When you think of what we have to settle for in TV comedy these days. Norman and Gareth are criminally underrated in the history of TV comedy. This sketch is a work of genius.
Russell Ford Too bloody right. Actually, I can see some material in their clips on CZcams that has been "recycled" by other so called comedians recently. They were brilliant weren't they? Latest thing they did was Benidorm. There is a video of them singing Smoky's "Alice" in the post filming party in Benidorm with the cast and they changed the words to, Chalice? Chalice? Who the f***k is Chalice?" as in Joh Chalice (Boycie) who is was also co-starring. It is on CZcams somewhere too.
Didn't watch much of Hale and Pace when these sketches were first broadcast, but I'm pleasantly surprised to find their sketches have withstood the test of time.
There was a contractor used to come into my old works a bit like this guy, always said the same shite jokes! His favourite was if you greeted him with a simple, "Hi, how are you! he'd say, "I'm good thanks, any better and I couldn't stand it"... every single time without fail!
I work in Security, one of my team mates is a fat guy called gary, exactly the same as this guy, wont shutup for one minute, talks absoloute shit and bores everyone, we all try to hide when hes in the room
You get people like that, i was a window cleaner for 15yrs always used to get "you've missed a bit haha" every bloody day, every person who said it thought they were unique. Only if they knew. Idiots! 😂 If you have a window cleaner don't tell them they missed a bit.
@@vladdracul5072 a mother that gives up is no mother at all, no matter how anoying he is, he's not a bad person, at at lest should account for something
@@alanaspinall7147 I didn't say he's a bad person, he's just thinking everyone else thinks as he does, and his mother, writing wanker on the cake, has given up to teach him otherwise. He's a positive person and that's the problem: being TOO positive makes one invariably lose some or all sense of reality.
Thesedays this type of person would be classed as aspergers, being socially awkward, of a nervous unnatural disposition & lacks general awareness of how he relates to others. In classic observational comedy its the local loon that sits next to you on the bus.
@a w Some shops are starting to bring in glass bottle returns. you just drop the glass bottle off at the machine and you get a token for the return value. a step in the right direction.
@@BatteryExhausted Gave you a thumbs up, hahaha. There are jobs here (in the U.K) that people wish not to do and some of those same people moan that foreigners/aliens/immigrants are taking 'their' jobs. Ive never heard anybody who is highly skilled within their field say "they're stealing our jobs". People don't realise that net migration and immigration generally balances out and has done for however many years.
@@mr.x9566 ye gods even the Uber liberal BBC, and Biden have slagged off ' buy in' job immigration, it lowers wages, and robs the country they have left of a work force, as any Romanian farmer
I worked with that dude, apparently I don’t now because he died three years ago and nobody other than his mother went to his funeral. Don’t feel all that happy now about calling him a loser.
£2.23 for a pack of 20 and a newspaper?? Those were the days!
Yes
Yeah but wages were only 50p/hr😅
That's only cos it seems cheap now, back then it was "pricey"
When you think of what we have to settle for in TV comedy these days. Norman and Gareth are criminally underrated in the history of TV comedy. This sketch is a work of genius.
Russell Ford Too bloody right. Actually, I can see some material in their clips on CZcams that has been "recycled" by other so called comedians recently. They were brilliant weren't they? Latest thing they did was Benidorm. There is a video of them singing Smoky's "Alice" in the post filming party in Benidorm with the cast and they changed the words to, Chalice? Chalice? Who the f***k is Chalice?" as in Joh Chalice (Boycie) who is was also co-starring. It is on CZcams somewhere too.
@@Funkstar124 gavin and Stacy stole alot from hail and pace sketches, Cordan the fat unfunny prick made his name off stolen content.
Doesn't seem to even be ANY sketch shows at all these days and decent sitcoms are very rare.
Didn't watch much of Hale and Pace when these sketches were first broadcast, but I'm pleasantly surprised to find their sketches have withstood the test of time.
I didn't take much notice of them when I was a kid but stone me they're funny!
When I was younger and worked in a market, there really were customers like this. I didn't mind though, they actually made my day better :)
The bit that he spooks the stranger by going woof-woof cracks me up.
There was a contractor used to come into my old works a bit like this guy, always said the same shite jokes! His favourite was if you greeted him with a simple, "Hi, how are you! he'd say, "I'm good thanks, any better and I couldn't stand it"... every single time without fail!
I’m sure we all know a person like that..so hilarious and true at the same time
That is hilarious I work in retail and really do get customers like that
He's harmless. We need more characters.
LOL! I remember having customers like this too.
@NumptyMagnet That makes two of us.
Well I won't be patronising your establishment again !!!!!
Those customers always mean well though
"Oh look. 3 aces. That'll be difficult to beat"
He's so sarcastic though I would have thought it just as likely the guy had nothing and he was trying to help him out.
We all know somebody like this...and if you don't, chances are it`s YOU
There's genuinely people like this and they don't even know it
I work in Security, one of my team mates is a fat guy called gary,
exactly the same as this guy, wont shutup for one minute,
talks absoloute shit and bores everyone, we all try to hide when hes in the room
When I was growing up people like this got laughed at and they kept quiet now it's normal to act like a wanker
@@davemustaki134 are you saying they suck or no?
I don't. Oh fuck...
"I really think seeing me sets up old Bob up for the day" 😂😂
You get people like that, i was a window cleaner for 15yrs always used to get "you've missed a bit haha" every bloody day, every person who said it thought they were unique. Only if they knew. Idiots! 😂
If you have a window cleaner don't tell them they missed a bit.
I tell im to piss off
If i had a window cleaner id tell him to piss off.
tim lightbrown, you seemed to have missed a bit in the corner
What's a window and why does it need to be cleaned?
Thanks Tim. Have made mental note to tell the window cleaner he's missed a bit next time he comes round.
i always felt kind of sorry for him, after all in his own twisted way he's a positive person,yet he gose about it completely the wrong way lol
No, he's just a wanker
@@oddforestcritter a wanker would imply intent to be an arse, he trying to be nice, he just fucks up on an epic scale
@@alanaspinall7147 Obviously even his mother has given up on him.
@@vladdracul5072 a mother that gives up is no mother at all, no matter how anoying he is, he's not a bad person, at at lest should account for something
@@alanaspinall7147 I didn't say he's a bad person, he's just thinking everyone else thinks as he does, and his mother, writing wanker on the cake, has given up to teach him otherwise. He's a positive person and that's the problem: being TOO positive makes one invariably lose some or all sense of reality.
These guys made Sunday evening before school way less shit back in the day
There’s at least one of these types where I work.
Strangely though, some people find them amusing.
I’m actually jealous he gets to commute to work every day and pick up a paper and some darts. Things we took for granted.
"Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful"
A say this at the end of phone calls
Brought tears to my eyes 😂😂😂
i forgot how blooy funny these 2 was lol love them
Actually as I’m getting older I’m starting to get like this at times and you only just realise when you stop and think 🤔.... 🧐
Maybe you should just stop?
That cake at the end. 😂
im a bit of a lad... that bit always gets me lol
The thing that makes it funnier is the fact he laughs after each sentence.
Inspiration for Colin Hunt, Fast Show
Morning Tiddly Orning!
"Fair to middlings the way I'm diddling as I always say"
Flanders
The days when comedy was actually funny 😂
Yeah... and when people didn't call everything racist...
@@IsaacWale2004 I hear you're a racist now father, how did ye get inta that sort a ting
Back when we could have Saville and Rolf Harris and them on tv.
@@IsaacWale2004 snowflake. Try not being racist you pube headed seat sniffer. Your comedy is wank.
there's plenty of good stuff if you look for it. Pleb.
I never forgot this sketch fantastic
2.23 for a pack of smokes, and the paper, i remember i that cheap and even cheaper
That would be over a tenner in January 2020.
That would be over £11 now in January 2020
I remember 10 Players No.6 being 14p. I ain't that old either
@@fasthracing F off, 10 Regal were 80p when i was 12, im 41, you must be about 60?
Wanker section
This is my neighbour , he's so in love with himself he thinks everybody else loves him , but everybody hates the old shithoose !!!
He probably means well...
Ney he don’t
"Morning Bob me old mucka!"
LMAO @
"Morning Bob me old mucka!"
Translate to English
Even google does not understand English
Thats just made me laugh hard...
"I really think seeing me set ol' Bob up for the day"
What a duo the cake classic
I love this.
@aaronstately I wouldn't be surprised. I'm sure Little Britain got a few ideas from Hale & Pace too(especially the police line-up sketch)
Like an early Colin Hunt prototype.
You know him too ha
He'd be a fun catch for some lucky lady.
"Falling down water"
Yes.
Happy Birthday W**ker 😂😂😂👍🏻epic sketch
Hale and Pace the masters of using profanity. Minimal and perfectly executed.
Fkn great
I like him, reminds me of myself. I also put on 'cow-pat' after shave. Great for queues, or crowded shops. Helps getting noticed in pubs too.
Oh look 3 aces that'll be difficult to beat
"Up at the crack of a sparrows fart eh milky?"
"And if you can't be good be careful"
Gold!
Modern British comedy can't come close to this..
"Morning Bob me old mucka"
"Fair to middlins the way I'm diddling as I always say"
Thesedays this type of person would be classed as aspergers, being socially awkward, of a nervous unnatural disposition & lacks general awareness of how he relates to others. In classic observational comedy its the local loon that sits next to you on the bus.
You Forget how funny 😂 these guys are😂😂
It's sad when you think there's actually poor sods out there like that ,we all know one..... Maybe it's me !
Stay alert how did he forget that 😂😂😂😮 brilliant
And for any newcomers wanting to understand English culture start here and take notes !! :-)
"See ya"
"Not if I see you first"
That sounds like a threat...
notice the drinks fridge in the shop? thats right metal, glass and cardboard. no plastic bottles. the good old days!
@a w Some shops are starting to bring in glass bottle returns. you just drop the glass bottle off at the machine and you get a token for the return value. a step in the right direction.
£2.23 for 20 JPS and a newspaper. Those were the days.
The Real life Flanders lol.
Yeah, but people like Flanders...
02:18 straight up legendary spoiler
You do get people like that LMAO hilarious
Great, made me laugh!
Like that bit where the cake says Happy Birthday Wanker and the audience reactions that roar with laughter.
The audiences laughs are so funny
I really have met a few people exactly like this : ))
Oh gawd, I've had to work with people exactly like him!
03:18
£2.23 for 20 JPS and a paper? Farkin' 'ell...papers alone are approaching that much nowadays!
If you dont know a guy like this YOU are this guy.
I forgot about these guys, subscribed.
Wonder what Hale and Pace have been doing for the last 25 years?
This only came out 25 years ago...
@@IsaacWale2004 Edited!
@@MrGoneTroppo okay
They've both appeared on stage shows and in films... that's about it...
I refuse to believe that’s a real Nose on the Milkman.
I'm a bit of a lad
Colin Hunt with a side of Only Me. But this was before either.
Fantastic 😂😅.
Cigarettes AND the paper for £2:23. Wow.
Back in the 90's
every town has a person like this hahahaha
I'm a bit of a lad. LMAO
0:18
Clement Freud wasn't taking any chances
@oddity3927 and a white guy running a newsagents
Yeah amazing, now being squeezed out of every job in the country ....
Free Saxon THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!! You can go and pick fruit, dummy.
@@BatteryExhausted Gave you a thumbs up, hahaha.
There are jobs here (in the U.K) that people wish not to do and some of those same people moan that foreigners/aliens/immigrants are taking 'their' jobs.
Ive never heard anybody who is highly skilled within their field say "they're stealing our jobs".
People don't realise that net migration and immigration generally balances out and has done for however many years.
@@BatteryExhausted that comment fell flat with me
@@mr.x9566 ye gods even the Uber liberal BBC, and Biden have slagged off ' buy in' job immigration, it lowers wages, and robs the country they have left of a work force, as any Romanian farmer
I can tell this guy is pretty popular
Sounds like Richard Ayoade in The IT Crowd 😂
Autistic that’s why
'Be good, and if you can't be good be careful'. Catchphrase of a work colleague bore. Hope he reads this and know I'm referring to him.
I think most co-workers are a bore to be honest.
1:55 that today can land you in a lot of trouble with the law.
£2.23 for twenty cigs and a paper, wow, this is old..
About 1993.
Last time I bought 20 Embassy would have been about half-a crown a pack. (Haven't smoked for a while)
When I started smoking (stopped Jan 06) in 1999 it was around £3.40 - £3.90 for 20 and about £5.20 - £5.70 in 2006 iirc
1991 based on the newspaper headlines, first Iraq war kicked off early 1991
I worked with that dude, apparently I don’t now because he died three years ago and nobody other than his mother went to his funeral. Don’t feel all that happy now about calling him a loser.
That bus.. lol
Shweppes n CocaCola never change
£2.23 for 20 fans and a paper
Possibly the inspiration for the Fast Show's Colin Hunt.
Nowdays a newspaper is more than £2.23...
We all know someone like that
I used to be like that...
Laughing my arse off in 2020 😂😂😂
Falling down water
There's people or someone I once knew who was just like him.
Proper telly back then.We laughed and didn't harp on about what was PC or not.
OMG! I think this is me!
my grand kids would say thats me
Err no thats NOT the actor who played Tony Angelino in Only fools ;)
Ah, the good ol' days. 😁
Bring them back ! Where are they now ?
Can tell this is old. Man got a pack of 20 John Player cigs for two quid.
This came out in the early 90's
Brilliant
Real life Ned Flanders.
kissy kissy
But he's so nice!
Oscar winning performance ... this is acting
Love the ending *HAPPY BIRTHDAY WANKER* roflmao
this reminds me of my old neighbour
No wonder he's so popular...
There is always that one service user…..ignorance must be bliss!