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  • british comedy is the best merry xmas everybody, no need for casual racism thank god we're a better society now!

  • I am black and this shit is real nigga.

  • @Freespirit8100

    I think you're missing the point. The joke was always on Alf- this wasn't racist comedy. This writing cleverly subverts the 'acceptable' racism of the 1970s and if you're anything to go btw that lives on today.

    So the joke is on you.

  • Loved this series and it should be on DVD. I totally agree with popvids40. Ethinics can be as racist as they like against whites but that's acceptable. This is all harmless fun and Alf Garnet is absolutely spot on about many subjects. I love his ranting and raving! Brilliant cast. PC is just pathetic now. I'm not racist and I'm into equal rights but I can take a joke and I've no offence to being called a 'bird' or hearing the word 'poof'. Get over yourselves and enjoy it!

  • @Freespirit8100

    hey it actually is on DVD my nanna got it for her bday (actually watched 1 ep last-night)

    no idea were it was purchased from maybe Jb-HiFi?

    cheers

  • Thank you so much for this one of the top programs back in the days of been able to say just what the fook to whoever when ever.And you know something WE ALL Got on just that little bet better than what we do now.Then if some little Shit was Trash in your car You could with out been knifed able to go an give the Twat a Slap

  • "stupid bitch" LOL

  • Europeans are not all the same, get a passport yank twat

  • Yeah we get it eibon81 you don't need to inform people of the obvious. Just like you didn't have to tell us you are a bent retard, we know

  • Hilarious he is !

  • @Se1taylor lmao! i love this show use to watch all the time in the uk, yes he is hilarious

  • The man who plays alf garnett is Jewish I think.

  • @Se1taylor Correct, Warren Mitchell. He was original name was "Mischell", but he changed it to make it more acceptable to English people.

  • Dereck Griffiths from play school/playaway.

  • @nige2046

    Thank you,...it's been to long...lol

  • this mix-race gezza is name is Derek something, somebody tell me what his last name is....PLEASE

  • With regards to the offensiveness of this....I have Asperger's Syndrome (a form of Autism) and am also gay-so you can IMAGINE some of the shite i've had to put up with....and it's still considered "acceptable" to use terms such as "retard" and "faggot" in many comedy films today! Besides, Alf Garnett is not taking the piss out of black and asian people...he's taking the piss out of himself-ie; white bigots and racist wankers.

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  • you're all missing the point .Speight was highlighting the contradictions of working class tories.Alf would never have a bad word said about the Queen,yet the ruling class kept him in (relative) poverty.

    Some idiots keep comparing this programme to something horrible like "Mind your Language" it bears no comparison.

  • are we all realy that fragile

  • Great Work

  • He's going to take a black man home to his wife for Christmas. Best present she ever got :D

    And wow, they could call a woman a stupid bitch back then. Even Archie didn't pull that one in the U.S.

    And they top it off with bloody Jew nose, coon. Damn. So this is the liberal bastion of European acceptance that my fellow Black friends around here are always telling me they want to move to.

  • @Yobachi2007 But this was nearly forty years ago! It's not acceptable now.

  • @mahler71 Not on tv. There's alot that goes on in this country that's not "acceptable" on tv.

    Point being if their society had less gumption about pushing these ideals on tv in Europe 40 years ago then was allowed here 40 years ago, your not convincing me they had such an enormous social change their that it's now such a bastion of greater racial acceptance than here.

  • @Yobachi2007 We didn't have the Ku Klux Klan.

  • @borgduck

    Yeah, you only invented racist neo nazi skinheads. Congratulations, cause that's much better.

  • @Yobachi2007 It IS much better. The Ku Klux Klan were much worse & killed thousands! Oh, & Hitler invented the Nazis.

  • @borgduck

    I said Neo Nazi skinsheads, not the Nazi's. If you don't know the difference, then your problem. You can run from fact if you want to, it'll still be fact.

  • @Yobachi2007 And those idiots were influence byn Nazi Germany. Originally the skinheads were influenced by Black style of dress & Ska music from the West Indies.

  • @Yobachi2007 And those idiots were influence by Nazi Germany. Originally the skinheads were influenced by Black style of dress & Ska music from the West Indies.

  • @borgduck Either way it's funny that we're here arguing of who's countries white folks have been the most racist. I don't care, I'm not sticking up for non of y'all. I'm just pointing out that the 'European Racial Utopia' muthafuckers over here talking that crap are full of shit.

    When the World Cup was in Germany 4 years ago, FIFA had to put out a warning to non whites traveling there to stay out of the country side for what might happen to them.

  • @Yobachi2007 I can't believe the swearing that was allowed in Britain back in 72!! Would never fly here in the US!!! Very ground breaking, this show and All In the Family too!

  • @2degucitas Yeah, I hear that European television is significantly more risque' as well, which means they must nearly have full blown porn on there since not a lot is left to the imagination here anymore.

  • @Yobachi2007 And some thought Mary Whitehouse was a prude and spoiling their good time! I think she was on to something!

  • @2degucitas Ditto on my other comment, to your obvious friend!

  • Oh How Rude

  • Does it work? Does it work? Only when de sun shines mister! Pure class! Des rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • That gets right up my nose! Well theres room isn't there?

  • This looks good, I will try to find some links. I watched the American version "All in the Family" which is very good too.

  • nice to see cherie blairs dad

  • Alf got done twice. At the beginning the barman said Al'fs change was 2 pounds and put the notes on the bar. The watch seller says 30 bob and grabbed the 2 pounds off the bar and didn't give Alf any change. He should have got 10 shillings back.

  • as it should be,tit for tat!

  • Where can I get tat and where do I exchange it for the other thing?

  • Yo mama

  • grifiki, you are an ignorant pre ambrian cunt

  • This show was written by Stalinists to break the british people. Very subtle and very clever using stereotypes and British Icons.

  • Classic

  • Its Swiss! None of your foreign rubbish.

  • This is irritating, not funny. I liked All In The Family better.

  • classic comedy boss!!!!!!!!

    thanks for posting!!!!!!!

    do you have series 7 with the " a hole in one" ?????

    with george best and roy castle???

    i want a copy so badly!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Barack Obama is one of Alfs Sambo's.

    I mean what kind of idiot would the USA elect? This Guy? Only when the Sun shines, mister...

  • good one, you dumb fuckin' canuck.

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  • bloody coon

  • Jew nose coon! Lol.

  • Brilliant stuff, no hidden agendas like todays shit PC society, everyone gave as good as they got and gained more respect by it, AND it was funny too, for both blacks and whites.

  • @BritAU2TH Well said mate :)

  • @ Brutal, cheers,

  • I owe my life to Derek Griffiths....if it wasnt for him i would surely have fried myself to death with 500.000 volts reaching for my frisbee that had accidently got stuck on an electricity pylon or suffocated under the rubble of an old deserted mining quarry whilst fetching my "mitre mouldmaster".

  • its shows like this that put a bad mark on british society but, this show reflected a lot of native british attitudes toward immigrants at that time that really makes me sad.

  • Derek Griffiths did an amazing job on this - particularly given when it was done. It is too bad that something like this would never make it to air today - most people figured out who was being sent up in this one. Those that didn't figure it out were the losers.

  • It was a great show but the language has no place in todays society.

  • what do u mean with that.. i mean am learning english and i'd tought that accent is from england.. isn't? english people don't speak like that? i like the accent sound pretty cool for me...

  • No the racist language you cant say paki,wog ect today in a multicultural society.

  • Nice to see Derek Griffiths - he was so versatile and had the capacity to become a big star. He's still going, but doesn't have the high profile he should.

  • Exactly he steals the scene here.

    He will probably be known for voice work he sung and voiced nearly every british educational show in the 80s.

  • And it really gives the lie to the received wisdom that the series was in some way racist. Alf was, but the series wasn't!

  • An Interesting fact for all you Americans .. the man in the chair at 2:58 is called Tony Booth, .. and his daughter ( Cheryl) married Tony Blair our former Prime minister, and good friend of George W Bush.

  • Yes , and his Great, great, great uncle (John Wilkes Booth) shot Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president.

  • I wish there was some closed captioning, because I would love to watch this but sadly, I can't seem to understand most of them because of their thick accents.

    I've heard this show is what started "All In The Family."

  • If only Warren Mitchell and Johnny Speight could see the comments below! How they would despair! Mitchell, on being congratulated for taking the **** out of coons, always replied that he was taking the **** out of racist morons like Alf Garnett.

  • I think they were congratulating Alf for speaking his mind,

  • I heard him say that in an interview. It's amazing how people miss the point. Alf was usually made to look foolish and reactionary by all the people around him and frequently the minorities he was predjudiced against.

  • That's right Dafyddoe. And, unfortunately, YouTube seems to have more than its fair share of racist morons also missing the point.

  • They recieved plenty of praise from BNP-types during the time the show was on air. They wouldn't be shocked, sadly.

    I've come to believe that a lot of prejudiced people knew they were being made fun of, but didn't really mind, because Alf wasn't really an exaggeration, he was an honest, down-to-Earth depiction of that sort.

  • So Funny

  • Political correctness isn't sophisticated or intelligent. It's just fearful of the truth.

  • bloody koon haha .. it would be good if the uk was still like this with none of this racist bullshit lettin pakis call us white trash and gettin away with it but if we call them pakis we'll get sent down for it.. =/

  • couldnt agree more,

  • I've heard you guys across the pond have been having a tough time with the political correctness trash. I'm sorry to hear that.

  • @Timesobserver No, we haven't. I mean, we don't have a RECENT history of entire communitie's in the South lynching African Americans.

  • No comments are bad in this people take the piss out of having no hair and having glasses just as on this so why when ya try takin the piss out of the black guy is it now all wrong it makes no sence people call people fat thats just as bad and if you say its not then you yourself are basically what people call rasists if its alight to take the piss out of one thing but not the other

  • LOL well im english despite my u tube name lol and we the english have pissed off majority of the world so we can expect it ..... from the time of queen victoria !!!

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  • Ha ha! Wouldn't be allowed to show this nowadays, there'd be a riot!

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  • See, this is brilliant. The whole program made fun of bigots, and racists, rather than blacks,wogs, ethnic minorities, call them what you will - they're still just people. I don't understand the point of getting upset about this material. Unless, of course, you don't understand it.

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  • Archie was a bigot with a good heart. Alf is simply awful, especially when he drinks.

  • been trying to get till death us do part dvd's for ages, are there any out there? Got all the in sickness and in health episodes/specials

  • And so the debate rages.

  • Every time i see this and of course remember it, i cannot stop laughing. What has happened to free speech and representation in this country. And i was Born here to immigrant parents in the East End, so no ignorant comments please because some of you just take it too seriously when all it ever was just Comedy and Entertainment.

  • Derek Griffiths, the legend!

  • archie bunker rules!!!!!!!

  • if people of different races could get along like this then it would be fine, but it isnt like that in reality is it. very rarely

  • Johnny Speight was one of the greatest dialogue writers of all time and Warren Mitchell is one of the best actors of his generation. This is a timeless. classic sitcom. Fearless, topical, it would not get within 1000 miles of broadcasting today and yet if you want an idea of what working life was like in England in 1972 then look no further. P.S. Derek Griffiths is wonderful in this scene, anyone who can compete with Warren Mitchell in a scene like he does is some performer

  • it's all about what you're used to hearing and saying I suppose. In Somerset "fancy a chinky?" means let's go get a takeaway from the Chinese restaurant. I said it infront of some Irish chaps in London in 2002 and they were quite shocked saying I was being racist. I was shocked too by their reaction, here it just means a takeaway Chinese meal. Funny old world.

  • you could never ever say words like coon and pakis in modern day british comedies.

  • Hi to all fan's of, In Sickness & in Health

    Just to let you all know that.

    In Sickness & in Health is on DVD

    The complete series 1

    The complete series 2 (released 22 sept 2008)

    The complete Christmas Specials (released 03rd Nov 2008)

  • Brilliant,thanks for the info....know what I'll be getting for Christmas!!!!

  • so which were the worst . pakkies ,coons , scousers or micks ?

  • go home bloody wog when tv was real

  • That show was to make the racists look stupid with racist jokes also but thats why it isn`t shown on tv today and rightly so.They should make a comedy about stupid racists.

  • bet you a jew jew nosed cockney coon ;)

  • how about that...a british ''all in the family''.

  • The British show came first: All in the family was based on this show.

  • ur a dumb cunt, archie bunker was based on alf garnett

  • absolute classic

  • the white kids are more influenced by black culture than english culture, hence their yardie influenced patois, "blood" etc..

  • trouble is we got little freckle faced nerds tryin to talk like souf african pimps.

  • spot on

  • Have you noticed something about political correctness and TV programmes like this?

    It's never black people who make complaints, it's always white people THINKING black people would be offended and speaking on their behalf.

  • very true

  • best news ive heard in ages

  • SIEG HEIL,,THE GOOD OLD DAYS

  • You silly jock cunt these programs were intended to take the piss out of people as ignorant as you!

  • How refreshing. A boot in the arse for the shagged up PC crowd and all their manufactured victims.

  • this is the england i miss..seig heil

  • A real racist once said to the writer Johnny Speight "we love how you make fun of them blacks and laugh at them" and he said "we're not laughing at them, we're laughing at you".

  • I remember dereck at school, a brilliant actor even then, I wonder what happened to him, I also remember him with Teenage theatre

  • excellent video

  • whatever happened to Derek Griffith? did he do play aways? i got to admit with that banter he would of made a brilliant del boy. spot on.

  • Derek is fucking amazing!

  • Derek Griffith, wow haven't seen him in years... fantastic

  • I think a lot of people are missing the point. Listen to the legend derek deliver that speech. No prompts, no cuts, just a star at work. I wish I was half the musician he is too.

  • Derek Griffiths always a class act

  • Sending up the racists is what this character was all about. Still banned by the leties though. Irony is obviously not in their pc handbooks. Sad indictment of the liberalist do gooders bending over backwards to negate this country and its history.

    Read between the lines, stop telling us all how we should think.

    Sorry about that. Rant over.

  • fuckin nig nogs

  • I just love his accent, sounds just like home!

  • still pure quality to this day.BLOODY COONS

  • BRILLIANT!!!!!!

    They don't make them like that any more!

  • Alf Garnett was a parody of racists.

    Ironically he had then been adopted as an idol for racists who didn't 'get it'.

    Warren Mitchell's characterisation of this character (meant to be pitied) is spot on.

  • ...And you are spot on with your analysis, so many people failed to understand the fundamental satirical nature of the show. The shows aim was to send up the racist and expose them for what they are.

    It was cleverly written and that was it's problem, it was probably too clever for it's own good...and it still is judging by some of the comments on here.

  • Multiculturalism = ethnic cleansing of the host nations indigenous population.

  • alf speeks the truth im from canning town and im 16 and the blacks indeans pakis cosofanse samialyZz takesn over and my dadcan remember when every shop was a white person and u might have 1 pakki as a doctor in like 3 different surgers if u ask me i fink its enocks falt for egttin dem ofer for workin on da busses and shop keepers but the influx was to great for eknock.. and they drove me away from canning town where i was bourn and bred and now im in the shitty subherbs !!!!!!!

  • u r thick

  • You stupid bastard JONESSWAN READ MY OTHER RECENT COMMENT !

  • Sorry we need all posts in English here. Can't understand a word you have written.

  • I never saw reruns of this when I was in England. They didn't rerun any of their sitcoms from the 70's. In the US they rerun every crapy show in perpetuity.

  • hey good upload i have 24 of the shows of this & the 2 movie spin off movie 1 TILL DEATH DO US PART 1969 & movie 2 The ALF GARNETT SAGA 1972

  • In a hundred years time school kids will be taught about these dark age times where certain words are out lawed.They won't believe that one word out of place can land you in prison. Enjoy this clip while you can

  • derek griffiths! give the man a knighthood!

  • God almighty, just look at some of you wankers getting so het up about something funny.

    As Bernard Manning so aptly put it; "You should never take comedy seriously."

  • bottom line is this, hes funny, and as much as certain people hate to hear it, what he says is true! end of.

  • people who say this programe is racist dont realise that the last laugh is always on alf garnett, so he looks like the fool.

  • they would never dream of making anything like this anymore,even though its very funny.

  • I think its absolutely hilarious. I'm no racist. Watch Derek Griffiths, he turns the tables on alf garnett having a good ole moan. It makes me smile as no one was scared what to say, un pc, great. I remember Derek in playschool,great entertainer, where is he now?

  • Hi. I live in the USA, and our beloved 1970's sitcom 'All in the Family' (and its lead character Archie Bunker) was based on this show. I've never seen it before-I thought all the tapes were 'wiped'? This is great. Thanks. :D

  • I've had black and asian friends my whole life except for the last 5 years or so. Im 41, we've drifted apart cos they are so bloody racist. Watching this has made me realise without thinking about it that all my current friends are white. That's just the way it is.

  • Try not to paint us all the same though judge eveyone on there character.

  • My friend i'm sure you're a lovely bloke but i speak as i find and you bloody blacks don't like us. So piss off back to where you come from. Only joking Sambo, you stay as long as you like.

  • Classic stuff. Racism and bigotry brought down and made to look ridiculous. Sadly today such is the climate of "political correctness" that comdedy of any sort is virtually impossible.

  • were not worried about it in any shape or form. you ask any 40 year old plus and they will say he was right. and bottom line is, hes hilarious. if you dont wana watch it, then change the dam channel or emigrate.

  • chew nosed coon hahaha, love it! levs45? truth hurts!!!!!!!!

  • 8988stacy, someone once went up to Johnny Speight (the writer of the show) and said to him and Alf "Yeah, that's right mate, I love how you take the piss out of them wogs!".

    Speight replied "no, mate, we're not talking the piss out of them, we're taking the piss out of people like you".

  • As Warren Mitchell always pointed out, you laugh at Alf not with him. He always ranted but came off second best all the time, as on this occasion with Derek Grithiths.Classic clip.

  • Don't worry about the feeling of racism it's done in a good humored way? However, if people can moan about racism, IMO, then sentiments about baldness, short-sightedness, obesity etc. should also be outlawed if racism is!

  • It was bad in those days but latter episodes of the show with the racism toned down and the politics more pointed and funny were actually alot more watchable and well written.

  • LOL! Classic! Love it :D

  • Thanks for posting! I wanted to see some of this, as in the U.S. our "All In the Family" is said to be similar to this--with a very prejudiced, but funny character. I'll be looking for more clips...

  • Yeh, I mean my grandad is awfully racist like Alf .. but it's just their generation.

    We're not like that today.

    (thankfully.)

  • I am.

  • I bet you fuck your mother too

  • The whole point of this comedey was to show up the bigoted side of a lot of the UK people at the time. Alf Garnett is always made to look like a complete idiot for his over the top views.

  • Hmmm, am I the only one who feels uncomfortable watching this? I loved Derek Griffiths though - Film Fun anyone?

  • No you are not alone, but I think the point is too make people feel uncomfortable about their prejudices.

  • Don't feel weird about watching this, I'm a 29yr old black guy, and I watched this show as a kid with my parents we thought it was brilliant, simply because it made Bigots look daft, and when you listen to Alf Garnetts theories, you realise how stupid they are.