Welcome to the Private Police | A Bit of Fry and Laurie | BBC

[@GothicKin]

"Well you haven't changed that much" They didn't spare them a single shot, they were relentless

[@vanpallandt5799]

who?

[@pebblepod30]

That was hilarious

[@Erebos931]

@@vanpallandt5799 the police I'd assume

[@Erebos931]

@@vanpallandt5799 Well, no. The show was relentless in their critique of the police.

[@antonystringfellow5152]

That last line had me in stitches!

[@Lisallamaa]

"Oh, Peter I am sorry to hear that..." God, I love Stephen Fry.

[@colinsweeney2628]

Lisa - i love the way he says that

[@neville132bbk]

In his day he was good

[@_-4232]

Absolute masterclass in line delivery 🐐

[@CaptainLumpyDog]

@@neville132bbk ‘In his day?’ Today is his day!

[@CalridRobnor123srs]

@@CaptainLumpyDog It's been decided by a vote of the Shareholders that the correct phrasing is Stephen Fry is basically God. And god has retired to an offshore account in the Caymans presumably because he's now redundant.

[@johnmcgovern5372]

The irony of Hugh Laurie saying "has everyone turned American"

[@scionofdorn9101]

Hardly fitting, not a single black person was shot by police in this skit, thus the comparison falls short. Also, it's not OUR fault the inventors of the English language can't be bothered to speak it sensibly.

[@rockycomet4587]

@@scionofdorn9101 ?

[@costbart]

How is that Irony? Because the American police isn't privatised?

[@kevinskipp2762]

@@costbart because he played an American as Doctor House

[@costbart]

@@kevinskipp2762 oh, the actor?

[@peterpiper7441]

I want to hear the head of the Pentagon say, "Oh, so you'd like to start a war? Great! What sort of war would you like to have then? We have three types: Regular, Premium, or Super-Deluxe."

[@RandalfElVikingo]

Super Deluxe includes that American Ship that can conquer a third world country by itself.

[@_Shaugen]

Well... considering the US started wars in south america for the sake of American companies earning money, you are more accurate than you would think

[@RandalfElVikingo]

@@_Shaugen That's the Regular lol The CIA creates a dictator for your country so they don't spend that much money or casualties. Premium has the American soldiers themselfs going to your country ;) May include martial law.

[@vakar9779]

@@RandalfElVikingo I think super deluxe includes a nuke

[@TathD]

That's probably not too far from how the generals actually present the options to the president

[@Yuke1]

"Fill out a form? You mean fill IN a form! Has everyone suddenly turned American?" As a Canadian, this gave me a chuckle, I'm surprised the audience didn't have any reaction...

[@1258-Eckhart]

the weirdest American logic is doubling down where they actually mean to double up.

[@tabidots]

American here. I think the "down" in that expression might be related to "hunker down." At least that's the impression I get when I hear it.

[@1258-Eckhart]

We haven't got "hunker down" in British English. If you double something, you raise the quantity, which therefore goes *up*. Straightforward logic really.

[@tabidots]

I didn't say "double up" doesn't make sense. I was just trying to explain the American idiom. "Hunker down" means to hold steadfastly and stubbornly to your point of view in the face of opposition; "doubling down" is the same idea applied to gambling. In AmE, to "double up" with someone is to share a room with them (analogous to "pair up"), where I suppose the function of "up" is to imply that something is consumed until it's gone (eat up, take up [space], clean up).

[@BadgerUKvideo]

Justin Douglas That was gorgeous. I read it as "sit the fuck down".

[@aqwcc4]

Suddenly a comedy sketch is becoming a reality

[@danzigrulze5211]

Isn't it funny how art can imitate reality?

[@ReynOnLife]

Danzig Rulze in this case it is life imitating art

[@mariegriffiths]

I known it is utterly hideous

[@amct1019]

Is it?

[@enzayne7953]

London has a private police outfit on top of the ordinary police.

[@ExaggeratedCool]

I love the reoccurring "Pardon the pun. " "What pun?" "Oh, wasnt there one?". Its perfect.

[@dAvrilthebear]

"by a reputable merchant bank... well, by a merchant bank anyway." ;)))

[@capixie]

"Pre-existing Condition" is one of the most terrifying phrases to hear in the US. I'm a cancer survivor, so nobody wants to cover me unless they have to. Luckily I'm on a group plan, but if I lose that I'm screwed.

[@HellaGust]

It takes a special kind of misanthropy to say that one of the conditions for getting healthcare coverage is *not being sick*. Hope you guys eventually get this shit figured out.

[@stevesecret2515]

Democrats fixed this in 2014. Republicans fought against the fix, of course.

[@DutchManticore]

@@HellaGust yes imagine having to get fire insurance BEFORE the house is on fire! You should be able to retroactively insure a smoking carcass of a house for 24 dollars and get 500k in damages paid out

[@HellaGust]

@@DutchManticore The solution here is to not have coverage be private insurance-based ya ding dong. The comparison you're looking for is firefghters. Only putting out fires for insured people turned out not to be a viable model.

[@Bullshit_Media]

@@DutchManticore Imagine being left to die from an curable disease, 'cause the health sector (which you pay for in taxes) has been lobbied and privatized into a profit oriented model in a closed enviorment without proper regulation, allowing basic medicine to skyrocket to prices 10 times higher than in the rest of the world. So you can't afford the medicine. And you're warshipping the system as if your life depended on it (which it does, only this is the wrong way around) The the top 1% gets marginally richer at the cost of your blood.

[@smoog]

This is also known as the, "Fry & Laurie are frightening accurate in their predictions of what England will look like 50 years from the making of this skit" skit.

[@spiderjeranimo4992]

Same goes for the 'Pre-coital Agreement' skit.

[@jukahri]

@@incognito9292 Not very witty for a Witzland

[@ComradeCorwin]

Come over to America and you can see some prototypes! I mean, if you're a Platinum Member, of course.

[@searcherfortruthlayton1665]

None of the evidence indictates that policing will ever become a privatised paid for service for victims of crime. Where do people get their scaremongering from?

[@ComradeCorwin]

No, no. We already pay for them with taxes, like a fee, but that isn't what comes to mind when I think of our police being privatized. See, the police are always trained to perform certain duties just like any security officer, but the people they work for are those who can afford to pay the most. For example, right now, some of their employers are in the pharmaceutical sector, which currently pay on commission for drug arrests. The War on Drugs has been rapidly expanded so that the police force can meet those quotas. That one isn't even a secret.

[@predwarlord]

The UK police said recently that people should no longer expect the Police to respond to thefts or minor assaults. Apparently resources are too stretched.

[@predwarlord]

Bill Patrick Jones According to capitalism population explosions are good, they mean larger markets and more resources. That's why immigration is supported by like all businesses/economists. So the population explosion crisis doesn't hold. Either more people is good or it isn't.

[@darryljones7868]

+Bill Patrick Jones ...I didn't know a 0.6% growth rate was unprecedented and unrelenting.

[@predwarlord]

jessie james Most of the "children" are adults by their own country's standards. And the overwhelming majority are young fighting age men.

[@jessiejames7492]

predwarlord they should go back and fight for their rights, their country and for their childrens future...Not make a pest of themselves inother peoples'country

[@G1NZOU]

They must only have the Super level of cover, shame.

[@Zothaqqua]

The Department of Work and Pensions keeps insisting that I'm a "customer".

[@jerribee1]

And if they insist on doing that, you should threaten to take your 'custom' elsewhere.

[@si0054]

😂😂😂

[@pqrstzxerty1296]

Totally agree. We the Public are the Owners, not a Client.

[@mattl1962]

The board of directors paid business level salaries would agree.

[@Mastealth]

@@pqrstzxerty1296 Okay Comrade

[@brngsh5549]

I feel like I'm going around Fry and Laurie's video's saying that in about 10 years we won't know why everyone was laughing about a perfectly common situation.

[@Colt45hatchback]

I agree. It already seems like most of it is accurate now

[@Kryojenix]

I heard that there is privatised police services available for residents in some of the posher areas of London now

[@NbSkaz]

@@Kryojenix No dear, those are called upper class neighborhood watchers. Curtain twitchers if you will. Or straight up hardcore mercenaries lol /s

[@pickaname29]

​@@NbSkazupper class neighborhood watchers? Is that like middle aged moms who call in the full police department cause her neighbor was illegally parked?

[@NbSkaz]

@@pickaname29 lol yep, those ones.

[@doctorcomputer8904]

If you guys didn't know Hugh Laurie was British, don't feel too bad - when he auditioned for House, neither did the producers!

[@benivinson3693]

Nah Americans man you guys are crazy, everyone knows Hugh Laurie from blackadder

[@artmallory970]

@@benivinson3693 'Merica - A Nation that believes Africa is a country & the language spoken in Europe is 'European'.

[@lightbeingform]

I did not know that fact, that's wild. Not surprised, my fellow Americans continue to be ignorant af, it's only 10 years or so since I Wanna Marry Harry 😅

[@caramellamilifan1294]

Fry and Laurie must have seen "UK plc: 2016" coming. Genius.

[@absolut2013]

More relevant today than ever! I took my 1 year old to an NHS urgent care centre on Sunday morning to find it had been privatised, albeit discreetly, to “offer services on behalf of the NHS”

[@pancakewizard1533]

The NHS is practically Soviet in the service it provides right now. We're a global basket case for healthcare. It needs some privatisation. Badly. I'd go private healthcare in a shot if it meant I didn't have to pay NI, as it is I can only hope the NHS collapses sooner rather than later and we can get something akin to a German or Dutch system.

[@frankryan2505]

@@pancakewizard1533 were you dropped on your head as a child? Would it not make more sense to look at the government's squandering of your NI rather than the symptoms you mention? It's funny how when I left the UK 15 years ago I never had any issues booking a doctor or dentist, it's almost like some force took control in the following years and decided to run the institution into the ground and then sell off the assets to their cronies. People complain about how shit the privatised trains are, how the privatised power companies are gouging them..and you want the same treatment for national healthcare.. Fml

[@samspeed6271]

@@pancakewizard1533 a lot of the problems that the NHS are experiencing are because of privatisation. More privatisation isn't going to solve the problem of NHS doctors taking time off to privately treat NHS patients that have been sent to private hospitals. Why do they do it? Greed and because they can. What is needed is for these local CCGs and hospital trusts to be done away with, make the NHS a National Health Service like it was before the CCGs and trusts. Also, reverse the decision that nursing needs to be a degree profession. That's a major bottleneck in recruiting nurses and not one that can be dealt with by throwing money at it, it just needs to be reversed.

[@SMGJohn]

@PancakeWizard You ever experienced Soviet healthcare? Because if you took your child to a Soviet hospital for emergency that kid would be flown to a childrens hospital in Moscow or closet major city in 20 minutes. But in the West you gotta wait 20 days to get basic treatment for free.

[@blagoevski336]

@@SMGJohn what

[@GreatMalmsteen]

This was a comedy sketch but now can also be used as a documentary

[@cherylyates9845]

Many a true word is said in jest.

[@animationfanatic2133]

Sadly

[@pacus123]

A bit like the 1984 Novel. That's turned into an instruction manual ...

[@jwadaow]

What has happened is that the police have become an enforcement arm of government.

[@Killerbee4712]

@@pacus123 How is this "iTs LiKe 1984" if anything it's the exact opposite.

[@KeyToTime]

It's unbelievable that this is no longer just a joke.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Satire often has its roots in reality.

[@TheCOD4hero]

How in hell was this not a joke 4 years ago, when it still is an obvious joke today?

[@Gekkibi]

Luka E, I encourage you to google with search words "private", "police" and "UK". However, to be pedantic about it; yes, the current situation (even when it's obviously not even remotely 1:1 to this sketch) is exactly a joke, so technically it indeed is still a joke today...

[@TheCOD4hero]

Gekkibi that I agree with.

[@jimhughes1962]

No kidding. In America this whole Capitalist privatization bollocks has gotten quite out of hand.

[@steveforest8385]

"...you have shares in the Royal Family PLC?" Such a crazy notion that anyone would try to monetise the royal famiy name.

[@LalitKumar-cu5iu]

Queen elizabeth coconut cookies

[@TonyHavenMusic]

@@LalitKumar-cu5iu ermm Prince Of Wales does own a biscuit company 😩

[@LalitKumar-cu5iu]

@@TonyHavenMusic Dianas diner

[@LalitKumar-cu5iu]

@@TonyHavenMusic Charles cars

[@LalitKumar-cu5iu]

@@TonyHavenMusic Harrys hotels

[@barret-xiii]

Most polite cyberpunk dystopia ever.

[@vivaldi1ett]

Thank you guys for making our lives a little bit more enjoyable, fantastic British comedy at it’s very best, I really miss those guys

[@kokoeteantigha389]

What are you talking about; they haven't kicked the bucket, have they?

[@Nmax]

​@@kokoeteantigha389 nope they still alive and well. We just miss them in tv doing their excellent comedy

[@CardCaptorDeadpool]

I didn't even know they were sick

[@FoolOfGods]

In the late 60's my father was well connected with the police force - around Christmas time every year he would "invest" a case of finest Scottish whisky at the local divisional police office - he was never pulled over, stopped, issued with a speeding ticket or fine of any sort .... fantastic value as these sorts of "investments" go.

[@willch.2259]

That could just be because he never broke the speed limit

[@FoolOfGods]

@@willch.2259 very true - only 2 problems with this theory - first he had a very bad habit of driving a big powerful vehicle after consumming alcohol (he claimed to drive better with whisky as his co-pilot) and he was pulled over for crossing a solid double white line in the middle of the road .... several times ... should I mention his standing in an certain Christian group which, every July, celebrates an Irish 17th century battle? Originally I omitted these details for the sake of brevity ...

[@milkmanswife93696]

0:38 is what makes this sketch for me.

[@NormanMatchem]

Good stuff, Stephen Fry is hysterical!

[@guinivereXbloodgood]

Those trousers are fantastic!

[@strafrag1]

Yes, prison style. Love'em.

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

Man, I really wish Fry had an episode in House M. D. That would have been so EPIC!!!

[@chadachwilliam5515]

It’s not that far off what actually happens when you go to get help from the police.

[@dirkbruere]

Except in the above sketch they might actually do something

[@Anonnymouse53]

This is waaaay better than what happens when you report your vehicle stolen these days! When mine was nicked, I found it myself, called the police, told them where it was parked (the thief's driveway) and a week later it was still there. When I went and confronted the thieving scum and told the police they'd need to get there quick or send an ambulance they took 90 minutes (police station was 1.2 miles away). They finally arrived and asked if I wanted it recovered and dusted for prints, I said yes. I was charged 250 notes for its storage at the impound where they dusted it for evidence it, despite turning up 24 hours after it's release notice. I didn't even get offered a coffee!

[@natcarish]

@@Anonnymouse53 You should've asked for the 'Gorgeous'

[@whatsay3382]

@@Anonnymouse53 that's awful

[@leftydan123]

@@whatsay3382 it’s also not true

[@olenka911]

The ending is just priceless :) "Well, you haven't changed that much then" - brilliant, reminds our Ukrainian police.

[@allenjenkins7947]

I like the last line - "It hasn't changed that much then."

[@pafnutiytheartist]

This is becoming more and more relevant.

[@Calmputer]

Did ... "Peter" say "don't matter, doesn't worry" at 0:21

[@Memoquin]

Also known as 'The G4S Sketch'

[@OverlandTT]

I know and what’s funnier is that G4S was used by the government from around 2004/5 if I remember.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@OverlandTT In the great game of Monopoly that is modern Britain, the "Get out of jail free" card is stamped with the G4S logo.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

You know the world is screwed when you can't tell it apart from a surrealist comedy sketch.

[@Emsyphine]

SOOOOOO beautiful Fry

[@CeticWales]

With private police forces being rolled out across London, it looks like this is sadly coming true.

[@paulfu6475]

CelticWales how is it sad??

[@Mantorok]

You mean the ones with almost 100% crimes solved?

[@Mantorok]

@Your President Yes.

[@michaelharder9737]

Would probably help if you hadn't imported a whole bunch of military age single men from incompatible cultures.

[@sirannonable]

Oh yea Sherlock Holmes

[@alm2187]

"...our brochure if you'll pardon the pun." "What pun?" "Oh, wasn't there one?" "Bro? Sure."

[@stayforthepeelpronpls4774]

I’m in love with Stephen’s trousers.

[@benjaminbordelon8413]

As an American, I had never in my life thought saying "fill out a form" was weird until watching this

[@SkyDarmos]

Fill out a form is more German. Ausfüllen in German.

[@harsimaja9517]

It's not weird, it's just the American equivalent. But these days it's probably common enough in the UK too

[@ThanatoselNyx]

​@@harsimaja9517 it is only weird in the literal sense.

[@ThanatoselNyx]

​@@harsimaja9517 it is only weird in the literal sense.

[@casperdewith]

​@@SkyDarmosLol, and ‹invullen› in Dutch.

[@Grubiantoll]

Jokes are funny til they turn in to reality

[@mcfcguvnors]

just about to post that very statement !!

[@AlexLecorn]

Then they're hilarious.

[@TheBobcatlover]

"ahead of their time" is an understatement

[@nathanrowland1918]

Why does this suddenly seem incredibly relevant

[@patagualianmostly7437]

Because it bloody well is! ( and I share your despair!)

[@kristoffer3000]

Because conservatives are in power.

[@spiderjeranimo4992]

@@kristoffer3000 kinda looks like Antifa and BLM are in power right now and i'd rather have police protection than this Marxist inversion of reality, stop it, it's silly. ;)

[@kristoffer3000]

@@spiderjeranimo4992 Ah yes, the radical antifa marxist Boris Johnson, a proud supporter of BLM. Fucking hell you guys are daft.

[@spiderjeranimo4992]

@@kristoffer3000 twisting the truth to fit your reality eh? I'd rather be daft than blind.

[@captainchaos3667]

This has become chillingly relevant...

[@robodrew]

Fill out a form... I never really thought about how weird that phrase really is. Fill IN a form makes much more sense! We Americans really are silly.

[@bazcuda]

Yes. To fill out, in the UK, means to make/get fatter, as in someone's waistline, for example. "Ooh, he's really filled out!". Whereas to fill in, means to fill empty gaps with something, like dirt into a hole in the ground, or the blank spaces on a form.

[@riyanraj2043]

my favourite bit from the show!!

[@abijo5052]

'Full out a form! Fill in a form! Whys everyone turning american'- comedy gold

[@3lttlbrds]

Super, Lovely and Gorgeous🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jancz357]

anarcho capitalists' dream :D

[@diddlididdli1376]

\m/

[@flukecentral5641]

Yes

[@anagramconfirmed1717]

They’re mutually exclusive, idiot clown

[@HaydenLau.]

@@anagramconfirmed1717 You need to do your research

[@LunaMene]

@@anagramconfirmed1717 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism Here, I did your "weesuch" for you. You are most welcome, friend.

[@Sunless1337]

"darling," "love," and "pet" all used within 15 seconds. Dang. 😂😂

[@koukouvania]

alarmingly prescient

[@1977ajax]

Fill out / fill in. That one passed me by unnoticed too. Thanks.

[@astrophonix]

You can laugh now, but the government is actually considering this!

[@kikimarooni5962]

+Charles Gribben www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/mar/02/police-privatisation-security-firms-crime

[@TheInsanespecialk]

hopefully they do. anything privite is much more efficient

[@astrophonix]

Kalani Adams Not in England,everything that is privatised here immediately turns to shit, like the trains are extortionally expensive,to the point that it's now actually cheaper to fly to another country than it is to buy a train ticket from one English county to another.

[@astrophonix]

mrbandishbhoir Government has no reason to exist anyway.

[@ConsumerWatchdogUK]

+AnimeBanz The current police force is paid for by force, regardless of whether you want or require the service, and you have no redress when they fail to provide to deliver. The state also prohibits competition and use the police force to violently impose their will on others.

[@quix_9u19su]

Yes, that was very well articulated. I am speechless.

[@shoandutrieux9447]

Anno 2020 I'm not certain if this is still funny or slowly becoming reality

[@grimupnorth9336]

It's the reality of publicly funded police forces with their carnival dancing and rainbow pride cars...

[@bloodyhell8201]

​@@grimupnorth9336 yes, let's replace the occupying force of the state with a private occupying force that is even less beholden to anyone, i'm sure that will end perfectly well.

[@patwailes5927]

Best thing about this sketch is when Hugh says "has everyone turned American" and no one in the audience laughs because it's not even an exaggeration of what living in America is like

[@3879keith]

once upon a time this would have been very funny, .......now....... its just very very accurate

[@jConnectDay2025]

This is sooo hillarious! Oh my God...

[@TheHatchet2]

as an american, I resemble that remark

[@dansaunders1655]

murdoc doesn't actually know anything about the new album

[@testtest-lf6do]

Can't figure out if spelling typo or your being witty

[@lovewalsall]

@@testtest-lf6do Probably auto-'correct'.

[@ae4164]

"Resemble that remark" is a joke that's literally older than the internet. You guys need to get out more if you can't figure out whether or not it's a typo.

[@testtest-lf6do]

petelee hk thumbs up my man

[@christophergreening1075]

Love it! Ironically well ahead of its time

[@morgwai667]

it's scary how close to reality this became...

[@thetreacherousleech8990]

I adore the glasses on Stephen.

[@Tropicaliak]

fill out vs. fill in, didn't even know. am an idiot. amazing pants though, I suppose that makes the viewing an overall positive experience.

[@BintyMcFrazzles]

Much foresight!

[@SuperNuclearHamster]

This is what Libertarians want

[@joanneclarke771]

This is a great skit. "Oh, have you been away?"

[@Bobogoobo]

On another subject, as an American, one of the most interesting parts of this is the insistence on "fill _in_ a form". I don't believe I've ever heard it said that way.

[@gwishart]

That's the correct use in British English. The form starts out with empty spaces, which you then fill in. If the form was filled out, then it would be getting fatter.

[@artmallory970]

@@gwishart That's because 'mericans don't own passports...

[@bar10ml44]

2020 and how appropriate. How brilliant

[@_indrid_cold_]

Sheesh these guys saw into the future.

[@fulanilovincriminal]

"If you'll pardon the pun" with no pun - stolen for Come Fly With Me from this very sketch!

[@mrahmed50]

Fry looks sooooooooo cute in this sketch

[@cryptmonkey]

"Fill out a form? Fill OUT a form? You mean fill IN a form!.. Has everyone suddenly turned American?" Ironic Hugh... ironic =) it's just you. excuse the pun

[@PolyChromium]

What pun?

[@jensonstevens821]

I think the pun is “it’s just you” ≈ “it’s just Hugh”.

[@junnnaid]

"Has everyone suddenly turned American?" - Rich coming from Hugh lol

[@alexjwebabou]

"BritLaw PLC" every time makes me smile

[@BigAlCapwn]

0:45 "Have you had a look at our brochure, if you pardon the pun" Do you think David Walliams' "Moses" character from Come Fly With Me was influenced by that line?

[@Merlewhitefire]

Meanwhile, the government-run police department is doing a bang-up job. Just spotless.

[@williamdunlop97]

It's getting there

A dig at privatisation when it was the trendy thing to do, back in the 80's and 90's. Railways, Banks, electricity companies, etc. Having a privatised police force seemed a ridiculous notion, back then, and yet we're seemingly edging ever closer to it as time goes on. The police are already prioritising and compartmentalising crimes almost to the point where you have to make an appointment in order to report them.

[@patagualianmostly7437]

A bit like health care in most 3rd world countries. You need an appointment to drop dead. Fast becoming the norm in the UK. (Taxable of course.)

[@guguigugu]

maybe dont import millions of people who have no intention of becoming law-abiding citizens

[@chrisdaniels3929]

Remember the problems with security when prisoners kept escaping from prisoner transport in the 90s?

[@miadjojowasitomalik]

Nobody wants to talk about the metallic Elton John trousers that cop is wearing? I need someone to talk to.

[@kundetjenesten]

12 years ago this was comedy, today we go "Hmm, then we might actually get assistance..."

[@TheErtagon15]

ah ancapistan, there's a tear rolling down my eye, so beautiful...

[@kroneage]

yeah i never really thought about it but this just made me realize how little sense it makes XD fill out a form

[@johnpliskin8759]

Kyle Ray well, to fill out is to add, when you are done, are there not more words on the page? both make sense

[@Vesnicie]

Kyle Ray well I gradually filled out my bra as a young teen and that makes sense, so...

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@johnpliskin8759 out is a word used to normally mean take away, filling out a form suggests you are removing something

[@Erlingsaebo]

Those pants just made my day

[@Italiandogs]

DeFuNd ThE pOlIcE 🥴🥴😂

[@93RubixCube]

This and The Thick of It were so spot on its scary

[@truckcampercanada2747]

This was meant to be a comedy sketch, not a guide book for the home office, or the College of Policing ( not a real college).

[@Nerdiness1985]

We'll put all our team on it. Priceless.

[@shawnx18]

KZbin recommendation is so good. This video is spot on the possible future of defunding police

[@SpaceMonkey23101]

Relevant.

[@matejstudeny3571]

:DDDD I' loving it :D Well you haven't changed that much yet! :DDDD

[@adventureswithaurora]

I can't hear and see Hugh Laurie in this sketch as anybody but Bertie Wooster. LOL.

[@spiderjeranimo4992]

With just a few small rewrites and a US cast this would be peak satire right about now.

[@samaelherself4286]

The high pitched screech is murdering me.

[@nou6879]

Don’t mind me; topical KZbin recommendations got me here, same as you...

[@philphie]

i now have no idea if i naturally say fill in a form or fill out a form and now i am forever afraid of ever returning in such a predicament that requires of me to say either one.

[@DjVortex-w]

How long before this actually becomes reality?

[@DjVortex-w]

mrbandishbhoir Allow corporatism and privatization of government entities to go far enough, and this is what you'll get in the end.

[@kapitankapital6580]

mrbandishbhoir a state owned by private companies is still a state.

[@MarkLee1]

Just vote for liberals and democrats and this will become true.

[@Hopalongtom]

This October!

[@Mishima505]

As soon as the UK signs up to Trump’s trade deal...

[@simontaylor2319]

Complete a form sounds even better.... good on you Hugh

[@Arkiasis]

A Libertarian Utopia.

[@MDP1702]

a corporate utopia

[@A-Duck]

I don't think you know what that word means

[@Raky2427]

OneManArmy, à liberal would detest this. It is literally the opposite of their viewpoint. Liberals are central on economic matters and left wing ideologically. They believe in the current economic system of Britain, but like the left, are against the discrimination done by the far right. So your comment was invalid. You ment a far right or conservative dystopia.

[@smoog]

@@Raky2427 you need to brush up on your reading skills. He wrote Libertarian, not Liberal. This skit would have been an Ayn Rand wet dream.

[@Mantorok]

@@smoog Ayn Rand was not for private police. You people who always hate on libertarianism need to know about more people than her, who by the way didn't call herself libertarian.

[@Fenrisaconite]

Dear god, that was camp! XD Brilliant sketch!

[@skcushcodrum]

"Has everyone suddenly turned American?" A bit ironic, coming from Hou..er, Hugh Laurie. :-)

[@43bikeguy]

Comedy trousers of the highest order.

[@jamesmitchell7185]

In 2020 America this is now going to be a reality.

[@elhombredeoro955]

Ironically it was a satire on the conservative government who was defunding and privatising everything.

[@jamesmitchell7185]

@@elhombredeoro955 who'd have thought the dems would do the conservatives job for them hey? 😂

[@trailsammarco8805]

No one is trying to sell the Police. They just need to be reorganized in a way that is is less conducive to police brutality and more conducive to actually helping people.

[@jamesmitchell7185]

@@trailsammarco8805 Yes, of course, its not like the healthcare system is already privatised is it? This will only go one way, and private security/police will emerge to protect the rich and everyone else will suffer with whatever the badly run and under funded new "police" system turns out to be, just like what happens with the healthcare system now. Let's drop back in here in 2 years time and see where we're at shall we?