The Two Ronnies: The Lone Party Guest

The Two Ronnies
Series Four (1975)
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[@rickkarsan4491]

Its fascinating how comedy has changed. In this, there was no bad language, no sex references.Just a clever scenario and good word play and its hilarious. Bravo to the 2 Ronnies, genious.

[@johnmc3862]

You missed the sexual references 😂

[@rickkarsan4491]

@Raymond B i have fat thumbs and failed to proof read it. Should it please you i will amend it.

[@mitchellmaverick9788]

Pro trick : watch movies at flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching lots of of movies these days.

[@andyquincy838]

@Mitchell Maverick Definitely, have been watching on flixzone} for years myself :D

[@alijahoscar5741]

@Mitchell Maverick definitely, I have been using flixzone} for months myself :)

[@Joiedevivredesilives]

"I will have a dash of water" what a line

[@Thealanrobert]

I will always love watching The 2 Ronnies

[@Fargosportsmassage]

The kings of the kings humor sketches..fabulous..I laughed like crazy

[@Yes-donald-duc]

Though i am an Algerian, i like very Much these 2 comedians. They are very funny, cute and smart. RIP

[@petrus666love]

Good for you Donald , comedy should be universal

[@stephenguppy7882]

The best comedy is always universal and is capable of transcending all boundaries.

[@user-ob7mn4pq8d]

The best comedy duo ever

[@JayKhwaja]

70s and 80s will always be the benchmark of entertainment unlike the recent times of now. The 2 Ronnies were a source of fun that never age but only get more popular, even after their sad passings. 2000s can't and will never match the quality of before no matter how it hard it may try!

[@TerryTanktop]

+Jay Khwaja Well said.

[@JayKhwaja]

Terry Tanktop Many Thanks!

[@joeshoesmith]

Oh come on, old stuff isn't intrinsically better.

[@JayKhwaja]

Eh, YES IT IS!!!!!!

[@ericminch]

@@joeshoesmith True, not intrinsically. Just demonstrably.

[@harveypenson1028]

These were what my house parties at uni were like

[@boohooo6381]

RIP.. The two ronnies

[@TheOmanJam]

The frost is melting on your radiators!

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Reminds me of some office parties that I've attended.

[@mohanlalit82]

Lemme top it up. No no no I m driving 😂 😂😂😂

[@charlesachurch7265]

We're starved of quality comedy these days.

[@adriennedunne1748]

Haha I'm driving!!!😁😄

[@chawwa777]

Lost count of how many times I have watched this clip 😂

[@isrbillmeyer]

lol The ending is brilliant

[@wildechilde9726]

LOL Absolutely brilliant - I miss these two so much. Nothing these days compares to their genius. Thanks so much for posting :)

[@timmccaffrey1326]

Once I start watching these clips I can't seem to stop and before I know it two bloody hours have gone by!...but it's time well spent..thanks a million for uploading!

[@karanfield4229]

Me too! Addicted totally ❣😂

[@michaelheery6303]

CURES DEPRESSION.

[@peterowen9183]

@@michaelheery6303 This one is well below-par for the Two Ronnies, but a reminder that their 'well below par' stuff is still streets ahead of what most people can manage.

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

@@michaelheery6303 I can relate.

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

You wouldn't get people at a party wearing a suit and tie nowadays, unless it's formal black tie. They look so strange! So very funny, even after all these years

[@Macho_Fantastico]

This is my kind of party.

[@janesmith9024]

This is so well done and some people are a bit like this in real life actually - we forget.

[@grahamjeffries4566]

I don’t eat a lot of wood

[@sr-m3725]

Let me top you up. No no I am driving 😂

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

"Do you want water or melted ice?"

[@extremeconcepts1]

I think I've been to a party like that

[@ApoelEokaGr]

Let me top you up. Oh no no noo I am driving!!! LOL

[@katefrederickson2090]

Wonderful! I love it!

[@robertflint2549]

Yep, this one definitely more than inspired the Mr Bean sketch, which I also like...

[@sbeckett91]

Reminds me of my college dorm parties

[@jj9749]

Perfect covid party

[@marleyite]

Lol

[@thomascampos2426]

Would it be an exaggeration to ask: "where is this party exactly...?" "Oh, ok, it's in, er...ah, right ok, how unobservant of me!"

[@user-ru8eu5lc2m]

Oh no, no no, I'm driving.

[@Cyba_IT_NZ]

I don't eat a lot of wood you know

[@Wintro]

Brother.... Who would have expected that.. :) Huge LOL! :D

[@Andrew.quigley]

Miss these two.....

[@jamesfrench7299]

Say when. When!

[@At_Ph.D._Kate_Bush_Fan_Club]

Comedy gold 😂❤.

[@keira-zy2xn]

Irreplaceable 😂🎉😅

[@jr5389]

The Punch 🥊 line 👌 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😎

[@garyclarke9573]

Top entertainment

[@TerryTanktop]

I went to a 'party' like that once. LOL.

[@Joiedevivredesilives]

Terry Tanktop my flat warming was like this

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Sounds perfect

[@smoog]

creepy. sort of party where you find the host has spiked the water and you wake up several hours later tied up in the basement with the guests from the previous years party...

[@hatientacetlen4246]

It's the two ronnies not Bill Cosby

[@sidpheasant7585]

Apart from being pretty funny (!), this sketch raises a surprisingly large number of real-life emotions and questions, which it is true to say the Ronnies do not explore QUITE as fully as they could, even as they are quite clever and gifted enough to evoke most of it viscerally, on and between the lines, by what they say and do. Is the host mean or in fact sad? Do we sympathise as we know the world ridicules and taunts him? Do we hope he will somehow find a modicum of joy? Do we try sympathy but realise he is beyond redemption as he is actually just mean and narrow and callous? When the guest makes at least a little effort to adapt to the impossible circumstances, do we praise and love him for going the extra mile? Do we delight when it seems for a moment that the guest has slightly warmed the host's heart? And how do things change when we realise with the punchline that the guest has repeatedly tried to redeem the host - his own brother, year after year, even though by now he must no it is a hopeless task he still keeps on trying! I must say I felt all those emotions and more from this, all the more so as I have never been the life and soul of the party, yet I do have a special kind of joy and love in me. I would say I have experience of people in both the host and guest categories we see here, and there is warmth for both of them in the predicament, even though the guest is the true hero - a kind of long-suffering saint. And yet, it is ONLY because Ronnie Corbett was who he was and Barker who he was, that there is a kind of balance between the two characters. In spite of everything, we try to warm to the character played by Corbett because that character has Corbett's warmth irrepressibly readiating out, in spite of everything. In turn, the Barker character is long-suffering and ostensibly innocent of any crime, yet has that slight aggressive, cruel and mocking edge to it that most of Barker's creations have - just enough for us to transfer (in spite of ourselves) some of the sympathy from the guest to the host. What all that means is that this was a meaningful sketch, capable of promoting both thoughts and emotions, prepared and performed in such a way as to fully utilise the charisma and talents and capabilities of those who made it a reality... I guess that's why it has both wit and meaning?! And will probably still be funny 1000 years from now.

[@muskndusk]

Makes me think of the Mr Bean episode where he has a sad new year's eve party of only a couple of guests who abandon him before midnight.

[@sidpheasant7585]

@@muskndusk Indeed, but do we care, or do we accept the misfit Bean (as a fallen angel) is beyond being saved? Does the Milk of human kindness and compassion flow in us as we look in on the scene? In fact, in the French-based "Holiday" film, Bean is "saved" as he reaches the sea at last... He has become happier, more normal, less unpleasant and objectionable during that film (even getting a kind of pseudo-family); and it is clear from the context in the movie that he is granted redemption!!!

[@muskndusk]

@@sidpheasant7585 I've never thought of Mr Bean as being unpleasant or objectionable, just lacking social skills. I've always felt a little sorry for him and seen him as a sad character rather than an unpleasant. I've never seen the film to which you refer; I'm glad he finds happiness and acceptance.

[@sidpheasant7585]

@@muskndusk Interesting your level of sympathy/kindness/mercy! Bean could certainly be sly, and could plot against others, even if also innovative in achieving some goals. But some sympathy there was. The film is sweet and great, and a little bit "divine" in fact...

[@deesplaylists6941]

Some of these were definitely weird lol.

[@charliedrosario999]

Hospitality my arm

[@bethhaines6340]

Oh yeah this partys really going off yeah bring the house down lol

[@AaronHahnStudios]

One can see where Rowen Atkins got his idea's for Mr Beans New Years video.

[@robbrown7592]

One can see where Rowan Atkinson got his ideas for Mr. Bean's New Year's video.

[@johnstevenson1709]

I don't get it this is a normal party in Yorkshire only there wun't bi so much prattling on

[@MrFlatroofer]

.........when comedy was comedy.

[@hafadek57]

why can't comedy be good and funny these days? so-called comedy now days belongs in the dustbin

[@martinputt6421]

+hafadek57 Now that's where I disagree, there are quite a few great comedies out there in my opinion.

[@gunz1409]

Martin Putt name one

[@martinputt6421]

Gunz 140 - I can name two on television right now although of course you will probably disagree as is your right. Mrs Brown's Boys, David Walliams with... which is that show David Walliams has on the BBC.

[@Isleofskye]

Boomers with Steph Beacham/Russ Abbot/Alison Steadman is superb. The Thick Of It was utterly brilliant but rude, admittedly. Not Going Out was very witty and Outnumbered was cleverly written. The Two Ronnies WERE sublime but there is still talent out there!

[@ihs51]

Profanity

[@vasanthnair5307]

Hilarious

[@russellcalvert]

I don't eat an awful lot of wood either.

[@ElvarMasson]

That's no way to treat your brother 😕😃

[@marleyite]

I wonder who this clip was based on😊😊

[@malcolmdale9607]

Modern "comedians" please take note - not a single swear-word and still hilarious.

[@marleyite]

His brother, lol

[@SR-cg7pu]

I would normally envision the roles reversed.

[@rinsedpie]

Ohh this is too much

[@tombarter8088]

What you'd imagine a party with Tommy Wiseau to be like.

[@Housephonestimes4]

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[@binaway]

My parents where invited to the 21st of their friends son. None of the people the son invited came. My parents were the only none family members there. Very awkward.

[@peteandurnot]

Any idea why no one else turned up?

[@marleyite]

@@peteandurnot : Probably knew it was going to be a wash out.

[@profaneangel0842]

Mr Bean precursor? 😅

[@mickdunne981]

😅😅😅😅

[@nssimpson]

I clearly don't have a sense of humour. zzz

[@franzherflek4116]

Not for me

[@stuartashbourne-martin9629]

This is probably walked the conservative party fundraiser looks like waiting for Theresa may to do the box dance and then Boris to arrive

[@edwardshirley9314]

Rubbish!!

[@ed9763]

Too ridiculous to be funny.

[@tabathasheffroth7981]

The best comedy is often born of the ridiculous. The more ridiculouser, the more comicaler.

[@JontheBerean]

Tabatha , are there such words as ridiculouser and comicaler ?? Or are you being ridiculous ? Badd speling is knot funny , it's just incoherent , superficial and incongruously overt. Or am I being ridiculous ? This is funny : kzbin.info/www/bejne/roiYlXmegNqXfNE

[@johnmc3862]

Does you mum know you have her phone.

[@tabathasheffroth7981]

@@JontheBerean Of course there are no such words. I just happen to find humor in made-up words. The English language is rife with humor, and no one exploited that better than Messrs. Corbett and Barker, IMO. The clip that you linked to may not have been my kind of humor, and there are likely many who disagree with what makes me laugh, which is perfectly fine. There is no right or wrong in humor. It's all a matter of taste and opinion.

[@tabathasheffroth7981]

@@johnmc3862 To whom are you responding?