American Reacts to Harry Enfield Women Know Your Limits

[@Lynn-qv2xj]

I am a woman and I know my place..ha ha. Comedy as it should be without everyone taking offence..love it.

[@peterbackhouse8650]

Some people are too quick to be offended where as you see it as a bit of comedy. Good for you.

[@Dunk1970]

Hmm careful, you're dangerously close to having an opinion there Lynn.

[@poppad331]

Bless your comedy appreciation, but shouldn't you be getting your husbands dinner ready or commenting on a funny kitten video or something ;)

[@J.Carter69]

Lynn , what are you doing on the internet and who showed you how to use it? :)

[@BirthOfAnEmceeTV]

I see the Wi-Fi works in Lynn's kitchen

[@Siank6328]

As a woman, I think this is hilarious. Remember, offence cannot be given, only taken!

[@H0n3yMonstah]

It's also tongue in cheek, it's poking fun at old school attitudes towards women, not at women.

[@yessanknow302]

That is a dangerous and reckless opinion of your own.

[@SW-fn7cl]

It's a piss take of men and their sexist, repressive attitudes

[@yinoveryang4246]

In all fairness “offence cannot be given, only taken” is kind of nonsense. It can certainly be given intentionally. One modern-day example of this is where someone demands someone else lose their job, maybe over a Twitter comment they made 8 years ago. That’s intentionally offensive, an intended to be.

[@alanmurphy4866]

@@yinoveryang4246 thanks for the mansplaining 😳🙄😂😂😂

[@pennyholbrook1551]

We love ironic comedy in the UK , it’s funny because it points out the prejudice. So nice to see you get our humour

[@marvinc9994]

" it’s funny because it points out the prejudice" And because it happens to be true ! Men don't want CLEVER women - they want FEMININE ones................and most would prefer a lady who loved kittens to one who regularly reads the _Financial Times_ . Such is Life !

[@Will831100]

Yet nowadays the BBC is so politically correct they would brand this as sexist and offensive and it would get cancelled as soon as somebody from the PC mob complained. Sadly the UK is being controlled by a vocal minority of PC nutcases who want anything they deem slightly offensive cancelled and we likely won't see comedy like this made again any time soon.

[@marvinc9994]

@@Will831100 " a vocal minority of PC nutcases " Do you think they'd object to a return of _The Black and White Minstrel Show_ ? I appreciate that SOME people would find the mock-American accents offensive, but that's nothing a competent voice coach couldn't sort out ! From what I hear from friends - I chucked my telly out seven years ago - most of today's TV commercials bear a striking resemblance to the show anyway. Or am I missing the point ?

[@Will831100]

@@marvinc9994 The big issue is what's pointed out on the vid itself. The people i'm talking of nowadays just don't seem to get ironic comedy and parody or if they do they cannot seem to tolerate or understand it. I wish I could fully understand these people's ways but I can't pretend I do. All I do know from experience is you cannot for the most part debate or question them lest you face the cancel culture mob. For what it's worth I gave up TV for the most part myself several years ago also because as I pointed out about the BBC it's being taken over more and more by the woke, PC people and it's either repeats or politically biased nonsense for the most part, precisely why you won't see anything like this now. They're more concerned with making historical shows where Anne Boleyn is suddenly black so they can score brownie points with the woke brigade rather than be historically accurate. If you were ever a Doctor Who fan look at it's downfall thanks to PC/woke culture getting it's hands on it the last few years.

[@marvinc9994]

@@Will831100 Thanks for that, Will - I'm _genuinely_ grateful for your observations. What REALLY gets me about the Woke Brigade is their INVERTED Sense of Morality: they inveigh constantly against Hatred, whilst being brimful of malignity themselves; they warble on about 'racism' - whilst calling for the destruction of the White Race; they demand 'diversity' in WHITE societies, whilst being totally mute about the murder of white farmers in BLACK South Africa......................etc etc etc. And as for their Historic AND Scientific Ignorance............................................... The more vocal among their number are Empty Vessels, of course - filled with the toxin of Cultural Marxism (call it what you will). And they are SO stupid, that they cannot even see how destructive they are to the society which has nourished and protected them, how manipulated by (excuse my poetic excesses, here) our Dark Masters - and how (in all probability) despised they are by the same as the 'useful idiots' _de nos jours_ ! Dangerous - and depressing times, Will: but that's even MORE reason for the _awakened_ among us to re-direct _the woke_ towards Truth. It wasn't Wishful Thinking, after all, that won the Battle of Britain for the Forces of Light ! Strength to your arm, my Friend !

[@robertespley248]

I once jokingly said to my girlfriend "Woman...know your limits" thinking she'd see the funny side and get the reference. She did not ... Ironically I now know MY limits .

[@Nigel-Webb]

Did you “get your coat”?

[@robcall5182]

Now we know,, oh we know now..

[@helenbailey8419]

😂😂😂😂well you big girls blouse😂😂

[@cavedweller2000]

I love the Harry Enfield Public Service Announcement skits

[@QBTO]

Didn't recognize you without your hat 😜

[@Fatwreckman]

L is for Labour. L is for Lice.

[@Svvithred]

I remember when this first aired in the early 90s, I was probably about 12/13 and it was one of the funniest things at the time. EVERYONE at school was saying 'women, know your limits!' 😂

[@madoldbatwoman]

So were all the adults I was working with! It was very quotable and suited so many occasions. The guys would say it to us and we'd play along in the same accent, "I'm terribly sorry darling, really I am!". Good times.

[@davidbrownybrown6338]

We need to go back to the days where we could have real comedy harry enfield is a legend

[@SPECTRE_Madman]

He was born in my town

[@albundy774]

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[@albundy774]

YT didn't like me sharing the link I just posted so I posted it by itself with no comment about it

[@helenbailey8419]

Loads a money,"I'm considerably richer than yow"...hilarious and "You don't wanna do it like this,you wanna do it like that"...so true and relatable

[@ba55bar]

always find these comments on old comedy sketches/shows and they're complete codswallop. Why have you stopped at Harry Enfield? Go back a few more years and talk about Bernard Manning and then maybe a few more and talk about the Black & White Minstrel show. Society and tastes move on, it's your perception that there's no good comedy anymore and not the reality

[@TheMadTatter]

All of the Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches are absolute gold, there are a lot of them on KZbin and you can't go wrong with any of them. Great video again Mr Beard 👍

[@frglee]

The one about honeymoon conjugation methods is a real scream!

[@TheMadTatter]

@@frglee "and now it's time for the act of unpleasantness itself" 😂

[@headshot6959]

It's simple and easy to remember because it spells 'huwakk'.

[@kattytatty7266]

With the globe showing the British Isles taking up most of the Atlantic Ocean. 😂😂

[@paulbanks223]

I have an old electrical advertising sign hung in the kitchen which says, ''Gentlemen do not let house work kill your wife, let electricity do it''.

[@GenialHarryGrout]

A sketch from the early 1990's mocking life in Britain in the 1930's

[@patchthesinclair5896]

My mother, bless her soul, rightly told me that the Invergordon mutiny,between the world wars, was a knock on effect of coming off the gold standard. She also laughed at Harry Enfield's wit. She was first married in the 1930s.( All I have commented on in the past has been in the name of Patrick Sinclair)

[@helenbailey8419]

I loved Mr Chumley Warner playing football smoking a pipe...brilliant

[@baylessnow]

@@helenbailey8419 Yes, 1930's England team vs 1990's Liverpool team. Another funny sketch.

[@CHIL2903]

​@@helenbailey8419 Have a look for their old footballer video where a woman is trying to interview them after a game. Can't post a link, YT deletes the comment. It's called "where's the bloke?"

[@blowingfree6928]

He was not "mocking" life in Britain in the 30s; it was a parody of the old Public Information Films. Suggest you look up the meaning of 'mocking'; it would not be funny, mocking never is.

[@IanDarley]

It's just satire, I think it would still be fine. I'm sure he did a few of these, definitely one called 'Women, for Pity's Sake Don't Drive' and 'Women Keep Your Virtue'

[@ftumschk]

I agree. It would still be fine today, given that it's just a lampoon of 1940s upper-class attitudes.

[@Isleofskye]

After 41 years of driving since 1980 in London covering nearly 700,000 miles, mainly in short journeys, I am not at all sure I am laughing quite as much s the Women Driving one as I once did :)

[@StephenButlerOne]

@@Isleofskye women wasn't allowed to drive in the 80s 😉

[@lucyhardman2267]

@@StephenButlerOne They were permitted to drive prams. 😉

[@Isleofskye]

Halcyon Days..........:)

[@leeandrew6555]

The best thing about this is that her opinion is the most intelligent one at the table.

[@Kittyburgla]

My take on it, and I watched when it was originally broadcast, is rather than having a go at women it is having a go at men of the 1930s to 50s. The fact the majority find it funny shows how much we have moved on.

[@TheBuddhaFinger]

Absolutely right sir!

[@williammcqueen1951]

Exactly right, it is mocking men

[@damienyoung9080]

Yes.. and so many miss the obvious joke about the ageing and beard growth since so many scholars certainly then and still are perceived to be old men that have big beards etc

[@tSp289]

There's a whole series of these. "Women, don't drive!" and "methods of self-defence" are some of my favourites. Short and sweet, and very funny.

[@nigelwalker6103]

I remember this from the 90s. Still hilarious. Both as a satire of old fashioned sexism and a parody of old public information films Sad if some people can't take a joke nowadays.

[@ahb3251]

One of my favourite Harry Enfield sketches, thank you for reacting to it. " American Tourists and Gays" is another Harry Enfield sketch you might enjoy.

[@westham535]

This is amazing 😂 Why cant comedy be like this today? Im 20 and absolutely love this. Its only comedy ffs 😂

[@natmanprime4295]

I'm 43, this was before the internet. The Zeitgeist has changed medium. All The humour and sexiness is now upon the web...

[@jamespickersgill8416]

Because your generation have started to get offended by everything unfortunately.

[@westham535]

@@jamespickersgill8416 Rich coming from the generation in charge of the world. Blame yourselves 😂

[@natmanprime4295]

@@jamespickersgill8416 Yes, boomers are the worst, and Gen X are their henchmen

[@westham535]

@@natmanprime4295 I dont know what any of that means mate

[@sophomoricentertainment4827]

Absolutely brutal satire. Genius.

[@catherinerobilliard7662]

“Women Know Your Limits” was my teenage daughter’s favourite sketch; it never failed to make her burst out laughing. It brings back fond memories for me, though the skit reminded me of my own youth and was a little too close for comfort.

[@PooeyCheeks]

Harry and Paul are British comedy legends! There’s hundreds of clips you should definitely check out. Some of these old style Mr Cholmondley Warner sketches are incredible! 😂😂

[@Payne2view]

Its only about 20 years old and a parody of 1930s pubic information films. There is a whole series of them. I think one is called, "Women, protect your virtue" and one where they take a look at the working class.

[@leeloxleigh1471]

Hi Eclectic beard, great reaction video. This is comedy as you mentioned, but it is also taking the mick out of British tv. I am 53 and can remember this kind of Public Information Broadcasts in this style as a young child. It's good that times have changed, but great that our generation can look back and laugh at the foolishness of our forefathers in such matters, and at the same time respect their achievements.

[@Codex7777]

I'm 57 and I don't remember them. This is a parody of the public information films that used to be shown in cinemas in the 30s and 40s. There were public information broadcasts on tv, in the 60s and 70s but they were nothing like this. There were ones aimed at children... don't talk to strangers, unsafe places to play and how to cross the road etc. Those aimed at adults seemed to be about wearing seatbelts and drink driving. They still exist today but look different again. The anti speeding ones spring to mind. :)

[@feraljim]

Once upon a time it wasn’t uncommon for our adverts to say “so easy that even a woman or a child could do it”

[@Phil_A_O_Fish]

Ah for the good old days, @feraljim, when ALL of the housework was called " women's work " and men were forbidden by social pressure from doing it otherwise they'd be classified as not being real men, wouldn't they? The implication behind your comment is also that if a man's capable of doing it then ANYONE'S equally dumb enough as him to do it, aren't they? ✌️😎✌

[@oldtimer5111]

We all knew women couldn't really do it.

[@redf7209]

was it ever about capability, really? Or do women just enjoy doing the housework - satisfying nest building instinct- but not letting on.

[@marieravening927]

@@redf7209 I hate housework ! I blame my mother who said that when she died she would hate to be remembered for having a kitchen floor so clean, you could eat off it. Instead she wanted to be remembered for her abilities as a writer and for any good personality traits she might have.

[@redf7209]

@@marieravening927 my mother always said she hated ironing but years later as a pensioner she admitted she enjoyed it as meditation time and liked the satisfying feel of smoothing things out.

[@caractacusbrittania7442]

The harridans with premature ageing has the great Kathy burke, The one on the left, She was Perry in Kevin and Perry go large, She's a great actress and a comedy queen.

[@ShovelQueen]

This is probably late 90's, from Harry Enfield and Chums, I think? (Although he's produced more recent stuff). It's a spoof mocking the old public information broadcasts. Hilarious when you watch some of those old reels. Check out Harry Enfield's Wayne & Waynetta Slob (Paul Whitehouse is also worth searching... he was in many of the sketches).

[@onemanandhiszebra]

Every time my missus says or does something daft, I call her squiggle brain.

[@Phil_A_O_Fish]

So what does she call you when you say or do something equally as daft, @One Man And His Zebra?

[@onemanandhiszebra]

Ivor Hugeknob A number of things. Prat is a favourite of hers as well as gooley.

[@Phil_A_O_Fish]

@@onemanandhiszebra, it's at times like this that I'm overjoyed that I've always been single.

[@helenbailey8419]

@@Phil_A_O_Fish Amen to that

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

@@Phil_A_O_Fish Is this the "Fantastic username convention"?

[@lioncurlew]

The "Look listen and take heed, women keep your virtue" Harry Enfield sketch is also funny.

[@markshaw270]

I remember this, it's part of his show called Harry Enfield and chums. Hilarious

[@maryhill7640]

This is one of my most favourite sketches, it's bringing me so much joy to watch you react to all of these 😊

[@DaChaGee]

This isn't that old. We still have comedy like that. It's British humour, it wouldn't get cancelled.

[@janeburrell1434]

I love The public information skits of Harry Enfield and I’m a British Woman, brilliant 👍😀👏🇬🇧

[@K-M1]

Harry Enfield was a great show back in the 90's. Loved it when I was a kid.

[@shaunlaverty1582]

Harry and Paul doing Stan and Ollie doing Brokeback Mountain! Bloody hilarious.

[@shaunlaverty1582]

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[@iseeolly9959]

I love to hear your laugh mate, cheers from the UK.

[@drdassler]

Johnny Depp said Paul Whitehouse was the best actor he'd seen. 🤷🏻

[@Add1ct666]

Yeah! He liked them so much he had a part in one of the "Suit you, sir" sketches. Brilliant

[@philipminns3933]

Did you see 'Help'? Obviously you have to ignore the Chris Langham contribution nowadays, but Whitehouse is great in it.

[@nudgerss]

I remember watching this when it first aired and I was absolutely crying. Harry Enfield did some great stuff.

[@1970jayjayc]

It’s an homage to the Pathe news reels of the 40s where everyone spoke in clipped English accents. Look out for the one where they shouldn’t be allowed to drive and how to make babies. Classic

[@timhicks2154]

I remember Public Information broadcasts back in the days when we had our first black & white TV. They were also in cinemas too.

[@Jamie_D]

Man your epic laugh makes everything so much better :)

[@brodie2711]

Harry's satire on British men's attitude to women prior to the women's liberation movement is just brilliant

[@stevenrees6015]

It is modern comedy. It's making fun of the way the world actually used to be.

[@CountScarlioni]

Modern, if you could ever think of 1992 as modern! This is legitimately "Grandad Comedy" these days! But yeah, nearly everyone watching this will immediately understand the context of the joke. Only 1930s dinner party guests wouldn't get it!

[@sillybilly1662]

@@CountScarlioni Apart from most Americans 🤣🤣🤣

[@paulw314]

Eclectic beard, this was actually made in the 1990s believe it or not. It's a spoof. They're taking the p out of the old days so anyone "offended" really ought to understand that. :)

[@jonsey156]

Hilarious - Glad you enjoyed it !

[@dethkultbadger]

It’s taking the piss out of public service broadcasts from the 40’s and 50’s

[@bhurzumii4315]

Harry Enfield made some very close-to-the-bone comedy. Have a trawl through his stuff on YT, you're bound to find plenty that will have you roaring with laughter!

[@weedyp]

Aww man I love this guys laugh! Little does this American know this is a very serious documentary here in the UK! Subscribed btw

[@wipeout2098]

I'd also recommend The Day Today's "War" as a good way to start into the world of Chris Morris and friends. :D

[@terrybanks5063]

one of their best sketches, period. proper laugh out loud funny!

[@stevew585]

One of the funniest sketches ive ever seen! I wish Harry Enfeild was still on TV! Shame on you BBC!

[@johnp8131]

Christ! it's a bloody satire and a funny one at that. Can't the American public understand that?

[@__J_P_B__]

You sir have earned a subscription. These could be the best reactions of an American on really British comedy. You really get it, and I’m glad you do. It’s fucking funny!

[@StephenButlerOne]

The German at the bus stop is a great HE skit. Love this in the 90s.

[@russelllong5061]

I must apologise for my country's behaviour during ze war

[@SteamedhamsEdnalovescock]

Jurgen klopp liverpool manager

[@StephenButlerOne]

@@SteamedhamsEdnalovescock I've not seen it in years, probably decades. But I do recall he may of actually looked like klopp a bit.

[@omegasue]

Brilliant .... and I'll say it again .... your laughter is such a wonderful tonic ... thank you.

[@rachelchamberlain6827]

Check out Harry Enfield" Gay son" so funny ! 😆

[@doilysimpkin6972]

One of my all-time favourite sketches. So glad you enjoyed it 😁👍

[@brendanmaguire4134]

Haven't seen this in years. LMAO thinking about it b4 we even started ✌🇮🇪

[@sandman8993]

One of my favourites this. Absolute genius

[@darrenbuckley2082]

Yes when you use the sketch today in every day life they do tend to still get upset :-)

[@lenarobinson]

If you can’t take the piss out of how it used to be, then what’s the point of comedy? 🤣🤣🤣 Harry and his crew. Legendary!

[@Aw-zc2lt]

What a guy. Not sure how you'll react to Ronald and Pam from Badiddlyboing, Odawidaho in USA though 🤔

[@jameshiggins8329]

The woman driving a car know your limits was also hilarious. I still have the limp my wife gave me when I laughed a little too loudly at it.

[@sharonlock6452]

3 dislikes ? These must be from women with a wild and dangerous opinion of their own

[@janeburrell1434]

Brilliant 😂😂😂👍👏

[@petermonk117]

Your comment made me laugh out loud. Top marks and Thanks!

[@LearnTrainPlay]

lmao, this sketch has aged so well, I have not seen it for ages and used to love harry enfield, they did some great sketches on that show. You just earned my sub

[@andrewlaw]

Another great Harry Enfield sketch is "straight talking Yorkshireman". It wouldn't pass muster these days unfortunately.

[@RyanKeane9]

I say what I like and I like what I bloody well say!!

[@emdiar6588]

It would "pass muster". The funny thing is, with so many things like this, that there are always way more people saying "you couldn't say that now.." (the implication being that PC has gone too far) about a given joke than there are people who actually object to it. Basically, the 'oppressed victim' status that some people on the Right try to claim is in their imagination. They love the 'you can't say that anymore' line, when in reality you can say what you like. There are still lots of satirical comics who use this exact style of deadpan irony to point out the ridiculous, and they do OK. Bill Burr for instance, often uses apparently face-value sexism to flag up the idiocy of sexism, and he seems to be doing just fine. A tiny group of irony deficient morons take to Twitter to complain and the VAST MAJORITY of reasonable, liberal, perspective-having people ignore them. Burr is uncancellable because he's a brilliant stand up, and his ticket sales seem to indicate that that tiny group of disingenuous, virtue signaling idiots have no effect at all, other than to give him more publicity and more fans. These fake liberals and their 'reactionary-for-effect' counterparts feed off each other. The one side loves to be outraged, complain and accuse while the other loves to offend, provoke and pretend to be oppressed. Here's the thing: A lot of second rate comics trade on PC, or the perception of it, for their act. Roy Chubby Brown simply uses the words 'Paki' and 'Queer' (even n****r) on stage and his fans scream with laughter and talk about how 'brave' he is to rail against PC. Ask yourself how brave he really is, when he knows his audience are a 100% white, straight monoculture who hang on his every epithet. The truth is, if there was no PC then those words would have no shock value and he'd actually have to write jokes instead. PC therefore works in the interest of the deliberately offensive, not against them, but they keep on claiming to be victims of it.

[@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures]

Indeed hilarious. I particularly love the contemptuous sneer of Paul Whitehouse, and those in the historical-bonus-points-know the completely rational gold-standard argument of the woman is a sly note too. To be honest, I think it'd still fly today with people, including many feminists. Well, except the thoughtless fringe who live only to trend on Twitter, obviously. By the way, quite enjoying your channel, man! Keep it going!

[@richardscales9560]

Ah we still get stuff like this abd its fine because it's a satire on chauvenism and nothing wrong with that (at least in the UK)

[@wleon4068]

As an American, you are rare, in that you seem to get our unique British humour.

[@Phil_A_O_Fish]

Alan, I'm male and I remember many years ago having a conversation with my late mother about the reason that I had a combination washer dryer rather than two separate machines to do my laundry in my home. The main reason was that I didn't have the space for two machines therefore I had to have just the one. Anyway, I was trying to explain the reason for the cold water having to be connected while I was using it purely to dry my clothes etc and she was adamant that they'd get wet rather than dry if the cold water was allowed to flow into the machine. I ended up saying that the cold water had to be turned on so that it could circulate around the drum so that the machine wouldn't overheat and burst into flames, i.e. to cool the machine down while it was operating purely as a dryer but she was so pigheaded that she kept droning on about my laundry being wet rather than dry when it came out of the machine that I eventually just gave up with her....it was either that or commit hara kiri so that I wouldn't have to listen to her antiquated nonsense. Fortunately for myself most of the conversations like this were over the phone and she couldn't see the faces that I used to pull when she started off on such unscientific rants therefore I could easily hang up on her. As the old saying goes " You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose but unfortunately you can't pick your family, can you? " or in her case " Parents should be seen and not heard! ".

[@sophiastuart-watts7971]

They were used this style, which was the style of old Shor British Information Films. They were showing the ridiculousness of mysogony in our country, although I do think some part of Harry kinda felt that way too, or was at least open to the nonsense of it. I, as a British woman, young at this time, LOVED these sketches - hilarious and true. We were treated like that, and a lot of men talked like they wanted us to be like that. Tough - we ran the country when they were at war, and after that told to go back to our homes and women said Get Lost - and carried on the fights for equality. In this country, at least. 😋

[@JohnsysChannel]

Dude, Watch some Young Ones. Most anarchic tv show ever made. Also my all time favourite tv show.

[@RyanKeane9]

Yes!!

[@Burnersforvanlife]

I am so glad you are on KZbin. You very often make my day!

[@davidsweeney4021]

There must be some younger people who'd understand the satire, otherwise every thing is all lost

[@Lilolindiriel]

😂 Thank you for sending it...and let us enjoy your reactions ...!

[@Scottred77]

Absolute classic. The left would destroy this from every angle on tv now and the whole cast would probably be in prison. I miss the days when comedy was just comedy and didn't have to pass the (Plain boring standard Vanilla not even remotely offensive to anyone or anything test) 😥

[@tradeladder146]

Trump is finished, Thank God.

[@paulmdevenney]

They really wouldn't be thrown of air. This is clearly defined comedy, poking fun at an age where this WAS an acceptable mindset. Comedy like this absolutely needs to be allowed at all times.

[@thebaron9059]

Excellent. Check out another of his sketches....Women: For Pity's Sake Don't Drive!

[@2opler]

There`s a series of them ..please do the rest. please. The 90`s were golden for comedy.

[@lextex3280]

Harry Enfield is awesome,, his show Harry Enfield and chums was hilarious.. His twist on the old black and white films is brilliant.. Mr Chumney Warner is one of the characters.. Pmsl..

[@DaveKeenan1956]

Many people say that this wouldn't be allowed today, but I say just look at Derry Girls. It too is a satire on Derry during the Troubles, and it is both allowed and very funny.

[@TheEclecticBeard]

Derry Girls is a bit different than this. LOVE Derry Girls. One of my favorite things I've reacted to.

[@stephenmiller195]

Harry Enfield did a lot of sketches like this, his 1930s football sketch about. Charles Charlie Charles passing round tobacco during a game is hilarious

[@davidmarsden9800]

That was originally broadcast on BBC1 in a prime weekday evening spot.

[@custardavenger]

Harry Enfield (and Paul Whitehouse) did so many amazing sketches. All in a time when people could see humor for what it is. Mr Cholmondley Warner, Smashy and Nicey, The Scousers, Harry and Lulu, The Slobs, The americans abroad, Saucy old ladies etc etc.

[@douglasherron7534]

I remember when this came out originally on TV - it was gold! Fat chance of that happening these days... It is obviously a parody of the British Pathe info-films of the 1930's - 50's but that would be lost on the humourless, woke-brigade.

[@frankford1115]

Brilliant! These two guys are just so good!

[@mrjohn.whereyoufrom]

Harry Enfield is a comedy legend in the UK. He's been performing since the late eighties and has created legendary characters. You should check out "I Saw You Coming" He plays an owner of a shop that sells rubbish to women who have got rich husbands.

[@barrywhite5899]

This is still on U.K. Gold tv channel this week. The Fast Show and Harry Enfield and Chums. Brilliant British humour which I still watch

[@ianvincent4911]

Harry Enfield did a regular sketch, with Kathy Burke, featuring two babies in a play pen, called Harry and LuLu. It was based on his Step Children, Lily Allen (singer) and Alfie Allen (Actor - Game of Thrones). I think he met Paul Whitehouse, when Paul was decorating his house.

[@KOBETRON100]

Remember watching this in the 90s 🤣 hilarious show.

[@serenagreen2600]

Probably Harry Enfield's best work. You should watch 'Norbit Smith, A Life'. He does all these 1940s 50s parodies. I love it!

[@markandresen1]

This is such an accurate take-off of British Public Information Films of the 1930s' and 40s'. Love it.

[@Anditover]

Great observations. He should see the Harry Enfield Public Information Film about women drivers! As he said, irony, or in this case satire, just goes over the heads of so many young people today.

[@robthebloke]

Brass eye - drugs (most complained about program on British TV, until...) Brass eye - peadogeddon If you fancy doing a one off radio reaction, the 'blue jam monologues' are sublime.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

There's a whole series of these...

[@daver7867]

just subbed because you liked something that deserves to be aired to those who havnt seen it. cheers.

[@Maerahn]

This was actually filmed in the 'nineties; Harry Enfield replicated the look of the old 1950s Public Information films (they ARE a real thing, and they are even more batshit depressing than any of the attitudes Harry Enfield was satirically lampooning.) This one is part of a series he did - if you search on Harry Enfield Cholmondley-Warner (pronounced Chumley-Warner, because Posh British is insane like that,) you should find some others, that are equally hilarious.

[@stevemorris6855]

Taking the piss out of those men who decided women couldn't run more than 100 yards. Priceless.

[@MoBatchelor]

One of my favourites. I love the parody of old BBC style

[@macleodmunro]

That show was made in the 90’s. I remember back then thinking how bold they were making a sketch like that at the time, never mind now.

[@joannedwyer3595]

Brilliant. React tothe faat show now that is gold. Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse are fantastically comedy legends.

[@ChrisM541]

Love your reaction. Harry Enfield & Co are masters of satire and take great delight in highlighting society's wrongs, as shown here.