Boris Johnson goes undercover in a supermarket (1998) - BBC Newsnight
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- Boris Johnson - then a Telegraph journalist - gives his take on what supermarkets have done for Britain.
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This film was originally aired on Newsnight on 16 October, 1998.
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Tell someone in 1998 that this guy becomes Prime minister and they'd laugh
If you tell them now in 2021, they'd laugh even harder. 😂😂😂
He was a berk even when he was young 🤣
I think if you told someone in 1998 that Boris is leading the government through a pandemic they would die of laughter
@@chrisnettleship4331Yes.😂😂
@@joshsmith136 Indeed they would. 😂😂😂
"What did you do at 34 years old?"
"I went to Tesco and sh*t on Labour - now I'm prime minister."
@@notWaldont yes, my bad.
I will edit my comment now.
34? Damn he never looked young.
@@radioclash84 Shit genetics and shitty diet it seems.
@@RickSanchez-dn6rd I'm a Tory and he's my least Favourite
And I got sacked by a newspaper because I made up a quote I attributed to my godfather when I was in my 20’s.
I’m living the dream.
The weirdest recommendation I have ever got on youtube
But do you regret it?
@Finn Spooner Like what?
Looks like Matt Lucas. I thought this was a Little Britain sketch for a minute
Me to
Lol he looks exactly like him
@@galaxy_mooncat779 #meto
Exactly!!!
It's the slight way he tilts forward when he speaks as well, exactly the awkward body language that Matt Lucas uses with his best characters
0:35 looks like he's just figured out how to stand upright for the first time
Just after shitting himself.
Can't stop laughing 🤣
:DDDDDD
I just laughted so hard lol. Fucking hilarious
Boris reminded me of Donald Trump "First day of standing lessons"
How can a person stay with the same hairstyle forever
oMg lOoK aT hIs hAiR, he MUST be a bad politician 😫
Ask Brian May
Good genes
Does he look like Donald Trumps long lost brother
@@simonrodrigues4192 He also sounds like him a bit incoherent and all over the place with his speeches but more intellectual than Trump.
For I minute straight I couldn't decide whether this was a comedic postironic sketch or a serious report: the lighthearted music, the pose Boris was standing in, him doing the monologue right in front of a cashier - everything is perfect
Was that in front of the cashier or were they recording his reflection in the window?
@@ajdo1991 It was definitely inside the store, right in front of the cashier
Alan Partridge in a blonde wig
That scruffy look and badly fitted suit looked like such a parody. Took me a while to say.... hold on, that IS our prime minister.... not that he improved his style much tho.
From a time when Newsnight was actually decent and worth watching.
Footage of Boris Johnson using a phrase like “Temple of Gammon” in a video purportedly from 1998 does make you question reality.
Honestly all I have been thinking. What is the world
Also the onion round the neck!! 🤣
yes, but when is he going to finish writing "Business Secrets of The Pharaohs"?
My g
He got his fake certificate and that's all that matters
conservative party time for the el dude brothers
I have found peep show peoples
This comment from a year ago is suddenly getting a lot of traction
His favourite supermarket are the ones that sells great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies, for only £9.99!
😂😂😂😂😂 comment of the year award goes to you sir
@@HassanPoyo Thanks man!
1998: Boris goes to the supermarket.
2019: Boris is in charge of Britain.
Wow he’s so undercover. Nobody could spot him in that suit.
The way he speaks openly to himself in front of the staff just makes him blend right in.
I tell you what, if he decided to stay away from politics and stick with comedy, I'd actually like him.
Yeah, was gonna say that
im not British and shit but why do y'all not like him
@@lmao9526 because he upholds a buffoon frontier to hide his malicious intentions
@@lmao9526 Because he's a walking joke.
I don't get what there is to not like about him.
This guy would make a funny Prime Minister.
a shit one to
@@samdash5136 had to make a light hearted joke political didnt you 😂 what a loser
@@samdash5136 no need to bring this shit up. We just want to have a good laugh.
@@TheDarkKnightReborn well did I lie
@@samdash5136 I have no intention of feeding your need to constantly getting into political arguments over the Internet.
Get a life buddy
2:04 "So i tied an onion to my lanyard, Which was the style at the time"
When he hung an onion around his neck, yeah, I felt that...
My god 00:28 to 00:40 that body language is a spitting image of Mark Corrigan.
“A new boiler. Surely the least enjoyable way to spend £1,000. At least throwing the money out of the window you’d see the scrabbling mass, the hate-filled faces.”
..Chance'll be a fine thing!
@@PeaceDweller a fine thing indeed
@@spectacles6936 need to stop saying that now
@@PeaceDweller That's a thing people say isn't it?
Safeway & Somerfield....blimey, what a throwback!
"So I tied an onion to my neck, which was the style at the time"
He should do the daily COVID press conference update in a similar format.
Why did I just randomly get this suggested to me 🤔🤔
And why did I watch it
Q: What are you going to achieve in the next 20 years Mr Johnson?
A: I'm going to become PM, covert to Catholic and remarry and get the vatican to recognise the marrage.
No seriously Mr Johnson
this was the first and last time he stepped inside a tesco
Some great jungle/drum n bass records came out that year. Another forgotten great British export.
So sad. 😢
Grooverider the prototype years.
fi get leng
@@looloowhiskey LTJ Bukem
@@ells101 he missed a trick not playing some jungle vibes
Newsnight's hard hitting journalism at its finest...
Is it me, or has everyone else found this randomly in their recommendations
i feel that is the consensus of the room
0:24 how npcs stand infront of their house in skyrim
'Safeway & Somerfield' bruh the fact that I remember those stores, makes me feel OLD.
Very normal man who was 34 at the time of this being recorded.
On today’s edition of “Random CZcams Recommendations”
His wife was 10 years old when this went out on telly
0:40 could easily be dubbed over: "This week I will mostly be eating...roast chickens"
😂😂😂
The resemblance is frightening!
“Pantile temples of gammon”. Now he’s king of the Gammons.
At least you know his pronouns.
0:35 I swear he looks like Butter Pants from Shrek who said "Do the roar". Hahaaaaa.
Hahahahha lol
Lmfaaoo
Ah 1998.
Discovering this man would be PM in 1998 would be like discovering Greg Wallace will become the reigning monarch in 20 years.
....or finding out that Prince Andrew doesn't sweat.
This guy is great!
He should be a Prime Minister!
Oh wait...
Pepsi for £1.99.... rip off!
And that was 1998!! It's probably about £5 now 😛
Carrie was 10 years old when this was made.
Oh my word! I thought she was 37 until I saw Wikipedia.
I'm assuming Carrie is the new wife?
@@pagethreemodel Yes indeed.
Not sure why I find this so entertaining
I'm sorry but temples of gammon is the best phrase ever
Lol. I thought it was Matt Lucas wearing a wig. It looks and sounds like one of his sketches.🤣
It does I think he looks even more like Matt there than now
Did he go disguised as someone vaguely competent at their job?
I mean it’s more convenient having local shops since supermarkets are located further away.
Ironically he speaks of refrigerated temples of gammon when he is a gammon who hides in a refrigerator
What a comment
@@Derm1991 never knew using derogatory terms made a comment good
@@ze89412 at least he didn't call him a Tory: a far more derogatory term.
Completely forgot about Safeway until he mentioned them.
Boris wouldve been 34 years old in this video
Jeez
Lol he’d be a funny 4th edition to the old Top Gear team actually.
a great piece
He looks like an a level student making a video for business studies class on economics
1:13
39p for a Muller Corner?? Those prices are unheard of nowadays
Ahhh the youtube recommendation algorithm never ceases to surprise me with stuff I didn’t know existed
who would have thought this guy would be responsible for the deaths of a hundred thousand people
This is pure gold.
I notice that Boris's notes on the report are crude scrawlings on a crinkled sheet of paper.
I believe that's also how he came up with his COVID plan.
@@GregOrCreg Yeah, pretty much. That's *if* he even bothered to write them down!
I’m just wondering what happened to Safeway and Somerfield
Safeways went bankrupt and got divied up between other supermarket chains. The one in my area became a Morrisons.
And Somerfield was doing badly, so they were bought by Co-op in 2008
Most Safeways were rebranded to Morrison’s, Somerfield was bought by Co-op in 2009 and rebranded to Co-op by the end of 2011.
''Can anybody tell me where they keep the protoplasmic invertebrate jellies?'' -Boris
All those shopping trolleys remind me of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial.
Lets sign a petition for Boggy Joggers to walk around with an onion on a necklace for old times sake.
Well he was right. We pretend we miss shopping the high street, but it would take no longer than a week of living like that to disabuse us of that false memory.
I'm not so sure
Same goes for online shopping. Thats why it changed that way.
20 years later, he still looks the same. What even is age ?
rumour has it he drinks the blood of schoolchildren and disabled people
He is fat shit years old
@@jokerraton8183 Honestly, weight issue aside, he still looks mostly the same
Boris's hair looks a lot better than it does now lol 🤣🤣 #borisforthechop ✂️
“Temples of gammon” who’d have thought he’d be leading a Westminster government of gammons 2 decades later 🤦♂️😬
10 years later he was mayor. Just over 20 years later he was Prime Minister. Who would have thought....
Etonians will always get the top jobs regardless of their abilities
I feel that in this video he should wear a multi-coloured hat with a propeller on it.
his tastes in fashion hasn't changed since eaton
Ye it's bad for companies to have influence over government and other parties, anyways what was that stuff Boris's government have been upto recently?
Oh ye
Aged like a fine port,
Port Glasgow specifically
Somerfield, that takes me back.
This is somewhere between Mark Corrigan and Alan Partridge.
This was the only time he’s ever been in a supermarket
He looks like a character from Little Britain
0:15 The GTA Sway!
Looked like he ate 70% of the meat produced in Britain
Ironically, the gammon now eats up his bullshit.
Dear God!
Those prices are amazing!
His now partner would have been 10 years old at this time 🤭
yeah that is very...........................man i dont know how to react to that. Slightly concerning
RIP Safeway and Somerfield
Ladies and gentlemen, our Prime Minister (somehow)
When Boris finds out how much plastic bags are now: *great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies*
If he went undercover now, It would be ridiculous. 😂😂
le innit
Its weird watching this in 2020
"sir please move along other customers are waiting"
Saw this guy a mile off, why am I not surprised 😮
I love the way around it approach to not being allowed to film inside 😂😂😂😂😂
'Temples of gammon'- So funny that the members of that temple would later become Johnson's primary voting block.
This is Matt Lucas best sketch yet.
Ah 1998...... the days before the world went mad.
Again.
Even back then he couldn't find a decent fitting suit.
He can but he's playing a role
Seems like he never get's old
Lmao @ get's
Temples of Gammon- is that where you get your electorate from?
What episode of Little Britain is this from? Matt Lucas is so good in it.
edit... whelp, im a year too late for this joke.
Harold Wilson is so proud
This whole thing reminds me of an episode of "Still Game"
This shows anything is possible.... scarily.....
This guy seems to know what he’s talking about, he should be prime minister
@dylan murphy r/woooosh
@dylan murphy cant even understand a joke
Ngl that little speech at the end is pretty bang on
"commercial & political bully boy" 😂😂😂
Among many other things, he hasn't got the "Phisique du Role". Look at his shirt!
I really thought this was a joke at first, and deeply impressed with the likeness 😂
Watching that was like a fever dream
I'm sorry what did I just watch? This is the weirdest thing I've seen him do, and we've seen him do some f***ing weird things in our times.
Lool Boris is gold that needs to be protected mate