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Beadle's About and the council

Started by willbo, July 28, 2021, 07:55:28 AM

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kalowski

Yes. Cruel, actually. I don't know why I did it.

Video Game Fan 2000

"Smugger than Jeremy Beadle having a wank"

imitationleather

By the time Harry Hill was doing You've Been Framed they always blurred out the date watermarks on the clips so you couldn't see you were watching hilarious japes that were filmed 30 years ago and had already been in the series many times before.

Video Game Fan 2000

Hard to think of a bigger media anachronism than YBF still being on.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: imitationleather on July 28, 2021, 09:38:34 PM
By the time Harry Hill was doing You've Been Framed they always blurred out the date watermarks on the clips so you couldn't see you were watching hilarious japes that were filmed 30 years ago and had already been in the series many times before.

Pretty easy to tell when the ones from the late 80's/early 90's all look like shit.


willbo

in theory shouldn't we be getting loads of more clips now everyone films everything on their phones? Or are we too snowflake generation to have funny accidents anymore cause we all care about safety too much.

Video Game Fan 2000


Swift

America's Funniest Home Videos is still on the air after 30+ years, being hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro these days.

Echo Valley 2-6809

The Beadle's About where the guy saw "his" (spoiler) white van shunted into the river with all his business's equipment and paperwork in it was particularly cruel, but at least you could tell he wasn't playing along.

He moved to America afterwards - probably had enough of Brits taking the piss.

Video Game Fan 2000

Think of all the shit things that happened after Jeremy Beadle supposedly "died" - subprime crisis, coalition government, Fukushima, Brexit, Bowie dead, Trump, covid-19. The list goes on.

The look on our faces.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: willbo on July 28, 2021, 11:35:29 PM
in theory shouldn't we be getting loads of more clips now everyone films everything on their phones? Or are we too snowflake generation to have funny accidents anymore cause we all care about safety too much.

You do get the odd new video last time I saw it on in ree background of a pub.

Portrait mode of course, so the screen was more 'blurred border' than actual video.

Wet Blanket

£250 for a video clip in Beadle's day would have bought you a house on the moon with change, now it will barely buy you a Crunchie bar, but it's still the same prize. Brexit Britain right there.

willbo

Quote from: Wet Blanket on July 29, 2021, 10:53:14 AM
£250 for a video clip in Beadle's day would have bought you a house on the moon with change, now it will barely buy you a Crunchie bar, but it's still the same prize. Brexit Britain right there.

but with the house you would have had to sign a contract that the council can install urinals for local builders in your living room and you will be imprisoned if you don't leave your front door open for them at all times.

purlieu

I suppose it's time I roll out the story of walking into my school hall to find Jeremy Beadle scraping chewing gum off the tables, isn't it?

willbo

Quote from: purlieu on July 29, 2021, 11:23:41 AM
I suppose it's time I roll out the story of walking into my school hall to find Jeremy Beadle scraping chewing gum off the tables, isn't it?

why was he doing that...?

purlieu

For some reason, our comprehensive school was a proper rugby obsessed place, producing quite a few professional players, so the rugby teams had a big event every year, meal and so on. The coach / PE teacher was friends with Beadle and thus he was the celebrity guest every year. Why he got roped into helping prepare for the evening I'll never know, maybe the dinner ladies refused.

It was a surreal moment, I was in the music room, which had an entrance to the stage in the school hall, and a friend came running in saying "Jeremy Beadle's cleaning tables in the hall!" A few of us went out expecting some daft joke but no, there he was. Scraping chewing gum off tables in the school hall.

gilbertharding

Chewing gum underneath the tables?

JaDanketies

Beadles About was some brilliant telly; I can't think of any 'prank' show that comes close. Maybe Punkd with Aston Kutcher, which is a bit too deferential to its victims and which only does celebrities. And which is also decades old.

I remember one night watching Beadles About clips on YouTube, went to sleep, woke up the next morning and the newspaper said the guy was dead. was devoed

willbo

I guess Beadle really mucked in with jobs to be humble

Sorry, i haven't read all of this thread but did go and watch:

Beadle's latest victim is told by the council that all home improvements have to be reset to council home "standard"

and found it very funny. The combination of the Englishman defending his castle passionately and deferring to the council's preposterous demands. Oddly touching when his argument involves admitting to not being clever enough to have known that he needed planning permission: "Yeah, well I'm not as clever as you!"

Could imagine saying "yeah they've got a great sense of humour have you seen Beadle's About?" if it were from another country.

Him lying down to watch them get on with it till they say "Try and save the stones and we can flog 'em." and he leaps up to start a fight.

willbo

Quote from: Smeraldina Rima on July 29, 2021, 02:40:12 PM
Sorry, i haven't read all of this thread but did go and watch:

Beadle's latest victim is told by the council that all home improvements have to be reset to council home "standard"

and found it very funny. The combination of the Englishman defending his castle passionately and deferring to the council's preposterous demands. Oddly touching when his argument involves admitting to not being clever enough to have known that he needed planning permission: "Yeah, well I'm not as clever as you!"

Could imagine saying "yeah they've got a great sense of humour have you seen Beadle's About?" if it were from another country.

Him lying down to watch them get on with it till they say "Try and save the stones and we can flog 'em." and he leaps up to start a fight.

yeah I saw that one in the past few days too, also the one about the guy having an EU-ordered cafe for French delivery drivers installed in his garden (complete with arrogant, spitting, beret-wearing, fake accented, drivers), the woman having builder's urinals fitted onto the side of her house, and the man told by the council he has to share his holiday caravan with new age hippies.

It's so "hitchhiker's guide" ish how he lays down on the grass!

mippy

Quote from: willbo on July 28, 2021, 08:56:44 PM
I believe all the international "funny home video clip shows" share clips to each other, there not being enough unwittingly filmed accidents from any one country to go round, so they could be from anywhere. According to the net YBF started in April 1990 and the Word in Aug 1990

the BBC tried to do a YBF type show, but structured more like a game show where people competed to have the best clips. Didn't really work, obv.

jamiefairlie

Quote from: Swift on July 29, 2021, 12:22:12 AM
America's Funniest Home Videos is still on the air after 30+ years, being hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro these days.

American TV just cannot be arsed coming up with clever titles.


willbo

does anyone know if the recurring actress with curly dark hair was anyone famous? She played the bride in the forced wedding one, a psychic, and all the female bosses in the "person forced to do a sleazy job/see their partner in the porn studio" pranks.

boki

Quote from: mippy on July 29, 2021, 04:05:02 PM
the BBC tried to do a YBF type show, but structured more like a game show where people competed to have the best clips. Didn't really work, obv.
I thought The Apprentice was meant to be very successful.

franticplanet

Quote from: mippy on July 29, 2021, 04:05:02 PM
the BBC tried to do a YBF type show, but structured more like a game show where people competed to have the best clips. Didn't really work, obv.

Caught in the Act hosted by Shane Richie, which was ironic, considering I'd fucking love to see him lean back too far on a patio chair and fall in a pond.

Video Game Fan 2000

Quote from: willbo on July 29, 2021, 02:24:27 PM
I guess Beadle really mucked in with jobs to be humble

I saw him at a student night and he was a great sport despite little hand heckles from drunk freshers from start to finish.

Afterwards someone told me that Beadle loved doing student nights because he liked to share his counter culture anecdotes and I should've asked him about meeting Captain Beefheart, wish I had