The Best, so wonderful that he gave so much happiness and continues to do so, a wonderful legacy, thank GOD for humour, 😇relevant to this sketch, 😉

I disagree - there is no argument about it

Especially as Fletcher in Porridge .

It's amazing in my opinion 🙂

Harry Grout wing ?

Fair enough, honorable mention Morcame and Wise, Ryan and Ronnie, Cannon and Ball, I'll dark comedy ye

​@@christopher-ke9nj Don't forget Dave Allen, he was great too.

@@christopher-ke9nj Honourable maybe, but i just shared a another video of two Ronnies and stated that the only other comedic duo they were on par with is Laurel and Hardy, in my opinion Two Ronnies and Laurel and Hardy are miles ahead of Morecambe and Wise and Cannon and Ball

That's a lovely tribute, I'm sure he would have enjoyed it

Safely away from woke censers!

Goodness anybody would think Britain were involved in Australia’s history hahah don’t tell the Commonwealth haters haha

A lot of Aussies were Cockneys. The Australian and Cockney accent have much in common. Must go to Australia some day.

We would say Reg Grundys instead of early doors.

Do you know my niece Sue, she lives in Oz too?

My father was a soldier and we moved about alot I spent time in S.A and my nana lived in Elizabeth West lots of £10.00 POMS and I really did understand the slang. Lots of good musicians and Singers came out from England and settled in Elizabeth ....

Plus he is salubrious...google it

@@swimasfastasyoucan Indeed he is

Salubrious...And you’re point is?

You don't hear the same said of Ronnie Corbett very often though

@@96BxelA laughter is a great medicine, his brand of humour is so uplifting

Not me. I realized it could be taken for bird or turd, and figured it was bird so the turd-leaning people would get a surprise, and because there would be more turd-leaning people because naturally it would have been funnier to associate Richard the Third with a turd.

@@Andulamb "funnier to associate Richard the Third with a turd." And historically accurate, too ;-)

Not at all, one of the more obvious ones really

@@jamesconnolly5512 "more obvious" Only when you get to the _end_ of the joke - given the well-known fact that turds don't have wings!

Not ME, I'm an elderly cockney woman born and bred.🤣🇬🇧

SPOT ON !

Especially as Fletcher in Porridge .

Yes, check out the Jewish insurance and Arab in a shop sketch

Don't forget Dave Allen

@@t3chnod3lic Dave Allen was my favourite 💙

@@t3chnod3lic plus Dick Emery and Benny Hill, and good ol' Frank Spencer of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em!! The 70's were a very special time, indeed.

One of the two was rather more talented in the art of comedic delivery than the other.

Morcombe and Wise, The Two Ronnies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The last in a line of comic duo's that go back to Laurel and Hardy (we'll skip Little and Large)

@@clickrick Have to totally disagree with you there.

@@clickrick No, they both amazing

Hear , Hear .

Please explain

@@vp5 Normally Richard the 3rd means a turd, but in this sketch Ronnie uses mis-direction as it means Bird

There's a Dave Allen monologue where he tells us how the Irish turn the strong 'th' sound into a straight 't' sound, almost a 'd'. So Dave tells us that when the Irish pronounce 'these, that, this and those', it becomes: 'dese, dat, dis, & dose'. Then Dave tells us: "And it's even worse when they try and pronounce Richard the Third." Which is the way I twigged to what Richard the Third Cockney rhyming slang stands for.

@@forestsoceansmusic 😄😄😄😉

I know!! That was my favourite line too!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah, strange that, when you consider some of people that get knighted. Wonder why.

How many people picked up that he actually meant "bird" instead of the other thing. I did, after a little while.

I couldn't agree with you more.

Especially in porridge !

Deborah Hallam Nowadays it's just "Let me tell you a long and rambling story about being middle aged and having kids and hope that it's funny along the way." Comedy these days is so inoffensive that it makes me sick.

LemonZeppelin clearly you haven't seen any Frankie Boyle

Ratel.H Badger Frankie Boyle is Fantastic at stand up, but this is comedy acting, different set of skills required to achieve the exceptional brilliance of Ronnie B.

POPULAR modern comics, there's probably thousands of comics out there just as good as the Two Ronnies but they're not getting any of the limelight. And it doesn't help that people these days don't like having to use their brains a little to understand the comedy.

st cain and abel

One of the advantages of old age - we have enjoyed things that would not be allowed today.

Just came across a Spike Milligan war story where he calls a toilet attendant....a Richard The III Strangler...can't believe I found two versions of the same joke on the same night.

A classic piece of mis-direction by Ronnie B. He really was a consumate wordsmith. I liked his various "speeches on behalf of a worthy organisation" (eg "The Loyal Society for the Pispronunciation of Worms") sketches in the vaarious Two Ronnies shows. His two skills were first of all to write the sketches in the first place (often credited as pseudonym Gerald Wiley) and then to be able to perform them without even the slightest hint of a smirk when *he* was the one who knew what he was about to say - apart from pausing for audience reaction where necessary he kept a perfectly straight face.

Yep - I remember watching with my Dad back as a kid in the 70s and Dad would be in stitches. Happy memories 😊

Where they all move to? Must be spoken somewhere

😆😆

Stella Artois, according to two of my Kiwi sons who worked bars in England, is also know as "Wife Beater".

Should the kyber pass and bottle and glass have been swopped arround? bottle and glass - pass and kyber pass - arse 🤔

I think saucepan lid is supposed to be quid, because she said here is a saucepan lid to buy the bread and cheese.

I wonder if the septic tanks use it? You'd have to go a long way down the frog n toad, though you could give a ting a ling on the dog n bone. It's a long way on yer plates of meat, specially on yer Pat Malone. Hoo roo china.

@@greasylimpet3323 down the road....................................on your feet alone. Goodbye Mate. _At least some was right - from a dinkee die Aussie of anglo descent]

@@letsseeif same here. My dad always said the frog n toad, and if I did anything a bit clumsy he told me to get me plates of meat out of the way. I got threatened with the razor strop a few times too, but l luckily I never got a clout with it!

The septic tanks were the Yanks!

@@greasylimpet3323 yesh. Australians also call the Americans, 'yanks' hence 'septic tanks'. Happy 2022

Mmm bees and honey = money, bubble bath = laugh, septic tank = I wonder, Yank?

My grandmother was an East Londoner, so my Dad used to use the odd rhyming slang expression. I’m in Canada! I would ask him what he meant by, “where’s my titfer ?” Tit for tat, my hat.

@@karphin1 That is why we "blow raspberries!" As in, "I just blew a raspberry tart."

We sceptic tanks across the magic wand do sometimes catch what's going on. We're not all a lot of Berkshire Hunts who don't know Brad Pitt 😉

Not sure about being a septic tank but I do recall having one.

sisgaia present

So you're a ''septic tank'' then?

+J. Lewis I do believe Harrap's have printed a dictionary on Cockney Rhyming Slang. Probably available on many bookseller sites.

Yes, he did write this sketch. Got a book of everything he wrote - almost. Some of his work has sadly been lost (in writen form), and doesn't appear in it.

True. And at best, even most white Londoners only sound vaguely southern (i.e. Estuary English). Cockneys are well and truly on the way out.

Until

mjhinton1972 translation, please

Franz and Lizst

Then just take a butchers hook

How can a couple of hundred years be 'ancient'? Why do Americans have to pretend they belong to other countries? You don't. And you annoy real Irish, Scots etc by doing so.

And you are wrong about Cockney Rhyming Slang too.

DuckDuck, think I've heard what you're talking about but I'll come back to that. First have to ask if you're familiar with the Ronnies' Jehosaphat and Jones characters/songs? Since you left such smashing comments on the library sketch, and are from the Appalachians, I don't want to risk your missing them! Utterly brilliant and here on youtube. Folk/country/hippie sorts (I can't do them justice but you'll recognise the type the moment you see and hear them!) - the music surprisingly 'right' paired with their usual ingenious word-play. The Scots-Irish background in your part of the world is fascinating; the speech and music are such clear carry-overs. It's probably not likely that what you heard as a child originated from rhyming slang, as that mainly developed round the end of the 19th century and the App. ways go back much earlier (as you know!) Not many Cockneys emigrated - Essex was usually as far as we went! You never know, though. I've been fortunate in spending some time in your part of the world, it's beautiful and I really loved and admired the people. And yes, back in the early-to-mid '70's I definitely heard some older folk speaking to children in a quite mystical sort of word-play that (to me) sounded and felt incredibly, almost eerily, ancient and Gaelic. It was like travelling in time. Hearing spells but in a playful way. I think you're spot-on about it passing down from heaven only knows how long ago and am very grateful to you for reminding me of it! What I was privileged to hear may have been completely different, I don't know, but it still gives me chills (in a good way.) And the women who could 'talk away' boils, burns, etc - uncanny. All that other-worldly Celtic stuff that goes through time untouched. (Well, untouched til relatively recently, sadly.) Thanks for bringing back wonderful memories and giving my mind something to do during lockdown! Please don't think all of us from this side of the pond are as rude as CMOT. Everything you said made perfect sense. Hope you're doing well; stay safe.

@@pollymotley5041 Thank you for your in depth reply. From the way you described it, I think you did hear what I was talking about. I've read that, in the 60s, university "experts", I'm not sure what educational persuasion, linguists, English professors, cultural grand poo-bahs, or whatever they were, would go back in the hills to find "primitive people to be amazed at, and perhaps write a paper or two on", and they said that they were hearing (I believe it was) near Elizabethan English, as it hadn't been spoken in England for centuries. I listened to several Jehosaphat & Jones songs. Yes the word play was funny, but I cringe to think this was what American country music sounds like to British people, lol. I know it's a parody. You may be interested in reading the defunct "West Virginia Hillbilly" newspaper (a tongue in cheek name). The owner, editor, and chief cook and bottle washer, Jim Comstock (deceased many years 4, had the ear and attention of US Presidents, and of course governors, and countless others of the self-annointed intelligentsia, for decades. He was a bit like a modern Mark Twain. A gentleman, and a gentle and wise humorist. He related stories every week about the folks from the hills, and they loved the attention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Comstock

@@CMOT101 not counting native American Indians, Americans all have their ancestral roots in other countries and it’s completely natural to want to trace your roots and origins. They are not pretending that they belong to your country,but you should recognise that many of them have some of your blood in their veins. So unblock yer drains.

Don't forget the Mastermind sketch, answering the question before.

But was he as good as Gerald Wiley?

@@solentbum One and the same, so yes.

+A Pinch Of Weird I'll translate for any non Brits. So sad that both these great entertainers are dead. Barker surely had a way with words, and every joke he told would alwas get a laugh ( larf ) out of me. Corbett may have been a little on the short side, but in the world of television they were both great people. I take my hat off to you both.

And you can shut your north and south.

This entire bit is actually quite educational for someone who doesn't understand cockney rhyming slang.

@@CB-xr1eg Thank you for your translation.

@@zulkiflijamil4033 No problemo.

Rent?

@@briananthony4044 Great stuff !

Play it back at a slower speed withe sub titles on.

Mate, he deliberately made it easy for you. Us Londoners usually skip the rhyming word.