The Day Today Episode 04 - Stretchcast

[@neilgodfrey2669]

11:57. The policeman dealing with the pedestrian cracks me up every time. The way he sticks his face in his then sarcastically points. It looks like Mark Heap and Armando Iannuci

[@markhilton1754]

_"Those are the headlines.... God, I wish they weren't."_ Best line in the series.

[@YouuuuuuTosserrrr]

+Mark Hilton Oh I dunno, I quite like "This is the NEWWWWWWS" :3

[@EXXTSON]

Im quite fond of "Now fact me until i fart"

[@AuroDHikoshi]

"Those are the headlines... happy now?"

[@GuyWithACamera23]

My favourite quotes has got to be "fact x importance = news". Even though it sounds silly, it's pretty accurate.

[@Shamino1]

"TWAT! That was LIQUID football!"

[@functio1]

I remember this when it was first aired because I was having a nice cup of tea and then Alan's football commentary unfolded. This combination nearly killed me as I laughed, drank and inhaled all that the same time, and my tea-seared lungs have never been the same since. Even now I make sure I only watch it without any tea nearby.

[@listerofsmeg884]

I think the thing that amused me most was the OTT titles, at a time when broadcasting went a bit mad with early CGi. After the 'War' episode I was utterly hooked. 😅 I have Alan's 'shit! Did you see that!' as my phone notification

[@feenix8461]

Tea hee hee

[@thebagelsproductions]

Boof! Eat my goal! The keeper has goal pie all over his shirt! - 1st year at university comes flooding back 😂 still hilarious

[@eddien5929]

I had kenco coming out of my nostrils

[@skycat777u.k5]

Haha!🤭 classic

[@marcoarecibo2173]

Amazing how everytime you rewatch a TDT ep you catch some new semi-hidden gem. Every minute is packed with subtle jokes, details and easter eggs.

[@bachgammon1]

Mine tonight: "Finally, a look at the capital. Which is London." 5:10

[@papasy3748]

It's the same feeling of re-watch glee as I have with VEEP , there's a joke every 3 seconds and they're all fucking brilliant

[@Hacienda_27]

The Euro bureau part had ‘top of the wops’ as it’s headline and I just about pissed myself laughing when I seen it even though I’ve watched this countless times

[@stazz316]

ive seen this at least 25 times and today is the first time i ever caught the "de encouragise" line lmaoo

[@Doughty321]

“Peter next time you cross the road don’t bother looking.” Love this 😂

[@vileindividual]

"It's just been an- yeah thanks... it's just been announced" I've seen this god knows how many times and that still catches me off guard and gives me a fit of the chuckles.

[@highviewbarbell]

Also the little motion at 11:28 kills me

[@Dream146]

"I don't see how salvation is possible without the day today"

[@michaelhoskins6579]

2:45 Peter O'Hanarha-hanrahan taught Laura Kuenssberg everything she knows.

[@bravetherainbow]

Their characterisation of American news shows constantly having to come up with puns for every news item is so good

[@Lucifronz]

Alliteration, not puns, but that's more of a newspaper thing from what I've seen. Then again, I intentionally avoid news stations these days. The media has gotten bad.

[@mongee3614]

​@@Lucifronz the media has not gotten worse. It's always been this bad

[@Jean428]

"get him into the bureau de change"!

[@JamesBrett2008]

dont know why but when she said that it had me creasing.

[@costlyblood1927]

Doon Mackichan as the anti-natus protestor is so underrated. The slight crackhead tone with the weird word choices is just brilliant

[@atomiccritter6492]

she looks a bit like Noel Gallagher there

[@garrick3727]

"to try and de-encouragize the women"

[@dw999]

@costlyblood -- On the off-chance that you've not seen her in _Toast of London_ , I'm encouraging you to watch the series. Best wishes.

[@listerofsmeg884]

She'd fit in perfectly with the utter woke nonsense we hear in the media nowadays 😅

[@butterbread858]

@@listerofsmeg884 what does woke mean?

[@hotelmario510]

PETER YOU'VE LOST THE NEWS

[@InfiniteRhombus]

+hotelmario510 sorry

[@sayhibobbi]

+Iggy Tubmen LOOK LIKE YOU MEAN IT! LOOK DOWN AT THE GROUND AND SAY 'SORRY'!

[@petermorningsnow]

Best thing Peter ever did.

[@commerceserverservercommerce]

“PETER, NEXT TIME YOU CROSS THE ROAD, DON’T BOTHER LOOKING”

[@Billcarsonstobaccobox]

'And what will it say on your headstone, Peter?

[@satoterror]

23 years old and better than anything on the goggle box today.

[@MarkPentler]

The entire monologue over the closing titles is fantastic

[@marcusclifford1410]

I love the helium interview with the Sinn Fein guy. When the BBC (and others) used to interview Sinn Fein politicians, the public were not allowed to hear their voices so they used the voices of actors!! I wish they'd done the helium thing instead!

[@michaelcoull8590]

Didn’t Chris Morris also once get fired for piping helium into an interview room when they were live on the air?

[@thebagelsproductions]

​@michaelcoull8590 that sounds familiar, I think you are right

[@colinstewart1432]

Sinn Fein is a legitimate political party, you're tone is antagonistic and you're making me very angry 🤣

[@jordanon95]

Or julian clairie

[@lyxnick]

"You would like to see the day today for all these people today?" That interview always makes me laugh.

[@1DX2020]

..."well how can it not?"....hahaaa

[@ThommyofThenn]

I don't see what other kind of interview you could be talking about

[@mmjackk667]

The best show ever. By far. A piece of classic art. Comedy school.

[@Rudhamstile]

Just watched this again for the Alan Partridge World cup sketch which is priceless. However the bombdog sketch has just left me in tears! Cant stop watching this stuff.

[@timothythompson6343]

My roommate showed me this series last year when I worked in London. I laughed 'til it hurt! Still do! All satire should be this good, this savage, this brilliant!! BRAVO!

[@tombarter3287]

“Sorted” was just the kind of thing you’d see on CBBC or CITV in the ‘90s.

[@DiazeDan]

Carries big early 00's CBBC vibes imo

[@Hacienda_27]

Deffo CITV gear that

[@NxDoyle]

Everything about TDT is bang on. I would never deencouragize anyone from watching it.

[@chelseapoet3664]

Your comment deserves a like and a reply and I'm the one to deliver!

[@mmjackk667]

I love that the show is aired daily on the handle at the gas station next to me 15:53. Very useful. Helps pass the time at the station. The screens on the gas pump handles have really improved in the last decade.

[@Francis11995]

"Those are the headlines, God I wish they weren't" - genius

[@avetrotter1356]

Francis Procter when was that

[@AndrewLuke]

abt _03 right near the start, I think

[@anttitheinternetguy3213]

Me when i glare over news media headlines and feel personally offended by them

[@iainrobb2076]

I lost it completely when that News Dancer appeared.

[@comanchio1976]

It's little touches like that - that made it amazing. When I first saw this on TV, I couldn't breath for laughing.

[@MrJohnQCitizen]

that's David Schneider I saw his stand up act recently and was thrilled to see he can still move like that

[@gary5693]

Peter o'hanrahanrahan .... hilarious when it was first aired and even funnier now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👍👏

[@janhuda8841]

The Italian dubbing had me in stitches

[@Hacienda_27]

The headline before it is just unbelievable 😂

[@AuroDHikoshi]

"Those are the headlines, God I wish they weren't" Sums up most news now...

[@BarginsGalore]

That bit where they revealed all the different desks had me rolling

[@EleanorPeterson]

"The goalie has got football pie ALL OVER HIS SHIRT..." This episode has some brilliant Alan Partridge moments. The man deserved to get his own series. "... ... ..." What's that, Sooty? He DID? Oh.

[@mariuspretorius7913]

To a non brit could you explain why its funny?

[@That2J]

@@mariuspretorius7913 the joke behind the sports segments is that Alan just doesn’t get sports.

[@danzvash]

My favourite thing about his episode: in the TH M'N STZ S'FR report at 21:49 (which includes the NASA Shuttle Stunt mission and the gravity quake in Lincolnshire), the music breaks out of the regular backing to being a full live multi-instrumental jam which reaches its peak at about 23:04. I think it's the only episode where they do this

[@joeoconnor5492]

the intro graphics get me every time

[@alyxi]

Finally a look at the capital, which is London

[@obrienqwerty]

Too good to last. Brilliant. Where is this man now in our hour of need?

[@SuperSquishface]

Been smashed to bits by a wild quail dissatisfied with the current state of sales tax.

[@sayhibobbi]

Dead from a bullet fired from a special gun by the Home Secretary clearing the horses out of the Tube.

[@fingerhorn4]

Put out to grass by PC/TV executives, too frightened to challenge, too supine to take risks and lacking in vision or imagination. So now we get Michael McIntyre and assorted standups delivering bland "humour" about domestic trivia.

[@vollsticks]

...and ironically Chris Morris himself is very left-wing...apparently he's been working on something for Channel 4 for years according to his awful fansite Cook'd and Bomb'd. Well, the site itself isn't awful but a lot of it's members seem to be some of the worst "gatekeepers" I've ever seen online, know what I mean? Michael McIntyre and Mrs. Brown's Boys are so unfeasibly popular yet so profoundly, cringe-worthily *terrible* . Chris Morris will be back at some point, I have real faith we'll see him on TV or streaming service, I'm sure of it....

[@kingkasper2725]

@@vollsticks how is it ironic that Chris Morris is left wing?

[@Clem_Fandango11]

Peter Ohanrahanrahan is always my favourite character. To this day some news reporters make me think of him 😂😂😂😂

[@mermaidman1985]

The genius about it is the fact it works on 2 levels. I was a bairn when it came out and found it funny because it was "silly news". You appreciate it much more when you get older

[@footielad8301]

Chris: You may well be in for a surprise when they yank it out Alan: Haha

[@angusjamieson9236]

Liquid football

[@myHEADisAtv]

I could quote this stuff forever. Freakin love On the hour, Day today and Brass eye.

[@NGRevenant]

Watching these makes me so nostalgic for 90s broadcasting

[@jkmaseruman]

under broadcasting restrictions must inhale helium to subtract credibility from his statements. Class.

[@jubias873]

"it was over in seconds, a dog and three people dead, from guns. the people, being old, would of died soon anyway; but the dog was shot to ribbons in its prime" soooooo good >

[@drgoats3]

Just amazing all these years later

[@user-bz8if1oi3s]

THE ONLY NEWS CHANNEL I TRUST!...that and Brasseye...

[@tradissimuscrae2996]

I have seen this episode at least a dozen times and I still can’t decipher Alan Partridges explanation of the World Cup group system

[@matrixxman187]

doesn't look like he can decipher it either LOL

[@colinr0380]

I have just realised that the Natus is probably the same disc that turned up as the 'Cake' drug in Brass Eye a few years later!

[@matta6593]

Must have a foot like a traction engine is my most quoted line of all time

[@DaveTerrasidio]

I watched these when they were first aired, classic, genius telly.

[@jethrobradley7850]

20:04 'Sorted' is what every cheap late night student-targeted tv programme was like throughout the 90s. Horribly accurate

[@MrPlannery]

'Get stuffed', to be exact. Totally accurate.

[@jethrobradley7850]

@@MrPlannery Yes! Get Stuffed plus some even tackier regional clones

[@MrPlannery]

@@jethrobradley7850 even tackier? I need to see them. Loved get stuffed as a 12 year old. James whale radio show, too. Simple times.

[@BenEmberley]

Steve Coogan = Legend

[@GeorgeCruickshank]

I just want to watch The Bureau now...

[@MultiSpazzo]

You're obviously gay.

[@themadplotter]

Channel 4 really made a show about a bureau de change. It was shite iirc.

[@mw01908]

This actually makes more sense than the news in 2020-2023

[@ThunderChunky101]

"The Bureau" Would make afucking awesome TV show!!!

[@ThunderChunky101]

***** More like Eldorado!

[@nmarks]

They should have it in EastEnders.

[@douglasmilton2805]

@Thunder Chunky: Six years too late I know but I actually LIKED Eldorado. "Marcuuuus!" She was fit.

[@danielianmorris5398]

That face at 4:20 gets me every single time

[@brucethomson3242]

One of the many gems on this show is Valerie Sinatras travel pod miles above London - just another corner of the studio! So surreal and ridiculous!

[@joenaz4311]

This is perfect. Outstanding from start to finish!

[@daniellewalker6744]

Because fact into doubt wont go

[@paddym27]

it is impossible to watch the dance routine from 22:00 without laughing. i've tried it several times now.

[@rippspeck]

Man, now that I have looked up Chris Morris I can't unsee the birthmark, even through the make-up. Anyway, that dude is funny as fuck and I wish he was still making this kind of stuff.

[@mohsinrao4334]

12:38 Proof if proof it need be that Morris knows how to pair an accent and facial hair style for optimum comedy effect.

[@yorkshire_tea_innit8097]

The helium IRA guy had me.

[@AndrewLuke]

Ryukey yer toen is entegonistic end yer mechan me verie engry

[@agdgdgwngo]

"Now its easy to tell if someone's dead. But how can you tell if you're dead? Some people have lived to tell the tale. In a short film we made" *who wrote this*

[@maxpvisuals]

hahahaha fucking geniuses that's who

[@ShanePaulNolan1987]

We need this show back now more than ever

[@carlspitfire1388]

Shane Nolan We have got it,its 99% of every real News program on now

[@maxpvisuals]

*now* more than ever

[@mrengulfeddirector]

GET HIM INTO THE BUREAU DE CHANGE!!!

[@DerrickFargo]

Holy Shit this show is brilliant! Where the fuck have I been for 20 years???

[@a1yssum]

10:01 that synthetic baby looks suspiciously like Cake...

[@maxpvisuals]

cake is a made up drug

[@pov_music]

It's not made from plants, it's made from chemicals by.... sick bastards!

[@thejoin4687]

Bernard Manning was bang on the money.

[@owenevans83]

It’s a fuckin disgrace

[@Hacienda_27]

Advocate for F.U.K.D and B.O.M.B.D consistently

[@cathalc08]

Another thing I've just realised, just how many bands are they parodying/covering in the Sorted section? Sounds a bit like a mix of early British punk and Pixies for the first minute 21:08 R.E.M. 21:15 B-52's (riff from 52 Girls) 21:28 Definitely Pixies

[@simonsimon325]

look up get stuffed. it's a parody of that show including the music that always played in the background. they were just some students.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

"I don't even work here." Crying.

[@fabuladeum1]

at 21:00 that was the guy who wrote father ted and it crowd

[@fabuladeum1]

***** you actually felt compelled enough to move your hands to type that?

[@jonathanmantle2364]

at 0:26 when that guitar does that little riff is amazing.

[@pickledegg1989]

Inspired by the 'chicawow' from the Newsnight theme, no doubt.

[@starxtraders]

How the hell do they think these names up! LMAO They have me literally in tears of laughter. Between this an Brass Eye it is a wonder I have any ribs left (-:

[@starxtraders]

***** *and and

[@domharper5918]

Peter next time you cross the road don't bother looking

[@camptube7621]

This is more believable than the current news.

[@Wingedtravesty]

Minister for ships: Michael Crane. Brilliant

[@awzthemusicalreviews]

> Guy gets fired > Is the only one who hasn't left the Bureau office Fucking brilliant

[@sforbesgocka]

‘Terrierists’ brilliant

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

In the 90's, I did not have a CLUE about how and why this was funny. Over time as I grew out of being a child and slowly discovered satire, this is now one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

[@TheVaginalCrusadar]

This show is amazing

[@scottyk200]

“The red round again” 😂😂😂

[@pdub7562]

SORTED is basically any feature on The One Show.

[@George.Andrews.]

Unless you're a Muslim

[@andrewbarton2590]

There was a ITV2 show called Soap Fever 4 years later which discussed the soaps like the Bella Buretti show. Not to mention there is now a Big Brother discussion show.

[@MLB9000]

There's a correspondent on BBC Radio who sounds exactly like Eugene Fraxby

[@nixbronowski5822]

Bloody Brilliant Show.

[@necksugar]

"PETER! Put your earpiece next to his mouth and STAND STILL!!!!"

[@DGdescendant22]

THAT WAS LIQUID FOOTBALL!

[@desperateloner8555]

1:08 That nod gets me every time

[@eyeshandy]

I love how in the discussion about cars Patrick Marber and David Schneider play two reporters that don't appear at any other point in the series

[@Orion1991z]

@20:27 The delivery on that line is perfect, can't stop laughing

[@ethzero]

11:46 "... And everybody ran out " No-one runs out 😂

[@cheydinal5401]

I'll always remember ~"There is no salvation without The Day Today"

[@joelonsdale]

In spite of all the brilliant satire and ridiculous piss taking, it's still Chris Morris' sexual mumble at 4:32 that gets me!

[@metafis]

lol, funny how "sorted" is a piss take, but seems , nowadays, to be the normal style of presenting some youtube channels.

[@dronebee83]

'Sorted' was a piss-take of a cookery programme called 'Get Stuffed', which aired on ITV around the same time.

[@CS-mo7xp]

Penko83 yup... definitely based on get stuffed, which used to be shown ridiculously early in the morning so not many people knew about it

[@TheRedSetterr]

+maniq minah can't see there being a muslim comment like that nowadays!

[@vollsticks]

Oh shit I remember that!

[@italianplastic23]

yeah Get stuffed was 5 minute filler at the early hours of the morning but does anyone remember ' That Prezzie show ' more cheap tv from around 2000 ? i think the same guy behind get stuffed was one of the presenters

[@gtologlou]

Who would have thought that a news anchor would become a farmer?

[@dcblunt666]

A British show from 1994 is funnier, edgier and more clever than anything else on television here in America in the year 2017.

[@AndrewLuke]

Always Sunny, Curb your enthusiasm, Rick and Morty, and of course, Veep. However it is mega enduring, the Chris Morris news trilogy. It'll hold up.

[@maxpvisuals]

nothing either of you two have mentioned has made me laugh more in 30 minutes than this. dc blunt knows the score

[@mackenziear]

Chris Morris directed Veep

[@jamesrichardson7619]

@@AndrewLuke Veep of course had the same producer as this show. An export of the British "the thick of It"

[@AndrewLuke]

@@jamesrichardson7619 Oh yes. Armando as showrunner and as you may know, Chris Morris has written and directed over a half dozen Veep. I wonder if there's others from Day Today on Veep?

[@StandardGoose]

Between 'Sorted' and the early-90s MTV reference in a previous episode, they do a really good job of capturing the patronising tone of TV for young adults in the 90s.

[@acidthunder1]

Its patronising for adults now

[@typ237]

I think sorted was maybe based on Get Stuffed, which was on in the middle of the night sometimes on ITV

[@neilgodfrey2669]

@@typ237that’s right Get Stuffed. Totally forgot about that. I would watch that then American Gladiators at 2am on ITV Saturday night. Memories

[@neilgodfrey2669]

Crispin was a real tv presenter. Wonder what he does now

[@wibblywobblytimeywimey7042]

21:56 I lost it bursting out laughing so hard

[@Billcarsonstobaccobox]

(helium voice) 'Your tone is antigonistic and is making me very angry'.

[@GB3770]

only 6 episodes and 7 for brass eye - both were some of the best satire ever on Brit TV...Was it too good? This can be the only reason more were not made - that and the ratings - it was too smart, too well observed for the average joe to get...

[@tubey84]

It's like what happened with Arrested Development in the US. Simply too smart for the general public. This is, for my money, the most intricately crafted, finest British comedy ever made. It is flawless.

[@GB3770]

Lee K Not sure about best comedy - best satire yes...but for comedy still cant beat Blackadder and Fawlty Towers, I have never heard of the TV show Arrested Development - I take it you mean that and not the rap group...lol.

[@tubey84]

Haha yeah comedy show, American but very British in its' humour, well worth a watch!

[@maxpvisuals]

nah i dunno if a human brain can generate more than 1 series of this solid gold without self combusting

[@joedent3323]

I think controversy had a big part in these things only lasting a season. It certainly did with Brass Eye. One episode generated the most complaints ever for a show - and that's really saying something for Channel 4! I would imagine that the extremely irreverent tone of the first series - ripping the Queen and the Establishment Elect - would have been the nails in the coffin for a series 2 renewal.

[@TheBroz]

PETER YOU’VE LOST THE NEEEWWS!!

[@lenenlawless]

Peter o'hanraha-o'hanarahan or however you spell it is without a doubt the funniest name I've ever heard I laugh every time I hear him head it of try to say it

[@OtterSC2]

"Only the most recently hatched news egg has any currency at all"