The 1970s was a vintage era in British comedy, so many wonderful shows regularly on our tv's at the time. Great writers and comedy actors of timing and star quality , from Rising Damp to The Two Ronnies, from Porridge to Steptoe & Son....so many to name in this Golden decade....miss those times
You are so right. British tv during the 70's was indeed awash with a multitude of great shows. Fawlty Towers. The Good Life. Mother makes 3 & 5. Terry & June. Amazingly June Whitfield did a radio show am of 29.12.18 & died that evening. Literally working to the end. Actually you are right too many to mention.
"Ridiculous comment". I couldn't agree more. Your level of self criticism is admirable. Though I suspect you are referring to my comment as opposed to your own "Ridiculous comment". Now I would not normally respond in such detail, but just for you EnglishMike I will make an exception. In the world we now exist in the woke-left have such influence over what is acceptable that you rarely see re runs of anything from this era of TV without either a warning that "it contains humour of its time" or words bleeped out. Furthermore, any remake would by default have to cast a black male in a superior role, obviously to include his white/blonde wife and their mixed-race children. Also there would have to be token homosexuals and almost certainly a Muslim. Tell me where in Steptoe & Son or Rising Damp these characters would fit in? Furthermore some of the "of the time" language would not be permitted as words/phrases that were used back 'in the day' would not be broadcast today for fear of upsetting some humourless pillock. You only have to look at the "Goodnight Sweetheart 2016" that was produced to see these impositions on what was a fabulous original series. Thank god they dropped the idea of a further series. Look at our soap operas (I don't, but my wife does). I live in a rural area but assure you the number of blacks and gays is nothing like the number in CoronationFarmEnders. Humour and comedy in 2023 is pathetic, lacking in depth, lacking humour, not remotely funny, and irrelevant. Ironically, rather like your comment @@EnglishMike
And every one rehearsed to perfection! Honestly. They timed everything. It's absolutely not a criticism btw. In my eyes it just enhances their professionalism and approach to comedy. Totally agree with your comment though. Comedy at its very best
@@Nina5144 100%. I was thinking the same. I used too enjoy the Young Ones and watched it recently and thought exactly the same. And I also realised that the over reliance of just saying 'Margaret Thatcher' and everyone laughing became very tired very fast. Whereas these two have never aged.
I never appreciated this duo as a kid (I was more of a Two Ronnies fan), but watching as an adult they're absolutely masterful. "Thirty years ? It seemed longer". Perfect :)
Utter comedy genius. Eric is brilliant as always and Ernie is just superb. It always saddens me that Ernie didn't get the acclaim of Eric as he was an outstanding comedian. RIP you two wonderful souls.
Really I think they undersold Ernie because he was TECHNICALLY the straight man, but he wasn't really. Eric, the 'dumb one', kept fighting back unexpectedly and shattering his arrogance and that made BOTH of them hilarious.
I was at the time a teenager and in the' T V times' the first thing i looked for was when are Eric and Ern on, the mid 1970's we were spoiled by the talent on T V at that time, never to be repeated.
I love watching this. The bubbling emotions of betrayal and jealousy tenuously held in check by British etiquette. It really was like a romance between friends.
We would be thinking about the evening's Christmas Show all day. Just waiting to see those two wonderful guys walk onto the stage,and break straight into the incredible routine!
Leeds City Varieties OMG beautiful stage. Lovely to hear it mentioned. Had the pleasure of standing on it a few times looking out to the stands. I can understand why people like this perform as they do. It's magical to have a packed house all looking at you and hanging on to your every word! Brilliant stuff, thanks for posting it.
peter dancigar... "don't you understand, you're past it, you're over the hill, you're redundant. You know what's happening, you're getting old fashioned" While I'm here, please explain why you can't watch TV with a family now?
God what a hipster thing to say. There's plenty of good television now, just because you don't know what it is, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You're not special.
I agree , 100 channels and you have to cherry pick the odd programme to watch , I grew up watching tv in the 70s and 80s and we only had 3 or 4 channels but there was always something good to watch , all the big stars are long gone now , Des O'Connor one of the latest to leave us , tv shows to a point are replaced with this infatuation with z list celebrities with no real talent of any worth , or talent shows with people who really are not very talented , its the media machine and editing which makes them appear so. And of course the same presenters on virtually every show , can someone really explain why Ant and Dec have lasted this long ? Anyway long reply over , back to u tube to watch the legends!! 😁
@@filipzawistowski4390 Anything worth watching is behind paywalls, not on the BBC... and also the BBC has become so left wing ideologically biased... it's like watching an unsubtly bad propaganda station which is anti-white male. Hope they abolish the unfair TV license soon, so that poor people can afford to turn their heating on longer in the winter... fancy having to pay for a product you don't watch!
Damn I'd actually forgotten how good these guys were. They didn't stumble or stutter. Just brilliantly performed. And the jokes were very cheesy, but they worked so well.
Can you imagine having watched Coronation Street in 1960 and then a few weeks later emigrating to Australia, only to return to England 63 years later, turn on the TV and find that the same programme was still airing on ITV. And they wonder why nobody watches terrestrial television any more. !! 🤪
@@mymartianhome True. Ernie's character was only the 100% smart and sensible one in his own mind. He was in fact just a bumbling equal to Eric, and Eric had just enough brains himself to always remind him that. I think heirarchies are more funny when they're clearly not stable and the characters are non-stop fighting to be on top.
This aired on BBC Two in 1971 and not BBC One. The duo moved to the BBC in 1968 and because BBC Two was the only channel then in the UK to be broadcast in colour they made their early series here. It was in the autumn of 1971 that the duo moved to BBC One. Bit of an odd situation, as their series from 1968-1971 was on BBC Two, but their Christmas Shows would always air on BBC One. Their first show on BBC One aired on Sunday 19th September 1971.
So much better than the so called comedy they're putting on now. If they didn't announce it as comedy you would never guess. Offensive and rude doesn't equate to humour it's lazy and talentless.
If you ever wanted to name someone as the goat of comedy there 2 are it barker might have been called the guvnor these are the benchmark that set the bar high which other comedians aspire to be missed so missed
Nobody on British tv today , comes anywhere near them in constant entertainment value...incredible duo
Classic. Absolute classic. Cannot be replicated. RIP Eric and Ern.
He actually played a good part playing Eric. 😂😂
i could not tell the difference 🤣🤣
v poor and sexist folk - twuddent last like Bunny Hill ne'er
I just loved them so much as a kid, and at 65 ,I confess I still do.❤
The 1970s was a vintage era in British comedy, so many wonderful shows regularly on our tv's at the time. Great writers and comedy actors of timing and star quality , from Rising Damp to The Two Ronnies, from Porridge to Steptoe & Son....so many to name in this Golden decade....miss those times
...and likely not a single show that could be made these days for fear of upsetting someone...
You are so right. British tv during the 70's was indeed awash with a multitude of great shows. Fawlty Towers. The Good Life. Mother makes 3 & 5. Terry & June. Amazingly June Whitfield did a radio show am of 29.12.18 & died that evening. Literally working to the end. Actually you are right too many to mention.
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOneRidiculous comment.
"Ridiculous comment". I couldn't agree more. Your level of self criticism is admirable. Though I suspect you are referring to my comment as opposed to your own "Ridiculous comment".
Now I would not normally respond in such detail, but just for you EnglishMike I will make an exception. In the world we now exist in the woke-left have such influence over what is acceptable that you rarely see re runs of anything from this era of TV without either a warning that "it contains humour of its time" or words bleeped out. Furthermore, any remake would by default have to cast a black male in a superior role, obviously to include his white/blonde wife and their mixed-race children. Also there would have to be token homosexuals and almost certainly a Muslim. Tell me where in Steptoe & Son or Rising Damp these characters would fit in? Furthermore some of the "of the time" language would not be permitted as words/phrases that were used back 'in the day' would not be broadcast today for fear of upsetting some humourless pillock. You only have to look at the "Goodnight Sweetheart 2016" that was produced to see these impositions on what was a fabulous original series. Thank god they dropped the idea of a further series.
Look at our soap operas (I don't, but my wife does). I live in a rural area but assure you the number of blacks and gays is nothing like the number in CoronationFarmEnders.
Humour and comedy in 2023 is pathetic, lacking in depth, lacking humour, not remotely funny, and irrelevant. Ironically, rather like your comment @@EnglishMike
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOneAs I suspected, you're just a bog standard racist homophobic bigot the world has left behind. Oh well.
Comedy at its very best, no swearing to get cheap laughs & plenty of ad libs 👏
And every one rehearsed to perfection! Honestly. They timed everything. It's absolutely not a criticism btw. In my eyes it just enhances their professionalism and approach to comedy. Totally agree with your comment though. Comedy at its very best
Those were the days. Eric and Ernie were one of the many great comedy gems in a golden era of so many fantastic comedians.
And the 80s happened with ‘new’ comedians. I watched The Young Ones recently and although I loved it the time, it was pretty dire and cringeworthy
@@Nina5144 100%. I was thinking the same. I used too enjoy the Young Ones and watched it recently and thought exactly the same. And I also realised that the over reliance of just saying 'Margaret Thatcher' and everyone laughing became very tired very fast. Whereas these two have never aged.
Whoever wrote this sketch needs a medal.
I never appreciated this duo as a kid (I was more of a Two Ronnies fan), but watching as an adult they're absolutely masterful. "Thirty years ? It seemed longer". Perfect :)
Never seen this before. It's almost as if they've recorded a brand new sketch for 2022
Nor me. Great Christmas surprise. Oh boy. And it was brilliant.
Same here. Or I've forgotten, which is obviously possible.
Love TH-cam for these trips down memory lane even if we don't remember it. 😂
This has got to be AI or something 😂
Just about to say the same thing !
I love this ..its childish and innocent and would be enjoyed by the very young as well as the very old. The energy is so good.
Utter comedy genius. Eric is brilliant as always and Ernie is just superb. It always saddens me that Ernie didn't get the acclaim of Eric as he was an outstanding comedian. RIP you two wonderful souls.
Really I think they undersold Ernie because he was TECHNICALLY the straight man, but he wasn't really. Eric, the 'dumb one', kept fighting back unexpectedly and shattering his arrogance and that made BOTH of them hilarious.
Absolutely
@@selenaannesmith1604 Great singer as well he should have sung more
Two Masters of their art, brilliant to watch. Sending up themselves like few can today.. Lovely
I loved these two I really did. Wonderful memories
Eric’s timing and ripostes were always good, but this one took his own top prize for subtlety and perfection.
I wish I had been alive to see their shows. I'm so glad we have TH-cam or I'd have missed out on some amazing comedy
Well said Molly. A golden era of British comedy at its best.
I was at the time a teenager and in the' T V times' the first thing i looked for was when are Eric and Ern on, the mid 1970's we were spoiled by the talent on T V at that time, never to be repeated.
That Richard Osman gets everywhere.
Two of the greatest comedians ever.
A great sketch from 2 great comedy legends. Their comedy will live forever.
Just brilliant-superb partners and yes very very funny 😁-sadly missed
I miss those days so much it was all about great TV and laughter ❤️
and not a hint of racism, sexism, rudeness, smut, swearing, nudity, or indeed anything offensive. Happy days indeed.
There don,t make comedy like this any more,what a double act.One of the great memories as a lad growing up from TV land
I absolutely love these guys. Eric is a legend am still enjoying watching them and just can’t stop laughing
Gordon Clyde who also played The InterviewerThe Dick Emery Show was fantastic as young Eric. Grazina Frame played Eric's new partner.
He deserved great credit for his flawless impersonation.
Thanks - I was looking for this comment.
how good was he
Loved Dick Emery....
She was the singing voice for the female love interest of Cliff Richard in his early films, and she was born in Poulton le Fylde !
TRULY BRILLIANT AND RIGHTLY PUT ON A PEDESTAL OF BRITISH COMEDY “LEGENDS”
I love watching this. The bubbling emotions of betrayal and jealousy tenuously held in check by British etiquette. It really was like a romance between friends.
Ernie's acting skills are so good in this sketch
Eric and Ernie were brilliant
Which Eric..
Never missed a M&W show.... always looking forward to the Christmas shows....
We would be thinking about the evening's Christmas Show all day. Just waiting to see those two wonderful guys walk onto the stage,and break straight into the incredible routine!
If you missed the show back in those days, it was gone! And you only had three channels to choose from...
Leeds City Varieties OMG beautiful stage. Lovely to hear it mentioned. Had the pleasure of standing on it a few times looking out to the stands. I can understand why people like this perform as they do. It's magical to have a packed house all looking at you and hanging on to your every word! Brilliant stuff, thanks for posting it.
So good to see this again :-)
Blimey O'Reilly!! Never seen this before!
Thanks so much for posting.
First time I’ve seen this, brilliant
@@MrVinylment Me also,what a find lol
I love that Eric is really struggling not to laugh.
So is Ern - and Ern and Eric. :-)
It's part of the act , no one else is laughing apart from a few imbeciles such as yourself you need grow up and get a life
😂😂😂😂😂
The BBC back in the 70's when Saturday night viewing was something to look forward to.
Exactly! Now it's drudgery like Casualty and Mrs Brown.
Paul DG And now I am thankful for TH-cam! 😊
1970's a time before the filthy degenerate peedo's came out of the shadows.....
Absolutely mate it was enjoyable to watch TV with a family, and then the BBC become liberals...
peter dancigar... "don't you understand, you're past it, you're over the hill, you're redundant. You know what's happening, you're getting old fashioned"
While I'm here, please explain why you can't watch TV with a family now?
Gordon mimicked Eric's mannerisms very well !
He is really good - really sounds like Eric. What's this Gordon guys surname?
@@Paul_1971 Gordon Clyde, also in The Dick Emery Show, and a former presenter on "Play School". He died in 2004, aged 74.
@@mistofoles yep! The "interviewer". Brilliant!
Fantastic as always
😂😂 Such brilliant memories!!!
The actor playing Eric was Gordon Clyde who passed away in 2008.
so17931p midsomer murders
He had a good 30 years left in him.
so17931p ach😯
@@Ms1corky2 17931p????
so17931p How sad. I never knew it. He was great in this
Loved watching them . My favourite growing up in the 70s
Absolutely brilliant 😂
When television was worth watching not seen television for 10 years dont think I've missed much
Nope. It's been eleven years since I have had a licence
God what a hipster thing to say. There's plenty of good television now, just because you don't know what it is, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You're not special.
@Datrén Brumairé Oh well.
I agree , 100 channels and you have to cherry pick the odd programme to watch , I grew up watching tv in the 70s and 80s and we only had 3 or 4 channels but there was always something good to watch , all the big stars are long gone now , Des O'Connor one of the latest to leave us , tv shows to a point are replaced with this infatuation with z list celebrities with no real talent of any worth , or talent shows with people who really are not very talented , its the media machine and editing which makes them appear so. And of course the same presenters on virtually every show , can someone really explain why Ant and Dec have lasted this long ? Anyway long reply over , back to u tube to watch the legends!! 😁
@@filipzawistowski4390 Anything worth watching is behind paywalls, not on the BBC... and also the BBC has become so left wing ideologically biased... it's like watching an unsubtly bad propaganda station which is anti-white male. Hope they abolish the unfair TV license soon, so that poor people can afford to turn their heating on longer in the winter... fancy having to pay for a product you don't watch!
Brilliant, the golden days of television. Not like todays unfunny rude comics. If I could build a time machine I’d go back in a heartbeat. 👍
The problem with 'back then' - These two on TV were a large part of the good bits. The rest was horrible. That's one reason they were so deeply loved.
best in the business so funny!😂😂
Not just because it's just really funny 😃🇬🇧🎬😁
But I have a tear in my eye 😢🆘💯💪😍🤠 real
ENTERTAINMENT.. RIP🙏
"Your playing all the wrong notes!" "I'm playing all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order"
yes, we have had all that...
When I read the quote, I could hear his voice :)
You're
Classic
Thanks for posting that, it is funny.
“Will you do bed sketches?”
“Yes. Only one. But it will last the whole show.” 🤣🤣
And longer if he got the chance, i’m sure.
Robert Allard he adored his WIFE
Damn I'd actually forgotten how good these guys were. They didn't stumble or stutter. Just brilliantly performed. And the jokes were very cheesy, but they worked so well.
Being American, I am saddened that I didn’t ‘discover’ them sooner. Not until the Beatles Anthology clip. Boy, what I’ve missed...
They were regulars on Ed Sullivan.
Good clean fun. They are missed!
MatchstalkMan boring*
@@mattissotrendy but
Mmm
Ernie cracking up at 3.20. I miss these two...
I thought I had seen all of M&W’s sketches but never seen this one
i loved the movies that these two made
i can't see the joint and if i could, i wouldn't tell you....Class!
Join, not joint.
They were the best 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Don't you understand?…"You're past it!"…Eric will NEVER be "past it" 😫
Can you imagine having watched Coronation Street in 1960 and then a few weeks later emigrating to Australia, only to return to England 63 years later, turn on the TV and find that the same programme was still airing on ITV. And they wonder why nobody watches terrestrial television any more. !! 🤪
Have you come back for the free medical treatment?
the best double act the UK has ever seen
I was brought with these 2 as well as the 2 Ronnie's
I loved Eric, I cried for 2 celebrities Eric and John Lennon
Richard Osman looking good, here 😂
Love the Paisley shirt and ties!
Was expecting a kid to come out as little ern😅
Ernie was much more than a straight man .
Without Ernie none of it would have worked and Eric knew that.
Part of their secret was that they both were the straight man as required.
@@mymartianhome True. Ernie's character was only the 100% smart and sensible one in his own mind. He was in fact just a bumbling equal to Eric, and Eric had just enough brains himself to always remind him that.
I think heirarchies are more funny when they're clearly not stable and the characters are non-stop fighting to be on top.
When you had to learn the " CRAFT" before you got TV work...stage then TV...learn the craft son...you'll go far.
The other Eric was the bloke who did the interviews on the Dick Emery show
Such a classic & the counterfeit Eric was very good. As if in real life they would split up, ha!
I remember buying a shirt & matching tie in Luton, I wonder if Eric went to the dame shop?
How come we lost entertainment this good! Just wtf happened. NOTHING to watch on ANY evening let alone a Saturday night 😭💔
Eric gets to throw in a few unscripted lines to make them all laugh.
No, none of it would have been unscripted, it's just performed so well that it seems like that.
Ernie was always laughing, who wouldn’t in the presence of the great Eric Morecambe.
When funny was fun!
When people stayed at home on a Saturday evening to watch tv.
So what do you do on a Saturday night?@Lee Davenport
Mainly because there was literally nothing else to do.
This aired on BBC Two in 1971 and not BBC One. The duo moved to the BBC in 1968 and because BBC Two was the only channel then in the UK to be broadcast in colour they made their early series here. It was in the autumn of 1971 that the duo moved to BBC One. Bit of an odd situation, as their series from 1968-1971 was on BBC Two, but their Christmas Shows would always air on BBC One. Their first show on BBC One aired on Sunday 19th September 1971.
Ernie Wise was one of only a handful of show-biz people the the City of Leeds has produced.
If this was 1971 then a Eric was 45 and Ernie 46. They look much older.
W F show business is not easy gruelling scheduled etc.
There was some hard paper rounds then lol
Ant and Dec are 46 and 47 now.
@@robfinlay8058 And in 50+ years time, it will be "Who And who?"
'Viewers, please do not adjust your sets, the shirts really are like that..'
Morcambe and Wise, and also Billy Connolly have been the greatest British comedians of the last 50 years.
Also Ronnie barker
Nah! TheTwo Ronnie’s were funnier, and cleverer than both of these. And, unlike Connolly, never had to rely on foul language and filth for laughs.
@@borleyboo5613 Bucketloads of innuendo and eyebrows raised every two seconds... call it good old-fashioned nudge-nudge wink-wink filth.
He is a good actor.
How clever that is!
Who were the other 2 actors in the sketch?
I don.t care what you say that is an excellent wig no joins anywhere ha ha ha
Who was the big guy? He was good too..
Richard Osman looks young here.....
We all live our lives in the past and with the modern BBC who can blame us.
Who was the third guy? His impression was pretty good!
Who's the girl ?
The Morecambe and Wise Show (BBC) Series 5 Episode 3
Broadcast: 06/05/1971
Never seen this one before? Brilliant! Who is the tall guy?
So much better than the so called comedy they're putting on now.
If they didn't announce it as comedy you would never guess.
Offensive and rude doesn't equate to humour it's lazy and talentless.
the ‘second’ Eric! was he the same man in the “you are awful, but i like you sketches”. on Dick Emery shows?
Was it Cliff Richards on stilts?
Epsidoe 5.3 The wonderful Gordon Clyde as New Eric.
Simpler happier days.
Which Gordon is this? Thanks for the video!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Clyde
Who is the new partner?
Whats his name?
I was only 4 when they made this. 😐
Brilliant
If you ever wanted to name someone as the goat of comedy there 2 are it barker might have been called the guvnor these are the benchmark that set the bar high which other comedians aspire to be missed so missed
Looks like Richard Osman!
That's what I thought!
Hank Marvin.
Richard Osman's dad?