British Comedy/Humo(u)r continued

[johnfowles]

for a very long time I have wanted to see again a most fantastic piece of advertising tomfoolery based on the World War Two Dambusters raid that in my book was the very best ever television commercial and was part of a UK series developing the theme that "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label", today I succeeded in finding it on youtube (I had tried searching a while ago but could not find it,mainly I now realise because in error I thought it was an advert for Heinekin, such is the ephemeral effect of television advertising). today I "youtubed" for "dambusters" and bingo it is at:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWZVDiVvKsg
You can download and format convert if necessary using the instructions and programs described on my splendid tutorial on saving and converting youtube videos.
I ran into a problem with one of the free programs I described and have found another to replace it so the tutorial now includes both "youtube grabber" and "youripper'
It is as before at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/Tutorials/saving_youtube_videos_tutorial.htm
you can almost hear the German guard saying
"heilige Scheiße" as he jettisons his sandwich
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/sandwich.jpg
The commercial takes the Michael of course by illustrating that England also has on ocasion beaten Germany at soccer
for full details of the Dambusters raid and its unique bouncing bombs read the inevitable wiki at:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise
the origiinal 1954 black and white film is fantastic and is now available on DVD at :-amazon.co.uk

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000KRMZK6.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

As is a recent US PBS New York Channel 13 WNET/ UK Channel 5 documentary that I have purchased the VHS tape of

http://qpbs.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pPBS1-1163026dt.jpg

(currently on sale for $17.49 presumably because a new DVD version will be available on March 1 2007

http://qpbs.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pPBS3-3561728dt.jpg

but on the wiki I read this alarming news
"On 1 September 2006, it was announced that Peter Jackson would produce a remake of the 1954 movie, to be directed by Christian Rivers. Production will commence in 2007"
I do hope they do not over Hollywoodise this as happens too often and credit this as another American WW2 success,
Fortunately the director "Lord Of The Rings" Kiwi Peter Jacksom according to his wiki (golly Moses "wiki" is an anagram of "kiwi"):-
"Jackson will produce a remake of The Dam Busters in 2007, along with Sir David Frost as Executive Producer."
So hopefully true blue Brit Sir David will curb any wild excesses or attempts to modify history.Another of the Black Label series extends the German theme to their well known habit of monopolising swimming pool and beach sunbeds so try:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIJqF8av6I
This reminded me of the apochryphal yarn of the beach in Majorca where a brite Brit early one morning arranged the beach towels of a group of Germans at his hotel into a fine wastika on the beach

[Auburn Annie]

Funny. I don't think we got that ad on this side of the pond. We had Mabel:

Mabel the Waitress - During the 1950s Carling Black Label featured an attractive blond beer toting waitress named Mabel in a series of animated Carling Black Label beer commercials. When a customer wanted a beer they cried "Hey, Mabel!, Black Label!" Mabel the bartendress rarely spoke in the commercials but at the end of each spot she gave the TV viewers a friendly wink. The campaign was created by Lang, Fisher, & Stashower in the 1940s. Their ad jingle was written by Phil Davis. Actress Jean Goodspeed, a New York actress and model portrayed Mabel beginning in 1951. However, in the mid-1950s, Goodspeed ended her career to become a mother and Carling Black Label folks decided to animate the Mabel character but also thought it wise to insert images of the original Mabel (Goodspeed) for good measure. The ads ran successfully for twenty years. Finally, in 1970, a new actress was cast in the role, but soon after, the Mabel character faded into advertising history. Note: The Carling Black Label slogan in the 1940s was "Pass Up 'Ladies Beer'....Be A Man About It, Drink Stag!" The "Mabel, Black Label" slogan was coined in 1951.

[Jim Nasium]

JF talking of Brit humour, I think ole Bammy had a sense of humour failure here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-1XVob2Xw

PS when they make or made, the updated version of The Dam Busters did or will, they change the name of Guy Gibson's dog?

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Auburn Annie:
Funny. I don't think we got that ad on this side of the pond. We had Mabel:
the Waitress - Thank you Annie for your American perspective. The UK Carling ad series were wonderul, somewhere I have another one on a VHS tape, that was a piss take on a then-current Levi 501 Jeans commercial and featured a well known UK male model (Nick Kamen) stripping off in a laundromat watched by the same two actors who played the pilots in the the dambusters raid CBL commercial who comment:-
"I bet he drinks Carling Black Label"
"Nah, he doesn't wash his underpants"
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OK I know I keep banging on about Brit Humo(U)r ansd I did once confess that one of the few American comedy shows I
feally appreciated was the 60's hit
The Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (http://www.timvp.com/laughin.html)
http://www.timvp.com/litvg2.jpg
In addition I spent a lot of time writing up the fantastic "to-back-oh" skit by Bob Newhart see one of my postings to the
recent topic subject "corfid" at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=001273#000043
Meanwhile I am thoroughly enjoying Jay Leno on his tonight show every Monday at 11:30 when he produces a stack of cards
with amusing "headlines".
I am also actively searching at you youtube for comedy videos to save and convert using the technique that I have superbly
descrtibed in one of my soon to be world famous tutorials:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/tutorials/UJ_tutorial_logo-500.jpg
at:-saving_youtube_videos_tutorial (http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/Tutorials/saving_youtube_videos_tutorial.htm)
And today found a video entitled:-
"Best Of Jay Leno Headlines" at:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Zi2Bx2kXQ
which runs 7:41 and is an 18.14MB download using "youripper" see my tutorial as mentioned above for comprehensive
instructions
One of the newspaper cuttings should interest those in the great white North:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/images/No_Canadians_please.jpg
interestingly the logo for http://www.thenyc.com/ appears throughout his video
which turns out to be not the New York Club but the National Yacht club in Toronto
http://www.thenyc.com/photos/NYC_aerial2_550.jpg
Trust me I will return with more Brit humo(U)r