When life was simpler

[@scooterdooter]

"Oh, you know. Full of ledgers." Exactly how you should respond to any question about your life.

[@marcokite]

i worked in a bank in the early 1980s and it WAS full of ledgers...sigh

[@kaseynaviphifer9416]

just like dracula.... always counting, counting, counting.... never hear him laugh tho

[@hugostiglitz6914]

My wife said to me the other day, you're not listening, are you? I thought, that's a strange way to start a conversation!

[@lyndaclancy8531]

😂😂 an oldie but a goodie 😁

[@cappygolucky]

😂

[@scottscott232]

Haha. I've not heard that one.

[@billwellington4339]

Mine normally starts a conversation with..."What did I just say?"

[@hugostiglitz6914]

@@lyndaclancy8531 your be surprised at how many dont see jokes on KZbin as jokes. Truth of the matter is I do what I'm told and I love it!😁

[@fasteddyuk]

"And so say all of us." Paul Whitehouse's delivery is impeccable.

[@MedievalGenie]

I concur.

[@kasimsultonfan]

I , too concur. The spirit of Noel Coward is all over Harry's delightfully clipped delivery too. Plus a perfectly weighted soupçon of John le Mesurier , as he absently considers the ceiling whilst conversing. Capital stuff.

[@henrybyrd5402]

That reminds me . We're having a Silver Wedding Anniversary 'do' in a couple of weeks. I'd better discover my wife's name to have it put on the invitations. I'll go and ask her, she is usually in the kitchen. I suppose I should invite her as well.

[@jackfitzpatrick8173]

Sounds like my household.

[@baronvonchickenpants6564]

Hilarious 🤣😄

[@davepowell7168]

Excuse me Henry but you miss the point, on selection the wife takes the name you decide. Please call her whatever you wish and then tell her that she likes the name. This saves any confusion.

[@henrybyrd5402]

@@davepowell7168 Come on Dave, I couldn't really put "Thingy" on the invitation now could I?

[@davepowell7168]

@@henrybyrd5402 An illiterate wife incapable of spelling 'thing' or whatever you choose to call her would most certainly be handicap so I understand your dilemma. Perhaps if you didn't ever mention such irrelevant tradition she might forget? Could you you downgrade to an even less intelligent model? I'm trying to give you hope for a less troubled future but we can get attached just for an easy life. Best of luck 👍

[@kojikicklighter371]

"They can go to university, and after that I'll meet them...and see if I like them."

[@PeterT-i1w]

at least he not gonna constantly yell at them "Are you doctor yet?" like some Asian parents would."

[@Fred-t2w]

The girls will not, obviously.

[@Monolith1984]

I love the bank manager's voice.

[@mjames2117]

Yes they don't make "bank managers" anymore they have total lack of responsibility now and of late they have these pratish brown nosing 'team leaders' and 'vice presidents' with no clue about professionalism/ training and how to do hard work. The modernisation ideas for banking came from America where management ideas originated from "The great American ideas of management bullshit". The bullshit is now rife in one of the largest banks in the United Kingdom and I could tell you a thing or two about the complete dumbing down of bank workers and replacing "work" with "team building time wasting bullshit" dont you know..remember banks no longer care about clients only shareholders.. tally ho!

[@PiggyWiggyO]

@@mjames2117 Boy George...You got it in one!!!

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

It's borderline "Kenneth Williams" or one of those he used to do. But then this is Simon Greenall, who has a wealth of voices. He's more than just Michael from Alan Partridge and that bloody meerkat from the adverts

[@BOABModels]

@@andrewphippsphillips1455 he's the meerkat? Bloody hell! I knew he was Captain Barnacles in the Cbeebies series 'Octonauts'. Very underrated comic.

[@paperchain1239]

Sounds liks Bunny.

[@amrita92]

I wish we had more comedies as satire and good as this ;(

[@nikkyle5979]

... don't be late, or I'll be livid !!! .... Love it!

[@JohnnyMarsden]

How I miss the Good Old Days

[@davepowell7168]

You mean that fuckawful variety TV show ?

[@privatechannel8462]

But that was never the good old days.

[@lehighguy]

"Oh you know, full of ledgers." XD

[@Wrz2e]

I spat my tea out at this lol

[@DanielSadjadian]

Haha

[@PiggyWiggyO]

Lehman Brothers and the other banks obviously copied his style of banking.

[@philiplewis7252]

What a wonderful way to live!

[@ShahPhilLeotardo]

“I’ll call her darling, unless she breaks some of the family crockery or loses the house key in which case I’ll call her You bloody fool!”🤣

[@ginigang]

'Oh, you're a good sort, aren't you?' Imagine the kind of world where a bank manager has this kind of confidence in you.

[@edwardglenn9310]

Between the extremes of excessive form filling and sub-prime shenanigans this approach seems very reasonable. Why I'll take it.

[@Tawny6702]

Well I suppose back in the time when you were the son of sir or lord what’s his face, then I imagine it was exactly like that!

[@uttaradit2]

up until 1939

[@chrisgeorgebrown]

This probably is not that far from the truth for the 0.1%

[@rooneye]

That was the case back then!

[@jonsmum5552]

You have such lovely wavy hair. Lol my late father was in the RAF he had red wavy hair, a work mate of my Mum said all the ladies loved my Dads red wavy hair. 😍

[@winchester92stevebrook44]

I had lovely long wavy hair in my youth, but sadly waved goodbye to it in later life.

[@paulleoleo]

Adam Curtis nailed this in his latest documentaries... Harry Enfield is a bit of a genius in his social observations

[@rooneye]

Paul White doesn't get the credit HE deserves. He's a MUCH better actor than Harry too. Harry is a SHIT actor lol

[@billylapworth]

Which Adam Curtis bits are similar to this?

[@paulleoleo]

@@billylapworth watch all of can't get you outta of my head

[@billylapworth]

@@paulleoleo It reminds me of the Lordly Ones episode.

[@DKTronics70]

@@rooneye Excellent, but enough about Paul White - whoever he is, what did you think about Paul Whitehouse ?

[@bondccj]

Nothing fancy just a villa on Hyde park 😂

[@emjayay]

Near the Roosevelts!

[@fordlandau]

Don't be late or I'll be livid

[@Kris.G]

livid... livid....

[@MixedRogueKhorri]

Some of the best sketches

[@jasenwright1178]

The banker's ( Bill) promise still works for the selected few!!!

[@karenrhodes823]

I've lost count of how many times I've watched this one.

[@malcolmjcullen]

Alzheimer's?

[@winchester92stevebrook44]

One could perhaps invest in an abacus.

[@notdaveschannel9843]

Of course, Bill will just sell that loan, it will be bundled into a Mortgage-Backed Security and rated as AAA. But nothing bad will happen.

[@WorldWayde1]

Aaaaand it’s gone 😅

[@dextor0000]

RIP: Facebook and all the bloody dating apps

[@PiggyWiggyO]

Yeeeaaaassss Life is frightfully simple when you have lots of money.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Absolutely correct, as I can tell you, from personal experience. (And what if you don't *have* lots of money? Why, then ... you're a 'bloodyfool' aren't you?)

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Everyone had lots of money back then... Everyone who mattered anyway

[@TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles]

can't have that much, he just took out a mortgage!

[@stevetaylor8698]

Even simpler when you don't have any.

[@davepowell7168]

'Wench' is my label for the lady in my life, l love her lots and she was almost house trained when acquired.

[@marcokite]

hope she realises how lucky she is!

[@eahannan]

Good opening scene to a Film Noir thriller I'd say...

[@socratease1432]

"My wife said to me the other day, you're not listening, are you? I thought, that's a strange way to start a conversation!" Hugo Stiglitz. I genuinely suffer from extreme Tinnitus, my response is continually, "I beg your pardon?". :D ,

[@allovdem]

A 6 bed property on Hyde Park would cost in excess of £25 Million today.

[@marcokite]

exactly! nothing fancy

[@Viartis]

Life was so much better in those days !

[@LukasOfTheLight]

I think you may have missed the point of the sketch Robert

[@STho205]

That's exactly how I met and married my wife.

[@MrMazhar8551]

S Tho, Oh you lucky chap

[@lordeden2732]

YOU REALLY MEAN MADAM PALM AND HER FVE LOVELY DAUGHTERS

[@paperchain1239]

Probably best way.

[@standupstraight9691]

Certainly save a lot on dating. Looks ideal.

[@MrThrib]

How are John, John, John, Janet and Janet?

[@Nickpaintbrush]

Oh the good old self cert mortgages!

[@Gnomelander1400]

I don’t know why but I’m only 13 and already feel nostalgic and wish back to the simpler times :( When things weren’t too political :(

[@AR-py5cn]

The Thing ha ha good luck! Life has always been political. The thing is nowadays we have unheard of access to information some truthful, most not. Wait until you get older because you will miss these simpler old days.

[@tamar5261]

Except there was a war looming

[@marcusblake5996]

Thats Because your soul knows its living in a shit time ran by greedy soulless scumbags - at least you're not blind to it though, happy new year! 😆

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

When I was 13 we were going to have a 2 hour working week, robot butlers and holidays on Mars by now. That's if we weren't being attacked by pollution-mutated maggots or picking our way through post apocalypse radioactive rubble to find dead rats for supper.

[@Tattlebot]

@@tamar5261 You're on the money.

[@Mr2at]

Ive been married 15 years, i still don't know her name, but i don't suppose it matters.

[@blackfalkon4189]

has she ever come out with a wild & dangerous opinion of her own?

[@tonycaniggia]

@@blackfalkon4189 or lost the house key?

[@harryharpur1231]

D'you know I'm beginning to think some chaps are quite missing the bally point.

[@marcokite]

not everyone is a good sort like you Harry

[@kenneth6102]

I normally apologise to get a 5 second reception with my wife. We don't talk so much now, as I ran out of things to apologise for.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

You seem a good sort...

[@penelopegreene]

They need to show this in school.

[@bbutc]

Modern equivalent: Computer says No.

[@coolhand67]

Rather good take on John Le Mesurier.

[@martm216]

I hope she'll make him a jolly good wife, because he seems a jolly spiffing top-hole sort of chap.

[@jackfitzpatrick8173]

Well,she *did* appreciate his lovely wavy hair!

[@martm216]

@@jackfitzpatrick8173 absol-jolly-utely! 👍

[@kasimsultonfan]

Yes, he does strike me as a decent sort. His chum appears to be left handed ; something of a worry.

[@IbnShahid]

God, that woman sounds exactly like Big Suze from Peep Show. Even looks a bit like her.

[@organenthusiast5803]

Just what I thought! Rather amazing given how long ago this was filmed.

[@howardmckenna]

It is her.

[@richardwilliams2853]

Exactly how it should be.

[@puskascat]

Isn't this exactly how she ended up marrying Lord Frederick Windsor?

[@marcokite]

........yes

[@neilsailing]

Most splendid........Happy days..........!

[@MajPickles]

"Owe your a good sort, arn't you" "And so say all of us"

[@ewaf88]

When I last applied for a loan I don't remember being told I was a good sort

[@sidewindersid4180]

As a millennial I can say with much certainty that we have it far better these day's as a direct result of avocado on toast.

[@kevindoran9389]

I like to dip my asparagus soldiers in my boiled egg.

[@ballshippin3809]

And we don't need to look for a nice house to buy because we'll never be able to afford one anyway. Being a millennial is great 😁

[@standupstraight9691]

Yes, nice avo brunch gives you something to look forward to while she drones on about things that men dont find interesting.

[@oscarvee8801]

Avocado on toast with WW3 on the horizon, such an idyllic life! 🥳

[@flipper2392]

I'd marry her, she sounds like the perfect wife.

[@MatthewRivers-Davis]

As Sophie Winkleman married Lord Frederick Windsor she probably does actual live in a Villa on Hyde Park

[@SaintSwithinsDay]

And that's how Sophie Wincklemann came to be married to the son of Princess Michael of Kent.

[@wallaby4]

"Nothing fancy, just a villa on Hyde Park or something" lol

[@MajPickles]

'Owe your a good sort' '...and so say all of us'

[@DanielSadjadian]

So incredibly easy.... I live how the bank manager doesn't want any kind of security for the mortgage haha

[@BackwardFinesse]

I'm surprised that Jacob Rees-Mogg has not sued...

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

Peter Cartwright 😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

He only watches Downton Abbey, and that's just to watch those common oiks in their little castle.

[@mohammadayub2760]

Brilliant

[@fonziebulldog5786]

Yes, life was simpler back in the days as a male. 😄👍

[@wolfgangfrick4567]

“Oi, did ei tell youh Ei’m getting merreihed on Seterdeih?”

[@macsnafu]

Back in the days before color!

[@sdry1688]

The Lennon & McCartney of Comedy

[@dna9838]

This is how I imagine SNP recruiting videos

[@mikemorgan7893]

That’s how my parents met.

[@howardmckenna]

Have you met your father yet? Does he like you?

[@stephenholmes1036]

That lady knows when's she's well off!

[@TheGroundedAviator]

If anyone says this is sexist they are satirising sexism.

[@TheGroundedAviator]

This film is mocking sexist views.

[@TheChurchHistoryChannel]

Nobody has.

[@breasthound]

Yes, but the people that do find this sexist are the kind that'll find sexism in a muddy puddle.

[@TheGroundedAviator]

@@breasthound They are just the type who have a chip on their shoulder. I see it in both ways and dislike both.

[@AthelstanEngland]

Not sexist at all. She’s jolly lucky to get such a fine chap.

[@noname-by3qz]

The title of this video sounds just like a song I heard... "Spent my last dollar on birth control and beer... Life was so much simpler when I was sober and queer!"

[@Monolith1984]

And in the end I did buy a house, but not on a bank manager's cheque!

[@jonathanwhite5640]

Good old ursary

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Thank you Bill.

[@ballshippin3809]

So this is what life was like for the boomer generation during their younger days? Lucky bunch

[@blackwoodrichmore4531]

100% accurate!.

[@MasterControl-MCP]

This is how the banking crisis started 😂

[@RealityCheck6T9]

A woman who cooks, cleans, laughs at my jokes and looks happy and pretty Am I supposed to see a downside to this?

[@serenityinside1]

No mention on wether she drops her drawers and dutifully gives it up or not. I presume she would 🤔

[@salvyv]

Depends what kind of value you place on sentience. I’m sure you’ll find a nice sex robot dome day.

[@tsopmocful1958]

Feminism tells us that all of that is worse than slavery, so now marriages and families are failing in the West.

[@desiguy995]

getting nostalgic

[@ajay999999]

The perfect woman where have they gone?

[@almightybunny3320]

They've taken husbands every one.

[@jakebond2294]

They were a myth.

[@ajay999999]

@@jakebond2294Are u James brother?

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@almightybunny3320 Long time passing. Old bean.

[@MM-vv8mt]

My wife said to me the other day, "You only hear what you want to hear!", and I said, "Why yes dear, I'd love another Old Fashioned."

[@paulsmith-ll9vg]

if this is how men behaved back in the time before the second world war, then i can see a woman`s point in wanting the vote and women`s liberation, and seeing sketches like this again can only remind me of when there was actually something worth watching on television, just how brilliant harry enfield is, and can only remind me that at least at the moment when i`m coming home from work at night and just want to have something to eat and turn the television on and relax, and possibly want to watch something worth watching, and there are times when i don`t always find something that i like.

[@Monolith1984]

I wish I could buy a house that fucking easily!

[@Steve-gc5nt]

Women were far happier in those days.

[@michaelmaterne]

Yes, thanks to their lovers.

[@carltrotter7622]

Reminds me of a Fred Astaire movie.

[@robertsweet5212]

A very high trust society!

[@fletcherhamilton3177]

'Wont you need some kind of security?' 'Oh, you're a good sort, aren't you?'

[@matthewcasey4795]

Was that Big Suze?

[@marcuswalters8093]

1:03 Anyone from London knows that a "villa on Hyde Park" is insanely fancy.

[@robertmoulton2656]

Yes, the good old days... Notice how the country has gone down the toilet since we let them drive & vote.

[@jacko74fisher70]

And don't be late or I shall be livid!! Hahahaha

[@diamondjoe100]

Don't be late or ill be livid 😂

[@davidofergals6947]

That woman was in two and a half men

[@gcooper642]

Wait, they should have got her to play the queen in The Crown!

[@---df5sr]

The good old days

[@trucksbychoice.6676]

And what would the lady want to drink!..... That aint no lady thats my wife.

[@pix046]

I’m a good sort so I’ll ask the bank to lend me a million and they’ll actually gift it to me.

[@MasterControl-MCP]

It’s this sort of trust that’s putting us into another financial crisis.

[@Tattlebot]

Ordinary people were equally complicit, signing for mortgages they knew they couldn't service. Everyone is corrupt.

[@McPilch]

Simpler AND BETTER.

[@cmasseylynch]

Jacog Rees Mogg loves this and laughs till he falls over.....i think.

[@AntonHu]

Rees Mogg would assume it was real. Why not, it's how he got his wife and house.

[@lordprotector3367]

As long as it's not floccinaucinihilipilification.

[@SSJfraz]

And yet, he has everything he could ever want.

[@Loonistrator]

"What with all thehse children eneneneh en so forth."

[@jakebond2294]

That's what Megan told Harry.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

Now we know why he styled his hair like a doormat.

[@warrick109]

well life is definitely a lot more complicated than it was 50 years ago that's for sure,

[@jessiepinkman7736]

0:22 this is Sophie Winkleman (Zoe on 2.5 men)

[@johnanthonycafe2993]

Cruel but fair - their lampooning of the privileged is better than the working classes. They over reach on ignorance but get snobbishness spot on. Tally Ho!

[@clivescott3932]

Since they never mention the working class it's hard to see how you can identify anything which is 'snobbish'. It sounds very much as if you are suffering from the politics of envy.

[@johnanthonycafe2993]

@@clivescott3932 Check out the white trash couple that win the lottery compared to the gentlemen’s club discussing if someone’s queer or ‘I saw you coming’. You’re obviously not familiar with their body of work produced in one of the most class conscious countries in the world.

[@RealityCheck6T9]

Shame they don't make women like that anymore. Frightful harpies these days.

[@MrMazhar8551]

RealityCheck6T9, right on, good chap. Those were the good old days

[@eddiecaplan1908]

Quite true sadly, my wife spends often ,seven or eight hours every day,just staring blankly through the window!, it has began to unnerve me somewhat, to the point, ive considered letting her in😀

[@mjames2117]

Terrible spelling error old chap don't you mean Herpes?

[@vimfuego8827]

Who you know not what you know !

[@Rogue_Leader]

Is that Big Suse?

[@michaeldillon3113]

Is that Paul Whitehouse or Alexander Armstrong ?