Stanley Baxter - Parliamo Glasgow (The Market Sketch)

Stanley Baxter, one of the most under-rated comedy geniuses of Glasgow and indeed Scotland in what is Perhaps the most famous sketch from his comic language series Parliamo Glasgow and concerns a visit to a local market where he asks trader "Izatamarraonyerbarra, Clara?" He then translates it into plain English as: "Is that a marrow on your barrow, Clara?"

The brilliant sketches were a take on the traditionally dry language programmes made by the BBC such as Parliamo Italiano ("Let's speak Italian"). They showed well spoken English presenters cutting away from local conversations to explain the vernacular in wildly flowering terms and Part of the humour is the way the words are spelled, indicated in on screen captions which themselves went on to become bumper and window stickers.

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• glasgow glaswegian
• comedy
• humour
• humor
• funny
• sketch
• scottish
• scotland
• comedian
• bbc
• stanley baxter
• parliamo
• edinburgh