Patrick Marber does not get enough credit as a comedy performer (partly because of the bad blood between him and Stewart Lee, who you offend at your peril). No one in The Day Today is bad, but Marber rises to match even Morris and Coogan.
In 1994 they probably still had access to the old PAL B&W cameras. Also the early 60s clip looks like a film recording of a live B&W broadcast, which is how early Coronation Street was archived. Film was still very much in use in 1994.
Spot on for the recording technology of the time. Those who watched the moon landing live in 1969 saw it in better quality than we have seen it since. I believe NASA actually recorded it in better quality than we see today but the tapes were wiped to record episodes of Doctor Who which were then chucked in the sea. It's like when clips of programmes from the 1990s are shown and they are sourced from VHS, uploaded to CZcams and then at some point zoomed in to fill a 52" wide-screen TV before being broadcast on a low bitrate Freeview channel. Kids today think we actually watched TV like that.
How did they get the sound/image so perfect for each era? They clearly didn't fake it with computers it was the early 90s, looks like they used genuine old equipment. Also the American segments, American TV looked extremely blurry in the 90s, as did the American segments in TDT. They really went the extra mile for authenticity!
I recall the 'making of' feature in the DVD spending a bit of time talking about the CBN sections, with Rebecca Front talking about how she was pretty much caked with makeup and fake nails when she played Barbara Wintergreen, so that forced her to hold the mic in a certain way -- otherwise she'd stab herself in the hand with her own nails. The loss of picture quality was an easy step to reproduce, as that's just a standards conversion issue, NTSC (525 lines, 30fps) to PAL (625 lines, 25 fps).
As I recall the hanging segment was actually shot on a period camera and then transferred to videotape to be inserted into the rest of the broadcast. Real dedication to authenticity.
I think it was simply that the show was made by the BBC, so they had access to the BBC archives to research the real thing, and access to staff who knew all about the tech used at the time
First time I watched The Day Today, I was reporting the sports news on Hospital Radio. It was on the TV in the studio with the volume down. I turned it up just in time to hear "bouncing elephantiasis woman destroys central Portsmouth" instantly hooked!
The Day Today at its very best. Being sixty now, I saw a lot of that kind of TV way back (not KiddyStare, but the rest is horribly accurate in parts). Unbelievable when you look back at it. Thanks for posting! (got the series on video but VCR machine's packed up. Bah.)
Parodies that are completely laser-focused on nailing the audio/visual details of the source material will never not make my heart jump. Also, the Scutineer section is sublime.
Fancy Lady? Well fancy that. I sent this to an American friend in NYC. He thought this was real, bless him, and had a mini rant about good taste on tv. Yeah, lectures from America LOL.
The Steve Coogan character is a take off of a TV journalist, I forget his name, who took LSD and was filmed talking about how it was affecting him. The programme was never broadcast, I think.
I must say, it's looking in excellent condition. And yes, yes... the lights have gone out... it's a good clean drop! There's the hanging. Well done, well done. They'll be pleased with that!
- And to play us out, we have Johnny Stoppard! Johnny, what are you going to play us tonight? - Fancy Lady. - Fancy Lady! Well fancy that. This is Corrin Piper bidding you goodnight. Goodnight!
Anyone who’s not British would never guess that this is a comedy sketch. It’s a wonderful little capsule of our cultural history between the 1950s-90s.
bbc2 had retro nights, they had one in 1992 called tv hell..two of progs on were first episode of triangle and also ep of mainly for men. oh almost forgot chris morris... legend.
Strange decision - esp. when you check out the statue on the front of the BBC building... Seems like Savile may not have been aline - or I'd it just another of those awkward BBC 'coincidences'?...
Being the *geek* I am, just thought I'd point out that the BBC2 ident shown on the monitor at the beginning is 'Glass' which was dropped in 1993, and this was broadcast in 1994. Then again this was broadcast in January 1994, so they could have mistaken for it still being on air.
The Day Today was and still is ahead of it's time. It didn't pander to public opinion and survived those self-righteous PC years when British comedy was good but not all that smart. Chris Morris, you are a legend sir... The Day Today is up there.... My sat afternoon Brit Humourthon: Towers, Partridge, Perrin, Minister, Day, Python.
@@Amethyst_Friend I know. What are people on about when they talk about stuff like this and Alan Partridge and Bottom not being PC. This is the PC brigade in action. think some people are badly missing the joke.
The guy behind the Day Today is also behind Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Blue Jam / Jam, 4 Lions, and The Day Shall Come. Try to get all of it - all of it is genius.
Glinner's involved with this? Damn. I think you may have just ruined it a little for me. Then again, he's clearly not the same person he was back then. Morris and co need to do a Brass Eye style show satirising Glinner's BS.
@@nickmazonowicz511 LOL! The irony is that it was the early 80s equivalent of the 'woke brigade' that would have commissioned it (just as the Channel 4 commissioned the real Mini-Pops during that same era).
Best bit is the deliberate misleading use of the word "Blooming" to make you think THAT was the "first swearing" done on tv, and relatively tame and subvert your expectations-then the utterly over the top and unnecessary "Ta-ra ya big hairy cock" and "Ta-ra ya shitter" which both catch you unprepared. THATS the genius of this show.,
Them Next Door is so close to reality. Reminds me of Heil Honey I'm Home, which was a full length sitcom spoof that never got aired because the channel was worried people would not get the joke.
It's nothing like Heil Honey I'm Home, which was made in the late 1980s and was an attempt to send up American sitcoms. Them Next Door is a pastiche of the incredibly popular 1970s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour. Completely different style of comedy, completely different look.
@@markchambers3833 They look very similar to me. They are both spoof old sitcoms where the husband is a total ass and they have minority people living next door that they fail to comprehend. If you're saying I am wrong because one was 1980s and one was 1970s then forgive me for not being able to tell the difference between old and slightly older. The husband even has a garish patterned sweater in both. Plus "reminds me of" is not the same as "I claim that these two things are exactly the same in every conceivable way" but I guess this is the Internet so being blasted for a mild opinion is par for the course.
"Fancy Lady, fancy that!" always gets me, it is absolutely what a 1953 television announcer would say after a televised hanging
Patrick Marber does not get enough credit as a comedy performer (partly because of the bad blood between him and Stewart Lee, who you offend at your peril). No one in The Day Today is bad, but Marber rises to match even Morris and Coogan.
So they're playing a cheesy organ even when the man is still choking to death on the end of the rope?
@@Foebane72 Of course, they wouldn't want their viewers to feel bad about watching people die, after all. Keep it light!
It is perfect, innit?
Fancy lady at the end 🤗..genius..
The genius of it is the way he catches perfectly the broadasting quality of the various eras.
Chris Morris was/is noted for his absolutely meticulous attention to detail.
How did he manage to do it in 1994?
In 1994 they probably still had access to the old PAL B&W cameras. Also the early 60s clip looks like a film recording of a live B&W broadcast, which is how early Coronation Street was archived. Film was still very much in use in 1994.
I still say "Tara, y'shitter!" even now.
Glad i'm not the only one. Problem is no one else gets the reference.
I usually belm afterwards like a proper Joey.
@@andzzz2 Chinny reckon
Go on then I'll have the Express
No way, me too 😂
The people behind recreating the look of the old shows don't get enough credit, its all spot on for the TV of the time.
Even now, it's impressive. Harry Enfield did wonders. But this is on another level.
Spot on for the recording technology of the time. Those who watched the moon landing live in 1969 saw it in better quality than we have seen it since.
I believe NASA actually recorded it in better quality than we see today but the tapes were wiped to record episodes of Doctor Who which were then chucked in the sea.
It's like when clips of programmes from the 1990s are shown and they are sourced from VHS, uploaded to CZcams and then at some point zoomed in to fill a 52" wide-screen TV before being broadcast on a low bitrate Freeview channel. Kids today think we actually watched TV like that.
do they need credit? we all noticed. the show is successful to this day because of the production team as much as the writing and delivery
"Kiddystare" has Channel Four circa 1983 written all over it.
It's Minipops.
I've only just noticed the hanging was produced and directed by Malcolm Muggeridge. LOL!
The writing and performances are great but I'd watch a long programme on how they matched the vintage TV look for each era.
We can laugh now, but a nylon/hemp mix rope was actually at the forefront of execution technology in those days.
it's to guarantee extra strenght
That's what he wanted. That's what he got.
These millennial executioners. They don't get that it's not about the hanging, it's about the ROPE.
It's definitely stronger than traditional hemp. About trente percente.
@@jsmith498 you want a taxi to the airport?
How did they get the sound/image so perfect for each era? They clearly didn't fake it with computers it was the early 90s, looks like they used genuine old equipment. Also the American segments, American TV looked extremely blurry in the 90s, as did the American segments in TDT. They really went the extra mile for authenticity!
I recall the 'making of' feature in the DVD spending a bit of time talking about the CBN sections, with Rebecca Front talking about how she was pretty much caked with makeup and fake nails when she played Barbara Wintergreen, so that forced her to hold the mic in a certain way -- otherwise she'd stab herself in the hand with her own nails. The loss of picture quality was an easy step to reproduce, as that's just a standards conversion issue, NTSC (525 lines, 30fps) to PAL (625 lines, 25 fps).
As I recall the hanging segment was actually shot on a period camera and then transferred to videotape to be inserted into the rest of the broadcast. Real dedication to authenticity.
I think it was simply that the show was made by the BBC, so they had access to the BBC archives to research the real thing, and access to staff who knew all about the tech used at the time
Analogue effects.
First time I watched The Day Today, I was reporting the sports news on Hospital Radio. It was on the TV in the studio with the volume down. I turned it up just in time to hear "bouncing elephantiasis woman destroys central Portsmouth" instantly hooked!
a nylon hemp mix rope! another piece of brilliance, one of the very top highlights of the series
The Day Today at its very best. Being sixty now, I saw a lot of that kind of TV way back (not KiddyStare, but the rest is horribly accurate in parts). Unbelievable when you look back at it. Thanks for posting! (got the series on video but VCR machine's packed up. Bah.)
Ta ya shitter.
Even The Hanging?
This comment was posted 11 years ago, are you dead yet?
@@Zzyxzaa Quite Possibly
Kiddystare is referencing Minny Pops.
I spat my tea out a kiddy stare. 😁
My god.😁
THERE'S THE HANGING.
Parodies that are completely laser-focused on nailing the audio/visual details of the source material will never not make my heart jump.
Also, the Scutineer section is sublime.
"Last rites read by Derren Nesbitt". Nice touch.
I must have watched this 20-25 times and I never noticed that. Cheers!
@@nibunibu4254 It's almost subliminal!
And "Keyboards Jonathan Cohen"!
At 1:26, I thought the next sketch was called "ooo them next door". Then I saw the 9 and realised it was 9.00 them next door.
+Selinor578 That's exactly how I initially saw it. I was expecting a Dick Emery type character to make an appearance.
Same here
Frampton Row makes me laugh every time, without fail.
Subtle nod but the Hanging was directed by Malcolm Muggeridge!!!
Funniest part is when Coogans character says "I am being fellated", the way he says it is funny :D
He modelled a lo of that on John Craven and his infamous Glastonbury sneer.
I wonder if he decided to go all method acting for this and decided that actually experiencing a feeling would be better than just pretending?
I like how the sofa is positioned right in front of the door in the sitcom
Fancy Lady? Well fancy that. I sent this to an American friend in NYC. He thought this was real, bless him, and had a mini rant about good taste on tv. Yeah, lectures from America LOL.
The executioner being named and respected is so funny to me
They really were named and respected back in the day, look up 'Albert Pierrepoint'. Although the use of a nylon/ hemp mix rope is pure fiction.
@@nibunibu4254 made a film about him.
Good satire on British culture.
even the way he says "on BBC 2!"
His tone is like the verbal equivalent of the United Kingdom dwarfing the rest of Europe on the map at the start of TDT.
The Steve Coogan character is a take off of a TV journalist, I forget his name, who took LSD and was filmed talking about how it was affecting him. The programme was never broadcast, I think.
Alan Partridge?
czcams.com/video/Hd4rgyZzseY/video.html
Christopher Mayhew
"Them Next Door" is obviously based on "Love Thy Neighbour"
always loved the 888 subtitles on Kiddystare
It's the attention to detail.
I would love to see a full episode of Them Next Door!
One recovered episode is being shown at the Missing Believed Wiped event at the BFI in London in December!
The funny thing is, the real Love Thy Neighbour was probably just as offensive, if not more so.
I must say, it's looking in excellent condition. And yes, yes... the lights have gone out... it's a good clean drop! There's the hanging. Well done, well done. They'll be pleased with that!
Deadly accurate in 2023 nearly thirty years when this was made!!! 😀
- And to play us out, we have Johnny Stoppard! Johnny, what are you going to play us tonight?
- Fancy Lady.
- Fancy Lady! Well fancy that. This is Corrin Piper bidding you goodnight. Goodnight!
pmsl!!
Yes, i watched the video too
Somehow Corrin is short for Condublasney according to the credits
Kiddy Stare presented by Rolf Harris
Anyone at the BBC lol, take your pick
@@Peepholecircus Although, this one was actually parodying Channel 4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minipops
The real programme "Mini Pops" was frighteningly close.
Anyone who’s not British would never guess that this is a comedy sketch. It’s a wonderful little capsule of our cultural history between the 1950s-90s.
You're right, I as an American plebeian had no idea this was satirical until reading your very helpful comment. Good day sir.
Being one of the undesirables myself, I'd never have guessed if not for your announcement.
Are your parents siblings or are you just a normal mong?
I think it's quite obviously a comedy even to Johnny Foreigner.
"I'm being falated by a young girl known as a groupie...it's an interesting feeling and er, certainly quite relaxing..."
The "Fancy Lady" bit cracks me up!
well, fancy that!
fancy lady , well fancy that
Absolute Genius. Watching the media today, Fox, GB news, Oan, The Day Today seems sane in comparison.
normalAlyankovich, The show you're referring to is Minipops.
The funniest part of one the funniest satires ever. I could watch this a thousand times and not get bored. Tara ya shitter!
I wonder if they actually dragged a selection of old television cameras out of storage for this bit.
My grandfather was a television executioner
Ben Shepard does piers Morgan know?
I remember the Frampton Row episode that set the world record of 105 "buggers" in a half-hour.
Anyone referencing South Park in a comment on The Day Today deserves a thumbs up
@@elcorado83 I believe it’s Paul ‘Dennis Pennis’ Kaye who has the record for most ‘fucks’ in a half-hour comedy.
bbc2 had retro nights, they had one in 1992 called tv hell..two of progs on were first episode of triangle and also ep of mainly for men. oh almost forgot chris morris... legend.
You either are a master of comic understatement or don't realise this is a send-up. Of course you DO realise this is a send up...
Just genius. So ahead of the game
It's scary how accurate this is.
Early Channel 4 was pretty odd. Red triangle films etc.
Home Office Adviser
George Clinton
LOL
British intellectual humor at its absolute finest!
shut up
And now for the last televised hanging on the BBC. Live from Pebble Mill, in COLOUR.
'The Hanging' was produced by Malcolm Muggeridge. Well fancy that!
It kills me, that in the Frampton row bit the headline board obviously has some sort of joke involving Chris Morris, but we never get to see it :(
Everytime gold repeats this, they remove the kiddystare bit!!
Strange decision - esp. when you check out the statue on the front of the BBC building... Seems like Savile may not have been aline - or I'd it just another of those awkward BBC 'coincidences'?...
It’s too spicy for them.
@@jameshodgskiss8615 And still they refuse to remove that statue.
@@CelticSaint what statue? Tell me there isn't a statue of Saville outside the BBC lol
The Kiddystare bit is a satire of Channel 4’s very real Minipops
Comedy like this is impossible in 2024. This is true comedy, one that takes risks.
I'd say Kiddystare was once a massive hit at BBC HQ ...
Probably still is.
HBO are working to bring it back for shits and giggles
thats disgusting
Jimmy Savile had a hand in making it. Literally.
in the credits for the televised hanging... "Home Office Advisor: George Clinton" :D
You have to trust Chris Morris and Co to find this funny. In lesser hands this would be crass. There is nothing as satirical or hilarious nowadays.
Corrin Piper is the most "50s BBC presenter" name I've ever heard.
"That's what he wanted, that's what he's got ".
Being the *geek* I am, just thought I'd point out that the BBC2 ident shown on the monitor at the beginning is 'Glass' which was dropped in 1993, and this was broadcast in 1994. Then again this was broadcast in January 1994, so they could have mistaken for it still being on air.
Then again it is The Day Today and they might have just added it to mess with audience who know idents or higher ups at the Beeb.
"Keyboards - Jonathan Cohen."
Someone's a fan of "Playaway".
😊
bloody brilliant
I want to watch "Them Next Door" it looks hilarious
It's basically a less offensive version of "Love Thy Neighbour" which was a real programme broadcast ITV from 1972 to 1976.
Genius, many thanks.
"a cup of sugar for my lunch"
what'e say?
@@JohnLutherable HE SAYS HE WANTS YOU TO GIVE HIM A PUNCH
Tara, ye shitter! I still say that to my sister every time instead of goodbye. Aren’t we hilarious. God I miss The Day Today.
Did you know that, at the BBC, the phrase "children's entertainer" is a euphamism.
I remember the original 1968 broadcast like it were yesterday.
Obviously 'Attitudes Night' would be shunted over to BBC4 these days.....
artvandelay1 and hosted by Victoria Condublasney Mitchell 😜
The Day Today was and still is ahead of it's time. It didn't pander to public opinion and survived those self-righteous PC years when British comedy was good but not all that smart. Chris Morris, you are a legend sir... The Day Today is up there.... My sat afternoon Brit Humourthon: Towers, Partridge, Perrin, Minister, Day, Python.
Porridge, dinner ladies, getting on, spaced; Nathan barley it crowd, black books, father ted, Rab c Nesbit, etc etc etc
K Russell yes, yes, yes, yes and yes! Me and you should go for a drink sometime. Thursdays. Thursdays are good for me.
But if you really think about it, it IS politically correct...
@@chuzzwozzer...er... Hello?...Yeah i'm still here
@@Amethyst_Friend I know. What are people on about when they talk about stuff like this and Alan Partridge and Bottom not being PC. This is the PC brigade in action. think some people are badly missing the joke.
ive never seen a show like this before
The guy behind the Day Today is also behind Brass Eye, Nathan Barley, Blue Jam / Jam, 4 Lions, and The Day Shall Come. Try to get all of it - all of it is genius.
brilliant stuff
the BBC doesn't parody itself nearly as well as it used to. chris morris is a genius (as is everyone else involved, aside from glinner)
@ConManliness Glinner is Graham Linehan; some people have taken against him because he tells the truth.
@@catscanswim6805 tells the truth about what? Why his family will no longer speak to him?
Glinner's involved with this? Damn. I think you may have just ruined it a little for me. Then again, he's clearly not the same person he was back then. Morris and co need to do a Brass Eye style show satirising Glinner's BS.
2:07 - Young (adult) Jessica Hynes there!
im not sure they would get away with Kiddy stare now
But tv hangings is ok :P
Steve Coogan was heavily against it at the time, him and Chris Morris had a momentary falling out about it.
scw55 I think Dragon lair meant they wouldn't even get away with it as satire
greynotneon I was originally joking about if kiddy stare was a real show
+Dragon lair based on minipops a godawful channel 4 show where kids dressed up as pop stars and sang their sometimes lyrically inappropriate songs.
Years ahead of their time and most of what they satirised has become reality, entertainment and celebrity culture masquerading as news .
It already was. That's why it's "satire". Otherwise it would just have been fiction.
it does not get better than this
1:20 That smile makes it so good 😂
The precursor to Brass Eye and Alan Partridge.
is Kiddy stare season 1 on blu ray ?
The Steve Coogan segment is perfect.
ALL of this absolutely perfect
Amazed nobody has spotted the naming of the executioner joke.
@@leisureenjoyer1986 They wear a hood so they can't be identified. Also, you've lost the news Peter!
@@NashSpaceRocket lol dammit
THEM NEXT DOOR LOOKS HILARIOUS
Fancy Lady... Well Fancy That!
Brilliant.
you had me for a few moments until I saw Steve Coogan
@flaxonx3 it was an mp called christopher mayhew, the shamen wrote a song called christopher mayhew says.
I remember being concerned about Kiddy Stare at the time.....
The woke brigade wouldn’t allow it these days
@@nickmazonowicz511 LOL! The irony is that it was the early 80s equivalent of the 'woke brigade' that would have commissioned it (just as the Channel 4 commissioned the real Mini-Pops during that same era).
It's a piss take of sorts of the Channel Four show MiniPops that went out in the early 80's.
@jonno52 Kiddystare is a referance to the eary 80s show "mini pops".
Well fancy that
Best bit is the deliberate misleading use of the word "Blooming" to make you think THAT was the "first swearing" done on tv, and relatively tame and subvert your expectations-then the utterly over the top and unnecessary "Ta-ra ya big hairy cock" and "Ta-ra ya shitter" which both catch you unprepared. THATS the genius of this show.,
Yes.
It *was* the first swearing, and the immediate gateway to 'cock' and 'shitter'. LOL.
Why did youtube choose to recommend this now
GB News should bring back some of these it might boost thier audiance figures
Their audience is crying out for televised executions!
GB news wants taking off the air.
Ruddy hell, I was chuffed to buggery with this and litterally lauged like a drain.
That's not a very young Olivia Coleman in the brown and wearing glasses in Kiddystare is it?
Is that a young Olivia Colman as one of the Kiddy Stare spectators?
It appears so.
today they could have a show like "them next door". but it would be ironic, and boundary pushing. That that would make it ok.
Them Next Door is so close to reality. Reminds me of Heil Honey I'm Home, which was a full length sitcom spoof that never got aired because the channel was worried people would not get the joke.
It's nothing like Heil Honey I'm Home, which was made in the late 1980s and was an attempt to send up American sitcoms. Them Next Door is a pastiche of the incredibly popular 1970s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour. Completely different style of comedy, completely different look.
@@markchambers3833 They look very similar to me. They are both spoof old sitcoms where the husband is a total ass and they have minority people living next door that they fail to comprehend. If you're saying I am wrong because one was 1980s and one was 1970s then forgive me for not being able to tell the difference between old and slightly older. The husband even has a garish patterned sweater in both.
Plus "reminds me of" is not the same as "I claim that these two things are exactly the same in every conceivable way" but I guess this is the Internet so being blasted for a mild opinion is par for the course.
Satirical gold standard.
Oh I'm afraid I don't know anything about the gold standard, but I do love little kittens... They're so soft and furry...
@@Kris.G women know your place.