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Oh what an arse I am. Oh what an arse I am, I am a twit, Oh what a fool am I, Oh what a fool am I, Oh what an arse am I, Oh what a nit! I reckon that's the song. Ronnie Barker, he was brilliant, I really loved Open All Hours, if you haven't, you should check it out.

I love how Barker keeps his face straight, so earnest, he was such a brilliant actor. He was in a series called Porridge where he plays a cockney convict, and "Open all hours" where he plays a shop assistant who stammers. Hes incredible in both.

I actually saw him deliver this sketch live at the London Palladium in 1980. There was no autocue or cue cards or anything like that. The show was brilliant.

Anything to do with clever wordplay in sketches like this one, and Fork Handles were written by the great Ronnie Barker himself under the pseudonym of 'Gerald Wiley'. He used to send the sketches in using a false name so they would be judged on merit and not just because he had written them.

I knew you'd enjoyed this, which is why I suggested it. All Ronnie B's solo sketches contained great wordplay (his Spoonerism sketch is good too)

You'll have to check out Ronnie in 'Porridge' (he's a prisoner) and 'Open All Hours' (He plays a miserly shop keeper with a stutter)

"Granville, f fer fer fetch a cloth!" You have to watch 'Open all Hours'.

Ronnie Barker was one of the most naturally gifted comedy writers and performers the UK has ever produced.

May Whitehouse was a older woman who was famous for her campaign against naughty programs on TV. As Billy Connolly once said " if my name rhymed with toilet I would keep quiet!"

Love Ronnie Barker. Especially during this era as he looks exactly like my Grandad when he was alive so it always brings my Mum and I comfort watching Ronnie 🙂❤ xx

Ronnie Barker had a special talent and he was seen in a few serious parts but most famous for his sketch shows and comedy series,when you can spare 30 minutes you may want to watch a series called" Porridge" which was very funny but also gave a glimpse of his acting ability.

Mrs Hairy Whitemouse aka Mary Whitehouse and Mrs Woodlouse the hod dangler aka (Barbara) Woodhouse who was a famous dog handler on TV in the 70-80s who's catchphrase was "walkies" The politicians were Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe Dennis Healey, the newsreaders are Reginald Bosanquet, Angela Rippon and Anna Ford (the first female news reader on British television)

_"if I look lost right now it's because...I'm lost right now"_ A fair representation of my life 😆

Ronnie is definitely a genius he wrote this so I think he would have rehearsed it many times I’m late with you.reacting to this sketch ✍️ but I’m here now Love from Denise in Yorkshire England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😂😂🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👍💕👋

Each episode of The two Ronnies would start with them reading out humorous news items. Ronnie Barker would get a solo slot each week with items like this one - he would play the spokesman from some organisation or other, often involving word play. The sketches would often include them at parties or as shopkeeper and customer (such as Four Candles). Each series would have a serial running through it, the most famous of which was The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town. There were several featuring private eyes Piggy Malone and Charley Farley with titles such as Done To Death and Death Can Be Fatal! Ronnie Corbett would also get a solo slot where, sitting in a chair, he would attempt to tell the audience a joke but would constantly go off on tangents, often involving the producer, before eventually finishing the joke. Each episode would end with a musical item where the Ronnies, sometimes in drag, would since humorous lyrics to well known tunes, and then a few items of late news. They would sign off saying "It's goodnight from me..." "...and it's goodnight from him!"

"eating, drinking and being messy" - sounds like an average Christmas with my family LOL

Glad you found this, this is one of the best things he did.

Angela Rippon was to my knowledge the first female newsreader shown on BBCTV.

I wanna thank you..I am 54 yo uk guy and I grew up with the 2 ronnies...Dave Allen etc....you have brought back some wonderful memories...Ronnie B was a great linguist, played with the English language as this sketch show...Ronnie C was a great story teller there is some wonderful clips of Ronnie C sitting in a chair just telling a story to the audience..thank you again !...wonderful to see the US trying to interpret not only the English sense of humour but with references to a specific point in time in UK history...

‘Hairy Whitemouse’ was Mary Whitehouse, a conservative educator and activist in the 70’s. She was often the butt of many comedians jokes as she was very outspoken as a sort of self-appointed campaigner against, in her view, the permissive content on TV at the time. Ronnie nailed it with this one!

Politicians: Widdly Whitelaw: Willie Whitelaw (former Conservative Party deputy leader) Sir Geoffrey Who: Sir Geoffrey Howe (former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer) Denis Holy: Denis Healey (former Labour Party Chancellor) TV news anchors: Reggie Boozenquart: Reggie Bosanquet (who liked a drink!), Angela Ripen [Ripon] and Anna Floored [Ford] Others: Hairy Whitemouse: Mary Whitehouse (conservative/religious campaigner... anti everything that's fun) Mrs Woodlouse the hog-dangler: [Barbara] Woodhouse, dog-handler (she had her own dog-training TV series)

Het Squirrel, forgiven for not catching on to the names, but brilliant eh. This is the sort of humour I grew up with and it hasn't aged a day. Hey check out Pete & Dud too, that is Peter cooke and Dudley Moore on BBC for many years. Well done Squirrel, keep it up, J

No cue cards, no teleprompter. Just a talented wordsmith performing his own joke...

"Among the aristocracy, there is..." "Lord Long-felt" = Lord Longford "The Duchess of bed-bug" = The Duchess of Bedford "Lord Monte-boo of Goolie" = Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (Baron Montagu)

The reason he can remember it all is because he wrote the sketch as he did for many other sketches

Mary Whitehouse is well worth looking up. She was a 'Clean TV' campaigner of the 70s and practically wanted everything on TV banned.

Hey🐿️great review, Ronnie Barker was so clever with the English language. The people he was on about were politicians and newsreaders of the time. I'm not sure anyone could get every reference as he is so quick. Cheers buddy👍✌️🇬🇧✌️🇺🇸🍻

Ronnie Barker was a genius of wordplay. There's a sketch where he deciphers some heiroglyphics and it's hilarious. Should also check out his stuttering shopkeeper Arkwright in Open All Hours 🙂

Mrs Hairy Whitemouse refers to a lady from the 70's & 80's called Mary Whitehouse who was a stuck up goody goody campaigning to get any kind of smut related content off British TV. Mrs Woodlouse refers to Barbara Woodhouse who used to show how to train dogs on TV.

Also check out "Alas Smith and Jones" (later to be called "Smith and Jones"). They did a take off of the Two Ronnies. Hilarious.

That was pretty good my friend, hey Squirrel 🐿️

King ronnie. Comedy genius

Ronnie Barker was a total GENIUS a word smith and comic genius - check out "Open all Hours" he and David Jason (another comic great) brilliant telly

If u can, find the series within a series . Each week they had episodes of mad stories. The one i remember as a kid was set in Victorian London where their characters tried to catch the murderous 'Ye Phantom Raspberry Blower of old London Town'. Pure gold.💕

You should check out the sketch with Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, where one is answering the other's question, but one question behind each time.

The Ronnies was masters in wordplay

He wrote it!

To hear Ronnie B early on go to bbc for radio show “The Navy Lark” and listen to L/S Johnson.

Ain't he gr8. Wordplay was always Ronnie Barker' forte. Getting the audience to sing they r all twits...legend!💕🇬🇧🇺🇸

4:41 Widdly Whitelaw = Willie Whitelaw (Home Secretary) 4:44 Geoffrey Who = Geoffrey Howe (Chancellor of the Exchequer) 4:45 Dennis Holey = Denis Healey (Labour politician) 4:49 Reggie Boozenquort = Reginald Bosanquet (TV newscaster, well known for being drunk) 4:52 Angela Ripen & Anna Flawed = Angela Rippon & Anna Ford (TV newscasters) 4:55 Hairy Whitemouse = Mary Whitehouse (campaigner for moral standards on TV)

Ronnie Barker knows the sketch, because he wrote it. Of all the Two Ronnies sketch types, Ronnie Barker doing his "Government/Society Rep" were always my favorite. Often in the mid to late 80s, new "Alternative Comedy" comics would slander the Two Ronnies as nothing but tit and bum jokes. It was a serious misreading of the genre. Yes, while they did indeed use alot of innuendo, the wording was very cleverly written. Funny that the same Alternative Comedians never went after people like Kenneth Williams and his amazing wordplay for the same reason.

The real comedy also lies in how he performs it with such a serious and upper-class accent and demeanour. Without a hint of corpsing.

Hi I hope you're good, yeah that was awesome. It blows me away that it looks simple, so talented. You've got to check out their "mastermind" sketch that's my all time favourite 👍

Ronnie Barker is an amazing performer check out Arkwright in Open All Hours and Fletcher in Porridge they are comic perfection.

In addition to being a brilliant writer and performer, Ronnie Barker was an absolutely lovely man who liked to help younger actors get a good start. He was the person who supported and encouraged a young David Jason, now as beloved as Barker himself. When Ronnie was given a lifetime achievement award, both Ronnie Corbett and David Jason were there to celebrate with him.

this is pure genius in writing and performing

Ah Ronnie B, so very missed. Total genius, they don’t make them like that anymore. I love how much you love our comedy greats, so fun to watch! x

You should watch the 2 Ronnie's mastermind sectch with Ronnie Corbett answering the questions after its brilliant

A lot of the names of politicans and celebrities wouldn't be widely remembered today. One of them he mentioned was Mary Whitehouse, who was kind of the British version of Phyllis Schlafly.

Ronnie Barker was a genius Squirrel 🐿️

Both the Ronnies acted so could remember lines and most of the time they wrote their own material

Ronnie Barker was brilliant, you should check out Ronnie Barker Round of Drinks sketch, it’s hilarious 😂

Liverpill ha ha love that! lol

This was a sketch on The Two Ronnies. It ended with oh what a twit. Mary Whitehouse caused havoc with British comedy look it up on the internet.

Politicians (1970's) like Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe and Denis Healey. TV Newsreaders like Reginauld Bosenquet, Angela Rippon and Anna Ford. Mrs Mary Whitehouse Lord longford (both religious do gooders and general pains in the arse) Duches of Bedford and Lord Montague of Beaulieu (his car collection became the National Motor Museum) The song: O what an ass I am.....I am a twit, O what a fool I am......O what an ass I am, O. what a nit

It's likely Ronnie Barker wrote this hence he remembers it . The first christmas Carol quoted is really one called God rest ye merry gentlemen , let nothing you dismay

Ronnie Barker was a genius word smith and wrote most of the scripts for the Two Ronnie's show. He was also a character actor as well as an author. much more to him than first meets the eye.

The man was such a genius, and a really nice guy. Have you done the Four Candles sketch? It usually wins the funniest sketch ever on UK tv. The Mastermind sketch is superb too, so well written. I'm thinking you may enjoy Tommy Cooper, and Stanley Unwin.

Good one Tony I shared to my groups , thanks

Mary Whitehouse just complained about everything.

Try Ronnie Barker in " Porridge " ! classic series !

Hope your well too x

I think you might appreciate the humour of 'alas Smith and Jones'. Try the grave sketch or the Darts sketch to begin with? Their earlier years were with Rowan Atkinson so you'll have an idea of the homour?

He remembers it because he wrote it, albeit under the pseudonym of 'Gerald Wiley'!

You should check out Crossed Lines by the Two Ronnie's. Another great example of how clever their writing was.

You should check Allo Allo. Actually one of my favourite sitcoms, set in WW2 in Occupied France its about a French cafe owner who keeps getting roped into ridiculous situations. When they speak 'french' they speak English with a French accent. When they speak 'German' they do the same with a German accent. The English sent over someone to help them and when he speaks 'french' he speaks mangled English to show hes speaking French but badly. Classic line is "good moaning, I was just pissing by the door" Its sounds overly convoluted but actually works pretty well. Hope that made sense and if you get time I highly recommend it.

Squirrel try Ronnie Baker with the "Nows at Ton"

I think this one was actually written by Barker himself, based on an earlier version by David Nobbs. Barker wrote a lot of material for the show under the pen-name Gerald Wiley; initially keeping it secret. Then it was announced that the mysterious Mr Wiley would be revealed at a meeting of the writers and crew. They sat around a big table waiting some named writer to appear... only for Barker to stand up and admit it. From the other end of the table, esteemed British comedy writer Barry Cryer dryly noted, 'Nobody likes a smart arse...'

Hahaha Brilliant i love the Two Ronnie`s i think @3:44 he is saying "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" 😀

Absolute Genius, never to be beaten

You've got to do Ronnie in 'porridge' Try the Men without Women one. He becomes the prisons agony aunt. AND, ive just found ' Clarence'

Hi there Bob...Ronnie Barker...genius. Lovely sweet man.

You're probably not getting the Christmas Carol's references. It should be " Good king Wenceslas looked out" and " God rest you merry gentleman"

He wrote it,

'O what an arse I am'

You should look up the 2 Ronnie's fork handles sketch . Brilliant.

Mt favourite was his one on the Minister for Communications. But cannot find it.

O what a arse I am ..lol..yeah very clever once again...I'm lucky I was brought up watching British comedy around the late 70s..early 80s....clever funny as fuck humour

barbara woodhouse and mary whitehouse thepersoalities he mentioned.

He was a true master at things like this.

I believe he wrote these particular sketches himself. Though for years he wrote various sketches on the show under a secret pseudonym Gerald Wiley

I grew up on Two Ronnies and he was always the funny one .His sit com Porridge was best of all time too imo .ps Hairy Whitemouse = Mary Whitehouse who was always trying to ban anything slightly racy.

Ronnie would have, in all likelyhood, written this as well. He wrote many sketches under different names so they would be judged on merit alone by the producers and other writers rather than them thining Ronnie has written it so we had better use it. Ronnie was a master of the English language and knew which words to get wrong to make things funny. Another good one is 'nows at ton' where the news autoque printed 'o' in place of 'e'

Open All Hours Porridge Going Straight Great series from Ronnie Barker.

Stanley Unwin was a comedian who invented his own comic language. This is where Ronnie Barker who wrote most of the sketches probably got the idea.

Barker actually wrote many of the sketches. He used a pseudonym so most of the production team didn't know he was one of the scriptwriters.

Ronnie Barker memorised it because he wrote it. He used to write and sent sketches in under the pseudonym of Gerald Wylie, when in fact it was himself.

Another you may appreciate is 'Air Afrikaans'?

Mrs Hairy Whitemouse = Mrs Mary Whitehouse (Self-proclaimed defender of Britains Morals & campaigner against swearing/nudity on TV)

Ronnie Barker was amazing. Check out Porridge.

Wuahahahaha. The best version of “God Save the Queen” I’ve ever heard. So funny. Thanks.

Well done my friend. Chip ty

Defiantly check out 'porridge'. His charecter range was immense.

Ronnie B, pure genius!

you need to watch it a few times over england

he said this on a sunday before the water shed in a time when any rude word or nudity was not allowed until after 9pm

sing along Oh what an arse I am...

Another great Two Ronnies sketch and reaction. I think the TV personalities are before my time but The national anthem at the end is saying “Oh, what an ass I am. I am a twit. Oh, what a fool am I. Oh, what a tit(?)

These are funny x