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  • I bumped in to David Cann at Edinburgh Fringe a few years aback, in the bar at the Pleasance Courtyard. I asked him about this sketch and he said Julia Davis almost refused to film it as she found it so disturbing. She took quite a bit of coaxing to get it together.

  • julia davis is incredible

  • Overnight at the schoooooool! :)

  • Would have been funnier if it had simply dealt with the casualness of the parents in this age of over protectness. Their indifference to their kid's murder kind of killed any humour and ruined a good idea. Morris is better than that.

  • @flaxonx3 i disagree their callous indifference is the joke the part of it that makes it actually funny dealing with it 'simply' wouldnt have been funny and wouldnt fit in with the series which is demented boundaries pushing comedy genius. He isnt looking for something mainstream he is looking for something funny and clearly wants people who dont like the series to turn off

    I do think the Blue Jam radio version of this sketch which is a bit longer and has different music is superior though.

  • @mytimetravellingdog No it was funny at the start because their indifference to the boy not coming home from school was a joke in itself which pushes boundaries & isn't mainstream. To stretch the indifference to callousness kills the idea for me as it becomes like one of those exaggeration type jokes where you keep upping the ante by topping the previous exaggeration until it gets ridiculous & unfunny.

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  • I love this. It's not just dark comedy; it's an observation of how casual we are about people suffering by this point. Chris Morris, you are a freak, but you are also great.

  • Haha, wow, this is pretty sinister and powerful. Loved it.

  • Black humour at itss best.

  • This was pretty stupid. Where was the joke? You saw it coming from the beginning, there was no funny part.

  • @307am The "joke" is more of an observation of modern day paranoia, especially concerning children. Alot of Jam that this clip came deviates from the style of formulaic comedy we are almost addicted to and crave on main stream telly. This is much richer than that and isn't just comedy but also satirical and powerful. Jam is infinitely more original and nourishing to watch as a viewer.

    In my opinion Chris Morris was showing the absolute polarization of what happens in the modern western world.

  • I was told this skit was supposed to be really offending, so I was expecting too much. Would probably've been more fun if I didn't know what to expect.

  • Ah, satire. It's sad there are parents like this(to a lesser degree, obviously...I would hope)

  • 193 liks to 4 dislikes. ratioation station

  • This is NOT about The Mccanns: this was broadast in 2000, Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007!

  • This vs. Frankie Boyle = the steady death of Channel 4.

  • She is gorgeous. YSF

  • "[Chris Morris] seems to have gone into early retirement" - so Four Lions just shy of 6 months ago doesn't count? ;)

  • @TheRealDeadMedic Indeed...I don't Chris Morris will entirely go away for a long time yet, part of his style is to lay low for a few years working on projects you wouldn't even hear of and then come out with something like four lions which is bound to get everyone talking and then go off the radar again...its true there seem to be longer gaps but I'm sure we will be hearing from the talented Mr Morris again.

  • Lol such comedy genius!

  • I love the line "Thats a bit much"

  • this is also funny if you think of the parents as the Channel 4 executive board and their child as groundbreaking and original comedy

  • Absolute shit...nothing against risque comedy,but this just aint funny or relevant.

    Btw TheAmazingMeatMan your a fucking cock.Disgusting comment to make,you should be ashamed of yourself.Your obviously not a parent and will never know what hurt those two people are suffering...but hey anything for a cheap laugh eh ??

  • @gordonw01 This is very relevant. Gerry and kate mccann left there little girl home alone while they went drinking, this sketch is pretty much them in a nutshell. our just what we call a 'wanker' go away mr wanker no one likes you.

  • @keirarts30 Your a sad wanker.This is basically just a sketch about the MCcann's..get a fucking grip eh? Fucking fool.

  • @IglePigleLovesDisco oh dear oh dear! Sorry but I'm not buying the whole media furore over madeline mccann, parents have to sacrifice certain things for their kids, like not going out on the piss with friends while their kids at home alone. The sketch was made WAY before madeline mccann was nicked but it has certain errie similarities. Just thought i'd stick up for amazing meat man who made the point origionally... I'm sick to death of uptight sanctimonious tits who get uptight.

  • @keirarts30 Getting awful uptight just because my view on this video doesn't match your own....take my advice go out and get a ride,even if you have too spend your own money doing it.Ya sad prick.

  • @gordonw01 Just sticking up for amazingmeatman, I could care less if you like the video or not you were just a bit out of order with him for making what I felt was a fair comment. Sorry but I dont tow the media line on this one, I genuinelly think the mccanns had at least a portion of blam for what happened. Not one person I know would leave their kids alone to go out drinking while on holiday.

  • @keirarts30 Whatever you think about the MCann's parenting how can you consider that they would be so aloof about their own childs demise ??? They made a huge mistake..of which they will forever suffer...don't think people should try and get a cheap laugh out of them is all...lowest form of wit.

  • @gordonw01 So you're (notice the spelling/punctuation, fucknut) a parent, and think that leaving you daughter alone in a foreign country is O.K. - and I'M the cock???

    And why not have the balls to reply to my comment directly? I only saw this because someone else had replied to my comment - made over a year ago, and second-rated on this video, you notice - so most other people agree with me. And they'll also agree with me that you're a cocksucking piece of donkey shit.

    Props, keirarts10!

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan er, I meant keirarts30. Sorry.

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan And I also meant 'your daughter'. But, hey, at least I correct myself after making a mistake. Unlike gordonw01's parents, when they should have aborted him instead of going full-term.

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan

    Fuck you ya deplorable cunt.

    As you show know empathy towards people making mistakes ot their huge pain i'm guessing you'll die a sad and lonely old man never knowing what it was to feel love and be loved.

  • @gordonw01 I think the definition of 'deplorable cunt' is someone who did what the McCanns did. And no, I don't show empathy towards them, because what they did is something I'd never do.

    And it goes far worse than being a mere 'mistake'. I sincerely hope you never have children of your own. You have proved my point though, you R-tard - your parents made the mistake by not aborting you.

    I reckon a dead foetus would have more intelligence - and certainly better spelling - than you do. Cunt.

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan What a sad cunt you really are replying instantly...probably need to visit PC World again tomorrow wont you to purchase another keyboard after smashing yet another one up...take my advice...huv a drink,a smoke,and CHILL THE FUCK OUT ya fucking numptie.

  • @gordonw01 I was already online, you cocksucker. What would you rather me do, wait OVER A YEAR to respond to someone's comment, like you did?

    Not only that, but you did it in order to defend the McCanns. Grow up and get a life, you sad fuck. And buy a dictionary while you're at it.

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan

    Haha better buy another keyboard...Smash...smash...sma­sh...

    What a utter fud you are.

    AmazingMeatMan who calls themselves something like that ? Only a wanker of the highest order.

  • @gordonw01 Judging by your spelling, that must be how you type.

    The nickname comes from my taste in women - and before you say anything, if it wasn't for people fucking fat bitches, you wouldn't exist. I apologise to big women everywhere for using the term 'fat bitch', but nothing else adequately describes your mum.

    You only started all this is because you haven't got the balls to start a fight in the real world. If you did, someone might do the world a favour & slit your throat. Fuck off

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan

    So your a internet hardman eh ?

    And you make a derogatory remark towards women and wish for my throat to be slit not to mention make a very offensive remark towards my Mother.

    If you want to talk about Mother's perhaps yours shold have brought you up to show rspect and empathy towards your fellow man.Then again maybe it's not her falt and your just a born scumbag.

  • @gordonw01 You're the 'internet hardman' - starting a fight over nothing. The derogatory remark was about ONE woman - yo mamma, so don't twist it like a retarded bitch.

    My mum is an absolute cunt, but she obviously made a far better job of raising me than yours did of raising you.

    For the reasons above, you ain't no man.

    Wake up and smell the coffee, you cunt - you've lost the argument. Repeatedly. I can keep on owning you if you like, but you might start getting sick of it. You cunt.

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan Haha im the internet hardman am i ?

    I aint the one who keeps saying you aint got the balls to say this to my face blah blah blah.Truth is i would say any of this to your face ya fud.

    By the way "Yo Mamma" and "owning you" are you living in the ghetto's of Inglewood or Compton? If not stop talking like such a daft cunt.

    Done with you.

  • @gordonw01 No, that's because I don't go starting fights over the internet - though I do tend to finish them. You're a case in point.

    The 'ghetto slang' is for someone who claims to be 30, yet obviously has the mental age of a 10-year-old - I'm just trying to use language that a simpleton like you would understand.

    You're only done with this because you FINALLY realise that you've lost. Well done, cocksucker. Now go back to your sad little life flaming people, you troll motherfcuker!

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan Wibble Wibble...dry yer eyes oot ya sad prick haha.

    And stop fantasising about cocks.

  • @gordonw01 I have no desire to fantasise about cocks. And even if I did, I've been having a YouTube comment argument with one for what seems like forever.

    Here's a 3-step plan for you - yes, YOU! - to make the world a brighter place:

    1. Shut the fuck up, to avoid embarrassing yourself further;

    2. Fuck off;

    3. Kill yourself, to rid the world of your outstanding ignorance and ape-level wit.

    Trust me, the world won't mourn a fucknut like you.

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan As all you have is the same regurgitated responses i thoughti'de just copy and paste the same shit you say each time and aim at back at you knobo

    1. Shut the fuck up, to avoid embarrassing yourself further;

    2. Fuck off;

    3. Kill yourself, to rid the world of your outstanding ignorance and ape-level wit.

    feel likending this anytime soon ?

  • @gordonw01 I can go on forever, cuntpiece - just ask that absolute whore you call Mum (or probably 'mom lol wtf').

    As well as being the only correctly-spelled thing you've posted, the fact you've chosen to copy and paste what I've said just shows that you've literally run out of things to say.

    You started this, I'll finish it. Mark my fucking words on that, you worthless rent-boy. Just spare a thought for all the people only viewing this video for a laugh, and not wanting to read your shit

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan I merely copy'n'pasted yout vitriolic words back at you because it seems to be the only language you understand..yor own.

    If we can go back to how this all started regarding the McCann's.They made a huge error in judgement,the biggest of their lives and are now suffering every single day of their lives for it.If you can imagine going through that hell every single day of knowing your Daughter is probably dead and probaby suffered an agonising death

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan and all they probably want to do is end their own lives but they can't because theyhave to be strong and try and give their other children as normal and happy a life as possible,if you considered all that then maybe just maybe you would have a iota of sympathy for them.Though i doubt it,you seem incapapble of any sort of empathy.

    This will be my last comment because i have better things to do than reply to your nonsense.So congratulations you will see this as a "win"

  • @TheAmazingMeatMan And that is clearly very important t you to get the last word and be seen to "win" an arguement.

    So the platforms all yours...try and make it a good one.

    Oh and see if you can write a response without your usual playground insults and profanities.You are supposedly a 30 year-old man,though you talk like a 13 year old.

    There's nothing you can say to me to make me feel worse than i already do anyway,so fill yer boots.

  • @gordonw01 That poor little girl is probably suffering Christ knows what at the moment (if she's still alive), so her parents deserve everything they get. I have immense sympathy for parents who have their children abducted in other ways - BUT NOT WHEN THEY LEAVE THEM ALONE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

    I wouldn't go through that, because I wouldn't leave my daughter alone like that.

    And you haven't seen better than to reply to my 'nonsense' so far. You stuck up for the very real definition of

  • @gordonw01 irresponsible parents. You did it in the form of responding to a comment on a YouTube video that was made OVER A YEAR AGO. You did it with the spelling of a dyslexic 5-year-old, and all you've been able to do is just repeat my insults back to me (and repeating the bit about being 30 - verbatim - shows that you've become incresingly desperate to back your point). And don't forget you started with the insults. Forgotten that, have we?

    You started this. And I don't have to have the

  • @gordonw01 final word over you to prove I've won the argument. The very fact that you're trying to defend the McCanns means you lost a long time ago, no matter how badly you put your arguments across.

    I'm not surprised I can't make you feel any worse than you do already - not if you read the above and realise what a monumental cunt you've been.

  • @gordonw01

    That guy is a callous , dribbling thicko and you clearly made a decent moral argument.

    It's shite that he thinks his pathetic hateful opinion triumphed , but he probably has no life and his only mates are scum like him.

    Keep fighting the idiots!

  • @samueltouchdown1 Thank you.I'm actually a fan of Chris Morris and his comedy but the cheap digs at the MCcann's were out of order.As you say the guy showed himself up to be nasty and deluded.

    Cheers

    Gordon

  • He probably just decided to stay overnight at the school....

  • yeah pretty sure thats him.

  • I think this is one of the easier to understand Jam sketches

  • The part where she casually tells him to mention the blues glasses, while checking her appearance, actually made my spine cold.

    Which I'm grateful for, as its terribly warm in this room.

  • What are the tunes in this clip, yeah?

  • One is by Brian Eno and it's on the Trainspotting soundtrack

  • that woman is so sexy.she's pretty funny as well. I reccommend her 'humain remains' series with rob brydon.

  • Jam rules.

  • The glasses make him look quite studious lol. I find it odd that I laughed amongst the horrible situation

  • "I'll have a word with him next time I see him" lol genius.

  • "Sounds like he was buggered pretty hard and then strangled"

    "That's a bit much"

    LMAO

  • So dark....

    I love it!

  • Love the way she goes "ooo" when he tells her they've found a body.

  • lol very dark

  • One of the darkest of all Jam sketches and one of the best.

  • the one with the estate agent was pretty rough too lol. bagpiping ?..yeah agreed though.

  • im sure on blue jam the kids 5 or 6

  • Probably. If you remember the "hitman" sketch they aged up the child in that one as well - in Blue Jam she says "I'm only four," in Jam she says "I'm only six"

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  • Great shirt maaaan, goes with the hair, glasses and sideburns. Oh yeah, how's that kid of yours that got raped and murdered? Bummer wasn't it. Fancy another Bollinger?

  • @rubbishycrap

    Thanks for explaining the sketch.

  • yeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

  • This is so funny, but it also makes you go all cold inside. Fantastic comedy; Chris Morris is an unfathomably dark and brilliant man

  • How, in the space of ten years, did Channel 4 go from doing groundbreaking, risque comedy like this, Father Ted, Brass Eye and Adam and Joe to comically spastic wank like the Friday/Sunday Night Project and the TNT show? You know you're in trouble when your strongest comedic output is two panel shows (You Have Been Watching and 8 out of 10 Cats).

    Sorry for the rant, but it just makes me so angry. I hate the TV regulator bullies and incompetent Channel 4 bosses for killing off great comedy. >:-(

  • i agree

  • @NotHomelessAnymore Couldn't agree more

  • @NotHomelessAnymore although, Charlie Brooker is fucking great, You Have Been Watching is his weaker show, but it's still funny. I wish Chris Morris could do some more shows.

  • @TheRandyChimp Yeah, I wasn't too keen on his Alternative Election Night YHBW, but Screenwipe is still good. Brooker is not bad as a columnist and a satirist, but not so great at presenting/appearing in panel shows and the like. Interestingly, in the 1997 election Channel 4 had the vastly superior Election Night Armistice. Replacing Armando with Jimmy Carr seems like more evidence of slipping standards. I know Carr is popular, but he has a habit of mistaking snideness for actual humour.

  • @NotHomelessAnymore I sort of agree, Jimmy Carr makes me laugh, but only because he's saying what I'm usually thinking, and that amuses me.

  • @NotHomelessAnymore

    >Implying Father Ted was groundbreaking or risque.

    Father TED. Now that would have been groundbreaking.

  • @NotHomelessAnymore Totally agree. I guess original comedy takes a lot of time and money; but panel show's can be produced for nothing- you just need some desperate celebrities and perhaps a few hack comic writers who can churn out double meaning jokes!

  • @NotHomelessAnymore Aside from Chris Morris's stuff, Channel 4 has never been good. So the question isn't really "why is channel 4 so shit now?", it's "why has Chris Morris stopped bothering?". Take Chris Morris out of the equation, and Channel 4 is doing pretty much the same thing it did 10 to 15 years ago; showing Friends over and over again.

  • @DrChalkwithering Maybe not all of C4's comedy was perfect, but it was never as populist and dumb as it is now. Their last decent comedy was Black Books, which ended six years ago.

    I agree with what you say about Chris Morris though. He seems to have gone into early retirement since that misfire with Nathan Barley. He got a minor credit (I don't think he did much at all) on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle which aired on -you guessed it- BBC2. :-)

  • You, sir, clearly don't remember Channel 4 on Friday nights from 1993 to 1999. At 9:30 was Friends, then at 10:00 was some other spastic American sitcom (it started out as Ellen, then later on it was Will and Grace).  Then at 10:30 it was, you guessed it, another spastic American sitcom; Frasier. Followed then by Chris Evans' TFI Friday.

    And this was their flagship prime time line up.

  • @DrChalkwithering

    My wife has just reminded me of 'Drop the Dead Donkey', which was brilliant, so I take some of this back.

  • @NotHomelessAnymore I did like Adam and Joe's footballs song 'Footy' though.

  • @NotHomelessAnymore Nathan Barely was fucking brilliant, its good to see Chris moving with the times with a very contemporary satire. I think though unless you've had first hand experience of that shoreditch/east london scene its hard to fully appreciate it.

  • @NotHomelessAnymore People lost any sense of intelligence and culture, I blame the pansy liberals who voted for New Labour and Tony Blair.

  • @NotHomelessAnymore Probably because they are too worried about it 'offending' somebody...terrestrial TV is so pants because producers just go for the safe options too much....

  • @coveneyr It is worth remembering that this nearly never got shown.

    Channel 4 gave Morris free reign and he came back to them with Jam

    I wonder if half of it was deliberately biting the hand that feeds him (he was very pissed off with CHannel 4 at some point putting that frame into brasseye that youtube would filter out) by making something utterly genius but with zero commercial appeal. Literally. when it was shown they could not get advertisers for it so showed in late at night with no ads

  • @mytimetravellingdog

    That's not true, Chris Morris specifically requested that no ad breaks be incorporated into the show. Primarily because he didn't want the atmosphere ruined by screaming ads.

  • @NotHomelessAnymore Totally, I mean Tramadol Nights and The Morgana Show - WHAT THE FUCK? Poor imitations of this touch of genius

  • Chris Morris, you brilliant, funny fucker.

  • awesome lol

  • They found a body love

    ohhh!

  • Actually I think you'll find on a lot of levels it's worryingly accurate

  • ....

    "that was a bit much...."

    - so funny i damn near choked on my water

  • the track from around one minute is by brian eno its from the Apollo missions album its on youtube

  • I think it's Deep Blue Day, it was in Trainspotting when Renton dives into the toilet after his suppositories.

  • this is so wrong but yet so hilarious.

  • Hilarious- but I can't seem to find the guy who wishes to see his own funeral...

  • does he have a car? good its terribly rainy. hahaha

  • Can't they bring him around?

  • does anyone know what the track is at the END of this sketch? it plays until the very end. thanks

  • STAB STAB STAB THE CHILDREN

  • What does she say at the end "Ive always thought he was bit of a . . . . "??????

  • twit

  • this new format youtube uses is shit!

  • this is going to give me nightmares...

  • Apparently he was buggered quite a lot.

  • you have to love this twisted weird style he is using but which somehow reflects with precision our world. bravo.

  • He he he. Delightful stuff.

  • Reality (ie The McCanns) is more disturbing than even this...

  • Why isnt there more Morris and Ianucci on TV

  • Chris Morris has been exiled from tv, no one will have coz everytime he does something someone gets on the moral bandwagon and causes a fuss, as Chris Morris once said 'some people just can't take a fucking joke!'

  • He was on TV 2 weeks ago, you plum.

  • you are a total spastic hes still around writing and appearing in comedies.

  • Yeah this is true, but he's not allowed to do a project like jam or brasseye where he has nearly full control because every time he does, someone starts bitching. And im not a spastic, I have full control of my legs, however I have grown 30 testicles on my back in the past 24 hours, wanna suck them?

  • Soooooo dark!

  • Genius, pure genius!

  • "They've found a body love, yah " This is my favourite part of Jam along with Mr Lizard

  • my friend has parents like this. we went on holiday camping when we were 16 and when we got back his mam asked very casually where he'd been even though we had been planning it at his house for a few months before.

  • speaking as a murdered child of entirely indifferent parents, i must say i find this sketch hilarious

  • It really isn't, you absolute cockwhiff.

  • lol, you got 10 thumbs down for an obvious joke

  • Joking aside... speaking of dispairing.

  • So you think this is essentially an advert for child abduction. Wow, I guess al you have to do is turn on the television to see firebreathing pteradactyles machine gunning random pedestrians and your kalaedoscopic vision of the modern world will be complete.

  • Where?!? Fire breathing dinosaurs? Shouldn't be allowed! Whoever armed them should be strung up! I'm writing to the Daily Mail to tell them I'll be writing to my MP to raise a question in parliament on the issue of making the arming of flying lizards illegal.

  • Buggery, I wonder weather they'd have to pay tax. It's one rule for us and another for pyrokinetic aviating lizards.

  • ponkyponk? You could have put more thought into your username! Just joking.

  • "I'll have a word with him next time I see him." HA HA!

  • The first song was Deep Blue Day by Brian Eno.

  • i was told about this and apparently it was the darkest thing ever but for some reason i dont feel darkened by it?

  • The scary thing is, given the billions and billions of people living on this planet, it's a mathematical probability that a couple like this really do exist in the developed world (!)

  • Yeah, they're calld Gerry and Kate McCann.

  • God, I never realized!! You're right!! :D

  • Oops, I didn't realise till now that Odessii had put a similar comment about 3 months ago! I'm not a plagiarist, honest - it was my own thought. Though I can't imagine anyone NOT hving that thought, really. I clicked the 'thumbs up' on his comment to sort of make up for it. And I can't believe that I misspelled 'called'...oh dear. Not good.

  • No worry, it just shows you're as witty and clever as Odessii. Kudos to you!

  • Cheers.

  • Haha, too right!!!

  • Yeah it is believable that a couple like this might actually exist, given what upper/middle class people are like these days...

  • It's unbelievable that people like you exist given what logic and reason does to prevent social prejudices.

  • im confident they do exist lol...i've come across a few

  • they've found a body

    how about banging him in a cab

  • Chris Morris is a genious! I wish he made more of this, it's amazing.

  • Somebody should upload the clip with the canned laughter, that was hysterical!

  • Hang on a mo, I thought it was a genuine laugh track they recorded at a screening... I'll have a look at the dvd...

  • No, you're probably right. It does sound a bit suspect...

  • that was an edit of various clips of jam for a film festival and the recording of people's reactions was recorded as the audio track..

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Kate and Gerry McCann!

  • HAHAHA great sense of humour

  • genius, thats exactly what I was thinking when watching this! does that make us bad people?

  • yep

  • this has just been clicked as favourite , genius

  • "Apparently he was buggered quite a lot and then strangled."

    "Thats a bit much."

    Always gets me.

    Why does CM only ever make one series of something whilst shit like 'Two pints of lager & a packet of crisps' just runs & runs & runs. No justice in this world!!!

  • Probably because making good original stuff is harder than making formulaic rubbish. Or maybe something to do with Jam being incredibly disturbing and surreal.

  • I'll have a word with him the next time i see him.

    Absolute gold!

  • David Cann is immense - I love his delivery of "Ohhh well I'm pretty sure that's him!"

  • So painfully familiar, but then, that's what makes it so much like an exagerrated image of real people, and therefore funny to me.

  • Apollo by Brian Eno, don't know what album it's from but it was used in Trainspotting.