The MADNESS of 3-2-1 (

[@coolguy9616]

It is my worst nightmare to have Limmy analyze my social interactions like this.

[@Eradicus]

The more I watch this the more I feel it is the perfect comment for this video. Stuff he is coming out with is so funny but absolutely brutal. I can't get over the whole Cornetto-joke self-satisfaction takedown, particulary one audience member elbowing the other to indicate "Occh, he means the advert! TeeHEEhee" brilliant

[@signifidelica2819]

watchu afraid of aye?

[@IRVDawg]

lmao

[@DaftLimmy]

I mention hating Ted Rogers as a boy cos he said something cheeky about the Scots. It turns out I was WRONG, as I'll show you in the next video. That very episode is on KZbin, and I've been WRONG the whole time. I also didn't get the Welsh holiday homes joke, but it was explained to me in the next video!

[@Glizzyboy47]

Hahaa. Good stuff

[@CAMZAB]

imagine the butterfly effect that one mistake has had on your life. A lot to process and unpack right there. You should still be man enough to issue an apology video with crying in it.

[@stuarthossack5351]

To be fair it's easy to be a paranoid Scot in a world of 80's English TV.

[@zero00beat]

Benny Harvey Must be rolling in his grave right now pisshead.

[@josephsullivan7645]

Limmy if you were any more daft you'd be a scot

[@VacantHaven]

I used to watch 4,3,1 all the time

[@abrarahmad1966]

or as it's also known, "just 4"

[@JackPorter]

i'd say it's more like 4, 2.5, 1

[@artemislogic5252]

i used to just watch 4

[@gregoryashton]

Love how the old boy in the audience with the cane gets up before the credits start rolling. Was probably busting for a piss.

[@fakebrainclub]

Just started watching Limmy and I gotta say, I'm worried about what I've gotten myself into

[@dreioo8759]

High doses of anxiety and depression.

[@DistrictWitch]

foken

[@staffsgt.retired8313]

Oh sh*t.

[@CaatsGoMoooo]

This is me right now 😂 Reminds me of when I first got into Jerma

[@scissora6963]

@@dreioo8759 high doses of psilocybin mushrooms pal

[@scottblack9213]

If Rogers is lying about the 3-2-1 hand signal, what else is he lying about? Everything. Everything.

[@scottblack9213]

Not one fucker at home understood 3-2-1. Not one. I remember watching me Mam and Dad when this was on, they were completely silent and looked confused through the whole show .. the whole family was silent. No one piped up. Yet it was still on every week until one night me Mam said "ahh turn that shit off" .. we never, ever watched it again.

[@JamilThePimpLol]

I didn't think I'd be watching this whole video when it started. I was wrong.

[@Bryan_Kay]

Same here, recently found out about this guy and can't get enough 😂

[@shuggg5646]

Same my god I couldn't stop

[@johnstonshevlin455]

DEED RANG

[@signifidelica2819]

These programs make me feel like most people are semi consciously just waiting to die and are expecting nothing of significance to ever happen

[@zizmares]

And?

[@core-nix1885]

"Alison Wonderland" haha get that clipped, son get that clipped

[@EnCryptedHorror]

I like how Limmy has belatedly busted the magic of Ted's 3-2-1 finger gimmick.

[@hunterbiden7391]

He’s on to that crafty c*nt!

[@joshuas1729]

"#001" - You just know Limmy is implying there's going to be hundreds of these.

[@joesephjoestar4449]

The descent into madness begins. 😁

[@detour99]

Yes please.

[@DaveMcGarry]

Potentially 1,000 with that numbering convention

[@sirprintalot]

@@DaveMcGarry Literally 999.

[@billieeisenhower406]

there's going to be 321 of these

[@silicon1138]

HAHAHA. Love the 8 years old Limmy's thoughts about Ted Rogers. I wasn't expecting to see the whole 3,2,1 finger flick being utterly debunked either.

[@josephmarkey9096]

Had the pleasure of meeting Ted Rogers at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

[@WrathOfRagnarok]

Who geez a flying fuckskiiiiii biggins

[@kinnikuboneman]

Sure thing pally

[@triodehexode]

He was a Tory enough said.

[@agaricsun]

Takes one to know one

[@Ian.Murray]

Senile man found dead after trying to deconstruct shite game shows in excruciating detail. No one has yet claimed the remains.

[@eddyp483]

In 2060, someone will be analysing this video.

[@supercat1053]

Limmy already is

[@bl1398]

In 2180 this nested series of videos will be used by the first time travellers to jump back 40 years at a time. Wrong way down a one way street of time

[@killemall69]

And wondering how anyone could watch the entire video or even make a video about it

[@Rogue_Leader]

And it’ll be three hours long.

[@Argooh]

No they wont.

[@Tactician666]

I don't care about his blatant hatred for the Scots and his finger-cheating. The way he dances down those stairs at the beginning, like a jaunty sailor, makes me glad to be alive.

[@Jambobist]

It's like when you have a dream about tap dancing but then remember you can't tap dance half way through.

[@BoakesJohn]

Sick

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Back in the day this was the highlight of my week, remember no free internet wanks back then though

[@grobbler1]

I remember the thrill of it too. It left me tickled pink.

[@mrkeogh]

Wait till you see Leslie Crowther's entrance on The Price Is Right.

[@Macho_Fantastico]

1:07:50 "The f**king SS"

[@nigelreilly]

Limmy, please could you do a similar full breakdown of a Columbo episode?

[@HardcoreBrendan]

Absolutely yes. This needs done. Immediately.

[@LettersAndNumbers300]

This needs to be on top

[@Priority76]

Needs to happen.

[@willgillies5670]

One more thing....

[@billymcdingle4063]

Yes daddy

[@Baltihunter]

Can’t believe I’ve watched 1.5 hrs of this. The only time I’ve seen a whole episode of 321. Terrible program. What a wimp that husband was!

[@ralphenstein9105]

The house on fire joke wasn't anything to do with the bloke's hobby. It was about the Welsh torching English people's holiday homes.

[@iroamabout364]

Meibion Glyndwr

[@josephjoseph5969]

Stay tuned for part 2

[@AnarchicHellspawn]

Thanks for the clarification. I felt like I was missing something from that crap joke.

[@nfactorial4074]

bellend

[@DaveyMulholland]

@@nfactorial4074 who?

[@williamevans9426]

I remember watching 3,2,1 on Saturday evenings when I was about nine. Even then, I thought the 'sketches' were corny as hell and the 'Dusty Bin' clues so abstruse as to need a meltally deranged Sherlock Holmes to decipher. Limmy's comments on the clothing prize were hysterical!

[@SethMcFartlane]

A sobering indictment of 3-2-1. The people behind *Strike It Lucky* are shaking in their loafers.

[@luketurnbull5198]

You HAVE to do more of these shite old programs limmy this is the best thing i've seen in ages.

[@my_other_account6008]

I've been lucky enough to see Lionel Blair twice in my life. Once in 1984 while he tap danced on the roof of a London taxi as it drove south over Waterloo Bridge. (It could have been 1985) The second time was 2 years ago in the queue at my local co-op. He hadn't changed a bit.

[@0Linerider0forever0]

This was fucking brilliant, that show is mental and Limmy slowly breaking it down with his audience is the best 😭

[@stephenhill4934]

I’m new here this is the funniest thing I have watched for ages, it’s like watching an archaeologist work on an ancient artifact.

[@dougmapper3306]

I'd pay a thousand bucks to sit on a couch and watch old TV with Limmy all day

[@kipfaehl7154]

this show feels like something i would hear in a nightmare, it's godawful.

[@speedrob]

Rik Mayall could do the 3,2,1 hand move correctly... fucking legend.

[@FranzSanchez-ky9up]

"God, I bet he's good in bed!"

[@MarkMichalowski]

"It's the fuckin' gestapo!" - my face hurts from laughing.

[@taffyfusilier]

The joke is that due to English holiday homes in wales, the locals could no longer afford to buy houses in there home towns so started petrol bombing the property’s that was owned by English. Sons of glydwr I believe. A welsh nationalist group.

[@Tularis]

Yup, I was going to day this also... “come home to a real fire” “Buy a cottage in Wales”

[@simpleyeteffective5863]

Oh thats cool the welsh are burning down English houses ?

[@kudosbudo]

@@simpleyeteffective5863 Its not very surprising. Our Governement has consistantly being arseholes. Its not surpirse we piss so many folk hate us English.

[@Neagnosis]

Their first mistake was buying a house in North Wales to begin with, burning the houses was an act of kindness more than anything

[@shrinewitch]

@@Neagnosis Fuck up Nic!

[@vibrophysics]

The west Country comic was Dave Swarbrick .. very influential English folk musician and was considered a good guy as well as an amazing musician. And yes, 321 really was incomprehensible bollocks.

[@Frosty-kz4om]

That Irish joke he tells at the beginning... that's the end of The Killing Joke.

[@al201103]

Right there with you.

[@oscartravis5740]

Yep, on that too :-)

[@signoguns8501]

Seems like he misinterpreted almost everything in this programme lol.

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

I remember this show the clues were so incoherent, how anybody won anything I'll never know.

[@lucasoheyze4597]

The actual best tactic would be to not even try to work it out, just pick a prize at random.

[@tonycoffey2485]

My sister auditioned to be in a dance troupe for a show Lionel Blair was touring. They rehersed all day, learned all the moves then Bllair walks in. Without pausing he walked between them all going 'too tall', 'too fat', 'too short' then effed off - probably straight to pull Bobby Davro's kex down. What a tw*t.

[@chad0x]

The house on fire “joke” was a reference to the welsh nationalists burning down english people’s second homes. So funny!

[@desfullerton8239]

That's what I thought, edgy as fuck was our Ted

[@boohoo1902]

Stole my quip too, was about to post the same.

[@pointparasai_music]

Yes. That's what it was.

[@DangleBlampy]

English people have two homes? And they commonly build one in Wales?

[@themomentalist]

@@DangleBlampy No, it’s not common. And no, they don’t have them built in Wales. What happened was wealthier English people were taking advantage of the fact that cottages in Wales were relatively cheaper, so they would buy them as part-investments, part-holiday homes. Of course, this pushed up the prices of the houses, meaning local people couldn’t afford to buy them any more… hence the drastic action. AirBnB has had a similar effect in tourist destinations: wealthier people buy homes to rent out to make more money and local people can no longer afford to live there

[@Jambobist]

Love how for the big prize they showed them a box of jewelry, let them touch it for a second then snatched it back off them. Swear this show was just designed to fuck with people.

[@pizzagetty4327]

7:13 lmao little Limmy having a gameshow host on his deathlist

[@Cushbhoy1]

He's turnt the Ted Rodgers against us

[@sh3tpostsgamertime204]

Everethen

[@ReddoFreddo]

What demon infested hell hole did you get that dog from?

[@biggles3332]

Limmy the CSI of naff TV, wonderland ha ha that tickled me then and still does now. Nice one Limmy.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Edge of my seat.I love how by the end of your walk through, we are all playing this completely baffling gameshow. You'd need to work at Bletchley Park to decipher those clues. I never understood it as a kid, it makes less sense as a 50 year old. How did we survive the 1980's with this as entertainment.

[@cityseabird]

I used to spend time practising that fucking 3-2-1 as a child, competing with my sister for who did it best, tears of frustration running down my cheeks, wondering why, why I couldn’t do it. And it was all a LIE!

[@Swim_Jonse]

Now he gets it.

[@Westy90_]

😂😂

[@TheOriginalIronicbadger]

My mum and dad were on 3-2-1 with Wayne Sleep prancing about... They didn't win, but still have their dusty bin... What's that worth now?... Gotta be at least seven quid...

[@Jambobist]

Can't believe Ted Rogers invented eSports.

[@sirprintalot]

That's technically correct and my whole world view has been shifted.

[@Legather]

What started off as a reminiscence of childhood TV ended as a crime drama about diamond thieves, what a tangle

[@BillyBombastic]

"heart attack at 65" - Limmy - "Yes!" fuck that's funny.

[@CelineRazavi]

I woke up at 4am, couldn’t sleep, and watched this.

[@properjob79]

3:30 am for me.so random

[@sirprintalot]

1:07:51 "it's the fookin SS" I love you Limmy.

[@Romanplaystation]

I remember myself, mum, dad, uncle, brother, grandad, all seeing who could do the 3-2-1 hand thing the best. As shite as we were, little did I know that we were all better than this fucking fraud. 4-3-1 turns to 4-1 turns to can't be fucking bothered to even try by the end of the show. Fucking exposed. :D

[@LeslieDugger]

That’s number wang!

[@Romanplaystation]

@@LeslieDugger 🤣

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

The beardy bloke who makes model churches from matchsticks clapping the other contestants from a shadowy corner cracks me up for some reason.

[@lcunash8093]

“Please tell me he died” “Yes!” “I’m not that sort of person….” God damn this man is hilarious

[@mr.coolmug3181]

For some context, the Welsh holiday home joke about him getting on with his Welsh neighbours "like a house on fire" has to do with the fact that Welsh people back in the day would burn down houses owned by English people, because there was a housing crisis in Wales and Welsh people couldn't afford these houses, which were turned into holiday homes for English people who didn't live in Wales most of the time.

[@elemenoQ]

Thank you for the context, appreciate it

[@mcarthur6720]

You've got everybody at home waving their fingers about trying to do 4-3-1 and 3-2-1

[@wannabuyabridge]

I put the impossible riddles down to just me being a kid; surely they're easier for adults. I was wrong.

[@Gigantemanatee]

lol I use to get this effect when observing adults running the country, then I became an adult and quickly realised the lunatics really are running the asylum.

[@Warnerchild]

in tears over the hand signal hahaha

[@AnarchicHellspawn]

Watching this just reminded me why I hated TV. The force humour with the terrible sketches, the greasy looking host who acts fake, the cryptic clues that make it as hard as possible for the couples to win anything worthwhile. Game shows are the worst. This is why I preferred playing video games as a kid.

[@iPhown]

This was prime time blandness - you think z list dancing or retards auditioning for money is any less greasy smarmy or mind numbing? This entertainment is for people who spent their day working and want to switch off. That won’t change as long as there are working people and TVs...

[@mjowsey]

Mind-numbing, spirt-crushing gameshows

[@rachelectroDC-84]

Cryptic clue: those Jamaican fellas are swinging fish around their heads Answer: Detrout Spinners 😂 couldn't help but think of Karl Pilkington's Rockbusters when you mentioned impossible to guess cryptic clues!

[@sPoNdOoLa]

Ha! I lost it at 1:09:16 - 'the Welsh couple having to sit through all of that man!' I tried so hard not to click on this 'cos I knew I'd get absorbed. I was born in '74 and remember my questions about the whole thing at the time! I couldn't face re-watching it so cheers Limmy.

[@sPoNdOoLa]

The prize is stunning!

[@spewter]

Limmy: the thinking man's chaturbate

[@calex1991]

It's good to see someone is as puzzled as me as to what Lionel Blair actually does

[@toptenlistsoftenbestnumbers]

expecting him to have a wiki chapter called "controversies"

[@sprobablycancr4457]

@@toptenlistsoftenbestnumbers Well done, I blew my coffee!

[@vykkye]

He has always been old and dancing.

[@mildredhubble6848]

He’s just died.

[@thomasellis445]

The joke about a house on fire is because Welsh holiday homes in the 80s used to get burned down by the locals. Nothing to do with matchsticks.

[@Leonards-leopard]

I now know more about the unbelievably arcane rules of 431 than I would ever have thought possible

[@bobscaricatures8581]

My Dad loved this show, he would be on the edge of his seat trying to spot the clues. I think he eventually admitted that it was mental and made no sense. It was worse than watching paint dry.

[@mandero88NAFO]

Hahahaha unreal, these breakdowns and kitboga videos are now my daily therapy. Don't stop laughing for 1-2+hr solid, guaranteed.

[@batintheattic7293]

I think Hell will be a relentless stream of Saturday night TV from the late seventies and early eighties. I remember wondering if I might be dead. There was a quiz show called 'Catchphrase'. It drove me insane with perplexed boredom. And the weirdest thing is that I'd be among people that were really getting involved in it. All the time, for me, "That's not a catchphrase or slogan. That's not a commonly used portmanteau term. Who says that? That's just words." It would be things like, 'yellow ball' or 'squid feet' or 'hot kettle'. Yes. Give me pitchforks and flames ANY day. At least, with a bit of pain I would know there was still some soul left to lose. Not the sickly embrace of being perpetually in that last instant before oblivion. 'Catchphrase'.

[@willywonka7812]

Catchphrase is still on. Or it's back or whatever. Hosted by some steven guy who plays celebrity football and appears on Wilty this week

[@superspatchcock]

You bastard, I was supposed to go to sleep! Ended up watching you analyse 3-2-fucking-1!

[@pdrg]

321 clues are just a random experience generator. I'm pretty sure the producers have 2 interpretations on the card as the clues are so baffling and ambiguous they can choose whichever they want as Dusty Bin. The show is pure Butlins "variety entertainment", it doesn't serve to expect anything too highbrow from it.

[@darganx]

I would like to thank 3-2-1 for improving my football and cricket skills.. Has there ever been a bigger waste of time for TV scheduling, one hour of cruise liner jokes and all you got at the end was a fkn DUSTBIN!!

[@Trimethopimp]

The forensic deconstruction of that Welsh neighbours joke felt like watching a police investigation pursue a completely duff line of inquiry.

[@TheHKEO]

I like how Limmy is whispering all of this, like how he's either telling you an unspeakable family secret, reading a spooky story or on his deathbed

[@evilmidnightbomberwhatbomb799]

This was class. Quality content from Twitch's #1 streamer.

[@PiousMoltar]

"Any more stupid and you would've been Scottish" I laughed

[@bonbonblossom]

‘Half my nut is on my hand’ 😂😂 I’m in tears!!

[@Daviebhoy25cfc]

Not as charismatic as Falconhoof, but Ted's a close second.

[@gregoryashton]

Without doubt, Lionel Blair & Cliff Richard are part of that ‘special’ club that Saville was involved in.

[@lucasoheyze4597]

Ths Variety Club?

[@gordonm6108]

@@lucasoheyze4597 The kensitas club.

[@williampacult9431]

3-2-1 makes about as much sense as the board games I made up when I was 9.

[@angersayorkney8699]

This is what the internet was built for!! Patter is Reeking 🤣

[@mr.coolmug3181]

They were gonna put the gold nuggets into the box, but Ted was like "no, that's it." So what that means is that they're only getting the gold nuggets, they don't get the box of jewellery, that was just for show.

[@KIERNAN100]

I think the Jewellers put up the £1300 of nuggets for paid advertising and the couple then used the money to get some pieces designed for themselves. Ted was well shifty around the jewels though 😅

[@hamfranky]

What a shame they din't go home in a brand-new gestapo outfit.

[@lucasoheyze4597]

Imagine everybody who won the holiday was just shot in the car park 😆

[@gubp42]

Am I the only one in the states watching this and thinking how funny it is and not getting it at the same time lol, great job limmy!

[@tokumei99]

Gubp82 yes you are the sole American viewer

[@TheVeiledCollective]

Just watched it again this morning. "what have I won. What have I fuckin won"?

[@tactical_philanthropy]

I'm already crying at 4, 3, 1.

[@edboyle3595]

Jesus Christ, I enjoyed that. The leather coats. Fucking hell.

[@myboythom]

Thing about the Welsh holiday home joke was remember back then the Welsh separatist groups were well busy burning down holiday homes

[@mrtambourineman6107]

That 3 2 1 hand gesture was fucking hilarious back in the day before KZbin. Good memories pal 😁

[@FranzSanchez-ky9up]

Limmy tries to make out that the Welsh couple are overjoyed at the "house on fire" joke, but the wife looks visibly annoyed after the fake laughter dies down.

[@Soki7000]

The 321 finger audits fucking send me every time.

[@varis0843]

Do you know how many times, as a kid, I tried to copy Ted Roger's? That cheating shite. Thanks for showing us the light, Limmy.

[@kookwater456]

"Full fat f***ing fumes." Oh my word, that is brilliant

[@jdharry]

The leather killed me man

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I loved 3 2 1. Mind was blown years ago when discovered his trademark hand movement was random. No wonder I could never do it as a kid.

[@bronyamorgan1368]

here is some gold jewlerry MELT IT DOWN

[@steviefyre]

Limmys analysis of this genuinely had me in a fit of laughter

[@Jamiered18]

And here are your brand new top of the range cars. Made by some company, I think it's "Furd" maybe, F. O. R. D. Aren't they great. Anyway, we're going to have those melted down for you. And you can remanufacture the scrap metal into any car you want, you can sort that out, at your own expense of course.

[@hobboskins8591]

Lionel Blaire was wanting a pearl necklace off of Ted Rogers.

[@SallyMangos]

Would love Limmy to look into the underlying dark and sinister humour of camp light entertainment genius Larry Grayson.

[@BeholdItKnits]

He's a fan. Search his twitter for Larry Grayson.

[@PrisonerMusic]

This is just beyond brilliant. Absolutely spot on perfect analysis of the lowest depths of what we were subjected to when there was only 3/4 channels. I always remember 321 being a mix between bewildering and truly awful but this takes it to another level. Limmy this is truly some of you finest work.

[@patrickmoen8577]

1:26:33 That old guy didn't fancy hanging around

[@scottblack9213]

He's was shattered.. no Tupperware sandwiches to keep 'em going as per Bully. He probably slept for two days.

[@Texicus_Reddicus]

"I'm not that sort of person anymore" Immediately before: "took a while but he got there.. please say he died"

[@LeslieDugger]

This show should be officially renamed to “four”