How NOT to be a journalist - The Best of Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan

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  • How NOT to be a journalist
    - The Best of Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan
    Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan (Patrick Marber) - economic correspondent. O'Hanraha-hanrahan is extremely incompetent, and his reports end with him having to admit their fundamental inaccuracy to an unforgiving Morris. Examples include a claim that an American factory with only 25,000 workers had made 35,000 redundant; a failed effort to conduct a light-hearted interview with a shipping minister; and a report in which O'Hanraha-hanrahan claims to have conducted an interview with an elusive German economics minister in the German language, his ignorance of which is then exposed. O'Hanraha-hanrahan resembles former BBC newsreader Richard Whitmore; his name is inspired by that of Brian Hanrahan. The character originated from writing by Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, in the second series of On the Hour.
    Created, Produced and Edited by Thom Goddard for BBC THREE in 2002.
    #Journalism #comedy #funny
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  • @boahneelassmal
    @boahneelassmal Před 4 lety +8400

    "You overslept!"
    "I slept longer than I anticipated"
    That's what I'm gonna say from now on.

  • @ZuluRomeo
    @ZuluRomeo Před 9 lety +6216

    His very incompetence and ineptness saved his life on 9/11. Dark stuff indeed.

    • @alobeyajourneyman9679
      @alobeyajourneyman9679 Před 6 lety +30

      You Tuber I think they understood that ???

    • @panached1450
      @panached1450 Před 6 lety +4

      ...maybe

    • @hackchewspit1956
      @hackchewspit1956 Před 6 lety +24

      Steven Peithman just like good old larry silverstein, a great guy, for a treasonous wee bastard ;)

    • @wallrider73
      @wallrider73 Před 6 lety +6

      Haha, yeah whatever dude.

    • @regmunday8354
      @regmunday8354 Před 5 lety +60

      @@stevenpeithman2438 sorry to hear about the brain damage, hope you get better soon.

  • @N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.
    @N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S. Před 3 lety +4582

    Okay, but the way he just sails through "O'Hanraha-hanrahan" is amazing.

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie Před 3 lety +56

      Given who the character was named after, it’s surprising they never managed to work in a reference to “I counted them all out and I counted them all back”.

    • @RangiferADV
      @RangiferADV Před 3 lety +63

      His name sounds like an old tractor engine starting up on a cold day.

    • @sumvs5992
      @sumvs5992 Před 3 lety +20

      In writing it looks hard, but in practice it's pretty easy

    • @theswissmiss69
      @theswissmiss69 Před 2 lety +9

      Why the „Okay, but…“?

    • @terrycrichton
      @terrycrichton Před 2 lety +6

      Even Peter's name sounds like he made it up.

  • @SlippyM8
    @SlippyM8 Před 11 měsíci +351

    "Peter you're lying in a news grave, do you know what's written on your headstone?"
    "News..."
    This part had me laughing in tears the first time I saw it.

    • @gecko24241
      @gecko24241 Před 10 měsíci +14

      "Peter thank you"
      gets me everytime

    • @chenzenzo
      @chenzenzo Před 10 měsíci +5

      "News." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @BackToTheBlues
    @BackToTheBlues Před 7 lety +5606

    "Rotate them a hundred and eighty degrees in my favour" instead of 'turn them round' is a wonderfully composed line.

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie Před 6 lety +189

      "And how is a cobweb going to dig you out of your numerical mess?"

    • @Retrostar619
      @Retrostar619 Před 5 lety +63

      Speaks to the imperiousness of the character.

    • @grendelum
      @grendelum Před 4 lety +6

      4:48

    • @Dragoneer
      @Dragoneer Před 4 lety +12

      That’s like something my bitchy maths teacher would say

    • @lateral1385
      @lateral1385 Před 4 lety +2

      999th like

  • @ZuluRomeo
    @ZuluRomeo Před 7 lety +9464

    6 people didn't like it, but had to go along with it.

    • @TheUKMikey
      @TheUKMikey Před 6 lety +114

      I think you mean "Sechs Leute haben es nicht gefallen, musste aber mitmachen".

    • @llary
      @llary Před 6 lety +92

      Zulu Romeo that's about trente perzente

    • @XxxRowan90
      @XxxRowan90 Před 6 lety +18

      hahahaha what a comment!

    • @bokehintheussr5033
      @bokehintheussr5033 Před 6 lety +10

      Just when i thought i was truly sick of "6 people" comments.

    • @stefansmith
      @stefansmith Před 5 lety +5

      UKMikey "Sechs Leuten hat es nicht gefallen, sie mussten aber mitmachen." Sorry ;)

  • @johnmartinez7440
    @johnmartinez7440 Před 2 lety +1784

    I also appreciate how Chris Morris's character seems to have omniscience about all aspects of the news - how the Germans had been against the new quota rates, how their finance minister is tricky to pin down for an interview, how many workers were employed by the GM Detroit plant etc. As though he does extra research on the stories Peter covers just so he can humiliate him live on air. Genius.

    • @cursedgamer2778
      @cursedgamer2778 Před rokem +52

      its the procedure when its your, i dunno, 6th time? doing the group project solo; you just start directing your team mates to answer questions you damn well know they don't know lmao

    • @davimurph
      @davimurph Před rokem +40

      Apparently it isn't (or wasn't) unusual for the presenter in the studio to have more information than the reporter live at the scene because the presenter has access to everything coming into the newsroom and might even have had time to prepare. The reporter has spent that time travelling and, before widespread, fast, mobile Internet, could hardly even email their contacts.

    • @rin_etoware_2989
      @rin_etoware_2989 Před rokem +11

      ​​@@davimurph reading off Wikipedia, presenters can also assist in writing the news that are going on the broadcast. at the very least, they have easier access to the wire service where they're actually getting the news from.
      really, a reporter out there is more useful in interviewing people on the spot (like what Peter didn't do with the German Finance Minister) and for reporting on things the wire service missed, or is too slow to respond to (like what Peter didn't do in New York)

    • @davimurph
      @davimurph Před rokem +2

      @@rin_etoware_2989 absolutely, presenters write their own scripts, but so do reporters. I was thinking more about breaking news where neither of them has had much time to prepare.
      Charlie Brooker did a great video about it. I'll try to find it.
      Reporters in the field are great if they have time to look around, interview people and prepare (like, as you say, Peter didn't).

    • @thebloodline2513
      @thebloodline2513 Před 11 měsíci

  • @inspector38
    @inspector38 Před 2 lety +902

    I love how Peter is concerned about keeping his lie intact and is disappointed when it falls through and not at all reacting to the fact he would be dead if hadn't overslept

    • @volodyanarchist
      @volodyanarchist Před 2 lety +117

      He has never overslept. He has just slept longer than he has previously anticipated!

  • @Elmo9001
    @Elmo9001 Před 5 lety +1037

    The way he screams "Peter, you've lost the news!" always gets me.

    • @Wabajak13
      @Wabajak13 Před 2 lety +11

      and the sheepisness of the "sorry"

    • @TJDious
      @TJDious Před rokem +4

      "He's over there..."

    • @Zoober95
      @Zoober95 Před 10 měsíci +3

      ​@TJDious "WELL GET HIM BACK!"

  • @DatBoi-mo9vc
    @DatBoi-mo9vc Před 4 lety +5646

    "Do you know what your tombstone is gonna say?"
    "News"

    • @valty3727
      @valty3727 Před 4 lety +127

      Ghiman the guy his inflection kills me every time

    • @kashmirwillwin3124
      @kashmirwillwin3124 Před 4 lety +124

      It'll probably be
      "I didn't like it but I had to go along with it"

    • @em.1633
      @em.1633 Před 4 lety +35

      Always slays me, one of the funniest single lines I've ever heard

    • @nedimgery-buyukyuksel513
      @nedimgery-buyukyuksel513 Před 4 lety +20

      Peter thank you

    • @Chris50673
      @Chris50673 Před 4 lety +21

      @Em Me too. Might be my favourite line of the whole series - and it's one of the most quotable programmes ever so that's really high praise. Never fails to make me laugh.
      Brass Eye's paedophile disguised as a school is the closest contender I can think of right now.

  • @AFGuidesHD
    @AFGuidesHD Před 11 měsíci +517

    "Actually we didn't hear that, the sound insulation in these buildings is extraordinary" 😂🤣

    • @Lefeurouge
      @Lefeurouge Před 11 měsíci +17

      "There is a plane tha-" 7:32
      "KEEP WATCHING, PETER."
      "Wh- ah . . . ah . . . . oh my god . . . . ."

    • @Ometecuhtli
      @Ometecuhtli Před 10 měsíci +15

      The building is collapsing... I'm running... I'm out of it

  • @janhuda8841
    @janhuda8841 Před 3 lety +745

    I like how "The best of Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan" is literally everything with Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan

  • @jonathanwilkinson1461
    @jonathanwilkinson1461 Před 9 lety +9478

    ich nichten lichten.

    • @DarrenBonJovi
      @DarrenBonJovi Před 8 lety +61

      +Jonathan Wilkinson ….German.

    • @mattdavies7398
      @mattdavies7398 Před 8 lety +110

      +DarrenBonJovi Eggs over easy for the Germans.

    • @joeb2487
      @joeb2487 Před 6 lety +470

      Trenter percenter

    • @RealityCheck6T9
      @RealityCheck6T9 Před 5 lety +43

      That's about the extent of my German too

    • @T4Cification
      @T4Cification Před 5 lety +56

      i worked in Germany a few times....fuking Nichen Lichen

  • @LAnonHubbard
    @LAnonHubbard Před 8 lety +5276

    The 9/11 stuff is genius. How Peter tries to keep the lie going, even getting out of the building from the 107th floor in a few seconds.

    • @LAnonHubbard
      @LAnonHubbard Před 7 lety +142

      +mary ward No it wasn't. Where did you "learn" that from?

    • @steffihex
      @steffihex Před 7 lety +30

      Yes it was. It's a clip from the radio show On the Hour which was broadcast between 1991 and 1992. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Hour

    • @LAnonHubbard
      @LAnonHubbard Před 7 lety +374

      +Steffi of Arc No it wasn't. It was made as an extra sketch for the The Day Today DVD 2004. Think about it.... this sketch makes no sense prior to 9/11.

    • @steffihex
      @steffihex Před 7 lety +41

      I stand corrected. But it wasn't so far fetched for it to have been made beforehand. There were quite a few cultural depictions of terrorist attacks on the twin towers before it actually happened, for example in The X Files or the Jackie Chan film Nosebleed.

    • @stevecooksley
      @stevecooksley Před 6 lety +414

      What the fuck? Are you actually Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan?

  • @chadpattypersonal8731
    @chadpattypersonal8731 Před 3 lety +3274

    The 9/11 bit is true genius. The script when Peter "escapes". It's so funny

    • @mrkingjesse378
      @mrkingjesse378 Před 3 lety +43

      Idk how ive never heard this. It’s hilarious.

    • @jimh781
      @jimh781 Před 3 lety +80

      At first i was a little uneasy, but it really did take that darkest of backdrops to really drive home Peter’s putzing

    • @jimh781
      @jimh781 Před 3 lety +5

      S Walters my bad, did sound eerily similar

    • @Apeksim
      @Apeksim Před 3 lety +81

      @@swalters6720 i believe the last sketch came out not long after 9/11

    • @Andrew-zm8gh
      @Andrew-zm8gh Před 3 lety +100

      @@swalters6720 it's not from 1994. It is bonus material made for the dvd release. They also make jokes in the bonus material about george w bush.

  • @nivst7094
    @nivst7094 Před 3 lety +1253

    “DO YOU KNOW WHAT WILL BE WRITTEN ON YOUR STONE?”
    “... news”

    • @compoflask6262
      @compoflask6262 Před 3 lety +4

      @Harry Red Panda I VERY much care about that opinion! that was some valuable persuasion you’ve done.

    • @SpuddyWesker
      @SpuddyWesker Před 3 lety

      @@Harold749 ohhhh nobody gives a shite

    • @adrianfleming3437
      @adrianfleming3437 Před 3 lety

      Man your pic is the best Metallica album going.

  • @RealityCheck6T9
    @RealityCheck6T9 Před 4 lety +2376

    Peter nearly died that day, and Chris just keeps abusing him as normal

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye Před 4 lety +72

      I know Peter O'Han x 2 had a really lucky escape and is traumatized and gets abused? No wonder Morris lost his job soon after :(

    • @epicspartan10
      @epicspartan10 Před 3 lety +39

      "peter you've added nothing"

    • @rin_etoware_2989
      @rin_etoware_2989 Před 3 lety +37

      probably because he's talking about breakfast at 10:45 or 11 am. also, how he couldn't even be bothered to open a window to see that a major landmark vanished in a puff of smoke like it's the world's shittiest magic trick. you really had to dig deep before you can find sympathy for colleagues like Peter.

    • @thiagodeandrade7081
      @thiagodeandrade7081 Před 2 lety +2

      You know, recently, I have watched the presenter of a crime news show trying to comment on the war in Ukraine and that's what I thought.

    • @ianmangham4570
      @ianmangham4570 Před 2 lety +3

      I watched Peter Cross the road outside Parliament without looking 🙄

  • @AdrianTheR
    @AdrianTheR Před 3 lety +5162

    Peter looks like Tom Hardy's character in Legend.

    • @Earthling..
      @Earthling.. Před 3 lety +92

      He definitely does.

    • @YOU2ONEDAY
      @YOU2ONEDAY Před 3 lety +85

      I was literally just about to type that, I look down and there it is.. Exactly what I was thinking lol.

    • @radioactivehalfrhyme
      @radioactivehalfrhyme Před 3 lety +273

      Actually, I think he looks more like Tom Hardy’s other character in Legend.

    • @AdrianTheR
      @AdrianTheR Před 3 lety +15

      @@radioactivehalfrhyme 😂😂

    • @elliotharris3965
      @elliotharris3965 Před 3 lety +53

      Even sounds like him

  • @CharlesVeitch
    @CharlesVeitch Před 3 lety +849

    "The tower I'm in is collapsing"

  • @lizageorge8923
    @lizageorge8923 Před 3 lety +797

    Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan
    1976-1999
    "news"

  • @thetomhfh
    @thetomhfh Před 10 lety +3655

    "Peter next time you cross the road don't bother looking"

    • @comanchio1976
      @comanchio1976 Před 5 lety +24

      I say it at least 8 times a day. Everyone hates me and I don't blame them

    • @CippiCippiCippi
      @CippiCippiCippi Před 4 lety +9

      Look down at the ground and say ‘sorry’

    •  Před 4 lety +4

      Later he jumped out a window and didn't bother looking (down).

    • @BarbadosBeerFestival
      @BarbadosBeerFestival Před 4 lety +2

      Tom Harwood classic line ....

    • @projectfreedom9510
      @projectfreedom9510 Před 3 lety +2

      Tyler Frost no you don’t. You lie. IRL. Today, you would be in trouble saying those things.

  • @thezec
    @thezec Před 5 lety +2745

    Floor 107 no longer gives a particularly good view of New York

    • @brainsmoran4954
      @brainsmoran4954 Před 4 lety +134

      thezec that's because it's now in the basement.

    • @Kris.G
      @Kris.G Před 4 lety +32

      @@brainsmoran4954 ah, he he, pulling my leg, Chris

    • @Dunmerdog
      @Dunmerdog Před 3 lety +17

      The delivery was so good on that line

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 Před 3 lety +15

      "Peter, is there a television near you?"

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Před 3 lety +7

      New York has never had a good view of anything. The country would be better off without that eyesore.

  • @linkieloos
    @linkieloos Před 2 lety +362

    "A week is a long time in politics."
    "Rab Bulter!"
    "Shut up, Peter!"
    Always sends me crying with laughter 😂

    • @itwontcomeout5678
      @itwontcomeout5678 Před 2 lety +18

      This whole time I thought he said “Rhett Butler!” which is seemingly more random lol

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie Před 2 měsíci +1

      ‘Rab Butler’ was a tautology. The B stands for Butler. They were his initials. (Richard Austen Butler)

  • @beelsmaxime7660
    @beelsmaxime7660 Před 2 lety +691

    I love how he escaped from the 107th floor of the tower in literally 3 seconds.

    • @HiringHamblin
      @HiringHamblin Před 2 lety +97

      Tbf that floor was rapidly getting closer to the ground, cutting his travel time down to street level immensely

    • @knucklesskinner253
      @knucklesskinner253 Před 2 lety +3

      Tower of god be like:

    • @trollop_7
      @trollop_7 Před 2 lety +7

      @@HiringHamblin Exactly. All he would have had to have done is step out from the falling building at the opportune moment - much in the way that we used to jump from the back of the old Routemaster buses.
      I've often reflected that if they'd taught this basic physics trick more in schools, more people would have survived the gruesome events of that day.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před rokem

      Just like the others :)

    • @Ometecuhtli
      @Ometecuhtli Před 10 měsíci +2

      He doesn't even try to make it "plausible" with panting and the sounds of things falling or anything else, you could call him a liar but never a commited one.

  • @levimcglinchey5843
    @levimcglinchey5843 Před 4 lety +1441

    *YOU'VE LOST THE NEWS!*

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 Před 3 lety +12

      I almost feel sorry for him, he's SO lost! 🤣

    • @philipcervenjak2493
      @philipcervenjak2493 Před 3 lety +20

      The delivery of that line was amazing, probably one of the best deliveries I've ever heard in comedy.

    • @sirtsregris9040
      @sirtsregris9040 Před 3 lety +2

      Sorry

  • @FireWalkWithMe91
    @FireWalkWithMe91 Před 4 lety +752

    The way he says "Floor 107! Sipping a cappuccino..." cracks me up

    • @sayhibobbi
      @sayhibobbi Před 3 lety +44

      Floor 107 no longer gives a particularly good view of New York...

    • @3y35poihjpn
      @3y35poihjpn Před 3 lety +2

      He sounds so happy, so ignorant 🤣🤣🤣

    • @ConradAshtonMusic
      @ConradAshtonMusic Před 3 lety +1

      Everytime! Haha

    • @Hinch2011
      @Hinch2011 Před 3 lety +4

      "KEEP WATCHING, PETER!"

    • @cartmanofsp
      @cartmanofsp Před 2 lety +2

      @@Hinch2011 'oh.. oh god.''

  • @Nigel_The_Crab
    @Nigel_The_Crab Před rokem +71

    "Would you mind telling me how the plant can function on minus 10,000 workers?" - That, that right there is comedy gold in delivery.

  • @Modenut
    @Modenut Před 3 lety +431

    "I slept longer than I anticipated"
    gets me every fucking time

  • @kisbie
    @kisbie Před 8 lety +2415

    "Er, one of the towers has collapsed, fortunately not the one I'm in - the other one - the one I'm in is... is... is... one of the towers - the other tower... the tower I'm in is collapsing! I'm collapsing Chris, under the sheer... I've managed.... I'm out! I'm out! Errrrrrr, I'm very fer...rum... I'm not there."

    • @cninh4574
      @cninh4574 Před 5 lety +104

      "It seems like a movie."

    • @Orc-icide
      @Orc-icide Před 5 lety +9

      Hilarious, I love jokes about disasters

    • @MrDash711
      @MrDash711 Před 5 lety +99

      Matt S lighten up Matt. The internet doesn’t care about what you love.

    • @starch_tuber1778
      @starch_tuber1778 Před 5 lety +8

      MrDash711 fuck you

    • @ianfreud
      @ianfreud Před 5 lety +41

      Matt S There are no jokes about disasters in this clip. But thanks for letting us know your opinion on them.

  • @RealityCheck6T9
    @RealityCheck6T9 Před 5 lety +531

    "Later, what is a hijacked airliner and how does it crash?" A suitably inane question

    • @Lark1610
      @Lark1610 Před 4 lety +14

      RealityCheck6T9 Sums up the bullshit 24h news stations make to keep covering one topic for a whole day. Or week. Because they need a 9/11 every week to keep people watching.

    • @columbus8myhw
      @columbus8myhw Před 3 lety +8

      Someone made the pilot not a pilot and then made the plane not a plane

  • @wingsken
    @wingsken Před 3 lety +311

    This whole thing feels like me back in high school when i forgot my homework.

  • @_.zwieback._
    @_.zwieback._ Před 3 lety +2568

    Whats the german for 30 percent?
    "trenta procenta"
    "Treizig prozent?"
    *yes*

  • @bigmoncrief6071
    @bigmoncrief6071 Před 5 lety +1631

    'Peter, you've added nothing'. A sentence I think to myself on a daily basis whenever some windbag is pointlessly prattling on in any one of the shitty middle management meetings I have to attend. It's worth remembering that we all work with people who are as shit at their jobs for their entire career as Peter, but there's never a Chris Morris around to tell them so.

  • @Kishnabe
    @Kishnabe Před 3 lety +1221

    He became Bane after being humiliated.

  • @Malisane
    @Malisane Před 3 lety +1169

    "So the Governments ship, back on course?"
    "Absolutely."
    "Back to you Chris."
    He really had him on the ropes there.

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie Před 2 lety +20

      Insert GIF of Kuenssberg interviewing Boris and pretend it’s still 2019.

    • @DataLog
      @DataLog Před 2 lety

      Exactly when you looked at any report on Covid bullsh1t lol

  • @richardcoupe9279
    @richardcoupe9279 Před 2 lety +167

    "Peter, you've added nothing. That's Peter O'hanraha-hanrahan, from New York, on a day which will go down as-"
    "Yes, a day wh-"
    "BE QUIET!"
    The way Peter gamely tries to carry on cracks me up, every time.

    • @robair67
      @robair67 Před 2 lety +8

      Chris' delivery of "BE QUIET!" in a perfectly 'You've already done quite enough damage to the credibility of my broadcast, and yet you STILL keep trying to drag it down further!' kind of outrage, is my favourite part of this sketch (close 2nd is the "...I'm not there." line). Easily the most funny, and yet poignant comedy about this world-changing tragedy.

  • @martaleszkiewicz5115
    @martaleszkiewicz5115 Před 4 lety +426

    "Next time you cross the road, please don't bother looking" - That is probably the most British curse / insult I have ever heard.

  • @mehua
    @mehua Před 9 lety +809

    "I slept longer than I'd anticipated." epic.

    • @QFIhawkman
      @QFIhawkman Před 7 lety +23

      Yar. En fakt, trenter percenter lunger din hel anticipartered.

  • @None-Trick_Pony
    @None-Trick_Pony Před 2 lety +129

    Patrick Marber, the guy who plays Peter O'hanraha'hanrahan, is apparently a brilliant playwright who has won many awards. I was caught off-guard when I read it.

    • @damienx0x
      @damienx0x Před 5 měsíci +3

      Indeed. He also co-wrote the early Alan Partridge shows and appeared as a guest on the show a few times in different guises.

  • @Sasasala386
    @Sasasala386 Před 3 lety +76

    The tower I'm in is collapsing, under the sheer...I'm managing..I'm.. I'M OUT.

  • @EDFilmsUK
    @EDFilmsUK Před 4 lety +196

    7:57 “I’m not there.” The delivery is so perfect, had me in tears

  • @Vojife
    @Vojife Před 5 lety +535

    "Did you speak to the German prime minister?"
    "No."
    "And what was his reaction?"

  • @amygoldstraw3778
    @amygoldstraw3778 Před rokem +38

    To this day i will shout “you lost the news!” The day today was and will always a genius gem

  • @squatchjosh1131
    @squatchjosh1131 Před 3 lety +1388

    I wonder when the 9/11 skit was aired. Even for the "too soon" period it's probably the most tasteful 9/11 joke I've heard in a weird way.

    • @visionist7
      @visionist7 Před 3 lety +247

      It was an extra on the 2004 DVD

    • @squatchjosh1131
      @squatchjosh1131 Před 3 lety +71

      @@visionist7 Oh right, so still sort of fresh at the time.

    • @visionist7
      @visionist7 Před 3 lety +34

      @@squatchjosh1131 still weird to hear on these clips which are mostly ten years older

    • @squatchjosh1131
      @squatchjosh1131 Před 3 lety +24

      @@visionist7 Haha, weird to me that a lot of the time I'm talking to people that weren't even alive when it happened (which is cool with me of course). I mean I was only five but still even being that young and in Scotland I remember my parents felt obliged to tell me about it in the morning, it was that huge.

    • @visionist7
      @visionist7 Před 3 lety +25

      @@squatchjosh1131 I was 12 going on 13. Was on a train when it happened. I remember everything that morning, even the chocolate bar I had, Kinder Cereali.
      Edit: although it wasn't morning here, it was afternoon.

  • @harry7669
    @harry7669 Před 5 lety +200

    "As the Minister for Ships sprawls on a pin, it's back to you, Chris!"
    "NO IT ISN'T PETER!"

  • @Wehdeo
    @Wehdeo Před 4 lety +227

    Such an accurate portrayal of a serial liar. I know someone just like this. Especially the way they stonewall and cave when you question them.

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie Před 2 lety +29

      In some ways, this is the least satirical sketch on The Day Today. It’s just a classic comedy setup cast as a news anchor and reporter. But it’s still probably the funniest thing in the entire show. The setting lends a delightfully eccentric flair to the execution.

    • @konstantinopoulos33
      @konstantinopoulos33 Před rokem +16

      @@kisbie Let's also give credit to Patrick Marber's acting... he conveys the subtle desperation and changes in tone so incredibly well, perfect mix of realistically complex and comedic

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie Před rokem +11

      @@konstantinopoulos33 Absolutely. I’ve said elsewhere that Marber does not get the praise he deserves as a comedy performer. The Peter O’Hanrahan character could have easily followed Partridge and had a life beyond TDT.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před rokem +4

      @@kisbie sadly, he let the news get away :(

  • @emiel255
    @emiel255 Před 3 lety +395

    I love how Morris always includes the name ‘Peter’ in his sentences when addressing Peter instead of sometimes leaving it out like a normal person would

    • @paullindemeyer3913
      @paullindemeyer3913 Před 2 lety +27

      its entirely possible Peter won't know Chris is talking to him unless he hears his name.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 11 měsíci +5

      Like scolding a child

    • @nathanmcgill7249
      @nathanmcgill7249 Před 11 měsíci +1

      It's quicker than using his last name

  • @russellmoore8187
    @russellmoore8187 Před 9 měsíci +9

    "Peter, you're lying in a news grave. Do you know what's written on your headstone?"
    "...news."

  • @davidbeardsley9394
    @davidbeardsley9394 Před 5 lety +1053

    The tower I'm in is collapsing! I'm collapsing Chris, under the sheer.. I've managed.. I'm out! I'm out! err.. I'm very.. run.. I'm not there.

    • @Xallisto1
      @Xallisto1 Před 4 lety +33

      @Paddy O'Yakkin Peter you have added nothing.

    • @SpuddyWesker
      @SpuddyWesker Před 3 lety +3

      @⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ You've added nothing

  • @gthreek
    @gthreek Před 5 lety +2979

    Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan for brexit negotiator, honestly couldn't do much worse than the current mob

    • @peterohanraha-hanrahan3022
      @peterohanraha-hanrahan3022 Před 4 lety +152

      I spoke with Michel Barnier and he said he didn't like it, but he'll have to go along with it!

    • @DennisMoore664
      @DennisMoore664 Před 4 lety +40

      @@peterohanraha-hanrahan3022 What language did you conduct this interview in, Peter?

    • @joujou264
      @joujou264 Před 4 lety +31

      @@DennisMoore664 ....... French

    • @Pining_for_the_fjords
      @Pining_for_the_fjords Před 4 lety +43

      @@joujou264 So what's French for "we want all the benefits of EU membership with none of the responsibility"?

    • @hesiolite
      @hesiolite Před 3 lety +38

      @@Pining_for_the_fjords "Je want EU benefites wizout responsibilitie"

  • @lepari9986
    @lepari9986 Před 3 lety +61

    For me it's all about the way Peter answers: "Yes!" so confidently.

  • @xcruell
    @xcruell Před 3 lety +173

    "Rufen sie ein Taxi bitte, sonst verpasse ich meinen Flug"
    "Yees!"

  • @jacobwallace6969
    @jacobwallace6969 Před 4 lety +459

    Can we acknowledge that Peter's incompetence actually saved his life? I would say that it's way more incompetent on the other end to not consider that.

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye Před 4 lety +18

      I know Peter O'Han x 2 had a really lucky escape and is traumatized and gets abused? No wonder Morris lost his job soon after :(

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie Před 2 lety +23

      Peter’s “oh my god” sounds like he’d rather have been incinerated in an enormous fireball than be subjected to yet another dressing down from Chris.

    • @thiagodeandrade7081
      @thiagodeandrade7081 Před 2 lety +1

      The other end doesn't care about it.

    • @Ometecuhtli
      @Ometecuhtli Před 10 měsíci

      Before 9/11 his tombstone would've said "News...", if he died there he would've been "Fallen in the line of duty", now it's only "Beloved liar"

  • @khill4491
    @khill4491 Před 4 lety +416

    “Next time u cross the road don’t bother looking”... I’m using that 1

    • @gappuma7883
      @gappuma7883 Před 4 lety

      K Hill i read it just when he said it

  • @rajrigby8385
    @rajrigby8385 Před 2 lety +66

    Watching this on the 20th anniversary of Peter sleeping longer than he anticipated

  • @strangemachines_
    @strangemachines_ Před 2 lety +10

    “As the minister for ships sprawls on a pin, it’s back to you Chris.” 😹 fuck this part gets me every time man.

  • @dannysmith785
    @dannysmith785 Před 8 lety +185

    The sound insulation in these buildings is extraordinary hahahahaha

  • @dave_yarders
    @dave_yarders Před 5 lety +2280

    2.2k: ich lichten
    28: ich nichten lichten

    • @CS-mo7xp
      @CS-mo7xp Před 5 lety +38

      ich see vat you deed ther

    • @ericforsyth
      @ericforsyth Před 4 lety +43

      CZcams needs a way to signal ”I don’t like it, but I’ll have to go along with it”
      I guess that’s just watching the video and neither liking nor disliking it...

    • @gravypatron
      @gravypatron Před 4 lety

      @@ericforsyth well, in a way-- our video feed from algorithms...😁

    • @mydickisincrediblytinyandi7380
      @mydickisincrediblytinyandi7380 Před 3 lety +2

      @Mike White *German

    • @bogonanaz9404
      @bogonanaz9404 Před 3 lety +2

      The person above me, woooosh. I’m also sorry for your loss.

  • @joelhaggis5054
    @joelhaggis5054 Před 3 lety +118

    "Peter, next time you cross the road, don't bother looking"
    The British know how to insult.

  • @bonglesnodkins329
    @bonglesnodkins329 Před 26 dny +2

    Just love the fact that on Peter's notes near the bottom there's a line saying "35,000 or 3,500 CHECK".

  • @mikenaughton
    @mikenaughton Před 4 lety +175

    "Peter, the next time you cross the road don't bother looking!!!" 😂

  • @timrobinson8943
    @timrobinson8943 Před 9 lety +1117

    Classic. Trente Percente.

    • @optimisticwhovian1726
      @optimisticwhovian1726 Před 5 lety +15

      The joke is that's Italian trenta is Italian for 30.

    • @chalibard3826
      @chalibard3826 Před 4 lety +73

      @@optimisticwhovian1726 "trente" is french for 30. So would you like to revise your appraisal of the situation in light of what you just gleaned ?

    • @jordanhicks5131
      @jordanhicks5131 Před 4 lety +28

      Thirty-o percent-o
      You're welcome for the Spanish translation

    • @hoogmonster
      @hoogmonster Před 4 lety +10

      @@jordanhicks5131 Muchas grassy arse!

    • @rattiom
      @rattiom Před 3 lety +8

      @@optimisticwhovian1726 No it isn't, the joke is that he doesn't know German lol

  • @hatchmaster_5745
    @hatchmaster_5745 Před 3 lety +200

    Imagine this, but the man in the studio doesn't correct him. That's America's news now

    • @christopherwall2121
      @christopherwall2121 Před 2 lety +22

      The difference is Morris isn't correcting him under any pretense of journalistic integrity. This is the man who engineered a war between Hong Kong and Australia essentially because he could. He only corrects Peter for the chance to punish and humiliate him.

    • @Alex-cw3rz
      @Alex-cw3rz Před 2 lety +3

      @@christopherwall2121 ah yes the famous Australio-Hong Kong border wars

    • @jotarokujo4787
      @jotarokujo4787 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Alex-cw3rz cant blame him, hes in another universe

    • @notinspectorgadget
      @notinspectorgadget Před 2 lety +1

      That was the news *back then*
      That was what they were lampooning. Journalistic integrity was already that much of a joke.

  • @evanbarlow5534
    @evanbarlow5534 Před 3 lety +79

    The funniest part of this sketch is a journalist on a televised network that actually asks tough questions. Totally implausible.

    • @lookingforsomething
      @lookingforsomething Před 10 měsíci +3

      Public news seem to do this quite well honestly. The US sadly doesn't really have a national broadcasting company.

    • @hailboognish
      @hailboognish Před 3 měsíci

      Have you never heard of Jeremy Paxman? One of Morris' greatest influences for his role in this show.

  • @SaintPhoenixx
    @SaintPhoenixx Před 4 lety +119

    "Floor 107...sipping a cappuccino!"

  • @adamm2091
    @adamm2091 Před 3 lety +228

    "Do you know whats written on your headstone?"
    "News!"

  • @acreking9680
    @acreking9680 Před 2 lety +10

    "I'm going to a television inside the restaurant. There's one of those, yknow... in the corner"
    "Yes, just get on with it!"

  • @goldenjoel8566
    @goldenjoel8566 Před 3 lety +68

    I love how he still thanks Peter every time lol

  • @notryangosling3065
    @notryangosling3065 Před 5 lety +350

    Underrated highlight is “its just been anno- yeah thanks...it’s just been announced...”

    • @misteral1083
      @misteral1083 Před 5 lety +30

      I loved all those little asides. "Get her off the monitor, I don't want to see her face"

    • @ianwebster3489
      @ianwebster3489 Před 4 lety +4

      @@misteral1083 Only because she fell into somebody's lap.

    • @misteral1083
      @misteral1083 Před 4 lety +4

      @@ianwebster3489 Classic! (although if memory serves it's "Only because she landed in someone's stomach' - I could be wrong though!) Have to say, I felt the latest Partridge was frequently borrowing very heavily from Day Today - specifically moments when he would pronounce words in an odd voice. Didn't work for me, unfortunately...

    • @ianwebster3489
      @ianwebster3489 Před 4 lety +2

      @@misteral1083 Some of it was pretty good but yeah it's evolved a bit to far away from earlier Partridge. (Evolved, not revolved).

    • @misteral1083
      @misteral1083 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ianwebster3489 Just clocked your avatar - we have much in common, it seems. Green is not a creative color.

  • @nickcockayne7880
    @nickcockayne7880 Před 9 lety +389

    Peter's Notes. 35,000 or 3,500 CHECK (double underlined). He didn't check lol

    • @kisbie
      @kisbie Před 3 lety +1

      It feels like there should be a good ‘I counted them out and I counted them all back’ joke in there somewhere...

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 Před 3 lety +3

      Seems like THE NEWS escaped from Peter's news cobweb :(

  • @trevormcvickar6502
    @trevormcvickar6502 Před 2 lety +12

    I've been taking German the last few weeks and this video has killed my grade, because everytime I go to write something on a test, all I can think is "Ich nichten lichten..."

  • @zenahrb8316
    @zenahrb8316 Před 3 lety +139

    As a native german this is absolutely hilarious to listen to

  • @nelad
    @nelad Před 9 lety +265

    Peter, you've added nothing

  • @matthew5a
    @matthew5a Před 8 lety +568

    Seems like Tom Hardy's inspiration for Ronnie Kray

  • @flannerymonaghan-morris4825

    Peter is adorable! How can you not want to hug him whenever he is on screen is beyond me.

  • @macroglossumstellatarum3068
    @macroglossumstellatarum3068 Před 10 měsíci +14

    I love how the anchor always decides to interrogate and make a fool out of the lying reporter instead of trying to save face for the news station 😂

  • @WillowJordan1979
    @WillowJordan1979 Před 7 lety +195

    "Ich nichten... lichten..."

  • @anthonyjohngabriel1505
    @anthonyjohngabriel1505 Před 7 lety +91

    "In light of what you've just GLEANED..."

  • @HollowSun
    @HollowSun Před 3 lety +110

    "Peter you're lying in a news grave, do you know what's written on your headstone?"
    ...
    "ⁿᵉʷˢ"

  • @hershelmccoy
    @hershelmccoy Před 3 lety +22

    "One of the towers has collapsed, fortunately not the one I'm in...the other one...the one I'm in is...is... one of the tow-....th- the other tower... THE TOWER I'M IN IS COLLAPSING!"

  • @tnerbtnerb5136
    @tnerbtnerb5136 Před 4 lety +674

    "Floor 107 no longer gives a particularly good view of New York..."
    "Well it does from where I'm-"
    "Its now part of the basement!"
    XD

    • @AntiNihilist
      @AntiNihilist Před 3 lety +1

      This isn't far off from making Holocaust jokes against the victims but I guess it's funny.

    • @ryanname2503
      @ryanname2503 Před 3 lety +12

      @@AntiNihilist fuck off

    • @MyPhuckDub
      @MyPhuckDub Před 3 lety +3

      Zero relation

  • @avatharbehemoth
    @avatharbehemoth Před 4 lety +1805

    somehow this has become current journalism, its no longer satire.

    • @igorfilipovic6531
      @igorfilipovic6531 Před 4 lety +15

      In Serbia it's reality

    • @Emmyschannel806
      @Emmyschannel806 Před 4 lety +96

      This has always been reality....they are making fun of that fact

    • @Micrologus5
      @Micrologus5 Před 4 lety +2

      Bilo bi dobro da je ovako :D Ne bi Sarapa ovako propitivao Barbaru dok laze :D

    • @morerobotwarscontent1476
      @morerobotwarscontent1476 Před 4 lety +3

      If this is how it really is then it has become more Satirical.

    • @thekiss2083
      @thekiss2083 Před 3 lety +36

      Current journalism wouldn't have anybody on the scene, just 5 people in a circle yelling about it afterward

  • @itsd0nk
    @itsd0nk Před 11 měsíci +3

    “Peter, next time you cross the road, don’t bother looking.”
    😂 savage

  • @chadlancer6107
    @chadlancer6107 Před 3 lety +53

    I love how you can’t tell whether he’s lazy or it’s just sheer utter incompetence

  • @IgiWhiteman
    @IgiWhiteman Před 4 lety +172

    Peter is basically me lying to my mom when I was 8.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Před 11 měsíci +3

      Did you too lose the news?

  • @clairduffy60
    @clairduffy60 Před 7 lety +428

    Peter! You've lost the news!

  • @JamesCalbraith
    @JamesCalbraith Před 8 lety +918

    1990s Patrick Marber is spitting image of 2010s Tom Hardy. Uncanny.

    • @DaveRelph001
      @DaveRelph001 Před 7 lety +89

      Especially playing the Crays in Legend.

    • @johnnyboy18778
      @johnnyboy18778 Před 7 lety +16

      I've thought the very same

    • @iliilili310
      @iliilili310 Před 6 lety +37

      Sounds quite a bit like him too, actually.

    • @JeffRB
      @JeffRB Před 6 lety +3

      sound and kinda ook I thought it was for a sec

    • @deadsi
      @deadsi Před 6 lety +3

      Lol was gonna say that too, thot it was him for a min

  • @JamesBrewerDJ
    @JamesBrewerDJ Před 4 lety +21

    "Do you know what's written on your headstone", ".......News?" Such an underrated series! Still have them on an old VHS!

  • @elijauan
    @elijauan Před 3 lety +145

    "A week is a long time in politics." "Rabutlut-" "Shut up peter."

    • @DadgeCity
      @DadgeCity Před 3 lety +20

      "Rab Butler" (Although it was actually Harold Wilson.)

  • @Wimpoman
    @Wimpoman Před 2 lety +6

    "Peter, you're lying in a news grave. Do you know what's written on your headstone?"
    "News... ." XD

  • @mrwri
    @mrwri Před 4 lety +82

    "Trenta Precenta"
    "Ich Nichten Lichten"

  • @jbreckmckye
    @jbreckmckye Před 6 lety +160

    At 4:55 you can see Peter's notes: "35000 or 3500 - CHECK"

  • @Brendanin
    @Brendanin Před 3 lety +107

    Peter is literally every slacking student ever

  • @MichaelBennett1
    @MichaelBennett1 Před 3 lety +23

    I only need to hear Chris scream “You’ve lost the news” to cheer me up.

  • @smirch
    @smirch Před 5 lety +40

    The tower I'm in is collapsing. I'm collapsing Chris. I've managed...I'm out...I'm out.

  • @kindzis1
    @kindzis1 Před 4 lety +694

    He's a perfect journalist, lies,cover ups false numbers.

    • @lonewolf3314
      @lonewolf3314 Před 4 lety +7

      Thats the point of these.

    • @VictorBR45
      @VictorBR45 Před 4 lety +21

      But those Facebook memes are 100% true right?

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 Před 3 lety

      nope.

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor Před 3 lety +4

      No he's not pushing the leftist woke narrative hard enough.

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 Před 3 lety +18

      @@OffGridInvestor that's better than the right wing narrative

  • @hamz0rs
    @hamz0rs Před 3 lety +15

    I LOVE this kind of comedy/satire. And the delivery is amazing. Where can I find stuff as great as this? What did the world produce after this?

    • @TelecastPropellor96
      @TelecastPropellor96 Před 3 lety +7

      This was made by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris, so look at their other stuff. Try out Brass Eye, The Thick Of It and Why Bother.

  • @ryanheilman3807
    @ryanheilman3807 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Why does "Yeah, thanks" crack me up so much

  • @lonestar6709
    @lonestar6709 Před 6 lety +47

    I love how Peters notes say '35,000 or 3,500 check'.
    Looks like he lost the news again.

  • @tdurb0
    @tdurb0 Před 4 lety +190

    Chris Morris: by far the funniest, most important, influential, DARKEST comedian of the last thirty years.
    TV news is, even in 2019, the same shit looped, that this took the piss out of perfectly, almost at the same time the format started. It should be taught as a perfect example of how to create perfection, not one wasted line.

    • @usronejm
      @usronejm Před 4 lety +13

      He is a genius. Waaaaaay ahead of his time. He was too brilliant for his own good, imo. Sometimes I wish he had Charlie Brooker's success but that never seemed to be his main incentive so, good on him for choosing a normal life. His body of work is incomparable - I think only Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan come close to his brilliance.

    • @sillygoose635
      @sillygoose635 Před 3 lety

      shut the fuck up you pompous prick, it's not.

    • @schteeve4759
      @schteeve4759 Před 3 lety +7

      @@sillygoose635 Stevie, you've added nothing.

    • @thebatman4279
      @thebatman4279 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sillygoose635 Stevie, you've lost the plot!

    • @noradosmith
      @noradosmith Před 3 lety +2

      Bear in mind this was mainly written by Armando Ianucci.