Not the Nine O'Clock News Songs of Praise

[yo1659]

its weird to see mr.bean shout

[paullavan2011]

This is immortal. You ask anyone (of a certain age) and they will laugh as soon as this is mentioned, as well as 'Winston Kodogo'; 'there's no GRAMMOPHONES here grandad'; and also Gerald the Gorilla with 'When a Star is Born' blaring out at all hours', amongst others. True greatness.

[alcockell]

To be pedantic, this would be more accurately described as the Morning Worship slot, which, at the time, carried the full sermons.

[gudskyld]

@alcockell If you had lived in Britain for any length of time, you would have discovered that Songs of Praise is a BBC television show which visits local churches and broadcasts a live special service on Sunday morning...hence the joke about parishioners coming to get a chance to get seen on television...

[alcockell]

@gudskyld Songs of Praise USED TO do live OBs, but haven't done for a while now. It's more of a magazine programme now, with recorded inserts between the worship songs. hasn't carried a straight servikce including sermoln slot for a while now. yhes, the live services were carried under the SOP. brand and done by the same team, but the actual SOP. slot is viewed as entertainment by BBC mgt now.

[zeesta13]

See, I would go to church if Rowan Atkinson was the priest. And I'm an Atheist!

[arbeitsscheuer]

@zeesta13 That is exactly what I was thinking :)

[x50calgibby]

l just love the whole sketch and cn recite most of it off pat classic

[madbint]

I laughed SO HARD at this; it never gets old...this is why I adore this man. Mad respect for him. Waiting for the day he gets knighted... :)

[ib9rt]

No to hell with it, we'll sing hymn no. 387, "Good Christian men rejoice, the Beeb are back in town!"

[ib9rt]

But you trot along in your nasty little suits, and my God didn't the hat shop do well this week? You come swanning in here, sitting on pews that haven't seen your bum or any bum in a month of Sundays. You don't know whether to sit, kneel or stand, you're up and down like a whore's drawers. Christ was right wasn't he? When two or threee are gathered together in my name the service can't be on television.

[ib9rt]

And the week before that--Harvest Sunday--there were three of us: myself, the organist Mr. Posner, and a tin of spaghetti. Where were you bastards then? Sitting on your fat agnostic arses in front of Holiday '82 I should think, watching the reverend Cliff Michelmore preaching on sun tan availablity in the Algarve. Well not tonight eh, oh no, not when there's a chance of getting your fizzog on the goggle box.

[ib9rt]

Good evening. Songs of Praise this Sunday comes from our lovely old parish church of St. Stephen in the heart of the West Country, and I welcome you all to our simple service. You join a full congregation of local people who have come to worship tonight. Indeed it makes quite a change to have so many here, because it wasn't quite the same story last week, for instance, was it? Last week the congregation numbered seven; four of whom had turned up a week early by mistake.

[quizman1967]

Good Christian Men Rejoice...

the Beeb are back in town!

Classic sketch.

I liked the line "the organist, Mr Posner"; Geoff Posner was a director on the programme.

[gibsosgerbil]

Do You Think It's From "Mr Bean?"

[arwelp]

ROFL. It's "the beeb" (BBC)

[Gjkl345]

The beiber back in town?!?!? Wait, what? Is this recent? I thought I was watching monty python. Can someone help elaborate my American-addled mind?

[Mr5D1074]

@Gjkl345 This is not Monty Python this is Not The Nine O'Clock News its just as good.

[MrLuckyyellowsocks]

I'd forgotten how good some t.v programmes were. More channels equal more crap.

[markusboyd3]

The beiber back in town!!

[jonnyirwin666]

sitting on your fat agnostic arses!

[MrRandomanimation]

your up and down like a whores draws

[graceygrumble]

1982? Hell time flies! Nearly 30 years.

I feel old now.

[mechislander]

omg my parish is St Stephen's too!

[julian185]

this is one of the best monologues in the history of acting...writing and delivery....

[gibsosgerbil]

Do You Think Justin Bieber Stars In The First TV Show Of Songs Of Praise When He Swears Too Much?

[KitttyNinja]

Not the nine o'clock news has to go on my top 3 comedy shows, along with Morecambe and Wise and Blackadder!

[colavfc70]

myself the organist and a tin of spaghetti. lol.

[savethesnail]

HMM, Which is better? Gavin and Stacy or Blackadder?

Lee Nelson's well good show or the nine o clock news. oh i just can't fucking well decide, it's such a tricky choice, comparing low brow, populist nonesense to sharp, witty and hysterically wonderful classic comedy. how will i decide !??

[HoosierMF]

@savethesnail Blame the BBC.  No wonder people aren't paying the license fee

[gallafey]

@savethesnail well there's one way to find out FIIIIGHHHT!

[videogamenostalgia]

@savethesnail Thank God you were being sarcastic. You have no idea of the things I was going to say to you after reading that first line...

[0866trainsEWS]

very funny and great

[Dristarg]

Reverend Blackadder.

[xwill11lfcx]

why was i born in the generation of gavin and fuckin stacey and mr.bean, and missed out on true comedy genius. such a good observation played to perfection by atkinson

[wereallBOB]

You're up and down like a whore's drawers!! LOL!! Gotta love a bit of Rowan Atkinson :')

[Claxton2000]

dose any one have the script for this

[Poppy0109]

Yay! Very good! :)

[IanGorton]

Where were you Bastards then? LMAO Classic

[aeduna]

Ah! I have heard a version of this that is about the Pope in a Catholic church... its the same Rowan Atkinson bit at the start, but then it has the Pope talking (including telling a joke in English while not understanding it) and awful ad jingles ("be the first, in your in crowd, to wear a t-shirt of, the Turin Shroud...")

[myquill23]

His timing in his delivery is impeccable.

[TheKismet247]

can someone please tell me what Rowan Atkinson said?thanks.

[X3rztesp]

myself , the organist and a tin of spaghetti...

WHERE WERE YOU BASTARDS THEN ????

XD XD XD should see his face when he said that...

[Rutle]

I love this, brilliant acting.

[paolocabling]

Is he Father Bean? hahaha

[Kidsgrove49]

I love "Rowan's Rants", and this is none of the best........

[FizzyDizzy12]

i lol'd so hard!

[fisarad]

silvi01977

what rubbish you talk. how christian is the uk? how many people attend church? belive in god? how is the uk under attack? we can gamble, drink alcohol, be gay / not, have abortions etc. we're really being made muslim aren't we?

[Se1ander]

@fisarad

What?

Demand explation please.

[ChrisLovesOasis]

"You're up and down like a whore's drawers!"

Such an amazing saying.

I have both of the "best of" DVD's and it still never becomes outdated.

I wish we spent more time producing quality work like this nowadays than stuff like the woeful "Coming Of Age".

[ednuttah]

And how many will be attending tonight at Midnight? Never step foot in a church for 364 days of the year then pop their heads around the door at 11pm and hope they some how manage to escape the colletion plate! Ironry nothing but pure Ironry.

[3kour]

irony.......

[rogiet3]

In the cinema when the Mr. Bean's Holiday was shown except for a few people the cinema was empty. Where were all the cinemagoers Rowan must have been asking.

[markus1357]

"WHERE WERE YOU BASTARDS THEN?!"

[chelseylizzie]

sunday morning any english church finding a seat won`t be hard

[Mojosbigstick]

Sad, sad but true.

[bulked]

nothing sad about it-the C of E is a moraly bankrupt spineless shower of weak asses with no conviction

[silvi01977]

The only problem is that the super-secular and super-tolerant British have taken their eyes off the ball for so long they're losing their country to a radical strain of Islam.... the leftists who destroyed the country's heritage may have got one over on the C of E but their next opponents are much tougher... best of luck with that!

[bulked]

you idiot

[silvi01977]

Well bulked just won the argument... he/she/it is obviously of a liberal persuasion to use such rapier debating skills.

Kiss your country goodbye!

[TheSpankymonkey]

"they're losing their country to a radical strain of Islam" - Nice of you to have such opinions about what we are, or are not doing in our own country Mr. Perhaps you should concern yourself with reality, rather than what you read on your so called "American news sources". Sure there are muslims in our country, so what? They hardly do anything more than make a load of noise from time to time. As for me, i am quite free to be as English as i ever was without any problems so what is your problem?

[PatroclusII]

Classic....

[iamthestig7]

Where were you bastards then ?!!!!! LOL !!!!

[AceripXF]

omg that was funny and very HOT omg! *fans self* *bows to the sex god*

[Rocky75555]

Very good. Again, such a good idea

[bamseescratch]

up and down like a whore's drawers!!!!!!!

[WJCairns]

just brilliant, we just don;t get comedy like this any more, just sex 'n games punctuated by swear words

[why1so1serious1]

the gogle box ;d hahahahahah

good christain men rejose the beb are back in town :d

omg so funny :d

[Leviwosc]

Good evening, songs of praise this Sunday comes from our lovely old Parish church of Saint Steven in the heart of the West Country and I welcome you all to our simple service. Join a full congregation of local people who have come to worship tonight, indeed it makes quite a change to have so many here.

[Leviwosc]

Because it wasnt quite the same story last week, was it? Last week the congregation numbered: seven, four of them had turned up a week early by mistake. And a week before that, Harvest Sunday, there were three of us, myself, the organist: Mr. Posner and a tin of spaghetti.

[Leviwosc]

Where were you bastards then!? Sitting on your fat agnostic arses! In front of Holiday 82 listening. Watching the reverent Cliff Mitchell Moore, preaching on suntan availability in the Algarve! Not tonight, oh no, not if you get chance to get your fizzog on the goggle box, trot along in your nasty little suits and my God didn't the hat shop do well this week!

[Leviwosc]

You come swanning in here, sitting on pews that havent seen your bum or any bum in a month of Sundays. You dont know whether to sit, kneel or stand. You're up and down like a whores drawers. Christ was right, wasnt he? When two or three are gathered together in my name, the service can't be on television. Well to hell with it, we'll sing hymn number 387, Good Christian Men rejoice, the Beeb are back in town.

[EmLin000]

there were three of us. Me, the organist, and a tin of spaghetti.

LMAO XD

Rowan Atkinson is really good :D

[smhorse]

LMFAO

[Lyvanda]

LMAO! ...up and down like a whore's drawers! Fantastic!

[Finnishbastard]

WHERE WERE YOU BASTARDS THEN?!!

[idmig1]

the beeb...another name for the BBC

[Ghislain753]

Thank you! ^^

[Ghislain753]

What's the last thing he said? "Good christian men rejoice... The b... (?) back in town?"

[Henouk]

beeb

[mrala123]

2;03

[frtw4428]

One of the funniest sketches ever made! Rowan Atkinson at his best! Bring back NTNON - one of the best comedy shows I've ever seen.

[Sasshh88]

love these old settings...love atkinson... too bad we hav none of deese now...

[bbraaas007]

Rowaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan (L

[ardfionstep]

whatever happened to shows like this,

[Kalavere]

I believe they were replaced with such delights as X-Factor, and Britains got Talent.

How lucky we are.

[worldwar2madman]

@Kalavere I would've given anything to have this on my TV now. You lucky bastards to have this back in the days as you put it! I'm so jealous.

[MrThreshold2009]

@worldwar2madman You're wrong! Our generation has the Kevin Bishop show, Which is unmitigated shite! Actually, I see your point.

[RonoAndrews]

I actually love his facial expressions here

[BarbaraFanDallas]

Its still funny 27 years after it was first shown

Loved NTNOCN when i was a school kid!

[Hikstar8]

LOL how does a tin of spaghetti get in a church lol funny as

[adamwhair]

harvest sunday...

thats why its there

[qinmoy]

It might have turned up a week early.

[renofheaven]

HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

WHERE WERE YOU BASTARDS THEN!!!!

Can a priest say that???

[droneXA]

WHERE WERE YOU BASTARDS THEN!!!!

[rockchick80s]

Used to love watching this show - really funny!!!

[GuttzBlood]

SITTIN ON YOUR AGNOSTIC ARSES!! Truely hilarious.

[GayGeisha]

This is unbelievably funny. I haven't laughed that much in ages.

[moseby9]

brilliant video! never gets old

[Karine15]

"WHERE WERE YOU BASTARDS THEN?!" I found this halarious!!!

[maurice]

We all knew how accurate this was and kept taking about it for years. Hee hee.