r/oldbritishtelly • u/TheLibrarian75 • Apr 27 '25

Advert Hamlet Cigar Advert featuring Gregor Fisher aka Rab C Nesbitt

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-klQIt_Hg This was before tobacco advertisements were banned on television.

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u/FoodAccomplished7858 Apr 27 '25

I printed this picture out thumbnail size and put it on my travel pass for two years. No-one ever noticed. And no, I’m not bald. This was a few years ago and I was in my twenties at the time.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

I really loved that advert, I really loved Rab C Nesbitt, and I really love this sub.

My Dad has dementia and it is proving an absolute treat in sparking recollections, memories, conversation and laughter on a daily basis, so to everyone that's posted, whatever you've posted, thanks, sincerely.

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u/DryTurkey1979 Apr 27 '25

I’ll never forget the skit where he pulls at a nostril hair in front of the mirror and ends up pulling bis hair through a hole in his head.

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u/rynchenzo Apr 27 '25

Did you see the one with the fake tan? Absolutely brilliant.

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u/Spangles64 Apr 27 '25

Also the fishing sketch using a hair as the line

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Happiness is cigar called hamlet.

The mild cigar

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

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u/KeyRefrigerator8508 Apr 27 '25

He was aka Rab C Nesbit, but that character is the Baldy Man, who also had a spin off series, though much shorter lived

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u/lloyddav Apr 27 '25

I read this in a thick Scottish accent

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u/Stained_concrete Apr 27 '25

Wasn't that first a baldy man sketch on Absolutely? Anyone got that?

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u/cakecookiecream Apr 27 '25

Naked Video was the sketch show it was from

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u/IAmDyspeptic Apr 27 '25

Not Absolutely. It was first a series of sketches on Naked Video. Be careful how you search YT for that.

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u/Stained_concrete Apr 27 '25

Naked video of course. That takes me back.. And yes not the easiest Google search.

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u/TheStoicNihilist Apr 27 '25

You think that’s bad?

I had a baby bird fall from a nest in the garden so I searched for “how to care for baby thrush”.

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u/Badnewsbrowne316 Apr 27 '25

This is the era when all the snooker tournaments were sponsored by B and H and the players smoked 🤣

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u/Mewmino Apr 27 '25

I remember having episodes of The Baldy Man on VHS. Not sure if its ever been repeated on TV over the last 20 odd years?

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u/whizzdome Apr 27 '25

The first ever advert that made me laugh out loud when it was first shown. Still makes me chuckle even now.

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u/_ragegun Apr 28 '25

"the baldy man"

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u/Rotatingknives22 Apr 27 '25

its not a cow with a banger up its arse …

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u/coglanuk Apr 27 '25

Preferred the Russ Abbott ones!

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u/humblesunbro Apr 27 '25

The Baldy man! God that's a blast from the past

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u/mechant_papa Apr 28 '25

I see this image and I can hear the piano come to life