This brings back memories - I worked on a cabaret show in Jersey with Jack Douglas in 1977 - some years after this was broadcast - what a lovely man he was. I was 21 during the season’s run and he sent champagne backstage for me. I will never forget that birthday!
I remember Sally James questioning his humour for not being politically correct. I was disgusted by that and I liked Sally James as child watching TisWas. That was the beginning of the sanitised victim world we now have to live in
Every generation gets nostalgic. For example, Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now (1874-75) describes the Victorian age as “a newer and worse sort of world”. Twas ever thus.
@@MrPlannery Yes, I don't doubt what you say at all (each generation being nostalgic), but matters are far worse in terms of how extreme "woke" ideologies are literally destroying UK culture and heritage, and placing innocent people at risk of persecution (we're watching it happen in real time and very rapidly)! From a Christian perspective, I'm pretty sure the likely ensuing chaos can be seen as judgement on a nation which has , on the whole, turned away from God through Jesus Christ and Christian values/morals; safety, security, and comfort can no longer be expected in other words!
This used to be shown on Granada plus in the morning before going to school and it used to crack teenage me up, especially in the dark winter months. And at night about eleven you could watch the wheeltappers and shunters and then the comedians. All great 70s comedy. Thank you for the upload, great comedy age that won't come back again.
Wheeltappers and Shunters was some of the best TV entertainment ever. Loved Colin Crompton and his bell. Bernard's singing was superb too. A great nights entertainment. Cheap pint there I bet!
This was a time when humour was humour, everyone took things in good spirit, not as today. Brilliant times, hard times, but well worth living through them. One can tell the atmosphere in this show as one that, as before, was inoffensive, good banter
OH MY DAYS IT'S BOXING DAY 2024 AND I'VE JUST FOUND THIS PIECE OF COMEDY TREASURE IM 56 NOW SO OF AN AGE WHERE THESE GUYS WERE AT THEIR PEAK STRANGE NOT SEEING BARRY CRYER WITH WHITE HAIR TOO THESE WERE THE BEST AND NOW THERE IS A VOID BECAUSE APART FROM A FEW COMEDY TODAY IS DREADFUL BECAUSE EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A JOKE THERE IS ALWAYS SOME LITTLE JUMPED UP ARSE WHO TAKES OFFENSE AND IT SUCKS IF ITS FUNNY I'LL LAUGH AT IT R I P ALL YOU GENTS ON THIS PANEL SORRY FOR CAPS LOST CONTACT LENSE SO USING 🔍🔎 😎🥂♥️😅. WOW 135 LIKES AND SOME AMAZING FEEDBACK JUST SHOWS HOW POPULAR THIS SHOW WAS I MEAN TO HAVE LES DAWSON AND SID JAMES ON THE SAME SHOW WAS AMAZING 👏206 STILL GOING 🗽🕊️👍♥️
This was brilliant! I remember it being on the TV when I was a child, but I was only 5 so I couldn't really appreciate the humour. Thanks for uploading!
A feller goes into a barbers in Liverpool, and the Barber asks what style would you like, the guy says i will have a Beatles haircut please, so the barber shaves off all his hair, the guy said the Beatles dont have their hair cut like this. The Barbers says the would do if they came in here.
Absolutely loved this... Year I was born. How much of dudes were Les Dawson & Clive Dunn... All of them Legends & I miss humour like this.. Its all shit now (excluding Father Ted/IT crowd & Alan Partridge) Ahhhhhaaaaaaaa
Davidandrews comment below mine is spot on, I’m 52 and the days when you could just laugh at daft and also clever comedy is almost dead because it upsets everyone, happy days watching this 👍
Les Dawson's delivery was first class. Interesting that youtube thinks Drake was mentioned, when he was born 15 years after the show was transmitted. It also has a picture of Jack Douglas the American comedy writer. Machines will never replace humans!
It's so strange for me seeing Barry as the host here. He was always on the panel in every game show I ever remembered as a child. I never realised back then how much he'd written for all the greats.
No idea who Ted and Ray are,but the rest were comedy giants. Really miss Les Dawson. And I remember Clive Dunn as grandad,one of my favourite growing up. Thanks for uploading.
Ted Ray was a popular comedian on the radio during the 40,s, 50's and 60's. His BBC radio show, Ray's A Laugh ran for 12 years. He was involved in a car crash in 1975 which left him dependent on crutches to get about and suffered a fatal heart attack in 1977 aged 71. Ray Martine was a stand up comedian from Londons East End who had a reputation for pithy delivery and a devil may care attitude. In the early to mid sixties he compered a show called Stars and Garters which was hugely popular and moved on to other projects in the latter half of the sixties and also worked clubs and pubs in London. He was cast in this show, jokers wild, and when it finished in the mid seventies he re-entered the cabaret circuit but eventually, at the end of the seventies, he dropped out of performing and went into the antiques business. His big fans included Peter Cook and Terry Thomas who apparently recommended Ray to anyone he met. He died in 2002 of liver disease at the age of 73 in a Nursing home in Newcastle.
Unlike modern panel show doesn't seem stage managed and rehearsed. Les showed his true colours as a comic while the others are actors who came to the fore in comic roles. Don't know about Ray Martine, never heard of him.
Ray Martine was a stand up comedian from Londons East End who had a reputation for pithy delivery and a devil may care attitude. In the early to mid sixties he compered a show called Stars and Garters which was hugely popular and moved on to other projects in the latter half of the sixties and also worked clubs and pubs in London. He was cast in this show, jokers wild, and when it finished in the mid seventies he re-entered the cabaret circuit but eventually, at the end of the seventies, he dropped out of performing and went into the antiques business. His big fans included Peter Cook and Terry Thomas who apparently recommended Ray to anyone he met. He died in 2002 of liver disease at the age of 73 in a Nursing home in Newcastle.
Im the same i came about this by chance and I'm 59. Different times mate 3 channels, we all laughed at the same thing instead of complaining about 300 channels we have now being anti this that and the other
Wow , i didnt realise i was so nostalgic but this made me long for the 70s when i was a kid. I know u cant halt progression but it doesnt necessarily make it a better place , easier, yes - better, no.
I agree. Considering it was scripted and they had prior notice too find a joke, you'd think they'd have selected better ones. Les Dawson had a few good lines, but the others were fairly weak. My opinion I realise, and no doubt people will disagree, but that's what makes the world go round!
When Jack Douglas first appeared on the Carry On team, Sid James (allegedly) told him - “I want no ad-libs on my scenes.” “I’m not a comedian I am a comedy actor and I work to the script. You should do the same.”
Interestingly clive dunne was an actor who served in the British army during the second world war ,having been captured in crete he spent 4 years in a pow camp in Austria
Almost all of the talent from that era served. Think of the Carry On crew - they were all in the forces during the war. Peter Butterworth was in Colditz, and I believe he was on the escape committee - his career is worth looking up. Kenneth Williams, God rest, was a Royal Engineer (survey Section). They all did their bit.
Great to see these guys together. This is the Britain I remember growing up in. Missing it greatly now. Rip.
Indeed, so many great people back then. This was my era too. Look at the crap we have now
Yes me too. It's gone now. Sadly
Its gone forever sadly
This brings back memories - I worked on a cabaret show in Jersey with Jack Douglas in 1977 - some years after this was broadcast - what a lovely man he was. I was 21 during the season’s run and he sent champagne backstage for me. I will never forget that birthday!
CHEERS from AUSTRALIA
The innocence of the show is so refreshing...thank you for uploading.
Les Dawson was a Juggernaut of a comedian! - this world is not the same without his funny bones! ❤❤❤❤
He was a very funny man
I remember Sally James questioning his humour for not being politically correct. I was disgusted by that and I liked Sally James as child watching TisWas. That was the beginning of the sanitised victim world we now have to live in
Wow, what a time to be alive and experience England 1971!
Albeit I was only 6 at the time
Same!
Me too.
Who is Albeit? Your uncle?
I was born in November that year, I remember it well.
Year of my birth😂
Barry Cryer the comedy writing genius and legend !
such a long career too
Why is he putting on a posh voice?!
The genius that was Les Dawson.
Sid's laugh.
Never to be repeated.
Sid’s laugh was a trademark that TBH got very old and tired.
@@Dave5843-d9m A bit like Jimmy Carr's laugh, but what can they do if that's the way the laugh?🤷♂
@@CB-xr1eg Exactly! Some people are never satisfied 🙄
Never seen this before.
Best panel show I've seen all year.
Brilliant!! I'm sure so many of us desperately require a good dose of nostalgia right now, in these times (just to keep sane)!!
So true.
Every generation gets nostalgic. For example, Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now (1874-75) describes the Victorian age as “a newer and worse sort of world”.
Twas ever thus.
@@MrPlannery Yes, I don't doubt what you say at all (each generation being nostalgic), but matters are far worse in terms of how extreme "woke" ideologies are literally destroying UK culture and heritage, and placing innocent people at risk of persecution (we're watching it happen in real time and very rapidly)! From a Christian perspective, I'm pretty sure the likely ensuing chaos can be seen as judgement on a nation which has , on the whole, turned away from God through Jesus Christ and Christian values/morals; safety, security, and comfort can no longer be expected in other words!
@@trevorm1799 Will you stop with that "woke" is bad nonsense. Jesus and god didn't exist and religion is all a con.
@@trevorm1799ah, so you're a nutter. Nevermind! Have a great day combating imaginary woke enemies by watching old TV shows.
This used to be shown on Granada plus in the morning before going to school and it used to crack teenage me up, especially in the dark winter months. And at night about eleven you could watch the wheeltappers and shunters and then the comedians. All great 70s comedy. Thank you for the upload, great comedy age that won't come back again.
Thankfully the Wheeltappers and Shunters are on Tptv!
Wheeltappers and Shunters was some of the best TV entertainment ever. Loved Colin Crompton and his bell. Bernard's singing was superb too. A great nights entertainment. Cheap pint there I bet!
Totally agree. We'll never see comedy and entertainment like that again
Thanks to TPTV we can re-live those times 😅
Todays celebrities dont hold a candle to these legends
I was only 11 in 1971. How humour has changed, but it does show that Les Dawson was by far the funniest and got better over the years.
This was a time when humour was humour, everyone took things in good spirit, not as today. Brilliant times, hard times, but well worth living through them. One can tell the atmosphere in this show as one that, as before, was inoffensive, good banter
Oh my, I’m 55 in a few days & was subjected to this for far too long absolutely nothing funny, I only clicked for Sid James- clickbait ehh hahaha
Calm down
@@johnd1466 you can click back or home you know,......you're not forced to watch til the end ffs
Let me guess: the time you're nostalgic for, you were aged somewhere between your teens to your mid 20s?
The didn't have Marxists attempting a take over back then. The loss of humour is part of their arsenal.
11:00 I never would have recognised this guy without the flat cap, hair and glasses. What a legend.
This guy being Jack Douglas, did you forget his name so soon?
Perfect Boxing Day television, so many greats from days gone. 😂
Enjoyed that so much! Was laughing out loud and it brought back memories of my younger days. Thanks so much.
Les Dawson and Sid James are comedy gold.
Its Boxing Day 2024 And this was far better than the cr8p the Beeb & ITV dared to transmit yesterday !
Wholeheartedly agree.
Absolutely! Spot on Ian. (Merry Christmas by the way) :)
Apart from "Wallace & Gromit". of course.
Ray Martine.
Home Alone was repeated more times than Christmas dinner!
I remember this programme. Very funny. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for putting this on TH-cam, watching it has made my day! 😂😂😂
Great show! I never particularly rated Jack Douglas, but his smooth Gin routine here was really funny 😅. Thanks for making available 👍
I remember his character from my dim distant youth.
Similar to the pint joke in Carry on abroad
OH MY DAYS IT'S BOXING DAY 2024 AND I'VE JUST FOUND THIS PIECE OF COMEDY TREASURE IM 56 NOW SO OF AN AGE WHERE THESE GUYS WERE AT THEIR PEAK STRANGE NOT SEEING BARRY CRYER WITH WHITE HAIR TOO THESE WERE THE BEST AND NOW THERE IS A VOID BECAUSE APART FROM A FEW COMEDY TODAY IS DREADFUL BECAUSE EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A JOKE THERE IS ALWAYS SOME LITTLE JUMPED UP ARSE WHO TAKES OFFENSE AND IT SUCKS IF ITS FUNNY I'LL LAUGH AT IT R I P ALL YOU GENTS ON THIS PANEL SORRY FOR CAPS LOST CONTACT LENSE SO USING 🔍🔎 😎🥂♥️😅. WOW 135 LIKES AND SOME AMAZING FEEDBACK JUST SHOWS HOW POPULAR THIS SHOW WAS I MEAN TO HAVE LES DAWSON AND SID JAMES ON THE SAME SHOW WAS AMAZING 👏206 STILL GOING 🗽🕊️👍♥️
Same here & couldn't agree more. A better time back then - in so many ways .
Tell me this is satire
I presume that this was a 70s show, but I don't remember watching it at all.
@@a34rwl It's called comedy - rare nowadays .
The YT algorithm
The best of the best comedians
Sid James, another great South African talent! So many greats from that part of the world!
Can you give me some other names from South Africa? Interested to find out as I'm not sure I know of many.
This was brilliant! I remember it being on the TV when I was a child, but I was only 5 so I couldn't really appreciate the humour.
Thanks for uploading!
Takes me back. I remember watching all these shows with my dad. Simpler times. Cheers
Perfect 😂 didn't even turn the telly on this boxing day 2024, OG's of comedy right here 🎉
My word there's some serious talent on this show.
CHEERS from AUSTRALIA - thanks for this
Comedy Gold 😀 I loved this... what a Christmas present. Thanks.
Les Dawson was a brilliant comedian loved him back in the day 😂
Seeing Clive Dunn showing other talents than those in Dad's Army is great fun!
They were all great but Clive Dunn was the attraction to me. Always loved his work in Dad's Army. "Don't panic!"
Great to see Sid James who looked more than happy to watch and enjoy. Devised by Ray Cameron McIntyre - Michael McIntyre's dad
Well at least the McIntyre family did something worthwhile, and producing Michael wasn't it.
@@CB-xr1eg I just don't find him funny though I know a lot do. I guess humour is very subjective.
@@andrewmurray5542 I agree. I just find him irritating and annoying. I never watch his shows.
A feller goes into a barbers in Liverpool, and the Barber asks what style would you like, the guy says i will have a Beatles haircut please, so the barber shaves off all his hair, the guy said the Beatles dont have their hair cut like this.
The Barbers says the would do if they came in here.
😂
Brilliant 😂
Forgot just how good this show was. Especially with Les Dawson.
Absolutely loved this... Year I was born. How much of dudes were Les Dawson & Clive Dunn... All of them Legends & I miss humour like this.. Its all shit now (excluding Father Ted/IT crowd & Alan Partridge) Ahhhhhaaaaaaaa
Such a shame they are not with us anymore. They had class.
Sad to see that they are all no longer with us 😩
Davidandrews comment below mine is spot on, I’m 52 and the days when you could just laugh at daft and also clever comedy is almost dead because it upsets everyone, happy days watching this 👍
I stayed up until a quarter past four Saturday morning watching that , it brought back brilliant memories of life before fun was abolished.
Fun was never abolished. You got old.
I wasn’t even a year old when this was broadcast! So much better than the 💩 we have today!
Les Dawson's delivery was first class. Interesting that youtube thinks Drake was mentioned, when he was born 15 years after the show was transmitted. It also has a picture of Jack Douglas the American comedy writer. Machines will never replace humans!
Wonderful line up comedy gold
Jack Douglas with his nervous twitches was aways funny Can't imagine a gestapo joke being told on tv now lol
Barry Cryer is one of the comedy greats. So missed
It's so strange for me seeing Barry as the host here. He was always on the panel in every game show I ever remembered as a child. I never realised back then how much he'd written for all the greats.
Excellent!!! i wanna see this on TV nowadays!!
This should come back on TV. Come on, bring it back!!
@@andrewparnell6656 "Finding" someone funny you mean, also so many funny comedians out there.
Wed have to have a transvestite,black ,muslim woman and gay person fir diversty on these day for diversity.
Remember this series as a youngster growing up great memories RIP all of you 🙏🙏 🙏🙏🙏
1971 the year i was born 😂😂😂😂
No idea who Ted and Ray are,but the rest were comedy giants. Really miss Les Dawson. And I remember Clive Dunn as grandad,one of my favourite growing up. Thanks for uploading.
Ted and Ray are one person. Ted Ray.
Ted Ray was a comedy giant.
@@CB-xr1eghe/she is referring to 2 different people on the panel - Ted Ray & Ray Martine .
@@Rudy_Nuff I know mate, I was taking the piss.🙄
Ted Ray was a popular comedian on the radio during the 40,s, 50's and 60's. His BBC radio show, Ray's A Laugh ran for 12 years. He was involved in a car crash in 1975 which left him dependent on crutches to get about and suffered a fatal heart attack in 1977 aged 71. Ray Martine was a stand up comedian from Londons East End who had a reputation for pithy delivery and a devil may care attitude. In the early to mid sixties he compered a show called Stars and Garters which was hugely popular and moved on to other projects in the latter half of the sixties and also worked clubs and pubs in London. He was cast in this show, jokers wild, and when it finished in the mid seventies he re-entered the cabaret circuit but eventually, at the end of the seventies, he dropped out of performing and went into the antiques business. His big fans included Peter Cook and Terry Thomas who apparently recommended Ray to anyone he met. He died in 2002 of liver disease at the age of 73 in a Nursing home in Newcastle.
Imagine this today - 30 minutes of humour and not a single expletive.
I read Barry Cryer's biography by his son just before Christmas what a great career he had and this show gets a good mention he loved doing it
I really enjoyed that thank you 😀
I was 13 when this was broadcast and can just remember it! Some great names in there and look how young Barry Cryer looks!
Not to mention Jones from Dad's army.. 😂
@@gatehanger1385 Of course!
Jack Douglas twitching always creased me! Great in Carry ons.
It creased him too, he once dislocated his shoulder doing that.
They couldn't begin to field a show with that sort of calibre of celebrity these days.
I was 10 when this aired i don't recall it, but I'm laughing now 😂.
Unlike modern panel show doesn't seem stage managed and rehearsed. Les showed his true colours as a comic while the others are actors who came to the fore in comic roles. Don't know about Ray Martine, never heard of him.
Of course it was rehearsed
Ray Martine was a stand up comedian from Londons East End who had a reputation for pithy delivery and a devil may care attitude. In the early to mid sixties he compered a show called Stars and Garters which was hugely popular and moved on to other projects in the latter half of the sixties and also worked clubs and pubs in London. He was cast in this show, jokers wild, and when it finished in the mid seventies he re-entered the cabaret circuit but eventually, at the end of the seventies, he dropped out of performing and went into the antiques business. His big fans included Peter Cook and Terry Thomas who apparently recommended Ray to anyone he met. He died in 2002 of liver disease at the age of 73 in a Nursing home in Newcastle.
I remember watching this. :-)
I don't remember it at all
BEAUTIFUL LIFE WE HAD TOGETHER SO GOOD DAYS❤️❤️❤️🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲
My God I had forgotten this I was 5 at the time .... But it can flooding back
We need another Les Dawson. He was the absolute tonic
Really good..thoroughly enjoyed...thankyou 🎉🎉🎉
Never heard of this or seen it before, glad i fouind it. superb stuff
Im the same i came about this by chance and I'm 59. Different times mate 3 channels, we all laughed at the same thing instead of complaining about 300 channels we have now being anti this that and the other
The theme tune is the same KPM 1000 series stock music used for the "It's Prof" segments on "Vision On".
Correct....the Mad Professor in black and white only!
[Night Clubs]
"My Mother-In-Law's got a Night Club....
It's 4ft long with a nail in the end."
lol Les Dawson
This was just great. Love Sid and Les xx
Just old enough to remember this prog.
Les dawson stood out as the best joke teller in the show.
Wow , i didnt realise i was so nostalgic but this made me long for the 70s when i was a kid. I know u cant halt progression but it doesnt necessarily make it a better place , easier, yes - better, no.
Wouldn’t it have been great to have seen them on Mock the Week!😂😂😂
Thank you from 🇸🇪
Comedy at it best, and when television was worth watching.
Les Dawson was an abslute genius of comedy, imho.
Excellent video. Sadly they don’t make them like that anymore.
Where the hell did you find this old gem because I’m very grateful 🙏
Absolutely enjoyed that...when comedy was comedy.
How marvelous ,great comics ,great times
Some great comedians. And Ray Martine.
Love it! 😊❤
A Jew telling another Jew a Gestapo joke, at the end there. You won't find that on TV nowadays.
Indeed. Plenty of totally naked dating shows though!!
Those guys are sorely missed
Interesting bit of nostalgia, hasn’t aged very well, reminds you what a talent Les Dawson was. Ray Martine? Shocking.
I agree. Considering it was scripted and they had prior notice too find a joke, you'd think they'd have selected better ones. Les Dawson had a few good lines, but the others were fairly weak. My opinion I realise, and no doubt people will disagree, but that's what makes the world go round!
Great old fashioned show with real comedians. Sadly all passed away 😢
Back when TV was good clean fun
Hmm, there were jokes about womens brassieres, homosexuality, men's bottoms, but yea, good clean fun.🤔
Omg. I remember this program from many years ago.
All seven of these famous guys are no longer with us .... Life is short.
What a line-up. Great days.
Their wit is brilliant, so fast it is hard to keep up, ..if i may...certainly miss...🤣
Well, that was a real tonic!
When Jack Douglas first appeared on the Carry On team, Sid James (allegedly) told him - “I want no ad-libs on my scenes.” “I’m not a comedian I am a comedy actor and I work to the script. You should do the same.”
And Jack said, "Waheyyyy, ok Sid whatever you sayyyyy waheyyy...
Interestingly clive dunne was an actor who served in the British army during the second world war ,having been captured in crete he spent 4 years in a pow camp in Austria
..and they don't like it up 'em Captain!!!
Almost all of the talent from that era served. Think of the Carry On crew - they were all in the forces during the war. Peter Butterworth was in Colditz, and I believe he was on the escape committee - his career is worth looking up. Kenneth Williams, God rest, was a Royal Engineer (survey Section). They all did their bit.
So miss Les Dawson.
Good to see these😊
Old school British comedy :)
Oh my days! 😂 I’m from t’north of England m. I’m 66 now, I’d be 16 when this was broadcast 😅
Les Dawson what a legend, hilarious guy
Any chance we can go back to these halcyon days ?
Is funny to see Clive Dun so young after years of him playing aged old character