American Reacts to Roy Castle, James Casey & Eli Woods - The Box Sketch - Michael Parkinson Show
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Roy Castle could play almost any instrument and tap dance he had a show called record breakers. Loved him.
Roy was in the Guinness Book of Records for both iirc.
Most number of instruments he could play and most taps in a certain time.
Not sure about the former, but he performed the tap dancing record breaking tap dance on Recordbreakers.
@@pencilpauli9442 Remember it well.
Roy was a great bloke
He died from lung cancer caused by second hand smoke. Having to perform in smoke filled working men's clubs on his way up.
Roy Castle (the one with the box) was very talented and could play loads of instruments and even held a number of world records, including playing 43 different instruments in 4 minutes. He also had the record for the fastest tap dancing, at 1,440 taps a minute - 24 taps a second. He had in total 9 world records. Sadly he died quite young of lung cancer aged just 62. He was a non smoker but put the lung cancer down to playing in smokey venues when he was younger.
The jury's out though. He's still to this day the only person said to have died from 2nd hand smoke
@@annother3350 So another world record then !!!!! No pun on your name intended .
@@annother3350 Completely incorrect.
@@AnglOsAxOn2 nah
@@annother3350 Guessing by that response you have no medical knowledge what so ever, which is fine. Personally I would have done some research prior to writing "Nah"
Roy Castle was another of those stars of Kids TV like Bernard Cribbins and John Noakes. He presented Record Breakers, the show about World Records, and held the world record for having the most world records.
I believe Roy Castle and Eli Woods originally performed this sketch with a comedian called Jimmy James in the 1960s. Although before my time I think it was very well known at the time. Presumably they decided to reprieve it with James Casey standing in for his father Jimmy James who had passed away by then.
I guess we'll never know whether Mr Castle really did have two lions, a giraffe and an elephant in his box. I never really believed the lions were in it because they would have eaten the giraffe.
Memories of early television when wonderful old music hall acts were still around.🇬🇧
I was told by my late dad that the story is indeed true because the lions were vegetarian. Who knew?
The Jimmy James version is here on TH-cam. I've just noticed it at the right so will be watching that next.
I remember watching the three of them on Parkinson. Roy Castle was an immensely talented performer. Actor, comic, musician, dancer and singer! Classic comedy.
Both Roy Castle and Bernard Cribbins were Doctor Who companions in two 1960s films starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor. Castle and Cribbins became hugely popular television personalities, especially on children's TV, and rarely off our screens.
I met Roy Castle by accident we were walking past each other in a hotel, I smiled he stopped and said hello and smiled, I said hello. This was when he was very ill and I thought how kind. He was a amazing dancer a lovely talented man.
One of the greatest sketches of all time.
Quite simply, if Roy Castle was American he’d be up there with Gene Kelly and Sammy Davis Jr.
The box sketch is one James Casey inherited from his Dad Jimmy James, who was a very popular comedian up until his death in the sixties, Jimmy performed it from before WW2. Eli Woods, was Casey's cousin and had done it with Jimmy James. Roy Castle (the one with the box) also did it with Jimmy, though sometimes James Casey would take that role with his father. They adjusted and added in bits in this version but the core of the sketch is unchanged. It's a great routine.
FYI: Roy Castle, Eli Woods and Jimmy James doing the 'box' sketch here:
th-cam.com/video/nH5BFVKtlts/w-d-xo.html
The timing and the facial expressions are the true marks of professionals - ! 😊
I remember them but needed a reminder and there must be a hundred more from my youth ,thank's for the memory.
I am an 88 year old man, and I cannot tell you just how many times I have seen this sketch done live. The very first time was at the Moss Empire in Leeds, and way back then there was not that much on TV, so it was relatively new to the whole audience and the place was in hysterics. Pure comedy, no filth, no innuendos, just good old farce. Roy Castle was so talented in his own act. and at the early performances of this sketch I am pretty sure that the "Straight man" was Jimmy James.
Damn that’s awesome. 88 is awesome too, appreciate you Terry
Another legend in Roy Castle, R.I.P. Roy.
Roy Castle was one of those all-round entertainers who was a household name in the 70's, (especially on children's TV.) He starred in one Carry On film, namely Up The Khyber, and will always be intrinsically linked with Record Breakers, the show he starred in alongside the co-founder of the Guinness Book of world records, Norris McWhirter, (along with his twin brother Ross.) During one segment of the show, the studio audience of kids would ask about any record they could think of and Norris would answer it without hesitation.
Squirrel, your look of love said it all. You appreciate daft.
Oh my Roy Castle.. now my child hood TV is flooding back
A classic sketch from way back. Parky got them to do it on his talk show. There are old versions in genuine black and white to view.
So glad you did this sketch. As people have said it was originally done by Jimmy James, James Casey's dad in the 50's. I'm a big fan of old music hall comedians. I would love it if you could check out Max miller, Rob Wilton or Frank Randle sketches. There a few online I think.
For Robb Wilton, I particularly liked his 1931 The Fire Chief or 1943 The Home Guard / The Day War Broke Out . :)
I loved the old 50's comedians from the BBC....Jimmy James...Sandy Brown...Jimmy Jewell..Ben Warris..Hylda Baker..and my favourite..Harry Worth...priceless..innocent fun
This never gets old.
Always laugh out loud.
Hi squirrel just another bit of comedy Gold, I'm 59 now and i remember growing up with this, it was amazing back then when me and my 3 brothers and mum and dad would all cuddle up in front of a roaring hot fire with logs and coal that was our only heat source and in the winter we had ice on the inside of the bedroom windows but it was so good looking back and it's such a shame that people can't live like that today it's all game's on the computer with no interaction such a shame, brilliant as always squirrel 🍻🙏
I've never seen this before. Roy Castle was a very talent multi entertainer, he sang, danced, acted, he did everything. He left us too young. Eli Woods was underrated but was a very good comic actor. I think the black & white issue might have been because ITV camera technicians were in dispute at the time with the broadcaster
Parkinson was BBC. If you watch to the end,the colour returns.
They did it black and white because it's a sketch from music hall most likely. Made it look old on purpose.
Scratch the colour returning but, thought i got a hint,but it was just the progress bar.
@@AndrewHalliwell I check his bio and Parky did work for ITV from 1982 until the late 1980's. There was a strike at ITV but that was in 1979 so you might be correct with the black & white. The sketch was first show in 1953 and they might have been trying to recreate that
@@GenialHarryGrout Also many people only had b/w vid tape recorders
James Casey was a young captain in the army having turned down a place at public school to join WW2, he then joined the BBC as a writer and producer for BBC radio comedy programmes..
Seen this so many times never fails.
I had the pleasure of meeting Roy Castle. He was an absolutely delightful man. I'm glad you found him.
A nice change for an American not to keep stopping the video to comment.
Great stuff Squirrel.Back in the day before an expletive was every other word.🇬🇧
Timing is immaculate.
What a superb routine! You should look at the other versions of this sketch that are on TH-cam. All slightly different but equally fantastic. The one where Eli makes an impromptu comment sends them all for a spin and Eli has to turn away as he is laughing so much. I would post a link to it but not sure if that is allowed. It does have the words Stooges act in the title too
I remember watching this on television, its really good to see it again after all these years.
Jim Casey (the one who's smoking - now THAT ages it!) was a northern comic from the same sort of professional background as Hylda Baker. You can see it in some of his mannerisms, the physical comedy. His patter is different, he's actually quite London in his "man in charge" characterisation; he wasn't a clown. Eli, the tall chap, was his cousin. They'd been young comics together in Jim's dad's act (Jimmy James) in the 1940s. I imagine this is recapturing the old act from the 1950s, hence the B&W (I think the Parkinson show had always been colour, starting as it did in he early 70s), which is clearly video, not film. Jim Casey had long been more of a producer and impresario for tv, mostly in Manchester. He think he discovered some very famous acts.
Roy Castle was one of those odd stories. Incredibly talented, especially as a musician, very likeable, never not working (if you ever put yourself through Carry On Up The Khyber, he's one of the stars and does a brilliant turn). But he was never really a big star in the public view, just a very reliable and safe pair of hands that people were comfortable watching.
If we are going back this far , better take a look at Wilson , Keppel and Betty - Sand Dance
James Casey and Eli Woods were cousins of each other. Eli Woods (the tall one) usually used to perform the Box Sketch with his uncle Jimmy James (James Casey’s father).
There is a bit of a story to this particular sketch. It was actually created by Jimmy Casey's father - Jimmy James - who was famous in the UK during and after the war. It is a sketch that has been performed by members of the James family over of period of about 40 years. Here is an earlier version with Jimmy James in the lead:
th-cam.com/video/VGcRynUHOt0/w-d-xo.html
Recorded in 1982 on VHS video in Black & White by mistake..
Roy Castle changed Britain. He never smoked but acquired lung cancer (which eventually killed him) from working in smoke-filled clubs and theatres. As he was dying he fought for a no smoking at work policy, and won. Now there’s no smoking in any public place in the UK. Roy Castle was a forerunner of that. Great musician too.
As you're such a fan of the Parkinson Show, you should really check out probably the finest musical guests he ever had!
The world's premier violinist, Itzhak Perlman, appeared on the show, at the same time as the world's premier harmonica player, Larry Adler.
Michael Parkinson asked them if they'd grace the evening with a little musical piece, unrehearsed, & completely off the cuff!
The result was the most moving, & easily the best, rendition of Summertime you're ever likely to hear!
Two masters of their instruments in complete harmony........ it's perfection!
They originally performed that sketch with Jimmy James in 1961. Our Eli was a classic character I remember from my childhood. I must admit I had forgotten all about it. Thanks for the reminder.
I knew Roy Castle ad Eli Woods but had to look up James Casey ...... as well as being a performer he was a producer at the BBC and 'discovered' amongst others Ken Dodd, Jimmy Clitheroe, Hinge and Bracket and Les Dawson !
Excellent
I loved this when I was young. It was originally performed by Jimmy James, father of James Casey (The one in the middle). James Casey appeared in the act with his father and took over whan his father died.. Jimmy James was before my time, he was my Dad's era and my Dad was a huge fan of his. There are a couple of videos of Jimmy James performing this sketch on youtube but each are slightly edited, probably because bits are missing.
This particular programme was in colour. I believe the person who uploaded this recorded it in black and white by mistake.
James Casey Jr. features in this classic, brilliant sketch.
His father, Jimmy James, was also a fine comedian, on the boards of variety and vaudeville, performing this sketch with Eli and Roy. Eli's profound stutter is genuine, BTW. Must have taken him some balls to perform! Comedy gold - and James did an excellent job, too, in homage to his dad. I believe this is available on the Tube by the You.
Roy Castle was an all round Entertainer. He hosted many TV Shows , he could play any instrument, a great dancer and singer. I don’t much about the one in the middle but the tall thin one, Eli Wood was a stooge for another great British Comedian by the name of Hilda Baker, she was hilarious and worth looking up!
My apologies Eli Wood was not the Stooge for Hilda Baker but for Jimmy James, my bad. However Hilda Baker is still worth looking up!
I remember them reviving this in the 80s. You'd see it every now and then on variety shows. It was like heritage comedy even in the 80s. And my family still quotes it. If we can't fit something in a full cupboard or something, someone will say "stick it in the box, next to the elephant."
They had a radio show as well Castles on the air . It had loads of these type of sketches.. brilliant
Perfect comic timing
Old school humor and that are good singing guy’s I like them 😹😂✌🏼🐿️
The clip is black and white very probably because it is one that was distributed by the BBC overseas to other broadcasters. The BBC had a policy back then of wiping the tapes for re-use and it is possible that they had wiped the original colour version of the program as broadcast in the UK so all that is left as a record is these distributed tapes that have been found to still exist in archives and tape libraries abroad.
Ive never seen that before. Good clean 10 minutes of fun. No agendas, no whingeing excellent. Keep finding this stuff it is good and you seem to have picked up a talent for finding the obscure.
Roy Castle was just a brilliant performer sadly died of lung cancer having never had a cigarette. All due to all the smokey clubs he used to perform in RIP
James Casey (the guy in the middle who did most of the talking) was the cousin of Eli Woods (whose birth name was John Casey). James inherited this routine from his father, the music hall performer Jimmy Hames who also had Eli (aka John, his nephew) as stooge. Eli had a very long career in comedy, almost always playing the rather dim-witted straight man. He was a very familiar (and unmistakeable) face on TV in the 60s and 70s.
Jimmy James had a house built in my hometown ( I still live there ).
I was having drum tuition from a man named Dick Carlton. That was his stage name. Richard Instone was his real name.
Anyway Dick told me about the house ant spoke of the times he stayed there.
Dick also was multi talented. Played many instruments and was a top tap dancer.
He also worked with Jimmy james doing the sketches.
And yes he worked with Roy Castle. You know what they say, birds of a feather.
He told me many tales of working with these legends.
For those outside the UK, 'barmy' means nuts, loony, insane - you get the picture. Like you said good clean comedy.
From back in the day when one man was an all round entertainer.
Roy was another legend of my childhood
I always think of Roy being the UK's Sammy Davies jnr. ❤
I really liked Roy Castle, got him in a horror fulm and a Dr Who movie abd he was great musician and amazing tap dancer. He hosted The Record Breakers which was on tv when I was a kid
I found Roy Castle and Ronnie Barker doing a short play about Laurel and Hardy on YT.
Roy Castle a real entertainer fell foul to second hand smoke. In night clubs R.I.P Roy...
Roy was phenomenally versatile. Ace trumpeter among many other things. He reckoned it was performing in smoky clubs that caused his demise
Where can we ever find their likes again?❤
I think it was Roy Castle and Christopher Timothy I saw at a theatre in London in "underneath the arches"- the story of Bud Flanagan and Lou Allen. I think Bud's widow had seen them in the early preview performances and said they were the perfect pair to do the Flanagan and Allen Songs
Chesney Allen
Roy Hudd and Christopher Timothy played Flanagan and Allen in the show 'Underneath the Arches: the Story of Flanagan and Allen'.Bernie Winters and Leslie Crowther played the couple at the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday Gala.
@@ed_ward_1430 Yep I was confused (in part as Roy Hudd played Roy Castle's role in the box sketch and other sketches at a Sunderland Empire performance - its on YT)
Little didn't you know, Roy Castle could play nearly every music instrument, he died of smoking related issues, yet he never smoked..eg 2nd hand smoke..Luss, the start of the banning of smoking (it took years through)
Slightly reminds me of Stanley Holloway ( and Jack Warner ) Monologues.
Roy Castle holds a Guinness World Record for the fastest Tap Dance.
1,440 Taps per minute, that’s 24 Taps per second. He achieved this on the 14th January 1973.
The Record hasn’t been beaten yet.
It seems that no-one has made a reaction video to Ray Alan and Lord Charles! 😉
not that many good vids to look at unfortunatly
I had never seen this before, and keep watching it. Judging by your reaction, I'm thinking of making you an honorary Brit. You'll have to pay me a subscription of course.
You went even further up in my estimation when you appreciated that lovely Northern English comedy. Harmless, well-acted and utter nonsense. You got it right off. Thanks once again.
The Michael Parkinson show was always in colour.
it's a tour de force of amongst other things timing and just plain old Comedy Schtick
ROY CASTLE HELD THE WORLD RECORD FOR MOST TAPS IN A MINUTE, GUINESS BOOKS RECORDS
Slap stick comedy you cant beat it.
So true Jack
Nice one Tony, Another Gem, I got PM 82 but could not narrow it down to witch show. All the best from Wales :)
Good work man. Tries to make it tough. Enjoyed it may do clues more often lol
We think this is 1982 , for The 1961 performance on the Roy Castle Show - " th-cam.com/video/r9gIoc4lU4k/w-d-xo.html " with Jimmy James . Some subtle differences and no song outro, worth looking at just for yourself
Thanks for the stroll down Memory Lane Squirrel.
TV show was on TH-cam don't no if still is even done comic relief special years after
Here's a clip I'd never seen before. It features Roy Castle and Bernard Cribbins who you saw recently singing Right Said Fred, and Hole in the Road. Two geniuses playing off one another, and showing the breadth of their talent.
th-cam.com/video/ZycKBpGoTh8/w-d-xo.html
Roy died of cancer brought on by passive smoking playing clubs and large venues.
His death paved the way for smoke free zones.
He's sadly missed.
A fantastic entertainer.
It was never proven though. Many non smokers get lung cancer
@@annother3350 so how do they get lung cancer if they don't smoke?
I'd rule out asbestos in this case. He died from inhaling other people's cigarette smoke because that's what the autopsy report said was the cause and the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation has also said that was the cause.
@@tontusgingerus That was only his claims - the autopsy report did not say that - thats a lie - therefore the lung cancer foundation cannot claim that.
@@tontusgingerus In America 10%-20% of people get lung cancer having never smoked or been around smokers.
They reckon its genetic
@@annother3350 oh OK, well I suppose he played in cupboards with lagged pipes, or maybe Chernobyl because there is no history of his family having the disease so hereditary is ruled out.
So what one is it? Radiation or pipe lagging due to having concerts in factory cupboards, because the guy never smoked in his life, so do tell what he died from and why.
Roy Castle did a great Stan Laurel impersonation. He did a TV special called Another Fine Mess with Ronnie Barker where they played Laurel And Hardy-type characters, and it was brilliant. I heartily recommend it, especially knowing your appreciation for Ronnie B.
th-cam.com/video/s2MncNud0oQ/w-d-xo.html
The Yanks Won’t Get This It’s Great British Comedy !
I haven’t seen this. It’s completely difficult from what Roy Castle is most famous for.
I have a Roy Castle Record (45rpm Philips , early 1960s)
From the script and the terminology used this is probably a very old routine thus the black and white treatment !!
Us British are brilliant at daft logic comedy as in Spike Milligan or Goons or Monty Python.☝☝☝
You don't get them like that anymore😊
its 1962.
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