The 2 Ronnie's comedy was and will always be a genius institution rip both thanks for the laughs and wordplay formidable timing😂
@christinet58913 жыл бұрын
For anyone interested, my son and I counted 55 railway stations mentioned in this brilliant sketch. We could have missed even more!
@yamato97902 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you might count 55 stations but You would have lost counting 25000 Street names in Central London only
@TheClockwise7702 жыл бұрын
I made it 53 but Ronnie Barker reeled off 4 or more in succession in the last minute so I'm sure you're correct.
@grantofat64382 жыл бұрын
As an outsider, I had no idea what this sketch was about.
@Sam_Green____4114 Жыл бұрын
They missed out Effingham Jnc !
@jamessky9155 Жыл бұрын
I have watched this dozens of times since I first saw it two weeks ago, I just love it. On this latest view I just picked up ''Epping'', haha. Very good. I saw your comment so I thought I would count myself. I too got 55. I think there is one I didn't catch. Even a station I live a few minutes walk from gets a mention.
@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars3 жыл бұрын
To be honest, I think the genius of the Ronnies is the joy of the wordplay. Especially from Ronnie B. That man was incredible!
@steveluckhurst23503 жыл бұрын
Erm. Sorry to burst your bubble, but they didn't write it!
@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars3 жыл бұрын
@Steve Luckhurst: I'm not saying they did. Although, Ronnie B DID actually write some of their work, as Gerald Wylie.
@johnmartinez74405 ай бұрын
Aren't they most famous for their wordplay?
@alansmith4729 Жыл бұрын
With respect , who have we today that is actually funny and clever. Thank goodness we can enjoy funny humour and sad we have to go back many years to enjoy it.
@manosparavida35517 ай бұрын
It's rather bleak these days on the sketch show front. For me the last sketch show I found thoroughly amusing was, The Fast Show. Some of the Harry and Paul stuff was also very amusing, but otherwise there's very little remotely side-splitting these days.
@johnmartinez74405 ай бұрын
What a strange comment.
@alansmith47295 ай бұрын
@@johnmartinez7440remind me who is amusing and clever now please .
@stephenasbridge8782 жыл бұрын
These two were almost part of the family for a lot of us back in the 70s and 80s..🇬🇧♥️🇬🇧
@carolel28516 жыл бұрын
This is pure genius...an absolute delight...easy to forget how fabulous they were..
@dixie8418 Жыл бұрын
This sketch will be stopping at the following stations. Please mind the gaps; High Barnet, Mornington Crescent, Strand, Longstreet, Regents Park, Barking, Chorleywood, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Dalston Junction, Epping, Euston, Fairlop, Marylebone, Tottenham Hale, Highbury, Dolis Hill, Chigwell, Elephant and Castle, Greenford, Queensway, Brent, Nottinghill Gate, Theydon Bois, Wapping, Islington, Raynes Lane, Wembley Park, Covent Garden, Bayswater, Turnham Green, Dagenham, Arnos Grove, Bushy, Kew Gardens, Vauxhall, Watford High Street, Earls Court, Hatch End, Becontree, Putney, Angel, Rickmansworth, Maida Vale, Totteridge and whetstone, Hammersmith, Aldwych, Hamstead, Pimlico, Rotherhithe, Aldersgate, Cockfosters, Tooting Bec, Arsenal, Watford, Barbican.
@tasty_fish Жыл бұрын
Cheers! Also: Ruislip (before Totteridge and Whetstone) *Aldgate
@dixie8418 Жыл бұрын
So smoothly placed between the two that my ears failed to discern Ruislip. Bravo and thanks for highlighting that train junction to me.
@jasonday73782 ай бұрын
I live in Epping nice to see it got a mention🤣
@dixie84182 ай бұрын
@@jasonday7378 How Epping unbelievable was that as a coincidence. 😂🤣
@jasonday73782 ай бұрын
@@dixie8418 🤣🤣
@davidbull7210 Жыл бұрын
Nerdish fact: this sketch is from 1982. By the end of that year a number of stations mentioned here were no longer tube stations as the Bakerloo line stopped serving them. Earl's Court up me Hatch End could not be said a year later!
@foreignparticle13203 жыл бұрын
This represents a different time, and I ache for it.
@MAte9256 күн бұрын
Agree, know anyone with a time machine?
@martinbayliss38683 жыл бұрын
The scripting and the comedy acting genius on display here! It's one thing to write such a master piece (it has Ronnie B's brass bands all over it) but the recall and timing of the acting is so impressive - you imagine trying to do that. As usual Ronnie C's comedy acting is the icing on the cake. Without him it would not have worked. Ronnie Barker had a slightly sinister edge about him in my view (hence why he played Fletcher in Porridge to perfection, Fletcher had to have a whiff of sulphur about him as well as a sense of mischief) and needed a comic actor to balance against. Ronnie Corbett just converted everything he did to comedy gold. They both instinctively knew this.
@TheSLUser3 жыл бұрын
This comedy is so much better than the trash we are forced to watch today, even some shows made a couple years ago, are no longer funny as the so called new humor becomes dated and stale over night whilst this remains funny 30 years later
@claireb42593 жыл бұрын
@@TheSLUser I absolutely agree. It says a lot when we seek out comedies of yesteryear.
@rufusharbud3673 Жыл бұрын
They both instinctively knew how each other would react, then reacted with it.. Pure genius writing and comedy gold together.
@gerladiant7 жыл бұрын
My favourite shetch of all time , absolute genuis , as good as Fork handles . Never recognised as such sadely.Thank you Alan so much for posting, I waited years to see this on you tube.
@maryfeeney65836 жыл бұрын
Parkinson pilates
@The.Android3 жыл бұрын
Genius writing and perfectly executed by The Two Ronnies. As usual.
@sepgorut24923 жыл бұрын
I loved: "Turnham Green that will"
@veroniquendambo32424 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful duo the two Ronnies were ! I will always miss your comedy shows on BBC TV. Old days good old days ! This sketch brings back happy memories from my student years in London. 😥😥😥😥
@Wheels-Wheels-Wheels3 жыл бұрын
Very clever. These two were absolutely remarkable for their ability to juggle with words, not just on this sketch but many many others.
@rich_rich90 Жыл бұрын
"Vauxhall as a matter of fact!" 😄
@raywilliams25787 жыл бұрын
Absolute Genius, I have been looking for this for years. I only saw it once on TV but has kept me in giggles ever since. Thanks for posting
@mikaelabowen57817 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. These two could conjure wit out of the most mundane of subjects.
@tmw91873 жыл бұрын
Genius and so many references to stations close to my old home in Watford. Great stuff!
@alangreen41562 жыл бұрын
My home town as well 😊
@1950Grendel7 жыл бұрын
The genius of this sketch is that, even as a Yank with little kowledge of the place names, I still know when a "tube name" is mentioned, and the logic of the conversation is still vey funny. I think these guys are funnier than Python because they are more real to me.
@cliffhanger9535 жыл бұрын
I hope you're still laughing after all this time. That's the true gift they gave us.
@Reidbynature5 жыл бұрын
Some of the Pythoners actually wrote for them at times.
@marcuswalters80932 жыл бұрын
Yeah, growing up, the Ronnies were bigger in the UK than the Pythons.
@olwentibbit639 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant, a very tough act to follow! ❤❤x
@Inkyminkyzizwoz7 жыл бұрын
How about 'She's gone on holiday to the Swiss Cottage with Victoria and her Seven Sisters'
@finlaycox80265 жыл бұрын
And her mate Kensal Rise early for the flight from London City Airport, knowing Fulwell the flights not 'til afternoon. Hatton Cross she was when he said that. Anyway, you should take a St John's Wood for the Holborn in ya' Hyde Park Corner, you'll feel much less Ickenham. I hope they Pinner medal on Dollis Hill, that horse is in the Star Lane. I've put a fiver on it to place at the 3:30 at Royal Oak. Aye, with Ladbroke Grove.
@ericgeorge54836 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, just like pretty much everything else they ever did. God how I miss the two Ronnies.
@golden.lights.twinkle23292 жыл бұрын
The saddest thing about a team like this is when one of them dies and then half of the whole is missing.
@vikramjain796 жыл бұрын
“Oh yeah, I heard that, yeah, he was going around with the Theydon Bois at one time, wasn’t he?”
@jeffreylawrence69283 жыл бұрын
Best line…😊
@simeonkay83897 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahaha. "Earls caught up in me hatch end" Been looking for this one for ages!
@barriereid92442 жыл бұрын
These two men are unrivalled in their use of the English language.
@tasty_fish Жыл бұрын
Pure genius in the writing, pure class in the delivery #legends
@TheRealInscrutable6 ай бұрын
I wish comedy was still this good.
@4002corbe Жыл бұрын
Simply Brilliant!
@Paul-zh2nw6 жыл бұрын
hadn't seen this; this is quality... absolute quality ! (Epping nuisance, they are!)
@stephenbrady48294 жыл бұрын
"She know a lot about Kew Gardens?" "VAUX-hall!"
@ianheaver32177 жыл бұрын
I can't believe I have not seen this very funny sketch before. The Ronnies in my opinion are the best double act of all time. Well maybe alongside L and H.
@cliffhanger9535 жыл бұрын
Very talented. Keep well.
@euromusicfreak Жыл бұрын
The two best comedy duo's of all time, Ian, L&H and the Two Ronnies, better than Cannon and Ball and even better than Morecambe & Wise
@raymond78802 ай бұрын
One continuous pun. Genius, to match station names to a narrative and deliver them to perfection so that no artificiality is apparent. Imagine! Station names.
@tedthesailor1726 жыл бұрын
Timeless sketch with brilliant wit.
@scotty1933 жыл бұрын
I cant fathom the genius this sketch....................I do but the minds behind it WOW
@chrimbo903 ай бұрын
Been looking for this for years!
@rajnirvan33366 жыл бұрын
Classic sketch. My favourite bit was the end bit Wait you left your Barbican, Silly Arsenal
@jondenmark95776 жыл бұрын
Pure brill didn't know we had so good when we were growing up with class comedy like this
@The_CrackedPot_Christian6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I too missed this one first time around. Genius script writers.
@paulhunter1233 жыл бұрын
This is better than four candels and first time ive seen it brill
@kriskris45523 жыл бұрын
0:46 Greenford... I use to live there for almost 11yrs...recently moved,this year.
@moodmanrenton50538 жыл бұрын
pure quality
@peppertrout7 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a foreign language. I understand it about as much as I do Dutch. Glad you Brits get such a laugh out of it. I read online that these guys did a charity performance for a 62 year old in Shropshire would had had an accident that has left him paralyzed. The money was used to modify a home for him and his wife to live in, after he had been in the hospital for 15 months. Well done, guys!
@RB747domme6 жыл бұрын
peppertrout as an American, the best way to follow this sketch and find the humour, is to get a London tube map and watch the sketch whilst looking at the tube map looking for every single station mentioned. If you can find 50+ stations mentioned in their dialogue, you're doing well! (There is 62 in total)
@barriereid924421 күн бұрын
These two men were instrumental in my education as a kid. Phenomenal use of the English language.
@davidchiles53313 жыл бұрын
So, so good....brilliant!!
@Ibis1173 жыл бұрын
Landis & Gyr was at North Acton, I think. "Alight ye here, for Landis and Gyr"
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@jonathan4619657 жыл бұрын
Pure talent!!!
@markmurray14802 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant 👏
@TheMrB Жыл бұрын
I will always love these two ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@nigelkthomas95013 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant! And so unpc! Love it!
@extremeconcepts12 жыл бұрын
Word play was one of the best things about the Two Ronnies
@marcy31273 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!! I also love the Irish Pub sketch.
@TallSilentGuy6 жыл бұрын
Damn, that took all my powers of concentration to follow!
@fredmila6 жыл бұрын
Jesus, you really have to concentrate on this one.
@markharrison73316 жыл бұрын
Very funny sketch, written by Kit Galer.
@martinworld7214Ай бұрын
blimey , you found something funny Harrison ? didn't know you had humour in your bones , just hate
@JohnPeedell2 ай бұрын
❤😂😂thank god for CLOSED-CAPTION!!!!!!😂😂
@peterpisspotty305229 күн бұрын
This is pure genius ❤❤
@carolhartford51455 жыл бұрын
Always brilliant.
@Tattmemore3 жыл бұрын
Simply brilliant!
@ozzie-sk9dh Жыл бұрын
Earls Court up me Hatch End
@AbdulRehman-qg8vm6 жыл бұрын
amazing discourse
@ysyelec92326 жыл бұрын
Earl's Court up in the hatch end
@MariaLacsamana-ik3in3 ай бұрын
Still very funny lines after all these years I always laugh the moment I hear their jokes 😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣 😂 thanks 👌 😊 😘
@steveslack4750 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic sketch, especially if you know your underground well.
@billcobbett92596 жыл бұрын
Ronnie Corbett gets out at North Acton, if the back projection is anything to go by
@depotcat17636 жыл бұрын
North Acton was where the BBC rehearsal rooms were. I once saw Ronnie Barker in his Jag driving into there.
@michaelritchie29685 жыл бұрын
It's the inclusion of "Theydon Bois" and "Maida Vale" that make this.
@tullochgorum63233 жыл бұрын
Imagine having to learn the lines for that one...
@paulr88823 жыл бұрын
Theydon Boys/Bois.....timing perfect.
@JonSmith-cx7gr6 жыл бұрын
Love their word play sketches. I think that the Pub water sketch is the best for this.
@stephthestar907 жыл бұрын
I grew up in London and am a bit of an LU enthusiast, so I know of a lot of these stations. I have a fairly good knowledge of the tube. This is pure genius! I should try it on people who aren't tube enthusiasts and see what happens. They might find it funny, but I wouldn't Bank on it.
@xVwraithVx6 жыл бұрын
stephthestar90 I wouldn't consider myself a train enthusiast as such but I still know every station mentioned because I have only ever lived in London. I wouldn't expect the average person who lives out of London to understand it though.
@karenf10016 жыл бұрын
😂😂 well done
@trainsontuesday6 жыл бұрын
"Bank" on it?
@paulr34575 жыл бұрын
I take it "Bank" was delberate?....vert good.
@giovanniacuto26884 жыл бұрын
I remember in the early 70s working with a young Irish lad on Good Friday. We were looking through the ABC rail guide which listed all the stations in the UK. My recollection is that found 14 stations with the word cross e.g. King's Cross, New Cross Gate etc. The total was rather appropriate for Good Friday.
@michaelporter25743 жыл бұрын
Both gone now, bless 'em. Difficult to believe really....
@exb.r.buckeyeman8453 жыл бұрын
Love the genuine tea can, all they need now is a Bardic lamp.
@christineaygin67013 жыл бұрын
This is genius, so soooo talented
@kyawkyawwin17 жыл бұрын
Brilliant - Gerald Wiley I bet.
@heyokaikaggen62883 жыл бұрын
God I miss this type of comedy.
@1292liam Жыл бұрын
incredible !!
@grahamspragg74944 жыл бұрын
With scenes like this, The Two Ronnies should have double duetted with another comedy pair. Would be great if they both filmed with Harlesden and Stanmore. With the amount of pub scenes they all did, it's like they were Maida Vale. Now I think about it, somewhere in the back of my mind they did a scene like this filmed between Cannon Street and Balham. Tufnell Park luck that it will never happen now.
@taylorhackford4 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. Alas, Smith and Jones sharing a skit with Hale and Pace would have been brilliant as well.
@thesoupdragonat1218 жыл бұрын
Haha, just great! "They call him Upton Park, two stops short of Barking" (A knowledge of the superb London Underground system and London humour and slang is required to get the most from this.)
@kevinedwards57617 жыл бұрын
iam from barking originally
@lancebaker13747 жыл бұрын
Don't you mean "Ian from Barking"?
@jamescashin2887 жыл бұрын
Oh please, get off your Highgate mate and go Tufnell Park yourself...............
@roccoliuzzi83946 жыл бұрын
I love the two Ronnies but as a Yank, I was lost. Thanks for the reminder that we speak two languages.
@daniellimmer19493 жыл бұрын
This is comedy So much better than today's offerings.Innocent,non offensive and funny
@jjhry1773 жыл бұрын
the silly arsenal cracked me up
@somethinginteresting22026 ай бұрын
Excellent ❤
@lynnblack64933 жыл бұрын
They are so good at it. Did they memorize the whole thing? Man..
@norbertfarrell47233 жыл бұрын
I didn't get most of this, but it is still funny. I figured out that the whole conversation was the Underground stops names. Clevah!
@henryvagincourt45022 жыл бұрын
So clever, but they were, glad I grew up watching them.
@stoneysoundz15 жыл бұрын
one of my faves
@BritishComedyUK696 жыл бұрын
awesome
@lilawere4926 жыл бұрын
British Comedy UK nb
@darthkek19535 жыл бұрын
I actually have a "King Cnut" hoodie. It is magnificent.
@KardKing667 жыл бұрын
We all get our Earls Court up in our Hatch End sometimes :p
@johntyjp6 жыл бұрын
never seen this one before!! Takes a long time in "the buisness" to get to this standard of comedy. Rarely seen these days!!!!
@keepgoing1973 Жыл бұрын
I don't think half of these stations still exist.
@saxbend6 жыл бұрын
When I first saw the Two Ronnies repeated on telly the East London line was closed. There was no Dalston Junction. But now it's back and this sketch is timeless again. :)
@HooDie-Trench-GoTh20223 жыл бұрын
Brent as Notting hill gate
@stewart_fisher2 жыл бұрын
now i know what inspired Jay Forman to write his tube song
@amber55551006 жыл бұрын
No Ealing Broadway or West Acton ?😀
@kaywoodward92833 жыл бұрын
Incredible.
@sugarcan1110 Жыл бұрын
Best of British
@clairedemorgan56956 жыл бұрын
i missed this sketch when i was a lad. Superb, definitely up there with the fork handles and round of drinks sketches. v funny
@johnjackson20445 жыл бұрын
What other country could write/perform sketches like this,even without the undergrounds help.