My favourite outburst Chris had at the audience on the night I saw the show was: “Why can’t you be like the man in the third row from the front, whose had his head resting on his hand the whole time and hasn’t laughed once?!”
I read or heard somewhere that although the audience was instructed to react like it was a panto, the "Do you need a hand?" was a genuine adlib from an audience member.
@@DyslecticAttack Yes, that sort of thing happens. I remember reading that when Harry Secombe was rehearsing for a stage musical, he came down with laryngitis, so when he recovered, the producer recorded his singing so that if it happened again during the run of the show, he could mime his singing parts. Partway into the run, he came down with laryngitis again so at the start of the play they announced to the audience that he would be reciting his spoken lines but miming to a recording for the songs. Which was what he did, at first. By one of the later songs, Harry's sense of humour had got the better of him and he started hamming up by having a drink of water and stuffing a handkerchief into his mouth whilst still pretending to sing. The audience laughed so much that he did it every night until the end of the run! For years afterwards, people came up to him and said "I was at _____ Theatre the night you had laryngitis".....
I break down crying from laughter during the bottle scene. "No, I do not need a hand!" "Oh yes you d-" "NO I DON'T! SHUT UP, what is WRONG WITH YOU?! This is a SERIOUS PLAY! YES IT IS! You're RUINING IT! YES, YOU ARE!!!! Let me do it...." And the relief when he finally opens the bottle, only to find the other one is corked too. XD
Ironically, that was one of Captain Hook’s lines to the audience in the new Peter Pan tour 😅 everyone booed him at the start of act 2 and he said it, so similar context too I guess
The talent it takes to play a character playing a character who is attempting to play a serious character in a pretend serious show that is in actuality a farce while demonstrating the anger and frustration a director would feel about virtually everyone trying their hardest to derail the show is not small.
Henry Lewis made the perfect reaction of someone who instantly recognized he might have just single-handedly made a panto out of a traditional Christmas vignette
I went to see this at the Alexandra Palace in London awhile back. I'd already seen the BBC showing, but when it got to the poison bottle scene no one shouted anything. I remember thinking "Oh, here it comes, I love this bit. Wait, is no one actually going to say it? Am I going to have to say it?...I'm gonna say it." The actor playing Chris Bean yelled the question back at me, tore the stopper out with his teeth and screamed at me with it still held, then spat it on the ground. Honestly one of my proudest moments.
I saw the play at the Barrymore Theater in Broadway a few weeks ago in May. When this part came up. Chris targeted a little girl sitting at the front row and had her openly the Medicine bottle.
I saw this twice while this has been on Broadway and this scene with “where is Peter Pan” played out even more glorious in person. Second time I saw it, I was the first to shout out behind you and I could FEEL the death glare Chris gave me. But Shields and the entire cast were so wonderful to meet after the show. Truly humble and thankful for their fans
I remember when I saw this live when he was trying to open the bottle of poison and couldn't, he handed it to someone in the front row and said "can you help me with this?" They opened it and gave it back and he immediately went "boo you trued to poison Peter pan"😂
@@JavertRAI read an interview with Shields where he said he thought people only compared him to Cleese because Chris is superficially similar to Basil Fawlty. I think he was being modest - Shields absolutely nails the type of silly character who doesn’t KNOW he’s being silly that Cleese plays so well.
It's not uncommon to catch the cast holding back laughs, particularly in The Goes Wrong Show, but Jonathan Sayer (Dennis) is probably the worst for it. He's also one of the company directors and writes a lot for them. It's clear they all love what they do and have a great time with it though.
@@liberty1212 I think so 😆 Out of the Goes Wrong cast he seems to be one of the hardest ones to break, but I delight in the moments that he does 😆 One of my faves is in The Most Lamentable... episode where he and Dave Herne (Max) realise they are related and have alternating lines; Dave just gets more ridiculous and Henry Shields has no choice but to copy him. Dave is creased with laughter whilst Shields is fighting himself to get through the scene nor to burst out laughing mingled with mild annoyance (the take that made it to air was their third one, and most ridiculous).
@@lauraway706 there was also the one where max's blood tubing in a trial to watch finally works and sprays chris with a torrent of red liquid. at the start of the spray henry shields is visibly laughing as he is drenched, and you can also watch him fight to bring the enraged look he has as he wipes his eyes at the end. he manages it though!! i loved a trial to watch and the most lamentable, my favourite episodes actually!
@@heatherrockwell9012Chris WOULD give himself the best costume, wouldn’t he? (Compare that to his Mr. Darling costume, which looks like a cheap tux rental and uses the wrong kind of tie to boot.)
When I went to see this cris got me to open the poison bottle for him, and I did and then they blamed me for killing Peter Pan. I cried at the time but it was really funny looking back at it 😂
Peter Pan Goes Wrong is one of my favourites of all times because this performance made me laugh so much that I couldn't control myself while trying to watch the show😄😆😂.
Dave Hearn as Vimes, Henry Lewis as Colon, Jonathan Sayer as Nobby, Nancy Zamit as Lady Sybil, Greg Tannahill as Carrot, and Henry Shields would have to be Vetenari?
I am genuinely so grateful I stumbled upon this amazing show on CZcams a few years back. I don't have the BBC and had never heard of this show or company, but I somehow came upon it. I hadn't laughed that hard in ages. I have really bad depression and not much even makes me smile these days, let alone laugh. This and The Goes Wrong Show are legit some of my favorite things and rarely fail to make me laugh, even when nothing else does. Don't know what I'd do without it.
I got to see this live out in LA after watching the pro-shoot enough to almost have it memorized. I laughed so hard during this scene because it went so wrong and it was clear that it wasn't "Scripted Wrong". Captain Hook got so sick of the audience's persistence that he eventually gave the bottle to a young girl near the front and had her open it. Then, later, when Pan asks Tinkerbell who would try to poison him, she just slowly pointed to the girl (she could only have been around 10 years old). It was one of the best parts of the show. There was also a line thrown in from Hook (may have been scripted) when he said something along the lines of "You wanted your independence, this is what it looks like!" Some of the hardest I have ever laughed at PPGW.
I can’t to see this on Broadway. The New Yorkers may not be used to Pantos (I don’t think they have even seen one in their life), but I am going to be yelling “Oh No it Isn’t!” “Oh Yes It is!” And “He’s Behind You!” With all my might, even if I am the only one doing it! 😂
When I saw it in April on Broadway, they did do the "He's behind you" and Chris shouted "You're supposed to let me find him organically!" And with the bottle bit, one woman screamed "Just bite it off!" and he just said "Shut up!"; that happened twice and the audience laughed both times
Saw this in LA with Neil Patrick Harris a while back, got to the part when someone says "need a hand" and having watched the show before I knew it was my time to shine. I took a deep breath in, and SOMEONE SAID IT BEFORE ME.
I have been binging this channel for the past 30 minutes. I have watched this specific video 13 times. Thank you, kind sir, for giving me something to do whilst procrastinating mine studying for the ACT.
I have to admit to being "that guy" when I went to see The Play That Goes Wrong, and when Chris said that we should all be quiet and stop laughing because "this is a serious play, it's not a pantomime" I yelled out "Oh yes it is!"
And his disdain for audience participation would rear its head again in 'The Lodge' after he tells the audience to shut up after awwing at his outburst at Dennis.
I wonder if one of those kids in the audience had this version of a "panto" be their first ever live play, and subsequently be very confused in future theatre productions.
This is a good one czcams.com/video/oFYcdNKwXvc/video.html but there are loads if u look, try searching full Pantomimes but try look for good ones and not amateur school plays 😉 👍🏻
@@elsie8757 I did notice that. And, Peter Pan is traditionally played by a woman (or at least he is in the Broadway Musical version, don't know about the straight play). But neither of them is the top-banana comic of the show, as is the Dame typically. Instead, Hook is - although a big part of the gag in this case is that he doesn't intend to be funny, or want to, and becomes increasingly annoyed when people laugh, shout lines, and insist on treating his "serious play" as a panto.
1:59 If Chris said, “This is not Dora the Explorer!” and then the whole audience yelled, “Oh yes it is!” then he yelled back, “Oh no it isn’t!” and then the entire audience goes, “Oh yes it is!” I would have lost it with the laughing.
When I saw the regular play that goes wrong, there was a bit where Chris can’t find a book under the chair and he gets so angry and starts ranting about panto
My favourite outburst Chris had at the audience on the night I saw the show was:
“Why can’t you be like the man in the third row from the front, whose had his head resting on his hand the whole time and hasn’t laughed once?!”
What episode was this one
@@joshuareep2677 it wasn't in an episode, it was a live show
@@hotelmario510 ohhh ok thank you
Oof 😂
I think I saw that one
I read or heard somewhere that although the audience was instructed to react like it was a panto, the "Do you need a hand?" was a genuine adlib from an audience member.
That's very cool! If it was a genuine adlib, that audience member deserves a standing ovation :D
No, I don't think it is. Went to see a local version live a year or two ago, and it happened at the exact same time. Still hilarious.
@@gamernerddownunder Oh well haha, great script writing then!
@@gamernerddownunder It could be a genuine adlib that they then incorporated into the script.
@@DyslecticAttack Yes, that sort of thing happens.
I remember reading that when Harry Secombe was rehearsing for a stage musical, he came down with laryngitis, so when he recovered, the producer recorded his singing so that if it happened again during the run of the show, he could mime his singing parts.
Partway into the run, he came down with laryngitis again so at the start of the play they announced to the audience that he would be reciting his spoken lines but miming to a recording for the songs. Which was what he did, at first. By one of the later songs, Harry's sense of humour had got the better of him and he started hamming up by having a drink of water and stuffing a handkerchief into his mouth whilst still pretending to sing. The audience laughed so much that he did it every night until the end of the run!
For years afterwards, people came up to him and said "I was at _____ Theatre the night you had laryngitis".....
I break down crying from laughter during the bottle scene.
"No, I do not need a hand!"
"Oh yes you d-"
"NO I DON'T! SHUT UP, what is WRONG WITH YOU?! This is a SERIOUS PLAY! YES IT IS! You're RUINING IT! YES, YOU ARE!!!! Let me do it...." And the relief when he finally opens the bottle, only to find the other one is corked too. XD
I love how much Chris hates audiences
He’s wishing that bottle had actual licquer in it
He's the new John Cleese
Henry the person who plays Chris nails the role
"Oh, grow up!"
That has got to be the most apropos thing Hook has said in a Peter Pan show.
Ironically, that was one of Captain Hook’s lines to the audience in the new Peter Pan tour 😅 everyone booed him at the start of act 2 and he said it, so similar context too I guess
The talent it takes to play a character playing a character who is attempting to play a serious character in a pretend serious show that is in actuality a farce while demonstrating the anger and frustration a director would feel about virtually everyone trying their hardest to derail the show is not small.
Well anything sounds really difficult when you describe it like that
"I KNOW! I KNOW! I DIRECTED THE SHOW. I TOLD HIM TO GO THERE. YOU HAVE TO LET ME FIND HIM."
Left me in stitches.
“Idiots!”
Where is pe- oh there he is.
Henry Lewis made the perfect reaction of someone who instantly recognized he might have just single-handedly made a panto out of a traditional Christmas vignette
henry shields
@@rhiannamorgan136 he means henry lewis, at 0:29 after the joke in the intro about it being a panto as well
@@evilkk3029 Or his reaction to the first "Oh no, it isn't!" shout from the audaince.
I went to see this at the Alexandra Palace in London awhile back. I'd already seen the BBC showing, but when it got to the poison bottle scene no one shouted anything. I remember thinking "Oh, here it comes, I love this bit. Wait, is no one actually going to say it? Am I going to have to say it?...I'm gonna say it." The actor playing Chris Bean yelled the question back at me, tore the stopper out with his teeth and screamed at me with it still held, then spat it on the ground. Honestly one of my proudest moments.
wait which line did you say?
@@jaym5112 "D'you need a hand?"
@@KnightOfAwesometon Oh awesome! I totally thought it was a plant too
Pretty much my experience seeing The Play That Goes Wrong off-Broadway when we got to the ledger scene.
I saw the play at the Barrymore Theater in Broadway a few weeks ago in May. When this part came up. Chris targeted a little girl sitting at the front row and had her openly the Medicine bottle.
I love Chris cracking his voice when he says "it's not very nice, isn't it", and when Dennis start laughing after getting yelled at
I saw this twice while this has been on Broadway and this scene with “where is Peter Pan” played out even more glorious in person. Second time I saw it, I was the first to shout out behind you and I could FEEL the death glare Chris gave me. But Shields and the entire cast were so wonderful to meet after the show. Truly humble and thankful for their fans
Yep also saw it on Broadway. It was weird it wasn't a panto it a family show or something like that
I remember when I saw this live when he was trying to open the bottle of poison and couldn't, he handed it to someone in the front row and said "can you help me with this?" They opened it and gave it back and he immediately went "boo you trued to poison Peter pan"😂
I do not want to be overcomplementary, but he has some John Cleese voice going on.
Right?????? He looks (and sometimes acts) like a younger clone of him
The way he shouts or says shut up is totally Cleese-like
I was thinking the same damn thing!
I am so glad I am not the only one who saw John cleese here!
I think it's been said by a lot of people, so hopefully Henry Shields does appreciate the compliment (:
@@JavertRAI read an interview with Shields where he said he thought people only compared him to Cleese because Chris is superficially similar to Basil Fawlty. I think he was being modest - Shields absolutely nails the type of silly character who doesn’t KNOW he’s being silly that Cleese plays so well.
1:14 love how he's trying to stifle a laugh 😂
And totally failing at it.
It's not uncommon to catch the cast holding back laughs, particularly in The Goes Wrong Show, but Jonathan Sayer (Dennis) is probably the worst for it. He's also one of the company directors and writes a lot for them.
It's clear they all love what they do and have a great time with it though.
2:33 is that Henry shields trying to stifle a laugh too 😂
@@liberty1212 I think so 😆 Out of the Goes Wrong cast he seems to be one of the hardest ones to break, but I delight in the moments that he does 😆 One of my faves is in The Most Lamentable... episode where he and Dave Herne (Max) realise they are related and have alternating lines; Dave just gets more ridiculous and Henry Shields has no choice but to copy him. Dave is creased with laughter whilst Shields is fighting himself to get through the scene nor to burst out laughing mingled with mild annoyance (the take that made it to air was their third one, and most ridiculous).
@@lauraway706 there was also the one where max's blood tubing in a trial to watch finally works and sprays chris with a torrent of red liquid. at the start of the spray henry shields is visibly laughing as he is drenched, and you can also watch him fight to bring the enraged look he has as he wipes his eyes at the end. he manages it though!! i loved a trial to watch and the most lamentable, my favourite episodes actually!
Every day we come closer to Chris actually murdering someone.
My son yelled out “do you need a hand” at todays 1pm show in Los Angeles we had no idea this was a thing. What a great time
I legit love that Captain Hook costume. Seriously, that lace looks really expensive
Right? Every costume in the show is terrible but that one; it’s lovely.
@@heatherrockwell9012Chris WOULD give himself the best costume, wouldn’t he? (Compare that to his Mr. Darling costume, which looks like a cheap tux rental and uses the wrong kind of tie to boot.)
Love Robert’s smile when the audience first responds. Like, “Oh, I did that. ;) “
"a cab"
"oh no it isn't"
"YES IT IS! IT IS! I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS BUT IT IS!"
my fav lines
When I went to see this cris got me to open the poison bottle for him, and I did and then they blamed me for killing Peter Pan. I cried at the time but it was really funny looking back at it 😂
Peter Pan Goes Wrong is one of my favourites of all times because this performance made me laugh so much that I couldn't control myself while trying to watch the show😄😆😂.
You know, I imagine if Chris was tricked into doing a production of the Rocky Horror Show, we'd never hear the end of it.
They would be a perfect cast for Sir Terry Pratchett's Watch.
Dave Hearn as Vimes, Henry Lewis as Colon, Jonathan Sayer as Nobby, Nancy Zamit as Lady Sybil, Greg Tannahill as Carrot, and Henry Shields would have to be Vetenari?
@@abnunga Dave would be Carrot, Greg would be Vimes.
Bryony would be fantastic as Angua, and Charlie as Sally!
1:24 "Booooooo." 1:26 "Oh grow up!"
I am genuinely so grateful I stumbled upon this amazing show on CZcams a few years back. I don't have the BBC and had never heard of this show or company, but I somehow came upon it. I hadn't laughed that hard in ages. I have really bad depression and not much even makes me smile these days, let alone laugh. This and The Goes Wrong Show are legit some of my favorite things and rarely fail to make me laugh, even when nothing else does. Don't know what I'd do without it.
Peace to you. I’m glad you found some laughter. Depression is terrible. I hope you find healing … and more laughter.
I got to see this live out in LA after watching the pro-shoot enough to almost have it memorized. I laughed so hard during this scene because it went so wrong and it was clear that it wasn't "Scripted Wrong". Captain Hook got so sick of the audience's persistence that he eventually gave the bottle to a young girl near the front and had her open it. Then, later, when Pan asks Tinkerbell who would try to poison him, she just slowly pointed to the girl (she could only have been around 10 years old). It was one of the best parts of the show. There was also a line thrown in from Hook (may have been scripted) when he said something along the lines of "You wanted your independence, this is what it looks like!" Some of the hardest I have ever laughed at PPGW.
Props to some in the audience with the random adlibs, they were great :') this is how you do panto by not doing a panto...but doing a panto lol
@0:27, it looks like the parrot is saying “Oh No it isn’t.” 🤣
Got to see this live today and Shields is just magnificent live. Funniest part of an amazing show.
If they ever decide to remake Fawlty Towers - I hope they don't - but if they do please cast this guy as Basil...
This feels like me trying to teach
On one hand - i know it's all a show
On the other - poor Chris, man needs a hug
Love the look on Roberts face when the audience starts talking
I can’t to see this on Broadway. The New Yorkers may not be used to Pantos (I don’t think they have even seen one in their life), but I am going to be yelling “Oh No it Isn’t!” “Oh Yes It is!” And “He’s Behind You!” With all my might, even if I am the only one doing it! 😂
When I saw it in April on Broadway, they did do the "He's behind you" and Chris shouted "You're supposed to let me find him organically!"
And with the bottle bit, one woman screamed "Just bite it off!" and he just said "Shut up!"; that happened twice and the audience laughed both times
Saw this in LA with Neil Patrick Harris a while back, got to the part when someone says "need a hand" and having watched the show before I knew it was my time to shine. I took a deep breath in, and SOMEONE SAID IT BEFORE ME.
I have been binging this channel for the past 30 minutes. I have watched this specific video 13 times.
Thank you, kind sir, for giving me something to do whilst procrastinating mine studying for the ACT.
Hahaha! Glad you're enjoying man. Good luck on the ACTs, those are brutal.
Is it just me or Chris just acts like John Cleese ?
That «shaddap!!» did have a certain cleese-ish ring to it XD
He said one of his influences was Badil Fawlty
Best pantomime ever
I have a feeling this “Oh no it isn’t” gag by the audience member wasn’t planned by Cornley
or even the mischief company
This show is hilarious. The first time I saw it I just couldn't stop laughing. The funniest show I've seen in years
great acting i loved it.
This is just....gold!!! Love it!
I have to admit to being "that guy" when I went to see The Play That Goes Wrong, and when Chris said that we should all be quiet and stop laughing because "this is a serious play, it's not a pantomime" I yelled out "Oh yes it is!"
I love how most of the other characters are super fine with it being a pantomime but they are trying to do Chris vision at first
That first part 'oh no it isn't' made me laugh cause I was remembering some Punch and Judy shows I've seen online.
I really hope 'do you need a hand' wasn't scripted
The actors said that was genuinely ad-libbed. So not in the script!
These guys have got to work with the Muppets
Not even Captain Hook could ignore the reaction
Pure genius!!!
"Omg he's genuinely loosening it,"
Funny fact: at 2:06 someone said "Do you need a hand"? was not in the script.
*Beep Beep*
"A cab"
"OH no it i-"
"Yes it is!"
I half expected him to yell at the audience for laughing at a handicapped man
"It's not nice is it? 😢"
OH NO THEY DIDN'T!!!!
OH YES they did!
And his disdain for audience participation would rear its head again in 'The Lodge' after he tells the audience to shut up after awwing at his outburst at Dennis.
GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT
0:30 0:31 0:32 0:32 0:33 0:34 just Henry’s laugh and smile is everything 😂😂
1:10 🚕 A cab!
Oh, no, it isn't.
Yes, it is! Yes, it is! I don't know why it is, but it is!
Whoever’s playing Hook is absolutely hysterical, sells the role completely
You mean the actor or the actor's actor
Absolutely brilliant. Any idea where one can obtain the script/rights to put this on pleasE?
I saw this live, it was so funny
This is some next level panto right there. I'd really go to watch this.
OH NO IT ISN’T
@@jackguerre OH YES IT IS!
The fact i watched this in school was so funny 😂
can someone please tell me how to find this whole play? this is good
I gotta act as chris in a few weeks. wish me luck pals
This was shown to us in my English class.
the O GROW UP is comic gold
I wonder if one of those kids in the audience had this version of a "panto" be their first ever live play, and subsequently be very confused in future theatre productions.
Ah, revenge is a grand thing!
Oh no it isnt!
@@rlacksgh9673 yes it is
My whole childhood.
I would love if they came to Australia
IT'S NOT A PANTOMINE
OH YES IT IS !!
@@scotsmen21 OH NO IT ISN'T!!!
@@gracewenzel OH YES IT IS!
@@arkadye SHUT UP!!!!
@@TheRealConcertKing BOO!!
Now that's funny, and I know funny when I see's it.
where can you see that BTS at the beginning of the video
i'm not really familiar with pantos as I'm not from the UK, do you know of any that are on CZcams that I could watch?
This is a good one czcams.com/video/oFYcdNKwXvc/video.html but there are loads if u look, try searching full Pantomimes but try look for good ones and not amateur school plays 😉 👍🏻
There are a couple of pantomimes from ITV- Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin and Dick Whittington.
I'm weeping. (and weeing)
1:35: *I guess some of the audience were actually people who lost their way to the live recording of “Dora the Explorer”* 😂
panto gon rong
Basil Fawlty at his finest lol 😂
He reminds me a lot of John Cleese
1:23
Was that a Monty Python reference?
Just now realizing "Oh no it isn't/Oh yes it is," is the original "That's what she said."
You have to do all right to do all wrong.
Oh no it isn't
Alternate title: Dora the Explorer becomes self-aware.
Chris wouldn’t be impressed😢
its a good thing that the Croc wasn't around or he would have had Captain Hook for his tea
Snap snap
If this is a panto, where is the Dame?
They kinda have a reverse dame, with Annie playing one of the male pirates xD
@@elsie8757 I did notice that.
And, Peter Pan is traditionally played by a woman (or at least he is in the Broadway Musical version, don't know about the straight play). But neither of them is the top-banana comic of the show, as is the Dame typically. Instead, Hook is - although a big part of the gag in this case is that he doesn't intend to be funny, or want to, and becomes increasingly annoyed when people laugh, shout lines, and insist on treating his "serious play" as a panto.
@@Baribrotzer I guess _that's_ why there's no dame, because Chris is insistent that it isn't a panto xP
@@elsie8757 Yes it is.....
.....etc.
@@Baribrotzer OH NO IT ISNT!
Language, Hooky, Language 😆2:01, 2:48
1:59 If Chris said, “This is not Dora the Explorer!” and then the whole audience yelled, “Oh yes it is!” then he yelled back, “Oh no it isn’t!” and then the entire audience goes, “Oh yes it is!” I would have lost it with the laughing.
How would that fit
When I saw the regular play that goes wrong, there was a bit where Chris can’t find a book under the chair and he gets so angry and starts ranting about panto