"What will they say?" "They'll quite simply say John Major punched the Queen everything else will be a footnote." "But for time, can you sum it up in a word?" "No." "Sound?" "Boouuaaggh." "Spartacus thank you."
And Armando Iannucci needs more exposure. When these 2 team up, and get Steve Coogan, employ Peter Baynum, Richard Herring, & Stewart Lee as writers, throw in Graham Linehan and you have weapons grade comedy!!!
In my view this is the best episode of The Day Today they made. Horses on the Tube, the Bureau, the Queen hits John Major, the UK Government official "Everything's OK" public pacification film, Alan Partridge sees boobs, Chapman Baxter and his "Fried To Be", and The Pool with Steve Coogan's iconic security guard, as well as "This is the Newwwwwws!" and the ending long hair gag. The whole thing is a comedy classic.
PopeLando I love this show, and brass eye and on the hour. it's a shame though this isn't still on now, cuz lord knows we need more Chris Morris in the world of comedy.
It’s hilarious how Chapman Baxter continues to be a reoccurring character despite his death in the first episode! Not even a name change to try and disguise it. Gold!
There’s something deeply funny and very underrated about Chris asking so many questions of Alan, with Chris facing his right and Alan facing his left, only for Chris to then turn around and reveal Alan is to his left. They’ve just been both talking at each other in the wrong direction for the past minute. And then Alan disappears from that position, replaced by the French philosopher.
@@chrisbirch4150 I mean, it isn’t from us who watched it. Just reliving my past just now… How many others do you know that know that know this show though? It holds up so well, and couldn’t happen these days. It’s definitely under-rated.
@@emlyndewar maybe. I guess I just think the expression "underrated" is overused on youtube. It's everywhere. The Day Today was a BBC comedy that was critically acclaimed, essentially catapulted Steve coogan and the Alan Partridge character to global fame. A load of the others: Chris Morris, Rebecca Front, David Schneider have all been ever present in tv and movies since. I am not really knocking anything artistically. I am just unclear on the metric for "underrated".
What I see is the logical results of continuous cuts due to diminishing audience and revenue,The Bureau is the cheapest,shortest,to the point,condensed soap opera ever,also the funniest and best,who needs expensive costume dramas and the like when it's all in here.
''Heseltine fading fast...'' Glad I was not drinking at that point or I'd have a soggy monitor. But seriously, one of the best comedies of the last generation!
Have not seen this show before. Doon is so good as expected, but Rebecca Front’s comedic skill and versatility shines, too. The gals here are certainly as strong as the two talented guys.
Brass eye Armando Iannucci Shows Time Trumpet This Morning With Richard Not Judy Fist of Fun I'm Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters Monkey Dust There's a list for u... I hope you've at least heard of those.
Stumbled onto this from a LRB podcast in which the guest mentions Chris Morris who I’d never heard of. Tho was familiar w Alan P and Armando I. This is f#####g hilarious, not at all dated, so glad to find it
@@belykwater5601 Oh the Charlie thing is from that Sarah Palin interview, I think it was her first TV interview, I can't remember what the interviewers name was, but he asked her something like, "what's your opinion of the Bush doctrine ?" And she replied with this semi-homespun, high-pitched attempt to appear likeable, and she just replied, "In what respect Charlie ?" It was a funny moment. Politics moves so fast now that it can be hard to find stuff like that. But I just use it because it gives me a chuckle when I think of that first, disastrous Sarah Palin interview. (This was before the Couric interview, which just descended into madness)
This is the most brilliant TV newsroom training video ever seen. It's uncannily amazing how this Gold Standard presentation from so long ago has spread around the world to become the example that all TV companies follow to this day. "Wonderful stuff. Absolutely triffic. Standard. Standard. Isnit.". Rod Laver.
15:22 I've just noticed three odd things on my 999th rewatching that, combined, I found rather hilarious: Morris gulping a drink while staring into/smirking at the camera; the looped video in the background of an AK-47 toting militant doing a little dance, captioned "WEATHER"; the shit-eating way Morris introduces Sylvester Stewart. It's so dense.
I love The Bureau because it's a bunch of good actors acting like bad actors. Also, I find it amazing that Valerie SInatra and Barbara Wintergreen are the same actor, just because of the difference in accents. The part where all the ministers are entering Number 10 and the reporter is naming them off, "Kenneth Clark, Michael Howard, Christopher Biggins, Michael Heseltine" - the third guy is not, of course, Christopher Biggins, who was a camp overweight d-grade celebrity - but he does look like Christopher Biggins.
Gotta love the low quality,fuzzy video of the reports from America. So acurrate to the pre-HD NTSC broadcasts from the states shown in Britain at the time. Amazing attention to detail!
to me TDT at its best easily rivals the best of Python. Not all of them is gold, but certain sketches are simply impossible to match: the parrot, funniest joke, how not to be seen, Blackmail, rich yorkshiremen, the dirty fork and of course the legendary Life of Brian . Same with TDT
stinky visitor I rememember in Brass Eye where we had a radio DJ, Tommy Vance (for some inexplicable reason) giving us a list of absurd prison slang. Among which was 'Portillo', which meant 'watch out behind you'. I think part of it was that Morris, like most in the media, was aware that many people in the public eye had another side to their personality, and this was his way of bringing it out without making himself subject to libel.
Well he does (did) carry a sawn-off shotgun to constituency meetings, corners children in parks and chews their cheeks and has frequent sexual intercourse with stray animals. How could anyone condone that?
First appearance of Ted Maul (all be it only voiceover) he has to be the funniest reporter character Chris invented certainly the funniest in Brass Eye. The number of individually different characters Chris creates over the two separate programs is amazing really.
Yeh I always remember watching the news in Australia even UK footage was foggy or grainy, before the net it made you feel like anything overseas wasn't quite real, post net now overseas events do feel real cos you can literally watch people live overseas with clear footage.
"What will they say?"
"They'll quite simply say John Major punched the Queen everything else will be a footnote."
"But for time, can you sum it up in a word?"
"No."
"Sound?"
"Boouuaaggh."
"Spartacus thank you."
It’s bigger than that it’s large
I wish I'd kept my John Major kissing the Queen commemorative stamps in mint condition.
That Bureau clip encapsulated every Eastenders nuance perfectly.
Chris Morris is an underrated national treasure.
And Armando Iannucci needs more exposure. When these 2 team up, and get Steve Coogan, employ Peter Baynum, Richard Herring, & Stewart Lee as writers, throw in Graham Linehan and you have weapons grade comedy!!!
One of the true unsung heroes of British comedy.
Overused term. Seems almost everyone is a "national treasure" these days.
Two of Britain's most famous comedy writers need more exposure....Actually, yes.
@@LeeGee Armando Iannucci needs to come back to the UK, he's been making meh dross in the US where he's not really appreciated, but is better paid.
"John Fashanu...John Fashanu...John Fashanu...John Fashanu...John Fashanu...John Fashanu...
That's John Fasharnew... tonight on BBC 2"
ppl actually pronounce it fasharnew these days
I spat out my tea at that joke
Eh? There's no 'r' sound in there.
@@Catcrumbs I think it's in there somewhere
It's getting the name as far off as possible
It's scary just how authentic this is to modern news coverage.
@@no9008 : That episode and what happened before they rebroadcast it a week after the first showing still amazes me.
@@DisorderedArray Do tell!
yes it is
@@no9008 shut up stupid face
@@no9008 That was Brass Eye Not The Day Today
"This is Britain and everything's all right." Timeless genius.
In my view this is the best episode of The Day Today they made. Horses on the Tube, the Bureau, the Queen hits John Major, the UK Government official "Everything's OK" public pacification film, Alan Partridge sees boobs, Chapman Baxter and his "Fried To Be", and The Pool with Steve Coogan's iconic security guard, as well as "This is the Newwwwwws!" and the ending long hair gag. The whole thing is a comedy classic.
+PopeLando Also: John Fashanu.
John Fashanu....
John FASHanu
PopeLando I love this show, and brass eye and on the hour. it's a shame though this isn't still on now, cuz lord knows we need more Chris Morris in the world of comedy.
That's John FaSHAnu.
THIS IS THE NEEEEEEEEEEEWS
Happy now?
Those the headlines, my God I wish they weren't (/-_•)\..
Now fact me 'til I fart.
It was more like NEEEEEEEEOOOOUUUUWWS
THIS IS THE NEWWWWWS😅😅
It's bigger than that chris, it's large...
“In 1980… someone died “
The timing of that sentence is comic genius
That whole skit has to be the inspiration for Seth McFarlane's Family Guy stretched jokes.
Steve Coogan is probably the best character comedian of all time!!! He embodies every sketch he does!
LONG LIVE SAXONDALE!!
In 1982 there was that incident with the pigeon...
My favourite sketch in the whole series.
It’s hilarious how Chapman Baxter continues to be a reoccurring character despite his death in the first episode! Not even a name change to try and disguise it. Gold!
"She gon' die like a dawg" LMAOOO
He died on the John in a *big nappy*
Like two episodes after this one on "The Bureau" the boss discovers the one character is gay, so consistency is consistently inconsistent. lol
For some reason, I found the funniest moment in this episode to be the paramedic giving the old woman a little kiss on the cheek.
Never even noticed that before and I must have seen this about 50 times!
Also "Can you sum it up in a word?" "No." "A sound?" "Mwaarrgh" tickles me every time
Everything Morris/Ianucci have done is eminently quotable
"Headmaster suspended for using big-faced child as satellite dish" lmaooo
There’s something deeply funny and very underrated about Chris asking so many questions of Alan, with Chris facing his right and Alan facing his left, only for Chris to then turn around and reveal Alan is to his left. They’ve just been both talking at each other in the wrong direction for the past minute. And then Alan disappears from that position, replaced by the French philosopher.
How do you know it is underrated?
@@chrisbirch4150the whole show is underrated, so we know every bit from it is.
@@emlyndewar is the show underrated?
@@chrisbirch4150 I mean, it isn’t from us who watched it. Just reliving my past just now… How many others do you know that know that know this show though? It holds up so well, and couldn’t happen these days. It’s definitely under-rated.
@@emlyndewar maybe. I guess I just think the expression "underrated" is overused on youtube. It's everywhere. The Day Today was a BBC comedy that was critically acclaimed, essentially catapulted Steve coogan and the Alan Partridge character to global fame. A load of the others: Chris Morris, Rebecca Front, David Schneider have all been ever present in tv and movies since. I am not really knocking anything artistically. I am just unclear on the metric for "underrated".
this is a high class bureau de chonge
love that alan partridge talks about these days in his book.
Tea Aids 🤘
The Bureau is what I see when I watch any soap ever
What I see is the logical results of continuous cuts due to diminishing audience and revenue,The Bureau is the cheapest,shortest,to the point,condensed soap opera ever,also the funniest and best,who needs expensive costume dramas and the like when it's all in here.
All that teeth acting, it's sublime!
You're on borrowed time, sunshine
That look when Steve Coogan says “You’re out!” 🤣
I'm closing the bureau..
For an hour.
15:12 "Leaves her lover jolted at the Altar...Looks like this is one wedding where we all get to toast the happy couple" That's gold.
rebecca front looks well fit in that bureau de change sketch.
... Shut it Alan, I want you to stop.
I mean it's bigger than that Chris, it's large.
My god, that Britian montage - I can't breath
Wabznasm
The paramedic kissing the old one on the cheek 😂😂😂😂
The headline "Portillo's face felt like guts says girl" gets me every time
i'm closing the bureau......for an hour....
Katrina Parfitt, a lady
Whoever designed the graphics for the intro is a genius. Especially 0:37
It was actually done by a couple of ex-ITN guys who worked on the News at Ten - great touch
''Heseltine fading fast...'' Glad I was not drinking at that point or I'd have a soggy monitor. But seriously, one of the best comedies of the last generation!
Or this one
That one always gets me too!!!😂😂
Watching in 2024 and laughing my pants of 30 years later
Coogan's southern jail pastor was an unexpected highlight
Chris Morris's elaborate transitions are legitimately quite nice.
The home secretary has said that he personally will be going into the tunnels this weekend, armed with a special gun
THIS IS THE NYEEEWWWS.
GOD I WISH IT WASN'T.
HAPPY NOW?
HELLO SIR!
My favourite phrases there.
.
THANKS
HELLO SIR! was my favourite. Beer everywhere first time I saw that!!
The puns in the death row wedding segment were absolutely fucking hilarious! 😂
“Newly dead’s” was my favourite haha
Have not seen this show before. Doon is so good as expected, but Rebecca Front’s comedic skill and versatility shines, too. The gals here are certainly as strong as the two talented guys.
Totally! Front is a national treasure.
have you seen Brass Eye?
Front deserves an MBE!!!
Doon too!!!
Always a good day when I discover a British comedy series I haven’t seen before!!!
Brass eye
Armando Iannucci Shows
Time Trumpet
This Morning With Richard Not Judy
Fist of Fun
I'm Alan Partridge
Mid Morning Matters
Monkey Dust
There's a list for u... I hope you've at least heard of those.
Stumbled onto this from a LRB podcast in which the guest mentions Chris Morris who I’d never heard of. Tho was familiar w Alan P and Armando I. This is f#####g hilarious, not at all dated, so glad to find it
“It’s difficult not to feel humbled or even ashamed after that”
The deadpan nature of the humour is brilliant. And it almost fools you into thinking it's actually real news.
Some of it got complaints when it came out. Peadeggedon received the most complaints in history when it was aired.
The brilliance of this show makes me want to prefer it over anything that’s calls itself a news outlet today.
''Shut it Alan! I want you to stop'' hahahaha
I still find myself saying "it's a magnificent potato of a day" from time to time ha
:)
US Southerner here. Y'all have these accents down to scary accuracy!
And clearly not Milwaukee accents .;)
Howdy, I'm from Mississippi!
@@UKISOCIETY bahahahahahaha
@@stuckinthepastproductions4329 I'm a native son of the Palmetto State. A pleasure.
I moved to the US a few years back - I have met people just like this
"Oi! This is supposed to be a high class Bureau de Change!"
His expressions, the accentuating of his words. just wonderful
"Elastic song strangles Hucknall" must be a contender for the best-delivered line in the series.
So ahead of its time. Loved it then, still do. back of the net!!!!
This is surrealist video art at its finest.
She sure is pretty.. She gonna die like a dawg... You may kiss the bride... CLEAR THE AREA. Steve Coogan is brilliant as the minister.
“Fried to be” is crazy 😂😂
When an early 90’s news parody show is more believable than the mainstream media in 2023 we know we have a problem.
Yea, way to go Trump! Good job Fox News!
@@audiblenugz Hard to believe people this guy still exist.
@@belykwater5601In what respect, Charlie ?
@@jimreily7538 To be a fan of Donald Trump and Fox News, after everything that's happened. Why do you call me Charlie?
@@belykwater5601 Oh the Charlie thing is from that Sarah Palin interview, I think it was her first TV interview, I can't remember what the interviewers name was, but he asked her something like, "what's your opinion of the Bush doctrine ?"
And she replied with this semi-homespun, high-pitched attempt to appear likeable, and she just replied, "In what respect Charlie ?"
It was a funny moment. Politics moves so fast now that it can be hard to find stuff like that. But I just use it because it gives me a chuckle when I think of that first, disastrous Sarah Palin interview.
(This was before the Couric interview, which just descended into madness)
Ahh, my favourite kind of fake news!
This is the most brilliant TV newsroom training video ever seen. It's uncannily amazing how this Gold Standard presentation from so long ago has spread around the world to become the example that all TV companies follow to this day. "Wonderful stuff. Absolutely triffic. Standard. Standard. Isnit.". Rod Laver.
It's GBnews from the good old days..
still the best thing ever on british telly
15:22 I've just noticed three odd things on my 999th rewatching that, combined, I found rather hilarious: Morris gulping a drink while staring into/smirking at the camera; the looped video in the background of an AK-47 toting militant doing a little dance, captioned "WEATHER"; the shit-eating way Morris introduces Sylvester Stewart. It's so dense.
relentless, you end up having trouble breathing if you don't pause from time to time
All these years later and still the funniest, most accurate satire there is...TODAY, tonight, NOW!
20:04 - I love the little finger pointing he does here. Something so small and mostly unnoticeable but adds a lot to the character
"Resident Reactor" haha. This show is gold.
I rewatch it about every 2 years, catch some new nuance every time.
Brilliant.
Everything's alright. It's OK. It's fine.
I used to make sure I was baked out of my mind every week when this was on early 90s. Best times, somehow this still seems relevant.
Smart move 😂
Thanks for posting this. Chris Morris is a much underrated comedian, and I used to watch his Brass Eye too back in the day.
"... Special staff who had to patrol the darkened tunnels every day...and _kill_ the horses with _hammers!"_
ah that pool sketch is brilliant..
"in 1976 no one died
in 1977 no one died
"n 1978 no one died
in 1979 no one died"
Summing up the crisis with a sound is brilliant.
Just as fresh as the day it was originally shown.
"Bob Marriner, you missed the penalty - WHY?"
Collaterlie Sisters has to be the best name I have ever heard.
+embe1
+1
+embe1 I think Spartacus Mills is the best for me.
_"It's bigger than that Chris, it's large."_
Bwahaha! Spit liquid on my keyboard.
+embe1 Sookie Bapswent
Try Jane Plough.
I first saw this when I was 13. It is still as funny, fresh, and relevant as it was then.
The currency kidney! Inflammation in the exchange tract! A negative flow of waste pounds across all international membranes! Oh god I’m dying!
I love The Bureau because it's a bunch of good actors acting like bad actors. Also, I find it amazing that Valerie SInatra and Barbara Wintergreen are the same actor, just because of the difference in accents.
The part where all the ministers are entering Number 10 and the reporter is naming them off, "Kenneth Clark, Michael Howard, Christopher Biggins, Michael Heseltine" - the third guy is not, of course, Christopher Biggins, who was a camp overweight d-grade celebrity - but he does look like Christopher Biggins.
The Bureau is the best! Love it! 😂😂😂 X
This is pure art
The Queen marches on Downing Street 😂 tears from laughing
this is the news now, no joke..how prophetic morris is
Honestly, this is so good. It's testament to how crap comedy is nowadays that we have travel back as far as 30 years to watch anything decent.
there's plenty of good comedy now, not as good as this but I've seen loads of stuff I've loved recently
No we don't. Try detectorists.
I swear they literally showed that film during covid.
Gotta love the low quality,fuzzy video of the reports from America. So acurrate to the pre-HD NTSC broadcasts from the states shown in Britain at the time. Amazing attention to detail!
The imagination of the script writers is amazing, almost if not at Monty Python levels of quality. Perfect cast as well.
to me TDT at its best easily rivals the best of Python. Not all of them is gold, but certain sketches are simply impossible to match: the parrot, funniest joke, how not to be seen, Blackmail, rich yorkshiremen, the dirty fork and of course the legendary Life of Brian . Same with TDT
Monty Python is actually shit. Baffling that people like it
@@artvandelay3922except he isn't. Don't you feel special 😂
Have you killed anyone? Only my dad, got me.😂😂
"a head on collision with a blind tube mare..!"
Absolutely side splitting funny. Gets even better with age.
'Heseltine fading fast'. What was that weird obsession Morris had with Heseltine? And Portillo even more so.
stinky visitor I rememember in Brass Eye where we had a radio DJ, Tommy Vance (for some inexplicable reason) giving us a list of absurd prison slang. Among which was 'Portillo', which meant 'watch out behind you'. I think part of it was that Morris, like most in the media, was aware that many people in the public eye had another side to their personality, and this was his way of bringing it out without making himself subject to libel.
Well he does (did) carry a sawn-off shotgun to constituency meetings, corners children in parks and chews their cheeks and has frequent sexual intercourse with stray animals. How could anyone condone that?
I'm closing the bureau....
For an hour.
First appearance of Ted Maul (all be it only voiceover) he has to be the funniest reporter character Chris invented certainly the funniest in Brass Eye. The number of individually different characters Chris creates over the two separate programs is amazing really.
Albeit
I love how the video from the US looks like crap, just like it did back then due to the conversion from PAL to NTSC (or was it the other way around?)
Other way around. The NTSC colour space is vastly different. Never Twice the Same Colour
Yeh I always remember watching the news in Australia even UK footage was foggy or grainy, before the net it made you feel like anything overseas wasn't quite real, post net now overseas events do feel real cos you can literally watch people live overseas with clear footage.
"Like an abattoir in a powercut"
Anyone else think Doon MacKichan and Rebecca Front were hot as hell!
They still are imo
I'll take that.
They are far from being hot as hell but they are not ugly.
Yep!
Definitely by British standards.
"bleeding legs" lol
The Catrina Parfitt interview is classic Alan!
We need this back, up to date, more than ever!
Best comedy of any kind, ever.
"Are you gonna remove the STAIN of defeat!?"
Coogan at 5:31 is just wonderful
Is Coogan in this?
@@peterbreen3039 All day.
Fat....l
We need this show again in 2023. Who wants to the real news? No one. Who wants comedy parody news? Everyone.
Now THIS was entertainment!! Bravo 👏
"This is Britain...and everything's all right!"
"...headmaster suspended for using big faced child as satellite dish" ahahahahahahhahahaha
A BLIND TUBE MARE!
Brilliant 😂❤😊
The Bureau is a classic
Best episode of this series I think - Horse on the underground, the bureau, Major punching the Queen...John Fashanu
This was so funny . Back in the 90s . Still good today.
im closing the bureau........for an hour
SHUT IT ALAN. I WANT YOU TO STOP.
The Bureau is so believable as a BBC soap I'm amazed they didn't make it.
That's a very good Richard Branson look-a-likey! =o)