28 Years ago and I still remember this routine. Comedy Gold.

Ben Elton is at his best when in full flow. Always cutting edge humour and delivery.

Say what you want, i think this is one of the best stand up routines ever.

Loved this when it came out. Some of this could easily have been written last week

Thank you for up,leading! Still super funny after so many year since I last watched Ben Elton! 😂😂😂👌

forgot how good this was. Laughed as much now as I did in 1990. Cheers

this is probably my favourite routine in british stand-up comedy history. it never ever fails to make me laugh, even after what must be about 20 years now. The material is spectacular, his delivery absolutely flawless. And like all great observational comics, he makes you notice something you already knew, but had never quite seen it that way before. Absolutely brilliant

Ah,the days before the internet crashed into our lives and turned us all into home alone hermits spending our days glued to the internet,if it's not at home it's at work.Millions of people blogging,tweeting,facebooking and not forgetting the forums which cover every subject known to man.Oh,to be back in the '90's.

brilliant. forgot how funny he was and although a bit dated he makes sense still.

Ben Elton is a funny fucker.

Thanks man!! Been looking for this episode :D

Little did he know he'd be reusing the same gags twenty years later in The Wright Way.

Ben was great back then

Nice upload - thank you.

This still makes me laugh. The John Major routine from 16:43-19:18. For those of us who have ever asked, who decides what fashion will be, Ben gave a good answer.

Wow, I remember this from 1990.

his stand up is still good , my fav was the skit on biodiversity

1:32 love these credits

Stu stu stu stu studio line.... That annoying advert back in the day. 😆

The ministry of crap design. Priceless 😂

Ben Elton comedy genius.

About has funny has loosing a tender on the 1.30 at Kempton Park .

John Oliver is living proof that the BBC has an advanced cloning facility.

Outstanding in his day, just a massive shame he sold out.

Marmite Drillers hahaha

I found it painful at the time (or however long after "the time" we got it in NZ) and it certainly hasn't aged well. Ben's mannerist style just doesn't do well on TV or after the 80s to my mind. And,... as for Ronnie Corbett, you've got to love him but WTF? Cringe. Elton has been a very gifted writer (I'm not talking musicals or really even "novels" here), but I have to cast my lot in with the "lost it" or "sold out" brigade. Pity.

Don't mean to be a troll, but I've taken a little look at Ben's latest TV effort, a sitcom. Starts early on with re-use of a stand-up theme (swing bins), but it's really, really awful: watch?v=-LnUKi1E4e4 Sometimes its best to just stop, before getting sucked into some bizarre reincarnation of another Benny. It's that bad. Do we all ultimately become what we in our idealism hate? Biggest laugh from the (real?) audience is to writing "GREAT BIG COCK" on a board. Pity. And stop please.

Just shows how sexually charged the BBC is. In the headbobbing scene, Ben puts his hand on the women's knee at 1:03 and takes it off at 1:10. I know it's supposed to show compassion to an afflicted person but still...ehm. It's not nice to look at considering all the scandals that are going on now.