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    Very funny sketch from "Not the Nine O'clock News".
    What breakfast would be like with John McEnroe and his parents.
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Komentáře • 249

  • @jjensen7789
    @jjensen7789 Před 2 lety +57

    Absolute comedy gold. Never gets old

    • @zakelwe
      @zakelwe Před 9 měsíci

      You can watch this a thousand times and still chuckle with the brilliant script and the fantastic acting from the cast.
      Over time John's mum and dad actually look like Pam and Mel in this sketch to my mind.

    • @RaveyDavey
      @RaveyDavey Před 2 měsíci

      Get's a bit old if you're too young to know who McEnroe is!

  • @garyhiggins6718
    @garyhiggins6718 Před rokem +12

    Apparently John McEnroe loved it!

  • @christopheroliver2465
    @christopheroliver2465 Před 2 lety +43

    Loved how John opened his egg with his tennis racket.

    • @ThinPicks
      @ThinPicks Před 10 měsíci

      Oh yeah, wonder how long it took him to practise that!😂

    • @MichaelHartman-qt4mp
      @MichaelHartman-qt4mp Před 10 měsíci

      Loved how Griff ripped off his wig at the end😂.

  • @MikeSparrow
    @MikeSparrow Před 10 lety +164

    "Good morning my parents"

  • @RussWWFC
    @RussWWFC Před 13 lety +107

    One of the best NT9OCN sketches. I love the thought that McEnroe brings his tennis racket to the breakfast table!

    • @bingo99aa
      @bingo99aa Před 7 lety +15

      I wonder how many takes it took to knock the top off the egg? :)

    • @MC-in8mc
      @MC-in8mc Před 2 lety +5

      I loved McEnroe...A brilliant player and vivid personality. I don't bother watching tennis any more...it's so boring and I hate the grunting.

    • @zakelwe
      @zakelwe Před rokem

      @@bingo99aa 3, on the third they actually did see some chalk dust fly up from the shell.

  • @celticspike2522
    @celticspike2522 Před 3 lety +30

    this is easily one of the best sketches from this show

  • @CathyKitson
    @CathyKitson Před 3 lety +64

    This is hardly an exaggeration. McEnroe was REALLY like this, in fact some of the lines are taken from him verbatim: "You CANNOT be serious! You are the pits of the earth!"

  • @oldrunnerstepx2638
    @oldrunnerstepx2638 Před 3 lety +21

    I remember watching this when it was first broadcast. Hilarious. NTNON was always the first thing we talked about at school the next day.

    • @DM-hh7wl
      @DM-hh7wl Před 2 lety +1

      I remember talking about this sketch at school next day!

    • @shaneeaston4027
      @shaneeaston4027 Před 2 lety +2

      I lived in rural Australia and we talked about this at school

  • @danielwilliamson6180
    @danielwilliamson6180 Před 7 lety +69

    1:39 Griff Rhys Jones was incredible in this sketch.

    • @mummyd1990
      @mummyd1990 Před 2 lety +1

      They were all good in this sketch.

  • @carsonking5549
    @carsonking5549 Před 7 lety +70

    Griff was amazing in this. Mel Smith was a genius, RIP.
    Excellent sketch, they don't make them lik,,,, actually, they don't make them at all.

    • @zakelwe
      @zakelwe Před rokem

      The script writers nailed it as well.
      Not forgetting they were doing the show weekly to fit in news stories. Brilliant team all round.

  • @martinworsnop9801
    @martinworsnop9801 Před rokem +6

    How did they not laugh? Brilliant.

  • @ololiver92
    @ololiver92 Před rokem +8

    John's dad's hat steals the show 🤣

    • @zakelwe
      @zakelwe Před rokem +2

      And his words ... put him into the role of the umpire trying to calm things down whilst being accurate " The juice was slurped" with no emotion. Acting and script writing at its best.

  • @benellis7186
    @benellis7186 Před 3 lety +10

    I wanna bring in dad! I wanna hear what dad has to say!!!! The drink was slurped ! 😂😂

  • @LPCLASSICAL
    @LPCLASSICAL Před 2 lety +35

    This was priceless when it appeared in the full context back in 1980. But I still found myself laughing my head off - it looks over the top - but hilarious. Nothing on modern TV makes me laugh Im afraid - I need to keep going back to fawlty towers monty python etc and this.

    • @xx-bg2dj
      @xx-bg2dj Před 2 lety +4

      congratulations at getting old

  • @cynic150
    @cynic150 Před 2 lety +5

    it breaks me up every time I watch this. So good!

  • @stevewhitehouse1660
    @stevewhitehouse1660 Před 3 lety +13

    Great shot when he takes the top off the egg !!!

    • @graemestarkey7524
      @graemestarkey7524 Před 3 lety +1

      Incredible.
      I wonder if it was one take.

    • @nielswil
      @nielswil Před 3 lety

      @@graemestarkey7524 I also thinking that he aimed too low in the first shot. LOL

    • @mrbillhilly343
      @mrbillhilly343 Před 3 lety

      I wonder how many takes it took. Great actors Mel & Griff.

    • @rebelfox5630
      @rebelfox5630 Před rokem

      It was a trick. No way that was real. He waved his racquet above the egg while to one side somebody had a small piece of thread to pull off the already prepared prop egg top on hinge.

  • @simonwtkns1
    @simonwtkns1 Před 12 lety +84

    To be fair. He was right. It wasn't slurped. :)

    • @dude3049
      @dude3049 Před 4 lety +17

      @KoivuTheHab YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!

    • @antonfernando8409
      @antonfernando8409 Před 3 lety

      @@dude3049 haha

    • @jlchd
      @jlchd Před 3 lety

      Hahahahahahaha!

    • @iamrocketray
      @iamrocketray Před 3 lety +3

      Yes, he clearly slurped his orange juice, no question about it!

    • @stijnvandamme76
      @stijnvandamme76 Před 3 lety +3

      @@iamrocketray audible.
      Clearly Advantage Mum

  • @alanknotts1844
    @alanknotts1844 Před 4 lety +9

    A brilliant parody of Superbrat circa 1979/80 but he grew up and became a great player. Still hilarious nearly 40 years later

  • @MusicFanatic1958
    @MusicFanatic1958 Před 9 lety +38

    The funniest sight in sports: a John McEnroe meltdown

  • @HistoryonYouTube
    @HistoryonYouTube Před 7 měsíci +1

    Fantastic acting in my opinion!

  • @chantalsscaleisafibber
    @chantalsscaleisafibber Před 2 lety +2

    one of the many best sketches

  • @davebellamy4867
    @davebellamy4867 Před 2 lety +1

    The egg was on the line! Chalk FLEW UP! 😂🤣😅

  • @Einstein852
    @Einstein852 Před rokem +4

    Still makes me laugh 😃 😀 😄

  • @Ass_Burgers_Syndrome
    @Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Před 6 lety +17

    "You wanna be made to sit in a pile of puke" LOL !!

  • @paulyarrow9857
    @paulyarrow9857 Před 3 lety +6

    Excellent, really well done.
    Rhys Jones is really great

  • @davebellamy4867
    @davebellamy4867 Před 2 lety +3

    1:50 "You ought to be made to sit in a Pile of puke!"🤣 I lost it at that point the first time I saw this on TV and I did now.👍

  • @fredwest7436
    @fredwest7436 Před 3 lety +6

    The drink was slurped.
    Totally epic sketch.

  • @cassandra1ification
    @cassandra1ification Před 11 lety +30

    He didn't slurp his drink, and the egg was runny. Lol

    • @hippophile
      @hippophile Před 3 lety +6

      Are you serious? Can you be serious?

  • @johnavery3918
    @johnavery3918 Před 4 lety +7

    Brilliant I wonder if John McEnroe has seen it? I bet he has now he has mellowed

    • @nielswil
      @nielswil Před 3 lety +3

      YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS??!!

  • @Wally-H
    @Wally-H Před 3 lety +15

    I think Johnny Mac would find this funny - he has a great sense of humour

  • @123ThisIzMe
    @123ThisIzMe Před 15 lety +8

    A good old TV comedy classic !

  • @dharmaseed
    @dharmaseed Před 10 lety +40

    Griff's face is just PRICELESS after his mother tells him to go sit in another room, lol.

  • @stevephlyer
    @stevephlyer Před 2 lety +48

    This was hilarious. I wonder what McEnroe thinks when he sees this. Actually his worst outbursts where not that many, but certainly notorious. If tennis had personalities like his again, the sport would be watchable again.

    • @blackfalkon4189
      @blackfalkon4189 Před 2 lety +9

      Mcenroe & Connors was back when tennis had character

    • @dennis3351
      @dennis3351 Před 2 lety +2

      this is not funny

    • @Rosie6857
      @Rosie6857 Před 2 lety +6

      You're right. Sport is now a very serious revenue-generating activity and no-one dare step out of line or take the piss.
      This was brilliantly acted. Good, subdued American accents from Mum and Dad. I laughed like a drain at the whole thing.

    • @stoolpigeon4285
      @stoolpigeon4285 Před 2 lety +2

      Talk rubbish. The sport is as good as it ever was with three of the best players ever, and no cheating like Mac

    • @justinbarber4567
      @justinbarber4567 Před 2 lety +8

      @@stoolpigeon4285 McEnroe did not cheat. He was nearly always right about the line calls.

  • @realfacthunt
    @realfacthunt Před měsícem

    Classic scene, used to love this show when I was at school, mum and dad would let me stay up late to watch it.

  • @peterfunboy
    @peterfunboy Před 15 lety +11

    Mother you are the pits of the earth!

  • @PS3PS2fan
    @PS3PS2fan Před 7 lety +36

    Mel Smith did a good American accent.

  • @maddyg3208
    @maddyg3208 Před 3 lety +7

    The fact that this McEncroe mainly holds the racket in his left hand is well observed. I read a book about lefthandedness that claimed my lefties had fiery tempers and used Macca as a prime example.

    • @deedee-tc4fh
      @deedee-tc4fh Před rokem +1

      Notice he uses his right hand when he chops the top off the egg.. One famous left hander was Paul McCartney and Faul uses his right when he forgets ...

  • @martynfenton3814
    @martynfenton3814 Před 2 lety +2

    Great forehand taking the egg top off John!

  • @kimvibk9242
    @kimvibk9242 Před 4 lety +1

    I have been looking for this - thanks for uploading!

  • @JohnJohnson-ok4gf
    @JohnJohnson-ok4gf Před 5 lety +14

    What did I do? What did I say?
    LFMAO!!!

  • @Jez2008UK
    @Jez2008UK Před 5 lety +7

    I'm actually in tears laughing at this !

  • @tph3475
    @tph3475 Před 9 lety +30

    4 people Cannot be serious

  • @presntnow
    @presntnow Před rokem +1

    The Ball Was Out!!!

    • @Unsung_Earth
      @Unsung_Earth Před 11 měsíci

      What about the chalk dust that blew up😊

  • @markstea69
    @markstea69 Před 2 lety +1

    Griff is so brilliant as John and also Mel in John Snr hat great sketch

  • @100pcRenewables
    @100pcRenewables Před 4 lety +17

    Love this skit. When you look up his tantrums this is hardly any exaggeration - I remember his tantrums but I can't believe they were so bad. I have no idea how he got away with his complete and utter nonsense. Many of the lines are exactly what he said.

    • @CathyKitson
      @CathyKitson Před 3 lety +7

      When we were watching Wimbledon my Mum used to say: "I'd like to smack his arse!"

    • @justinbarber4567
      @justinbarber4567 Před 2 lety +1

      He was nearly always right with his calls. Had Hawkeye had been around, none of this would have happened included this hilarious scene.

    • @colinhooper1933
      @colinhooper1933 Před 2 lety +2

      I grew up with my earliest tennis memories being the Borg v McEnroe wimbledon finals, their incredible rivalry was timeless beyond compare... and yet sadly short lived. McEnroe defeated him in 4 sets in 1981 avenging his loss to the Swede the previous year, and after losing to him at the US Open Borg retired stating he had lost his passion for tennis. He was just 26, but he began playing at the top level when he was only 15, winning his davis cup debut match when Sweden played New Zealand. After 11 years with 6 French open and 5 consecutive Wimbledon titles to his name, he was burnt out. Before McEnroe's career had ended he had claimed 7 Grand Slam tournaments of his own. I absolutely loved Borg, and found McEnroe irritating at first, but he grew on me quickly almost for no other reason than I just couldn't get enough of him! It was him alone that had me following Tennis for the next 20 years subsequently watching greats like Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Pete Sampras, Jim Courier and Andre Agassi... I then lost interest myself not long after watching that era. I must say though that I went to the 2001 Hopman Cup in Perth Western Australia to watch Richard Fromberg of Australia play a youthful and extremely technical pony-tailed Swiss lad who was ranked 22 in the world, I never heard of him before the tournament. He went on to win the Cup with his number 1 ranked team mate Martina Hingis. His name was Roger Federer. Gee don't I bloody go on...anyway, back to J-Mac and that it's interesting to note that Borg understood where McEnroe was coming from with the tantrums, Borg himself had a terrible temper on the court as a youth until it was extricated from him by his coach prior to entering the ATP limelight. He saw J-Mac's fury as self driving, a tool of his own impetus, fuel for his fire. Yes McEnroe was very much one who engaged in a lot of gamesmanship at key moments, that was ever so apparent, but his tantrums I believe had everything to do with what was inside John, and nothing to do with his opponent. Jesus I miss McEnroe, he is my favourite player of all time, his antics only surpassed by his mesmerising serving action, his speed to the net, the skilful volleys and most of all his all-encompassing passion.

    • @100pcRenewables
      @100pcRenewables Před 2 lety +1

      @@colinhooper1933 I don't remember all that well but I guess he did make tennis more exciting. Everyone's so "professional" now, it is a little boring in that way.

  • @neilhenderson458
    @neilhenderson458 Před 10 měsíci

    " The drink was Slurped !" 😂😂😂😂😂Superb dry Response for Father !

  • @stephensaxby2820
    @stephensaxby2820 Před 3 lety +1

    A brilliant and very very funny sketch

  • @MsAdnaloj
    @MsAdnaloj Před 25 dny

    Even today Hilarious ❤

  • @Electricshrock
    @Electricshrock Před 4 lety +3

    The pregnant pause before you know he's going to lose his shit... priceless.

  • @nattiebeebaby777
    @nattiebeebaby777 Před 6 lety +37

    Omg its like someone took a video of my family

    • @rayoflight9709
      @rayoflight9709 Před 3 lety +1

      Well you shouldn't have slurped your orange juice . Don't you know manners are important. ( Sorry, just having a flashback to my youth )

  • @raymondkitchen6137
    @raymondkitchen6137 Před 6 lety +2

    Pretty damn spot on!

  • @danielwilliamson6180
    @danielwilliamson6180 Před 6 lety +7

    Griff's voice and face cracks me up at 1:33.

  • @PMS1950
    @PMS1950 Před 2 lety +2

    I think we know that the popularity of watching tennis (theatre) on tv during Wimbledon fortnight was with the hope of witnessing McEnroe 'losing' it and the Umpire getting an earful!

  • @knockedoutloaded279
    @knockedoutloaded279 Před 7 lety +8

    Hilarious!

  • @v8powerr771
    @v8powerr771 Před 8 lety +15

    I feel like him everday

  • @thomaslauffenberger5795
    @thomaslauffenberger5795 Před 8 lety +4

    Remember hearing this on Doctor Demento; just for giggles, I turned up the volume when "John" drank his OJ--sort of aural instant replay--and definitely heard a slurping sound. IR didn't exist like we know it today back when McEnroe was the terror of decent society; what would it have done to him to be properly reproved?
    Maybe not a good thing after all; he'd have mellowed, so we wouldn't have funny things like this. He's why I was a Bjorn Borg fan.
    There is not a font large enough for "John"'s outbursts; this is absolutely classic!

  • @Sjmby95
    @Sjmby95 Před 2 lety

    I used to love these two

  • @QueenAllTheWay
    @QueenAllTheWay Před 4 lety +3

    The American accent is on point 🤣

  • @tomasaguirre1764
    @tomasaguirre1764 Před 25 dny

    Griff Rhys Jones went balls to the wall, which makes it funny.

  • @LargestClassifieds
    @LargestClassifieds Před 5 lety +4

    Mom says, "John, here's your red card, you are grounded for your behavior".

  • @Jarek_73
    @Jarek_73 Před 2 lety

    Absolute treasure!

  • @jackcarter5101
    @jackcarter5101 Před 5 lety +4

    The lack of laughter at 1:22 shows that must have been about the 50th take

  • @KevinSmith-mc8yu
    @KevinSmith-mc8yu Před 2 lety

    Spot on ....the full mac

  • @mikeperkins15
    @mikeperkins15 Před 3 lety +1

    We are in the presence of genious!

  • @shgnamaste7730
    @shgnamaste7730 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Orange juice simply can NOT be slurped.

  • @TheNadzed
    @TheNadzed Před 9 měsíci

    I miss you this show

  • @rayoflight9709
    @rayoflight9709 Před 3 lety +1

    Bring back not the nine oclock news .

  • @chili3135
    @chili3135 Před 6 lety +6

    What did I do? lol

  • @emmagalpin9133
    @emmagalpin9133 Před 9 lety +3

    I Love this Video of Not the nine aclock news its funny and john mceinrow his terrible behavior

  • @TheMaskedGeo
    @TheMaskedGeo Před 8 měsíci

    So good, can imagine this is so accurate

  • @Vesnicie
    @Vesnicie Před 4 lety +3

    Went here because I was reminded of this prat's existence after his 2020 hijinks with Martina at the Australian Open.

    • @dwblurb
      @dwblurb Před 4 lety

      He was 100% right. Margaret Court is unfortunately beholden to a primitive religious cult.

    • @Vesnicie
      @Vesnicie Před 4 lety +3

      @@dwblurb Be that as it may, she is still Australia's greatest ever tennis champion and the building is named for that; it's not the civic hero award. Her views on marriage, which would have been considered mainstream and in fact implicitly assumed as the normal view just a few short years ago, are suddenly no longer correct according to a few people who are 100% certain they are "on the right side of history", to quote Navratilova's written critique. I smell a rat when the sands of unassailable truth shift that suddenly. What each of us thinks about Margaret Court's view on marriage is really immaterial. I don't agree with her, but that doesn't matter, because she is being honored for being the greatest tennis player, not the nicest lady, and she has not committed any hate crimes or other things so horrible that she should not be so honored.

    • @maddyg3208
      @maddyg3208 Před 3 lety +1

      And, from what she has said, I think Margaret Court's opinions are based on her being preyed upon by lesbians when she was young

    • @stevennicholas4160
      @stevennicholas4160 Před rokem +1

      McEnroe is a fully signed up member of the wokies. He wouldn't get so much TV work if he wasn't.

    • @mauziki
      @mauziki Před 6 měsíci

      @@stevennicholas4160 Had he been a member of the wokies as you say, he wouldn't have stuck to his guns during the Serena- greatest tennis player ever - controversy. Nor would he have criticised banning of Russian players by Wimbledon.

  • @johnwangermann8178
    @johnwangermann8178 Před 2 lety

    Absolute classic.

  • @scentdesigner1
    @scentdesigner1 Před 2 lety

    Brilliant

  • @hansjolen6087
    @hansjolen6087 Před rokem

    Now I recall how we remembered John McEnroe's father! 😁

  • @cormic197
    @cormic197 Před 5 lety

    great!!

  • @abhudson14
    @abhudson14 Před 9 lety +5

    classic

  • @joekavanagh7171
    @joekavanagh7171 Před 10 měsíci +2

    McEnroe was a genius, and the most charismatic player in tennis history.

  • @daveshaw2342
    @daveshaw2342 Před 2 lety

    Utter classic

  • @pamrush5078
    @pamrush5078 Před 6 lety

    Classic classic

  • @antondoubriouchkouf5724
    @antondoubriouchkouf5724 Před 3 lety +3

    ha ha très drôle ! Si cela se trouve, c'était réellement comme cela dans la famille Mc Enroe.

  • @seanduggan3453
    @seanduggan3453 Před 8 měsíci

    Genius

  • @grecosgreecedaz6026
    @grecosgreecedaz6026 Před 3 lety

    Lmfao brillant

  • @MurderMostFowl
    @MurderMostFowl Před 11 lety +1

    That's because the Cardinals used to be in St Louis. They didn't move to Arizona until 1987-88

  • @briandoyle6188
    @briandoyle6188 Před 3 lety +1

    The thing with the egg was perfect not even the real McEnroe could of done that..you could imagine him being like a brat...

  • @vinaythorat7376
    @vinaythorat7376 Před rokem

    What did I do 😂awesome...

  • @LargestClassifieds
    @LargestClassifieds Před 5 lety +2

    You can't be serious. LoL.

  • @namAlexander
    @namAlexander Před 2 lety

    Classic

  • @tommylynch8988
    @tommylynch8988 Před 4 lety +1

    John McEnroe under lockdown.

  • @95Olivia08
    @95Olivia08 Před 13 lety +1

    @billybobjoeericidle famous tennis player who yelled at the ref "you CANNOT BE SERIOUS!" lol

  • @CCFC1878
    @CCFC1878 Před 11 měsíci

    Tbf, he did not slurp his drink and the yoke was runny.

  • @TallSilentGuy
    @TallSilentGuy Před 5 lety +2

    To be fair, I heard nothing when he sipped his orange juice.

  • @Realpoweronearth
    @Realpoweronearth Před 2 lety

    Glad he won his tournament hate to think what he would be like if he lost!!!

  • @petejones879
    @petejones879 Před 2 lety

    So funny

  • @Unsung_Earth
    @Unsung_Earth Před 11 měsíci

    Richard Simmons 😅😅😅

  • @3667woof
    @3667woof Před 2 měsíci

    Chalk dust!!!

  • @Brentford-rf5sh
    @Brentford-rf5sh Před 4 lety +3

    You make me want to sit on a pile of puke 😂 Classic McEnroe! !!!

  • @andymeighan8160
    @andymeighan8160 Před 2 lety

    Absolute classic. Will never date.

  • @cormic197
    @cormic197 Před měsícem

    What did i do? It ruines me everytime.:)))

  • @simohayha8748
    @simohayha8748 Před 7 měsíci

    Con el descubri el tenis , fue mi idolo , no pare hasta que consegui una raqueta como la suya , Dunlop Maxply Mc Enroe , la pude comprar cuando se deprecio , al cambiar de modelo a la Max 200 G ya en grafito ,

  • @chriswaring5565
    @chriswaring5565 Před rokem

    WONDER IF HE WAS REALLY LIKE THAT AT HOME LIKE HE WAS ON THE CENTRE COURT