American Reacts HARRY ENFIELD The Scousers Compilation REACTION
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American King Boomer's Reaction to Harry Enfield's portrayal of Scousers from Liverpool in this stereotype British Comedy. ENJOY!
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It’s partly sort of a parody of a sitcom of the time called Bread (about a Liverpool family) and a soap called Brookside.
@beverleyrankin3482 Those were great tv days, I loved both of those programmes
Its a parody of brookside
Watch out Terry , he’s got a gun ! 😂😂
Got to get up, got to get out , grab the world by the throat and shout
Buy it sell it ,the games getting out
I’m a scouser, it’s a great comedy sketch by Harry Enfield,
It featured a set of stereotyped Liverpudlian characters or Scousers, "Ga'", "Ba'" and "Te'" (Gary, Barry and Terry) played by Gary Bleasdale, Harry Enfield, Joe McGann, and Mark Moraghan. The original inspiration for the Scousers sketches were Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan, two characters from the Channel 4, soap opera Brookside, set in Liverpool. Bleasdale, McGann and Moraghan are actually from Liverpool. Bleasdale actually appeared in Brookside in 1995 as a character called Donnelly.
The Scousers were usually depicted with Kevin Keegan bubble perm hairstyles that were popular in late 70’s & 80’s,and bushy moustaches, wearing shell suits, usually top designer ones that Scousers got on their football travels in Europe ,
and speaking in exaggerated Scouse accents. Common catch phrases they came up included "Eh? Eh? Eh?" "Dey do dough don't dey dough" ("They do though, don't they though").
"Calm Down!"
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Most sketches saw two of the trio develop an argument, with the third member stepping in to break up the argument (and frequently finding himself pulled into another disagreement). Whenever a potential problem or dispute arose, this would result in The Scousers repeating to each other their most famous catch phrase:
" Eh! Eh! Alright! Alright! Calm down! Calm down!"
This catch phrase was Bleasdale's input as he changed the scripted original, which was "Break it up 'ey, come on, break it up", during the first rehearsal. McGann brought "Dey do dough, don't dey dough" to the sketches. The characters had allegiances to the city's football teams with "Ga'" being an Everton fan while "Ba'" & "Te'" were Liverpool fans. This leads to even more disagreement. During the holiday in Spain, Ga wears a Liverpool football shirt showing their fluid support.
But tho I didn’t like brookside I did love Harry Enfields piss take
When the Dalai Llama visited Liverpool, he was reportedly impressed that the locals had distilled the wisdom of centuries of Buddhism into four words; "Calm down! Calm down"
This is the caricature image of Scousers from the 1980s being a bubble perm, a moustache and a shellsuit. It was based mostly on 2 characters from soap opera Brookside, Barry and Terry, but as with all caricatures while it was an exaggeration of reality it was also true to some extent.
And they got it from trying to look like that thug Graeme Souness. A whole city of them. It was awful.
@@Jason.King.at.your.serviceshush!
@@Jason.King.at.your.service And Terry McDermott 🤣
@@sandrahughes8645 Allright, calm down, calm down!
Watch boys from the black stuff
It's a parody of an 80's soap opera set in Liverpool called brookside. Half the cast (and most of the Liverpool football team at the time) had the tash/perm combo. 😂
Also the rest of the UK not just Liverpool, it was fashion at the time. Liverpool got picked on just because of the characters from Brookside
And Bread!
No one had curly hair in bread.
@@markscott4420calm Down Pal .
And half of the cast were from Manchester!
The Scouse stereotype from the 80's and 90's is one of the men wearing shell suits with badly permed hair who flip at the slightest slight. As I said it's a stereotype but still continues to this day.
I mean it's a stereotype but....if you walked around Liverpool in 80s/90s you'd absolutely see a LOT of men in bright shell suits with perms 😅
What continues to this day ? You starting or something?
Aright, aright, CALM down, like 😂@@mrjinks5641
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@@mrjinks5641calm down calm down whats all this about eh eh eh
Do you not remember the two guys Barry the Baptist hired to steal the guns in, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? They were Scousers. Remember what one of them said about how much he'd paid to have his hair done? (in a typically Scouse style perm) . And then gets it shaved by a shotgun.
One of my favourite Barry lines, "Fucken Norven monkeys".
Im from Liverpool and its all true. Lmao
Eh.......calm down....alright? :D
Don't tell Me it's true 😅
Ay Ay Ay @@mdhazeldine
lowest crime rate? the amount of hubcaps i've lost going to away matches in the 90's.
luckily i paid the kids in the car park to looouuk after my car, otherwise i would have lost my wheels too. lol.
@@xFFSx🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
The reason the Old Gits are in the hospital sketch is that Harry Enfield often does mass crossover sketches with multiple characters in one location like the airport, a retirement home, a supermarket opening etc
A lot of the characters are a satire of the TV series 'Brookside' which ran in the 80's & 90's and was based in Liverpool
Joe McGann (Barry) and Gary Bleasdale (Gary) are both genuine scousers. McGann, who has three acting brothers including former Doctor Who Paul, was replaced by another scouser, Mark Moraghan in Harry Enfield and Chums sketches. The man in the pub/first Doctor in the hospital sketch is writer Charlie Higson who starred in The Fast Show with Paul Whitehouse. The kid with the saucepan on his head is "Little Brother", the original version of Kevin the teenager.
Stephen McGann.... most yummy. 😍
Friendly low crime area 🤣🤣 someone is having you on
😂
Hey hey, dey do dough don't dey dough?
To be fair what was actually said was it's often voted the friendliest city, and has less crime than other big cities.
No mention of a low crime area, no such city or medium sized town in the UK.
@@jimb9063 only coz they dont bother reporting it
[Laughs in Manc]
Haha
To be fair this was representative of scouser culture in the 80s/90s...they've since evolved...they no longer wear tracksuits as much..
Eastern european roma have taken over the mantle for the dress sense, they have yet to discover the perm.
I hope nobody gives them that memo - we do NOT need a return of the hideous perm lol@@pauldurkee4764
They still wear trackies but they're lacoste, nike, adidas, north face etc. and not ugly shellsuits
@@Shagyamuma vast improvement
The hairstyle was reminiscent of Kevin Keegan's hairstyle whilst at Anfield (home of Liverpool FC)
And Souness
You can add Alan Kennedy, Craig Johnston, Terry McDermot, and almost forgot Phil Thompson.
And at least half a dozen others.
Spot on lol
Kevin didn't have the Tash, but Graham Souness had the perm and tash.
The tracksuit ( or shell suit ) came from us Scousers in the 1980’s - because we had massive success with our football teams in European competitions , we got to travel a lot in Europe - and we came back with the latest sports gear before the rest of the UK. For some other reason , permed hair and moustaches were also a big thing in Liverpool :-)
Have you ever seen the state of the Liverpool players in the 70s and 80s? The perms and taches are 100% accurate, the perm stereotype even gets played for laughs in Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels. BTW, you guys really should have paid for some of the sports gear you brought back from the Continent...
@@darthwiizius 🤣 fair comment - there was a lot of Sergio Tacchini and other brands “liberated” from European outlets. Yes , the hair and moustaches were epic , see Souness,Keegan,Mcdermot etc
@@ScowlerJase
Them were the days (that we won bugger all) you lot won bloody everything. Between the mullets and perms and super fluffy side burns, them were the days.
youse didnt in 79 especially or 80 when we tipped youse out of the European Cup ... allright lah 😃😃😃
@@ScowlerJase
BTW, since you made this comment I popped into my town centre. There's a shop in it with some very cool Sergio Tacchini trainers in white. I'm tempted, but I already bought 2 pairs of shoes this week. I can't justify a 3rd pair, but man they're cooler than school, they're almost as cool as my 1 stars in leather. 🤔. Should I buy them or acquire them, erm, "Scouse style"?
I forgot just how funny this was. The way they segue from one fight into another, in like a rotation system, over and over. Never appreciated just how well they acted this out as a trio. Imagine watching them do this live in the studio. I'd be creased,
The dogs been arrested for nicking cars 🤣Thats 80's 90's Liverpool
There was a really funny sketch that I haven't been able to find on CZcams. It's one where the Scousers go on a trip to "That London". Anyway they get absolutely hammered as you'd expect and Gary with his beer goggles working full strength goes back to this woman's place for a night of unbridled passion. It's his face the next morning that's the real killer when he realised that he'd actually picked up a man in drag.
He sat in the bus all the way back to Liverpool with the same stunned expression on his face without saying a word. 😂
I've called it "that London" ever since
@@susanmarch1661
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Watch: the scousers go to London..
🤣🤣🤣👌❤️
There are also elements of the character Yosser Hughes (the brilliant Bernard Hill) in Alan Bleasdale's superb Boys From The Blackstuff, although the comedy in that is much, much darker.
Gis' a job!🤣
@@carlhartwell7978I can do dat
He went on to drive the Titanic if I remember rightly. We give him a job and he messed it up.
@@jeffnorwood-brown8407 Yeah, some of the headlines were shocking,
_'Titanic's Maiden Voyage, A Bit Of A Mess!'_
They are based on Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan two characters from an old soap called Brookside set in Liverpool. The hair is based on Kevin Keegan (old Liverpool footballer) who had bubble perm.
I love Harry's scouse piss take. It's brilliant!
You definitely wanna see the "I saw you coming" sketches of Harry Enfield, freaking hilarious
I've suggested that many times. He did one of them, but it wasn't the best one to start with so I think he just found it a bit confusing and didn't try any others. Bit of a shame. It's probably also more funny if you know about the posh wives/mums of London, so maybe it doesn't translate to Florida quite so much.
Modern wank.
I 3rd this
@@mdhazeldine
I always think of a shoe shop down the Kings Road when I see those sketches, it's called: "R. Soles".
@@darthwiizius Brilliant name!
Mike and Jimmy have joined the army. After a month mikes writing home, Mike, how do you spell worrel? Jimmy, what are you writing? Mike, dear mum can you send us a pair of boots worrel fit us? Jimmy, no soft arse, it’s darrel fit us.
It's not Karate , It's the Merseyside variation of Ecky Thump, a traditional Lancashire martial art. See also 'Eh,Eh,Eh' a mantra used to signify the possible onset of violence , the correct response when trying to difuse the situation is of course " Carl down , calm down "
Ecky Thump is a declining martial art as Black puddings, used as the weapon of choice, are no longer sold in supermarkets in their sausage form but sliced and pre packed.
@@keegan773 You need to find an E.T. licenced butcher to get the real thing.
100% accurate at the time. ‘Kappa’ tracksuits to be precise.
You got Aintree right. "Mersey" is pronounced something like "mercy" but with a Z instead of a C
If you're at all interested in the origin of the term "scouser" itself, it is related to a centuries old, simple and cheap to make recipe for meat stew, which itself was originally developed in the Royal Navy. The bare minimum recipe uses the most common forms of long term food stores aboard ships, which was some kind of dried and salted meat (usually beef or pork), hard tack or ships biscuit (very hard unleavened wheat flour biscuits, with variable proportions of weevils depending on age and storage conditions), and onions.
The meat would be cut into small chunks and any fat carefully trimmed out to use for rendering and frying the onions - alternatively the onions would be fried in butter if it was available. Then the chopped meat would be added, along with enough water to re-hydrate it, and simmered slowly until the chunks of meat were soft enough to chew without breaking your teeth. The hard tack biscuits would be smashed into crumbs, soaked with water, added to the stew and simmered enough to soften it.
This bare minimum, basic recipe was known as "lobscouse" on Royal Navy ships and cooked at a large enough scale to feed the crew. Sooner or later the name got shorthanded to "scouse", and crew would take their knowledge of how to make it home with them when discharged from the navy or on shore leave.
Liverpool was an important west coast port for the Royal Navy for centuries, so the recipe would become popular in that area. It was versatile too, since almost any meat could be used (whether fresh or dried), any sort of bread or even potatoes could be used instead of ships biscuits, and it could be bulked out with whatever vegetables were cheaply available for feeding the maximum number of people at minimal cost.
So this "lobscouse" or "scouse" would become a traditional staple meal in Liverpool and surrounding areas. People who regularly ate it would sooner or later become known as "scouse eaters", which itself was eventually shorthanded to the term "scouser", which persists to this day.
For the hair - google Graham Souness or Kevin Keegan - to Liverpool footballers.
Phil Thompson, Phil Neal and Terry Mcdermott ,all five players who ironically were not from the city of Liverpool. 😮
This is a very funny stereotype from the 80's. Liverpool/Merseyside is a very friendly place. If you ever visit the UK, visit Liverpool city center for a pint, you'll have the best night of your life!! I guarantee it!! 😂
Definitely! If there is anything dyed into the wool of Scousers it's the ability to take the p!ss out of ourselves! 😊
Liverpool Belfast and Glasgow are the terrible triplets The 3 best cities in islands
My boss was scouse and the pot noodle hair is still a staple today 😂
I love these
Never heard it described as 'pot noodle' hair before 😂 love it
Pot noodle hair😂.
That hair and moustache just reminds me of my dad when I was a kid.. Was all the rage back then.
they really did
My family's scouse/Irish. This is just typical how we talk to family. We're not posh. Proper good craic when you're together!
As a scouser I found it hilarious! You have to be able to laugh at yourselves. only problem was Harry Enfields 'accent'.p.s. Liverpool had the top karate clubs in Europe.
Harry Enfield, genius.
I'm from Yorkshire and this is a VERY accurate depiction of scousers.
may be 40 years ago, they have evolved somewhat
God, this takes me back! We used to have fake arguments at school so that someone would come between us going "a'riggh, a'right, calm down calm down" hilarious.
Track suit (shell suits specifically) were all the rage in the 90's
You're right about the hairstyles. Take a look at the Liverpool FC team photo's and others, from the mid seventies to mid eighties. I think you can buy what they still call, Kevin Keegan wigs to this day? BTW, that style at the time was popular with footballers all over Europe, especially in Germany. Probably also influence by Kevin Keegan as he was playing over there at the time.
The hair? I always assumed it was Kevin Keegan's fault...perhaps I'm wrong..
Hale and Pace also did a great song about Scousers literally called “The Scouser Song” which was they filmed in Liverpool
I'm from Liverpool and love that stereotype. Yes it's from a certain time but it's still around ( without the perm ! )
Permed hair and shell suits were the style that spread across the whole of the UK, back in the day.
Brookside in the 80s had a character called Terry and he looked like that lol. The shellsuit was just a thing that got tagged to a scouser.
😂😂Liverpool has less crime 😂okay
Crime in Liverpool is very low compared to most UK cities
@snick260 I didn't say it's the worst city in England, its not the most innocent though either ie Poor little james bulger murder😔, Little Rhys the 10 year old boy was shot riding his bike , then little olivia pratt Korbel in her " own" home 😮😢 . Lots of drug crime in Liverpool, all cities but sorry Liverpool not all that .
The perm and moustache were the Scouser fashion stereotype of the eighties and nineties ,
The fasion for the Scouser girls is the scouse brow , thick black eye brows 😂
a must watch is Hale and Pace " Yorkshire Airways"
The Scousers was a parody of a long running Channel 4 soap opera called 'Brookside' based in a new build housing estate in the suburbs of Liverpool, with ludicrous plotlines including a body buried under a patio, a lesbian kiss and in the first episode the husband in a newly married couple being carried out dead by an ambulance crew. The shellsuits were a reference to a 1980's class of people designated as 'Chavs', being ignorant, uncultered and having no fashion sense. The popular image of Scousers outside of Liverpool was that all Liverpudlians were workshy, petty criminals.
'uncultured'
Dey do dough , dont dey dough..😂😂
"the dog's been arrested for nicking cars" :-D :-D :-D I'm pretty sure that's what the sister said :-D
Those kits were called shell suits at the time. Only the shiny ones, if memory serves me right. Great video!
Love seeing your reactions to all these old shows I grew up on. From "Enfield and Chums" and "The Fast Show" to "Only Fools and Horses" and "Father Ted", TV in the 90's was amazing. 😌
King Boomer also Lister in Red Dwarf is a scouser too
Who's seen sense and moved to Manchester.
@@mancuniangamecat8288then saw even more sense and journeyed 3 million light years from Earth.
@@FortisConsciusno , he's still loving it in England's best city.
@@mancuniangamecat8288 hahahahaaa
@@mancuniangamecat8288behave yourself. Altrincham isn't Manchester. I live in Sale (I'm not from there. My bird is) and it's even further away from Manchester than that and even these are the Wirral of mancs
The perm hair style was popular in the 80's as was the "shell suit", tracksuit
they used to look like this
It's from a soap called Brookside which had characters like these guys in it. Calm down calm down became a catchphrase.
In the 70s, having your hair done in a curly perm was very popular amongst pro footie players, and the fans used to copy them. Moustaches were a thing too. I had a perm, and a 'tache.
Their was a soup opera in the 80s and 90s called brookside and the style and fashion at the time was the permed haircuts and tracksuits.
There was an 80s British TV soap called Brookside based in Liverpool. There was a character called Terry who they based these characters on. Look him up. 😊
There's a video by Tieran Freedman called "Scouse not English" it's worth a watch and explains the history of Liverpool
You need to see the scousers sketch when they go to That London, it was hilarious 😂
the perm, moustache and shell suit was all the range in liverpool once upon a time
in the 70's and 80's when Liverpool Football club were dominating Europe, many of the tema had perms and a tash.
Most American folk would have needed subtitles 😊
Same with English folk
I came across your channel last year and did watch few of your reaction(s). One thing I noticed looking at this now you have put on so much WEIGHT .....you are a handsome young lad, don't let yourself go. 😂😂😂😂😂
Your summary of the first clip was perfect
Facts about Liverpool
1. The term Scouser comes from the stew called Lobscouse, which was a dish that was brought over by the many Swedish sailors and became popular with the natives.
2. The first mosque in the UK opened in Liverpool in 1889
3. The term Woolyback was originally a term to describe the dock workers, they used blankets and scarves to stop the crates and barrels from rubbing their shoulders raw. Now it is a term to describe a non scouser, implying that they are sheep shaggers.
4. Liverpool was the most bombed city outside of London during World War 2, Hitler had relatives in Liverpool and it was rumoured that he stayed there for a spell when he was a struggling artist.
5. The fastest air to air kill during the Batte of Britain happened at Liverpool airport (called Speke at the time), Denys Gillam shot down a Ju88 whilst he was taking off in his Hurricane on the 8th October 1940.
6. Not so of a fact but you are right about one thing about Scousers, they are an absolute scream on a night out. I was once stuck on a broken down train full of drunk scousers, I thought I was going to need an ambulance because we were laughing so much.
The dogs been arrested for nicking cars lol😅
i use to watch brookside here in uk and barry and terry was best of freinds and thats how there hair style was at that time..memories brilliant...😀
The shaggy hair perms (male ones) were all the rage in the late 70's early 80's in Liverpool. I have a theory that it was because some of the team (Liverpool football club) had them. They're all 'Graham Souness' (LFC) lookalikes. Naturally, it caught on with the 1000's of fans. Not forgetting 'Terry' the character in Brookside who also sported a perm and mussie. Shell suits (track suits) were also very popular around that time. Of course, they had to be top designer labels or you would be a laughing stock if you were seen out in one that was not 😅 They were a 'scally' status symbol at a time when unemployment and dole money were the norm.
The Old Gits did a great sketch about tripping up kids in their local park
Now try Harry ‘ Enfield - Weekend in London. ‘ I think you will get a blast still one of the most shocking skits I can remember
That’s the Old Gits! Hilarious
There is a youtube video called “scouse not English why Liverpool is different from the rest of England “ it goes through a lot of the history and culture of its uniqueness. The interesting thing about many of our towns and cities are how distinct they are from each other
Check out 'The Fast Show " some time.
Features Paul Whitehouse, who worked with Harry in many of his sketches, and Charlie Higson, who is the 'southern puff' in the bar sketch here. Plus a number of other comic actors, one of whom you might recognise from a certain wizard franchise
kevin keegan used to be liverpool manager and he had a haircut like that and wore tracksuits
On the road into Liverpool there used to be a neon sign saying ‘quality perms’ always made chuckle on the way to Anfield or Goodison
So true to life...LOL
It’s a skit on a soap opera called Brookside set in Liverpool in the 1980s/1990s. The male characters, Terry Sullivan & Barry Grant, had a perm & moustache and wore shell suits and got angry at the slightest insult in the storyline. A Scouser is a slang term for a Liverpudlian.
How ironic that Terry should mimic his character in real life, criminal activities. After all the white and brown he smoked and the bird he's done I think it's pretty much done and dusted for him now!!! 😧
'The Scousers' are actually short documentaries about what life in Liverpool is really like, even today.
I live in Liverpool and the hair represented the late 70’s football players style of the time like Kevin Keegan who was a superstar striker for Liverpool
The Dalai Lama went to Liverpool to deliver a message of peace and tranquility…”Eh, eh, calm down, calm down.”
Hi KB. Just a little tip for you. You should react to the randy old ladies and the man who says I am considerably richer than yow. You will enjoy both of them.
To give you more context on the hair. In the 70s and 80s players from Liverpool Football Club got perms, and so with them being our idols, this became a bit of a trend. There were a few characters in a Liverpool soap called Brookside, and in Boys from the Black stuff that also had that perm. The Scousers is a exaggerated parody of Brookside, Boys from the Black Stuff and a sitcom set in Liverpool called Bread.
In the 80s scousers were renown for perms and Shell suits 😂😂 and shouting alot 😂😂
I don't know what is going on with the hair either , but one of Liverpool Football Club's most famous players Kevin Keegan used to have a similar hairstyle back in the 1970's !
It is an extreme stereotype, but people from Liverpool laugh quite easily at it. There was a soap opera called Brookside in the 80s/90s, and there was a lot of arguing like this. It influenced this parody. And if you disagree with me I'll see you outside!
I remember aeeing a picture on the web, load of Liverpool football fans sitting in the stands, all with silly perm wigs on, pulling silly faces and waving yheir hands... Brilliant pic...
You need to see the sketch when they visit "THAT LONDON"
I would recommend "the scousers on crimewatch", the guy on the crimewatch, John Stalker used to be the chief constable of Manchester I think. Very funny, worth a watch
In the late 80's perms (not Afro's) became the thing at school in the UK , footballers and pop stars led the way .....
they were also seen in sitcoms , Brookside was a very popular sitcom based in Liverpool ..... The perm was seen much in Brookside , a lot of fighting was in the story lines ...... the Scousers by Harry Enfield was more a general piss take rather than football based .....
scouse ig. calm down calm down . lived in liverpool for a year with my work, loved it, great place
New stereotype: tracksuits, pouches, army jackets, balaclavas, shaggy hair, drugs, thieving, and gun crime. This is from the late 80s-early 90s when perms and mullets were popular (come back into fashion again now).
I still do a Scousers impersonisation to this day. Calm down our kid!
for a while the "calm down calm down" became a national catchphrase just pull up an image of the cast of Bread you'll get it, have you seen Harry and Paul dressed as old ladies doing the 'Young Man' routines ?
lol, I forgot about the Bread tv show, I think most of the case were from Manchester!
I don't know if anyone else has said this, but one of the three actors in the skit is actually scouse (from Liverpool) himself. I think it's the taller, blonde guy. I can't remember his name.
Oddly, where I live. This hairstyle has made a resurgence.
I always expect this accent
Dee doo doo dat der doe don't dee.
Dee doo
Dont dee doe
Doo dat der
Yeah! Dee doo doo dat der.
A typical conversation about what other people in different cities might doo.
the hair ,tracksuit and moustasche were kind of early 80 s,changed now thank god.
that intro ... he was pulling your leg
not tracksuits they were called shell suits during the 80`s the huge curly hair perm. was the ultimate height of fashion with men.