The Two Ronnies The Confusing Library

[@jtmichaelson]

I'm from North America and only got Benny Hill and Monty Python growing up in the 70s. However, more recently in my life, I discovered the Brits' panel shows and got hooked. It was Rob Brydon that turned me on to the Two Ronnies and everything went from there. I haven't returned back to American comedy TV since.

[@fraklein]

I love QI and Insert Name Here, as well as many others.

[@pressureworks]

Oh ! Our pbs stations aired MP, The Goodies, Two Ronnies, Dave Allen, The Good Life, Yes Minister, and countless others. Saturday and Sunday they had The British Hour !

[@elleryeggen9678]

Finding out Hugh Laurie was British led me to 'Jeeves and Wooster', where I discovered the incredible Stephen Fry, Q.I. panel shows and David Mitchell. Now I'm o Into BBC 4 radio and "The Unbelievable Truth". I could go on for days about the fab radio shows the Brits have, but I am too busy winding my way thru something like 65 series of 'Have I Got News For You' (I am currently the Angus scandal)! Greetings from California🌴🌴🌴

[@pressureworks]

@@elleryeggen9678 please check out: BBC Radio 4 Extra, Just A Minute, The Goon Show, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Hancocks Half Hour, Round The Horne. On The Hour.....And countless more radio comedies.

[@swanwaffle]

@@elleryeggen9678 Another hilarious radio programme was one called cabin pressure with Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam and John Finnemore who wrote the series . It was aired by the BBC in 2013. The humour was just so typically British and brilliant. I have it on a cd box set, worth every penny.

[@barriereid9244]

Comedic genius. These two men framed my childhood and taught me so much more about the English language than any of my teachers.

[@mohamedaljaber4760]

Please I need to name full

[@andrewtongue7084]

This skit makes you love the Dewey Index System 😂

[@Somnogenesis]

"I read a book once. Green, it was."

[@TheMikeygas]

hahahaha....porridge

[@Somnogenesis]

@@TheMikeygas Glad someone's coming with me on this one, I was slightly worried no one would get the reference 😌

[@DieFlabbergast]

Oooh! It must be the same one I read when I was 14!

[@stephencolgate8510]

Rip love them

[@iant234]

Somnogenesis 4 .... was it mr heslop 😂

[@jeffnettleton3858]

I was a bookseller for 20 years and the reverse of this is how people would ask us for books. "Do you have that book that was on that table, 6 months ago? About this big (holds up hands) and had a green cover." I used to joke that, for April Fools, we should arrange the books and put up signs that said, "That Book by That Author on Oprah" and "That Book by That Actor on That TV Show," and "The Book My Grandson Likes, You Know, The One That All The Kids Read." And have a display of books with a sign showing two hands indicating a size and have them all with the same color cover. That was still better than the people who mixed up titles of more than one book and then claim they gave you the correct title when you show them they two or more book s that they combined into one, because they are never wrong and you weren't listening, even though you repeated the title back to them, and proceeded to indicate the two books you did have that matched half, each, of the title the customer gave, then showed them when they kept insisting that what you were saying was incorrect. The wounds are still fresh.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

You would probably enjoy the Monte Python "Bookshop Sketch" if you haven't seen it already.

[@KitagumaIgen]

Once I got a brilliant quote (technical/mathematical) from a book a mate had in his office when I checked in for a coffee - a year later I could only remember the colour of the book (a burgundy/purple-ish hue) - and that wasn't enough... ...should've learnt to to take a photo of the cover.

[@arthurennimore-empties6709]

I wonder if anyone asked for a copy of Monty Python's Big Red Book. Being Monty Python, the book was, of course, small and blue.

[@lilliankeane5731]

How are the wounds now? 😁

[@JohnsonLobster]

That's exactly what George Orwell talks about in Bookshop Memories. It's a very short read, I recommend it.

[@KL2010]

FEMALE PATRON: And she was all "Ooooh!" And I mean, they always ... I mean, caw! [the librarian smiles and nods] FEMALE PATRON: And he wouldn't leave her alone, and she kept goin' "Ooooh!" And she was all over him, and he was "Ooooh!" Oh, it was wonderful! Wonderful! [she starts getting uncomfortably close to the male patron] FEMALE PATRON: Just thinking about it makes me ... Ooooh! [she smiles and leaves] LIBRARIAN: Well now, what book was it you wanted, sir? MALE PATRON: The big blue one, thank you. [he takes the blue book, puts it under his arm, and quickly walks out of the library]

[@FenrirWolfganger]

Thanks Kl2010

[@rajav2843]

Thanks a lot!

[@Kyrelel]

*corrr

[@gardenlover9663]

Thank you!

[@ditoh_]

😂😂 thankyou

[@SabrinaCWB168]

THE ENDING: Ronnie Corbett gives up on his book search, and strides out with the book the woman has just returned. :)

[@MythicSuns]

luckily someone uploaded the full sketch about a month ago (edit: the video I had linked has now gone because the uploader’s account was deleted, so this comment is just here for the sake of context)

[@FenrirWolfganger]

Thank you Sabrina

[@usvalve]

@@MythicSuns thanks so much for this link!

[@harsaranhehar9073]

@@MythicSuns the person's deleted their account

[@MythicSuns]

Harsaran Hehar damn! I’ll update my comment.

[@ajwasp]

He is so Fletcher in this scene. Awesome!

[@michaeljohn1978]

At the end of this scene, after the cut, he kills Ronnie Corbett and that's why he goes to prison

[@ElvarMasson]

What does that mean?

[@adrianmorris5546]

This is pure Comic genius absolutely hilarious the play on words

[@stevelee5562]

R.I.P Two Ronnies!

[@annajolie2699]

We were told to watch this as part of my librarian course haha.

[@Treviscoe]

Very cool teacher there then!

[@tonygloster3483]

The two Ronnies together was always going to be great 😊 but for me barker was just something special

[@johnmc3862]

He was a genius.

[@bopmathews]

@@johnmc3862 David Jason said Ronnie B was The Guvnor

[@dodibenabba1378]

The best comedians ever....no contest.

[@DieFlabbergast]

Best comedians ever = Monty Python, no contest. Mind you there are only two of the Two Ronnies (otherwise they wouldn't be the Two Ronnies, would they?), so we can give them a special prize for efficiency, I suppose!

[@stephenbrady4829]

Barker's nonchalant, gum-chewing character here is like an advance sketch of Norman Stanley Fletcher.

[@sonclearbrahman-ar1461]

Same

[@stephenbrady4829]

@Solomon Grundy Fletcher's work-release programme LOL

[@goyaassfilms4551]

This sketch is a perfect metaphor for youtube's algorithm.

[@Regi869]

I found this video in KZbin's "People Who Upload Videos Without the Ending" section, if anyone would like to know.

[@harrycurrie9664]

Is that in the alphabetical or numerical section ?

[@neuvocastezero1838]

Was it filed with the long vids or the short vids?

[@peterowen9183]

RB throws in the 'Hennessy Tennessee' line. I don't even know if it's in the script or not, but I love the thought that he just can't resist the wordplay.

[@LarsCarlsen-or6ky]

From song McNamara's Band

[@bustedfender]

I find that jokes always have more impact when you have to trawl the comments to read someone else’s bland description of what you can’t see because it was carelessly cut before the punch line after a 3 minute build up.

[@deldridg]

I'm glad I'm not the only one

[@mustafa1name]

How do you know it wasn't delib

[@fragglet]

When this came out it was funny because the premise was absurd, but now here we are in 2021 where we have interior designers suggesting people organise their bookshelves by colour to create a "rainbow room" or turn all the books backwards so that they look more uniform. Life imitating comedy.

[@Fahrenheit4051]

Wait... What/where?

[@fragglet]

@@Fahrenheit4051 Google "rainbow bookshelf" and you'll quickly find a bunch of articles promoting the idea. Or head down to your local furniture/interior design store and you'll probably find a bunch of bookshelves with the books turned backwards. An idiotic trend that appears to be all the rage at the moment.

[@Fahrenheit4051]

@@fragglet Oh, effing aitch...

[@gamewizard1760]

The books are only meant for decorative purposes, though. They aren't meant to actually be read. This is a library, where the books are meant to be read, so finding the one you want should be easy, not hard.

[@not_a_frog]

Never heard of that, but to be fair they're not doing that in public libraries and that would be fine at home if you had a decent memory and weren't dealing with a huge quantity of books. The whole issue arises in a public library setting where the organization style needs to make sense to people who've never been there before. That said, organizing books by color, while admittedly silly, is no more cringe or less functional than those decorative gold leaf books with unprinted pages that were absolutely in existence well before this sketch was ever written.

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

Thumbs down for missing out the most important bloody part of the sketch!

[@ElvarMasson]

Fear not !!! The full length video is in the "full length, uncut / uncensored videos", next to the "short videos"

[@whovianhistorybuff]

How can you upload a comedy sketch and miss out the bloody punchline?

[@alejandropianist6466]

You mean skit…?

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

@@alejandropianist6466 Same thing.

[@beverlyfletcher4458]

Loved by Librarians everywhere...!

[@privateinvestor.]

RIP both Ronnie's.. thanks for the laughs

[@lesleymaclennan7899]

Love these guys ..

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

It's a good thing this video was in the 3 minute video section of KZbin, else nobody would have found it. Also, the viewing part of the video was exactly 4 inches long and 2 inches tall, which was the perfect category of video for my phone screen. 😂

[@LordTaylor007]

Still Game sent me here ❤2024

[@maxsoon1097]

classic British comedy. clean and funny

[@PeaceChanel]

. Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste 🙏🏻 😊 ✌ ☮ ❤

[@notyetskeletal4809]

I was thinking of the library yesterday. Havent finished a book since 2004.

[@wrightcarl1181]

Fletcher got a job in the library, must have been that trustee job 😉

[@neonfoxxy3007]

finally found it. I had seen the full version several years ago but now it has been removed from youtube. I guess this will do. I am a librarian in training and my cataloging class will get a kick out of this.

[@mykehyslop198]

Family friends with Ronnie,Anne a his daughters in Shirley Hills.We all miss him.😌😌

[@RabbiHerschel]

The ending of this video has been approved by the Ministry of Cuts.

[@cyberkoolshot]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpW9q6GcfLWMiLs

[@beeble2003]

1:10 "All the big books are on the bottom, all the little books on the top." Actually, some very large libraries _do_ split books by size. It allows the shelves to be packed more densely, which can save significant amounts of space.

[@ericalbany]

and there is often an Oversized Books section- often in the art books.

[@beeble2003]

@@ericalbany Yes, that's very common.

[@ianstoys13mgs]

he must say " i'll take this big blue one instead "

[@mcmillan20101]

Fletcher finally got that job in the library, this is why he didn’t get it inside

[@eileenlocke7877]

Great luv old comedies

[@jokepy4230]

The complete sketch is available elsewhere on KZbin.

[@velkanzi]

Big , unsorted and censored space, that is.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

I'm glad this video was in the 3 minute video section of KZbin, otherwise I would never have been able to find it. I was, at the time, looking for an exactly 3 minute video. And this fit the bill precisely. Also it was in the 4 inches wide and 2 inches tall subsection, just perfect for my phone screen. I'm glad I watched it again today, because I'm thinking of looking for a phone with a different size screen and I wouldn't have been able to watch it anymore. Also I'm more into 3 minute and 17 second videos these days, and so I am not watching these exactly 3 minute videos so much anymore. I found there were too many of the 3 minute kind, subsection 4 inches wide and 2 inches tall, and I was having trouble watching them all. But there are fewer 3 minute videos with the odd 17 seconds tacked on. So I think I can possibly keep up with them.

[@rhamiemanuelmoura-yameen8416]

1:35 " I am not interested in the size or the colour. " Absolutely. Here , here.

[@palehorse864]

Ronnie Corbett would be a perfect George Smiley in a skit.

[@trje246]

Did you upload this *after* uploading their 'minister of cuts' sketch?

[@chriswatson7965]

You cut off the punch line!

[@hazelchief-rabbit5903]

@@eij4346 how about a green one?

[@hazelchief-rabbit5903]

@@eij4346 there are red books, blue books and green books (thought you were going with the colours of the books)

[@cyberkoolshot]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpW9q6GcfLWMiLs

[@tomedy_official]

2:05 that was clearly a book with pictures!

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

I have seen books on wildflowers organized similarly. They have the yellow flowers, then the white flowers, then red flowers, then blue flowers etc.

[@manichairdo6346]

My local library did classify books by the colour. Some were impossible to remove....they were so crammed. They modified it at my request. Then, after decorating the library they stopped using any labelling. I asked a librarian from elsewhere to try and find a certain book within 1 hour. Lol. Labels were immediately reinstated. I go directly to sagas...lol. Takes 10 seconds.

[@eileenlocke7877]

Luv it . Thank u 🙏

[@glutinousmaximus]

That very last book she brought in sounds very much like 'The Twisted Spur'!

[@RPe-jk6dv]

no. but he takes it because he knows now what a book it is.

[@obviouslytwo4u]

I'm surprised nobody understood the metaphor they were trying to explain it simply explaining that judging a book by its cover is no use in a world that demands simplicity.

[@TheScunneredMan]

It actually had a voice over saying, "Tune in next week, for the next thrilling instalment of this sketch."

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

Brilliant!😄👍

[@patriciajustice9795]

Love their comedy

[@ThompsonSmith505]

Hello Patricia How are you doing today?

[@C2H6Cd]

My grandma worked in a bookstore in the 80s and she told me once that there were people who came in and asked for e.g. 1.5 m of books, no joke. She collected the most expensive books then and they were happy. So this scene isn’t too far from reality.

[@avalynnewilby8150]

My local charity shop has the books sorted by colour.... very confusing!

[@SFsailingbiking]

Love from Shanghai

[@jry3270]

First heard of the Two Ronnies on an episode of the second season of the Office . They’re hilarious !

[@JamieAubrey]

I'm looking for a book on the colour red Yes, its in the blue section

[@sarahstrong7174]

Thankyou for sharing.

[@chuckmendez8446]

Thanks for cutting the punchline, genius.

[@DovahKanye]

Five letter word across, description: this uploader, starts with an I ends with a T.

[@suzyque]

Really? You cut off the end!, which is the best bit!

[@Yes-donald-duc]

Though i am not English, i love British humour and specially these 2 men fabulous fantastic and very funny Are they still around ?

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

Both passed away years ago. Sorry.

[@Yes-donald-duc]

@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER May they rest in peace They deserve a place in heaven

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@@Yes-donald-duc "My Blackberry Is Not Working" (the One Ronnie (Corbett), from the internet era, after Ronnie Barker had passed away) kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXKqZGyggM5joqs "Squash Match", 1983, The Two Ronnie's (during the latter part of their heyday) kzbin.info/www/bejne/inqyfnh5n5Wch5I I thought you might like these, there's tons of them on KZbin.

[@velkanzi]

You cut it short ... definitely a crime worthy of serious prison time.

[@robfriedrich2822]

It misses the final gag "I will take this blue book"

[@JYRIVIRMA]

Disapointed. This version stops 10 seconds too early. The masterly finished end is lost from viewers that havent seen the 100% version of this video. Really disapointing.

[@robertwalsh3383]

Timeless

[@eamonn1973es]

You cut the video off right at the punchline?

[@eileenlocke7877]

Legend

[@Firebrand55]

I pricked up my ears at the."Coooooooooorr!! at the cut-off end.....that would be in the Blue section I guess!

[@leopold7562]

A man walks into a pub with a dog, a cat and an ostrich. The man goes up to the bar and asks for a pint of beer, a double whisky for the dog, a vodka and coke for the cat and a glass of white wine for the ostrich. The barman hands over the drinks and the man goes over to the table where the rest of his party are sat. After a little while, the dog goes over to the bar and asks for a double whisky, a pint of beer for the man, a vodka and coke for the cat and a white wine for the ostrich, which the barman duly hands over and the dog goes back to the table. A short while later, the ostrich goes to the bar, makes the same order, and goes back with the drinks. Then the man goes up to the bar with the same order. This goes on all night, with the man, the dog and the ostrich all buying a round, whilst the cat sits there and doesn't buy a single drink. The barman is intrigued by this sequence of events, so eventually asks the man what the deal is. The man says... [punchline deleted]

[@chrisdaniel2195]

...what!

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

Best-ever joke without a punchline.

[@leopold7562]

@@chrisdaniel2195 I'll put you out of your misery! The man says, "On the way here with my dog, I came across this dusty old oil lamp, so I picked it up and dusted it off and suddenly, there was a cloud of smoke and this genie appeared! He said I had one wish, so I asked for a bird with long legs and a tight pussy."

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

"The man says...you're the bartender, stop drinking up the profits and you won't see nonsense like this all night long!"

[@DanielWhyborn]

GOOD SKETCH 🤓 🤓

[@ChrisBreemer]

These guys were so great. I don't think that kind of innocent humor exists anymore. Marvellous sketch, maybe their best, but pretty lame to cut off the ending (whether it was done intentionally or not).

[@naeemmajeed9077]

Nyce way to classifying books by color size thickness 😂😂😂😂😁😁😁😁

[@arjunratnadev]

ok that's it now, I understood why so many dislikes because of an incomplete ending. People do love themselves their well deserved ending.

[@shaneruddock-pedallingtheg8114]

I read an amazing book just yesterday. It was a big green one

[@martinsmith1538]

Barker chewing gum. Getting ready for Fletcher in Porridge.

[@mustafa1name]

Can we classify this as dry humour, because it's not Dewey?

[@Mortthemoose]

Ohhhhhhh......lol 👍

[@Hysteria98]

Massively underrated quip. Well done, mate haha.

[@amithabhbachchan]

Superb 👍

[@Ashbash75]

You can see where Ronny Barker got his inspiration for Fletch in Porridge!

[@kimphilby7999]

I will agree with the librarian without a second thought!I can't imagine any other way,to taxonomy books.

[@goigus]

What even happens at the end? Can't find the full version anywhere

[@SabrinaCWB168]

He gives up on his search and strides out with the book she just returned :)

[@lindsaybradley300]

Your should find the you tube video called, The Confusing Library by the British comedy pair the two Ronnies. It is an old skit but it is about colour coded books in a library. This is what I though when I saw smegs coloured books…and had to laugh.

[@-Tidgy]

Why was the ending of this clip cut off??

[@robfriedrich2822]

Possibly I sort my music sheets by song length.

[@KathyTrithardt]

This would be helpful for all the "it has a blue cover" library patrons.

[@andrewfreeman9437]

Congratulations uploader

[@cilliauk]

Why cut the ending?

[@cyberkoolshot]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpW9q6GcfLWMiLs

[@bazblackadder]

Green? Is that the book Heslop from Porridge read? ;)

[@jourwalis-8875]

Where is the ending of this?! Thumbs down!

[@ElvarMasson]

It's in the "short videos" section, located on your right, next to the "full length, uncut / uncensored videos"

[@philiphalpenny9761]

@@ElvarMasson Droll....

[@ElvarMasson]

Okey

[@cyberkoolshot]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpW9q6GcfLWMiLs

[@onlyme9254]

Fletcher in his new job after release from prison

[@supremefandom6970]

A big red one LMAO

[@jerryhall5709]

The days you could talk to someone at the libray. Now you scan the books yourself.

[@LTLT900]

What happened to the Huey Dewey and Louie system?

[@user-wp5gw7td5r]

what is name of show?

[@wisteela]

It must have taken ages to put the set together with all those books.

[@donepearce]

You think they are books?

[@wisteela]

@@donepearce Or prop ones like those false books you can get for display purposes

[@clemstevenson]

What about fonts? Is there no way that I can find that book in Times New Roman, rather in Calibri ?

[@jkkay477]

Certainly not Calibri! That's a Microsoft typeface that was released in 2007. The books in this sketch would more likely be set in a classic typeface like Baskerville, Palatino or Bembo.

[@clemstevenson]

@@jkkay477 :-)

[@johnkealy2238]

Was that Mrs Pike from Dad's Army?

[@cmoor8616]

This needs noting, an inner joke, more of a word play. "This is Barmy!" "E M Balmy or W.H.O Balmy?" Embalm-y, or an unknown Balmy

[@originaluddite]

The bound anthologies section at my uni library looked very much like that.

[@margaretgosling3258]

Pity they have cut the sketch short; he takes the love story book instead of the Twisted Spur.

[@namitakarwayoon8574]

Hilarious ... British comedy is just awesome...

[@oscar6487]

Have you got the bt telephone directory for Chinese people

[@frazermountford]

We may laugh but i have seen some project managers making similarly daft rules in my working life