It's the way he turns round and assesses the room when he's playing Gay Bar and then turns back towards the piano and carries on. Makes me laugh out loud every time 🤣🤣🤣
@michaeltaylor88353 жыл бұрын
Alexander is such a talented musician
@PrinceWesterburg4 жыл бұрын
Having grown up in the 1970s, those PIFs (Public Information Films) are spot on!!!
@robkeeleycomposer Жыл бұрын
Their eye for parody is unequalled. These are superb.
@uniquerebeljaney36394 жыл бұрын
I can't believe How many hats? didn't get picked up for a series, it really was compelling viewing.
@imokin863 жыл бұрын
It was reimagined as Numberwang
@Hayyyward Жыл бұрын
Is the number of series you're thinking of a prime number? 😁
@jonathanross1494 жыл бұрын
"How many hats" really got to me
@pineapplepenumbra2 жыл бұрын
@freebeerfordworkers That's it. We're on to you! You know you're not allowed to let the general public in on that sort of thing!!!"
@robkeeleycomposer Жыл бұрын
Much funner than 'Numberwang'.
@dwblurb4 жыл бұрын
"... hypnotized into believing he was a steam locomotive..."
@ticklish19912 жыл бұрын
I love the snippets of the amazing and fascinating stories we hear in those sketches. Would love to have heard more from each of them haha
@pineapplepenumbra2 жыл бұрын
@@ticklish1991 I know. It's a shame one of them wasn't very, very drunk....
@paulflint62542 жыл бұрын
The Jeeves and Wooster parody is great.
@josephinebennington7247 Жыл бұрын
Years before Jeeves and Wooster’s time.
@bobbeorn Жыл бұрын
Wodehouse wrote the first Jeeves book in the 20s or before.
@kaspianepps7946 Жыл бұрын
@@josephinebennington7247 The Jeeves and Wooster TV adaptation aired 1990-1993; The Armstrong & Miller Show aired 2007-2010.
@JiveDadson Жыл бұрын
@kaspianepps7946 I say, old bean, what are you blathering about? I venture to say that Jeeves himself could not deduce your point if he were to become a strict piscavore. Awaiting clarification.
@kaspianepps7946 Жыл бұрын
@@JiveDadson The person I'm responding to said "years before Jeeves and Wooster's time" implying they didn't think the sketch could be a parody of Jeeves and Wooster. I was pointing out that Jeeves and Wooster actually came out over a decade before the sketch aired.
@vardoandtheboss10 жыл бұрын
first piano part is amazing
@curiousgemini6 жыл бұрын
I have the feeling that piano player might be a time traveler.
@scipioafricanus58715 жыл бұрын
Definitely didn't feel piano player was "right on time".
@Codex77774 жыл бұрын
@@scipioafricanus5871 - Nor did he get a 'Ride on Time'... ;)
@thelouisfanclub9 жыл бұрын
lmfao when he started singing "right on time"
@klinikle54455 жыл бұрын
It's Ride on Time!
@basba_qal3 жыл бұрын
2.03 Sometimes I wished I had my serving tray with me.
@m3na97 жыл бұрын
omfg, that first bit almost killed me laughing!!!
@blenderpanzi14 жыл бұрын
"I will not be silenced!" lol
@ASChambers Жыл бұрын
Alexander Armstrong rocking to Gay Bar always reduces me to tears…
@stuartrobertson92703 жыл бұрын
Why are they shocked when he starts singing about visiting a cheerful public house?
@88Switches2 жыл бұрын
Because he had something to put in them
@Grizzly0111 жыл бұрын
You sir!
@brutallyremastered4255 Жыл бұрын
"Disguise yourself as an Abyssinian!" Marvelous
@zapkvr0101 Жыл бұрын
We call it Ethiopia now
@clairenoon40706 ай бұрын
A nod to the 'Dreadnought Hoax' played on the Royal Navy, I think around 1912, by the arch-joker Horace Cole, writer Virginia Woolf, Virginia's brother Adrian Stephen, artist Duncan Grant and others. Got a theatrical costumer to rig them out as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. Wired from London, purporting to be from a government department, that the Emperor wished to visit and inspect the Royal Navy's newest ship HMS Dreadnought. The others all spoke gibberish, with Adrian posing as official interpreter. They were received and given a tour by a senior officer (who was actually a cousin of Duncan Grant, but didn't recognise him). Horace Cole tipped off a newspaper the next day, who splashed the story and made the Royal Navy a laughing stock for a few days. Questions were even asked in Parliament.
@telewatho13 жыл бұрын
the jeeves and wooster scetch is rather difficult to find
@jdrancho18644 жыл бұрын
The lost episodes.
@ian_b4 жыл бұрын
My mum left me in my pram outside a shop. Then she got home and my gran was like, "where's the baby?". I was still there when she got back to the shop.
@pineapplepenumbra2 жыл бұрын
I was walking past a newsagents and there was a pram outside with twins in it. Some bloke who genuinely looked like he came from another century, with a shape I've never seen outside of cartoons, was standing there and, as I passed by, he asked me, "Aren't they beautiful? Aren't they just beautiful?" I had no idea how to respond to this weirdness, and just mumbled an "I suppose so, yes", and carried on my way. I'm normally quite happy to talk to strangers, but this was slightly beyond me. I don't have kids, don't understand why people rave about babies and didn't understand when I was in a pram why women would say complimentary things about me (yep, my memory goes back a loooong way) when I was very young. He was still raving about them, to no one in particular, as I passed out of earshot. Still, at least he didn't nick them. Edit, probably because the brake was on!
@rumteetoo11 жыл бұрын
I'm sure this is a quote from a real sixties live discussion show...David Frost or something similar....a protester got into the studio and started to speak but was bundled to the ground by bystanders...he shouted "I will not be silenced!" Did this really happen or is a 40+ year old memory playing tricks on me??
@Amphy0024 жыл бұрын
7 years too late, here is the answer: That Was The Week That Was (TW3) 1960s satire programme. I think Bernard Levin had made a comment earlier that the protester wanted to dispute. On another occasion, a member of the audience punched Levin.
@Kris.G4 жыл бұрын
2:33 GENERAL KENOBI
@zapkvr0101 Жыл бұрын
Monty Python did a parody in the 70s of all the radio quiz games. Its hilarious
@michaeltaylor88353 жыл бұрын
Got myself into a chutney
@pineapplepenumbra2 жыл бұрын
This is sheer brilliance. The only thing is, back then "gay" meant something different, so it wouldn't have seemed quite as jarring as we might believe, still pretty freaky though.
@celluskh60092 жыл бұрын
Similar, I would think. Gay was fun - as in, fun girls. The loose morals bit ended up moving in to homosexuality, but it could certainly have sounded like he was singing about going to a brothel, which in that setting would have been scandalous I'm sure. That's why we now call them 'hostess bars'. Far more civilized...
@taotoo24 жыл бұрын
Electric lighting
@reevesjonathan4 жыл бұрын
Hilarious!
@xCazxful12 жыл бұрын
ride on time-blackbox
@Macho_Fantastico4 жыл бұрын
It's a shame Armstrong is more famous these days for being the host of a boring game show and being on Classic FM.
@josephinebennington7247 Жыл бұрын
And he still is! Such a waste. Still, his choice…or the money’s.
@sarahnicole6147 Жыл бұрын
"ONE HAT!*hmmpfff!!!*..."
@aMartianSpy Жыл бұрын
mammoth!
@akitafel792911 жыл бұрын
RUMTEETO: It's a take off of 'What's My Line?' (featuring Gilbert Harding)
@blenderpanzi11 жыл бұрын
I don't know. I didn't exist 40 years ago and I only watch british TV since KZbin, so I can't tell.
@mrbenoit50183 жыл бұрын
NOOOO!
@UberWolfGeist13 жыл бұрын
3 hats lol
@JiveDadson Жыл бұрын
The first song is by the Fugs.
@josephinebennington7247 Жыл бұрын
I prefer the erudition of the whacky questions.
@chowardvincent12 жыл бұрын
Anyone know what that second song is?
@tomboz7777 жыл бұрын
Charles Vincent Still wanna know?😁
@PaulRoneClarke7 жыл бұрын
ride on time by Black Box
@VayDooble12 жыл бұрын
Not much, especially popular music. It's still pretty much the same as early folk ballads. The modern classical tradition, Hamelin and Rzewski and so forth are still relatively similar though more complex to Scriabin and Alkan.
@pineapplepenumbra2 жыл бұрын
I don't know any of those names, but I've given you a thumbs up anyway, and intend to learn more.
@miketaverner44513 жыл бұрын
😅😅😅
@listerofsmeg8845 жыл бұрын
5:00 - Donald Trump if he were an edwardian Englishman.
@aisddd19964 жыл бұрын
More likely bill clinton.
@kristinajendesen71116 жыл бұрын
They truly don't make comedy like they used to in this sterile PC country 😕
@NilsAlbertsson6 жыл бұрын
Kris Jenders... Oh do fuck off, will you!
@Robert.Deeeee5 жыл бұрын
LOL it was only 10 years ago
@FallNorth4 жыл бұрын
I see you triggered some people but with regards to the BBC/C4 you are totally right. Years ago we had this, mitchell and webb, fast show, so on and so on, a golden age of comedy. C4 had its own great stuff. Now we have endless new series of "The Mash Report" and "The Last Leg" and the decades past its sell by date "HIGNFY" where a box ticking panel of left wing arseholes sit and sneer at anyone who isn't like them.