Little & Large (BBC1) - 1991
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- 16th March 1991 - The first programme of what would turn out to be Syd & Eddie's final series at the BBC.
I've had to edit out Chesney Hawkes' performance to placate the copyright police - บันเทิง
Crazy this was on the same year as Bottom and Red Dwarf.
"Beaches, palm trees, bam bu..."
"I should've known the only thing that could kill a vindaloo was a lager..."
If you can upload more Little and Large I would be eternally grateful.
Their complete and utter lack of talent makes their show strangely hypnotic. It's like a car crash, I can't turn away
ElsieBoy what!??? It’s not like a car crash it’s brilliant.
That "Grease" medley. Good lord. Horrific beyond words.
It's so random. Grease, Its Bitsy Teenie Weenie ..., Coronation Street, Blind Date, Rab C Nesbitt, Kwik Fit and AA adverts. And all results in a load of crap!
Still better than today's chart offerings 😜🤣
@amk8411 nice bit of hyperbole there! 😂
Felt like utter crap so thought I'd relive some forgotten youth. Absolute dogshite, made my fever seem like a welcome friend. To be a fly on the wall when Eddie Large was told the show was cancelled.
Big Bad Botnik this comment is funnier than the whole show.
RIP Eddie major part of my childhood TV viewing
Who is Eddie Major?
@@Thedescendent He's a relatively of Sid Minor
Part of his childhood Tv viewing @@Thedescendent
Now many will think "How on earth did these two get on TV?", but you have to remember, back in the early 90's only 2759 people lived in England, and everyone else worked in the NHS.
Thanks for this upload. A pity there isn't more Little & Large online - there's only the Christmas special, and now this. It's not great TV, but that could be said of much of what we watched back then.
randomVHStat it IS great tv. What’s wrong with you?
Russ Abbot was class
I remember this being cringe in 1991, so here in 2022 I’m astonished this was still going out in the 90s.
Very Good. Takes me back to being a kid and watching this on Saturday Nights.
Are you joking? I've watched funnier heart bypasses.
At least we were spared Chesney Hawkes
You must remember in 1991 we didn't even have Channel 5 - licence fee was and still is compulsory, so the BBC could put out whatever nonsense they wanted and get away with it.
I'm 49 now, but I remember at the time of day this was usually broadcast, families had just had 6 hours of Grandstand and World of Sport occupying the airwaves, little of interest on BBC2 and Channel 4 and this was considered about as 'family friendly' as you could get. All these pre-watershed programmes were exactly the same. Russ Abbott, Michael Barrymore, Paul Daniels, Les Dennis and Dustin Gee, Keith Harris, Bobby Davro - none of these performers/comedians would survive today but back then if you weren't in a position to have satellite or cable, this was as good as it got. It was cringe then, and moreso today, but Little and Large used to regularly get 10 million plus viewers every week.
Thanks for uploading.
I disagree about Russ Abbott, I think some of his stuff still holds up. Check out the police lie detector sketch for a start.
@@kate_cooper noooo, don't get me wrong - my parents were very much BBC people and we never watched ITV - I'd only get to watch him as a kid when I stayed at my nans. He was very funny then, particularly when up against the utter TRASH the BBC were putting out, but he'd have to be seriously PC nowaydays which I doubt he'd be capable of. He was a man of his times and at the top of the pile. Blunderwoman these days would be considered 'fat shaming' and C. U. Jimmy would be considered racist. Against ginger haired Scottish folk.
@@SegaStation Russ also had a sketch where he played a man who had a sex change (as it was called in those days) to become a woman, so the woman who was interested in him had one as well to become a man and proposed, only to find that Russ had become a nun. I thought it was pretty funny at the time but anything that could be considered making fun of transpeople would be a huge no-no right now.
"There's some good stuff tonight"
No... no Eddie, there really isn't.
Apart from the ending. How did this worthless dross ever get near a commission.
@@grahamyoung3433 to be fair, the BBC still pump out a pile of hose-cock comedy these days too - Miranda?? Harry Enfield?? Pure shite.
Ah the good old days when comedians didn’t need to use bad language to get laughs….or actual jokes or comedic talent it seems
it really is crap isnt is 🤣. they were on tv for decades doing this.
11 series for the BBC!!! They were on forever
That first sketch lasted forever.
It really did. One shitty joke every one and a half minutes.
Rulinator Needed a shave at the end.
It’s been three weeks now and it’s still going on
Eddie Large looks ready to collapse exhausted by the end.
30min of prime time tv in 1991. in 2022 it would be 3, 5second tiktoks that no one would watch
I expect Kenny Baker is prouder of his work as R2D2, in the Star Wars movies.
Came for a bit of childhood nostalgia but by Christ I hadn't realised just how shit they were
Dear lord that Grease Sketch! It seemed like it would never end ..
I remember when there was even a time Sid and Eddie were doing Olive oil and Popeye respectively singing Summer Loving
Anyone who managed to sit through that like me should get a clap on Thursday night
Oooh so edgy.
Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room from Inside No. 9 comes to mind when looking at this and the quote, "We weren't even Mike and Bernie Winters." Little and Large were the real life Cheese and Crackers. This is the equivalent of watching your older family members trying to get down and be cool with the kids.
Stuart Kenny not its not. They are class
@@stanmonzon5788 he’s right. This is cringe on top of cringe
@@stanmonzon5788 so was Jimmy Saville
30 years from now people will see footage of the shite we watch now like strictly, anything with Ant & Fucking Dec etc and will be as perplexed as we are watching this
We are perplexed watching today's TV now.
I'm perplexed with modern TV now!
30 years from now the British public won't be allowed to see such _haram_ on TV.
RIP Eddie major part of my childhood TV viewing
Rest in peace Eddie dam shame
I knew this was going to be god awful, but I forced myself through the entire thing - what utter dreck. But thanks for the sheer cringe I just had for the last 26 minutes. Never thought they were funny when I was a kid, and this is frankly an embarrassment. An amusing time capsule of crap TV though, so thanks for uploading :)
I was amazed to see 1991 in the title, as I thought they had disappeared many years earlier.
1991 isn't the year, it's the viewing figures.
philrob1978 This show was pure class and your comments are not welcome. The New Kids on the Block song was genius.
They had their own show for 14 years. People must have been easily pleased back then..
@@stanmonzon5788 No. It wasn't. It went on forever and they had to drag Kenny Baker into it because "funny dwarf". What was funny about it? They just did that stupid dance that NKOTB did and Eddie did a horrendously cringeworthy "rap" over it. Look, I like daft comedy, I grew up with it, but this by even their standards is weak.
RIP Eddie Large ,deepest respect to his family, I know they saying ,coronavirus in later stages ,but he had ,major surgeries, and believe diabetes, and in his 70s,,
@Janey Jester ahh thanks Janey,its one of these memories of my teenage years,its sad, god bless Janey
Grew up on this, so funny. He was a fabulous comedian and really under rated impressionist.
Love to his family and friends. Xxx
Pure class
6:20 That joke is 20 years ahead of its time.
Such is the state of British politics, it wouldn't surprise me if Little and Large were policy advisors to the Tories.
As opposed to all the other jokes, which were 20 years behind their time.
Cheers neil have you got all the series they did loved little and large
Would have been if they hadn't of used a paper bag which is free, instead of the ones we all love throwing in the ocean
OMG the final series of this show...
Eddie large is the only person who attempts do bad impressions of 60's & 70's personalities in the 90s
There was a market though - people who didn't know who Terry Christian or Jonathan Ross were, so current impressions would be lost on them.
‘5p for the carrier bag’
Ahead of it’s time.
Now 20p
This is painful
R.I.P.😥
So I'mo upload that neat trailer at the end unless you command me otherwise
Stephen Merchant's first break in TV.
A can of squirty cream, hand-cuffs and Stephen Merchant......my ideal afternoon! He’s lush 👍🏻❤️
@@Highland_Moo You'd have to pay for the squirty cream & handcuffs Smerch would be too tight to part to pay for em!!
The past is a foreign country where they do things differently to us. Seriously I was around 10 when this was one tv and remember belly laughing with my dad every Saturday night when they were on. No matter how I position that thought and I just can’t get my head around why.
Robert Davidson become a proper snob now then eh? Where’s the respect?
This type of comedy doesn't have any intelligence or heart behind it. This is something you can only realize when you have watched a lot of other comedy. Your dad should have known better though...
sad news that Eddie passed away this morning
The musical medley, Grease abomination thing at end is one of the worst things I've ever seen on TV
Absolutely shocking stuff.
this lasted until 1991 the alternative comedians did not kill it off
I can't see the comment you're responding to but this is correct. Alternative comedy had been out before Channel 4 started. The difference between the likes of L&L and alternative comedians was mainly the watershed - I was still in High School in 1989 and Alexei Sayle's Stuff, Naked Video and The Mary Whitehouse Experience were already part of our lives and can still stand up 33 years later....
L&L and their contemporaries were killed off when people started getting more TV channels so you weren't forced to watch them any more. My humble opinion
Little and Large were about as funny as inflamed bleeding piles.
I can't imagine why these two were still on telly in the 90's. Even back then, this stuff was unbelievably dated.
Arthur Askey in his movies was dated ... but still with moments of class ... and even true humour.
Will Hay looks like ancient history, but he did what he did with professionalism and some kind of gravitas that stands the passage of time.
Laurel and Hardy yet more so - their humour will never die, I believe.
Undefinable in the end, but...
Interested to see Will Self at 02:26;)
I used to love this show back in the day I was 19 when this episode came out
I don’t think it holds up to the still brilliant and funny two Ronnies morcambe and wise and Laurel and Hardy Dick Emery and many others still very funny.
Christ, this is beyond utter shite. I was 13 in 1991 and I know that it bored the arse off me then, but it’s certainly not aged well. Grim.
Is that Kenny Baker at the beginning?
1991 but still 1979
got any more little&large show ? iv got 24 shows
Originally broadcasted on 16th March 1991 The very last series of the Little and large show.?
I don't know why I found this funny. Maybe it was because I was 12 years old and easily entertained by toilet humor.
Better than Jim’ll Fix It.
Fair play to them for lasting so long. Dreadful stuff
Neil, if you have the episode from the 1991 series where they play MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice, I'd love to see it. Well, love might be too strong a word.
Sadly I don't because that sounds amazing
They were funny most of the time I prefer 1970s 1980s did not realise they were around so much in 1991
wow kenny baker (r2d2) (time bandits) and of course little and large, rip u guys see u soon xxx
This was their 12th or 13th year of doing this show.
Is that R2d2 Kenny baker?
Yes it is.
They had they're day by this time, should've ended on a high in the late 1980's, that was their time.
Rip Eddie
They made money doing this...
Sometimes I think back to watching Little and Large on the telly back in the day and wonder `Were they really that bad?`
Then...then you watch it and realize not only was it that bad BUT time had been kind to my memories, as they were truly bloody awful.
`91 also had Bottom, Alexei Sayle's Stuff, Absolutely, Vic Reeves Big Night Out and Smith & Jones airing that year - thank goodness for those as otherwise comedy on telly would have been complete and utter shite.
Can't believe they were still going in 1991 - truly awful beyond belief!
Mark Turpin can’t believe the rubbish you talk
I remember when it first started in the late 70s, The L&L Show was pleasantly routine, if nothing else........... By the mid-80s, it was unwatchable... I hadn't realised it was still going as late as 1991 either - and just from watching the first sketch here, its hardly surprising at all that this was the final series! Truly, cringe-worthily awful! Syd and Eddie were two genuinely very nice guys, but absolutely dreadful comedians!
I wouldn't judge Little and Large by this. I remember them in the mid-seventies, when they were new and energetic. They were a good turn at that time. I was never sure they had enough to sustain full-length programmes, but they managed to be popular. They went on too long on TV. I suspect they had a long-term contract and saw it out. Still, it has a quality of its own. I've seen far worse.
This is so awful. I've given up the will to keep watching, as well as the will to live.
Eddie's impression of Rab C Nesbitt is spot on.
Guna miss ya pal..
These 2 were about as funny as diarrhea
Better than this shite we have today
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Rhianorrrrrrrrr
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Taylor swift need to watch this
Nostalgic but cringeworthy
Sweet mother of divine jaysus. Awful.
Finally, Coronavirus has claimed a true global legend.
Shockingly bad, no wonder I never watched it back then
That boy band they had at the beginning really had legs
2:30 Sums it up in one word
That was a quick song from chesney hawks :P
Probably a copyright thing
He couldn't wait to ge the fuck out.
That lad must be 7ft+!
Eddie Large looks constantly startled. Nostalgic but painful to watch now.
bwlboy123 not painful at all. Very pleasurable. Why the hell are you here if you don’t like it?
@@stanmonzon5788 Is that you, Eddie?
Stan Moron, because I watched these as a kid.
RIP Eddie, but that was awful.
Saw both of them in Blackpool few years ago what great show it was. RIP Eddie Large sadly taken from us this week due to conv19 RIP. My thoughts with co partner Sid Little and Eddie's family and friends and colleagues at this sad time.
I remember when Eddie and Sid also done a parody of Grease as Popeye and Olive singing
these two mugs make cannon and ball like laurel and hardy
Sid and Eddie - two very genuinely nice guys, but extremely poor comedians... I remember watching this show every week back in the early days of this show - initially it seemed mildly amusing and pleasant for the first couple of years - but it had become totally unwatchable by the mid-80s... Quite frankly, it looks truly cringe-worthy some 30 years on... In all honesty, I didn’t even realise the series was still going as late as 1991 (and from watching this, its unsurprising that the 1991 series was the last one)!
I was waiting for the laughs to start, 25 insufferable minutes later the credits rolled and I can't recall anything that happened, but I know I didn't laugh.
God give me strength, these 2 were painfully unfunny, they're weren't even funny in a surreal way, or funny for being unfunny, they were irritating to the extreme
Why did you make that conscious decision to view it on TH-cam then? It's like eating food you don't like.
@@garryharriman7349 Same reason you look at a car crash?
@@garryharriman7349 It's not like that at all.
Eddie, please make jokes in heaven. You are needed there and here at these times.
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You cannot judge a career on one episode at the end of their tv series. Times have changed also humour has but they were funny for the era of light entertainment.
Thats very true but they probably did outstay their welcome by 3/4 years
Christ, this is terrible!
1991?! Thought they'd vanished in the 80s. Dreadful crap.
My god, they were awful.
1:12 Someone yells fxxk off
Back in the day when there was bugger all on tv and we had to put up with this unfunny tripe, People only watched this because we only had 3 or 4 channels, not everyone had video's and people.
I put this in the league of the krankies and cannon and ball, Kids stuff forced down the throats of adults.
Painfully unfunny.
Doing a comedy cover of a full song shows a huge lack of skits available, anyone else would do about 30-45 seconds worth and move on to the next.
This is absolute crap
I notice the innuendo. I have not seen this in 30 years
Cannon and Ball were lightyears ahead of these two
Yep this was bad...
121zoso no it wasnt
Unfunny