Stanley Unwin

The incomparable Professor Stanley Unwin filmed for 'A Partly Satirical Broadcast' in 1983. Directed by Dom Shaw

[@hiroyoshi00]

If I were a teacher of English for foreigners I would use this clip on the final exam just to freak them out

[@davidcockayne3381]

I used to teach English to those whom we must now call international students. I can assure you that they would have coped far better with Stanley Unwin's utterances than with the actual exams they sat.

[@garryclarkson9084]

I was and I did :)

[@arthurmartin804]

😂😂😂

[@laurasands8322]

You should listen to this with the captions on.

[@bobbest1611]

he makes more sense than most politicians.

[@vaslav030547]

I complotatmode agumus! Politinode repromondo of the publn todus donnot undeostund the notion! We arein deer stoots. In other woords fooked.

[@MBRSims]

Remarkabold. Truly markabold. Really enjoined this impressingly and generops exampling of languageness. Oh, folly folly!

[@alimantado373]

😄👏

[@ShoegazingHammer74]

Spoke more sense in that one minute than the combined Houses Of Parliament have mustered between them since 1983.

[@fci1]

Much missed man of talent.

[@Lena._k]

Yes, i know his great grandson. They are really alike.

[@donaldmatthew4980]

Deep joy

[@grahamturner97]

Stanley Unwin explains the Irish backstop.

[@29brendus]

Yes, and I fully agree with his analyses.

[@maolsheachlannoceallaigh4772]

As an Irish person I find this offensifencibobble.

[@AndyB677Aegyptus]

😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@maolsheachlannoceallaigh4772

[@Shannmeister]

At last something sensible!

[@misst.e.a.187]

And with absolute clarity 😂

[@29brendus]

Definitely more sense than Mr. Floppy PM.

[@ralphlees2231]

It all makes sense now.

[@CosThee]

Ye, the British Empile completely leaked

[@moiraspeed6356]

The man's a genius

[@peterbuxton7901]

A genius who didn't need to use swear words-at least I don't think he used any swear words.

[@indefence7214]

🤣🤣🤣

[@fluorosco]

Off course he no didlow oh deep folly

[@alimantado373]

@@fluorosco 🤣🤣

[@graemeyetts3465]

Never

[@joshuakohlmann9731]

"Oh, folly!" was about as strong as it ever got.

[@sandyrogerson4511]

Professor Stanley is brilliant

[@RobBob555]

haah.. what an absolute legend !

[@Jamal_Tyrone]

There's a man that knew what he was talking about!

[@davidcockayne3381]

I remember as a nipper finding the good professor's talks simultaneously entirely clear and utterly incomprehensible. I later had the same experience when studying continental philosophy, and, more recently, its poisonous spawn critical theory.

[@gilldanier4129]

Ah...critical thereode talkit at the sane tile, Ive been this but not continentode or philosiphode, more pop corcus by the tveel.

[@stishor]

I'm yet to understand why Prof Unwin adopts this indecipherable dialect before I go to the pub then makes perfect sense when I get back from the pub.

[@gagexxx7225]

Absolute comic legend.

[@Garymayes24]

This guy was a genius and should have been priminister back in the day.

[@paulparkinson7118]

Excellent!

[@sagpillai]

Deep joy of the throkus.

[@harrypoole6227]

I was becoming a bit lost but now I understand perfectly. Why can't the pollies explain as clearly as this?

[@gilldanier4129]

Bbecause the peeploaders are mostly thundermold and not entirely educale.

[@Desmo904]

I couldn't have put it better myself.

[@Artoforb]

I agree...most.infaticol of the love bold hearty beaty...omph.yes..

[@MrAronRobinson]

This is captain kak of the starslop interpol On a five year mishap to explode new worms And bodelly go where no-go forego mango.

[@RickyKelley]

Honestly, this is what a lot of people sound like to me...

[@Andreschannel_SA]

English is my second language. I did not understand a single phrase, not even with subtitles. Now I feel bad. I don't listen to American, and I don't understand English anymore. Oh dear.

[@johnlawrence2757]

He was an SM at Bush House even before I was. If anyone understood Dawn French better than he we should be introduced

[@____stu____]

Epiglotty!

[@DouglasCookMusic]

I remember him well from those days. I think he just worked in a studio and someone heard him amusing his workmates with this gorgeous flow of mumbo Profumo. Please correct me if this is not the story.

[@ronnieaubrey-bray697]

Genius. Rolling in the aisles hilariousmode.

[@richardlloyd2906]

Just seen him on CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. What a genius

[@harryo6126]

Awesome stanley unwin is so funny

[@walkerig1]

Stanley Unwin explains UK Government Covid 19 policy.

[@Gilstero]

That give my a deep thorkus on my windie way homebolder, before I sit comftibold two square on my botty....

[@neilcollins3701]

Makes more sense than Cameron

[@alimantado373]

haha or Donald Trump :)

[@tomarmstrongproductions5418]

I heard in Gerry Anderson's "The Secret Service" and one in "Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang"

[@croiners4166]

Where is he when we need him?

[@sim3otto]

Great!

[@3DSgeek]

Speaker's corner has changed a lot.

[@amanofmanyparts9120]

This I understood. Johnson's explanation of his end of lockdown instructions ... not so much!

[@SANIZIP]

Tory party covid-19 advice

[@misst.e.a.187]

Truth. Love it 😂😂

[@misst.e.a.187]

And still speaks more clearly than your average British politician

[@johno4521]

Those few bars of music heard at the beginning are pinched from 'The Long Good Friday'....

[@pianoish]

He’s definitely making sound, this much is certain.

[@andyhunter7369]

ahhh...at last ....some sense............deeep joy

[@enriquesanchez2001]

THE BEST ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[@lesgobrandeau6005]

Makes more sense than any politicians today

[@askmaxmixed]

Is it one of Boris the Bodgers government advisors, talking to us about how we move out of this whole pantomime

[@VankeithB.-lx1dy]

Stanley Unwin is the most hilarious actor there is. What he's saying makes absolutely little sense, but he makes us all laugh nonetheless. 😄😂

[@benthejrporter]

I've got somebody always commenting on my videos who constantly insists on speaking in Unwinese.

[@Lena._k]

Well I know his great grandson so I get unwinese everyday!

[@poofighter3741]

He speaks more sense than politicians

[@gilldanier4129]

Perfy explanale and broadcasty at the speakers corm.

[@chrisbuckley7978]

Made total sense

[@alimantado373]

I actually heard him talking normal English on 'Just A Minute' nobody interrupted him, such was his stature, not even Kenneth Williams, another genius of the English language with his 'Polari' on 'Round The Horn'.

[@ThomasMulhall]

Remember that he was such a genius that Baron Bomburst made him Chancellor of Vulgaria!

[@mangojulie123]

I disagree vehemently with his position. No wait...I agree 100%.

[@CathyKitson]

It resembles Polari a bit, doesn't it?

[@CathyKitson]

He makes more sense than a lot of political commentators I've heard.

[@lyricallarrikin]

Wonder if this came before or after Word Association Football by Monty Python?

[@harerichard1]

I'm crying 😂

[@peteb8556]

President Biden often sounds like Prof Stanley Unwin .

[@kevindunne701]

Yer that abut right stanley

[@danielkane292]

Uh Oh, I understood every word.....

[@carpypark]

Mwah. Kissy cuddly to you too sir. In the marty fold.

[@Lena._k]

I am proud to say that my friends great great something grandad is stanley unwin (btw my friends name is Henry Unwin)

[@AnthonyHandcock]

Shutty cake-oh.

[@VirreFriberg]

Are you all sitty comftybold two-square on your botty? Then I'll begin.

[@indefence7214]

If you think his speech is confusing, check out Stanley Unwin. 🤣🤣🤣

[@pabze]

There is no way that was a minute and 9

[@CathyKitson]

It really does sound like it SHOULD mean something! ;) I wonder how he did it? Did he have a script or did it just come to him naturally? "Course, he loved his wife, kissy, cuddly!"

[@domshaw]

He was so familiar with his own vocabulary that he could extemporise in any situation. But he was meticulous about continuity, so once he had it down, he could do the same spiel again and again.

[@CathyKitson]

@@domshaw He sounds like a clever man. The thing is, you can kind of understand him - almost!

[@alimantado373]

It actually makes sense in a roundabout way!

[@Toosimoo]

Kissy cuddly

[@heathstjohn6775]

A few tourists around wondering if they'll ever learn the English language

[@griswald7156]

This is what teachers sound like to most kids…

[@ctm1602]

This is all i hear When Nicola Sturgeon Speaks 🥺

[@user-oo8xp2rf1k]

If he talked like that at speakers corner now he'd be arrested now for mispronobly non crimular hateywoblers.

[@vaslav030547]

Brilliantine. A luggage to befuddleise our foringalo invadis. A bitin likus polararie uisen binum the omosusu in the ear years?

[@Ravemastergeneral-fn1mc]

Godly wurldy

[@craigcrawford685]

“Blown to smithereekers in the early mordi.”Well that’s one way to describe the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombings😂

[@PaulRoneClarke]

Half past six mate.

[@captainwin6333]

It's Boris Trump!

[@richardsearles435]

Remarkibold! He speaky truthmost in the languagefallopy of the politicalfolly Oh yes

[@marionslingo2315]

He was my uncle

[@leiph]

Welcode......Eardroves

[@rob16248]

Twot's ee talking about???

[@cjaquilino]

Irwin Corey from across the sea. But their act predates them both. It's at least as old as mintrelsy.

[@brummiejojo]

As clear as Donald Trump giving a press conference

[@sandyrogerson4511]

The Basic Engli-Twenty-Fido.

[@davidmilligan7820]

Blown the people to smithereekers 😂😂

[@ian_b]

Critical Theory explained.

[@FightFairLoseEasy]

absolutely

[@biblicalbroadcasting2639]

Not another Charismatic!

[@michaelmcguinness10]

Susie Dent Countdown !

[@KarlHamilton]

Nadine Dorries

[@stamen_]

I watched this on mushrooms. It didn't help.

[@kwillykelly]

It's Joe Biden!

[@paineoftheworld]

This pisses off even Joyce.

[@knockedoutloaded279]

Totally diddlebunk....

[@astonmartin4360]

Joe Bidens hero.

[@ianf831]

Is that Joe Biden?

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Sounds like Joe Biden.

[@gskinner14101968]

Is he related to Joe Biden? 🤔

[@AndrewLale]

Joe Biden speaks.