@deekat3279 Ramsay is a complete purposeful ****hole. Fawlty is just faulty, that's all. Patently flawed, yes, but without the utterly disgusting malice that fuels Ramsay's despicably hateful rants.
Absolute brilliance to this day. How John and Connie only made 12 episodes was such a wise choice. Better to make 12 of greatness than 250 of lackluster quality. A few current film and tv makers could learn from this.
Alana King I agree completely, so many shows are being ruined because they are being flogged to death - mainly for greed. The Simpson’s is a prime example....
Possibly one of the best lines ever in a sitcom, of course perfect delivery helps. Its was so subtle you could almost miss it, so much better than if it had been delivered in so called punch line!!!
I still get the biggest laughs when he has to deal with the bratty kid who doesn't like his chips. Mom says that the boy is "very highly strung," to which Basil replies, "yes, yes, he should be." Brilliant!
@@lewfarkyy good morning to Britain I hope you are well in this difficult times.....well I don't feel annoyed...the past is the past I was born in 1965.....I have been many times in England and I love this country and his people.....I always felt very welcome as a German I met very interesting people I had good conversations.....I love the countryside.....I would say the English and the Germans are a perfect match...more as the french German connection ever would be....we are both Anglosaxon that's the secret!
My mum doesn't find John Cleese the least bit funny. She has no sense of humour. John Cleese is hilarious! My two favourite scenes are when Basil beats his car up with a tree and when he tries to tell Manuel to forget everything he knows about the horse. I've never laughed so much in my life.
Actually a couple of his co stars spoke out abt this. Saying he was mad, even had a cruel streak. The guy who played the waiter said often when Cleese hit him it was really hard and painful. I think your mother has great insight. I didn’t find him 100 % funny either. But there were funny moments
When this was first shown around 1975 I was hooked after the first episode. It was a different type of comedy than what was had been used to. It was hilarious. Even when watching this today and knowing what's coming I still find it hilarious. I do think it was the best comedy show ever.
How to be basil Step 1 get yourself in embarrassing situations Step 2 concoct extremely long explanation on how you find yourself in this situation Step 3 shout up the top of your lung Step 4 get yourself out of situation Step 5 blame everything on your wife Step 6 find a person to abuse possibly an employee or a servant Thank you for attending my TED talk ❤️
So I come from Croatia and I clearly remember how my late highschool English teacher looked alike and acted like John Cleese. He even had a perfect British accent so most of his teaching time he would spent cracking witty jokes that you see in Fawlty Towers and we kids would enjoy a live British comedy show in our class. :)
The way he sarcastically mutters “yes, thank you SO much!” Has been adopted by me to be used whenever I have problems with technology or something isn’t going my way . It does diffuse the tension a bit, being a comedy moment 😁
I got in trouble at school, for answering back to a teacher, when a minute late, after being told that I was 15 minutes late. "well it is NOW, that's because we've been standing around arguing about it" It did not go down well at all!
the best episode was the hotel inspector and when basil finds out bernard is a spoon salesman instead of an inspector and gets his own back on him was just brilliant lol
@@buckbumble that had me in stiches and when he asks him if he wanted a tea cosy for his pepper pot bernard played that part brilliantly as a complaining customer lol
I know virtually every line from Fawlty Towers and I still laugh every time I watch it! Brilliant comedy! I remember my father and I laughing hysterically at Basil beating the car with a branch! Classic!
Cleese is a comical genius....not sure if he's aware of it..or sees it that way. To me Fawlty Towers is the best sitcom ever in the history of comedy...
The actress who played Polly was Connie Booth, who was John Cleese’s wife at the time this series was produced. She was actually American, born in Indiana.
Try a NEW RADIO comedy from across the pond? “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners? AND two radio play ghost stories AND and a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Here’s the link: ! czcams.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/video.html--Claud. If you don’t want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on CZcams.
We should by a big island and collect all the people who loved that time, and then go back in time. We didn't have much, but everything had a soul. Grtz from Belgium
I wish I had gotten the name of the guy I talked to today at the bike rack that recommended me to watch Fawlty Towers. He was not wrong and I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Snowflakes was used in a book by a gay Male author critiquing toxic masculinity. People like you who use snowflake as an insult are hilariously inept and immature.
@@crickcrot twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1015886273482027014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1015886273482027014&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fjohn-cleese-snowflake_n_5b42de4ee4b09e4a8b2e8614 Here's what John Cleese would have to say about you twit.
@@theangryholmesian4556 So does that also make the gay author, in your words "hilariously inept and immature", and in Johns', to paraphrase -"A sociopath without empathy"? And as he started the term would you also continue on so as to call him a "Twit" as well?
I donno but Im still dissolved into tons of laughter when I see Basil taking in the update about the greek chef who's being drunk.. the moment where he is serious and then screams is a masterpiece... oh my...
Try the bit when the Major's going on a date with Marjorie Atwell,there's about 6 gags in one- Bullet points are Marjorie Atwell, Winifred(Winnie)Atwell(famous black piano player),Winston(Winnie)Churchill.When all the confusion is over,the final joke is the Major is going on a date with a woman who looks like Winston Churchill,all crammed into about 30 seconds,brilliant writing!!
Remember the golden age of the BBC!? When nobody got offended and everyone just had a good honest laugh. When comedy was sexist, racist, crude with minimal swearing, comedy writers were allowed to write just about anything, and comedic talent was allowed to grow and thrive organically. They were good times.
Don't insult Fawlty Towers by pretending that all tv was anywhere near as good as this in the seventies. About 75% of it was very simple comedy written for very simple people who can't understand much outside of bad puns about sex and quips about mothers in law and those hilarious berry wearing Frenchies. Comedy writers should be able to write about anything, but they must remember to do it in a way that special little boys like me can understand. If you think Allo Allo, Love Thy Neighbour or Only Fools and Horses can hold fork handles to this then it's obviously you who are a delusional snowflake.
Not anymore thanks to the retarded states everything today is offensive. People are snowflakes, they can't take the simplest tiniest of offense. Fucking ridiculous.
Funniest series ever produced. Watched every episode at least 10 times. Then I discovered watching it with subtitles on. There was so much more I missed...
"Hello?" *smashes alarm glass "Thank you, thank you" "Now" *Phone rings "WERE HAVING IT" He just knows it is Sybil on the other end of it the amount of times she pesters him in that episode
When I was a little kid in the 80s, in America, we have public broadcasting station. Which played tons of English shows. I remember watching fawlty towers and laughing for hours. I’m 49 and to this day I still watch whenever I can. When I was 19 I finally had a chance to go to England and it’s my favorite place that I’ve ever traveled to. Made friends there over the years and still visit every two years. I liked it so much there’s no reason for me to go anywhere else.
I was in retail management for 20 years. My last 5 I went full Basil.
Your job sounds awesome. Unfortunately, in a hospital where I work, you do that, someone dies.
I'd love to do that but i'm just the retail worker not a manager XD
I've been in the restaurant/hospitality industry for 14 years. I'm right behind you.
Until I watched The Office I had no idea how ‘David Brent’ I am, WAS!!
SaiVikram Madireddy
Huh??
The man with the highest blood pressure in the world, Mr Basil Fawlty.
hy iwood hav toagree with that
@deekat3279 Ramsay is a complete purposeful ****hole. Fawlty is just faulty, that's all. Patently flawed, yes, but without the utterly disgusting malice that fuels Ramsay's despicably hateful rants.
Oh yeah! Classic every episode a winner!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@42lookc Spot on. Disliked the "man" since the first time I had the misfortune to lay eyes on the Ramsay excuse for "entertainment".
@@patagualianmostly7437 agree with you if he comes on I can't change channels quick enough what a creep
"Oh, German! I thought there was something wrong with you" 😂
Would you like something to drink before the war 😂
Absolute brilliance to this day. How John and Connie only made 12 episodes was such a wise choice. Better to make 12 of greatness than 250 of lackluster quality. A few current film and tv makers could learn from this.
Friends!
The people behind "Heroes", should have stopped after the first season.
Fun fact: It took 3 months to write each episode!
Alana King I agree completely, so many shows are being ruined because they are being flogged to death - mainly for greed. The Simpson’s is a prime example....
The office followed suite didn’t it 🤔
"Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!"
Yid
It’s a plastic surgeon you need
My god you're ugly aren't you.
2020 in a nutshell
What I say to people in the current covid world lol
"You'll have to excuse my wife. Her finishing school was bombed in the war".
Really? No just a thought!
The way his attitude changes when he realises Melbury is a Lord.
sharkie12354 - my favourite scene, just brushes away O Reilly 😂
"... Go away."
Lord Melberry to you
From the first episode, perfectly set the tone of this brilliant series.😆
UtH Music ... actually, it was spelled "Melbury". 🙂
2:57 “Is mentioned once more, I shall move you closer to Him” What an amazing line 😂😂😂!
Sheikh Ahmed 😂 oh my gosh, I just heard it. It is absolutely fabulous!
Possibly one of the best lines ever in a sitcom, of course perfect delivery helps. Its was so subtle you could almost miss it, so much better than if it had been delivered in so called punch line!!!
the war or the lord?
It's fucking funny ^^
Every single word that ever came out of Basil's mouth is legendary.
“If you don’t like duck...you’re rather stuck”😂😂😂
Thanks for the translation. Thought it was "lf you don't like duck you're rather fucked."
Anyone who has worked with the public will appreciate Basil. He expresses what we all feel....
16 years in retail. I know exactly what you mean, dealing with idiots all day, every day, lol
We all have a little Basil Fawlty in us from time to time!
@MichaelKingsfordGray now you know where the title spamalot came from.... Lol
I almost turned into him last week out of anger
A little!!??
The older I get the more I agree lol
except for his wife, i suppose
Fawlty Towers is possibly one of the funniest sitcoms of all time. The part in every episode when Basil finally loses it never gets old.
possibly THE funniest.
2:57 i shall move you closer to Him. MY FAVORITE
This is perfection.
Timeless classic, you won’t see anything like this again sadly
Naaaah. There are still masterpiece sitcoms
@DJ Jeff What?
@@Syfoll like?
@@Eleventhearlofmars Community, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Peep Show is a million times better than any other British sitcom, including Fawlty Towers.
After 5 years working in a hotel I find myself becoming more like Basil by the day!
Basil fawlty with the car is everyone now with computers and phones. Still so relatable
Darshan Sittampalam The day I see someone thrashing their phone with a tree branch...........
"Oooh, you know each other, do you?"
Most definitely lol 😂
@@Unicysis You can al throw it against the wall, lol.
I need to rewatch them all! Such a hilarious show, and Connie Booth is an absolute doll.
Great show. Never gets old. I binge all the episodes 2-3 times a year.
1:23 The way Polly quietly sidles away as Basil goes into Herr Hitler mode cracks me up.
Attempting to drink a coca-cola and watch this at the same time should be classified as an attempted suicide.
so wot dus that to ddoo with the show
wot has thatgot to dp\doo withcomitii\ingsuarside wotthats\got todoowith woching foltie towse
que? @@lachlanjones3397
Agreed
@CJusticeHappen21 Indeed sir.
When you work in retail or a customer service job, you eventually become Basil Fawlty 😂
I still have the psychological scars
Been in hospitality all my life and im basically Basil these days 😂
I still get the biggest laughs when he has to deal with the bratty kid who doesn't like his chips. Mom says that the boy is "very highly strung," to which Basil replies, "yes, yes, he should be." Brilliant!
Why can't we have more comedians like this, absolutely superb
One word for this show....brilliant. .
No, there’s two words for this show...Bloody Brilliant 👍
Its out of this world brilliant
They don’t make them like this anymore, I’ve forgotten the last decent sitcom that I seen, must of been at least 25 years ago.
Or "till brain" to borrow the gag from the opening sequence.
Greetings from the good old germans too Britain...great British humor we love it...and we love you Brits...
I love how German people can laugh and enjoy British humour. Do you feel the slightest bit annoyed when he did the nazi jokes?
@@lewfarkyy good morning to Britain I hope you are well in this difficult times.....well I don't feel annoyed...the past is the past I was born in 1965.....I have been many times in England and I love this country and his people.....I always felt very welcome as a German I met very interesting people I had good conversations.....I love the countryside.....I would say the English and the Germans are a perfect match...more as the french German connection ever would be....we are both Anglosaxon that's the secret!
Im sure you guys didnt feel that way when you invaded Poland
@@albionmyl7735 Schleimer, Feind bleibt Feind,
@@liambraithewaite6415 that's was a start, wasn't it.
You'll never get a show like this again, I do be howling with laughter watching these clips. Thanks for posting.
I do be howling?
Kush DigwaJ don't speak like that
Allen you in a way that is the
John Cleese, bloody legend!
If the good lord is mentioned once more I will move you closer to him 😂😂
My fav line from the series 😂
My mum doesn't find John Cleese the least bit funny. She has no sense of humour. John Cleese is hilarious! My two favourite scenes are when Basil beats his car up with a tree and when he tries to tell Manuel to forget everything he knows about the horse. I've never laughed so much in my life.
How could anybody not laugh watching this????
I still use "I'm going to spend the rest of my life having this conversation" sometimes.
Actually a couple of his co stars spoke out abt this. Saying he was mad, even had a cruel streak. The guy who played the waiter said often when Cleese hit him it was really hard and painful. I think your mother has great insight. I didn’t find him 100 % funny either. But there were funny moments
I feel bad for your mom.
Same with me with mrs Brown boys ..just can't dig it but Basil haha..a whole different level.
When this was first shown around 1975 I was hooked after the first episode. It was a different type of comedy than what was had been used to. It was hilarious. Even when watching this today and knowing what's coming I still find it hilarious. I do think it was the best comedy show ever.
agreed... it just never gets old.
It was and Wil be forever and ever
How to be basil
Step 1 get yourself in embarrassing situations
Step 2 concoct extremely long explanation on how you find yourself in this situation
Step 3 shout up the top of your lung
Step 4 get yourself out of situation
Step 5 blame everything on your wife
Step 6 find a person to abuse possibly an employee or a servant
Thank you for attending my TED talk ❤️
side note, make sure he can't speak english
Simply the best ever Dedicated to my late Mother as she loved it Jan Volkmer 1944 - 2014 Gone and never forgotten
🥰😇💫🙏she will be in my prayers ❤
"Manuel, put the butter in those trays" Oh no Mr. Fawlty, Uno, Dos, Tres"
So I come from Croatia and I clearly remember how my late highschool English teacher looked alike and acted like John Cleese. He even had a perfect British accent so most of his teaching time he would spent cracking witty jokes that you see in Fawlty Towers and we kids would enjoy a live British comedy show in our class. :)
"There's enough material there for an entire conference"
i love the food inspectors episode and Manuels rat in the biscuit box
The best of Basil is every minute of every episode!
The way he sarcastically mutters “yes, thank you SO much!” Has been adopted by me to be used whenever I have problems with technology or something isn’t going my way . It does diffuse the tension a bit, being a comedy moment 😁
I got in trouble at school, for answering back to a teacher, when a minute late, after being told that I was 15 minutes late.
"well it is NOW, that's because we've been standing around arguing about it"
It did not go down well at all!
Howard Fisher haha, love it! Worth it I bet 😁
Faulty Towers was the funniest show ever in my opinion. The writing, the characters, the timing, the actors. Just brilliant..👍
I love everything about this show. Everything!
Maybe the best comedy series I have ever seen.
He was at his absolute peak here.
I am surprised fawlty didn't have a heart attack years ago. His stress and blood pressure levels must be sky high
iwoodhavetoagree
He was young at the time.
I think he was 36 1st series,40, nxt,I could b wrong
Simply the best comedic actor ever. Brings tears to my eyes when I watch fawlty towers
6:43 "You're still here?"
Basil: "Apparently.." HAHAHHAHAHAHAH So calm
You wouln't understand dear it's called style
John Cleese finest moments, the whole cast are brilliant.
The whole episode with Bernard Cribbins. The man is an absolute legend.
the best episode was the hotel inspector and when basil finds out bernard is a spoon salesman instead of an inspector and gets his own back on him was just brilliant lol
stratocasterman 8135 yes! One of my favourite lines is when Basil confronts him about him being a spoon salesman. “Sp-th-th-th-OONS”
@@buckbumble that had me in stiches and when he asks him if he wanted a tea cosy for his pepper pot bernard played that part brilliantly as a complaining customer lol
Let me do the funny walk!
Are u 6'4"?
"is it aery?"
"well there's air in it.. What.."
LOVED The Major!
paper's arrived Fawlty?
Well apparently he's dressed up as a guest....... The psychiatrist!!!
Shot was he?
I know virtually every line from Fawlty Towers and I still laugh every time I watch it! Brilliant comedy! I remember my father and I laughing hysterically at Basil beating the car with a branch! Classic!
John Cleese at his finest. One of my all time favorite. Flowery twats 😂 classic ! What a comical contribution.
Cleese is a comical genius....not sure if he's aware of it..or sees it that way.
To me Fawlty Towers is the best sitcom ever in the history of comedy...
His wife of the time Connie Booth (Poly) must share the plaudits with John, she co wrote it
Watery Fowls - my personal favorite if I do say so myself;)
Note to self: Don't eat while watching this unless you want to choke. 😄😄😄
This is why I love John Cleese.
1:10 the slap to the back of the head gets me every time.😂
The actress who played Polly was Connie Booth, who was John Cleese’s wife at the time this series was produced. She was actually American, born in Indiana.
Try a NEW RADIO comedy from across the pond? “A Trip to the Moon” starring Joyce Randolph of The Honeymooners? AND two radio play ghost stories AND and a brand new mystery listed on my channel “Claude Chabot Presents” right here on YT. Here’s the link: ! czcams.com/video/Hex2ltykNTM/video.html--Claud. If you don’t
want to click the link just search “Claude Chabot presents” on CZcams.
8:06
That ultra fake laugh gets me every time :D
"This Basil's wife. This Basil. This smack on head."
"Ve have meat heer in ze building!"
My god a doctor? I mean here in the hospital? Whatever shall we do
You can leave!
The best comedy ever made 😂
Full agreement
The older I get the more I can relate to Basil Fawlty
Well, yesterday it was announced on the news- FT is now officially the funniest ever Brit sit-com!! (We fans always knew that.)
Yes we did!
I couldn't sgrre more...and I've pretty much seen every British sitcom...
@bagshitass they’re all class, the writing and actors have a lot to do with it. Steptoe and son and fawlty towers were the best two ever imo.
Absolutely
True British Classic. John Cleese is a Legend. Everything you need for a true British Comedy, is all here. Well done John and the team.
4:37 WE'RE HAVING IT!!!
0:36 RIP Bernard Cribbins
Absolute Genius!
The beautiful 70s Will never come back..
We should by a big island and collect all the people who loved that time, and then go back in time. We didn't have much, but everything had a soul. Grtz from Belgium
John Cleese: Lifts his leg really high
The audience: 👌👌😂😩💦👏👏
That's a reference to Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks.
I wish I had gotten the name of the guy I talked to today at the bike rack that recommended me to watch Fawlty Towers. He was not wrong and I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Absolute genius.. Could you imagine the BBC trying to make it now they are run bysnowflakes.
Snowflakes was used in a book by a gay Male author critiquing toxic masculinity. People like you who use snowflake as an insult are hilariously inept and immature.
@@theangryholmesian4556 you are a great example of a Snowflake.
@@crickcrot twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1015886273482027014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1015886273482027014&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Fjohn-cleese-snowflake_n_5b42de4ee4b09e4a8b2e8614 Here's what John Cleese would have to say about you twit.
@@theangryholmesian4556 So does that also make the gay author, in your words "hilariously inept and immature", and in Johns', to paraphrase -"A sociopath without empathy"?
And as he started the term would you also continue on so as to call him a "Twit" as well?
@@aaronosborne4906 Boy did you miss the point bud.
I donno but Im still dissolved into tons of laughter when I see Basil taking in the update about the greek chef who's being drunk.. the moment where he is serious and then screams is a masterpiece... oh my...
4:39 is such an underated bit. Two gags combining, so funny.
Try the bit when the Major's going on a date with Marjorie Atwell,there's about 6 gags in one- Bullet points are Marjorie Atwell, Winifred(Winnie)Atwell(famous black piano player),Winston(Winnie)Churchill.When all the confusion is over,the final joke is the Major is going on a date with a woman who looks like Winston Churchill,all crammed into about 30 seconds,brilliant writing!!
Remember the golden age of the BBC!? When nobody got offended and everyone just had a good honest laugh. When comedy was sexist, racist, crude with minimal swearing, comedy writers were allowed to write just about anything, and comedic talent was allowed to grow and thrive organically. They were good times.
Don't insult Fawlty Towers by pretending that all tv was anywhere near as good as this in the seventies. About 75% of it was very simple comedy written for very simple people who can't understand much outside of bad puns about sex and quips about mothers in law and those hilarious berry wearing Frenchies. Comedy writers should be able to write about anything, but they must remember to do it in a way that special little boys like me can understand. If you think Allo Allo, Love Thy Neighbour or Only Fools and Horses can hold fork handles to this then it's obviously you who are a delusional snowflake.
Not anymore thanks to the retarded states everything today is offensive. People are snowflakes, they can't take the simplest tiniest of offense.
Fucking ridiculous.
👏 👍
@@matthwe3468 I probably would have got more across by asking basil what he's been up to since the series finished tbh.
Funniest series ever produced. Watched every episode at least 10 times. Then I discovered watching it with subtitles on. There was so much more I missed...
Ssssppppoons. Gets me every time. 😂
SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING THAN BEING A HOTEL INSPECTOR!!!
😂
"Hello?" *smashes alarm glass "Thank you, thank you" "Now" *Phone rings "WERE HAVING IT" He just knows it is Sybil on the other end of it the amount of times she pesters him in that episode
a lot of people outside of england wont really appreciate the humour of john cleese, but the sarcasm to the nurse was absolutely pure class acting.
But an awful lot of us really do appreciate it
there is not really any political innuendo or word play so this is quite understandable humour everywhere
I agree here John. We British often assume that Americans won't appreciate some of our dryer sense of humour but thats not always the case.
It has been almost contentiously running on Swedish television for more than 30 years. Brilliant.
Not true I am Macedonian, in ex Yugoslavia this series are considered the best of the best ever
required viewing for small hotel owners !
Yes
Outstanding exceptional comedy
Never to be repeated at this quality.
this is still brilliant today ,
“Is mentioned once more,I shall move you closer to him”😂😂😂
6:34 This makes me laugh so hard everytime. The way he says "ZE BUILDING" and moves his arms lol.
🤣🤣
I love how the guests are terrified and start slowly moving backwards 😂😂
0:55 I totally empathize with this.
4:37 always always killed me as a kid and still does to this day
Oh...he was priceless!...his timing is perfect always. Thanks for this one.
This brilliant subtle sarcasm... I love it.
This was just one of the funniest shows ever. :D I wish there had been more than 13 episodes, because it was a great show. :D
SoniaStrumm1 it was actually 12, unless there's a Christmas special I don't know about. I have DVDs of the entire series.
I first watched this series on the PBS affiliate in Chicago (WTTW) in the 80s. Bought the entire set on DVD.
Best ever advert for Torquay, ever.
When I was a little kid in the 80s, in America, we have public broadcasting station. Which played tons of English shows. I remember watching fawlty towers and laughing for hours. I’m 49 and to this day I still watch whenever I can. When I was 19 I finally had a chance to go to England and it’s my favorite place that I’ve ever traveled to. Made friends there over the years and still visit every two years. I liked it so much there’s no reason for me to go anywhere else.
British humour at its very best! simply brilliant!!
This series was simply perfect!!!
Such a great show! Love him!
Every line is pure gold.
Fawltless
Fawlty Towers , best ever !!!!
Good evening - and what can I do for you three gentlemen? Aaaaarghh! Classic Fawlty!
I enjoyed watching Fawlty Towers, I wish the reruns were still running on TV!!
I don't know why ,but this is still hilairious 🤣Can't imagine why he would spoil it with a sequel 40 years later.Has he spent all his money ?
08:46 iv'e watched this about 100 times and it still makes me piss my pants with laughter.