The Mary Whitehouse Experience - History Today

By FAR the best part of the show...
Taken from The Mary Whitehouse Experience. The only 3 sketches from the entire Series 2 (featured only in Episodes 4-6).

[@Lucy0809]

Oh god I’m 45 this year and still find this hilarious 😂

[@gingernutpreacher]

Snap I remember talking about this at school

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

I'm 70 and think it's brilliant!!

[@macalauresmuse]

Gotta love Rob Newman managing to make David Baddiel laugh in the middle of a sketch, he always came up with the best put-downs!

[@alilinzee]

I wish they'd bring this show out on DVD it was brilliant! xx

[@Rantomon]

Haven't seen this in 20 years, Still funny 20 years later... It's not often comedy sketches age so well. Brilliant.

[@ravenaussie3760]

Hello, profile picture twin.

[@colinbraddock7185]

The finger-lick was priceless. Comic timing at its best.

[@commodoreherring]

i love the way he dabs his finger, turns the page... "that's you, that is." perfect comedy timing!!! you know exactly what's coming but it still cracks me up every time.

[@drmikew4544]

Clever because they genuinely captured the way kids talked at that time, and maybe still do.

[@NorthWalesKid]

I was 12 years old when this came out and it’s still sublime

[@MrGoneTroppo]

The thing is at my age I really want to hear his lecture about the Crimean War

[@LouBLouish]

I can't believe this was origionally aired 20 years ago. It doens't seem 5 minutes ago. Love it

[@mjq243]

Love all of these! - Watched them all and thought them groundbreaking at the time. we used to insult each other using some of these examples!

[@muffinman0302]

If you bought the "from the mary whitehouse experience" VHS 15 years ago they gave you a free audio cassette tape of Rob Newman and David Baddiel improvising this sketch the first time around. They just couldn't stop laughing all the way though it. "I saw your mum.... coming out of the VD clinic"

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Could you honestly imagine getting this broadcast today?! And I thought the 90's where square!!! Great stuff :o)

[@stufromsaturday3957]

Absolutely superb, thank you for sharing!

[@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou]

8:35 "haircut!" Classic. Every British school kid who ever had a haircut, which is almost certainly most of them.

[@PerfectHandProductions]

This is now one of my favorite comedy sketches. Hilarious. :)

[@LastTrainToSheffield]

Absolutely timeless. One of the best comedy stetches of all time.

[@ron29173]

I remember doing this with my mates in high school after watching this. Good times.

[@PaulElderDesign]

Mitchell and Webb were obviously inspired by this but The Mary Whitehouse Experience lives on in my thoughts. Thanks for posting this :)

[@Turnbull_AC]

Oh man, thanx for posting this clip. I've been telling my teenage son about it for ages. His mum & i used to say it to each other all the time.. "See that lump of dog-shit on the path? That's your lunch that is!" We're not 2gether anymore for sum reason. Anyway, we both had a good laugh watching it, best 9:32 mins on KZbin! & for any Yanks who 'just don't get it'.. See that George Bush? That's you that is!!

[@mazlaar73]

i still quote these now years later.. lol!!! love it!!

[@eggmangoogoogoojoob]

I've been looking for this for literally years, but it seems never to have been released on either VHS or DVD. Many thanks, StadiumHot; but I do think it was right for them to quit whilst they were still on top. Less can often be more!

[@vvintermute]

4'33" is great, never realised Baddiel corpsed in one of these sketches before. 5/5

[@pompeypirate]

"Anyone with AIDS, that's you that is"! So wrong, so, so wrong. But here I am laughing like a biscuit!

[@juliebarker7500]

Very true! It was such a great show in the day (and still is)

[@Dabberontour]

Still crying with laughter at this in 2022

[@CaptainOatwright]

fantastic stuff! Classic. Such a shame Rob Newman doesn't break into this sort of stuff occasionally in his solo stand ups...

[@eggmangoogoogoojoob]

Thanks for that, I'll have a look for it on eBay.

[@amandaallen1898]

Very enlightening Very amusing Top comedy🙂

[@RickyT_180]

"you know like a pair of pants....with some cack in it.thats you that is" lmao thats the funniest insult i everheard

[@mistaben2k]

Mitchell and Webb were still at school when this was aired and therefore grew up on this brand of humour.

[@Wodey25]

"That's what you have at Christmas" LOL

[@Keithskool]

Newman trying not to laugh at 4.36...brilliant!!!

[@Sidneyyoungblood75]

Baddiel not Newman

[@colinblogs]

I wish the BBC would bring this out on DVD

[@Aitch_154]

I love these two!

[@steviewonder2049]

Still makes me laugh at 37 years of age

[@tonysuffolk4651]

+OhWiseOne And me and I'm 70.

[@michellecopeland]

me too lol

[@michellecopeland]

my reply was to Stevie Wonder

[@juliemedforth9634]

And it still makes me laugh at 50! 😁

[@bryemycaz]

Haircuuut Haircuut!! that takes me right back to school. We used to say that to everyone whod had one after this had been on.

[@Relugus]

Kids did that at school before this sketch, but this sketch popularised it.

[@resonance2001]

My friend and I still occasionally do this sketch for some reason...

[@JWWAUGH1]

Love, love, love it!!

[@gordoning76]

Love Baddiel cracking up from about 4:33 :D

[@flankspeed]

You can see Rob Newman departing from the script on the fly too 😄

[@sparklyyeah5508]

"See those workmans tents in the middle of the road - thats your house that is - thats where you go on holiday" Hahahahahaaaaaaaa!

[@denisesiddon7241]

Remember watching this at 15. Still as funny 😂😂😂

[@winobint]

I watched this show every week when it was on tv! Still cracks me up ! I love Baddiel's corpsing at 4:31 :)

[@therealmovieman]

How can anyone not like this 😅

[@archive6094]

The corpsing just makes this so much better.

[@rjmurphyman]

Possibly the best video on youtube

[@GrumblinYokel]

I was worried at first that this hadn't stood the test of time but it had me laughing all over again. It could just mean I'm a sad git who hasn't moved on tho.

[@lambd01d]

I saw them live at Glastonbury 92. They were even funnier than on the show.

[@StadiumHot]

"idea of the sketch" - It's nothing deep, just the idea of respectable and educated professors/historians bickering like playground children alone, makes me giggle.

[@missionpassed4584]

See that bit of fluff in your belly button, that's your blanket that is, you share it with your family, its your duvet Lol

[@Stephen-xk7cl]

"You had a haircut......HAIRCUT"

[@darryllharden9141]

See that Theo Kojak...that's you that is!.

[@killie84]

My History degree would have been considerably more enlightening had I had Prof. F. J. Lewis as a tutor.

[@JongleurJ10]

See you edging forward in a traffic jam. That's a scary speed for you, that is. That's you trying to break the land speed record.

[@cherrykisses96]

I love this!

[@ellieash]

You love M. Khan, he's your special friend!!

[@jj9749]

Who are they referring to?

[@AlekosTheRealGreek]

@@jj9749 earlier in the show, they’d discussed that “M. Khan” was graffiti’d all over England …. It’s so weird that I can remember this

[@WeeFaolan]

This was funny because History A-Level was very dry and this sent it right up!

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

Pedantic moment: If Samuel Pepys was alive during the Industrial Revolution, he must have been bloody old!

[@Formula1Madx]

Throatwobbler Mangrove See that pedant, that's you that is.

[@edski24]

i love the mary whitehouse experience, gonna post some scans of there book in there facebook group soon. you see that piece of flem on the floor, thats....

[@ellieash]

Recorded and in the shops in 7 days!!!

[@confinedspace2006]

i remember this back in the day, very, very funny

[@primus7776]

Excellent.

[@stubbz8726]

Baddiel corpsing at 4:30!

[@halfaworldaway]

Love when they start corpsing.

[@mrsbilliejoearmstrong2435]

Actually can't stop laughing at this

[@Xantaxia]

@Llamastrangler The song he hums is Rock it by Herbie Hancock and the haircut reference is the same as all the other insult, two old blokes using primary school insults on each other :)

[@Peteroranje]

Its not Rock It. I know what it is but not the name, its a crap 70s no 1.

[@sarnieken]

Haircuuuut, Haircuuut!!

[@enemoj]

there is a video try ebay dont think it came out on dvd its under newman and baddiel history today not the mary whitehouse experience

[@Bigbaderboom]

Genius, just pure genius

[@daveb143]

hysterical.....fucking genius......

[@kmakhlouf4387]

"That's you, that is.."

[@80srenaissance67]

David Badiel was outshined massively by Rob Newman

[@jupieterr]

I Love This Video!

[@1972KLA]

Great stuff, when I was at Uni this was a stable diet. SEE THAT, THAT'S YOU THAT IS.

[@samuelthomas146]

I was gonna tell some jokes but I told some on a visit to Mary Whitehouse when i last knackered that XD

[@WatershipAlan]

Fucking love it. I've seen this so many times. Yet it's funny each time.

[@tanukijessica]

You see that Dr Shipman? Thats your dad that is.

[@ryko26]

Newman is SO much better than Badiel. But who had a successful career afterwards? Tis the way of modern Britain - mediocrity prevails.

[@ledzzappa]

brilliant !

[@MavisRileyJunior]

See that ZX81 picture on a black and white monitor,with repetetive whiny sound? I have noted said visual anomaly. Thats KZbin on your top of the range PC that is.

[@StadiumHot]

agreed, Newman has much more class and delivery.

[@Relugus]

He stays in character. He plays FJ Lewis completely dead pan so his childishness is all the more funnier. Baddiel doesn't really act, he's just Baddiel in old man costume and make-up, theres no character he has crafted. Newman puts far more effort in, and I feel he is what truly makes it funny.

[@gerbilgal20002000]

@StadiumHot you seem to be missing the point that it's simply a matter of chronology.

[@UCHOOZEfreeForever]

Perhaps, by "should get the rights of this" what Daddy Pobbin's trying to suggest is that, since they do similar comedy, Mitchell & Webb should endeavour to acquire the rights to perform these sketches, and perhaps continue the series with new ones...? In the absence of Newman & Baddiel ever working again? Y'know, like Paul Merton doing Hancock and the new Yes, Minister? Have the new Rob & David re-awaken work by the old Rob & David? Maybe THAT's what he's driving at, hmm? Just my guess anyway.

[@cofpaddy]

David Mitchell and Webb should get the rights of this, they pretty much do the same brand of comedy

[@wisteela]

Absolutely classic

[@joiedeceivre]

on an entirely separate note is that alan b,stard as your avatar

[@pbutl3r]

Great post of "NEWMAN AND BADIEL (NOT the MaryWhitehouse experience as that was about 10yrs earlier. Google it.) but very good. Nice

[@AutPen38]

I'm busy drinking my drink.

[@RTWXilef]

You see your bike, It's a girl's bike I do not own a bicycle You do. And it's a girl's bike. Well I- It's for girls.

[@Fram383]

what are saying about the mighty boosh?

[@StadiumHot]

If you already know this, sorry in advance for the wasted words, but the shows name was kinda a kick in the teeth towards Mary Whitehouse, they nearly got sued by her...

[@amandaallen1898]

Never ages Classic🙂

[@lewis72]

@StadiumHot I agree with cofpaddy. The connection is that with both duos, their sketches have applied a childish, immature dialogue to a very intelligent scene/setting.

[@Jayfretwell]

made me laugh as much as it made them laugh - what happened to rob newman?

[@UltimaPowers]

Man, Rob Newman is so much of a better comic actor than Baddiel!! Baddiel looks like a 14 year old in a school play! Thanks for posting this, takes me back!

[@Relugus]

Newman stays in character throughout.

[@GatoPoder]

See that bit of flob? Brilliant. Hard to believe this was half a lifetime ago now.

[@theresonly10left]

You see that person reading the comments? That's you that is.

[@cofpaddy]

@StadiumHot apologies I meant "Your" not "You're"...hungover...

[@darryllharden9141]

anybody out there knows what the actual theme to history today called?.

[@cofpaddy]

@StadiumHot You say it's stupid but I don't know how to rely on you're expert knowledge. They often [Mitchell and Webb] wrote for Armstrong and Miller and feature in the RAF sketch where they use language like "that's you that is" "what's the beef blood?", while in RAF uniform smoking pipes. Sorry if I made a connection which you fail to see. Of course they were still in Uni is that a crime? Comedy connections from the past are often made in modern comedy, especially in Mitchell and Webb's work.

[@mark000888]

This is how Kenneth Clark used to talk in private with his friends.