One of the most absurd bits he ever did. No puns, just being silly at an olympic level.
@KimKoomKum
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant stuff!
@TMJBtv
3 жыл бұрын
He was being quite critical of that hippo, very hippo critical
@StormKidProductions
Жыл бұрын
"I went to the Zoo and critiqued a large waterborn mammal from Africa. I was hippo critical"
@sarahjane96xx
Жыл бұрын
This comment made me cry laughing 😂😂
@SpivWiggins
7 жыл бұрын
1:05 Love the way how sad Flag Hippo looks when he's thumbing the corner of the poster...
@alansbinnie1446
2 жыл бұрын
I really felt for him there.
@SpivWiggins
2 жыл бұрын
@@alansbinnie1446 I still do...
@johnlennon2333
Жыл бұрын
@@alansbinnie1446 same lmfao 💀
@BlaizeV
6 жыл бұрын
This is perhaps the most delightfully silly thing ever and I love it so much
@blackngold007
10 жыл бұрын
I watched this clip about a year ago and I was in bed just the other day and thought to myself "....flag hippo?!"
@colin72
5 жыл бұрын
Better than being in bed, looking beside you and thinking... fat hippo.
@davidthomaswade9153
Жыл бұрын
By far the best comment. I applaud you Mr Scopes
@gan9e
14 жыл бұрын
The entire skit may look random and off-the-cuff... but I've watched this 20 times and its just perfect, kills me... the comedian who plays the hippo has perfect timing, perfect comedy timing for this, mixed with the silliness of the whole thing its just mental but great, Tim Vine is great in my books, just excellent all round.
@philipcrewe540
2 жыл бұрын
Like Morecambe and wise, looks like it just happened, but being rehearsed for weeks, Tim is in that bracket for me & shades of Tommy Cooper
@ravenaussie3760
Жыл бұрын
@@philipcrewe540 Morecambe? Tyson Fury!
@mattparnall4148
Жыл бұрын
I know this is from over a decade ago, but the hippo is played by John Archer, who is a comedian and magician who often opens for Tim
@alanwalters8624
10 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter how low I'm feeling, I can watch this and cheer myself up no problem.
@tamjac10
8 жыл бұрын
+Alan Walters Me too!
@Easy_tiger69
10 жыл бұрын
Superb, comedy doesn't have to be witty, topical, insightful or crude. This is just brilliant.
@c5gcd
3 жыл бұрын
Silliness on a par with Mony Python's fish slapping dance. And let's not forget the genuinely superb acting of actor playing the flag hippo. To convey his emotions so well using only his body language, hands and the position of his head, in a mask with no change of facial expression, is amazingly talented.
@itskdog
10 ай бұрын
Tim called him John, so presumably John Archer, his warm-up act at the time.
@jayparmo2284
10 ай бұрын
@itskdog you must be correct. Ive been to many tim vine shows over the years and john who like you said is his opening act also fills in when 2 people are needed.
@jayjaypen2
10 жыл бұрын
Cheers John.
@calclo
6 жыл бұрын
John Archer
@rhymeocerous
5 жыл бұрын
The whole thing's very funny, but 'cheers John' is inspired.
@grahamthomas1695
3 жыл бұрын
@@calclo Of course! Thanks, I failed to think of that, despite knowing that John Archer was the periodic guest.
@billwilson8796
2 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest sketches from all history.
@ashleyp.4932
6 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant. Notice how even Tim struggles not to laugh. You've got to admire the person being Flag Hippo, their field of vision must have been very narrow.
@only1utdanditsleeds
3 жыл бұрын
No I think hippos have a very wide field of vision. It's due to the positions of their eyes
@emirules13
12 жыл бұрын
Let's just pause 4 a minute while we consider what we've just witnessed:D
@michaeleverest7631
5 жыл бұрын
Love the "Cheers John" bit LOL
@ic3358
3 жыл бұрын
In times like these we all need a bit of Tim Vine
@dantrizz
11 жыл бұрын
I'm just totally in awe of how someone could even think of bits like these.
@aWildWookie
11 жыл бұрын
I wish this bit went on longer, more flag hippo please Tim.
@NickMarshallMusic
6 жыл бұрын
'I thought you said you were gonna learn it'
@thirteenfingers
14 жыл бұрын
What a very expressive performance from the man in the hippo suit. :D
@somedude3766
6 жыл бұрын
Hum, he said he would learn it, I guess hes a hippo-crite
@TheMultiGamerOfficial
4 жыл бұрын
Comedy police, you're under arrest
@Charlieb82
4 жыл бұрын
Well played sir
@melvyns1975
2 жыл бұрын
Tim Himself would be proud of that one 🤣
@toddrobson9228
9 жыл бұрын
More than any other comedian on planet earth, Tim Vine tickles my funny bone all the time, inspired lunacy, love him.
@SuperSK1LLS
9 жыл бұрын
What not even Frankie Boyle ?
@tamjac10
8 жыл бұрын
+Todd Robson And he is proof that you can have clean jokes and still be funny!
@thesurgeon6473
7 жыл бұрын
SuperSK1LLS Frankie's really clever and very funny but you his comedy isn't supposed to serve the same purpose. Vine has gone for the simple "cheer someone up" approach while Frankie tries to use topical things and use them. They're both essentially making light of life, but they're not easy to compare
@tim40gabby25
3 жыл бұрын
@@thesurgeon6473 good point, well made. I was astonished to hear an articulate, gentle and reasoned Scot on the radio recently, talking of his tough childhood - before realising he was Frankie. I do not like his humour. I could get to like the man. Chalk n cheese regarding Tim Vine. Old English duffer here :)
@silentbob82
14 жыл бұрын
'Let's just pause for a moment and consider what we've just witnessed!'. I now use this line every time I see something random and funny :)
@only1utdanditsleeds
6 жыл бұрын
And the award for best supporting actor goes to........Flag Hippo
@TVFILMBUFF
13 жыл бұрын
Canada: Row3, Column2 USA: Row14, Column2 Bulgaria: Row2 , Column8 However, I figure Tim is partly to blame. If he had instead called out: India: Row6, Column8 Saudi Arabia: Row11, Column9 Bangladesh: Row1, Column10 Then flag hippo would have been 100% accurate.
@paultaylor701
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, this has been very helpful.
@steveperry4724
Ай бұрын
I've had the pleasure of seeing Tim live, and I've never laughed so much in my life. He has that kind of aura where you just look at him and laugh because you just know what's about to be delivered. He is brilliant😂
@smilingjay3410
8 жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard I peed myself at this bit and I still don't know why hahaha
@RFC-3514
4 жыл бұрын
Pee-chaku?
@24magiccarrot
7 жыл бұрын
And of course Flag Hippo is one of my favorite comedy magicians, John Archer.
@peterjones3557
4 жыл бұрын
As a very old aficionado of English humour, this is the most silly, addictive and hilarious thing I've ever seen.
@CT2507
10 жыл бұрын
OMG... he was so unnecessarily cruel to that poor hippo, who was just trying the best it could!
@tamjac10
8 жыл бұрын
+CT2507 You must be from PETA. I understand your sentiment.....
@CT2507
8 жыл бұрын
+Tamara Jacobs i dont know PETA, but i despise people who abuse flag hippo's!
@fifismith2377
7 жыл бұрын
Haaaaaaaahahaahaa :D
@KAF128
5 жыл бұрын
@@RaveyDavey Totally with you - LOL ! Did he bring a note from his Mum ? NO, he didn't !
@ilikethisnamebetter
5 жыл бұрын
@@RaveyDavey Absolutely. He broke the hippogeographic oath.
@EricaNernie
7 жыл бұрын
Sillier and funnier than even Spike Milligan. Tim Vine is a genius.
@stoobydootoo4098
6 жыл бұрын
And less dead.
@johnp515
6 жыл бұрын
Stuart Murray Is that always your contribution to discussions comparing people from different eras?
@iwantmycountrybackkg4482
6 жыл бұрын
The random of random randomness. Brilliant!!!!
@tamjac10
8 жыл бұрын
You don't know where any of these are at all, do you? lol
@aaronhurst4379
2 жыл бұрын
I love how Tim just revels in the silliness of his own bit afterwards, along with the rest of us
@britturk123
11 жыл бұрын
How and why would anyone think this joke up ? Simply brilliant, i dont think i have laughed like this for anything.
@johnnycasswell7290
4 жыл бұрын
A classic bit of Tim Vine for me, like pen behind the ear! Never tire of watching it and the delivery of it all is brilliant! I find it as funny now as the first time I watched it and will still find it as funny the 100th time!
@bowmaj8666
3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure that this just randomly pops into my head every now and again, and I just can't help but go "Flag Hippo?"
@zigzag6498
7 жыл бұрын
Flag Hippo is so brilliant. It never ceases to cheer me up. I laugh every time I watch it
@saladbrain
13 жыл бұрын
Refreshingly wonderful! Tim Vine ... superbly original. Genius.
@Loveeanimals44
13 жыл бұрын
aww i really love the flag hippo he looked so so so so sad!!
@tracibeacer670
6 жыл бұрын
Anyone else trying this type of comedy forget it.It's for Vine and Vine only...
@mikenewdeck
3 жыл бұрын
Still utterly hilarious. I literally cry with laughter every time i watch it
@tipsmcgee1657
8 жыл бұрын
cheers john
@nearvanaman
5 жыл бұрын
I watch this video once a week.
@AbdullahAOfficial
12 жыл бұрын
this is my favorite ever stand up piece, find myself coming back to this video whenever i need to laugh. Do the same with the ricky gervais audiobooks
@paultaylor701
4 жыл бұрын
I just love being British....just regular comedy.
@mjstefansson7466
4 жыл бұрын
Never fails to make me laugh
@paultaylor701
3 жыл бұрын
This is the medicine we should be taking for COVID.
@wingobingo
13 жыл бұрын
Omg i play this everyday & it still sends me to the floor. G e n i u s :-)
@fooman65
8 жыл бұрын
God, too funny, couldn't stop laffin, tears an all, I'm going in one last time.
@DCLynneHaddock
14 жыл бұрын
I laughed for about an hour the first time I saw this. Love it so much.
@ConScortis
3 жыл бұрын
Let's just pause for a moment and consider that I'm replying to a 10 year old comment.
@DCLynneHaddock
3 жыл бұрын
@@ConScortis Getting the email notification to say I’d had a reply after 10 years was interesting...
@ConScortis
3 жыл бұрын
@@DCLynneHaddock Ha! I was channeling Tim Vine's absurdist outlook. Well, I hope it's been a great decade for you 😁
@cyberhermit1222
5 жыл бұрын
Imagine sending flag hippo into a habitat full of real hippos.
@itookallthenames
3 жыл бұрын
me: "he's just pointing at random" tim vine 20 secs later "you're just pointing at random"
@noblemann4898
3 жыл бұрын
It's absurdity on a genius level
@dannydorko7075
6 жыл бұрын
One third puns, one third music, one third surrealism.
@StevieJSound
15 жыл бұрын
This is great, the hippos awkwardness when he is being told off is funny
@VinnieAndZach
13 жыл бұрын
I like this. Especially when Tim nearly laughs. After I saw him live I made a point of that night going to bed, closing my eyes for five seconds, then opening them and saying 'Flag hippo?'.
@fifismith2377
7 жыл бұрын
So random & soooooo funny!
@pistopedro1
10 жыл бұрын
tears everytime
@pickledlovesnovas
13 жыл бұрын
flag behind the ear, flag behind the ear! flag behind the ear.
@henrymarwood2830
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry I'm a bit late to the party.... But I thought you'd be mildly interested to know that the fella in the hippo costume is Matt Forde, who went on to become a comedian himself. Tim said he originally came up with the idea in 2005 when his Edinburgh show was 45 seconds short, so he included this sketch. Back then Matt used to hand out fliers for a fair few comedians, so he was pretty well known to some comics I imagine. I think Tim retold this story on his twitter account somewhere. I hope this is interesting to some people, otherwise I've just wasted all this time typing!!
@Ligerpride
3 жыл бұрын
........cheers John.
@peterparkingmeter4764
2 жыл бұрын
Genius of silliness,Tim Vine good stuff
@DCLynneHaddock
14 жыл бұрын
This is so insane that it's genius!
@raydeguzman11
4 жыл бұрын
I just used 2mins and 13 seconds of my life watching this video..... Worth it!!!
@manfred747
9 ай бұрын
I suspect I shall be spending many more minutes of my life watching this
@edmorrison5645
3 жыл бұрын
John Archer - one of Britain's funniest magicians...and Flag Hippo!
@thomaswilcox5265
5 жыл бұрын
I watched this at about midnight before going to sleep. Terrifyingly I woke up at about 5am confusingly thinking about "flag hippo" before going back to sleep. True story.
@thechevron
15 жыл бұрын
ahh, new ring tone, cheers john
@philipcrewe540
2 жыл бұрын
Tim is a genius tbh of the one liners, thing is, there all good one liners for a hour or so
@FatNorthernBigot
4 жыл бұрын
I don't normally like surreal humour, but this works.
@gbshahaq
3 жыл бұрын
Was waiting for the pun. Still not disappointed
@melvyns1975
2 жыл бұрын
Proving my point that Tim Vine can literally make ANYTHING funny 🤣
@Keith6720
14 жыл бұрын
Yeah, like someone else said, the point of flag hippo is that there is no point - it creates speculation about what on earth it's all about, because it has no meaning, yet must mean something to exist, hence it's a really surreal moment. It's genious because the comedy comes not from flag hippo itself, but the idea that you're trying to make logical sense out of something that's so illogical.
@MatthewNJDavis
6 жыл бұрын
Good thing John didn't get near enough the microphone for the audience to hear his laughing - you can see his shoulders shaking.
@johnferguson40
3 жыл бұрын
Obtuse absurdity. It doesn't get any better. Thanks.
@emjackson2289
2 жыл бұрын
There are people tonight, that got into bed and thought, standard of education for hippos
@lvl99paint
13 жыл бұрын
I love Flag Hippo! He's the best.
@Megsterx01
13 жыл бұрын
"Flag...Hippo???" LOOL! I laughed so much when I first saw this!! I still do now! :D
@gan9e
9 жыл бұрын
which ones Bulgaria?
@tamjac10
8 жыл бұрын
Flag Hippo!
@louisecooper9812
8 жыл бұрын
Flag hippo
@TransGalGaming
12 жыл бұрын
went to bed..closed my eyes...and went "...FLAG HIPPO!?!??!"
@something_celestial
13 жыл бұрын
when he says thanks john i thought he meant john out of the audience who he talks to earlier in the show
@andrewmaidstone5089
2 жыл бұрын
Comic genius
@theoriginalopo
12 жыл бұрын
lmao , coco pops everywhere
@aswatful
14 жыл бұрын
I just don't understand how Tim Vines mind works...:S but it is amazing!!!
@FocusReborn44
11 жыл бұрын
Cheers John.
@warrenbonathan4879
12 күн бұрын
Incredibly British it’s wonderful
@dragon825
15 жыл бұрын
oh how i laughed... time for the men in white coats i fear
@Clearlight201
2 жыл бұрын
Never amazes to cease me
@richardhill6914
2 жыл бұрын
I don't know why this is so funny. So stupid but love it.
@markthompson50
2 жыл бұрын
Damn tune now stuck in my head for the night Arrrgggggggh!
@TrueGaming140.48
13 жыл бұрын
i saw this earlier tonight and i was laughing so much i cried
@totallyellie2742
7 жыл бұрын
So funny! I can't stop laughing 😂
@zzirGrizz00l
2 жыл бұрын
Cheers John
@bobbyfischer5296
8 жыл бұрын
Now when I see the Canadian flag or hear Canada I start singing flag hippo .
@young321bookie
7 жыл бұрын
Haha! :)
@thenecessaryevil1030
7 жыл бұрын
lol 😁
@thirteenfingers
14 жыл бұрын
I didn't realise it was him. John's the support act for the current (assuming it's not finished yet) Joke-a-motive tour. We caught the show when it was in Manchester and laughed ourselves silly. John Archer had a good set as the support act too.
@wolfenstein6676
4 жыл бұрын
"Cheers, John..." 😂 🐮 😂 .
@mattdeany1
13 жыл бұрын
Very funny, very silly. Great!
@JBfan12391
11 жыл бұрын
"Flag Hippo?" XD
@antbubb
14 жыл бұрын
What a great piece of comedy!!
@tamjac10
8 жыл бұрын
Flag Hippo! Love this!
@FernandoMozza9
12 жыл бұрын
"Cheers John" hahah genious
@DjNikGnashers
3 жыл бұрын
Not quite up there with 'pen behind the ear' but still, it's amusing.
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