Tracey Ullman - "Hethers"

[@etiennefromage8063]

"We find that the first two years are the worst". That was good.

[@miriamwilson9542]

Ullman and Palin....outstanding, as always.

[@AshMukherjeeOfficial]

Other than the possible exception of Chaplin, I don't think I have ever seen a comedian who has made laugh while having a lump in my throat and fight back tears all at the same time. She is a genius.

[@jamesanthony5681]

The possible exception of Charlie Chaplin? I think you need to get out more.

[@loge10]

@@jamesanthony5681 Who are you to judge his responses? 🙄

[@jamesanthony5681]

@@loge10 Because he's comparing her to Chaplin for god's sake, who (Charlie) was a genius in more ways than one, and good old Tracey is not funny, despite being a decent mimic. I do recall howling with laughter when Tracey claimed responsibility for the success of the Simpsons, saying, in fact at an awards show, "I nurtured those little devils." I'm laughing now that I remember it.

[@judemorales4U]

Ash, this one hit the heart.

[@freudianslippers6567]

@@jamesanthony5681 Pretentious little cunt, aren't ya James? You would fit right in with the Hethers.

[@RM-eg1ed]

I had no idea these two ever collaborated on anything. So glad I found this! Comedic genius 🙌

[@safeinmyheart1]

Tracey, you are brilliant. 💕

[@mainmast8955]

Emmys all around. throw in a Palm d'Or. Bravo Palin and Ullman.

[@allwrighty100]

And whatever they give to animals, one for Treacle.

[@leightonolsson4846]

I remember when this was first aired and it is just as acidily accurate

[@cathygriffith746]

I LOVE YOU TRACEY ULLMAN HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOU ON T V FOR OVER 2O YEARS. SWAMP HUGS FROM LOUISIANA.

[@eviesmail5447]

Thirty for me She is so beyond brilliant

[@sayantanmukherjee4871]

@@eviesmail5447 They should have made a gender swap reboot of Mrs Doubtfire with Tracey Ullman.

[@fancyme.alter1311]

@@eviesmail5447 I never missed an episode of her when she got her own first show. I believe it was on FOX. When Fox was just starting out.

[@ThisGuy76]

"You say 'I slush you' & I say 'I slush you' back." This story made quite an impact on me as an indictment of the worship of money culture as a child. I've been looking for this clip for years.

[@MareeMarshall]

Me to, always stuck in my mind for some reason, funny but sad,

[@MareeMarshall]

Forgot so mush talent,hard to find now days,thanks ,love utube for showing great shows, afraid want to keep watching till late at night,

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

What a delightful pairing. Tracy and Michael are superb.😁

[@angaeltartarrose6484]

We have admired 'elite' parasites, sought to emulate them, their wealth, & attitude. We have let them determine how we see ourselves. We are worth more than they, for kindness, for mercy, for caring. Never trade down to trade up. Always remain true to yourself, & be yourself. It is alright to improve oneself, & one's lot in life, yet best to remain humble & real.

[@Uluwehi_Knecht]

Amen

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Who are these ''we'' you're talking on behalf of with such great pathos? Most people don't care about that and just live their lives. Also, it's naive to think that ''non-elites'' are all exclusively good decent people... Finally, noone asked you for this trite lecture, this is not some ''motivational conference''...

[@trmlesq1321]

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849nobody asked for your condescending opinion. Discarded

[@VIpanfried]

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 isn’t this supposed to be comedy?

[@irvos6003]

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 no one asked you either

[@dsantamaria713]

Everything we dreamed of! Last laugh is always best!

[@gregatkinson7276]

Tracey Ullman is such a great and talented actress. I love her and always have...

[@gisellejones1139]

Disturbingly good

[@douglaso6428]

@AshMukherjeeOfficial I had the same response! Who else could make a short film with such complexity? I can’t call it a comedy or a spoof. It is more a drama but that’s not quite right. Tracey Ullman is a unique talent and her characterizations go way beyond the limits of the typical portrayal. I just love the way she can humanize people and so often does. That’s a meaningful contribution to us all…

[@angaeltartarrose6484]

Satire.

[@englishincontext4025]

Very well said.

[@allgone4615]

What’s better than an Academy Award??? Tracey you shall have whatever it is. The best of the best.

[@nhokonhokopuala]

This was so funny and tragic, Palin ❤️💋 such a treasure and Tracy, she is always so dam good! I. Can't stop but beat myself for only know her this year. So much to catch up, but this❤️💋 this was gold.

[@richierichit]

Look up clips from her Fox show from like 1988... the best ;-)

[@victoriajones8747]

I found it moving.... Tracy is a genius and Michael Palin perfect...

[@LadyOfShaIott]

This was absolute genius. Brilliantly observed and caustically sharp. I’ve met some ‘Hethers’…

[@user-xz8lh8ch3y]

This video came on directly after the Jerry Hall Rupert Murdoch one, a stark contrast as far as humor goes! Tracy Ullman is brilliant!

[@singsonggirl9267]

She is a comedy genius.

[@judydoyle1124]

This is hilarious "It's all we ever dreamed of!"

[@JavenarchX]

Tracey Ullman sure is a British National Treasure

[@dufus7396]

Cast these two together ..perfect

[@kevinwoplin9322]

The public (private)school system in Britain in a nutshell

[@elizabethcosslett8937]

So brilliant

[@MareeMarshall]

I remember this from years ago, always stayed with me,as probably true

[@lisah9709]

As a parent of a young adult, I feel this kind of sums up parenthood. (US)

[@TheBasher-_-]

I get it. It's like you send your kids off to these schools to have a better life, and she's going on to have a better life. Not coming back to live with them forever.

[@needtoknowbasis3499]

Tracy reminds me of Charles Dickens. So much of it is bittersweet.

[@phoebusapollo4677]

This woman should get an OBE.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@tomglenn485]

Ms Ullman understands the horror of class based education and more broardly the system that sustains it. And so do those that ordain OBE's .... they are the products of it.

[@Ron-Ayres]

Tracey was offered a CBE (Commander of the British Empire - a higher honour than OBE) in 2014, but she turned it down.

[@TayWoode]

This is amazing! I love how she had surgery done when she was older, different nose

[@pamelanaylor7761]

Tracey is absolutely brilliant. ❤

[@patriciahall2223]

We've done the sums , that's a classic ....❤

[@orion8835]

This entire vignette was incredibly done. Ullman literally played three different people. The subject of course is all too real.

[@NessInTexas-x2e]

You are right

[@torrisali2082]

This reminds me of a movie called Imitation of Life. But with an opposite ending.

[@LiliWhyte]

One of my all time fav tear jerkers!

[@susanyates4233]

"They've stopped force feeding her"

[@mizzchuz.6413]

Michael Palin is quietly brilliant in this alongside Tracey U.

[@larskars5835]

That was the first thing I noticed, and I'm a rabid Tracey Ullman fan. He was always wonderful… oddly sexy too.

[@terrapinalive6192]

did you spot the Daphne Manners of Jewel in the Crown (Susan Woolbridge) as Head of School?

[@ivanovskameow999]

Yes! I always think of her as Daphne ❤

[@happyandblessed5640]

Wonderful ❤

[@andreaholley9496]

This is what you get when you ‘educate’ your children out of your own class! It describes the British public school system ...as it used to be anyway! Tragically accurate as ever.

[@swilson5320]

I just moved to the uk from the USA and class is something I'm unaccustomed to navigating. How do people educate children out of their class in public schools?

[@mumble.jumbles]

@@swilson5320 It's not the academic education but the education in social climbing that goes along with it, as demonstrated in this video. It happens in parts of America too. Meghan Markle's a prime current example. Her father worked to fund her lavish education and lifestyle, but as she broke into more "elite" circles, she denied their relationship and the support she received.

[@robwilde855]

@@swilson5320 Not sure if, as an American, you're aware of this: what you call 'public schools' are called 'state schools' here. We call private schools public schools; it's notorious for confusing foreigners. For the British, a 'public school' [as in the above film] is not available to any member of the public, it is the top level and charges an enormous sum to the parents. Traditionally only children of the higher social classes were admitted; only recently have a very small number of middle- and working-class people [and only if rich] been able to enter.

[@freudianslippers6567]

@@swilson5320 Class is something you are unaccustomed to in the USA? LOL What? You have billionaires who own jets and entire skid rows of people living in cardboard boxes.....

[@tomglenn485]

I have a viseral repulsion to both Royal and celebrity gossup But I want so much for what you have written to be true....@@mumble.jumbles

[@rgs6236]

Brilliant!

[@southerncross3638]

Excellent.

[@ceciliawyu]

This is cringeworthy but such a sharp dark comedy about the private school system and the hypocrisy that was (and is) the english class system! Ouch! Fantastic! 🤣

[@NessInTexas-x2e]

Yeah. That is what prep school does. Both my kids did exactly that to me. (the upside: Tracey is a very gifted brilliant actress)

[@alisonbarratt3772]

I am sorry for u that your children turned into snobs

[@lass-inangeles7564]

Chilling. I am one of those parents unfortunately.

[@lidijaberlot7743]

😢

[@chrisyates8115]

Absolutely brilliant!!

[@jpgrumbach8562]

A happy ending. Thank you.

[@beverlykessler9106]

A happy Ending? Us she really gone? I loved everything about her and her shows.

[@mumble.jumbles]

I was so touched by the daughter's moving speech to her parents.

[@dpagain2167]

@@mumble.jumbles Very funny, well done.

[@ieattofu68]

LOVED IT!!!

[@dufus7396]

That school was worth every penny

[@englishincontext4025]

This is a masterclass in acting and writing. It works on so many levels and brilliantly encapsulates class divisions which still exist in the UK today - now blurred by the upper middle-classes adoption of woke values. Today, conspicuous wealth and dismissive, condescending attitudes are masked by upper-class advocacy for mass immigration, the EU, globalism and multiculturalism. They have 'adopted woke' as another form of superiority but the patronising snobbery is still there in spades; the same contempt exists for the working-class with its 'Brexit', working-class accents and 'Little Englander' mindset, as they see it. More than ever this divides the UK as sharply as a knife. This short piece is both funny and gut-wrenchingly revolting at one and the same time. Ullman is an amazingly versatile artist and must be a joy to write for; she obviously knows the territory very well indeed.

[@BoDray]

"YoU mEnD tHeM???" 😂

[@DebbieBennett-c9b]

Love the twist at the end.😂

[@SeanScot36]

I’ve met unpleasant people like Janey.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

Yes, I suspect a lot of us have. Vile folk who only remember their real accent when they have dementia.

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

Only Ullman could pull off playing a teenager when in her 40's.

[@Ron-Ayres]

See also Catherine Tate!

[@katherineely3714]

Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, too!

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Very accurately British.

[@pamgrat5126]

Michael Palin!❤️

[@AngelWingzzz]

Old theme and true. Educate your children in a system you have no links to - monster. Disappointment on both sides.

[@annak3592]

I know somebody exactly the same!

[@Ladynipchick2]

Great end!

[@emjayay]

Note the other cars are a Jaguar XJ, Mercedes S class, etc. The Tracey's family has the British version of a Chevy Cavalier.

[@JamesYates-lh5kx]

Tracey borrowed her wardrobe from Hyacinth Bucket's "Keeping Up Appearances".

[@fionaginsbury9633]

So touching like the new inside out film.

[@OliverKitkat]

Tracy I’ll man ❤❤

[@TheOnlyWes25]

Did this inspire Saltburn? lol Tracey is amazing!

[@Pureimagination200]

She’s so funny on curb your enthusiasm

[@perseuskasa6731]

Now it makes sense why in Rupaul Draq Race Season 3, they called them self the Heathers!!!

[@frankievalentine6112]

Actually see the 90s film, Heathers. ICONIC. This is some other UK thing much less well-known.

[@perseuskasa6731]

@@frankievalentine6112 thank you, I will check it for sure !!!

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@frankievalentine6112 Technically it came out in the late ‘80s (‘89, I think.) :-)

[@ThisGuy76]

Was definitely referencing "Heathers" with Winona Ryder, Shannen Doherty & Christian Slater.

[@wduprevil]

Reminds me of the movie mean girl

[@coastaf]

Was sure it was going to end 10 years later with Janie homeless on the street and her parents biding her wishing and hesitantly walking past without a word.

[@terryhalco1021]

I have been assured that a young healthy hamster well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. (With apologies to Jonathan Swift)

[@MsGaella]

I could sell a kidney.😳🤣

[@andrewgibbon-williams7974]

So.... why isn't the greatest comedy genius Britain has ever produced in recent times on UK terrestrial TV every night of the week? There must be a reason. Tell me.

[@fongponto]

"what are your plans after you leave school?" ..... I should be doing "cordon blue" in paris! (I always thought "cordon blue" was some kind of chicken breast recepy... hahahaha)

[@frankievalentine6112]

It is! Both a school and a dish! The schools are also in the US now, though not as prestigious as the name meant in the 80s & 90s.

[@fongponto]

@@frankievalentine6112 thanks good to know

[@ulalaFrugilega]

Well, this couple's genes certainly hit a jackpot.

[@c.a.savage5689]

Well, that was grim.

[@christinemarie4769]

Ow!

[@annajacob7981]

I love Tracey, she is genius. But I'm not British sorry. The accent and verbiage add to the challenge, for me. Please, can someone explain the gist of this story? Thank you.

[@danny___928]

@david lincoln brooks OMG thank you for your analysis, and explanation. especially the servant part cause i never understood that part as it’s not common in the US. is this still common in the UK? today

[@danny___928]

@david lincoln brooks oh my , thank you so much… the more you know haha i love it

[@englishincontext4025]

Sadly the response seems to have been removed. Perhaps the heathers of KZbin found it 'too ghastly' and had their servant remove it.

[@stephenpipe5268]

Hi

[@hebneh]

"They've stopped force-feeding her..."

[@sarah-kk4om]

I just love all the cliches and the 80s fashion

[@CityThatCannotBeCaptured]

Gosh how sad.

[@lizh1988]

Funny but sad...

[@reginaseelaIam]

sadly me daughter same

[@dufus7396]

Hampsters are delicious with tomato sauce

[@angelaegan7511]

The daughter of a Duke would be styled Lady and not Honourable.

[@rosemarykennedy5430]

Thanks for pointing that out 😊

[@Wanamaker1946]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3bUgGyda6miZqc Dear Tracy, I had this idea for a new skit for you to make. From the vid sent here, it shows what a nice lady Samantha Markel is and her Brother too. What if these and dad got together with the Charles, Camilla, and the brother and wife, and they all got along. There’d be signs of them laughing and playing Cards in Windsor Castle, or having a picnic in Windsor Park, watching Netflicks together, going to the theatre, and just having a ball with new friends. They’re shown dissing each of their new Relations in total agreement. All this is become Hugh News that the two in flooded out Monticito are totally over looked by the Media. The new Hot news has totally switched to the properly favor the the RF and the ignored Markels and that they really do have a dad. This would be so wonderful to watch, because what I’m seeing is that both families are pretty nice. It’s one person here we aren’t aloud to mention in print who is the Problem. This story of the girl and her Parents is so sad. It totally reminded me of mm and her denial that she doesn’t have a father. You are a Master actor and humanist.

[@krishnamayimarianni8026]

Love the idea

[@izansalleh7998]

Si Tanggang versi mat salleh 😢

[@FFOGHORN]

My God, she made me hate one character and ache for the other.

[@dxmxo9427]

Bahahaha

[@brocktoon8]

Why did they call it Hethers? It's not even remotely a parody of that movie.

[@leojbramble]

Nothing to do with the movie (US) "Heathers"; the school is called Hetherington, and the students nicknamed 'Hethers'

[@TheBeliever1204]

Sad

[@streaming5332]

They bung on a posh accent to separate themselves from 'ordinary' people. Others can't stand the class system and migrate to Australia.

[@MareeMarshall]

Yes but no matter how posh you talk or try to imitate them they always know you are not really one of them,

[@WindTurbineSyndrome]

Well they high born'd a low born daughter and in a caste society such as Britain that's saying something.

[@jaydouglas5847]

Lets compare and contrast what the American version of this would be. The same dutiful parents willing to sacrifice for the betterment of their daughter by enrolling her in a "institution of higher learning". 4 years pass and the child has been "transformed". What was once a dutiful child, filial and humble is now anything but that. Upon her homecoming she informs her parents that they are "racists" and oppressors and should be ashamed of themselves for contributing to the continued existence of the "patriarchy". This once sweet daughter is now a shrill rapacious non-binary incel harpy well versed in radical feminist rhetoric which she uses to castigate both her parents with. The big difference from the British version is that the American daughter informs her parents that she will now take up residency in the home and won't , if ever, be leaving it. She details what her parent's duties shall be and how they must change their beliefs so as not to offend or trigger her with micro-aggressions such as insisting that she seek out gainful employment. The parents, having expending all their savings in addition to taking out a second mortgage and co-signing student loans have now invested well over 250k now realize that they have no recourse or escape from this debt must now relinquish the thought of a happy retirement and or basking in the glow of treasured grandchildren. The daughter, having degrees in "gender studies" and "diversity , equity and inclusion" finally decides to dip her toes into the world of employment. She finds that her degrees are of no value in the real world other than perhaps getting her that all important second interview for a stocking position on the night shift at Walmart. Reality sets in and rather than accept the stocking position she dedicates herself to part-time face-painting at local carnivals with the hope of someday achieving a higher status by painting faces on the state fair circuit!

[@davidetienne9404]

College creates commies. At least trade schools actually teach people something worthwhile.

[@Sad_Bumper_Sticker]

Okay Boomer

[@jaydouglas5847]

@@Sad_Bumper_Sticker Aww...what's the matter 'lil Sad Bumper ? I see your not the creative type as your comment lacked wit, style or even grade school punctuation. Did your sociology teacher beat it out of you ? I won't presume to know what group you "identify" with but I can say with high probability that's it's a group that has eschewed satire/humor and forsaken the accumulation of wisdom. Yes, your nom de guerre seems decidedly apt.

[@larskars5835]

@@Sad_Bumper_Sticker Too close to reality for you?

[@larskars5835]

I understand completely that this is NOT satire. But I don't remember my parents being responsible for my brother's student loans… I went to art school when it was affordable, how does this work?

[@iamnotfooled]

It’s AWFUL . …. Though acting is good

[@michaelciccone2194]

Irrelevant USA informercial during the video

[@FS-mc3cs]

depressing

[@SeungGi-vx3ot]

Meghan markle

[@MareeMarshall]

Spot on,

[@larskars5835]

Huh? Seriously? How?

[@larskars5835]

@@MareeMarshall And you too.

[@Xfranman]

Usually like Ulman. That was absolutely ghastly. I guess one has to be British. And rained on a lot. Bollocks.

[@thetapeloops9522]

It's Treacle I feel sorry for