Constable Savage: Racist Police (Not The Nine O'Clock News)
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- Sergeant: Savage, why do you keep arresting this man?
Constable Savage: He's a villain, sir.
Sergeant: ...A villain.
Constable Savage: And a jailbird, sir.
Sergeant: I know he's a jailbird, Savage, he's down in the cells now! We're holding him on a charge of being caught in possession of curly black hair and thick lips!
Broadcast 16 July 1979
Rowan gets all the applause but Griff plays his part perfectly, comedy gold.
"Thank you very much sir!"
Rowan Atkinson's brilliance is that he plays every comedy role completely straight: he knows the lines are funny, he knows he'll get the laughs, but he also knows perfectly how to deliver them, with believability and sincerity and doesn't need to 'milk' them with a funny turn. He's absolutely a comic genius. Today's BBC comedians couldn't hold a candle to this man.
And this is clearly a precursor to his Police Inspector character in The Thin Blue Line.
with a good script we could even make you look funny.shame these days we got the very imbodyment of unfunny called hannor gadsby you get kicked out of her show after paying to see her for asking where the all the funny.this won awards recently .we "told" her man hating rape jokes are comedy gold ? i highlight the word told as we not sure when the right time to cry is .i rather watch concrete dry than trust a critic.
And he had me on Kidodo.
The point is, he's a comic actor, not a stand up comic. So naturally he delivers the lines straight because he is playing a part, not presenting himself.
The BBC (the Black Broadcasting Corporation) has comedians today?
Thin blue line was very good. Got a real kick out of Grimm and Boyle.
“Can’t say I’ve ever noticed sir”
Now a Met Police training video.
Loud shirt is homaphobic racicst and anti lesbian
Yup im goose steping to the pub 4a sub
Walking around with an offensive wife. That definately needs to become law.
"Karen". :)
Was her name Karen?
Tony Blair wouldn't stand a chance.
@@pk1645 neither would your Dad
Classic line
I was 13/14 when that fabulous sketch came out.
The school play ground was reciting it the next day. Timeless classic!
School playgrounds can recite that is amazing can it do Shakespeare
Similar here. I probably was 15. Constant repetition in the school yard, along with most sketches from Life of Brian.🤣
@@neilfranklin5644 If only they could talk.
I still know every word of every sketch on Hedgehog Sandwich. And I dont regret a thing x
Totally agreed, a must watch back in my school days, be about 14 at the time, great laugh the next day. Great times.
Many years later Rowan Atkinson spoke about how this fictional comedy sketch pretty much foreshadowed reality with Section 5 of the Public Order Act of 2013, and he led a successful campaign to get it amended.
I'm here because of that video
@@shanecabbage2187 I never even knew he'd gotten involved in it, now I have to find and watch the video.
The clock on the wall....Not quite Nine O Clock !! brilliant : )
“Possession of curly black hair and thick lips.” Savage indeed. 😳
you would think it was a crime to exist the way we're treated
Now in 2020, "coughing without due care and attention" WILL get you arrested or fined!
Lol so true
Oh my goodness we are there in 2020/21😳! Coughing without due care and attention
Just ask Marilyn Manson.
Honestly people who don't cover their mouths when they cough should be shot. Also people who open their mouths while chewing.
Anything a Liberal doesn't like gets you arrested now!
A modern version of this sketch would be a coroner with an American cop, going through the cadavers listing the causes of death. "Juvenile suspect was believed to be in possession of dark skin, with malicious intent to grow older despite repeated warnings."
This had to be the genesis of Thin Blue Line a decade later. Brilliant!
Constable Savage would have risen through the ranks to Chief Constable Savage before retiring on a fat pension.
"Looking at me in a funny way.." always was and always will be a sure way of unwanted police harassment.
😑
As any number of CZcams videos will testify.
Agreed
Or now saying a female Police officer looks like my lesbian nana.
Yes that is a crime in 2023.
This sketch is definitely many years before it's time how appropriate for now in these present times
It was the same then.
I love the way Rowan says Savage!🤣
One of the funniest Not The 9 O'clock News sketches.
Brilliant
Funnier than the church complaining at the life of Brian being a rip off of the life of Jesus Christ sketch?
@@matthewyabsley yet he denys it at evey chance and still told how lucky he is.
@@matthewyabsley it’s the other way around. They were lampooning the talk show where Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark debated the alleged blasphemous connotations of the Life of Brian with John Cleese and Michael Palin. In there comic version however they were saying the story of Jesus Christ was blasphemous and plagiarised from the story of Brian. They switched it around. That was the joke of the sketch.
I’m here because of Rowan’s freedom of speech speech. 👍
Same here 🤟
same
"Coughing without due care and attention"
[laughs in coronavirus lockdown]
Good point! You could probably be arrested for that now.
A lot of these charges are becoming more realistic
@@nthgth Certainly. Rowan Atkinson himself thinks so. czcams.com/video/BiqDZlAZygU/video.html
You can see where that’s going 😂
@@nthgth "Looking at me in a funny way"
"Wearing a loud shirt in a built up area after dark"
"Possession of an Offensive Wife"
Yep, Public Order Offence could be applied to those
Rowan played a slightly milder version of this character in the series 'Thin Blue Line' if anyone remembers it
He played Inspector Fowler
The quiz championship episode was my favourite.
Classic. I checked this after seeing Rowan's latest speech in defence of free speech where he laments the fact that the country has gone almost to the state which was satirised in this sketch.
Indeed, it seems it is now actually an offence to cough without due care and attention!
@@RalooRocker Really? Does it seem that way to you?
In the 1950s there was a campaign to protect public health with the slogan "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases; catch them all in a handkerchief."
Today, who even has a handkerchief? And that's even during and after COVID
I think you'll find people today are freer than they've ever been and don't even care.
So less of this absolute bollocks about being so oppressed you can't cough or say anything you want.
Walking in a loud shirt in a built up area always cracks me up XD
lmaooo
Like a pavement?!
Agreed. Think the whole script is pure genius.
During the hours of darkness!
It is brilliantly done, starting comically, building up to a strong moral statement
Strong moral statement ? Transferring him to the SPG (Special Patrol Group) ?
@@philippankhurst6680 Yes, it's starting that when your racism is recognized in the force, you get promoted. In other words, highlighting that institutional racism gets rewarded. It was a satirical sketch
@@philippankhurst6680 it clearly went over your head. The SPG was eventually disbanded
@@philippankhurst6680 'Strong moral statement ? Transferring him to the SPG (Special Patrol Group) ?' - Yes, because the SPG were known thugs and in one notorious case as murderous thugs. Perhaps you didn't know that.
@@bettyss6824 'The SPG was eventually disbanded.' - Its name was changed for cosmetic purposes.
I always thought this was a prequel to Rowan's other Police comedy The Thin Blue Line.
He absolutely carried some mannerisms over to thin blue line!
I think the best sketch in that series is still " Gerald the Gorrila".
Yes I believe my school pals and I could pretty much recite that scene word for word the morning after it was aired 😂
Wild? I was livid. David bloody Attenborough. Classic lines.
"I can't say I've ever noticed sir"🤣
"Looking at me in a funny way." Isn't that now an arrestable offence these days?
yes. well kind of. the oldbill can now use a person looking at them in a way that is "suspicious" as grounds to stop and question the person. as the copper will then try to "calm the situation down and deescalate". yah its going to get you arrested 9 times in 10. :)
"Looking openly Jewish" ~ London MET Police April 2024
I know you couldn't make it up !
Amazing, very little has changed, except the victim group of the SPG
Really is that it. ?
U need to concern yourself with helping the casualties of conflict. This is absolutely blown up from over sensitive people who live in a bubble and let this one go.
I will give u some advice here. Take it or leave it. There are people dying in Gaza why not focus your energy in gathering some money to send to the destitute. I see both sides views and getting shirty over a policeman trying to avoid conflict is woefully inadequate.
A complete joke in my opinion.
@@stephenpitt9558 cheers turned to tears. They voted hamas in now they're bearing the consequences.
He was an activist and was deliberately trying to provoke a reaction.
Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler is another fabulous perfect performance
Thin blue line?
@@ChuckieFinzter No, it's Not The Nine O' Clock News. It's some years before Thin Blue Line. Rowan Atkinson is younger in this.
But if you are asking Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler, yes you are correct. That's Thin Blue Line.
@@chandrashekharv9824 Yes I recall a very pretty Indian girl.
Constable Habib.
@@ChuckieFinzter Yes Mina Anwar
@@chandrashekharv9824 Yes, Maggie Habib... That the lovely lady
Still funny as fuck. I remember back in the early 80s we'd get the landlord at our local to turn the tv up loud. Terrific stuff.
Definitely agreed. Still at school at the time but it was a must watch so that you could have a good laugh with all your mates the next morning in maths instead of your times tables or Algebra. Lol.
closer to the truth than one would imagine.
i just love this sketch and if people think its racist they are not listening properly its completely not ,just hilarious
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The irony is that it was and was for many years after indicative of the police, being institutionally racist as the McPherson report concluded following the botched murder investigations after the killing of Stephen Lawrence in Eltham, SE London.
Yes, all the "offences" apart from "caught in possession of curly black hair and thick lips" could apply to anyone, irrespective of race, creed, colour etc. The sketch would have worked equally well without the racist overtones to Savage's allegations - a general hatred of "the public".
@@Mortimer50145 if you didn't understand the pouint of the sketch that's fine, but making that public here was a bit silly really 🙄🙄
@@vincepeterbilt3450 I understood the point of sketch perfectly well once the thick lips were mentioned. My point was that the racial component wasn't essential - and indeed some might say that if it was remade nowadays, the whole sketch could be reproduced without the racial reference and it would still be funny from the "police hate the public" aspect.
Do you feel differently? Would it have worked substantially less well for you if the thick lips line had been removed but otherwise the sketch was unchanged?
Probably my favourite ever NTNON sketch. Rowan is brilliant as ever in playing the officer, but Griff was always brilliant at playing the thicko
Used to love watching this my nan laughed proper Rest In Peace thinking of you always
I can't believe this if from 1979. Forty years, and still relevant the same.
Makes you wonder... Did people who were actually alive during the time of the Nazis, and then were watching this in 1979, feel the same thing?
I think the sketch was in 1980 since you have Griff already playing Savage. He joined in the second season and replaced Chris Langham who is part of the original 1979 cast.
Sadly a hell of a lot of dyed in the wool racists also fought bravely against the Nazis and their hideous regime, and yet saw nothing unusual about going back home and continuing in their racist beliefs, there just was not the education or backlash against it back then. My parents generation is mostly casually racist to this day, not a bad bone in their bodies except they are programmed to think of any one coloured as Pakis, Coons, Golliwogs etc, if you bring them up on it they just look at you as if your from outer space.
Love it......the good old days of comedy...sadly missed
This is the Metipoliton Police London
did you seriously put your "my production" intro at the start of the video when you're just reuploading piracy?
So prophetic!
But I think even they would be shocked by the state of the police today (June 2023)
Nothing has changed in years, it was true then and is now. Brilliant satire.
If you are not old enough to remember the SPG was the Special Patrol Group (in the Young Ones the same name was given to Vyvian’s pet hamster) It was a notorious hangout for racist thugs, they were later disbanded or rather were just renamed the Tactical Support Unit.
Group. Tactical Support Group. Not Unit.
@@samfyfe2949 👍
Think most of the PC brigade would say the Police in general these days. LOL.
I was down South Bank a few weeks back, and bizarrely TSG officers were on routine patrol.
Maybe they expected the ‘living statues’ to kick off.
Not the 9'oclock news took piss taking to a whole new level, there has been nothing like it since except maybe blackadder goes forth.
Wouldn't ever get repeated on the BBC under the current regime
thats how delusional you are
Savage's charges probably would stick today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agree hello iz homaphobic anti lesbian and nazi properganda
".. against the same man?" 40 year s alter i can still recite that sketch word perfect. It was genius.
For anyone wondering, this is where the sergeant transfers Savage:
SPG
British police
abbreviation for
Special Patrol Group: a unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service, providing a mobile squad to combat public disorder and crime
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
..and with the reputation of being yobbo’s
or a glaswegian hamster
They got disbanded with allegationd of their officers making racist comments about pakistanis and using radios and axes as weapons if they lost their batons 😂
@@user-sc9oy1kz8g so, they got disbanded for actually doing their job and enforcing the law against illegals?
@@pteppig 😂😂 arguably. They scared the shit out of everyone and their mere presence was iften enough to make people flee, so yes they did their job well in a sense.
40 years on, nothing has changed....
One big thing has changed, most people have a mobile phone to record this ongoing injustice. So much of it can now at least be exposed for the whole world to see. The American Police can attack reporters and cameramen but not every witness with a phone.
@@MrDiddyDee because you have a gob.
Gobs are the most dangerous idiots in the world.
You.opened yours, you had to spoil it.
How old are you?
Attacking reporters?
Why would anyone do that?
To think of that tells me youbare an idiot first class, you are rare thankfully, thank God!
Erm, alot has changed actually, as this was about 6 years or so, before The PACE Act 1984 came along.
Agree. It's as funny now as it was then.
@@MrDiddyDee The American police,don’t have The PACE Act 1984 & Britain does,so over there,if a cop hits someone,its harder to get them prosecuted than over here.
Look at 1980s police actions on camera & you’ll see multiple-baton strikes to the head & torsos as well as vans driving into people.
Incredibly this could be the danish police today in the town of Vejle (Sydøstjyllands Politi) where a family are being continualy arrested on trumped up charges that come to nothing. The family are now seeking political asylum in Germany to escape the harassment.
Looking at me in a funny way!!! Awesome!!!
Forty years later and this satire is still relevant. Depressing.
maybe skip the useless intro?
and the outro?
@@corkygobshite9941 Well said. And the fucking awful music.
Dean Wilkinson do you mind? That's the Pet Shop Boys.
Oh yeah, I see your point.
@@corkygobshite9941 And the middletro?
RealityCheck6T9 It’s Electronic, actually. It features Neil Tennant, but it’s not The Pet Shop Boys
Funny sketch, and right on the money. Sad that we are over 40 years on and it's still relevant today.
You're 100% correct.
The problem is that the only change you would make today is that the senior officer would be a woman.
"Walking around with an offensive wife" 🤣🤣🤣
Loved NTNON, it never gets the attention or recognition it rightly deserves. I had the cassette of the Hedgehog Sandwich album and listened to it all the time, I can still recite the PC Savage sketch word for word. This, the Young Ones and Blackadder formed my sense of humour (such as it is) at a time when mainstream comedy was Jim Davidson, Russ Abbott and The Krankies.
I really cant make it in the end what he saya at 3:48
@@viktor.madarasz s.p.g, special patrol group. the violent police mob sent in to crack heads
Absolutely, but don't forget Hale and Pace. Or Dave Allen.
@@viktor.madarasz He says ''Is this your hedgehog Sir?''
@@viktor.madarasz.. is this your hedgehog sir ? ( And that refers to another sketch where a hedgehog gets squashed ) 👍
"Coughing with out due care and attention" is now a serious offence! It can get you put in prison! Constable Savage must be from the future. Or is it from the present.....
Thank you. Came very useful to Suffolk police today.
Breathing with intent to exhale...should be in there.
And "Smelling of English food in a town centre fast food protected zone"
"Do you get some kind of perverted gratification in going around stirring up trouble"
"Yes sir".
Hilarious
Sums up many terrible CZcamsrs
@@Megaspartan23 not to mention the whole of west midlands police force.i was stopped and abused by armed police walking my dog .apparently my crime was being on the doll.i should of took his name and badge but he had a gun and was very threatoning .you might be able to take offense of what i just said.accept we not on facebook.
It's the reason people join the police. You have to be some kind of psychopath to want to join.
Remember this clearly. 16 years old and laughing my bo***cks off. Brilliant.
To be fair, "Coughing without due care and attention" should be an offence, I hate it when people don't cover their mouths when they cough.
It is not quite as bad as walking around with an offensive wife.
In the 1950s, when TB was rife, it was an offence to spit in the street.
@@u.v.s.5583 You are correct. You never know when one of those things will go off. Very unstable.
@@u.v.s.5583
"It is not quite as bad as walking around with an offensive wife."
Maybe that is the reason why Diane Abbott's husband decided that he had to divorce her...
It is now.....
Early days of Inspector Fowler (The Thin Blue Line). Ironically, there's an episode about racism.
I'm not sure that's irony
@@RealityCheck6T9 You're right. Not ironic, but very telling
Although he's only generally known internationally for playing an autistic semi-verbal man, he has in fact played many policemen and vicars as well.
"Loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing."
At a railway station in Brisbane, Australia, there is a sign. No Loitering.
Hmmm, Loitering with intent to Board a Train???
@@roberttorvalds3571 For God's sake , have You really seen such a sign? "No Loitering." ?
Brisbane, Australia?When?
Please tell me , even if it was 40 years ago now.
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@@dimitargetsov9690 1995, Dutton Park
GRJ Reminds me of Bernard Cribbins in this sketch!
It’s hilarious how”coughing without due care and attention “ became illegal in 2020.
Who would have believed that this sketch would perfectly describe the attitude and behaviour of the MET Police six years down the line.?
"6 years down the line".. That show was 42 years ago.
?????
. 😂
Not enough police like this on the beat .. we need them now. As a old fart I remember the respect for the bobby on the beat or you got a beating . Not much street crime in my time . remember our local bobby sorting out a drunk beating his wife . Didn't happen much with our local bobby about . Ex military man. I can just imagine someone of ethnic background with a knife ?? Telling you our local man would put down three drunks. Even if they were sober .. as for the park keeper with his war medals on ,gammy leg war wound chasing a man in a brown coat out of the bushes . This man offered me a florin to play with something ,told parky . Man in hospital with a cracked skull . Was he prosecuted ?? Trying to claim compo .no he kept quiet because he would have been floating down the Thames .. bring back more old farts of ex military walking the beat .
I love rowan atkinson
Just plain marvellous. Thank you so much. June, 2023.
Referring to Mr Kodogo as a 'coloured gentleman' might get you arrested in England.
This is no longer comedy, its reality.
Hmmmm.. I'd have said it was far more reality at the time personally. When did you last read or hear about a black person being arrested for ANYTHING? Never mind on petty trumped up charges.
the police will arrest anyone for so much as breathing nowadays. Fancy a dance at a pride parade?😂
It had always be reality, it's just not taboo anymore.
@@frankbrodie5168 happens every day now. thats how out of touch you are
Funnier now than it ever was.
It's PC gone mad when them charges won't stick!
PC Gone Mad was on the beat while this all went down.
Wish we still had real comedy like this.
Constable Savage’s walk when he entered the room!😂😂
He looked like he had a baton up his a...
It's a cockney walk. They all walk as if they have a small fallus wedged between their buttocks.
Sharing a park bench with a stranger. Visiting a friend who is not in your "bubble". Thinking of ever travelling abroad again without a "Covid passport." Constable Savage would have a field day these days in the UK.
Your point is somewhat blunted by the knowledge that committing some of these actions, while unvaccinated or not being sure the other party has been vaccinated, can ultimately cause the severe sickness or death of yourself or the other party. You know….the virus and all that.
@@CapKaboom then sharpened again by Boris and his cronies having parties while the rest of is suffered
@@jimmymcguire8217 The harmful actions taken by others does not invalidate or erase the productive actions we take ourselves.
@@CapKaboom it does in some cases I think you'll find
@@CapKaboom can ultimately cause the severe sickness or death of yourself or the other party. You know….the virus and all that......... can , might , in some cases , could possibly. now if it was a 50-50 chance of catching or giving the virus , i'd be worried. but with the millions of people in this country , who go about their daily lives and do ' not ' catch anything , the " can ultimately " drops to a very slight 1 % of catching or passing , with a smaller % actually becoming ill , and a smaller percentage dying. it " CAN " but that does not mean it " WILL " .
Totally brill.1 of my favourite sketches
Here we are in 2022 and coughing without due care and attention almost did become an offence.
Rowan Atkinson is great, need to find more of his stuff
Arrested for the crime: "Walking around in a loud shirt in a built-up area during the hours of darkness." 😂
Love watching the old nine o clock news sketches.
Just revisiting this and this sadly has come true.
Great comedy like this is actually the reality for folks like me. This is happening today in America where I now live and happened to me when I was younger while living in London i.e., Being racially profiled by police when walking down the street or driving especially at night.
What episode of Thin Blue Line is this?
It's not. It is from "Not the Nine O'Clock News".
Truly wonderful stuff..! 👍🏻
This has new meaning now!
A Mister Winston KOH DOH GO. 😂
LOL
I find it really funny that black parents named their sons Winston back then because they respected Winston Churchill I think. Never met a white Englishman called Winston LOL
@@punanny123 not aware of John Winston Lennon then?
@@ianmcnally7755 Well I need to hear about white men with Winston as a first name not a middle name. I can't think of any but I have known about 10 different brothers in my life with Winston as their 1st name though lol.
Again soo good.....!!!😍
I remember watching this when I was about 13 or 14. Funny then just as funny now. Tough times back then in the UK but we had a bloody good sense of humour...
The Senior Officer (at that time) would never have given such a hard time to a racist junior officer. Racism was institutionally embedded in large sections of the Police Force at that time (1979-80) and continues to this day.
This is appropriate at the moment.
Actually, there should be a law against coughing without due care and attention...
I think there is now 😂
This is actually a sketch from 2022.
a great and accurate insight into police training
i wish this was a joke but it very true we got the wayne couzens on the street after 2 weeks trainning.
@@andydudley1775 nothing like it
@@andydudley1775 2 weeks.... I think not.
They do the same with poor people, regardless of color.
Funny thing is , that they most probably wouldn't show this sketch on the BBC nowadays . Even though it was high lighting racism in the Met .
Are you joking?
The Metcare the police force to take on anyone, including you Gomer Piles, or are you private Snowball?
@@stuartlawsonbeattie1411 what are you talking about .
The media and people on twitter wouldn't be able to comprehend what context is and would take one line and get the show cancelled, showing their complete lack of understanding of the necessary social commentary that the sketch actually portrays
I am so sad that I remember this being broadcast and watching it. Overt 40 years and nothing changes at the Met.
What planet are you on?
@@tomasomaonaigh7659 The one where pigs and their tame bootlickers like you live in constant denial about the harm they and their fascist ideologies cause.
@@dawggonevidz9140 Your comment us no longer visible on my device, maybe you could let me know the gist of it so I can understand your reply.
Very Funny... I just realized this police room set used was the one they reused later in the other police comedy series the thin blue line also with Rowan Atkinson as the police chief?
Just like real police
Warming up for the thin blue line.
Little dig at the end...transferring you to the SPG...Special Patrol Group...now disbanded fank gawd...Savage would have fitted in perfectly
Well, Britain kind of needs that SPG back, now it looks like it's the thugs setting the rules instead of the uniformed thugs.
Spg boot boys in uniform
@@carpetclimber4027 They were back shortly after the SPG was disbanded. They are 3 times the size with a similar reputation for lawlessness, violence, racism and impunity, they're known as the Territorial Support Group. So your notion that the lack of the availability of out of control police like the SPG is the cause of "thugs setting the rules" is complete bollocks, because the thugs that set the rules have a U on the shoulder number.
40 years ago and nothing has changed it seems.
A sketch from 1980 something, seemingly relative to the Met police today! How times have changed...
"Coughing without due care and attention" became illegal after this was made.