French & Saunders - Awful Art Dealers - Best Funny Voices EVER!

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  • čas přidán 27. 07. 2011
  • I love almost everything they've done, but I think this is one of those overlooked sketches, and as I'm a MASSIVE fan of funny voices, especially silly posh ones, I love this one. Just a shame Brian Sewell didn't actually come, with him saying "Can you speak properly, I can't understand a word you're saying!"
    Best bit - when they stand in front of the picture that the customer is looking at, Dawn's especially funny ;-)
    Sorry about the poor sound, this is the original TV VHS recording; I've since learnt how to clean this up.
    Love you F&S thanks for all the funny - Jx
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Komentáře • 131

  • @kachi2782
    @kachi2782 Před rokem +7

    You only work in a shop you can drop the attitude !

  • @ccdaly2561
    @ccdaly2561 Před rokem +5

    I've loved this sketch for well over a decade. I still respond to many things with "oh that's ghastly."

  • @sbomorse
    @sbomorse Před 7 lety +87

    This reminds me of the Absolutely Fabulous episode 'Death' where Eddie goes into a gallery and tells the pretentious woman on the desk 'You only work in a shop you know, you can drop the attitude' 😂

    • @CabinC82
      @CabinC82 Před 5 lety +10

      Samuel Bomorse I am still waiting for my opportunity to say that to someone.... 😉🤪

    • @salviaofficinalis02
      @salviaofficinalis02 Před 2 lety +2

      eddie was rude because she felt stupid and belittled in an art gallery by a lady working there...that says a lot about her ego and complete lack of self esteem if an art gallery is the place to get any, because it's not, and eddie has a wavering, quivering sort of self esteem depending on her mood, hour of the day, season and the drugs she's taking behind Saffy's back.

    • @kaysmith8992
      @kaysmith8992 Před 2 lety +3

      I came here to find someone make this comment 😂 Love seeing the 'origins' of Ab Fab in French and Saunders

    • @kaysmith8992
      @kaysmith8992 Před 2 lety +4

      @@salviaofficinalis02 yeh but the shop girl was pretentious too... it was a perfect clash of egos

    • @kaysmith8992
      @kaysmith8992 Před 2 lety +2

      Dawn in this sketch also reminds me of Patsy's airhead friend from the magazine (played by Helen Lederer)

  • @blrr5blrr
    @blrr5blrr Před 8 lety +83

    Ahhhh so that's where Kath and Kim got their ideas for those posh women who work in the shopping centre in that Le Cruset type shop ! They learnt from the best !

    • @baokachi9767
      @baokachi9767 Před 8 lety +16

      Was just thinking that! Prue and trude!

    • @SleeplessScribbler
      @SleeplessScribbler Před 6 lety +5

      I was just about to comment that lol

    • @brendanflaherty11
      @brendanflaherty11 Před 5 lety +6

      They got the look perhaps from French and Saunders but their voices and dialect are based on upper class women who are Liberal voters, from Big Girls Blouse.

    • @janettereed5627
      @janettereed5627 Před 3 lety +1

      I thought the same. All are fantastic funny and clever 😍

    • @jdh6752
      @jdh6752 Před 3 lety +4

      @@brendanflaherty11 No, it's the voices and pronunciation which are clearly the influence for Prue and Trude. This predates Big Girls Blouse as well.

  • @tiner27
    @tiner27 Před 5 lety +11

    ".....anything under that they will have to buy them for fiftya pya." Love that line.

  • @mariecm3984
    @mariecm3984 Před 6 lety +19

    I can't explain how much I love these two

  • @daveross3642
    @daveross3642 Před 5 lety +10

    Jane Turner (Kath & Kim) said on a radio interview that Prue and Trude were influenced by the French and Saunders Art Dealers, but were ultimately a parody of the Big Labour/Posh Girls from their earlier work. All four women (and characters) are hilarious!

  • @GeorgiNM
    @GeorgiNM Před 7 lety +22

    This often extends to shop assistants, and not necessarily ones who sell anything of any particular worth. Once a very well-off elderly lady I knew, who used to dress very plain, was all but asked to leave a perfume shop, and got so infuriated she told them she could buy and then sell them and their entire shop in the blink of an eye.. Those poor souls aren't even worth fyaftya pyance. Great sketch.

  • @RiTisHere
    @RiTisHere Před 11 lety +20

    It amazes me how this is 100% accurate.

  • @WannabeAnarchy
    @WannabeAnarchy Před 11 lety +11

    I often say "six peay eaym" instead of 6pm because of this!

  • @lekkki1
    @lekkki1 Před 8 lety +51

    On a par with some of the better Python sketches. I love these women.

    • @cragerzz
      @cragerzz Před 3 lety +1

      Monty python is awful boring crap for Americans to laugh at something British. This is actual comedy!

    • @salviaofficinalis02
      @salviaofficinalis02 Před 2 lety

      well...it's an art gallery in the west end...some shop!

  • @MrTop11111
    @MrTop11111 Před 8 lety +110

    The frightening fact is if you walk into almost any "fine art" gallery in London,these people are not fantasy.They are real and think they are incredibly normal.

  • @FMK916
    @FMK916 Před 8 lety +7

    LOVE it! Love French & Saunders! They are the best! Thanks for posting this video.

  • @catherinewillmore
    @catherinewillmore Před 8 lety +28

    Mel and Sue cameos!

  • @kumada84
    @kumada84 Před 2 měsíci

    2:13 The funniest and most unintentionally brilliant part of the sketch is when Dawn (apparently) forgets how she's supposed to pronounce "frames" and Jennifer corrects her, forcing the characters to indirectly acknowledge that the way they talk is just something they completely made up

  • @Will492
    @Will492 Před 12 lety +4

    XD their accents are AMAZING!! The 50p part made me collapse in laughter!! And the way they say "no" XD

  • @charliekane135
    @charliekane135 Před 2 měsíci

    I love the way Dawn French says 'Triptych' 😆

  • @valeria-militiamessalina5672

    4:48 they pounced on the prospective buyer like two rapacious vultures and then saying “ how embarrassing talking money”,

  • @robzrob
    @robzrob Před 8 lety +5

    Reminds me of a line in a Kingsley Amis novel where a character had a voice "posher than the Queen's".

  • @purplegoddess88
    @purplegoddess88 Před 12 lety +2

    I love this sketch!! So happy you posted it. I was having trouble finding it.

  • @pegleg747
    @pegleg747 Před 11 lety +2

    I have definitely felt like those customers in many galleries I have visited!

  • @sugarayofsunshine
    @sugarayofsunshine Před 2 lety +2

    Wow- very much like Kath and Kim in the fancy shop. Getting a throw for the couch….

  • @jpblack2148
    @jpblack2148 Před 9 lety +15

    Oh sorry for fiftya pia! LOLO

  • @Kiinell
    @Kiinell Před 8 lety +33

    Fiftyah theyasyand peyands.

  • @rschmidt7286
    @rschmidt7286 Před 3 lety +1

    Spot on and HILARIOUS x

  • @ScottKnitter
    @ScottKnitter Před 6 lety +1

    So many phrases from this are still used in our household: "You like thet, dyon't you?" "Hyellyo Myagazyine"

  • @Lynseyattwood
    @Lynseyattwood Před 9 lety +10

    Hellio Magarzarn!!! LOL

  • @thebadtemperedbrit
    @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 12 lety +1

    I often, for no particular reason, quiet day maybe, find myself saying 'Fyftay Pyea' - lol indeed ;-)

  • @Shteve67
    @Shteve67 Před 3 lety +2

    I say “eoh neoh “ all the time because of this sketch.

  • @thebadtemperedbrit
    @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 12 lety +2

    Yep Mel & Sue (the never were protege's) both in this sketch ;-)

  • @cmasseylynch
    @cmasseylynch Před 6 lety +4

    cambridge has lots of these,usually found shopping in John Lewis.Four wheel driver with labrador attached.

  • @TheCaulfield1
    @TheCaulfield1 Před 2 lety +2

    The 50p bit 😂😂😂😂

    • @ScottKnitter
      @ScottKnitter Před 9 měsíci

      For how much, sorry? For fyif tya pya.

  • @rkcsam69
    @rkcsam69 Před 12 lety

    I just love them

  • @jeonlyxoxo
    @jeonlyxoxo Před 4 lety +1

    Now whenever I see someone put on a ‘posh’ front this episode comes to mind. How am I supposed to take the ‘posh’ seriously now?! 😂😂

  • @grapiken7766
    @grapiken7766 Před 9 lety +3

    Monsters. I bet this is inspired by real people... They know to that are. I noticed Mel and Sue too.

  • @lesleythompson6801
    @lesleythompson6801 Před 2 lety

    In front of that painting, they actually remind me of a couple of witches who want to tempt you into their cottage a la Hansel and Gretel.

  • @ssoomee
    @ssoomee Před 7 lety +1

    OMG SUE PERKINS! she is everything!

  • @katherinemay4209
    @katherinemay4209 Před 2 lety +1

    I still find myself saying fyeeftyah pyah every time I have one

  • @dinomijatovic3921
    @dinomijatovic3921 Před 2 lety

    Brilliant!

  • @BritishComedyUK69
    @BritishComedyUK69 Před 8 lety +1

    Can't wait to see the ab fab movie x

  • @retrogal96
    @retrogal96 Před 7 lety +6

    That is very true most art dealers are a bunch of snobs! acting as if they no everything

  • @brit9662
    @brit9662 Před 9 lety +10

    So weird to see Mel & Sue

  • @Argeaux2
    @Argeaux2 Před 4 lety +2

    Kath and Kim did a similar take on this with Prue and Trude.

  • @thebadtemperedbrit
    @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 12 lety +2

    Strangely, I can easily imagine that ;-)

  • @mossandthesea
    @mossandthesea Před 2 lety

    This is so accurate.

  • @craftingchipmunk3528
    @craftingchipmunk3528 Před 2 lety

    Cảm giác như mk đang đc nghe 1 bản nhạc chữa lành vậy đó. Giọng hát của đp rất đặc biệt, nhẹ nhàng tình cảm. Xem video thôi đã hay ntn r, ghen tị vs ekip qaa nghe hát live chắc hay gấp 💯lần lunn

  • @glitterdrip19
    @glitterdrip19 Před 7 lety +2

    omg just the sound of their voices, I would be laughing at every word, how did they get thru this with straight faces?

    • @barbaracrickley6191
      @barbaracrickley6191 Před 6 lety

      emma gallagher Another Americanism. Some people just can't open their mouths without saying" omg or OMG. " OMG, it's so annoying.

  • @Davai007
    @Davai007 Před 6 lety

    They are a riot

  • @zthechainz
    @zthechainz Před 5 lety

    I'll never say Hello Magazine the same way ever again

  • @richl
    @richl Před 11 lety +1

    Poor Brian Sewell, I'm sure he adopts that voice because his name sounds so common LOL

  • @kitplimm2856
    @kitplimm2856 Před 10 lety +1

    MEL & SUE too ;-)

  • @jimp4170
    @jimp4170 Před 9 lety +32

    People don't know anything about pyantyings these dyays.

  • @thebadtemperedbrit
    @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 11 lety +1

    I love her already, leeyts duow lauwnch ;-)

  • @filipoberrio8677
    @filipoberrio8677 Před rokem

    Ahhh yes... the f r a h m s

  • @jaddajn1
    @jaddajn1 Před 10 lety

    and that about just sums up the art world

  • @LUREDADDY52
    @LUREDADDY52 Před 12 lety

    @ellandelachapelle Where do you get Norwegian from this clip ? As chillmax writes is a fan of funny voices, especially silly posh ones, posh meaning upper class people or people who think they are talk like this in English. If you have a look @ Kath & Kim an Australian show you will find their sketches of two shop owners Trude & Pure talk with a
    posh English voice as well, as the saying goes they talk with a plum in their mouth

  • @Melancholie89
    @Melancholie89 Před 12 lety +1

    Dawn sounds exactly like Trude & Prue from "Kath & Kim".

  • @davidconnor8000
    @davidconnor8000 Před 2 lety

    So true..

  • @thebadtemperedbrit
    @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 11 lety +1

    And not a pyennay less!

  • @adamcotton2121
    @adamcotton2121 Před 2 lety

    I never heard so many vowels in my life.

  • @KhanivoreQniba
    @KhanivoreQniba Před 6 lety +7

    Great sketch. Art is great, sadly art people are A soles.

  • @soapmakers0
    @soapmakers0 Před 3 lety +1

    Sorry, I thought this was ASMR Zeitgeist

  • @ashleyglaister7692
    @ashleyglaister7692 Před 2 lety

    Reminds me of the sales women off Kath and Kim.

  • @mychemicalrelapse
    @mychemicalrelapse Před 10 lety +3

    sue perkins!

  • @davidthaler7018
    @davidthaler7018 Před 8 lety +2

    ...a juhnalyist ehnd photographyer from "Hellyo" megyazee-en....
    "...50 p."
    "Fuh heow much.sorry?"
    "Oh sorry. Fuh fiftyeah p'yence."

  • @gettrick32
    @gettrick32 Před 3 lety

    When do you visit Runcorn WA7

  • @cmasseylynch
    @cmasseylynch Před 6 lety +2

    cambridge kings parade women ...thanks darling

  • @zungg
    @zungg Před 12 lety

    This is real in reality.

  • @DuckStalker13
    @DuckStalker13 Před 2 lety

    Lol young Sue perkins

  • @sapphicantics
    @sapphicantics Před 11 lety

    my great aunt legit sounds like that

  • @nikkilay2975
    @nikkilay2975 Před 8 lety

    😂😂😂

  • @felicitytoad
    @felicitytoad Před měsícem

    😊😊😊

  • @davidfryer9359
    @davidfryer9359 Před 2 lety

    Helleyoew everyone. (The accent is über posh.) They each live in a veddy nice hise. When they fall dine its oolways on the grind. Oh, do say it isn't siyouew.
    These people are real...I haven't the foggiest idea why. The artsie über posh!

  • @naomiemurphy9882
    @naomiemurphy9882 Před 2 lety

    😂😂😂😂😂🥰

  • @terrybaker8156
    @terrybaker8156 Před 2 lety

    Hyow much iys thee Kyerchyinsky pyaintying?

  • @robertfraser9873
    @robertfraser9873 Před 2 lety

    F + S really supported Mel and Sue at the start of their career. Forgot therye in this sketch.

  • @rolfdejonge3915
    @rolfdejonge3915 Před 3 lety

    ✌️🤠

  • @jasondave2000
    @jasondave2000 Před 12 lety

    Wow, like "Trude" & "Pru" on Aussie Kath&Kim! (Just pronounce the names aloud, "Prue" & "Trude" & you'll be able to pull the voice, as well ; )
    French & Saunders are 2 of the very funniest ladies of comedy of all time. I do find Dawn a more versatile ACTRESS & Jennifer a more able WRITER, but the characters they do they do so well!

  • @Patrick3183
    @Patrick3183 Před 8 lety

    They're imitating upper class accents.

  • @anarchic_ramblings
    @anarchic_ramblings Před 2 lety

    Technological progress truly is remarkable. Nowadays you can make a better recording with a telephone.

  • @paulredwood5320
    @paulredwood5320 Před 4 lety

    its sue perkins 🙃

  • @aveuch
    @aveuch Před 6 lety +1

    Who were Mel & Sue before TGBBO?

    • @thebadtemperedbrit
      @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 6 lety +1

      aveuch They were a stand up comedy duo, becoming known around the mid 90"s, who were taken under the wing of French & Saunders, even appearing in a few of their shows. They tried many different formats, with some success, the stand out being, "Light Lunch" a foody show & arguably a portent of things to come. In short, they wanted to be F&S (probably) but found success eventually in other avenues 😁.

    • @aveuch
      @aveuch Před 6 lety

      Thank you so much for responding! I know all about F&S and Catherine Tate and several others, but I was only introduced to Mel & Sue through the bakeoff!
      Google here I come!

  • @carrotjuse
    @carrotjuse Před 11 lety

    They're so posh I can barely understand them!

  • @samcalvert2936
    @samcalvert2936 Před 9 lety

    When was this first aired?

  • @nixcanpor810
    @nixcanpor810 Před 3 lety

    hey they speak like Trude and Prue

  • @kaysmith8992
    @kaysmith8992 Před 2 lety

    Are those visitors Mel and Sue?

  • @lamarblake
    @lamarblake Před 2 lety

    Have always loved these two but this sketch is particularly difficult to understand with the accents.

  • @paulredwood5320
    @paulredwood5320 Před 4 lety

    its mel geldroich

  • @SonnySkye
    @SonnySkye Před 7 lety +9

    Hmmmmm Prue and Trude weren't original at all.

    • @thebadtemperedbrit
      @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 7 lety +1

      Well, very little is original, something is usually inspired by something else isn't it 😁. However, I don't think Pru & Tru v the art dealers are that similar; & if you look back to Big Girls Blouse, the aussie girls have always done silly voices as well 😉.

  • @MrTop11111
    @MrTop11111 Před 8 lety

    dawn and Jennifer.something together soon.Please.

  • @thebadtemperedbrit
    @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 11 lety

    I'm sorry but it's spelt fyiftea pyay ;-)

  • @wavehorsee81
    @wavehorsee81 Před 10 lety

    is it not cozz he's terribly posh?:)

  • @KhanivoreQniba
    @KhanivoreQniba Před 6 lety

    Mel Giedroyc at 3:30?

  • @alunepps4272
    @alunepps4272 Před 6 měsíci

    They could have done a series of this. Just the two of them talking like that and being rude to customers. Seen a good deal worse!

  • @sydhawdon9095
    @sydhawdon9095 Před 11 lety

    fyiftea pyea

  • @ellandelachapelle
    @ellandelachapelle Před 12 lety

    Their Norwegian is really lousy! :)

  • @tonyjohn1395
    @tonyjohn1395 Před 4 lety

    Horrendous canned laughter

    • @thebadtemperedbrit
      @thebadtemperedbrit  Před 4 lety +2

      The BBC (then at least) & most British TV didn't use 'this effect; all productions were filmed in front of a studio audience & it was OB, the audience would be shown a film to react to. You may not like how this sounds, but this is indeed infront of a BBC audience at Televsion Centre, Wood Lane, London ;-)