I was 12 when this show came out, but my parents loved it. I didn't understand half of what he was banging on about, but I loved it too. Watching back now it seems to me that things were nearly as bonkers as they are now, it is just that it is so much easier to see how completely absurd life in the UK is. In a weird way, it gives me hope. We're still here! Sort of.....🤪

Bill bailey is a fantastic musician, and a really nice guy as well. I met him a few times in the early 1990's when he would buy Guitar stuff from me outsite a Curry's shop, where I sold the same products at well below their price (even their staff bought off me as I was still cheaper including their 10% staff discount.) Bill was a really lovely customer to deal with.

The bloke's a genius!

The music used on the gallery section of take Hart was recorded in one take by a group of session musicians and they messed up the middle 8 but decided to keep it as recorded. The tune is called LEFT BANK TWO by The Noveltones. Recorded during a break in making a backing track album.

He really is mad 😂

Drill Bailey does bugs

Did he say 60% yes, 20% no and 10% don't know?

Ben would be shuffling 20 times more empty suits and bringing a some old ones out of the attic in modern times.

Bill Bailey and Simon Pegg, and written by Sean Lock, and directed by Edgar Wright! Life does not get better!!

You Tube Due to You tube "excessive" censorship and now the draconian adblock mschief, I beg of you to stop using yt and at least "back up " your videos to another platform such as rumble or bitchute or oddessy. While I understand adverts generate revenue, You tube adverts are misplaced ( in the middle of a song) Spam, trackers etc, and excessively long in some cases. The REASON why people use adblockers. I personally dont mind product placement if the creator stands behind the product, and the promotion of that product generates an income stream. However you tube imho is taking the piss. There are better platforms. Sorry for the rant

The ministry of crap design. Priceless 😂

Best of the series. Almost wet myself at Clayderman's Three Blind Mice.

In the tools / food bit i was expecting a little crush crush crush yum yum yum.

I must beg to differ with ya Bill. I hear Have a Banana in almost every piece.

The hide and seek skit is beautifully meditative

A name is like a string attached to a balloon. It is attached to the balloon, but it is not the balloon itself 😂

In these sketches you can see the evolution of Edgar Wright's style of visual comedy that he would later use in Spaced and Hot Fuzz.

Tim Minchin has really let himself go

That's so well done how the story is utter bollocks and takes the whole 30 mins to tell 🤣

Many thanks to you for uploading this. It's not available on dvd, but it's a nice chance to see it again after all this time.

Many thanks for uploading this. Much has changed for me personally since this aired and looking at it now is very different and still even more funny. Hard to believe that this aired so long ago, but it did. His delivery was amazing, and he was a writer first, stand up was the only way he could get his material out there.

Not giving the black woman a chair is genius

unique man. funny man

Simon Pegg's dash through the airport a prototype for his fence hopping chase in Hot Fuzz methinks...

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

The "town planner" is one of my favourite sketches ever. Lillestrøm (and Oslo) in a nutshell.

I had this on a tape years ago, and must have listened to it 50 times. It still cracks me up. I'm actually trying to find the part called "town planner". Every time I drive in Lillestrøm, I think about that one.

Bill once made me wee a little bit at Glastonbury- I ten penced my jeans after turning around to see him do something while heading to the trough toilets by the comedy tent

What a smug, annoying turd.

Simon Pegg and Bill Bailey also appeared in the epic Black Books

Haha - I remember this. I was responsible for the bungee jump at the end. Such an accomplished performer, Ben did it one one take. I guess he was motivated not to be hanging around lol!!

Enjoyed this !

Terry Wogan was flipping beautiful.

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

I never knew zippy was in Margaret thatcher’s cabinet 🤣.

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A tree does not make a sound when it falls in a forest and no one is around, for the reason that 'sound' isnt an independently existing thing. Sound is a word that describes a state of affairs, namely, the existence of vibrations in the air in proximity to a correctly functioning auditory system, whether biological or technological. Vibrations are picked up by the ear, hammered out and sent to the brain as an electric signal (no longer a vibration), where it is interpreted by the brain into 'sound'. To elaborate on the technological: a microphone and speaker, or any recording device, does the same thing - the microphone doesn't record sound, it copies the vibrations. When played through a speaker, the speaker replicates those vibrations and sends them through the air to be picked up by the ear and converted into sound. The tree in the forest example can be summarised like this: A tree falls in a forest and no one is around. As the tree falls it creates vibrations in the air. If there were an auditory system nearby it would convert the vibration into sound. But there isn't, so it doesn't.

LEGEND

Who’s the guy he’s taking the piss out of with the song near the end? Chris something? Never heard of him.

The little noise in the background, indicating that someone's got a text message coming through to a Nokia 3110 really gives it that authentic 1998 feeling for me :)

All of the 4wds the homeless man contemplates buying involve him wiggling his hands above his head

Most excellent! Done in the style of The Open University late night lectures on TV years ago!

I love Mr Bailey's comedy, but you have to admit, he's been doing the same jokes his whole career. And he's just not a musical genius. He's pretty good, but not a genius.

Bill Bailey for the next Dr. Who?

His Geordie character is brilliant

“Keep the Crust away for safety!” .. I still say this to this day .. just to confuse everyone.

I met Bill Bailey once .. back in 1999 at Lizard Fest (Solar Eclipse). Shook his hand .. and couldn’t think of ANYTHING to say .. so I blurted out “I LOVVVVEE YOU!!!!” .. Like a f**king idiot. Fotunately for me he seems to get that a lot. Fantastic guy that I’ve enjoyed since he first appeared on TV. Was so proud to see him on Black Books .. and eventually Dr. Who (He needs a much bigger part on that show).

Bloody handsome 🙂 o man of 1986 I will take my hat off to him

Getting desperate...

The beginning of the end for Benji. Compare this to the Motormouth cassette...