I always loved the major. A lesser character but left a big impact. I heard an interview with his children who said he was the same cheery and slightly eccentric gentleman in real as he was on the show.
@adamsingh2019
5 жыл бұрын
Yes so did i and thats nice to know. Ballard has had cameo roles in many other films, but sadly not enough.
@dw69ful
5 жыл бұрын
Very similar scenario imo to Trigger in Only Fools and Horses originally in it as a sort of support character, but ended up being a main character in his own right.
@normanbates569
3 жыл бұрын
What a great character, never to be forgotten.
@argonunya8751
3 жыл бұрын
The "I can speak English" scene gets me every time. Once you know the characters, you can see it coming and it delivers exactly how you imagine it should be. "...Didnt think the Canadians were that clever..."
@Patmofar
3 жыл бұрын
As the British say 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'. There is no TV comedy being made today that even comes close to this masterpiece. Decades from now this will still be watched and enjoyed by many unlike the very forgettable TV of today.
@clintoruss153
11 ай бұрын
Patmofar exactly same with music, music now is terrible
@rogercresswell1720
3 жыл бұрын
The Major was a great character in a brilliant show.
@CantankerousTwat
5 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful character the Major was, pure comedy gold.
@riensnijder5712
Жыл бұрын
The major was my favourite character in FT . Manuel no 2
@jasekhughes2672
4 жыл бұрын
Major should’ve been in this more he was a legend
@Kas58223
4 жыл бұрын
All the characters on this show were amazing
@blackbob3358
3 жыл бұрын
that's the crack, Kas, ya ca'nt repeat it... it's the only sitcom i watch back (a million times) and get "tears" in my eyes, wi laughing.
@pokerphil1st
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. The Major was always my favourite character in FT.
@GorgorothBergen-ns7il
5 жыл бұрын
The Major actually was a great character 😁.
@justmadeit2
5 жыл бұрын
Rumour has it the Major is still sat at that bar in Torquay reading a paper !
@SnowdriftBoy
5 жыл бұрын
😂
@anonUK
4 жыл бұрын
He'd be about 120.
@justmadeit2
4 жыл бұрын
@@anonUK 120 is the new 90,due to a healthy diet of organic food, plenty of exercise and the odd tot of whisky he's still very much alive and kicking....I think 😀
@anonUK
4 жыл бұрын
@@justmadeit2 Unfortunately, he died in 1988 and both the High Wycombe Country Club and the Gleneagles are gone as well.
@neilbain8736
4 жыл бұрын
He needs a statue, in a bar, doing just that there.
@yaronkl
5 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful character
@bernardmasson1630
3 жыл бұрын
The greatest comedies always have the best supporting actors :- the major, manual, trigger,baldrick etc etc.
@blatherskite3009
3 жыл бұрын
The irony of omitting the "cricketers" bit is that even back in the late 70s when Fawlty Towers was made, the joke was on the Major - for being an embarrassing old racist, casually saying things like that out loud and thinking nothing of it - and the audience was TRUSTED to have the intelligence to understand that moment was a comment rather than an endorsement.
@hachwarwickshire292
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah ... so cowardly today ... it's snowflake ville
@philbecker4676
2 жыл бұрын
Lol, no it wasn't. People talked like that back in the 70s. My grandparents were n wording it all over the shop even into the 90s! That's just some revisionist excuse that makes it look like snowflakes are ruining everyone's fun.
@blatherskite3009
2 жыл бұрын
@@philbecker4676 The fact that some people did (and still do) talk like that in real life has nothing to do with the show's intention with that scene. The show's attitude is clearly "you can't say that!" - not promotion or endorsement of such language. Like everything else in Fawlty Towers, the purpose of the scene is to put Fawlty in a compromised position so we can watch him squirm. Fawlty can't have the Major saying stuff like that openly in his B&B, but he's also such a ghastly toady toward anyone he thinks is "upper class" he's desperate not to be forced to "have a word" with the Major about it. Classic farce, basically. Anyone who thinks the racist language was intended to be the punchline is watching Warty Towels wrong.
@georgemorley1029
2 жыл бұрын
@@blatherskite3009 Flowery twats.
@WorldWar2freak94
8 ай бұрын
And that he was at lost a slightly senile old man.
@Edward1312
5 жыл бұрын
Barking mad but a great British eccentric!
@7915thomas
3 жыл бұрын
When he mistakes the fire alarm for the burglar alarm. Basil says there aren’t any burglars Major, Major says shouldn’t we catch them first, they’re getting away. John Cleese said the Major was the funniest character on set. Genius writing. Now we’ve got Keith Lemon, oh dear.
@ichabodon
2 жыл бұрын
Keith Lemon, now there’s a joke, not!
@connor1564
2 жыл бұрын
...bo selecta
@neil2905
5 жыл бұрын
my favourite: "Black? Churchill was'nt black."
@Reuben_95
3 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@MrDavey2010
3 жыл бұрын
So funny!!!
@BruceyWoosey
3 жыл бұрын
Major: that’s a lovely little dog you have there Lady: oh thank you it’s a little Shi’Tszu Major: oh sorry to hear that, what breed is it?
@adrianrosenlund-hudson8789
3 жыл бұрын
I see by his tie that the Major is an Artilleryman ☺️
@theendofeverything6356
3 жыл бұрын
They missed his speech about cricketers. His finest moment.
@keithdukes5990
3 жыл бұрын
Political correctness!!! The f**king Woke millenials would have been traumatised!!!😂😂😂😂
@theendofeverything6356
3 жыл бұрын
@@keithdukes5990 The entire nation would grind to a halt!
@theendofeverything6356
3 жыл бұрын
It would be more catastrophic than any asteroid impact!
@andrewlennon8501
3 жыл бұрын
You mean the time he lost his wallet, terrible
@josephinebennington7247
3 жыл бұрын
So where’s the link?
@nigelcarren
4 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Not long after I watched this episode I found myself in a Torquay B&B on my first family holiday with my mum & dad, in the morning at our first breakfast of the week I was offered a Kipper and I politely refused as I couldn't shake what had happened to poor Mr Leeman.... 40 years later... I still haven't tried a Kipper! 🤔🇬🇧
@petersimpson633
2 жыл бұрын
Can you say that again? I'm a little hard of herring
@HYU29C
3 жыл бұрын
He was brilliant, just brilliant.
@wendyharper9454
3 жыл бұрын
I heard (or read), that "Major" Ballard Berkeley disrupted the whole production, by making everyone collapse into giggles. Far and away my favourite character.
@davidz2808
3 жыл бұрын
You've omitted him firing his gun at a rat in the bar as well as him talking about cricketers & women.
@mikespike007
3 жыл бұрын
left out his funniest bit to my mind, probably for PC reasons. major - "i took her to see india" basil - "really?" major - "at the oval, and you know she kept referring to the indians as........." those that know and love the show can fill in the rest, if i put it in it will probably get deleted in this take offense society.
@neddystark3351
2 жыл бұрын
The fact the snowflakes can't see the the irony in those few funny lines is why we are in the state we're in today.
@georgemorley1029
2 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, that’s the part where he said the words niggers and wogs. I’m fairly sure that the context in which those words are used is extremely important in determining whether or not anyone should take offence at them. Yes, yes, I think that’s the point of satire, overall. Not to endorse such behaviour literally but to reveal it as an object of ridicule itself. Of course, any attempt to censor an attempt to ridicule racist behaviour could only be construed as the actions of people who didn’t want that racist behaviour to be the object of ridicule. I.e. I can only presume that the BBC don’t want racists to be ridiculed. Guess they’re racists then!
@smfvmd
2 жыл бұрын
Seek and ye will find. kzitem.info/news/bejne/x6idu6WfpIaUhYo
@incanus9
2 жыл бұрын
"No No NO I SAID ..."
@Glamrock01
4 жыл бұрын
RIP Talent and Genius...
@PointyTailofSatan
3 жыл бұрын
The casting was awesome in this series.
@Ampex196
3 жыл бұрын
Lovely Ballard Berkeley was perfectly cast as Major Gowen. A truly great actor who did not get the recognition he deserved earlier in his career.
@EnglishTurbines
3 жыл бұрын
Actually, he took leading roles in early British 1950s crime films, usually an Inspector at Scotland Yard...Great chap, sadly missed..🤔🤔😳🇬🇧
@davidriggs1470
3 жыл бұрын
‘I must have liked her I took her to see India’ priceless
@DrCrabfingers
2 жыл бұрын
...at the Oval...
@calum1741
5 жыл бұрын
I love the Major. We need more of his generation around these days.
@masterknife8423
4 жыл бұрын
What racist and senile? We already have plenty of geezers like that in their 60s and 70s these days
@MaTtRoSiTy
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah we do, people who fought for their nation and understood how hard earned the freedoms we take for granted today were.
@philbecker4676
2 жыл бұрын
... So what, we should bring them back from the dead? What a weird thing to say.
@calum1741
2 жыл бұрын
@@philbecker4676 who said that?
@philbecker4676
2 жыл бұрын
@@calum1741 How can you bring a generation back? 🤣 They're all dead, gurl. Maybe you meant "People who are like the people in his generation".
@dennisosunde2609
5 жыл бұрын
Thank goodnes for Fawlty Towers, Fascinatin!!!!!!
@borderlord
4 жыл бұрын
What about the West Indian v Indian cricket players bit?!
@monkeyballz168
4 жыл бұрын
Too racist for modern audiences. I hate this new world we live in.
@richallenxbox1976
4 жыл бұрын
@@monkeyballz168 Indeed, too many leftie Guardian readers who get all uppity about everything.
@hgfhghghgfhfghgfhghg538
4 жыл бұрын
@@richallenxbox1976 fuck the commie scumbags
@richallenxbox1976
4 жыл бұрын
@@hgfhghghgfhfghgfhghg538 You have issues.
@hgfhghghgfhfghgfhghg538
4 жыл бұрын
@@richallenxbox1976 shut it commie
@aburgin98
4 жыл бұрын
You won it on that horse was magic as well
@tomblah
3 жыл бұрын
It just occurred to me that the major is not a real person, he’s a character played by an amazing actor
@epstone
4 жыл бұрын
Watch out Major, they might come for you soon..
@rogerofrhodri
3 жыл бұрын
I've always wanted to live the 'Major in Fawlty Towers' lifestyle, get up when I like, G&T for 11 sies quick scan through the paper and back on the G&T...what more could you want in a retirement
@tigertony2716
3 жыл бұрын
You seem to have missed many of his funniest moments involving the Germans & Cricket
@patagualianmostly7437
3 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Censored, don't you know....?
@NeidalRuekk
4 жыл бұрын
Nutty as a fruit cake, and that's why we loved him!
@JakTheLad
4 жыл бұрын
Comedy... gotta love it. But egotistical bellends hate that people find funny things offensive. Who would actually watch a tv show and say ‘oh I got offended by that… let’s ruin the show for everyone else...’
@MrDavey2010
4 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. Comedy is comedy. If it doesn’t work, then it’s unsuccessful. Fawlty Towers was because it was!
@georgemorley1029
4 жыл бұрын
Crude attempts to wrest control of humour away. If you can’t laugh, you can’t subvert power. It’s a post modernist communist power grab. Take away a prime weapon that a free society possesses against tyranny.
@xRepoUKx
3 жыл бұрын
@DriftZ TwoSeven True, it's called the BBC.
@philbecker4676
2 жыл бұрын
They literally removed a few seconds of dialogue because it had the n word and this is no longer 1975. Does it really anger you that much? Does it absolutely ruin the episode for you? Does it make you unable to enjoy any other episodes? Sounds like a pretty snowflake response to me 😅
@craighereford1853
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant fawlty towers
@barursamuelsen4289
4 жыл бұрын
She ready now! Not you!! 😂
@nicholasdavies6264
3 жыл бұрын
The Major, mad as a hatter BUT such a great character.
@johnwilliamknox7156
3 жыл бұрын
Love the Major !
@jackthompson1578
4 жыл бұрын
Major is my favourite character
@coralarch
5 жыл бұрын
Charmingly, harmlessly nuts!
@robbryant52
3 жыл бұрын
Great character actor
@Applecompuser
Жыл бұрын
A great series and I think Major was my favorite character 1:45 . So original and enjoyable.
@marktucker8737
3 жыл бұрын
He starred in lots of British "B" movies in the 50's and 60's. Been watching then on Talking pictures (ch81)
@greerbox
2 жыл бұрын
To this day when I come home I always say to my Partner, “papers in Fawlty”? 😂
@paullawrence4986
3 жыл бұрын
Doliveria has scored a century again🤣😂😭
@copferthat
3 жыл бұрын
Berkeley was an extremely dapper and handsome actor in his youth.
@neilbain8736
4 жыл бұрын
Underated was he. A good character. I don't know how expanding it would have worked. There's always reports that his character was to be developed in series 3 but that was never to be. Two's our lot.
@hankhardigan1104
3 жыл бұрын
"We called her Winnie because she looked like Winnie"
@trudies4791
2 жыл бұрын
My favourite Major line is, when a woman talks to him about her dog. She says: ‘He is a little Shih Tzu. ‘Oh dear’, says the Major. ‘What’s the breed?’
@markfarrell6103
2 жыл бұрын
Best Character on Fawlty Towers by far ,!
@irenecostigane8348
3 жыл бұрын
Timeless X
@georgemorley1029
4 жыл бұрын
“Satire” - noun. The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. “The humourless, politically correct post-modernist brigade could not feign enough ignorance to convince everyone else with even so much as half a brain that the portrayal of racism in Fawlty Towers was not a literal endorsement of such views but was, in actual fact, a rather obvious SATIRE”.
@sp610
4 жыл бұрын
Well, that's my subscription cancelled. Grown adults do not need censorship. 👎
@ColinH1973
4 жыл бұрын
Hear hear! Well said 👍.
@tigertiger1699
2 жыл бұрын
The gent was really great🌹
@Friedtoenails
2 жыл бұрын
"Did you know that the female gibbon gestates....for seven months?!?!?"
@pendragonfilm
3 жыл бұрын
Where’s the cricketers ? His best speech
@37Dionysos
3 жыл бұрын
"Churchill wasn't black!"
@nigelmitchell351
2 жыл бұрын
The Major should have had a bigger part, unfortunately some of his best lines are not in these out takes. I'm sure you can remember the one I'm thinking of in particular.?
@markstarmer3677
2 жыл бұрын
Where’s the cricket sketch. By far the funniest.
@Gennettor-nc8kx
6 ай бұрын
Ballard Berkeley - fabulous.
@pizzaboy3946
2 жыл бұрын
The funniest Major moment is missing.
@staceygrove5976
Жыл бұрын
Should have been the Daily Telegraph industrial relations correspondent with his interest in strikes.
@Baggiolyful
4 жыл бұрын
Japanese was it 😂
@TangoSuckaa1
Жыл бұрын
You missed the one where he’s firing a shotgun in the hotel
@mikegalvin9801
3 жыл бұрын
Of course he's mad, who else would choose to live in Basil's hotel.
@colinmoffat3215
5 жыл бұрын
bad eggs all of them!
@MrJonniconni
5 жыл бұрын
I took her to see India................. ...........at the Oval !
@jb3222
5 жыл бұрын
My favourite bit of Fawlty Towers - pity they would never dare broadcast that extract again
@adamsingh2019
5 жыл бұрын
@@bsmith1164 YES. LOL. PC has RUINED English comedy. Ive heard that there are plans to re make the Carry Ons. PLEASE DONT. It wont work today and the deplorable Columbus is testament to that. Leave them ALONE and where they belong in comedy history still being enjoyed by MILLIONS!!!
@onlyme9254
5 жыл бұрын
She's still got my wallet! 🤣🤣🤣
@justliveandletlive
3 жыл бұрын
One of the funniest jokes was about Marjorie (Winnie) Atwell and Churchill. Though you had to be old enough to know that Winnie Atwell was black and Winston Churchill was called Winnie. Otherwise the joke was nonsense.
@philbartlett395
3 жыл бұрын
Blimmin hilarious, sir Ballard of Berkeley, sadly they don't make em like this anymore, today's "comedians" should watch the sitcoms of the 70s and 80s to see how it's done, naturally funny, todays "comedians" are just desperately trying to be funny, that's the difference.
@bryanhead2670
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful series, but, the fire scene in the kitchen frightened me when i was a child!!!!
@brendagilson934
2 жыл бұрын
The rat episode. EATING THE NUTS IF YOU PLEASE. The funniest line in the entire series. Why was it left out?😆
@masterfarr8265
3 жыл бұрын
I have a neighbor just like him
@markfarrell6103
2 жыл бұрын
Nooooo , I won't have that , !!! , there's a place in Eastbourne , !
@jasonkingshott2971
4 жыл бұрын
Classic!
@rasmus1166
4 жыл бұрын
Connie was just soooooooooo lovely looking
@georgejacob3162
3 жыл бұрын
I was shocked to find out she's American! She put on a damn good English accent as Polly!
@trevando2461
3 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh....shot was he?
@johnmiller0000
2 жыл бұрын
Some of his funniest moments aren't here because BritBox doesn't have the balls to include them.
@chrisbuesnell3428
2 жыл бұрын
Left out his comments on the cricket I see. Politicaly incorrect now.
@sempereadem54eadem64
5 жыл бұрын
Missed the funniest clip on India.I wonder why.PC PC PC PC PC PC .
@davidbeardsley9394
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah let's go back to calling people w*gs! Life would be soooo much better.
@kimsherlock8969
3 жыл бұрын
mayor's paper, Emmanuel brilliant , all crew in Faulty Towers series made British establishment seem extremely absurd. Times will not change Shakespearean humour.
@Raider577
Жыл бұрын
Just saw him on the Seventies sex comedy Confessions of a Driving Instructor, he's only on it for less than 5 minutes.
@jamesgreen4080
4 жыл бұрын
Those definitely weren't his funniest clips.
@gailbrocksom433
3 жыл бұрын
Didnt show the best but least PC bit did they?
@mydealsthetop5131
3 жыл бұрын
The BBC are ashamed of this. But under Britbox its all good. Cancel your BBC license today.
@avisnocturna8942
5 жыл бұрын
Not you.
@ololiver92
Жыл бұрын
At the Oval
@terranceparsons5185
3 жыл бұрын
I would have thought such a compilation might have included some of the funnier bits. "Bunch of krauts, that's what they are, good card players, and what was the question?" Come to mind
@Johnny-sj9sj
2 жыл бұрын
These aren’t ns! These are ws! Good luck with that these days major!
@dolandlydia
4 жыл бұрын
So sad that comedy has skidded so down hill. To think friends(That idiotic show) is considered comedy after such talent. Just goes to show the best of humanity come and gone.HAHAHAHAHA
@ExposedChannel247
3 жыл бұрын
Major is just like Joe Biden
@williammilesharley68
4 жыл бұрын
Edited out the racist bit then.. Although Cleese and Booth wanted to show the Major up for the bigot he was, some people saw him as a hero.
@seanmoran6510
4 жыл бұрын
Yawn
@MaTtRoSiTy
4 жыл бұрын
He was also a hero, he fought for his nation and survived. Our previous generations had different standards, but they gave a lot so ignorant people could have the freedom to criticise history they don't understand
@raywt3237
4 жыл бұрын
wait! didn't he used to have a funny take on cricket?
@georgejacob3162
3 жыл бұрын
That scene offends the snowflake generation apparently.
@luisreyes1963
2 жыл бұрын
I'm certain that Ballard Berkeley wasn't a doddering old fart in real life, since he does a convincing act as the slightly senile Major. 👴🏻
@tonethetallbaldy5039
3 жыл бұрын
What about, 'I knew a woman once, I took her to see, to see India...at the Oval' No of course that little piece isn't allowed to be funny anymore!
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