😉🎙Typical English Commentators: Bit of Fry & Laurie🏴🇬🇧
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Hey guys! We react to a Bit of Fry and Laurie in this video where they play two marvellous commentators!
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It was taking the rise out of the the old BBC coverage of a test matches when it got a bit boring and the commentators were ill equipped to deal anything but what was happening on the pitch, but little was happening. The twist at the end was that they were actually commentating on darts not cricket.
Although Henry Blofeld was famous for talking about things like buses and pigeons even when there was a lot action on the cricket field. He would talk like that regardless of what was going on.
It did seem as if it was a cricket commentary. The reference to the bus is based on the commentator Henry Blofeld. When commentating he would always say when he saw a bus, a helicopter or pigeons. Sometimes he would even tell you the score. If you think his surname is familiar, it is because his father knew Ian Fleming who then named a James Bond villain after him.
Oh my dear old thing...Henry was a regular fixture here in NZ in summer for many years.
Ah, that golden era of cricket commentary. Which, as former participants have declared and returned to the pavilion for a well earned tea, continues to this day with a slightly changed selection of players. Test Match Special is unbeatable. I do miss Henry Blofeld though.
The reference at the end suggested they were actually commentating on a darts match... a very different class and vibe altogether! If you throw meringue pieces in with strawberries and cream, it's called "Eton Mess"
Now I want one!!
Garboldisham is very much an English village. Its roots go way back to beyond Domesday Book, I used to live nearby and it’s origin was debated locally. Some said Garbold was a high status Viking others reckoned it was older and rooted in Angle/Saxon era.
Can't deny- couldn't wait to hear your take on this sketch! I'll just say one word- innuendo! Even listening to what you were saying after had me cracking up😂! There were so many other 'things' in this.. Blessings.
Inevitable misunderstanding of British humour !
"Oh, to be in England in the summertime!"
It is, I think, a spoof on Brian Johnson. He was a famous cricket commentator, who kept talking, when the match stopped because of rain.
Also Henry Blofeld.
Mitchell & Webb are the best at sketch shows.
Yeah I think Mitchell and Webb look is my favourite sketch show of all time
“Young boys, jumpers for goal posts”
Every child in The Wimbledon Area is given Strawberries and Cream if any English player ever reaches The Second Round. Double Cream. No whipping anything out though.The joke here was the expectation was that they were commentating on a cricket match by their appearance and demeanor and the UM Classes and with their very last line they let us know what they were REALLY commentating on which was the most Working Class Sport of all....DARTS.....as he said Eric Bristow (Former English World Champion ) is on the "oche" which is the line which the throwing player must stand :)
Eric Bristow was a dart player, and oche is the line behind which a dart player stands to throw his darts.
Hi Both hope you okay I think what they were "having a go" at is the bbc cricket commentators. its quite true if you listen to test match specilal on radio there are loads of random comments that they fill-in the commentary with eg Theres a 199 bus or "there is a nice seagul overhead" " there is a train departing the railway station " etc etc
One fascinating thing is that there a surprising number who love listening when rain stops play especially if they have to do the ironing as well and it has long been the favourite for people trying to get their kids to sleep.
Ironically we don't add "cream" to our tea like some Americans, just milk.
Fry was at prep school and Laurie was at Eton. The upper echelon send their kids away and it damages them. As you saw.
Strawberries and double cream poured generously over the top 🤤👍🇬🇧
This was also a double reference to the sexual feelings these guys have when talking about England. And the climax at the end and cream LOL!Its a joke within a joke.
Very much a pastiche on BBC Radio's Test Match Special - some very unintentional humour live on air...... "The Bowler is Holding the Batsman's Willey" comes to mind plus after a player had been hit in the Groin, "Turner looks a bit shaky but he is going to bat on, one ball left."
Another classic "He was caught having a slash outside off stump!" and "He couldn't resist a tickle there"
At the time of season you can go and pick strawberries. A great day out. Commentators were filling in during a hold in play. Cricket notorious for being slow. Listen to a 5 day test on the radio.
Creamy old England , wonderful hey .
Garbaldisham.. Ahhh!... Splendid village.
The reveal was they were actually commenting on a game of darts.
Garboldisham is near Thetford in Norfolk. They also mentioned Cromer on the Norfolk coast. No idea why.
Stephen Fry lives in Norfolk
Garboldisham is a village in good old South Norfolk
You guys! Yet again you missed the punchline at the end! Look up Eric Bristowe and the word 'oche' - that's the joke 😁
This is a parody of the cricket commentary radio show "Test Match Special", in particular the way it used to be until 20 or 30 years ago when it was presented by people like Henry Blofeld, Brian Johnston and John Arlott. They've tried to modernise the show in recent years so it isn't particularly like this now. This is a more recent example of Test Match Special commentary. Notice how they talk about lots of other subjects apart from just cricket: czcams.com/video/hVD5OFFFEVk/video.html
After watching comedy cricket/darts commentators, perhaps you should try reviewing Ron Manager (played by Paul Whitehouse) from "The Fast Show" and his comedy football commentaries. Jumpers for goalposts? Phew! Isn't it?
Actually while this sketch was poking fun at the UM Classes in England. Anyone who has watched football commentary connected with England or English sides. Can make a similar case that English Football commentaters are not too different to these guys in how they wax lyrical about anything English all the time in their football commentaries in the very working class sport of Football. Are the English Middle and Upper Classses any different to the English Working classes after all is also a take away you can get from this sketch.
I do worry about Felipe's neck, does he need a masseur?
As for the sketch, it was a send up of tedious posh commentators who comment on whatever they're seeing... there's a rude bit in the middle (they basically clim*x after talking about England) but the twist is that it's not a cricket match, it's darts.
This references Test Match Special on BBC radio (radio 4 and World Service), specifically the style of Henry Blofeld.
It's a piss take of cricket commentary, but the ending reveals it was actually darts commentary. Which is two polar opposites of the sporting spectrum.
This seems to be a skit about Test Match Special cricket commentator Henry Blowfeld.....he was famous for describing things around him in between the cricket.... All in a plummy English accent.
You could almost say this sketch was making fun of the English middle and upper classes in the old days George Bernard Shaw style. Maybe by the time did this sketch in the 1990s it still existed in England. Reference to Nanny's, English villages, references to Cricket, Rugby (Union), Tennis and Golf and horse riding etc. This was certainly not refering to the English working class which is the majority of the English public. The references were definitely things that the English middle and upper classes hold dear like Nanny's, English villages, references to Cricket, Rugby (Union),Tennis and Golf and horse riding etc. The comedy of Fry and Laurie was similar to The Two Ronnies. That is they did a lot of humour poking fun at the English middle and upper classes.
Lost in translation.... Chaps you use to hear on TMS, not Darts on the 'oche'
The golden age of cricket commentary was in the fifties and sixties when the great John Arlott would set the scene in the style of the romantic poets, all pronounced in his famous Hampshire, country burr. A far cry from public school accents.
Why was that the golden age? I have followed TMS for55 years and I have enjoyed every change it has gone through including...gasp!...female members of the TMS team!
Ps. I was relived to see Henry Blofeld retire as I found him a little on the tedious side in his latter days and apt become alarmed for no reason.
For me the golden age because Arlott spoke in a classless accent which gave the impression that it was from a countryside in perpetual summer.
@@johnegerszeghy9818 Arlott was great as was Richard Benaud, but times change! I think Benaud could adapt but I doubt John could.
you guys need to react to al murray national anthems you guys will love it
Hey Fillipe. Try looking up Hale & Pace. Something to make you chuckle with these two.
You think they are cricket commentators, then it gets absurd (how would they see a bus from a commentary box?), then they start waxing lyrical about England, only to end with them as darts commentators after all. Fry and Laurie’s sketches often went into absurdity.
Stephen Fry is more well known for the audio books of Harry Potter, and Hugh Laurie as Dr House. Check out their post sketch show version of Jeeves and Wooster. Fabulous. Try also: czcams.com/video/jwtzJZ5CIWs/video.html
and my personal favourites:
czcams.com/video/5JMTAz1Uyb8/video.html
czcams.com/video/b_RLFQQX-hg/video.html
They were trying to fill in empty space! Nothing to do with Olde England etc.
just making fun of the rubbish commentators use when there is nothing interesting to say !
Is it realy about cricket and then darts or about frustrated public school boarders.
Goodness you really didn’t get it.
Can you please react to Top Gear Middle East Special
Have you done Armstrong and Miller? czcams.com/video/r_b1Y-Rl_Uo/video.html
This one didn't do it for me - They've both done far better stuff.