Constable Savage

[MixedBag27]

Come on Dave! Show These!

[Sojoez]

Savage looks like a certain dutch politician.

[Silvergoldstarfish]

Here is another 3

So what

So what

So what

[RooGamer99]

the video is 3:33 mins long and so is the 5th one down on the left! it has 33 likes and 3 dislikes!!

[CallowHillbilly]

Excellent example of early 80s comedy at it's finest.

Puts much of today's 'comedians' to shame.

[cosycleaner]

The Loud Shirt and Offensive Wife charges should be legal!

[Silvergoldstarfish]

I am not a truth seeker

But I am a bullshit seeker

That's why I read the comments on YouTube

[Silvergoldstarfish]

No in-jokes please . . .

Hey PC Bellend give me a call !

[flashstudiosguy]

Hey! It's Inspector Fowler! Looks liked he transferred from Gashford to an even more cocked up Police Station!

[SethHesio]

"Walking around with an offensive .. wife" lmao

[dangeloso]

i had this as an mp3 file for years, ive never seen the clip before, its fantastic! love rowan!

[trafford17]

What is that he said at the end?

[socamoto]

@trafford17 "Is this your hedgehog sir?"

[andyingreece]

@trafford17 He said "I'm transferring you to the SPG" (Special Police Group) A particularly vicious police group that has now been disbanded.

Or maybe you meant "Sorry Sir. Is this your hedgehog Sir?" The show had earlier done a sketch where a hedgehog was supposedly killed. Lots of people called in to complain. This was their little piss take. :o)

[spalf73]

best sketch ever

[SuperMartyl]

priceless

[lewisner]

In the early 80's railway enthusiasts used to reserve train seats as Mr Winston Kadogo 8-)

[Silvergoldstarfish]

Do you get some perverted pleasure from going around stirring up trouble ?

Yes sir.

GRJ is brilliant in this . . . As of course as ever is RA

[Silvergoldstarfish]

I think your perhaps being a little over zealous

. . . Classic

[tonythetyger99]

As relevant now as a it ever was

[geogiecat]

@tonythetyger99

get a life

[WAAAAAAAAAAAY]

"walking around with an offensive wife"

Absolute genius

:)

[paulmurphy42]

"We're holding him on a charge of possession of curly black hair and thick lips"!

Absolutely priceless! They'd never dare broadcast that today!

[katiemjy]

@AnElephantsChild not that his wife was white. That she was offensive, i.e. a b**ch

[bigbadnewman]

"possession of curly black hair and thick lips" ! LOL

[AnElephantsChild]

So sad that this is still topically funny, but I have to say that walking around with an offensive wife SHOULD be illegal !

Thanks for uploading this x x

[KTK401]

@AnElephantsChild I think it was implying that the white officer found it "offensive" for the black guy to have a white wife.

[Keith10284]

Timeless comedy sketch that, always has me in stitches. In the PC tarnished UK we live in now, it's quite refreshing to see some old school comedy. Just goes to show the old'uns are the best'uns. My late father used to love this sketch too. Shame there aren't any new sketches being broadcast like this one.

[harlingtonstraker]

They wore proper uniforms back then, not quasi paramilitary nylon affairs with a bleedin hi viz on top.

[MrCompyman]

Who-ever dislikes this is a constable savage.

[pimmagrimm]

@MrCompyman Its probably Winston Kodogo

[9xzulug]

poor WINSTON,oh shit my names winston.best i change my name to vincent,just incase.1LOVE,LOVE ALL UK ANTI NAZI BABYLON FAMILY 2011 & BEYOND

[navieedful]

1 GUY who dislike it is savage

[KatlinMckenzie100]

"On possession of curly black hair and thick lips!" Haha I never get tired of that! :)

[Keith10284]

I love that sketch, the charges crack me up every time. Shame comedy ain't like that anymore. Not the 9'o clock news was a great show. It's just a shame political correctness has totally destroyed comedy these days. You can't say this, you can't do that 'cos the do-gooders say you might offend someone who actually wouldn't give a shit either way. I know a few colored gentlemen & they would laugh their heads off at this sketch.

[twooffour]

@Keith10284

Dave Chapelle, an AMERICAN comedian, did his extremely incorrect show mainly about racial stereotypes just a few years ago, you know.

[Keith10284]

@twooffour Oh right, I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to look out for that one.

[judgedredd123]

@Keith10284 This isn't a racist sketch, it's taking the piss out of the Met, who at that time would lock up any black person the wanted to, for whatever trumped up charge came to mind.

[Keith10284]

@judgedredd123 I know that mate, and back in the 1970s the Met were bastards like that.

[judgedredd123]

@Keith10284 Not changed much, now they take backhanders from the likes of the News of the World

[KTK401]

@Keith10284 I think you'll find that many of them still are.

[badongdi]

in possesion of thick curley hair and fat lips! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­haha!

[Valentelias]

The SPG referred to at the end were replaced with the TSG - the out of control thugs in uniform who killed Ian Tomlinson and revel in assaulting citizens.

[FelineGuitars]

This sketch was actually even more close to the bone when it was first shown. There are about 4 or 5 lines of dialogue removed from it towards the end that would be considered a bit too much for TV, even though it went to further demonstrate the racist views of Constable Savage. The sketch was shown in about 1981 around the time of the Brixton race riots here in the UK. The SPG that he will be transferred to is the "Special Patrol Group" were a special riot squad who were accused of racial bias

[Keirodious]

About right.

[ZachValkyrie]

Do you get some kind of perverted gratification from going around stirring up trouble?

...Yes sir.

BEST LINE EVER!!!

[hunkydoryize1]

does anyone rember the songs on a cockney pub scene, send them back ,send them back they are nasty smelly and ---- very funny at the time but very ironic

[aczdc69]

Could do with a few like him in imagration now

[stripeytop777]

love this sketch, but don't get the bit about the hedgehog at the end. was it a hedgehog????

[johnedsel]

@stripeytop777

For its day, I think the material here cut a little too close to the bone here. There were real life policemen who would arrest a 'coloured gentleman' for no valid reason. It was called 'Stop and Search' and went on frequently in the late 70s/early 80s. I guess the writers threw in the silly hedgehog joke just to nullify any sense of reality in the sketch.

[fartybraindeath]

@stripeytop777 The hedgehog was a running joke in Not The Nine O'Clock News. I think it may have started with the song I Like Trucking.

[FelineGuitars]

@stripeytop777 It was a long running response to alleged complaints about animal cruelty in a sketch earlier in the series about truck driving called I Like trucking- look it up - the reference is early in the video. For weeks after the programme threw an odd hedgehog reference in

[SR388metroid]

First time I've seen a youtube video with over 10,000 views and no dislikes!

[Rora989]

Not the nine'o'clock news has got to be one of the all time great comedys ever put out in the UK

[blackmorton]

@Rora989 and others:

this sketch isnt from Not The Nine O'clock News, its from The Thin Blue Line

[Rora989]

@blackmorton No, It's from Not the nine o'clock news. Atkinson Played a member of the police force in both.

[DrJReefer]

@blackmorton No. It isn't. Thin Blue Line was years later when Atkinson had joined the establishment a bit. He wouldn't dare do something liek this now.

[supersesqui]

@blackmorton

OOOOOhhh nooo it isnt !!

[SnoocheeBoochees]

@blackmorton maybe you should do a little research before making yourself look like a twat in future.

[blackmorton]

@SnoocheeBoochees

wow...so i made a mistake on something i saw about 20 years ago, big fuckin deal. It's hardly a hanging offence. It's arrogant little dicks with fanny fright like you that makes this site the shithole that it is. You sound like the sort of spoilt little cunt that plays WoW.

[SnoocheeBoochees]

@blackmorton lol never have

[nickbaldeagle01]

"Looking at me in a funny way". In America that's grounds to be arrested at gunpoint.

[AngelArtists]

Classic!!!

[tomtesticle]

Is this the fore runner of Thin Blue Line?

[SpikeOT]

@tomtesticle No, it's funny ;)

[DarkAngel182]

Such was policing back in the 80s!

[Phils47]

Its a piss take of society, 30 years ago and still makes me laugh, Get a sense of humour its comedy of the highest class, not meant to be taken seriously. it was just topical at the time the same as all comedy even today

[ItsTurningGreen002]

one person has curly black hair and thick lips.

[VvAnarchangelvV]

#116: Behaviour capable of giving a person of reasonable firmness reason to fear for their safety.

Not funny, especially when one learns that that nebulous frame was a real law, used against the miners & Convoy, & punishable by 10 years. Still is, as afaik. All the cases were thrown out, tho, afaik.

Ok, I'll try for funny. "Did, on x / x / xx, conspire with other colored people to exist in such a manner as to compel me to utter language not befitting an officer of the law."

[hexhamman]

@VvAnarchangelvV 4 gods sake grow up it was a different time.

[mikechizuk]

Commander vimes and corpral nobbs ftw

[pawnsacrifice1]

the old Sus laws come to mind

[Ayeyuya]

With the News that Pc Simon Harwood the Murderer of the Newspaper seller at the G20 demos in London, got into the TSG even though He had previous for violence, just shows that, many a true word is spoken in jest.

R.I.P Ian Tomlinson

[pogobrooks]

absolute class

[1979LITTLEMISS]

Practicing for 'The Thin Blue Line'?

[gamerunknown]

What's the SGP?

[BojanglezDelite]

@gamerunknown - SPG = Special Patrol Group, a controversial police unit in the 70's - check out the wiki entry on them for more details

[BuzbyWuzby]

Constable Savage AKA Constable 'E'?

[9chicky]

haha...!! it's called "telling ppl about a painful truth in the most hilarious way"

[silverbullit733]

All officers of the Metropolitan Police should be required to watch this clip and also informed that it is not an arrestable offence to walk around looking 'over-confident'; I think Mark Thomas would agree with me on this point.

[EIN771]

@silverbullit733 i think the 52,000 employes of the met wouldnt appreciate that. Though you in your entire life have probably had bad experiences with maybe 1 or 2 met police you are willing to base the assumption that the other 52k are the same? - and awesome sketch!

[MrCuddy2977]

@EIN771 Trouble is, the SPG did have a reputation for being … overzealous … 

[Riffleruk]

@silverbullit733 I rather suspect the irony would pass them by.

[jackybuoy86]

@silverbullit733 As would Ian Tomlinson...

[likinghills]

he is a legend!

[number9scores]

If you say so sir!

[glitch91]

Awesome sketch!