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I love them....

I didn't know that the choir boys had 4 candles for there funeral yes they would have lived that and the crowd too I would say.

Saw this for the first time made me very emotional brilliant

@@williambailey344 no..fork 'andles

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I'm perplexed. The customer asked for fork handles. Plural! Why was the customer OK with getting one fork handle? Why did the shopkeeper not ask how many fork handles when the misunderstanding was rectified?

@craighart9278 you obviously miss the point. We in the UK would say " Have you any Fork Handles" say it quickly and you could miss understand the request, so we have "4 Candles".

I'm from Sheffield, South Yorkshire and that is how we speak normally. Tend to run our words together and miss pronouncing the end letters.

'Saw tips. What do ya want ointment or something?'

They did one where they were two train drivers going home and everything they said referred to a station "Your lad is he still knocking around with the Theydon Bois ? "Yeah". "They're big aren't they ?" "Yeah Wapping".

IM 80 NOW GOING ON 60 I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS WHEN IT WAS FIRST BROADCAST ON A SATURDAY NIGHT ON BBC TV

So good it was. Been copied in several countries.

all I can add to this is I roared at this when I saw it when its was first aired and I still laugh at it even though I can just about recite it from memory. The pinnacle of sketch comedy. Love it

Ronnie Corbett gives a master class in comedy timing in this sketch.

A very well-written sketch performed by two highly talented comedy actors.

Totally agree, but believe it or not I have come across my customers who have not seen it

It's not just the mispronounciation of words, with several meanings, but the body language and facial expressions. Old fashioned Hardware shops like this, used to be very common; there's one near me, been there for 70 years.

@@MrDaiseymay I miss them, there were five local ones to me, there are now none.

It doesn't ever get old no matter how many times you see it it cracks you up every time.

It’s brilliant 😊

The day we do, we are lost.

The Sun will explode before we don't find this funny.

This, and Del Boy falling through the bar!

Typical tiresome British attitude where something good never tires. Like Faulty Towers, or Python, or Morcambe and Wise and 'wot I wrote', or the 1966 World Cup final, they were all good in their day...but now they're hackneyed.

Interesting - the Portuguese for candles is velas, and the sails of a ship are... velas. Imagine Ronnie Corbett trying to sort that one out.🤣

Bullshit

@@xtraspecial4677 Eh?

@@carlosgomes2783 wasn't talking to you

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Interesting fact. I had a shockingly bad stutter as a child and I absolutely loved Arkwright in Open All Hours. Still do all these years later. His execution of that role was perfect.

@@nathaniel8925 I'm sorry for your speech impediment, and I hope you didn't let it hold you back in life. Barker was a comic genius at performance and as a writer, but your disability isn't an interesting fact at all.

Ronnie Barker once said that he'd had a letter from a family of stutterers concerning Arkwright. When he started to read it, he was concerned that they might have been offended. As he said, "you don't like to offend anyone." Not a bit of it, they were writing to say how wonderful the show was and that they loved it!

@@Psmith-ek5hq Well, you're a bundle of laughs, ain't ya? Life and soul of the party.

@@klaxoncow I wasn't trying to be funny: I was merely making a point.

That’s brilliant

@@AMANDARAEUK The photo is probably still online, yes that was Bollocks at the end - apparently there's an alternative ending where he asks for "big jugs" and a busty woman comes out to serve him.

At his Memorial Service for Ronnie Barker held in Westminster Abbey, the procession included four candles rather than the usual two...

@@AMANDARAEUK And I also understand that Ronnie Corbett had four candles specially placed on the church altar for his service when he died in 2016.

@@Lentonist yes the shop 4 candles was in Earls Colne High st in Essex 👍

I live in Hayes and after speaking to my dad, we think we can pinpoint the location to within a few shops. It was the kind of place where you could buy a single nail. There were no other shops in the area that my dad knows of. If confirmed, maybe the site should receive a plaque or something?

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@@AMANDARAEUK The explanation is at the end of this tape Amanda immediately after you turned it off :)

LOL! That would have been funny tbh!

@@Isleofskye I never got the ending, Barker was right, it was too obscure. The suggested ending would have been great as it was so unexpected

@@Thenogomogo-zo3un Thanks,My Friend..

As a Kiwi i have watched this hundreds of times , AND still piss myself laughing every time i watch it , British ,Kiwi and Aussie humour are so much alike

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Almost another Morecombe and Wise...

The pub in Ronnie Barkers home town is called The Four Candles

Morcame and Wise where wonderful

They’re brilliant! 🤣

He was certainly a master of "Pismronunciation" :-)

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Lol I need to watch more

Was one of the best parts of Christmas as a kid imo 👍🙏

@@AMANDARAEUK and nowadays at xmas they just put unfunny repeats of so called comediums

I was just talking about always watching the Xmas specials to my mate at Xmas time,the garbage they put on now in comparison 😨

is that the punchline 'Bill hooks' that part I never understood.

​@@wespaul9345Me neither, and I am decades old.

@@hilaryjohns4049 Billhooks (short-handled scythe) - rhymes with B*llocks...

@@hilaryjohns4049 Bill Hooks are a farming took, similar to a scythe blade but more robust for cutting bushes and other woodland plants. They became weapons of the medieval peasantry because a heavy blade on a 5 foot long pole was able to take down an armoured knight. Because Bill hooks sound like 'Bollocks' it became the polite way of swearing in post war England.

@@carlchapman4053 Thank you for your explanation, I vaguely knew what a bill hook was, but in my naivety I never equated it with bollocks. There is also a phrase e.g. my boss gave me a bollocking because of my error. That is a memory for me in my first job in 1963. I worked for a quantity surveyor and I opened quotations for jobs. I didn't know that the bosses secretary, or the boss, should have opened them. Thinking about it now I can't remember if the envelopes were marked with QUOTATION, they probably were. Anyway I was told off big time. I think my defence was that nobody had told me, which was true.

There's a hardware store called Barnitts in York where you can get practically anything which exists. They do Hose, Hoes and "O"s but possibly not Pantyhose.

Ronnie C appeared on Would I lie to you with his "butty" Rob Bryson.....the final challenge was to convince the other team that he had needed to buy four candles from a hardware store.......I was more disappointed to find that was a lie than I was when my first crush turned me down!

Every town would have at least one of these shops. In my hometown of Ipswich it was Martin and Newby; the only thing they didn't sell was food.

Yeah and I bet he would sell you a single nail if that's all you wanted ?

Our local one was referred to as the chandlers.

@@briancarr4607nah, he didnt charge for a single nail =) he had a big box on the counter with old used nails and screws you could just grab some out of if you didnt need much. he'd get those from old furniture people brought him if they didnt need it and wasnt in good enough shape to sell or give away.

We have one in the village I live in called 'The Handyman'. It's just like it.

Now you're assuming that everyone in the world has perfect knowledge of the English language so they'd understand the misinterpretation of the words. But since that is not the case, this is not the best comedy sketch of all time. Right?

@@Vinterfrid Well, maybe you should go to work on translating the funniest joke in the world then...

He was a genius.

Absolutely, the Mastermind sketch is just superb 😂

@@alansevern290 That was one of the sketches I was thinking of along with the one with the two phone booths. Brilliant stuff.

I didn't know about the pseudonym part, thanks for that

My favourite of his sketches was the hieroglyphics one, great wordplay in that too!

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Hey Ken! I thought it was brilliant! Thank you 😊

Some didn't quite get it, some got it completely, and some.......the less said about them the better

@@AMANDARAEUK we all need them 'andles' for forks don't we!

The difference between Amanda and other American reactors on this vid is that she's been her long enough to 'get' the payoff of 'bellhooks'!!👍

I was laughing at sketch, plus laughing at Amanda laughing and her expressions as it went on. Good vid.

Well said!!

Yes. Check out Andre Preview!

Thank you!

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@@AMANDARAEUK you should try and find sketch called in the trenches :)

Morecambe and wise ice cream is another

is that the one with Ma Malady (Marmalade)?

@@kathrynwhitby9799 Yes, I think so, and "bicker bonnet of sodder"

I’m so glad! 😊 I’ll check it out

I could not agree more. There is some good comedy about these days, but it's been a long time since my ribs hurt through laughing.

Ronnie Corbett was not above sending himself up either, he was in Extras with Monica Stewart enjoying some party nose powder in a night club.

I thought it was brilliant! I’ll see if I can find some of ronnies stuff ☺️

Mon repose 😉

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Same here, first time around, it never goes stale.

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Brian Parker. Modern Comedians aren't even in the same league as the Two Ronnies or Monty Python.

This sketch was so well loved that when Ronnie Corbett died, nearly forty years after recording it, his coffin was preceded into church by four choristers each carrying a large candle.

@@THEJR-of5tf You are so right! (I still think Laurel and Hardy are probably the best though!)

@@THEJR-of5tf You are so right! (I still think Laurel and Hardy are probably the best though!)

Lol!! It’s brilliant

@@AMANDARAEUK I've seen a few American reactions where they just don't get it at all!

As a kid, most hilarious thing ever. Didn't know how much it would become an icon. But the whole idea that Ronie Corbett can't understand Ronie Barker, why should Americans understand...Well anything.

So funny!

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I totally agree with 'MJOTD' the sketch and you laughing bring tears of laughter to my eyes.

that's great

A proper moment of history, that's a great memory for you.

@@thoughtfortheday7811 yes it was.. the sketches aren't all for the same show ..they recorded different sketches and placed them in the various shows to be shown on TV.. So I guess I was there for about five sketches and three of Ronnie Corbett's long Shaggy dog story jokes where he had to get up change his jumper and return to his chair ..lol.

@@Leoviliti1 you're so lucky to have been there, I wondered how they filmed the shows. Some of the live audiences back then had very distinctive laughers.

since you were there was the last joke supposed to mean bollocks? or was billhooks some other English inside joke relevant for that time period? it stood out from the others. thanks

I’m so glad ☺️☺️

Brilliant! I’ll be watching more 😊

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I’ll check them out 😊

Two Ronnies and Mastermind is BRILLIANT!

That Mastermind sketch - where Ronnie gives answers to the previous question, rather than the one actually being asked. That is hilarious!

@@Brian-om2hh Who is the Archbishop of Canterbury? He's a fat man who tells blue jokes. The Mastermind sketch is based on such a simple idea but it works brilliantly.

@@geoffpoole483 Worth pointing out that Benny Hill had made highly effective use of the idea over a decade before.

And they all smell the same.

Ill have a look :)

I am thank you! Hope you are too 😊

Thanks 😊

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It’s so funny, I’m really enjoying it

The Andre Previn one is brilliant. "They ARE the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order"

@sequri Yes, for me if 'Four Candles' is the classic Two Ronnies sketch, then the piece with Andre Previn is the classic Morecambe and Wise sketch.

Agreed. I play all the right notes,not necessarily in the right order

@@rahmij Hello...Yes the Morecambe & Wise Andre Previn sketch is 50 years old this Christmas

Can you explain the billhooks to me? I'm working on language project, and I don't get it.

@@valenmade Hi Valentina, As you saw in the sketch, everything was misheard or misunderstood. Billhooks are types of knife widely used in forestry and farming. This would have been mispronounced or misheard as bollocks, a common British term for the male testicles or balls. The shop keeper asked "would you like 1 or 2?" Naturally the answer would have been 2 as they generally come in pairs. In a remake of this sketch, the shop keeper was replaced with a female assistant. The draw was renamed "knockers". A door knocker is normally fixed to your front door so visitors can bang it to let you know they are there. However "knockers" are a British slang term for breasts. If an answer had been given to the question "do you want 1 or 2?" the answer would have been 2 as most men would like to get their hands on a pair of breasts. The knockers reference not as cryptic and is much more widely understood.

@@clairerichards8383 thank you for your reply!

@@clairerichards8383 A side-note on that subject. Back in the early 20th century long before email and computers, the telegram was the fastest way to communicate with businesses in writing. Businesses in the UK could purchase a "telegraphic address" which saved on having to write out their full address - one word, followed by the town or city. Harrods' address was 'Everything, London'. I still cherish a 1970s photocopy of a letter from the old-established legal firm of Knocker & Foskett, whose telegraphic address was "Knockers, Sevenoaks". I guess they probably sent the office boy out to get the address!

haha thank you! :)

🙌glad you enjoyed it!

You're so welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

@@AMANDARAEUK No I am glad you enjoyed it. Great to see you enjoy the old comedy material. Ronnie Barker did Porridge and Open All hours both classics. I still watch them now when i get a chance

Yes at one point early on Ronnie Corbett is looking down at the floor and you can see that he is just about holding in a giggle.