The Armstrong and Miller Show - Spring Cotillion

[@1overripetart904]

OMG-- "it will leave me walking like an orphan with rickets!" I am dying!!

[@martm216]

These two were so good.

[@mmgringoire2]

I can never watch pride and prejudice or any other Austen story the same way again. These 2 are fantastic. Ben actually looks pretty good in this time period.

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

mmgringoire2 If you've never seen Mitchell and Webb's take on Austen, you truly haven't lived!

[@paulcaswell2813]

@@CaptainLumpyDogFreestyle disco dancing indeed ;-)

[@scienceismyopium]

Those were the good old days of courtship.

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

Sarah S Woof woof.

[@LambsyLamb]

I continue to court in this manner! Tis Friday evensong.🐶🐶

[@paulcaswell2813]

@@LambsyLambEvensnog ;-)

[@martm216]

'And a man as exquisitely fashioned as you Captain Jennings, would look even more becoming on, beneath, behind and, for my own benefit, several inches within me.'

[@missaustralia09]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nadsquasher]

👍👍👍

[@NaturaBreeze]

They just keep dancing, and dancing....brilliant :-)

[@Victor_490]

Just brilliant - every line.

[@tonyt1399]

"and for my own benefit, several inches within me" love that one.

[@missaustralia09]

🤣🤣🤣

[@JacobScott0000]

"...that you would leave me as dry as a ships biscuit"

[@stephaniecarr6984]

" ..as elegantly formed as it is epically proportioned.." Oh, MY yes....:)

[@maggiegathard9929]

Just the best comedy...... wish they were still on in this programme. So clever!

[@martm216]

I agree.

[@chasidahL]

Me too......

[@johnsrabe]

I love that they make absolutely no pretense of doing any sort of known dance.

[@martm216]

'And it may interest you to know that beneath the restrictions of my pantaloons, there's a protrusion so monstrously tumescent, that if you were to avail yourself of it, I guarantee that your horse would see no action for a week.'

[@josephinebennington7247]

Their behaviour is utterly…..UTTERLY…depraved…louche…temptatious…unfetteredly…straightforwardly…honest and direct.

[@houndsofroses3727]

I seriously like to think that this was how people hit on each other back in the day... so incredibly poetic 🤣

[@HighCrystal]

Couldn’t help watching the dance scenes in Sanditon and thinking of these sketches.

[@g13flat]

Such were the days of romantic utterances.

[@markboon341]

Been looking for this series of characters for ages, thanks, never guffawed so much!

[@pauljackson2409]

It will leave me walking like an orphan with rickets, and on that note...

[@richardl772]

Wonderful stuff. Thank God for the Poms…..!

[@j9lorna]

Like an orphan with ricketts is a personal best along with dry as a ships biscuit.

[@roshlouis8767]

I have learned a lot from video.I shall use this technique when I go dancing to club.

[@ruthie8785]

I like to think Jane Austen would’ve laughed her ass off at this.

[@lordeden2732]

No, She would have left her arss back in the stable from whence came after she dismounted it!

[@nerdbot37]

"...leave me walking like an orphan with rickets."

[@choongii]

The inspiration behind Bridgerton

[@stewartnicol3028]

Why has the BBC consigned this amazing Comedy Duo to quiz hosting and panel shows? If they had done the same with Morecambe & Wise and the Two Ronnies, their endless "21st Century" Christmas Programming would be non-existent.

[@martm216]

Totally agree.

[@SampleTracks2224]

Most of this humour is now un-correct and no longer suitable for broadcast.

[@paulcaswell2813]

@@SampleTracks2224You mean it's actually funny? ;-)

[@j9lorna]

Ooh thats good *writes it down*

[@TheLivingHeiromartyr]

The first one is still the best.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Blimey I really need to brush up on my readings of Austen...

[@erikarneberg11]

“Jane Austin: the uncensored version…”

[@squamish4244]

So I'm not the only one who imagines these scenarios in Jane Austen.

[@martm216]

I must admit that I did create some similar, although briefer, dialogue to accompany a dance scene with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in the excellent BBC Pride and Prejudice back in the 90's.

[@martm216]

I once imagined a similar one while watching the superb BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. When Darcy (Colin Firth) ask Elizabeth (Jennifer Ehle) whether she would do him the honour of the next dance and she says, 'I thank you, no', I imagined him saying, 'To be followed by a damn good seeing-to in one of Bingley's upstairs chambers'. And she replies, 'I thank you, yes.'

[@mariabolt3881]

These were the scenes in Jane Austens time!

[@effyleven]

Well, that line always worked for me.

[@AdamsOsiris]

Pure filth love it, but I bet people were like that back then lol

[@RFC3514]

Oh no, they were much, much dirtier: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Secret_Life_(erotic_memoir)

[@AdamsOsiris]

+RFC3514 Thank you that book will be perfectly suitable to enhance my sick mind ;)

[@jameretief8327]

The way they probably actually talked.

[@BoldonBigLad]

Brilliant, dry as a ships biscuit.

[@huntershereemccoun916]

Wonder if anyone finds the music kinda awesome and catchy

[@scipioafricanus5871]

This must be Apocrypha not usually included in the Austen Canon.

[@hugostiglitz6914]

The out takes of this would be worth posting. I'd say it took more that a couple of takes to get it done!😂

[@tacobell6826]

Well written, clever and funny. Unlike the shit that passes for comedy these days.

[@squamish4244]

Oh god this was only like eight years ago. Unless you are 18 that is 'These days'.

[@petermcasey5139]

Who are the two actresses I'd like to what other work they have done ?

[@ephphatha230]

Filthy...but genuinely arousing

[@pauldockree9915]

Lyrics from Spring, Spring, Spring. 7 Brides For 7 Brothers film. From his eerie, the eagle with his eagle eye Gazes down across his eagle beak And a'fixin' his lady with the legal eye Screams "suppose we fix the date this week!" Yes, siree, spring disposes That it's all one supposes It's a real bed of roses Waggin' tails, rubbin' noses. Each day is Mother's Day The next is some other's day When all is King

[@lorrainehamilton5051]

Woof Woof! 😂

[@huntershereemccoun916]

Lorraine Hamilton precisely...

[@salwaaj1356]

Frankly now that you poeple have the liberty to say such things, you should say them in such a way. 😅 This sketch took the best of two timeperiods and mashed it together masterfully

[@1508djg]

Isn't it!

[@AdmiralBonetoPick]

Ah, simpler times.

[@mathieugariepy2948]

Man, Jane Austen had a dirty mind!

[@JiveDadson]

Ah, the good old days.

[@SampleTracks2224]

Aren't these the rushes for Bridgerton?

[@Tatiana_Palii]

This reminds me of Lieutenant Rzhevsky jokes😅 they are usually set in the 1810's aristocratic Russian ballrooms (sometimes involving characters of War and Peace) and he usually says something like this to the ladies (and even worse)

[@ruthie8785]

And he says ass a lot right? I think I’ve heard of these jokes.

[@Tatiana_Palii]

@@ruthie8785 he absolutely does!

[@andrewforbes285]

Ok, young people, you see how funny comedy can be when there’s no swearing

[@paulaclark9729]

Hilarious! If Pride and Prejudice were this good, I would have finished it.

[@Jyromi]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂monstruous protrusion

[@GirGir183]

In which year would this have actually taken place? I'm guessing around 1790-ish. Anybody care to specify more accurately?

[@martm216]

You're pretty much on the mark.

[@jizza7788]

Due to a mention of the duke of wellington, it's gotta be post 1814 as the title of duke of wellington didn't exist prior to then

[@johnnymurgatroyd7393]

It must be later, because trousers and dark coats were not in until Wellington's time.

[@JohanHerrenberg]

The Regency (1811-1820).

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

Johan Herrenberg Bingo.

[@nox3335]

Please. KZbinrs everywhere. Equalise your bloody volumes. Its really not so difficult

[@richardjames1812]

This is how men and women should speak to each other social engagements.

[@Oj12323]

This is great 😂

[@maureenm8462]

Like a rude pride and prejudice

[@scipioafricanus5871]

maybe this was the uncensored version of Pride and Prejudice the public wasn't allowed to read...

[@ruthie8785]

Rude and Prejudice

[@pauldockree9915]

Sam, Sam, Picket Up Your Duke Of Wellington's Musket.

[@stretch654]

Ah yes! Those wonderful Edwardian period dramas .. so civilized .. so genteel - except for this one.

[@chrisevans5245]

@stretch654, perhaps because it's regency.

[@stretch654]

@@chrisevans5245 Yeah, i don't know. Is there any way of telling the difference between the 2 periods?

[@chrisevans5245]

@stretch654, a-line dresses on the women, cravats and knee stockings on the men, a chamber music ensemble rather than waltzes, a reference to Wellington, and the fact that the sketch parodies Jane Austen who was 70 years dead by the Edwardian era. I know I read like an absolute smartass but I don't expect everyone to know this stuff and still glad to help.🙂

[@stretch654]

@@chrisevans5245 It's a pity I didn't get to study this at high school - I only had a choice between Australian History or Modern History (I chose Australian - kind of niche but that's where I'm from).

[@martm216]

Or perhaps it was, ' . . . I guarantee that your horse would see no action for at least a week.'

[@Wubslin]

I can't help thinking that they're talking about sex

[@paulcaswell2813]

Really??? ;-)

[@pauldockree9915]

Woof woof!

[@pauldockree9915]

Slim chance? Maybe not. There is a running theme going on here mind. Other Peoples Money. RIP so many actors and actresses seen over the years.

[@OLDMANTEA]

Everything sounds better in Victorian English!

[@marcmomus]

Or Georgian English, perhaps?

[@krashd]

​@@marcmomus The Regency (1811-1820), George III was a lunatic with diminishing social skills so his son George IV ruled in his stead, but because his father was not mentally capable of abdicating and because no protocol was in place to dethrone a mad king a regal crisis was averted by having the church name George IV as his father's regent.

[@janes.9736]

So ridiculously rude. I'm waiting for these chat up lines in Sandton.

[@davidpyott3710]

Raunchy, Rude and Stylish Proper Adult comedy which they don't really do anymore

[@libertyvilleguy2903]

Really, really funny.

[@sitcorocket]

Comedy gold

[@zoemarieking]

Anyone here from Bridgerton?

[@GopherBaroque61]

So, did this inspire Bridgerton?

[@BassaiDai123]

Portuguese sailors arm 😂

[@briankelly5816]

Absolutely hilarious!!! Thankgod the woke brigades didn't exist when this was broadcast 😂😂😂😂😂

[@alexanderg1935]

Good grief.

[@sharonvass8700]

So funny

[@callummarch3970]

Who’s seen bridgeton 😂

[@gwae48]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

I bet this is actually what they did. Dirty rotters.

[@ThomasCorfield-r4n]

is it just me or is this incredibly raunchy?