having a pop at "Game For A Laugh", which was big in the early 80's

[@Luke-vf7et]

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!

[@richardupton3323]

eh plus game for a laugh had a irish guy, a woman, and a guy with a beard on it like this did.

[@signalmanmusic4225]

I think the first one is meant to be Jeremy Beadle....

[@steveclamp4488]

This is now " BGT"

[@alyxbryce4031]

Wet myself laughing🤣🤣...genius👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@gregtees9995]

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.

[@jamesdoggart530]

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]

I've got to ask you something, and I do hope you know the answer, what does woke mean?

[@daveabbott]

@@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.

[@morriganravenchild6613]

A genius!

[@chrisgibson5267]

That beard fooled nobody Julia.

[@fintanwardell]

Spike spoofs Game for a Laugh.

[@tuulenkoti]

And thus Pop Idol was born...

[@commentfreely5443]

how the old age pension works at the Colosseum in Rome.

[@angieetheridge6386]

Laugh at a cretin, that could be used for any game show or reality show at this presant time or prime ministers question time

[@lochead1]

@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.

[@jamesdoogan5528]

Ace! Sad that you wouldnt get away with that now.

[@fredferd965]

BARKING MAD!!!!!!!!! (But wonderful!)

[@kevinjackson6387]

Just nuts hahahaha

[@stephenreeds3632]

Bloody Game for a Laugh. What a nauseating programme that was.

[@rlneesam]

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.

[@dennislane100]

Another classic “existential “joke;-Bluebottle”Hey,Eccles-Wot you doin’ in ‘ere?” The reply-“Everybody got to be somewhere!”

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Ying-tong-iddle-i-po!

[@Mumon010]

More Spike.

[@cameronalexander359]

Julia Breck under that beard.

[@stevebrindle1724]

The Squash game, genius!

[@eggmangoogoogoojoob]

@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-op1mo]

They call it X factor

[@TheAgProv]

And hovering over the status bar, a picture of Sarah Palin popped up. Unintended, but perfect .

[@Johniola1]

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!!!

[@blastfromthepast8344]

A shame Patrick Troughton didn't do the same.

[@cpa2788]

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

[@rlneesam]

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

[@rlneesam]

clip from 1982 original show 1954

[@baconsandwich2007]

Well it's still better than Saturday Night Takeaway.

[@davidharrison6615]

spike loved his big curvy woman . well done spike !!!!

[@sillywalks111]

Now we know where the Python's 16 ton weight came from.

[@Wally-H]

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

[@jerry2357]

@@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.

[@stephensmith1343]

He was always ahead of the Pythons. They said so themselves.

[@cpa2788]

@@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.

[@TheMrgaztop]

Thanks for the info Tech.

[@goonerali3547]

27th July 2022. 👍🏽

[@milbomilbo]

@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.

[@maryfreebed9886]

Polio-affected hand? He's in a full Richard III costume.

[@spudgunn8695]

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!

[@cpa2788]

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.

[@paulgradley7183]

Love it

[@davelaidlaw3795]

Genius! 😂

[@ThatsMrMoronToYou]

@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.

[@soundnicetome]

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 !!!

[@TheAgProv]

Got it. They're piss-taking Jeremy Beadle. Although I don't remember Sarah Kennedy looking that pneumatic.

[@Daniel-xv5jq]

Game for a Laugh?

[@horsforthhe]

Spot on

[@funfox8133]

So that's where X Factor, Britain's Got Talent etc came from...

[@mistie710]

Ah those were the days. Back when we could laugh at a cretin that wasn't supposed to be running the country.

[@Lytton333]

@LeeJTurnock Blanket Snooker-coverage on BBC2 these days..says it all really..

[@michaelbullock8279]

1:22. Astonising.

[@newspaperface]

I live in Sydenham now that joke made me laugh i never heard anyone mention Sydenham in my previous 38 years

[@LarzGustafsson]

But there's no stopping...

[@threepot5874]

Mad!😊

[@PMC-jp2dg]

The good old days of comedy before pc took over !

[@gentsw13]

Funtastic!!!!

[@SpineMillington]

@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...

[@jimbob2980]

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.

[@TetchedFlame]

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

[@redpillnibbler4423]

So this is where Jeremy Beadle got his idea!

[@ChrisJones-it4qs]

You dont need this when you already have TOWIE and Love Island

[@thephilpott2194]

.......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.

[@dannymaguire3573]

Laugh .. act a Cretin... always accepted.

[@arfacat]

the shadow puppet bit is brilliant

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Why censor it?

[@alternativefm328]

I know of a few

[@vincentreynolds2127]

Renall Quells.

[@darganx]

So Python and the Goodies have Spike to thank for the Ton Weight joke?

[@thewomble1509]

Nah, this was early eighties. Python was from the late sixties/early seventies. The ton weight joke is as old as the hills.

[@schizoidboy]

@leoseries Most likely;)

[@Johniola1]

While lame shows like Dad's Army, Are You Being Served and Eastenders remain untouched. Sickening!

[@arthurpewtey]

@@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)

[@dpace2310]

Look it's the Labour Party Conference.

[@keithcarter2184]

C

[@Glenn1967ful]

@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.

[@swallin19]

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.

[@owenlewis8006]

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.

[@marvinc999]

owen lewis - " I can tell by the eyes.." Something - call it 'intuition if you like - tells me that you're fibbing !

[@dejavoue88]

the new version is just films of trump.

[@wanderer1955]

I think you mean Sleepy Joe Biden.

[@TheophilusPWildbeest]

@@wanderer1955 No, he got it right.

[@wanderer1955]

@@TheophilusPWildbeest Nah!! It's definitely about dementia man Biden 😂😂👍

[@jamesdoogan5528]

@@wanderer1955 deffo!!

[@flappospammo]

@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

[@TheophilusPWildbeest]

Watching this is like watching a trump rally.