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King and Queen Boomers' Reaction to the British comedy Black Books where Manny (Bill Bailey) starts his first day working at the book store. ENJOY!
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the drink was Creme de menthe - and the customer "i love books" man - was indeed Mr Linehan making a cameo in his program, something of a trait of his.
tastes like the 80s ...
the ultimate old ladies drink
Shot of Creme de menthe, shot of Baileys, shot of tia Maria, dash of milk, unreal
@@njones420 70's even.
@@chucky7826 too tasty for sobriety!
The episode with the wine (grapes of wrath) is one of my favorite episodes!
The one with the massage machine? I started laughing just thinking about that :D
@@torilathforgot about the prostitute robot from
The future !
@@torilathBernard Bernard Bernard
Le Vin de Rosier...Well that'll do.
It's like looking into the eye of... a duck
When Manny asks why his parents named him Ludwig, and Bernard gives him a hard stare, so Manny says "never mind". Freeze your screen on the stare, then have a look at a painting of a young Beethoven, remarkable similarity.
Yeah, that joke seemed to go over the audience’s heads. Dylan Moran’s furrowed-eyebrows frown was a dead ringer for Beethoven.
I never noticed that before, but you're right!
Believe it or not, Black Books is actually a real book shop called Collinge & Clark on Leigh Street in London. Walking down from St. Pancras station I go past it every time I’m in town. It’s a nice antiquarian bookshop and still looks just like Black Books… just a lot cleaner.
Have you ever seen the brilliant British comedy series 'Spaced' starring Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, and Nick Frost?
Yes, it WAS Graham wanting to buy a book... 😂😂😂 👍👍👍
Black Books is great especially once you get to know the characters. Can’t believe you guys are fitting in these videos in between baby sleeps. I’ve got 2 boys (now 13 and 10). When they were babies I felt like I never got the time to make it all the way through an episode of my favourite shows. Love the videos though. I don’t know you guys at all and you don’t know me, but you get that feeling of just sitting around watching your favourite shows with some friends, so thanks for the entertainment.
The customer who shouted at Manny was the doctor in Jam
Wow I had no idea!
Just a shame so much was cut from the episode before this bit.
Love the customer shouting, I have the entire rant memorised.
My favourite bit of the episode, and most relatable
You’ve started watching the funniest series ever. It gets better and better. “The Grapes of Wrath” is utter genius and our now grown up children still repeat scenes to this day.
Toast! Jam, jam, jam!
You guys have GOTTA watch British Sitcom "Coupling", Queen Boomer will love it too. It's described as the British version of "Friends" but imo opinion that's a cop-out description. It's about a group of friends in London and their relationships... but it's brilliantly written and hilarious!! Hopefully others will or have suggested it already.
Is it any good? I can't actually remember but I'm sceptical.
@@eadweard. Well, I am suggesting it, lol. I might have a biased response to that question!!! Yes, it's brilliant. First episode it goes straight in with great laughs.
@@eadweard. IMO it's top tier cringe comedy.
The bit with the kebab.... 😂
Shadayim.
That was a cameo by Graham Linehan and also a cameo in the flashback of the night before in the pun, sitting at the bar was Bill Nighy.
Bill Bailey is incredible one of those people who can turn his hand to any musical instrument , he won Strictly come Dancing ( Dancing with the stars to you ) and he's appeared on numerous panel shows with quick wit and comedy . I'm liking this one better than the first , very much in the Father Ted mould .
''creme de menthe'' mint flavoured alcohol.
it's bloody horrible 🤣
@@laineydaveya shot of that with Baileys floated on top is called a “shit on the grass”… I kid you not.
@@dannjp75 🤣
It's used more for cocktails like Grasshopper etc
So glad youre watching this series!
The guy with the ‘I love books’ T-shirt was the writer of Black Books, Father Ted etc.
You and the Queen need to watch Cunk On Britain together. The first season is on CZcams if you search it..!
This show isn't really a Graham Linehan show. He was involved in the production and a bit of writing for season one but this is mainly Dylan Moran's baby. Linehan just helped adapt it from stage to television.
Creme du menthe. It's the mixer in a mint julep and other cocktails using mint flavours.
My mum made a load of it when I was at school. She never worked out why it slowly started tasting like mouthwash 😅
My mum is French ,
Anything that is créme is alcohol, syrop is , well syrup.. in France you can get either,
We have always had syrop de menthe in the cupboard, which is to me a mouthwash substitute,
I also I remember a cousin's wedding where there was a cocktail called, La grenouille, créme de menthe and gawd knows what else..
I was peeing green the day after, messy messy times 😂🎉😂
@@catshez I think your cousin prepared you a "green fairy". I hoped you were able to regain consciousness.
@@BunyipToldMe Green Fairy or the Frog 😅 Either way 🤣.. some magical things happened that night.
Consciousness was regained until after a bbq brunch when old Papi's wine came out 🤢 3 hours before flight back to Uk..
Papi's rocket fuel made me forget the frog and any magic that was before 😆
@@BunyipToldMe Hey, are you an Aussie?..
Happy Birthday to Bret Clement, who is 35 today. Happy birthday cobber
And are the other drinks for your mates? Because if they are I'm not serving them unless they have ID too.
Grapes of Wrath is my favourite I think. Looking forwards to that!
We have a local bookstore that basically only exists because everyone loves it so one of the local pub owners pay to have it still running. It barely breaks even but there's ALWAYS been a bookstore right there so it's in everybody's interest to support it.
You guys live in Florida.
Not a huge demand for knowledge in Florida.
Outside of Florida, there are still a lot of bookstores.
Whilst you're busy sneering... half the US is moving to Florida to escape the lunacy elsewhere.
@@rescyn1190 Good of you to prove his point for him :)
@@saucyjack6387 That's a particularly stupid comment. Well done you.
@@rescyn1190Nah, he was definitely on the money.
The customer that shouted at Manny was the same actor (David Cann) that played the Doctor from the "Jam Doctor" video you recently reacted to :-)
In Kevin Eldon’s show he played a man who found a sticky sandwich under a park bench. Weird and hilarious performance.
Really love that you gave this show a chance , I've been requesting it for ages. The show just keeps getting better with all the adventures they get up too 😄
That thing about big chains vs small bookshops comes up in an episode later in Black Books... hilariously (Simon Pegg guest stars in it, too)
If I remember correctly Linehan has basically no involvement in the show after season one, really showing it was Dylan Moran's creation of the Bernard Black character and his input in writing all the episodes that was the key to the show being great. Linehan was key to formulating and getting the show off the ground at the start
I’d wondered about that! The second and third series never really resonated with me - decent, sure, but nothing like as amazing as the first. The scripts seemed so clunky and unpolished compared to before. Writing and scripting is usually the most subtle and underrated bit of any TV show or movie. And the foundation. Remove a talent like Graham Linehan, and every other bit of the show suffers.
No more small bookshops because they didn't sell coffee. It's covered in a later episode😂
I worked for someone just like Bernard Black. He was the proprietor of the shop, hated his job and dealing with people. Was quite bad tempered and hot headed. However he was nice enough and a good laugh at the pub. He would ring me up if he was at a loose end snd we would go for a couple of beers and we would have a blast.
Linehan said Moran was so difficult to work with,he would not work with him again
Moran just never broke character even after the cameras stopped recording...
I mean he did, though.
Trust two Irish guys to fall out with each other
Bernard black is also the guy you hated in shaun of the dead ...actors name is Dylan Moran.
Right I'm leaving and then gets his guts ripped out ! That was a real shock the first time I saw that !
Yes. He pointed that out in the first episode
@@reallivebluescat I've never seen that one then ...I'm sort of gaming and listening to videos as they play .
And commenting now and again
@@reallivebluescat or maybe I should listen to this 80s uk song ,with these words ....
I wouldn't ever try to hurt you
I just needed someone to hold me
To fill the void while you were gone
@@dave_h_8742 you don't wanna watch Green Inferno then !
I can't possibly be the first to suggest this, but if you haven't yet checked out GREEN WING, a British comedy series based within the UK's Narional Health Service, I highly recommend it. There were three series, I think, first aired in the late 2010's. It's clever and a little surreal, with superb scripting, excentric characters and comedic acting at the level found in Black Books and The I.T. Crowd. Its one of my all time favourite shows.
When I was in Dallas in 1997 there was a small bookstore in the part of town I was staying in, but none downtown, which was crazy.
I love the little second hand bookstores. I was in one in Helsinki recently, and someone was asking the bookstore guy general stuff, like how it is now for stores like that. Bookstore guy said a few decades ago there were 70 of them in Helsinki, and now there's 15. Anyway, big fan of this show.
At some point you should check out Dylan Moran's stand up - his stage persona is quite similar to his Bernard character. :D
He's a bit of a prick IRL
After black books you need to line up "Green Wing". Right up your street.
Bernard Black was reportedly based on a real insane comic book store owner here in Edinburgh. It’s similar to the Basil Fawlty situation
There was a fan theory back when this show was on, that the original idea for the show that started as "what was Father Jack like before he became a priest!"
Both Dylan Moran's & Bill Bailey's stand-up specials - of which there are no end available online - are well worth a look. Tamsin Greig - Fran - said it was difficult to hold it together on set working with two full-on natural comedians. Bill Bailey is fast approaching national treasure status here in the UK.
YOU MUST check out Bill Bailey's stand-up
Creme de menthe is the green stuff Simon was drinking in The inbetweeners before he threw up on Carli's brother's head. Jay put whisky in it though.
Graham Linehan is not the creator of this show, Dylan Moran was. He was only a writer for the first series, but not for the second or third.
Yes. That was Graham Linehan in the t-shirt that read, "I love books!"
Here in the uk we have lots of small independent book stores. Some sell new books, some second hand and some sell a mix of both. They are little places of delight. The cities always have a large Waterstones book store but the smaller ones are there too as well as in smaller towns. Sometimes old red telephone boxes have been turned into second hand book shops with an honesty box for payments.
There has been a real revival of small independent bookshops here in Sydney Australia too. I know because a few years ago my publisher asked me for a list of possible sellers of my book in the Sydney area, and I stopped listing them after I reached about 70 shops.
You need to watch Derry Girls, the accents might be a problem but give it a try
proper rabdom show suggestion
murder in successville , it has the big guy from plebs in it hes essentially the main character and during the show they have lookalikes such as gordan ramsey as a cop along the main cast but every episode theres a different celebrity guest that is a trainee cop to work with the main guy but they have no script so they break and laugh during the scenes alot i find it hilarious some episodes are on youtube but there all on netflix 3 seasons 6 eps each
Bill Bailey looks like: Hey look, squirrel.
Omg this is so accurate!
Now that you've mentioned it, Bill Bailey does look like Daniel!!
If I remember correctly, the next episode - with the bag snatcher - is a banger.
This series is my absolute favourite. It gets better as you go along.
The Beethoven crazed look is great haha
Black books and the comedians in the show are just a very different sense of humour from other more mainstream shows, its not for everyone but its very original and funny and it stands out as brilliant if you get it.
When I went to Norwich I found a bookstore that legit looked like Black Books on the inside, though even more chaotic with a pile of books 5ft high up against the edge of one bookshelf.
Unlike Black Books the owner is actually nice though.
This series really picks up on episode 3.
Bernard needs someone in his life, he's clearly incapable of taking care of himself, but I wouldn't wish that on anyone!
Ooh, black books, I'm so here for it. One of my favourite comedies. Now you mentioned it, I can't stop seeing Daniel. You're right, there is a resemblance 😂😂😂❤
The next episode, Grapes of wrath is hilarious! You'll love it
I've never watched Black Books so I'm enjoying it at the same speed as you two. Looking forward to the rest of the series. When you come to the UK, check out some provincial market towns if you can. They are sometimes full of small, artisan, family owned shops. I know what you mean about the large corporate chain stores you talk about. They just aren't the same and they don't have the same atmosphere or kudos. The older we get the more sanitised everything becomes.The old ways are the best ways!
17:40 is that the doctor from Jam (symptomless coma)??
David Cann indeed
It was only 5 or 6 yrs ago that i first watched Black books, i wanted 100 more episodes! Loved it 🫶
Bill Bailey is a fantastic stand up comedian and musician. You must watch Tamsin in the comedy Green Wing, just brilliant stuff!
The interview is just superb.
I loved Black Books. Crazy to think it's already 20 years old.
I can’t wait for the episode when they drink all the wine. Funniest shit ever!
Dylan Mora did most of the writing of this show.
I can’t imagine princess boomer would allow you to not pause it, but I fully recommend bill Bailey ‘part troll’. It’s a stand up gig so you’re looking at 90 mins at least, so that’s why I said you’re likely to have to pause some of it, but it’s one of the best stand up routines I’ve ever seen. I actually don’t like music in stand up usually, but bill is such a talented musician, that it is perfect.
I agree with that it really annoys me when you walk into a shop and approach you and say can I help you and you've only just walked in and when you do want help there's no one around
Manny is the great comic Bill Bailey. I absolutely urge you to seek out his solo videos. One of the greatest.
Agreed.
Saw Bill Bailey live a few years ago, was fantastic.
Very funny and a brilliant musician .
And lovely guy.
I live in Pasadena, Maryland and there's a nice bookstore in Molly station mall.
There is a book shop in Alnwick which is worth a vist, if the Queen wants her Harry Potter fix by visiting Alnwick Castle.
There has been a real revival of small independent bookshops here in Sydney Australia. I know because a few years ago my publisher asked me for a list of possible sellers of my book in the Sydney area, and I stopped listing them after I reached about 70 shops.
There is a certain class of people in England who have these shops and they survive everything because the owners are loaded and don’t actually need the money. They’re quite happy just hanging out in their little domain.
We have a book town here called Hay on Wye. It had (and hopefully still does) a castle with a self proclaimed King of Hay on Wye and book shops, lots and lots of book shops! Mostly in old buildings with nooks and crannies and not many right angles. If you can find stuff about it online I think you'd enjoy it. Black Books is a great choice! ATB
The cameo, "I want to buy a book please" was the writer Graeme Lennahan doing one of many cameos.
In Wales there’s a whole town full of bookshops called Hay on Wye. It’s great! It’s famous for it
Sounds confusing to have more than one bookshop with the same name.
@@Jim1255783Especially in the same town.
@@Jim1255783 they don’t have the same name. It’s all different shops in one town
@@helenroberts1107 😁
Wigtown booktown!
Crème de menthe is a sweet, mint-flavored alcoholic beverage. It is available commercially in a colorless version and a green version.
A man called Jeff got rid of most little book stores.... As well as most of the high street...
The shouty customer was also the doctor from the Jam doctor sex line sketch.
In my teens i worked Saturdays in a small 1 branch independent bookshop, as great as Black Books is, it just touches on that world.
Yay. My two of my favourite people watching one of my favourite shows. ❤
Most independent bookstores all sell through Amazon now as there’s just really no competing
"There's something... attractive about him, to me." 😂 Haha! Queen Boomer and I should be friends!
Also, I have to recommend some more excellent British comedy: 'Spaced', 'Green Wing', 'Brass Eye' and the film 'Four Lions'. They are incredible and you will see a few familiar faces throughout them. Thanks for the laughs your majesties!👑
Grapes of Wrath is my favourite episode, you are in for a treat! I can't wait to watch your reaction :)
That green drink Bernard pinched from the lady in the pub is called crème de menthe, a mint-flavoured French liqueur. It’s quite nice poured over fresh chunks of melon 🙂
Crème de Menthe [CREYM•da•MONGTH] - alcoholic French mint syrup.
I manage my shop in the same way apparently .
The largest second hand book in the UK is in Alnwick pronounce Anick, one in Liverpool.
Great point on the bookstore front. Now all you have is Barnes and Noble selling books at about 3 times the price of the same books in Europe. Makes me very sad any time I go into one.
I remember a great bookstore. It was really covered in piles of books mostly second hand which you could buy and have stamped and then return them for money off your next purchase. It was really cheap, I have no idea how they made money. They also had an adult only section behind a curtain that sold porn magazines and erotica. Mainly shifty looking men in raincoats looking suspiciously like flashers would turn up and quickly disappear behind the curtain. I can’t imagine a store like it existing now. It had character.
OMG , Just remembered a Fantastic British series from Youth called GAME ON. I thought it was hilarious and it’s got that eccentric humour you both like!
Would love to see you react to that!
We have an independent book shop on the seafront in Morecambe :)
Just you wait KB and QB and babyB, it gets better and better. The customer tirade on Manny is one of my favorite scenes ever...especially with Manny's hair blowing back from the force of the outburst.
Creme de menthe Basically mint alcohol. Horrible stuff.
A good indication of how old this tv show is now, the mobile he pulled out was a Nokia 5110 (which was the precurser to the 3310) only real difference was it had the little antenna..
I used to sell books in my shop, but people would just come in read them, and then order them from amazon cheaper than we could get them at wholesale...thats why you dont see many small bookshops these days (apart from used)
London has a lot of small book stores.
Your t shirt immediately reminded of Roy from the IT crowd
loads of small bookstores here in the UK, but they are slowly disappearing unfortunately
Glasgow used to be packed with lots of used book and comic shops selling pulp, Sci fi, nor and lots of stuff. Not any more. Bloody coffee shops and wine bars and 'gentrification ' seems to have scuppered that
Well
I waited
and waited
and did some more waiting
until Shouty Man appeared
then I lost it at your reactions to Shouty Man (and finished the most excellent reaction
Manny is bill Bailey
Very funny and clever comedian
Also plays twins behind the desk of the police station in hot fuzz
THE CREATOR WAS HIM!! HE CREATED IT CROWD
Bernard is like a younger father jack