Celebrating Earth Day with David Attenborough | Spitting Image

[@stevenash3538]

People don’t realize this was his voice like 40 years ago. Everyone thinking he sounded like he does now his entire life.

[@wrinklies2167]

David use to talk quite cut glass when he first started up

[@TheScottishBOLSHEVIK]

Not to mention it'd based on an 80s Attenborough thing or smthn

[@powerist209]

Now I get Nigel Thornberry’s main inspiration. Like British Documentarian is usually Attenborough homage. Mostly due to being made by people who grew with that period’s version of him.

[@buzzinga4]

Sir David is the only character that made it from the original series, 40 years into the 2020 remake. Incredible. Such a long and full life

[@dougsaunders8109]

And the Queen of course

[@damianleah6744]

And Prince Charles

[@redhood7650]

@@damianleah6744 and Prince Andrew

[@markfryer9880]

@@redhood7650 Pity his helicopter didn't get shot down in the Falklands. The Young Prince dying heroically in a battle to win back a small part of the once great Empire.

[@norrinradd3549]

@@markfryer9880. That would’ve saved us from seeing the vexatious claims of wrongdoings, from the US......... Which are ridiculous for two reasons, firstly, the young woman was actually old enough to have sex with(as long as she said yes), because in the UK where she “slept” with him, the age of consent is sixteen and she was seventeen at the time(which still makes him a creepy bastard, but no law was broken)........... But, the worst thing about this case, is that the US refuses to extradite proven/known murderers to the UK, yet they want us to extradite people to the US.......... And so, I think that until they are willing to extradite people to the UK, to face our courts, then we shouldn’t think of extraditing people to the US to be judged in that lawless banana republic............

[@evo2542]

I'm from the USA and didn't realize how soft spoken he was in the 80s vs now where he has more bass in his voice. Was thinking the voice was way off but then I looked up his 70s and 80s stuff.

[@abrahamlincoln4399]

I don't think he got a fish in his mouth. Base you mean.

[@norrinradd3549]

@@abrahamlincoln4399. That spelling of base means a support, or lowest part of a structure, a foundation, or basis, etc etc etc........... Whereas, the spelling for the fish, and for the lowest timbre of voice/guitar etc etc etc, is actually Bass for them both, as in a Bassist, which is not an angler in English(although in that yanky pidgin english, as crap as it is, I suppose that it could be).......... So you should apologise to Evo, and acknowledge your mistake, where you wrongfully make an attack, on their ability to spell correctly........... Then, you should get off of mummies laptop, and out of her basement, so you can get back to school, because you obviously need to learn a bit/lot more about the English language.......... And being a “septic” is not a good excuse, because even though the US schools system is basically bankrupt, with their bullshit US centric lies, as well as their unwillingness to admit the truth about natural selection, but that the bible/torah/koran is unfit for teaching people about reality, but mainly because of the lies told by old fat arseholes, about the meanings of the words within them, just in order to keep their jackboots on the peoples(but especially women) throats, you could actually get up off of your arse and learn the truth, for yourself................

[@norrinradd3549]

You should look up his earliest stuff(early to mid 50’s), where he filmed his exploits as a producer, for Zoo-quest, which showed the team, going around the world collecting animals for Zoo’s, which is not acceptable now(especially as we have captive breeding programs), but in some cases it has saved animals from extinction.............

[@iandeeley9033]

Sir David Attenborough at his ABSOLUTE BEST!

[@zeeej710]

This show is a blessing. What a breath of fresh air! So incredibly silly!

[@joycerandall9800]

Love it.

[@el6178]

The voice of Antony is one of the best things ever on Spitting Image.

[@Robcatist]

The voice of Chris Barrie.

[@ComicalRealm]

Ah the good old days, back when David was young and wild

[@pepperroni6252]

Wdym he's still wild

[@eliotreader8220]

I think David should have looked where he was walking otherwise he would have been attacked by Angry Ants

[@afrog2666]

And a woman

[@AvengerII]

They ended too soon -- well before they could spoof Steve Irwin when you COULD spoof Irwin. The stuff done post-stingray just seems in bad taste.

[@eliotreader8220]

who was the Lioness's VA in this I think I have heard her voice somewhere

[@bonzomcdrumcat4989]

3:23 the ovary of a weasel, nutrient for the lunar module bird here seen cleaning its tweezers with octopus spittle, as talking leg warmer swims by with wiggling podules. Surely one of nature's most magical creatures. The flying angel fish. Its many coloured spores serve a double function; providing camouflage from predators, and a handy place to keep loose change

[@jwwprod3862]

The Wildebeest's reaction at 9:43 - 9:53 is priceless! LMAO!

[@1BassJohn]

9:08 lol The guy on the left frantically going through the script in a panic.. It's the subtle touches... awesome work by you all again ;)

[@vthilton]

Save Our Planet

[@jackwynne2823]

The planet is shit

[@garyreid7865]

save us

[@phoenixzappa7366]

Ban Palm Oil

[@jaycartwright6054]

Save my arsehole

[@jackwynne2823]

@@jaycartwright6054 😂😂😂

[@votemonty1815]

Perfectly Marvelous

[@leahanderson1576]

Fantastic!!! I love Anthony ❤️❤️❤️

[@bjnz]

Thought this was part of the new show too 😂

[@pietroseven8228]

Oh no sir David, my hero from childhood. Too much ;)

[@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794]

I think RA voice is very good. I've not heard him for a few years, but he always had a soft, gentle voice.

[@arturs2436]

The"Stupid animal"(8:35) appears with few similar 1s in the Genesis video clip"Land of Confusion"

[@bahamianlibertarian4755]

Boaty McBoatface! The Legend!

[@christopherfitzgerald774]

The best show in town.

[@accretionescapee]

The funniest video this week

[@alanprpic5992]

Happy earth day every body

[@psychogoreman198]

You too dude

[@andreweden9405]

It's so great to see someone continuing in the tradition of DC Follies!😂😁

[@symlexbrn5396]

This is hilarious 🤣

[@dnakatomiuk]

I just wish the BBC would show all his old black and white footage. But he did sound like this back then

[@Predator27007]

Central Independent Television

[@angelabennett2886]

I love spitting image, especially the political ones, so funny!!!!

[@carlg5086]

The New Spitting Image has left it too long for Series 2, they should have kept going.

[@Samuel-ut7mj]

Yes

[@eliotreader8220]

I don't like how they showed Him killing that poor seagull but I did like how the Sheep kissed him while it had the bake bean tin on its head I think he learned his lesson in the new series.

[@walkergp2130]

@@eliotreader8220 it’s just a puppit

[@cm1663]

Exactly

[@gaaraboy23]

I got some good news

[@alzeNL]

also featuring the polar bear from Rotterdam zoo interspliced with footage to make it look it was shot in the wild

[@norrinradd3549]

Only an imbecile, of the highest order(the sort of person that needs to be told, that the video footage, of a woman standing on a set of dentures in the advert, is not real footage, F F S) would imagine that a cameraman(the non gender specific contraction, of the word human), would be stupid enough to get close to a polar bear, as it gave birth(because the polar bear, may well eat the cub, & the cameraman(again this is using the non gender specific contraction of human, which anyone who is educated would know) too), let alone put his head and camera into a den..!..!..!..

[@jcramond73]

Ok, who else would love to own one of those Lion puppets !

[@nigeh5326]

The anteater sounds like it’s voiced by Chris Barrie (Rimmer in Red Dwarf) who voiced quite a few characters in the 80s. The anteater would have sounded better with a Kenneth Williams voice imo

[@221b-Maker-Street]

I sensed quite a luvvie-Williams-nasal twang there... 😬

[@karenwhitehead2260]

Yeah Chris did a lot of voice overs on spit and image, was fantastic on red dwarf to especially in the episode meltdown in the outtakes he dose a fantastic Kenneth Williams 👍👍👍👍👍

[@martymartin2894]

Quite similar to Kenneth Williams.

[@trespire]

ANTony's nasal voice :-)

[@eliotreader8220]

@Red Dwarf no wonder poor Antony has a head ache because of all those bright lights was in his eyes

[@orionxtc1119]

loved the interplay with the ant eater and David.. hilarious...

[@SPM0717]

@Red Dwarf I'm certain it's Chris Barrie. He does a great Kenneth Williams impression and he worked on Spitting Image so it must be him.

[@djalalboutti]

What a wonderful spitting

[@Highland_Moo]

So much better than the recent effort from Spitting Image. I miss the original ones.

[@youreg]

Goddam timeless 😁 Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll continue my vigil waiting to see those wildebeest sweep magestically across the plains

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

Are you in Torquay?

[@youreg]

@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 Eh, no...(??)...is it graced with wildebeest?

[@youreg]

@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 Ah, excellent - just Googled them with Fawlty Towers and was treated to a clip that’s refreshed my memory - thanks ! 😀 (And, no, a view of Torquay in Torquay simply is not good enough! 😞)

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

@@youreg I thought it must be a Watery Fowls reference but maybe you heard it so long ago you forgot where you heard it. I’m glad you got the reference and enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

[@youreg]

@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 Exactly - it's the default phrase that comes into my head when I hear of wildebeest, and hadn't realised it probably originated in the Fowls episode when I first viewed it!

[@Votedjt2024]

I really love the original spitting image ✌🤘💘🥀😘

[@richardhockey8442]

anteater facts: a website about anteaters had a rather amusing typo: 'anteaters can get through several thousand aunts in a day'

[@Phil144gbp]

Love it made my day 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@danielgreen3715]

Brilliant

[@raunoheikkinen9699]

It was funny, in the 80s they told us bamboos are going to run out and the pändis are going to die if you don't give some money to WWF. Bambu keeps growing at a 1 meter per day and the pandas must live in a golden palace by now.

[@Pfirtzer]

Look for a documentary : WWF the business with the panda you will see how an evil project it is.Not what you have been taught to be.

[@emilinebelle7811]

Exactly

[@jacklewis3803]

They definitely improved upon the voice

[@ChristianF15cher]

FUCKING HELL!

[@rhiannemoll3386]

Honestly it neither looks nor sounds like the good Sir.

[@jareknowak8712]

100%

[@Throku]

Yeah I thought it was Tony Blair and the voice made it unwatchable. I don't see the point of impersonation humour if you can't do the impersonation bit.

[@LEO-xo9cz]

Can't get it all right.

[@callnight1441]

The new one does though

[@JustCalmUp]

Because this was the 80's

[@kellyin]

My fav spitting image :)

[@andyscott6315]

finally, some clips posted post series 10 and even more eye opening is clips from post series 12. Why all of a sudden spitting image?

[@sufianansari4923]

8:24 woah! I am in a Land Of Confusion here?

[@mathieuleader8601]

CORRECT

[@LEO-xo9cz]

Phil Collins

[@willowwisp6401]

HAAAAH! This is GREAT!!!!

[@masterknife8423]

I don't find David himself that funny. His big eyed cameraman cracks me up though

[@breohtbrusmid489]

Woke wilderbeast before there even was such a thing as woke. Class!

[@afaber9990]

Indeed hilarious🤣🤣

[@TomChabassiere]

6:19 : PETA not amused.

[@lemsip207]

I didn't get this at the time but since then having heard of luvvies and how their attitudes I now get it.

[@TheCanuck-ye4xm]

11:42 My favorite part 😂

[@yurachunt3179]

i want to see modern attenborough (was he like that back then?) getting irate about climate change every other second while a wild xinping sniffs greta thurnberg trying to play dead

[@amoahfelix6648]

Please can I be a friend

[@dylanlarge11]

The voice of Attenborough is dreadful.

[@LEO-xo9cz]

No one is perfect. Got the rest of it right.

[@dylanlarge11]

@MWay Different voice actor

[@tutts9666]

@MWay this is from the original show in the 80s

[@Fox7466]

@3:25 about the best of English gobbledegook.

[@elizabethdimmock868]

Love all these.xx😂😂

[@BobbyBearhugTheWestHamFan96]

12:14 XD is so funny

[@u.e.u.e.]

Sir David Attenborough looks different and has another voice. You did it better in the past. 😳

[@Xcalator35]

Completely disagree with you

[@markissboi3583]

agree thought this was the Queen 1st up being a Dave stand in

[@kayseek1248]

This clip is from the original spitting image.

[@stevenfielden8955]

I can see it now; a hot soapy toe stroking the William Morris tiles over the gold taps at the end of the bathtub and the sound of someone singing "Land of Hope and Glory" in Latin - ha!

[@hinduwarrior123]

😂😂😂😂

[@remcovanengeland9494]

Antony😂

[@nigelrg1]

Are we looking at the future world?

[@mathieuleader8601]

love the joke at Dickie

[@chezzachezza7325]

luv

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

Anteater : What's my motivation darling ?

[@v.britton4445]

What a scream.

[@AgiHammerthief]

should have asked Sir David to do his own voice over.

[@langbo9999]

I really like the lion on lion shaggy shaggy 😉

[@handynothandsome261]

*Briliant and hilarious!... (and damned SEXY, too, if you ask me!...) (purrr)* 🤣

[@linkin543210]

He looks so young 😂

[@SPM0717]

That's because this is the 1980's series...

[@linkin543210]

@@SPM0717 greatness from small beginnings..

[@ajakuk1]

That eye. Lmao

[@hecateswolf6007]

LMBO 😆😆😆😂😂😂

[@Natashahoneypot]

The humour is moving toward monty python esp with the scouse lions

[@eliotreader8220]

wilder beasts do have sharp horns and don't get in between Lions and their Lunch David

[@eliotreader8220]

who voiced Antony the ant eater

[@Phil144gbp]

Brilliant voice nearly wet myself 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@markgoddard2560]

A lot of truth in satire, certainly more truth than the BBC can come up with.

[@nicholasmaude6906]

I'd wonder what Sir David thinks of his Spitting Image self?

[@markissboi3583]

Thought it was the Queen being dave 1st up dave making stuff in the garage sheep kisses dave Nice!

[@eliotreader8220]

I think the best part of this was his argument with Mr and Mrs Lion and Mr Wilderbeast

[@markissboi3583]

@@eliotreader8220 ha i know too many funny bits

[@scronx]

Funny!!!

[@i-yell-a-lot4906]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@nodvick]

so.. did you guys just watch huggbees and go "we should steal this bit"?

[@Ihaverandomusername]

11:37

[@olbradley]

David Attenborough is the best man alive in Britain.

[@BeardyGit89]

People who pronounce migraine as meegraine need driving into the sea.

[@MandoStudios]

😂

[@jacktattersall3529]

Is this supposed to be David Attenborough?

[@eliotreader8220]

watch out there's a lion right behind you

[@juliewake4585]

The pretend geordie accents aren’t getting any better.

[@annadawn921]

Gotta say.. The old impression wasn't that spot on in early days. Sorry. Bloody love Spitting Image though. X

[@loocat5070]

crazy that a man who appeared in the original show appears in the current version still doing the exact same job lol

[@eliotreader8220]

but in the new series he's trying to use a mobile phone camera?

[@AvengerII]

I'm sorry but I had to stop at Antony's accent. You can't top an ant-eater with a British accent! 😂

[@orionxtc1119]

hilarious

[@laurabedford5095]

This doesn't sound anything like david .

[@LEO-xo9cz]

Well the narrative does.

[@Natashahoneypot]

And the lions accent is all wrong. Scouse lions?

[@scifino1]

Allegedly this is forty years old and sounds like David did forty years ago.

[@marksadventures3889]

A Scouse lioness...lol.

[@JackTheSlayer-ok5eq]

Hello

[@JayB9137-abc]

🤣🤣🤣

[@fredmidtgaard5487]

I used to like him but now he is way over the edge in self love

[@kianshayegan2947]

7:53 wtf is that

[@commanderlouie8921]

Filthy Frank did a better David Attenborough voice.

[@sop9222]

Lmao this was 80s

[@helenbostock2350]

Lol

[@uwusmolbean]

Antony

[@wisteela]

The lions 😁

[@afrog2666]

Who knew Attenborough was a crossdresser all this time