# Loadsamoney Loadsamoney is a Cockney character and 1988 novelty single created by British comedian Harry Enfield, built around a boastful plasterer waving fistfuls of cash. The character skewered Thatcher-era yuppie greed on Channel 4, then found a second life online decades later after Tripwire Interactive's 2009 shooter Killing Floor turned the catchphrase into a running in-joke among PC gamers. ## Origin Harry Enfield debuted the Loadsamoney character on Channel 4's Saturday Live in 1985, part of the British answer to Saturday Night Live[3]. Enfield built a stable of characters for the show, but the plasterer, who boasted about his wages while waving cash at the audience, became the breakout act and moved with Enfield onto the follow-up series Friday Live. In 1988 Enfield recorded 'Loadsamoney (Doin' Up the House)', a novelty rap single in character[1]. The track peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and Enfield performed it on Top of the Pops, pushing the catchphrase from a comedy circuit joke into mainstream British slang for the Thatcher-era nouveau riche[3]. - **Platform:** Channel 4 television (origin) / YouTube and Killing Floor (viral revival) - **Creator:** Harry Enfield - **Date:** 1985 ## Overview Loadsamoney is built around one image: a smug South London plasterer fanning a wad of twenties at the camera and shouting the title phrase in a thick Cockney accent[1]. Harry Enfield played the character straight enough that some viewers missed the satire, treating the vulgar money-waver as an aspirational figure rather than a jab at 1980s greed[3]. Online, the joke shrank from a full sketch to a single audio clip. The 'LOADSAMONEY!' shout is used as a caption or voice line whenever someone acquires cash, especially inside video games, and the 1988 single supplies the backing track for endless montages and parodies[2]. ## How It Spread For roughly two decades Loadsamoney stayed a British cultural reference. The revival came from an unexpected direction: Tripwire Interactive's cooperative shooter Killing Floor, released in 2009, is set in southern England and cast Cockney voice actors for the playable mercenaries[4]. Killing zombies drops cash for teammates to pick up, and one of the pickup voice lines is a shouted 'Loads of money!' clearly modelled on Enfield's delivery[5]. Killing Floor players started digging up the original 1988 music video on YouTube and filling the comments with in-jokes from the game[1]. The clip picked up hundreds of thousands of views on the back of that traffic, and the phrase leaked into other multiplayer games including Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 whenever a player wanted to gloat about gold or kill rewards[3]. On 5 July 2012, Tripwire made the tribute official by releasing a downloadable Killing Floor character called Harold Lott, a lottery-winner in a pinstripe suit who trails pound notes behind him as he runs[6]. The DLC sealed Loadsamoney's status as a shared reference between British comedy fans and a generation of PC gamers who had never seen the original sketches. ## How to Use The typical use is a reaction: paste the shouted 'LOADSAMONEY!' clip, or the chorus of 'Doin' Up the House', over any footage of someone counting cash, cashing out a trade, or winning an in-game jackpot. In gaming clips it often accompanies a big loot drop or a killing streak that pays out currency[5]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Loadsamoney? Loadsamoney is a comedy character created by Harry Enfield in 1985, a Cockney plasterer who boasts about his wages while waving fistfuls of cash at the camera[3]. ### Where did Loadsamoney come from? Enfield first performed the character on Channel 4's sketch show Saturday Live in 1985, then released the 1988 single 'Loadsamoney (Doin' Up the House)' that hit number two in the UK[1]. ### What does Loadsamoney mean? The name is a mash-up of 'loads of money' shouted in a broad Cockney accent, and it became British shorthand for the flashy, cash-waving nouveau riche of the Thatcher era[3]. ### How do you use Loadsamoney? Online it works as an audio meme: people drop the shouted 'Loads of money!' line or the 1988 song over clips of loot drops, big paydays, or in-game cash rewards, especially in Killing Floor montages[5]. ### Is Loadsamoney still popular? It is a classic reference rather than a trending format, kept alive by the Killing Floor community and by the 2012 Harold Lott DLC character that Tripwire built around the same joke[6]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-7v4qnHP8]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abpk-eSzoEE]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loadsamoney]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCDPsA9wrCc]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51uOfM7Zmc4]() 6. [https://store.steampowered.com/app/205770/Killing_Floor__Harold_Lott_Character_Pack/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/loadsamoney Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library