I Mutter to the 2 Ronnies: OUCH!

The Two Ninnies



A smartly engineered parody of the 70's and 80's powerhouse duo of "The Two Ronnies", here, by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. It's a bashing at the Two Ronnies joyful comedy songs laced to the brim with sexual innuendo. In this clip, it only seems to be the song, as there was a dialogue part beforehand. It was regarded as a rather cruel take on them. The song features rather over-the-top sexual inneundo nonsense, but not articulated with swearing. It works well though, and is a favourite but controversial sketch from the "Not The Nine O' Clock News".

The Two Ronnies themeselves, Ronnie Corbett ad Ronnie Barker, took much offence from this sketch, finding it insulting. It was more or less a misunderstanding between comedic generations, between, at the time, the new wave of "alternative comedy", which was more in-your-face, using swear words and was like a big "up yours" to the establishment before, and the older, more genteel, saucy "how's your father postcard", play-of-words type humour of the 1960's and 70's comedy entertainers.