The Two Ronnies - Mastermind Sketch

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Classic British Comedy

2 жыл бұрын

A vintage sketch from the two Ronnie's as they do the popular quiz show Mastermind from 1980

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@jimandjosie 2 жыл бұрын

So funny. Very well done.

@eternalextrapolations 2 жыл бұрын

It's just so clever. You're so struck by how intricately written it is you kind of forget it's comedy.

@user-ke3wc2lj5h 6 ай бұрын

2:57

@vitamins-and-iron 12 күн бұрын

it was very well written but i did not forget it was comedy lol

@minicle426 6 ай бұрын

This for me is far funnier than Fork Handles. Shame it gets overlooked as a result.

@Steven-sq9ov 22 күн бұрын

This will go down in history as one of the best sketches of all time

@TheGodParticle 17 сағат бұрын

Don't forget, fork handles..

@Berniewahlbrinck 9 ай бұрын

Ronnie Corbett is unbelievably good in this amazing sketch- he never bats an eye.

@80sandretrogubbins25 5 ай бұрын

He does hesitate once or twice. Whether that's to add effect, or he almost slipped, is not clear.

@fingersTitan 7 күн бұрын

@@80sandretrogubbins25 The art that is missing today. His pauses are allowing the audience to get their laughing out of the way so they don't miss a single detail. Barker holds off from asking a question for the same reason. A huge part of comedy is allowing the joke to be digested in its own time, that is lacking today. Cook and Moore are a prime example. Cook did it to Moore too. Cook broke Moore and let both the audience and Moore have every second they needed. Cook doesn't need to say a thing, yet he has them in the palm of his hands.

@Kimpotter-yt4ly 4 күн бұрын

This fantastic take off of Mastermind and the Two Ronnies fork handles sketch are timeless comedy classics, and not a swear word to be heard.😊.

@martinpye777 13 күн бұрын

I remember watching The Two Ronnie's with my grandparents as a little kid in the 80s 😊

@ImperialLoather 5 ай бұрын

"What sort of artist?" "Pass." "Yes, near enough."

@TheDisplacerBeast 24 күн бұрын

Could you explain why that part got such a big laugh? I didnt get it

@johnmartinez7440 24 күн бұрын

@TheDisplacerBeast Meant to be "piss", as in "piss artist", slang for a drunkard.

@TheDisplacerBeast 24 күн бұрын

@@johnmartinez7440 oh, i guess i just didnt make the connection. Is the artist known to be sloppy?

@roguishpaladin 24 күн бұрын

@@TheDisplacerBeastRemember, the comment was about Dean Martin.

@peterfinn6098 17 күн бұрын

Dean Martin was definitely a piss artist lol, its just so cleverly written. The jock strap part nearly sent Ronnie Corbett off. I don’t know how they can keep a straight face

@martinhall60 2 ай бұрын

Truly first class. You can't get better than the best, and the two Ronnie's are the best.

@YourCritic 7 күн бұрын

This sketch, and "Four Candles" are my favorites. Absolute classics.

@thomashenrycomedy 25 күн бұрын

toulouse lautrec painted strippers is the best line is INCREDIBLE

@biblybims9868 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing duo,you will never see anything remotely close to being this clever,simply genius

@keithyork8226 23 күн бұрын

This sketch was written by David Renwick. A different version appears in his earlier radio show “The Burkiss Way”.

@tonygriffiths2485 2 жыл бұрын

Cleverly done. Love the way he keeps a straight face after :)

@sockmonkey22 9 ай бұрын

So simple an idea and yet so skillfully performed…and complex, too. I keep rewinding 30 seconds to link the answer to the question I’d already forgotten. 😮😂

@LorettaGrace-kf7kh 4 ай бұрын

This never gets old.😅

@Rat_Nasty 26 күн бұрын

It just doesn’t get any better than this. I can watch it over and again. Brilliant.

@harrydeyong441 9 ай бұрын

British comedy is the best, and these two are some of the best,,,of the best. Hilarious.

@GiratinaofFury 22 күн бұрын

This is one of the areas I think the Two Ronnies did very well in, putting conversations out of sync or lining up two different dialogues together. It plays a lot on messing up context.

@GrouchoMarx-MaGeorge 11 ай бұрын

Timeless !! Bring back the 70's and 80's comedy, amazing and had me crying with laughter 🤣

@seaniek9175 Ай бұрын

Very clever and delivered with perfect timing. Up there with four candles routine .

@steviejd5803 Ай бұрын

Utterly off the scale brilliance.

@angusog5227 Ай бұрын

This and the crossword on the train sketches are priceless.

@johnsr1975 5 ай бұрын

Incredibly done in one-take. Sheer brilliance

@johnconlon2344 5 ай бұрын

A Masterpiece!

@davidsandler-kh8nl 6 ай бұрын

The best sketch ever

@ChristopheStrobbe Ай бұрын

Morecambe and Wise can't hold a candle to this, let alone four.

@Shagger 23 күн бұрын

People today are under the impression that comedy needs to be provocative, negative and even offensive to work. Those don't know how good comedy used to be just by being clever. It doesn't have to about the reaction and instead rely on the intelligence of the audience.

@Abx_Dkl 4 күн бұрын

This won't work in 2024... Gen Z minds are incapable

@annmills5853 8 күн бұрын

So funny never get tired of watching them👏👍🇬🇧❤️

@fictionfactory7164 2 жыл бұрын

Absolute comedy gold

@elliottprice6084 Ай бұрын

Two comic legends that made this sketch comedy gold. Special credit to David Renwick who penned this masterpiece

@martinjasper7650 21 күн бұрын

Still of the great sketches in british comedy history along with 4 candles/Fork handles and the telephone call sketch

@Lightertheif01 4 ай бұрын

Geniuses at work here nothing like this today!

@LD-bv1pm Ай бұрын

My word this is well done. Thank you YT.

@nigelkthomas9501 Ай бұрын

Absolutely fantastic!

@guerino8945 Ай бұрын

Absolute Legends!

@andrewsmith-cm9qw 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful 2 talented guys great British comedy bless them

@Aye-McHunt 10 ай бұрын

Way funnier than Morecombe and Wise's Mastermind sketch. Comedic gold.

@aranerem5569 Жыл бұрын

It's brilliant

@delbrown4143 9 ай бұрын

Great comedy this, so well written

@johncairney6157 2 жыл бұрын

Pure gold 🤣🤣

@CrazyRev 4 ай бұрын

They don't produce that level of humour today! Sadly missed.

@TheBT 2 ай бұрын

It probably exists, but no one watches the same thing anymore.

@Beemer760 Ай бұрын

we are lacking in intellectual capacity these days

@johnmartinez7440 24 күн бұрын

@@Beemer760 Speak for yourself.

@tam310 10 ай бұрын

Genius!

@phillipaugar2464 7 ай бұрын

Brilliant!

@bradhenaire180 16 күн бұрын

0:43 you can see how proud of that one he is with smirk and glasses adjust

@Gardner0871public 10 күн бұрын

Cor blimey, that’s brilliant!

@BruceDanton-xw6eg Ай бұрын

So great too thank you of coursr.

@ukdavepianoman 28 күн бұрын

Utterly brilliant. Wonder how many takes it took - I'm amazed Ronnie Corbett could keep a straight face.

@MrPlantpot20 Ай бұрын

Up there with the Morecambe and Wise sketch with Andre Previn. . . comic genius both sketches.

@Andy-co6pn 7 ай бұрын

Boris at the Covid Inquiry

@TheWelwyn21 Ай бұрын

Fantastic

@jamesthecat Жыл бұрын

Written by future 'one foot in the grave' writer David Renwick!

@btisdall 8 ай бұрын

Indeed, and a reworking of a sketch that first appeared on The Burkiss Way, of which he was co-creator.

@RayhanAhmed-qr3vz Ай бұрын

They both were chief of comedians 😂

@mervmervalot2296 Ай бұрын

Master class in comedy... especially porridge and open all hours..... genius

@deanwalker9605 24 күн бұрын

Absolute genius

@TheBT 2 ай бұрын

Yeah this is timeless. People might not know who Sir Geoffery Howe is. The nutcase joke is a bit dated, but no one really cares. But this could easily work today because its just clever wordplay. Honestly the only real flaw is the 'large flies'. Tarantulas don't eat large flies. Tarantulas can't spin webs so they eat stuff like locusts or beetles or other land based food.

@QueenAllTheWay 2 ай бұрын

Can anyone explain the Dean Martin joke?

@michaelgibson4705 Ай бұрын

Pass sounds like Piss ie Piss Artist vernacular for a heavy drinker

@stephenchecksfield632 Ай бұрын

Dean Martin was a singer and member of the Brat Pack in the USA with other singers like Sammy Davis junior the joke reference was to the fact that Dean Martin liked the wild lifestyle and women and liked his drink 🍻 like beers and wine etc and I think he had a reputation for being a alcoholic and the reference I think is to indicate the slang terminology for a alcoholic is a Piss Artist hence the reference what kind of artist? Where Ronnie Corbett replied pass and Ronnie Barker replied close enough 😂

@QueenAllTheWay Ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🤣💀💀

@plum80 28 күн бұрын

@@stephenchecksfield632oh my god thank you! I replayed it half a dozen times and just didn’t get it 😅

@polystyrene7921 Ай бұрын

Timeless 😂😂😂

@georgesturdy7040 23 күн бұрын

Ronnie Corbett trying to stop bursting out laughing 😂

@davids82924 Ай бұрын

Genius sketch

@SweetT79 11 күн бұрын

If I am correct this was done during a tour in London

@Pooter-it4yg Ай бұрын

Not too many people know that Ronnie Barker was a prolific and extremely good writer for this show and others. This is one of his.

@johnp515 Ай бұрын

This sketch was not written by Ronnie Barker

@CarFinanceSimplified Ай бұрын

David Renwick wrote this brilliant sketch.

@Pooter-it4yg Ай бұрын

@@CarFinanceSimplified I stand corrected.

@jerrysmith2360 Ай бұрын

@@CarFinanceSimplifiedI believe this was a much improved and updated version of a sketch he wrote for the brilliant The Burkiss Way.

@johnmc3862 Ай бұрын

@@Pooter-it4ygYou didn’t say he wrote this one but he did write many for the show.

@-pjabrony7768 24 күн бұрын

So what was the completion of the Thatcher quotation?

@karyldavidkidd7111 25 күн бұрын

Genius

@peterfinn6098 17 күн бұрын

Considering a comparison with today’s rubbish, how come this was ultimately clever and amazingly written comedy with no foul language needed, just pure genius

@hellodavey1902 27 күн бұрын

Forgot the cleverness of this after the silliness

@peterbergvall7752 Ай бұрын

I miss the comedy of yesteryear, it truely was an artform then.

@goldenboyproductions2740 27 күн бұрын

Something you just don’t see on tv these days: genuine wit.

@johnmartinez7440 24 күн бұрын

What TV are you watching?

@kengall4580 Ай бұрын

Such great talent very much missed on these very dull and bland TV days.

@rainbowwarrior6452 Ай бұрын

And it’s good night from me, and it’s good night from him. Good night.

@djpeekay25 Ай бұрын

Their play on words was 2nd to none!

@TheMattastic 19 күн бұрын

For anyone who (like me) likes to connect the questions to the answers but perhaps doesn't want to keep going back and forth on the video: 1. Q. What is palaeontology? A study of old fossils. 2. Q. What is the name of the directory that lists members of the peerage? A. Burke's. 3. Q. Who are Len Murray and Sir Geoffrey Howe? A. One's a trade union leader, the other's a member of the Cabinet. 4. Q. What is the difference between a donkey and an ass? A. They're both the same. 5. Q. Complete the quotation -- "To be or not to be..." A. "That is the question." 6. Q. What is Bernard Manning famous for? A. He is a fat man who tells blue jokes. 7. Q. Who is the present Archbishop of Canterbury? A. The Right Reverend Robert Runcie. 8. Q. What do people kneel on in church? A. Hassocks. 9. Q. What do tarantulas prey on? A. Large flies. 10. Q. What would you use a ripcord to pull open? A. A parachute. 11. Q. What sort of person lived in Bedlam? A. A nutcase. 12. Q. What is a jockstrap? A. A form of athletic support. 13. Q. For what purpose would a decorator use methylene chlorides? A. Paint strippers. 14. Q. What did Henri Toulouse-Lautrec do? A. He's a kind of artist. 15. Q. Who is Dean Martin? A. A singer. 17. Q. What make of vehicle is the standard London bus? A. British Leyland. 18. Q. In 1892, Brandon Thomas wrote a famous long-running English farce. What was it? A. Charley's Aunt. I can't find any information on the quote about Thatcher. Maybe it was made up for the sake of the joke, or maybe this sketch just so completely overshadowed it in the public memory that it's lost to time.

@Orangeeclipse15 10 күн бұрын

Aunt and aren't are pronounced the same in an English accent ;)