House Hunting in 1700s London
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- čas přidán 18. 07. 2021
- Looking for something with lots of space, preferably away from the stench of the Thames.
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Having shared a house in London with eight strangers I am here to say nothing has changed. Mornings trying to get into the sole bathroom were particularly great.
at least you have a bathing room ! lol ohhh
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Oh look at the fancy pants, all born after bathrooms were invented. Tone it down lord fauntleroy.
@@robertcampbell8070 What
@@AMPProf He said tone it down
A friend was living in London in the late 1970's and told of one place he and his wife looked at that was almost 900 years old. He said the doorways were four feet tall!
Yeah they would be at that age.
Midgets did that to keep the giants out.
At 13 years old I stood at the main gate of the French castle at Chinon. My eyes were exactly in the middle of the view port of that massive fortified door. At 13. Here's to good nutrition and the human physique!
I'm noticing an awful lot of prostitutes coming and going...is that...normal? Ah..yes. This is the room they use for..their....ok. Of course.
No that's fine. I'm just....I'm noticing maybe another potential conflict again with just the one bed?
Sounds like a Thursday night during college except nobody was getting paid.............
This is still relevant at the harbour in Aberdeen. Prozzies fucking everywhere. And you wouldn't even ride them into battle.
Never disparage the tupenny upright.
My Nan was born in 1916, and when she was a kid, 8 people used the same bed. She grew up in the mining valleys of Wales.
4 people would top and tail, at a time. Then the other 4 would use the bed when they came home from their shift, after the others got up for the day.
My grandmother on my mom's side grew up on th
How very efficient!
Are you sure that wasn't Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? 🤣
@@jakekraweckyj2801 Bed sharing used to be common, especially to keep warm.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory took a real practice from the past, and put it in the book.
"My Nan was born in 1916, and when she was a kid, 8 people used the same bed" - that also happened in the 70s and 80s before the AIDS epidemic, but they usually only shared it for a few hours
"He comes with the room."
Your skits never fail to brighten my day. Thank you.
She SAID she wanted it to be haunted, didn't she?
This comedy style is called "telephone", invented by Bob Newhart, and you are a natural master-class of it.
Thanks for the information, I searched for Bob Newhart, loads of fun. I had never heard of him before reading your comment.
@@SamirMishra6174 Bob Newhart used to have his own show that was also shown in the U.K. in the early eighties. He was a really funny comedian.
Actually invented by him? Really, that’s a big claim
@@kJ922-h3j Not if you consider a few facts: What we call Improv Standup COmedy was essentially invented by the compass players in Chicago. Telephones had only existed as a universal thing for less than one human lifetime. Newhart's album was the first standup "Album" record to sell in large numbers... because long playing 33rpm records were also new/recent. Everything has a first.
Bob Newhart is still among us, age 92, and is still brilliantly deadpan funny.
This is also house hunting in Los Angeles today. And every option is $2500+/month.
And that's only sharing with 2 other families... but no gibbet, sorry.
That seems to be the rule everywhere nowadays in the US. Except for places no one wants to live in, such as East St. Louis, downtown Detroit, & Boise.
"bathrooms havent been invented yet"
ancient roman, scoffing and shaking his head while reading some wax tablets with the news on them: "ppffff... picts... i swear to jupiter..."
This reminded me very much of house sharing in the 90s. Armed with a Loot newspaper and a London A to Z. "Ooh this is a nice street, this could be the one... Here we are number 224b. The only house on the street that hasn't been painted, front door hanging off and a gibbet in the front garden with a stinking corpse...
They do say "buy the worst house in the best neighborhood"
...... every morning to the cheery sound of.... “ Bring out the dead...Bring out the dead. “
This is eerily similar my experiences of renting a room in London in 1993...
Just Wow! Somehow, I came across one of your videos and I couldn't stop watching! Still laughing! You have brought so much laughter and joy to my CZcams experience! Thank you for that! Looking forward to many more!
She forgot to ask about whether there are any annoying people from the colonies in the neighborhood. They really bring down home prices, especially that Ben Franklin fellow.
Wrong direction, everyone went to immense open space America in 1700! Avoided the Plague going on and could OWN land! But great comment! I laughed.
“Is there anywhere to keep a horse in the area? …oh, also in the room with us? Great, great”
She should be more popular and famous. She deserves more!
This is a great series. Keep up the good work.
So how is it now?? Stayed in a bed and breakfast in Hounslow about 20-25 years back. It was supposed to be bedroom with 'attached bath' ! It was like a half cut 2 feet diameter plastic tube in the corner. I happened to drop my soap and could not squat to pick it up ! So if you want to use the washroom, the house will insult you
"Is it haunted? I'd love it to be haunted."
It will be. By you, madam.
That old London flat has more people in it than most rural towns in Alabama.
I absolutely love your videos! So creative! And I could listen to your voice forever! ❤️
Eleanor, you're such a breath of fresh air. I love your wit!!
George Jessel did comedy like this when he was in Vaudeville, where it likely originated. Jessel had a routine where he calls home and acts like he's having a crazy conversation with several relatives, it's pretty funny and you can watch him do it here on CZcams. Look up "Hello mama" or "Phone Call to Mama" (1919), or just look up George Jessel.
“Fish in the building". Miss Morton needs her own show, sketch or something. And yeah, as another commenter said, she is master at this kind of humor.
There's an actress also surnamed Morton; a Helen Morton, I believe. She too is (was?) flame haired and appeared fully nude in a movie. She sported perhaps the angriest looking bush I've ever seen.
No relation, I suppose.
Eleanor is supremely talented and lovely!!!
I used to sleep in my car in London. Late at night things can get a little retro: street traders plying their trade, $€>< walkers relieving themselves in the flowerbeds outside posh hotels…! Great fun.
Truly awesome acting.. So authentic love her ❤️
Well, I think they had two kinds of rooms back then. The opulent and the rest. One's for the gentry and the rest is for the rest. But hey, I hear they need indentured servants to work in the colonies if you survive the voyage. And the years of labor. And the malaria. But it could be a good deal after that. I know it's a different world but it's filled with his Majesty's loyal British citizens.
Lol
Elanor you are just amazing I love your soliloquys and killing humour.
"I would love it to be haunted."
Master Thespian! The dialogue coy & cheeky
House Hunting in 1700's - "What? Excuse me, there's a witch asking questions she really has no place to ask. Should I build the pyre now or do a trial first?"
Witch witch! lol
Lol
This is true if you were working class.
If you were middle class, a "small house" was a five bedroom mini mansion in the country.
Reminds me of the 1995 Sense & Sensibility movie where it's all like "oh the poor Dashwoods, having to move into a tiny 5 bedroom house that a multi millionaire today would be delighted to own".
Omg yes ! I so agree
That's not middle class haha
Middle class is more like what Mrs Bennet was before marriage
That's exactly how I remember my stay in London few years ago
The “Great Stink” doesn’t happen until 1858ish so…lovely…good times…good times
*This is indeed the content we were here for.*
I tried not to, but I have to subscribe. You are hilarious and your videos came 3 or 4 times in my recommendations and all of them were great. So, new sub here. Keep the good job!
enjoying the series
thanks
I'm loving these.
are you sure it's 1700 and not 1990s? ^^
some of us still live like this, I guess this fashion trend keeps coming back.
Can't be contemporary. She mentioned pigs. The Muslims wouldn't put up with them.
@@HisameArtwork omg 😂😂😂
2030's you mean...
You wouldn't believe that Notting Hill was a hippie-infested slum in the 1960s and in 1990s Clapham you just didn't go out at night. There were literally homeless people on the Isle of Dogs who sat there watching Canary Wharf being built.
Funny how much things have changed and how quickly. 2007 Stratford was just a hole in the ground and a train depot - even in late 2011 I remember watching the news and it was talking about displaced people and council tenants being yeeted from their homes because the Olympic Park was going up.
We need humorous girls like this in America. She's just nuts
You are the funniest woman on CZcams.
Brilliant and original, as always, although I'd have been interested to know the OFSTED ratings of the local schools. "Oh, there aren't any...Any schools, that is."
Great stuff. 10/10 for originality and atmosphere. History student?
LIKED Subscribed and shared to social media. Keep up the great work! "Does it always smell like that?" LOL.
Sounds better than the market is at the moment, depressingly enough.
At the end of the day in my opinion it’s a redondant sacriligeous romance
High ceilings do come with the absence of a roof. #the sky is the limit
Aw London, some of your charms never change 🥰😅
Last time parking was available in London, it was during First Century )))))
The improved lighting has all the desired effects. I now know, your sexy is no accident. Please nominate this performance for an award.
Large man with dead body: Whose that then?
The dead collector: I dunno, must be the king.
Large man with dead body: Why?
The dead collector: He hasn't got shit all over him.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
At least credit the Pythons. ..
@@Ater_Draco Who?
@@AMPProf The professional comedians who wrote the joke of course....
@@Ater_Draco NEE! NEE!
I misread it as “House Haunting in the 1700s” and I was kinda really confused LMAO
Creative. Funny. Five stars!
LOVELY HAIR!!
I am old enough to know of no electricity or indoor plumbing and a crank telephone on a party line with the rest of the village and having to use an outdoor toilet I know of heating the bathwater on a coal burning stove, my question is what night is bath night? please
My sisters bathroom = " does it always smell like shit or is that just today?"
Ahhh, the good old days!
1980s uk town.... Victorian high rooms, but partitioned into 2 with hardboard. A packet of cornflakes & tin of marvel provided, so its "bed & Breakfast" & tenants got no rights. The electricity on a shared coin meter, so always run out , until someone gets fed up & puts some coins in & the whole building comes alive, with everyone's lights on, record player spinning up to speed & TV blaring & heaters all full on for fifteen minutes. Then back to darkness, the flashing blue lights of passing ambulance & candles warmth. ...
0:58 reminds me of a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle about a guy trying to buy a ghost for his house.
Still keeping my smile going.
love her off the wall comedy
Another Eleanor video, another time for me to fall in love with her.
I had never heard of a gibbet before. The more you know...
Describing the nex 100 year for western society!
all that is the kind of stuff that would be marked as quaint by a modern real estate agent
Just hang around you will get educated.
"Vibey."
🤣🤣🤣 he comes with the room, innit
Genius. Moor please. Perhaps the house on the moor.
Lisand! You are freakin' good!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like NYC today ... except increase the rent by 4000%.
This is basically house / apartment hunting in 2020's Sydney.
No mention of previous owners having died after a period of illness? I mean it's a little bit early for Scheele's green, but there was very toxic lead paints(including used as makeup. not the only toxic makeup either), etc. Not yet quite up to Victorian levels of lethality in the home, but getting there.
But old Samuel makes the best eel patty on the town and he's right on the corner.
always look at the bright side of life.
OMG Bob Newhart is the freakin MAN! nobody can take that away from him but this girly comic here is the very newest MAN! what. totally hilarious!
A HORSE!? My lady, you are rich!
tis that time! to ask the Lady for a loan
sounds like 2022 beside the pig slaughters now it is either halal sheep or kale smoothie machines
Halal is basically the same as slaughtering a pig in 1700. Except the pig isn't strung up before it's throat is slit and nobody prays for it.
I looked at buying an apartment in Kensington about 1990. A place to Park? NO. Share just 1 bathroom, Yes. It had NO Bedroom DOORS! 😳 I had never seen anything like that in New England and the rent was eye-wateringly high. A place I could have afforded looked to be a stellar place to get robbed getting home and Extreme fragrances from everyone in every apartment cooking Non Bland food. I decided I was perfectly happy at home. Lol Love your content!
Your story doesn't add up. You say in one place that you were looking to buy an apartment, then you say the rent was sky high.
I've formed an opinion about the veracity of your story, but I'll keep it to myself.
And suddenly I am reminded of a few of the reasons that using a time machine to escape into the past is a Terrible Idea Actually!
Eleanor is happy to share the bed with 8 random strangers. Sounds fair. For myself, there are never that many takers. Usually eight less.
👍
No roof is called "open plan"...
this is funny thanks
It's 2022 and there's still no parking.
A very, very funny girl. (from Australia)
Come on down.
Sooooooooooooo
Pretty much nothing changed in low income housing rentals.
That's also living look like in Sururbs of Delhi
Concerned about the lack of bed lice.
Hilarious 😂
There is a typo in the Heading: it should be called "House Hunting in Post-Brext London"
Is this really 1700s London or 2022 NYC ?
laft my ass off, so funny, yer very good
Back when u could rent something atleast lol
Hey, when there’s a live prisoner in that gibbet, you can poke them with sticks and throw offal at them! That’s free entertainment right there!
Those eyes!
😊😊😊😊😊
It is still the same here in London ngl
Hey, she's good!
I would honestly rather have this than not being able to own a plot of land anywhere.
Somewhere vibey