It'll Be Alright On The Night

[jobotic]

My favourite IBAOTN clip was of a very serious looking soldier entering a room in which there was some sort of emperor or supreme leader, and clicking his heels and saying

"Your excellency..."

[nanosecond of a pause and the realisation that he's forgotten his line]

"....FUCK"

without ever breaking character.



It was great that. I often think "Your excellency....FUCK" to this day.

[the science eel]

I like that one with Peter Sellers farting in a lift and everybody cracking up

[Twonty Gostelow]

Everyone likes the classic sheepdog scooting along the grass to scratch its jacksy while its owner mimes to a terrible Welsh song about hiraeth, hwyl, and cawl with a lump of stale cheese.

Then there's the tourism officer promoting Scarborough or Bognor or somewhere as a superior choice to going abroad who says at the end of the interview, "And if you believe that you'll believe anything." Would that happen in today's cancel culture? 

The road safety officer praising the lack of accidents just before a car crashes into the back of another in the background.

And Special K's avatar, of course. Which I especially liked because the bloke saw the funny side, unlike the road safety officer above.

[JesusAndYourBush]

I recently found a load of vids of VT department Xmas tapes, and mistakenly downloaded them thinking there'd be some golden outtakes in there. There might well be a couple buried in there, but unfortunately Xmas tapes tend to consist of:

The best two I've seen are White Powder Christmas (1978) & Good King Memorex (1979) which in the 80's/90's were also the most widely circulated - by Dr Who fans - on account of the number of Dr Who-related clips in them.  When Aunties Bloomers started I remember the first few episodes borrowing heavily from those two Xmas tapes.

Don't suppose you mean this   https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/hfx2yt/greatest-ever-movie-blunders--series-2-episode-2/     ?

I think that was the one.  It was on something like Channel 4 or 5 at around 11pm-ish.  The scant description in the guide made me think I was going to see hilarious bloopers, but what I saw was pathetic pedantry on a par with someone's wineglass being at different levels when the camera changed angle.  I thought it was a pisstake at first so had to watch for a few more minutes to realise it was deadly serious.


And talking of clips we remember... Harry Secombe on Highway saying "Mary Queen of Spots" then adding "Patron saint of measles" and blowing a raspberry.

[Bad Ambassador]

ITN's Colin Baker moaning in the rain.

Brian Blessed failing to get a Palm Pilot to work and calling it an "automatic wanking machine".

An intense scene from a foreign soap opera, where the male actor's flys are just gaping open.

[Andy147]

It was on in the background and I didn't recognise it as the same programme.

Does Robert Webb still do that thing with "mistakes and bloopers" in films. Ones that you'd have to study every frame of a film to find.

In this shot the green toothbrush is leaning slightly in front of the nail scissors, but in the next one it's the nail scissors that are in front of the toothbrush! This won an Oscar!!

No, in one of his RHLSTP interviews he talks about how he stopped after about 4 series, and how another actor told him he'd hated him for making them.

[Satchmo Distel]

Nordern wrote a soft porn script as "Roy Nicholas": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070659/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_40

'It'll Be Alright On The Night' 1-4 were each two years apart so there was a recognition that you wouldn't have enough material to do them annually, yet today there's a pretence that you can do tons of them.

The BBC nadir was surely 'Antie's Sporting Bloomers', which overstretched the original concept that was a few clips at the end of each 'Sports Personality Of The Year', which itself was like a video version of Colemanballs. Even the producers must have known that you can do a very funny 5 minute clip compilation every year (and some of those 'Sports Personality Of The Year' were very good indeed) but anything longer than that is going to be cringeworthingly bad. Wogan always looked embarrassed when he was presenting.

World Of Sport 1983 Xmas Tape isn't bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwP7xp8CnoU&ab_channel=BILLYKARLOFF

[robhug]

One of the few things I can remember my old man laughing at in my younger days was IBAOTN and Dave Allen.

Clips that stick out:
The egg farmer explaining that "the secret to a good lay is a firm bottom"

Interviewer being told by a little black american girl of about 5 from Mississippi about the story from the bible of god changing water into wine. "and what does that story teach you?" "it means if you run out of wine you get on your knees and pray"

Whats in the box?

The best ones are always the Finbar Saunders style double entendre.

Id say ones that Norden rejected out of hand would be the pick of any shite in this walliams disgrace. I could't imagine Norden picking clips featuring himself taking over 10% of the show.

[Bad Ambassador]

Another one that springs to mind was a presenter doing a link in a shopping centre and stepping onto an escalator, with Norden then stepping on behind him, noticing the camera and trying to be be inconspicuous.

[Jockice]

The big talking point after the first one (when I was in the first year at secondary school) was John Boy Walton talking about hanging someone up by his balls from a Christmas tree.

[Icehaven]

Everyone likes the classic sheepdog scooting along the grass to scratch its jacksy while its owner mimes to a terrible Welsh song about hiraeth, hwyl, and cawl with a lump of stale cheese.

I'd remembered this as being Harry Secombe, unless I'm conflating it with this;

And talking of clips we remember... Harry Secombe on Highway saying "Mary Queen of Spots" then adding "Patron saint of measles" and blowing a raspberry.

[JesusAndYourBush]

If you're conflating it then so am I, as I also remember Harry Secombe singing on Highway with the arse-scratching-along-the-ground dog behind

[famethrowa]

Everyone likes the classic sheepdog scooting along the grass to scratch its jacksy while its owner mimes to a terrible Welsh song about hiraeth, hwyl, and cawl with a lump of stale cheese.

The song being "Erbigail Moyne"??

[Twonty Gostelow]

If you're conflating it then so am I, as I also remember Harry Secombe singing on Highway with the arse-scratching-along-the-ground dog behind

Must be on youtube somewhere, but I don't think it was Seagoon. I think it was more likely a singer who was only known to Welsh speakers. (I can't wait to be proved wrong again!)

The song being "Erbigail Moyne"??

An anagram of 'maybe religion'? I'm a bit slow from birth today - gissa clue.

[Gulftastic]

Must be on youtube somewhere, but I don't think it was Seagoon. I think it was more likely a singer who was only known to Welsh speakers. (I can't wait to be proved wrong again!)

Here you go..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecB3wbReljM

[JesusAndYourBush]

Don't know who it is but it's not Seagoon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecB3wbReljM

EDIT: Ah beaten to it. (I found it with a rather circuitous route... Googled harry secombe outtake dog wiping its bum, saw that there was no video results but there was a gif on some site called makeagif and that page had a link to watch the video!)
EDIT2: It's Trebor Edwards (who?) according to the description.

And here's 'Mary Queen of spots'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA-f7D4DJP4

[Twonty Gostelow]

Thanks, both. I was expecting it to be buried in a full show on youtube.

Wiki says Trebor is a famous Welsh tenor, born 1939, so probably not actually that old when it was filmed. Presumably not his dog either.

[Gulftastic]

EDIT: Ah beaten to it. (I found it with a rather circuitous route... Googled harry secombe outtake dog wiping its bum, saw that there was no video results but there was a gif on some site called makeagif and that page had a link to watch the video!)
EDIT2: It's Trebor Edwards (who?) according to the description.

I went with 'blooper dog welsh singer'

[Satchmo Distel]

I like that one with Peter Sellers farting in a lift and everybody cracking up

Sellers overdid the corpsing to a ridiculous degree according to Roger Lewis.

[David Pielingtonburygrot]

I'm a big fan of the "What's in the Box" blooper, or "cock up", as we say in the industry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72HnKHM_kM

[Famous Mortimer]

"The Special Without Brett Davis", the New York public access show, did a faux American-style bloopers show a while back, which was hilarious.

https://youtu.be/hplQmSTbjnQ?t=2366

[Icehaven]

I remember one clip probably from the 70s or 80s where a reporter was doing a report from beside a runway at a small airport, and he suddenly has to duck as a light aircraft lands and the wing passes right over him and would probably have decapitated him had he not moved. It's so ridiculous you'd think it was a set up but it doesn't look like it was, and it would have been a monumentally dangerous one for anyone except a stuntman to attempt too.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Wiki says Trebor is a famous Welsh tenor, born 1939, so probably not actually that old when it was filmed. Presumably not his dog either.

Yus, very famous at the time, and became a very rich man due to his talents. He was minted.

[Jittlebags]

Yus, very famous at the time, and became a very rich man due to his talents. He was minted.

He was also a sheep farmer, so that works on several levels. Presumably the dog either has worms or a blocked anal gland. Either way, it's a dirty, dirty dog.

[ElTwopo]

I actually watched the 1987 Xmas IBAOTN today whilst I was 'working'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4GlaPtBykk&ab_channel=dunebasher1971

It contains a few of the clips mentioned in this thread (Harry Secombe, Dog-Bum-Drag, 'the secret to a good lay is a firm arse', Scarborough is bullshit, BECAUSE HE DIED etc.) and one of my favourites: 'Alcohol... liquor... booze...'. Could never work out if he fell through a trap door or just fell over, but the timing is perfect.

EDIT: It actually starts at 6:40, after the end of Coronation Street and a load of adverts

[the]

The best two I've seen are White Powder Christmas (1978) & Good King Memorex (1979)

Well they're the two most famous ones, and even though they have a decent helping of outtakes they're still quite tedious in that 'sexually-frustrated beardy cretin' type way. The ones I've been watching recently are mostly regional ITV ones from the 80s and 90s, so you can imagine the diminished goods on offer there.

I remember one clip probably from the 70s or 80s where a reporter was doing a report from beside a runway at a small airport, and he suddenly has to duck as a light aircraft lands and the wing passes right over him and would probably have decapitated him had he not moved. It's so ridiculous you'd think it was a set up but it doesn't look like it was, and it would have been a monumentally dangerous one for anyone except a stuntman to attempt too.

Yeah that one was on an IBAOTN for sure.

On a related note, HTV reporter Richard Wyatt did actually get smacked in the head by a passing plane's wing and knocked out cold while filming a news piece to camera in the 70s. He recovered.

[Billy]

Most of my Xmas Tape knowledge is from that SOTCAA article that went into them in detail, including some slightly unsettling grainy JPEGs of that Southern ITV one of a stripper seducing some bloke pretending to be Bill Oddie. There's a BBC one from as late as 2000 on YouTube which for some reason almost entirely consists of a clip from Good Morning with Anne and Nick from about six years earlier, which was a bit disappointing as if that's the best clip they could find.

I remember IBAOTN 6 (from 1990) as it was repeated for years, maybe even into the early noughties by which time it looked a bit ancient. The opposite of that was an Election 2001 special which was shown once and never again, presumably because it was basically dated from the moment the result was announced.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Kay Burley being a roving reporter is on one of those clips on the IBAOTN Crimbo Special from 1987. How fucking old is she?

[famethrowa]

An anagram of 'maybe religion'? I'm a bit slow from birth today - gissa clue.

Nono it was just the nonsense name Dennis have it for his post gag. Was pleased I remembered it.

[Twonty Gostelow]

I actually watched the 1987 Xmas IBAOTN today whilst I was 'working'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4GlaPtBykk&ab_channel=dunebasher1971

It contains a few of the clips mentioned in this thread (Harry Secombe, Dog-Bum-Drag, 'the secret to a good lay is a firm arse', Scarborough is bullshit, BECAUSE HE DIED etc.) and one of my favourites: 'Alcohol... liquor... booze...'. Could never work out if he fell through a trap door or just fell over, but the timing is perfect.

EDIT: It actually starts at 6:40, after the end of Coronation Street and a load of adverts

I love the Newsbrief 7 guy at 53:21.

Nono it was just the nonsense name Dennis have it for his post gag. Was pleased I remembered it.

Nice one. Just saw it in the link above.