Will this wind...?

[rwhaller42]

FYI, the original of this skit was part of "Beyond the Fringe" starring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller. You can find the link to it on this page. Peter Cook plays the same role in both performances.

I like the original better myself. Cook sounds like he is mailing in the performance here.

The whole "Beyond the Fringe" performance is available on CD and I highly recommend it, but "perhaps I'm old fashioned, perhaps I'm very old fashioned."

[TheTyplos]

Mr Bean!

[danprice2]

Atkinson upstages Cook. Read all about it.

[montgomeryrichard]

This clip sums the whole thing up a right load of ...... Then again I could be wrong and it takes me unawares,hopefully it will not come at an inconvenent time like sitting on the toilet, or one of those rare times I have sex....... well if it is at least the earth will move.

[kitabwalli]

Check also Rowan Atkinson as Toby introducing people to hell.

[TheMarkyMarx]

happy rapture day!

Free your minds abandon from religious dogma and fundamentalism!

This is the Humanist age.

[ratholin]

happy rapture day! I think now is a good time to think of the reason this particular skit was made for the secret policeman's ball, to raise money to abolish torture and spread human rights through the world. Since the world isn't going to end might as well get back to trying to make it liveable for everyone.

[TheMarkyMarx]

ndak...

which god?

[TheMarkyMarx]

Camping...same time next week?

bring the picnic basket!

[TheMarkyMarx]

Camping...same time next week?

[1976TRASHMAN]

its the prodiction of the rapture

[jn7000]

Can you imagine Amnesty International mocking pious Muslims like they gladly do with Christians (and which I think is in good fun). But can you even imagine it?

[AntonHu]

@jn7000 Surely this sketch is an appropriate comment on all dogmatic religion, not just Christianity?

[TheMarkyMarx]

Classic send it to Harold dumb ass Camping and his retarded followers

[TheEdwardtheBooble]

It was GMT wasn't it?

[dablommer2010]

Have you brought the picnic basket?

[ThePhiltheValiant]

No offense, but this is a perfect video to watch in anticipation of the so-called "Rapture" we'll be having on May 21st.

[Yehudittx]

@ThePhiltheValiant that's why I am going to put it in my facebook page...

[Ndakanatswa]

@ThePhiltheValiant None taken! I'm Christian, and I am still here! Are you? ;-) *hangs head in shame for those people who plainly defaced my faith and destroyed many peoples lives*

[ThePhiltheValiant]

@Ndakanatswa I'm a Christian too and I'm still here. The moral for all of this is that only God knows when Judgment Day is, not anyone else!

[HCherns]

@ThePhiltheValiant  And for a reprise on the new date, October 21! (written on October 24)

[LoreleiMission]

"Same time tomorrow?"

[MaskedMan66]

Was this the origin of Mr. Bean?

[Greenless001]

haha this is classic

[pouchboym4]

Who ever disliked they are just stupid rednecks that dont understand humor. Im 15 and canadian and i find this hilarious!

[laqlouq]

Brilliant, just brilliant ....

[olytanis]

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!!

[MichaelPalinFan2008]

JESUS. I never even knew Rowan Atkinson was THAT old. He looks about 30, and this was 31 years ago, which would make him 61 about..

[MaskedMan66]

@MichaelPalinFan2008 Grecian Formula works wonders.

[effyleven]

@MichaelPalinFan2008 Rowan Atkinson has sold his soul to the devil in order to appear ever young. If you look closely, you can see the transferred devilishness in his eyebrows... very evident in Blackadder characterisation.

[eahazell]

Peter Cook is a god and Rowan is his begotten son

[jude4021]

HAhahaha  :) awesome! "Protein causes Vice" Great video!

[alst68]

NEVER READ THE COMMENTS AND CERTAINLY NEVER ADD TO THE COMMENTS OPPS!

[leedsmanc]

Ooh a You Tube argument about religion, these things are always insightful, ooh and someone invoked Godwin's Law very early in this one I see. Fascinating.

[Pax79pax]

@leedsmanc - Thanks for the laugh! J'tadore!

[maryann1473]

babbaablaa

[bobgreen623]

on the other hand this is just fucking hilarious. history schmistory, religion schmeligion, atheism schmatheism, hide under whatever banner you like but the killing has to stop. peace

[MaskedMan66]

@bobgreen623 And suppose someone was to come back with "peace schmeace?"

[cft353]

"It's not quite the conflagration we'd been bankin' on..."

[leaningoak]

KaptKan 1 ... you're obviously a close-minded, dyed-in-the-wool, god botherer. We're done.

[KaptKan1]

@leaningoak You're obviously unable to debate, so you make stupid insults; you're done.

[leaningoak]

@KaptKan1 Excellent come back. Look everyone, I've been thrashed by superior intellect!

[KaptKan1]

Lots of really intelligent people have been atheists: Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, Benito Mussolini...

Bill Maher makes absurd films mocking those who believe that there is a higher power in the universe than his ego. He's a board member of PETA. I rest my case, m'lord.

[avolitekitesvara]

yes and didnt they all kill lots of people...so does that make them right....?......its not about belief...it comes down to love and compassion..yes they were intelligent but they were also mass murderers aswell.

[leaningoak]

More than 40 million people in the US alone consider themselves, if not atheist, then non-religious. Trying to force a correlation between a handful of mad bastards that happened to be atheists and the perfectly good majority of atheists is insulting to the intelligence. You really don't want to compare mad atheists against mad deists ... the latter outnumber the former by myriadfold.

[KaptKan1]

@leaningoak So that leaves more than 260 million people who are not atheists. The point is that a lot of folks claim that "religion causes war" et cetera, whereas the evidence is quite the opposite. The atheists I named killed more people than all the other wars in history combined -- and they managed that in just one short century. Atheism is no solution to anything, and is certainly nothing to be proud of, given its record of mass slaughter.

[thesurgeon]

@KaptKan1 those people did not kill others *because* they were atheists (and it's debatable whether Stalin actually was), most of the time it was for political reasons, or simply because they were insane; their religion or lack-there-of had no effect at all on their decisions.

millions of people across the world were killed for thousands of years directly because of religion (heresy, sacrifice etc), so in that sense, yes, religion has been the cause of more deaths than atheism.

[KaptKan1]

@thesurgeon Stalin was a militant atheist. It's not "debatable" at all; it's historical fact. But it's ANTI-historical to claim "millions of people... for thousands of years" were directly killed because of religion; you just make up these vague, phony "statistics". Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot and other atheists killed precisely because they opposed religions as competing world views; it had EVERY effect on their decisions. You should read history, not invent it.

[thesurgeon]

@KaptKan1 they didn't kill in the name of atheism, or because they were atheist. and there actually is debate about whether stalin and hitler were actually atheist or not, but they were dictators so they didn't have much choice publicly (they have to be the ultimate authority, not god).

religion, meanwhile, has been the explicitly stated reason for executing/killing millions since the beginning of time (from the stone age to iraq). people are rarely killed in the name of atheism.

[skepticaldemocrat]

@thesurgeon There`s debate about whether stalin was actually atheist? You got to be kidding...

[loadquicker]

Nevermind lads, same time tomorrow. :)

[schizoidboy]

you don't have to be religious to be incredibly stupid and you don't have to be stupid to be religious.

[Pseudologic]

to be religious it helps if you're stupid

[schizoidboy]

Tell that to intelligent people who do believe and the stupid people who don't.

[avolitekitesvara]

to be stupid it helps if you are intelligent...from a psychic point of view.....

[Lighteningpictures]

It'll not be as all mighty as that. It is why we have come up on the mountain to be safe, you stupid git.

LOL

[danielaphant]

I have been looking for this for years! Thanks!

[katesatriani]

How did they do this with straight faces?? thanks for posting- never seen this before.

[norristerse]

the "protein causes vice" banner must be a reference to the feller who used to wander round the west end in a sandwich board years ago, warning us of the evils of protein. he would hand out pamphlets saying eggs and nuts should be avoided at all costs, as they give you wood.

he is sorely missed

[iouakick]

always amuses me how the religious cults want the world to end. Unfortunately for them, this planet will be here long after we are an extinct species.

[CrudeDude]

2012 according to Monty Python et al

[tasteygeezer]

Obviously you aren't a religious/educated person or you would realise the so called "great minds" you worship- or what you perceive they say- are the actual downfall of the likes of you ! Carry on blindly then ! I will still pray for you. I bet you don't want me to though. No, that is what I would expect.

[CrudeDude]

"Religious/ educated" is an oxymoron

[KaptKan1]

@CrudeDude Whereas you are just a moronic ox.

[uptonleft3]

Amazing how these great minds knew then just how stupid and ridiculous religion is and yet so many continue with it to this day.

[tasteygeezer]

@uptonleft3 ...AND SO MANY GREAT MINDS AS YOURS STILL LIVE IN IGNORANCE.

[ErichoTTA]

Best line

"You're speaking too low for the human ear, which I happen to be equipped with"

[tehinfidel]

This must be what it's like going to a Jehovah's Witness church.

"Right, same time tomorrow then. Surely the world will bother to get around to ending."

[monkeysbecool]

at 2:39 you can see Atkinsons stammer, hes good at hiding it now.

[potterbond007]

he isn't stammering!! hez just in character..

[monkeysbecool]

check the wikipedia, he has got it, check under comedic style.

[HaniiPuppy]

I think that was deliberate ...

[ESDA17]

Have you brought the picnic basket?

[Friscalating]

Can't hear a blind word you're saying. You are speaking too softly for the human ear, which is what I'm equipped with. You'll have to speak a little more loudly, please.

That's no better, is it? I ask you to speak more loudly, and you speak more softly. A strange reaction from a follower! Or perhaps I'm very old-fashioned! Perhaps I'm very old-fashioned expecting you to speak louder!

[ketmaniac]

Faces identified:

Peter Cook

Eleanor Bron

John Cleese

Rowan Atkinson

Ken Campbell

Terry Jones

Michael Palin

David Rappaport

[LilianaVonK]

Don't forget Ken Campbell and Sylvester McCoy as well. :)

[Mogggpiano]

This is a great segment from the best SPB. Originally from "Beyond The Fringe".

[MrsGamgee977]

My favourite skit from SPB! Thanks so much for putting it up!

[djbartlett]

Benn looking for this for some time now!

Thanks! I've been "doing" this skit at work for so long, and NO ONE else remembered it! They all thought I was nuts.

[pollytyke]

thanks,being trying to remember the rest of the will this wind speech for years.i was not disappionted

[ladaviking]

absolutely brilliant. Just as I remember it from nearly 30 years ago. (How sad am I ?)

[Pianojanna]

I remember it, word for word, from the '60s! It's from Beyond the Fringe and my friends and I used to perform it and other skits from BTF for our high school talent shows. Now who's sad?! LOL

[Mattoxicator]

Not very...I just wish I was around 30 years ago.

[sarasunshine777]

so cool very funny!

[nickUKa]

greatest genius ever

[pixl8edkat]

hehe that was pretty funny.

"did you bring the picnic basket" got a good chuckle outta me LOL not to mention Rowan's voice on it's own was funny

[annerackham]

genius

[ken131]

Thank you thank you thank you! I've wanted this for so long!