How NOT to be a journalist - The Best of Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan

How NOT to be a journalist
- The Best of Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan
Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan (Patrick Marber) - economic correspondent. O'Hanraha-hanrahan is extremely incompetent, and his reports end with him having to admit their fundamental inaccuracy to an unforgiving Morris. Examples include a claim that an American factory with only 25,000 workers had made 35,000 redundant; a failed effort to conduct a light-hearted interview with a shipping minister; and a report in which O'Hanraha-hanrahan claims to have conducted an interview with an elusive German economics minister in the German language, his ignorance of which is then exposed. O'Hanraha-hanrahan resembles former BBC newsreader Richard Whitmore; his name is inspired by that of Brian Hanrahan. The character originated from writing by Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, in the second series of On the Hour.
Created, Produced and Edited by Thom Goddard for BBC THREE in 2002.
#Journalism #comedy #funny

[@boahneelassmal]

"You overslept!" "I slept longer than I anticipated" That's what I'm gonna say from now on.

[@cursedfate838]

Same

[@hugoML652]

Same

[@Jason-ly9zv]

Same

[@olliephelan]

NO, dont say "same". Say "I woke less than I anticipated"......That will buy you a few seconds.

[@hugoML652]

@@olliephelan Thank you

[@DatBoi-mo9vc]

"Do you know what your tombstone is gonna say?" "News"

[@valty3727]

Ghiman the guy his inflection kills me every time

[@kashmirwillwin3124]

It'll probably be "I didn't like it but I had to go along with it"

[@em.1633]

Always slays me, one of the funniest single lines I've ever heard

[@nedimgery-buyukyuksel513]

Peter thank you

[@Chris50673]

@Em Me too. Might be my favourite line of the whole series - and it's one of the most quotable programmes ever so that's really high praise. Never fails to make me laugh. Brass Eye's paedophile disguised as a school is the closest contender I can think of right now.

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

Okay, but the way he just sails through "O'Hanraha-hanrahan" is amazing.

[@kisbie]

Given who the character was named after, it’s surprising they never managed to work in a reference to “I counted them all out and I counted them all back”.

[@RangiferADV]

His name sounds like an old tractor engine starting up on a cold day.

[@sumvs5992]

In writing it looks hard, but in practice it's pretty easy

[@theswissmiss69]

Why the „Okay, but…“?

[@terrycrichton]

Even Peter's name sounds like he made it up.

[@johnmartinez7440]

I also appreciate how Chris Morris's character seems to have omniscience about all aspects of the news - how the Germans had been against the new quota rates, how their finance minister is tricky to pin down for an interview, how many workers were employed by the GM Detroit plant etc. As though he does extra research on the stories Peter covers just so he can humiliate him live on air. Genius.

[@cursedgamer2778]

its the procedure when its your, i dunno, 6th time? doing the group project solo; you just start directing your team mates to answer questions you damn well know they don't know lmao

[@davimurph]

Apparently it isn't (or wasn't) unusual for the presenter in the studio to have more information than the reporter live at the scene because the presenter has access to everything coming into the newsroom and might even have had time to prepare. The reporter has spent that time travelling and, before widespread, fast, mobile Internet, could hardly even email their contacts.

[@rin_etoware_2989]

​​@@davimurph reading off Wikipedia, presenters can also assist in writing the news that are going on the broadcast. at the very least, they have easier access to the wire service where they're actually getting the news from. really, a reporter out there is more useful in interviewing people on the spot (like what Peter didn't do with the German Finance Minister) and for reporting on things the wire service missed, or is too slow to respond to (like what Peter didn't do in New York)

[@davimurph]

@@rin_etoware_2989 absolutely, presenters write their own scripts, but so do reporters. I was thinking more about breaking news where neither of them has had much time to prepare. Charlie Brooker did a great video about it. I'll try to find it. Reporters in the field are great if they have time to look around, interview people and prepare (like, as you say, Peter didn't).

[@thebloodline2513]

⁠

[@BackToTheBlues]

"Rotate them a hundred and eighty degrees in my favour" instead of 'turn them round' is a wonderfully composed line.

[@kisbie]

"And how is a cobweb going to dig you out of your numerical mess?"

[@Retrostar619]

Speaks to the imperiousness of the character.

[@grendelum]

4:48

[@Dragoneer]

That’s like something my bitchy maths teacher would say

[@lateral1385]

999th like

[@ZuluRomeo]

His very incompetence and ineptness saved his life on 9/11. Dark stuff indeed.

[@alobeyajourneyman9679]

You Tuber I think they understood that ???

[@panached1450]

...maybe

[@hackchewspit1956]

Steven Peithman just like good old larry silverstein, a great guy, for a treasonous wee bastard ;)

[@wallrider73]

Haha, yeah whatever dude.

[@regmunday8354]

@@stevenpeithman2438 sorry to hear about the brain damage, hope you get better soon.

[@chadpattypersonal8731]

The 9/11 bit is true genius. The script when Peter "escapes". It's so funny

[@mrkingjesse378]

Idk how ive never heard this. It’s hilarious.

[@jimh781]

At first i was a little uneasy, but it really did take that darkest of backdrops to really drive home Peter’s putzing

[@jimh781]

S Walters my bad, did sound eerily similar

[@Apeksim]

@@swalters6720 i believe the last sketch came out not long after 9/11

[@Andrew-zm8gh]

@@swalters6720 it's not from 1994. It is bonus material made for the dvd release. They also make jokes in the bonus material about george w bush.

[@AdrianTheR]

Peter looks like Tom Hardy's character in Legend.

[@Earthling..]

He definitely does.

[@YOU2ONEDAY]

I was literally just about to type that, I look down and there it is.. Exactly what I was thinking lol.

[@radioactivehalfrhyme]

Actually, I think he looks more like Tom Hardy’s other character in Legend.

[@AdrianTheR]

@@radioactivehalfrhyme 😂😂

[@elliotharris3965]

Even sounds like him

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

ich nichten lichten.

[@DarrenBonJovi]

+Jonathan Wilkinson ….German.

[@mattdavies7398]

+DarrenBonJovi Eggs over easy for the Germans.

[@joeb2487]

Trenter percenter

[@RealityCheck6T9]

That's about the extent of my German too

[@T4Cification]

i worked in Germany a few times....fuking Nichen Lichen

[@ZuluRomeo]

6 people didn't like it, but had to go along with it.

[@TheUKMikey]

I think you mean "Sechs Leute haben es nicht gefallen, musste aber mitmachen".

[@llary]

Zulu Romeo that's about trente perzente

[@XxxRowan90]

hahahaha what a comment!

[@bokehintheussr5033]

Just when i thought i was truly sick of "6 people" comments.

[@stefansmith]

UKMikey "Sechs Leuten hat es nicht gefallen, sie mussten aber mitmachen." Sorry ;)

[@janhuda8841]

I like how "The best of Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan" is literally everything with Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan

[@Kris.G]

Yes and there should be more of it. I don't like it, but I have to go along with it.

[@pezn2077]

@@Kris.G News.

[@jonathanricardo6334]

@@gammakeraulophon Pretty sure that was Daniel beth'lem

[@hannesjakobsson765]

@@pezn2077 His best quote

[@stoolpigeon4285]

ich lichten

[@CharlesVeitch]

"The tower I'm in is collapsing"

[@Chadner]

I'm collapsing!

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

A very gray day.

[@fefeeffefeff8237]

can't impeach the Veitch

[@jameswest6085]

IM OUT

[@aarronsmith17]

I’m very vuh- run…. I’m not there.

[@LAnonHubbard]

The 9/11 stuff is genius. How Peter tries to keep the lie going, even getting out of the building from the 107th floor in a few seconds.

[@LAnonHubbard]

+mary ward No it wasn't. Where did you "learn" that from?

[@steffihex]

Yes it was. It's a clip from the radio show On the Hour which was broadcast between 1991 and 1992. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Hour

[@LAnonHubbard]

+Steffi of Arc No it wasn't. It was made as an extra sketch for the The Day Today DVD 2004. Think about it.... this sketch makes no sense prior to 9/11.

[@steffihex]

I stand corrected. But it wasn't so far fetched for it to have been made beforehand. There were quite a few cultural depictions of terrorist attacks on the twin towers before it actually happened, for example in The X Files or the Jackie Chan film Nosebleed.

[@stevecooksley]

What the fuck? Are you actually Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan?

[@Elmo9001]

The way he screams "Peter, you've lost the news!" always gets me.

[@Wabajak13]

and the sheepisness of the "sorry"

[@TJDious]

"He's over there..."

[@Zoober95]

​@TJDious "WELL GET HIM BACK!"

[@inspector38]

I love how Peter is concerned about keeping his lie intact and is disappointed when it falls through and not at all reacting to the fact he would be dead if hadn't overslept

[@volodyanarchist]

He has never overslept. He has just slept longer than he has previously anticipated!

[@AFGuidesHD]

"Actually we didn't hear that, the sound insulation in these buildings is extraordinary" 😂🤣

[@Lefeurouge]

"There is a plane tha-" 7:32 "KEEP WATCHING, PETER." "Wh- ah . . . ah . . . . oh my god . . . . ."

[@Ometecuhtli]

The building is collapsing... I'm running... I'm out of it

[@thetomhfh]

"Peter next time you cross the road don't bother looking"

[@comanchio1976]

I say it at least 8 times a day. Everyone hates me and I don't blame them

[@CippiCippiCippi]

Look down at the ground and say ‘sorry’

Later he jumped out a window and didn't bother looking (down).

[@BarbadosBeerFestival]

Tom Harwood classic line ....

[@projectfreedom9510]

Tyler Frost no you don’t. You lie. IRL. Today, you would be in trouble saying those things.

[@RealityCheck6T9]

Peter nearly died that day, and Chris just keeps abusing him as normal

[@Isleofskye]

I know Peter O'Han x 2 had a really lucky escape and is traumatized and gets abused? No wonder Morris lost his job soon after :(

[@epicspartan10]

"peter you've added nothing"

[@rin_etoware_2989]

probably because he's talking about breakfast at 10:45 or 11 am. also, how he couldn't even be bothered to open a window to see that a major landmark vanished in a puff of smoke like it's the world's shittiest magic trick. you really had to dig deep before you can find sympathy for colleagues like Peter.

[@thiagodeandrade7081]

You know, recently, I have watched the presenter of a crime news show trying to comment on the war in Ukraine and that's what I thought.

[@ianmangham4570]

I watched Peter Cross the road outside Parliament without looking 🙄

[@SlippyM8]

"Peter you're lying in a news grave, do you know what's written on your headstone?" "News..." This part had me laughing in tears the first time I saw it.

[@gecko24241]

"Peter thank you" gets me everytime

[@chenzenzo]

"News." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lizageorge8923]

Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan 1976-1999 "news"

[@user-bv7um1ds7y]

*2001

[@itwontcomeout5678]

When you’ve lost the news:

[@EddieHawkinsII]

He didn’t like it, but he had to go along with it.

[@levimcglinchey5843]

*YOU'VE LOST THE NEWS!*

[@zetetick395]

I almost feel sorry for him, he's SO lost! 🤣

[@philipcervenjak2493]

The delivery of that line was amazing, probably one of the best deliveries I've ever heard in comedy.

[@sirtsregris9040]

Sorry

[@thezec]

Floor 107 no longer gives a particularly good view of New York

[@brainsmoran4954]

thezec that's because it's now in the basement.

[@Kris.G]

@@brainsmoran4954 ah, he he, pulling my leg, Chris

[@Dunmerdog]

The delivery was so good on that line

[@zetetick395]

"Peter, is there a television near you?"

[@QuadMochaMatti]

New York has never had a good view of anything. The country would be better off without that eyesore.

[@nivst7094]

“DO YOU KNOW WHAT WILL BE WRITTEN ON YOUR STONE?” “... news”

[@compoflask6262]

@Harry Red Panda I VERY much care about that opinion! that was some valuable persuasion you’ve done.

[@SpuddyWesker]

@@Harold749 ohhhh nobody gives a shite

[@adrianfleming3437]

Man your pic is the best Metallica album going.

[@_.zwieback._]

Whats the german for 30 percent? "trenta procenta" "Treizig prozent?" *yes*

[@detectivejonesw]

Trenta percenter

[@Rascaduanok]

Ich nichten lichten.

[@jameskilgour387]

@@Marcel38281 ich nichten licten

[@jameskilgour387]

@@Marcel38281 i ... Know?

[@jameskilgour387]

@@Marcel38281 maybe re-watch the video, it's been a while

[@kisbie]

"Er, one of the towers has collapsed, fortunately not the one I'm in - the other one - the one I'm in is... is... is... one of the towers - the other tower... the tower I'm in is collapsing! I'm collapsing Chris, under the sheer... I've managed.... I'm out! I'm out! Errrrrrr, I'm very fer...rum... I'm not there."

[@cninh4574]

"It seems like a movie."

[@Orc-icide]

Hilarious, I love jokes about disasters

[@MrDash711]

Matt S lighten up Matt. The internet doesn’t care about what you love.

[@starch_tuber1778]

MrDash711 fuck you

[@ianfreud]

Matt S There are no jokes about disasters in this clip. But thanks for letting us know your opinion on them.

[@bigmoncrief6071]

'Peter, you've added nothing'. A sentence I think to myself on a daily basis whenever some windbag is pointlessly prattling on in any one of the shitty middle management meetings I have to attend. It's worth remembering that we all work with people who are as shit at their jobs for their entire career as Peter, but there's never a Chris Morris around to tell them so.

[@sharontaylor4403]

Absolutely spot on 👏🏻

[@OffGridInvestor]

Well said. I can think of a few....

[@YourSkyliner]

Well.. I guess you are there, right?

[@otherssingpuree1779]

It is particularly terrible when you are the Peter O Hanraha-Hanrahan.

[@potassium8759]

(Insert pointless prattling on a middle management meeting)

[@beelsmaxime7660]

I love how he escaped from the 107th floor of the tower in literally 3 seconds.

[@HiringHamblin]

Tbf that floor was rapidly getting closer to the ground, cutting his travel time down to street level immensely

[@knucklesskinner253]

Tower of god be like:

[@trollop_7]

@@HiringHamblin Exactly. All he would have had to have done is step out from the falling building at the opportune moment - much in the way that we used to jump from the back of the old Routemaster buses. I've often reflected that if they'd taught this basic physics trick more in schools, more people would have survived the gruesome events of that day.

[@oz_jones]

Just like the others :)

[@Ometecuhtli]

He doesn't even try to make it "plausible" with panting and the sounds of things falling or anything else, you could call him a liar but never a commited one.

[@bonglesnodkins329]

Just love the fact that on Peter's notes near the bottom there's a line saying "35,000 or 3,500 CHECK".

[@FireWalkWithMe91]

The way he says "Floor 107! Sipping a cappuccino..." cracks me up

[@sayhibobbi]

Floor 107 no longer gives a particularly good view of New York...

[@3y35poihjpn]

He sounds so happy, so ignorant 🤣🤣🤣

[@ConradAshtonMusic]

Everytime! Haha

[@Hinch2011]

"KEEP WATCHING, PETER!"

[@cartmanofsp]

@@Hinch2011 'oh.. oh god.''

[@Malisane]

"So the Governments ship, back on course?" "Absolutely." "Back to you Chris." He really had him on the ropes there.

[@kisbie]

Insert GIF of Kuenssberg interviewing Boris and pretend it’s still 2019.

[@DataLog]

Exactly when you looked at any report on Covid bullsh1t lol

[@linkieloos]

"A week is a long time in politics." "Rab Bulter!" "Shut up, Peter!" Always sends me crying with laughter 😂

[@itwontcomeout5678]

This whole time I thought he said “Rhett Butler!” which is seemingly more random lol

[@kisbie]

‘Rab Butler’ was a tautology. The B stands for Butler. They were his initials. (Richard Austen Butler)

[@squatchjosh1131]

I wonder when the 9/11 skit was aired. Even for the "too soon" period it's probably the most tasteful 9/11 joke I've heard in a weird way.

[@visionist7]

It was an extra on the 2004 DVD

[@squatchjosh1131]

@@visionist7 Oh right, so still sort of fresh at the time.

[@visionist7]

@@squatchjosh1131 still weird to hear on these clips which are mostly ten years older

[@squatchjosh1131]

@@visionist7 Haha, weird to me that a lot of the time I'm talking to people that weren't even alive when it happened (which is cool with me of course). I mean I was only five but still even being that young and in Scotland I remember my parents felt obliged to tell me about it in the morning, it was that huge.

[@visionist7]

@@squatchjosh1131 I was 12 going on 13. Was on a train when it happened. I remember everything that morning, even the chocolate bar I had, Kinder Cereali. Edit: although it wasn't morning here, it was afternoon.

[@Kishnabe]

He became Bane after being humiliated.

[@terminalcreature1560]

No one cared who he was until he put on the mask.

[@flaggerify]

Kishnabe A playwright actually.

[@filmykuby19]

Batman didn't like it, but he had to go along with it

[@Nergal_Slayer]

@@filmykuby19 lol

[@davidbeardsley9394]

The tower I'm in is collapsing! I'm collapsing Chris, under the sheer.. I've managed.. I'm out! I'm out! err.. I'm very.. run.. I'm not there.

[@Xallisto1]

@Paddy O'Yakkin Peter you have added nothing.

[@SpuddyWesker]

@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ You've added nothing

[@richardcoupe9279]

"Peter, you've added nothing. That's Peter O'hanraha-hanrahan, from New York, on a day which will go down as-" "Yes, a day wh-" "BE QUIET!" The way Peter gamely tries to carry on cracks me up, every time.

[@robair67]

Chris' delivery of "BE QUIET!" in a perfectly 'You've already done quite enough damage to the credibility of my broadcast, and yet you STILL keep trying to drag it down further!' kind of outrage, is my favourite part of this sketch (close 2nd is the "...I'm not there." line). Easily the most funny, and yet poignant comedy about this world-changing tragedy.

[@Nigel_The_Crab]

"Would you mind telling me how the plant can function on minus 10,000 workers?" - That, that right there is comedy gold in delivery.

[@interstate366]

I don’t know Nigel, you tell me!

[@mehua]

"I slept longer than I'd anticipated." epic.

[@QFIhawkman]

Yar. En fakt, trenter percenter lunger din hel anticipartered.

[@RealityCheck6T9]

"Later, what is a hijacked airliner and how does it crash?" A suitably inane question

[@Lark1610]

RealityCheck6T9 Sums up the bullshit 24h news stations make to keep covering one topic for a whole day. Or week. Because they need a 9/11 every week to keep people watching.

[@columbus8myhw]

Someone made the pilot not a pilot and then made the plane not a plane

[@Modenut]

"I slept longer than I anticipated" gets me every fucking time

[@None-Trick_Pony]

Patrick Marber, the guy who plays Peter O'hanraha'hanrahan, is apparently a brilliant playwright who has won many awards. I was caught off-guard when I read it.

[@damienx0x]

Indeed. He also co-wrote the early Alan Partridge shows and appeared as a guest on the show a few times in different guises.

[@EDFilmsUK]

7:57 “I’m not there.” The delivery is so perfect, had me in tears

[@Wehdeo]

Such an accurate portrayal of a serial liar. I know someone just like this. Especially the way they stonewall and cave when you question them.

[@kisbie]

In some ways, this is the least satirical sketch on The Day Today. It’s just a classic comedy setup cast as a news anchor and reporter. But it’s still probably the funniest thing in the entire show. The setting lends a delightfully eccentric flair to the execution.

[@konstantinopoulos33]

@@kisbie Let's also give credit to Patrick Marber's acting... he conveys the subtle desperation and changes in tone so incredibly well, perfect mix of realistically complex and comedic

[@kisbie]

@@konstantinopoulos33 Absolutely. I’ve said elsewhere that Marber does not get the praise he deserves as a comedy performer. The Peter O’Hanrahan character could have easily followed Partridge and had a life beyond TDT.

[@oz_jones]

@@kisbie sadly, he let the news get away :(

[@Sasasala386]

The tower I'm in is collapsing, under the sheer...I'm managing..I'm.. I'M OUT.

[@emiel255]

I love how Morris always includes the name ‘Peter’ in his sentences when addressing Peter instead of sometimes leaving it out like a normal person would

[@paullindemeyer3913]

its entirely possible Peter won't know Chris is talking to him unless he hears his name.

[@oz_jones]

Like scolding a child

[@nathanmcgill7249]

It's quicker than using his last name

[@gthreek]

Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan for brexit negotiator, honestly couldn't do much worse than the current mob

[@peterohanraha-hanrahan3022]

I spoke with Michel Barnier and he said he didn't like it, but he'll have to go along with it!

[@DennisMoore664]

@@peterohanraha-hanrahan3022 What language did you conduct this interview in, Peter?

[@Oujouj426]

@@DennisMoore664 ....... French

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

@@Oujouj426 So what's French for "we want all the benefits of EU membership with none of the responsibility"?

[@hesiolite]

@@Pining_for_the_fjords "Je want EU benefites wizout responsibilitie"

[@martaleszkiewicz5115]

"Next time you cross the road, please don't bother looking" - That is probably the most British curse / insult I have ever heard.

[@amygoldstraw3778]

To this day i will shout “you lost the news!” The day today was and will always a genius gem

[@lepari9986]

For me it's all about the way Peter answers: "Yes!" so confidently.

[@Vojife]

"Did you speak to the German prime minister?" "No." "And what was his reaction?"

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

"I don't know!"

[@xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844]

@daAnder71 Well, the German chancellor is the equivalent of prime minister in Germany. But fair enough.

[@JimboRustles]

@@dannyneville1310 no it doesn't

[@Slop_Dogg]

He didn’t like it, but he had to go along with it.

[@Zoober95]

​@@commandingjudgedredd1841...Peter, thank you.

[@khill4491]

“Next time u cross the road don’t bother looking”... I’m using that 1

[@gappuma7883]

K Hill i read it just when he said it

[@russellmoore8187]

"Peter, you're lying in a news grave. Do you know what's written on your headstone?" "...news."

[@artisanstudios180]

I've been taking German the last few weeks and this video has killed my grade, because everytime I go to write something on a test, all I can think is "Ich nichten lichten..."

[@harry7669]

"As the Minister for Ships sprawls on a pin, it's back to you, Chris!" "NO IT ISN'T PETER!"

[@wingsken]

This whole thing feels like me back in high school when i forgot my homework.

[@xcruell]

"Rufen sie ein Taxi bitte, sonst verpasse ich meinen Flug" "Yees!"

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Ich nicHten licHTEN

[@hatchmaster_5745]

Imagine this, but the man in the studio doesn't correct him. That's America's news now

[@christopherwall2121]

The difference is Morris isn't correcting him under any pretense of journalistic integrity. This is the man who engineered a war between Hong Kong and Australia essentially because he could. He only corrects Peter for the chance to punish and humiliate him.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@christopherwall2121 ah yes the famous Australio-Hong Kong border wars

[@jotarokujo4787]

@@Alex-cw3rz cant blame him, hes in another universe

[@notinspectorgadget]

That was the news *back then* That was what they were lampooning. Journalistic integrity was already that much of a joke.

[@jacobwallace6969]

Can we acknowledge that Peter's incompetence actually saved his life? I would say that it's way more incompetent on the other end to not consider that.

[@Isleofskye]

I know Peter O'Han x 2 had a really lucky escape and is traumatized and gets abused? No wonder Morris lost his job soon after :(

[@kisbie]

Peter’s “oh my god” sounds like he’d rather have been incinerated in an enormous fireball than be subjected to yet another dressing down from Chris.

[@thiagodeandrade7081]

The other end doesn't care about it.

[@Ometecuhtli]

Before 9/11 his tombstone would've said "News...", if he died there he would've been "Fallen in the line of duty", now it's only "Beloved liar"

[@dave_yarders]

2.2k: ich lichten 28: ich nichten lichten

[@CS-mo7xp]

ich see vat you deed ther

[@ericforsyth]

KZbin needs a way to signal ”I don’t like it, but I’ll have to go along with it” I guess that’s just watching the video and neither liking nor disliking it...

[@gravypatron]

@@ericforsyth well, in a way-- our video feed from algorithms...😁

[@mydickisincrediblytinyandi7380]

@Mike White *German

[@bogonanaz9404]

The person above me, woooosh. I’m also sorry for your loss.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

Peter is adorable! How can you not want to hug him whenever he is on screen is beyond me.

[@joelhaggis5054]

"Peter, next time you cross the road, don't bother looking" The British know how to insult.

[@timrobinson8943]

Classic. Trente Percente.

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

The joke is that's Italian trenta is Italian for 30.

[@chalibard3826]

@@optimisticwhovian1726 "trente" is french for 30. So would you like to revise your appraisal of the situation in light of what you just gleaned ?

[@jordanhicks5131]

Thirty-o percent-o You're welcome for the Spanish translation

[@hoogmonster]

@@jordanhicks5131 Muchas grassy arse!

[@rattiom]

@@optimisticwhovian1726 No it isn't, the joke is that he doesn't know German lol

[@dannysmith785]

The sound insulation in these buildings is extraordinary hahahahaha

[@evanbarlow5534]

The funniest part of this sketch is a journalist on a televised network that actually asks tough questions. Totally implausible.

[@lookingforsomething]

Public news seem to do this quite well honestly. The US sadly doesn't really have a national broadcasting company.

[@hailboognish]

Have you never heard of Jeremy Paxman? One of Morris' greatest influences for his role in this show.

[@strangemachines_]

“As the minister for ships sprawls on a pin, it’s back to you Chris.” 😹 fuck this part gets me every time man.

[@mikenaughton]

"Peter, the next time you cross the road don't bother looking!!!" 😂

[@RaferJeffersonIII]

mike sorry!!

[@notryangosling3065]

Underrated highlight is “its just been anno- yeah thanks...it’s just been announced...”

[@misteral1083]

I loved all those little asides. "Get her off the monitor, I don't want to see her face"

[@ianwebster3489]

@@misteral1083 Only because she fell into somebody's lap.

[@misteral1083]

@@ianwebster3489 Classic! (although if memory serves it's "Only because she landed in someone's stomach' - I could be wrong though!) Have to say, I felt the latest Partridge was frequently borrowing very heavily from Day Today - specifically moments when he would pronounce words in an odd voice. Didn't work for me, unfortunately...

[@ianwebster3489]

@@misteral1083 Some of it was pretty good but yeah it's evolved a bit to far away from earlier Partridge. (Evolved, not revolved).

[@misteral1083]

@@ianwebster3489 Just clocked your avatar - we have much in common, it seems. Green is not a creative color.

[@goldenjoel8566]

I love how he still thanks Peter every time lol

[@rajrigby8385]

Watching this on the 20th anniversary of Peter sleeping longer than he anticipated

[@adamm2091]

"Do you know whats written on your headstone?" "News!"

[@nickcockayne7880]

Peter's Notes. 35,000 or 3,500 CHECK (double underlined). He didn't check lol

[@kisbie]

It feels like there should be a good ‘I counted them out and I counted them all back’ joke in there somewhere...

[@zetetick395]

Seems like THE NEWS escaped from Peter's news cobweb :(

[@acreking9680]

"I'm going to a television inside the restaurant. There's one of those, yknow... in the corner" "Yes, just get on with it!"

[@macroglossumstellatarum3068]

I love how the anchor always decides to interrogate and make a fool out of the lying reporter instead of trying to save face for the news station 😂

[@SaintPhoenixx]

"Floor 107...sipping a cappuccino!"

[@matthew5a]

Seems like Tom Hardy's inspiration for Ronnie Kray

[@barringtonfisher87]

Ronnie, next time you cross the road don't bother looking

[@jordanhicks5131]

Ronnie, how is the plant operating at -10,000 workers?

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

@joshuataylorbrowntown He's looking for a shootout.

[@HollowSun]

"Peter you're lying in a news grave, do you know what's written on your headstone?" ... "ⁿᵉʷˢ"

[@zenahrb8316]

As a native german this is absolutely hilarious to listen to

[@aastrianderson-ef4ml]

❤

[@omegastar19]

TRENTE PROCENTE

[@phoenixzappa7366]

Ich nichte lichte

[@iamskippy]

*That’s what he said* ❗️ 01:00

[@Ometecuhtli]

Ich bin ein Berliner!

[@nelad]

Peter, you've added nothing

[@tnerbtnerb5136]

"Floor 107 no longer gives a particularly good view of New York..." "Well it does from where I'm-" "Its now part of the basement!" XD

[@AntiNihilist]

This isn't far off from making Holocaust jokes against the victims but I guess it's funny.

[@ryanname2503]

@@AntiNihilist fuck off

[@MyPhuckDub]

Zero relation

[@gabrielsyme4550]

The world trade center bit amazing!!!! Super funny

[@hershelmccoy]

"One of the towers has collapsed, fortunately not the one I'm in...the other one...the one I'm in is...is... one of the tow-....th- the other tower... THE TOWER I'M IN IS COLLAPSING!"

[@avatharbehemoth]

somehow this has become current journalism, its no longer satire.

[@igorfilipovic6531]

In Serbia it's reality

[@VadersFist95]

This has always been reality....they are making fun of that fact

[@Micrologus5]

Bilo bi dobro da je ovako :D Ne bi Sarapa ovako propitivao Barbaru dok laze :D

[@morerobotwarscontent1476]

If this is how it really is then it has become more Satirical.

[@thekiss2083]

Current journalism wouldn't have anybody on the scene, just 5 people in a circle yelling about it afterward

[@WillowJordan1979]

"Ich nichten... lichten..."

[@itsd0nk]

“Peter, next time you cross the road, don’t bother looking.” 😂 savage

[@jbreckmckye]

At 4:55 you can see Peter's notes: "35000 or 3500 - CHECK"

[@azheryaqoob2848]

Woww , yeah😄 Nice catch😆

[@alkaholic4848]

Impressive attention to detail for a simple comedy

[@anthonyjohngabriel1505]

"In light of what you've just GLEANED..."

[@jez9999]

"We didn't hear that, the sound insulation in these buildings is extraordinary" lol

[@chadlancer6107]

I love how you can’t tell whether he’s lazy or it’s just sheer utter incompetence

[@JamesCalbraith]

1990s Patrick Marber is spitting image of 2010s Tom Hardy. Uncanny.

[@DaveRelph001]

Especially playing the Crays in Legend.

[@johnnyboy18778]

I've thought the very same

[@iliilili310]

Sounds quite a bit like him too, actually.

[@JeffRB]

sound and kinda ook I thought it was for a sec

[@deadsi]

Lol was gonna say that too, thot it was him for a min

[@JamesBrewerDJ]

"Do you know what's written on your headstone", ".......News?" Such an underrated series! Still have them on an old VHS!

[@Rushfelt33]

"Next time you cross the road, don't bother looking" beautifully brutal.

[@chickenfarmer321]

The way Peter emphasizes every word really adds to this.

[@smirch]

The tower I'm in is collapsing. I'm collapsing Chris. I've managed...I'm out...I'm out.

[@mrwri]

"Trenta Precenta" "Ich Nichten Lichten"

[@carpentrybymichaelanthony7932]

“What can you see!?” “Well there’s a plane in one of them” 😂😂

[@xDeliv3ratoRx]

I have to come back to this clip regularly because the acting is just so stellar.

[@M-E_123]

35 thousand? There're only 25 thousand workers in the plant That's right Chris - mass redundancy on an unprecedented scale Always gets me

[@clairduffy60]

Peter! You've lost the news!

[@raymondleemeadows4969]

you've lost the neyooz!

[@peternormand4094]

Im sorry.

[@DennisMoore664]

@@peternormand4094 Look like you mean it! Look down at the ground and say 'sorry'! - that's some brutally funny stuff!

[@MichaelBennett1]

I only need to hear Chris scream “You’ve lost the news” to cheer me up.

[@mattbritzius570]

When they fired Peter, he said he didn't like it but he had to go along with it.

[@cwbrooks5329]

How have I not seen this program before? Thank you, Thom Goddard, for enlightening me.