Favourite Not the Nine o' Clock News Scene

[Accy cyclist]

I had to look her name up,but i always think of this when Not The 9 O' Clock News is mentioned.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iPgOBoqsaQ

Pamela Stephenson declaring her love and desire for the Ayatolla Khomeini.

I wonder what he would've made of it?

 

[Beebo]

This one still makes me smile every time you fill up the car and you get to the exact round figure you want.....








... and for the youngsters - yes you could fill top a car for a fiver!

Half pence, brings back memories.
When they were abolished they were worth more in real terms than the current 1p is now.

 

[Beebo]

I just seen this. It's brilliant. I can't remember seeing it at the time.

Very clever, i havent seen it either.
"Well i wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition"

 

[Chromatic]

My favourite is one I can't find the clip for. But it's Rowan Atkinson walking down the street, he spots the camera looks and waves and walks straight into a lamp post.

see post 22, although it appears to be a tree he walks into.

 

[byegad]

see post 22, although it appears to be a tree he walks into.

That's the one!

 

[swansonj]

"Psychologists have come up with an explanation for America's current behaviour. Having been late for both the first two world wars, they're determined to be really prompt for the next one"

Forty years ago. Plus ca change..,

 

[captain nemo1701]

One of the best comedy shows ever, big must-see cult following at the time. Pity they've never released much on DVD except for a couple of 'Best Of...'.
My fave is Gerald the Gorilla.
I also like the sound-fx added to various news clips such as the Columbia shuttle failing to lift off with the sound of a stalling car engine..... title sequence was funny too, with it changing from show to show. Always laughed at the clip of the Queen smiling, watching something off screen, followed by two male mud wrestlers.

 

[raleighnut]

I had to look her name up,but i always think of this when Not The 9 O' Clock News is mentioned.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iPgOBoqsaQ

Pamela Stephenson declaring her love and desire for the Ayatolla Khomeini.

I wonder what he would've made of it?

Isn't the bloke who 'played' the Ayotollah at the end her soon to be husband who was also in one of the best clips,


View: https://youtu.be/DlUb8jt0WP0

 

[Yellow Fang]

I had to look her name up,but i always think of this when Not The 9 O' Clock News is mentioned.
.
Pamela Stephenson declaring her love and desire for the Ayatolla Khomeini.

I wonder what he would've made of it?

Is that the Big Yin under that?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Too many to choose a favourite from. Off the top of my head, Gerald the Gorilla, the Reggie Bosanquet song, the punk trying to find the right zip at the urinal, Pamela Stephenson's Moira Stewart guerillas, the gramophone shop, Constable Savage, the trucking song. In my mind all as funny today as they were then. I don't recall any of it being repeated, is that because in reality it hasn't stood the test of time ?

 

[Beebo]

That's the one!

Here's another version of the same scene with a different ending.

View: https://youtu.be/T-RkuXPj3Q4

 

[swansonj]

... I don't recall any of it being repeated, is that because in reality it hasn't stood the test of time ?

Some of it was very topical. On the Question Time "4 minutes to live" parody, for example, who would now remember Lord Carrington ("don't come to me for a quick answer to that one") or Clive Jenkins ("some of my members will die down a coal mine") or even Robin Day. Similarly, the politics of the lampoon of the muggeridge/stockwood attack on Life of Brian was probably lost on many viewers even at the time - it was on me - who, like viewers now, would just think it funny.

But the topicality can be exaggerated. Clive Anderson - who apparently had a hand in writing Gerald the Gorilla - says that by including just a few high-profile topical political bits they got a reputation for being edgy, whereas most of what they did was barely political at all.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

The trade union negotiation, do I recall correctly that along with the swivel chair to take home at weekends and the boss's wife's recipe for ratatouille, they also agreed to include the boss's 14 year old daughter 'to be phased in' ? Perhaps that's why we never see that particular one repeated.

 

[ianrauk]

I'm so laughing like a hyena at some of these.
Loved the show, classic comedy.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Isn't the bloke who 'played' the Ayotollah at the end her soon to be husband who was also in one of the best clips,


View: https://youtu.be/DlUb8jt0WP0

It was apparently doing this sketch that brought the future Mr & Mrs Connolly together.