There's another one along the same lines. The husband returns, the wife tells here lover to hide in the closet. Some time later, the lights are off, the lover tries to get out of the closet, covering himself with the wife's fur coat. The husband wakes up, sees that, says "Who are you?" - "I'm a moth" -- "Why have got my wife's coat?" -- "I'll eat it at home"
Those darn closet and bathroom moths! They'd eat the shirt right off your back, given half a chance. That is, if the tax man hasn't already ripped it from your back first.
From the title, I was expecting this: Person-A: “Doctor, doctor, I think I’m a moth”. Person-B: “But I’m a dentist, not a doctor, why have you come to me”? Person-A: “Well your light was on”...
Is this politically incorrect? Two midgets went to a circus looking for a job. The ringmaster told them each to stand at opposite sides of the ring. Okay he says, when I crack my whip both of you tumble and somersault head over heels to your opposite sides, right? Instantly the whip cracked. The two midgets just stood where they were without moving ….. “What’s up?”the ringmaster asked them sternly. “We can’t tumble head over heels” the midgets replied. The ringmaster called out in surprise. “ whaaat!? What’s the sense of being midgets if you can’t tumble and do somersaults?! Mickey Miller.
@@jimmyramone2535 He's probably trying to make a point that it's moth caterpillars that eat cloth, not adult flying ones. It's doesn't make a ha'peth of difference in the context of the joke though.
Well if butter can fly I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the larvae of some species of moths can fly around eating the clothes of the unsuspecting.....
Ronnie Corbett quoted Ronnie Barker's sons as Wilkins and Perkins while Ronnie said they were Watkins and Perkins in "The Accountant Bore" sketch on here...
@@jgmediting7770 Because things are not all the same, and some are better than others. It's how nature and all of humanity works. It's why we're all here, and how you and I came to exist.
@@andybaldman but art and sport is entirely subjective as to what’s better. Yet people are desperate to rank things through the ages as if it means anything. One doesn’t need to be better than the other. They can both be great within their time, and beneficial.
I challenge all of the barry Cryer fans on this threaad to nake a single joke he wrote that genuinely made people laugh not a polite forced laugh or canned laughter or applause by actual real laughter he was as funny as a dose of syplilis it became tue norm fir celebrities to say him and Bob Monkhouse were hilarious but it's total bullshit some if their jokes were clever and well delivered but never ever funny
He was a great comic writer but I’m afraid I just couldn’t find Barry crier funny as a comic. The way he told jokes was as if he wanted to educate the audience on humour. rather than make them laugh.
I agree that you could anticipate the punchline a couple of lines or so before it came (and even then it a more succinct version of the punchline than maybe it should have been). I think we have to remember though that comedy, and to an extent all entertainment, is much faster paced now than it would have been in the early days of tv comedy, and that Barry honed his writing and performing craft back in those slower days and hence had a slower delivery than a younger comedian delivering the same material would have.
I saw him tell this joke on stage when I was a teenager. Brilliant then, brilliant now.
Are you fucking serious?
@@MrBonnie36 absolutely serious! Part of his "Two Old Farts In the Night" tour with the late great Willie Rushton.
Uncomplicated Genius
A man named Cryer who made so much laughter.
Now that's funny. Oh how we will miss Mr. Cryer. RIP fella.
People saying it's not funny, just because you don't understand it, now that's funny 😄
RIP Barry
There's another one along the same lines. The husband returns, the wife tells here lover to hide in the closet. Some time later, the lights are off, the lover tries to get out of the closet, covering himself with the wife's fur coat. The husband wakes up, sees that, says "Who are you?" - "I'm a moth" -- "Why have got my wife's coat?" -- "I'll eat it at home"
Much better than how he told it.
Crying with laughter nearly cacked me sen. RIP sir.
Your sen had a narrow escape then.
@@andyelliott8027 that retort made me laugh more than the actual joke
@@BD-yl5mh If he'd written that in English I'd never have been able to think of one.
Rip Mr Barry cryer legend
Genius
God bless you, King Barry
Those darn closet and bathroom moths! They'd eat the shirt right off your back, given half a chance. That is, if the tax man hasn't already ripped it from your back first.
Haha! Great stuff 🙂
Legend
Laughed out loud....
R.I.P BARRY CRYER
That was funny!
Damn, good joke
Jokes are written from the punchline backwards and this is a perfect example.
You are wrong.
Explanation, please, Roger as I didn't get the joke.
@@Isleofskye me neither and that's a first for me !
Exactly, my friend.
@@Isleofskye Moths eat clothes
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 loved that guy may he rest in peace
Where's this from?
From the title, I was expecting this:
Person-A: “Doctor, doctor, I think I’m a moth”.
Person-B: “But I’m a dentist, not a doctor, why have you come to me”?
Person-A: “Well your light was on”...
Norm Macdonald has a great looooong version of this, it gets a little dark before the punchline. I tell it all the time
Funny !
😂😂😂
Does anyone recognise the occasion or the pianist?
It's from a VHS tape.
Two Old Farts in the Night by Barry Cryer & Willie Rushton.
And Colin Sell on piano no less!
en deshabille, I don't know how to add the punctuation for the "e"s.
I dont get it.
Is this politically incorrect?
Two midgets went to a circus looking for a job. The ringmaster told them each to stand at opposite sides of the ring. Okay he says, when I crack my whip both of you tumble and somersault head over heels to your opposite sides, right? Instantly the whip cracked. The two midgets just stood where they were without moving ….. “What’s up?”the ringmaster asked them sternly.
“We can’t tumble head over heels” the midgets replied.
The ringmaster called out in surprise. “ whaaat!? What’s the sense of being midgets if you can’t tumble and do somersaults?!
Mickey Miller.
Perhaps I need to be British to understand .... can someone explain this joke to me?
The moths ate his clothes?
moths ate his clothes thats it
no you're just a bit slow
No
@@jimmyramone2535 He's probably trying to make a point that it's moth caterpillars that eat cloth, not adult flying ones.
It's doesn't make a ha'peth of difference in the context of the joke though.
Don't get it.
He was claiming the moth had eaten all his clothes. Might have been funny in the 1940s when people still worried about moths.
@@caspartrimmer540 Still don't get it, but thanks anyway! 😀
Although a funny image, moths do not eat people's clothes. The larvae of some species do, but they would not be flying around, of course.
But the protagonist in the story was not an entomologist , just a guy scrambling for an excuse ... so it fits perfectly into the storyline .
@@WyreForestBiker Now you're just presuming. Where's the fun in that? :-)
Mr Logic in the room😲
I know, but the joke was still funny.
Well if butter can fly I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the larvae of some species of moths can fly around eating the clothes of the unsuspecting.....
I....dont get it
Me neither..
@@Isleofskye He should've said 'clothes moths' and "The bastards" plural.
I thought it was going to be :
Guy 1 : "Have you ever smellt mothballs ?"
Guy 2 : "Yes."
Guy 1 : " How did you get it's legs apart ?"
He makes a mistake. He says 'she' goes into the bathroom, instead of he goes into the bathroom. Otherwise, great joke.
He was a lot better at writing jokes than telling them.
Ronnie Corbett quoted Ronnie Barker's sons as Wilkins and Perkins while Ronnie said they were Watkins and Perkins in "The Accountant Bore" sketch on here...
Not his best moment. He was a very funny man
Norm’s was better.
No, it's not
@@zapkvr 32 other people here disagree.
@@andybaldman why does one need to be judged better than the other?
@@jgmediting7770 Because things are not all the same, and some are better than others. It's how nature and all of humanity works. It's why we're all here, and how you and I came to exist.
@@andybaldman but art and sport is entirely subjective as to what’s better. Yet people are desperate to rank things through the ages as if it means anything. One doesn’t need to be better than the other. They can both be great within their time, and beneficial.
I challenge all of the barry Cryer fans on this threaad to nake a single joke he wrote that genuinely made people laugh not a polite forced laugh or canned laughter or applause by actual real laughter he was as funny as a dose of syplilis it became tue norm fir celebrities to say him and Bob Monkhouse were hilarious but it's total bullshit some if their jokes were clever and well delivered but never ever funny
I challenge you to use punctuation
@@davidransom643 meh I have better things to do than tell your brain when a sentence should end
@@alexmackenzie5171 sorry mate I’ll let you get back to commenting on old comedian’s videos
@@davidransom643 I'm not your mate, I think you're an annoying wanker. There you go punctuation and everything.
@@alexmackenzie5171 There should be a comma after ‘go’, galaxy brain
It would be funny if he was funny, how he told that joke was very poor.
He was a great comic writer but I’m afraid I just couldn’t find Barry crier funny as a comic. The way he told jokes was as if he wanted to educate the audience on humour. rather than make them laugh.
Bsrry Cryer wrote jokes for commedians for decades unfortunately none if them were even remotely funny
What?
@@ohshitnotanotherknob it's in plain English there's no need to ask what
Lovely man but not very funny
I like Barry Cryer, but this punchline was so predictable!
No it wasn't!
@@burlatsdemontaigne6147 I had no idea where this was going.
I agree that you could anticipate the punchline a couple of lines or so before it came (and even then it a more succinct version of the punchline than maybe it should have been). I think we have to remember though that comedy, and to an extent all entertainment, is much faster paced now than it would have been in the early days of tv comedy, and that Barry honed his writing and performing craft back in those slower days and hence had a slower delivery than a younger comedian delivering the same material would have.
what nonsense and what a waste of words
@@MrDannyDetail As Tommy Cooper said.
"I don't know why I'm laughing, I know what's coming next".
i thought he was meant to be funny
Funny as cancer
Moron!
Bloody hell, weakest punchline in the history of comedy.