Ken Goodwin cracks me up what a man he is he's not dead is he brilliant comedian I wonder what he's doing now. When things were bad at home and the comedy's was on the box he made me laugh thanks Ken Goodwin ours Ziggy Marley from leicershire in the countryside in England.
Had a dog, took it t'pub dine t'road. Barman said that's nice dog mate, what is it. A mongol dog mate, he said surely you mean a mungrel. No it's definitely a mongol. It jumped up on the bar I shouted. DOWN SYNDROME
Brilliant! I just love the 70's and would dearly love to go back to those times. Best music, fashion, tv programmes, football, cars and home design. Happy days!!
@@michaelt8682 my dearest Michael. In my observation of British media, I've noticed a clear correlation between Brexiteerism and a harking for some long lost Nirvana when Britain (England really) was a perfect white, isolated and dominant country. The economic damage being wrought on my country by the English (yet again) in pursuit of their own selfish interests makes me angry. Lying, deceitful and perfidious. Sometimes trolling has its place.
Jack F this is a comedy video, NOT a political one. Fuck off and take that massive chip on your shoulder with you. The sooner we're out of fucking Europe the better. Funny you didn't have the nerve to say which is your country. Is it that bad?
Got to be the BEST comedy show EVER produced for TV. No swearing.No lewdness,No boring jokes. Just real comedy with marvellous one liners plus racist jokes that did'nt offend. I watched The Comedians religiously in the 70's and regretted its disappearance when TV comedy went bad.
@@robseddon629the black comedian once asked if there were any darkies in when the comedians did a charity event for the blind. Nowadays no one would say that but I'm sure he wasn't offending anyone because he regarded himself as a darkie. You just be offended by this, the audience wasn't
I was 3yrs old at the time these guys were on the stage..lovely to see how young these guys were.. Grew up knowing them, but as much older men... Who sadly have now passed.
Been a band guy thru the seventies but I always got some one to record the comedians coz they were so funny, just brilliant comedy. Great times they were, but not PC for these days. Love it
Colin Crompton's timing is so good it must be digital. And he really knows how to use a cigarette as a simple prop. Really miss that kind of laid back delivery.
Also including my favourite, George Roper, at complete ease with the audience, enjoying telling the jokes, like he was one of your mates who just happened to be good at it. I also liked Mike Burton with his surreal style of humour and Eddie Flanagan, so relaxed it looked like he'd forgotten why he was there in between his jokes. Mix in the excellent aforememtioned Charlie Wiiliams, and Ken Goodwin etc how could it not be a great show!
Yes, TheJamie43, we could laugh at ourselves back then. I'm Irish, and I used to love the Irish jokes. They aren't allowed any more :( I loved the one about Paddy coming down the street dragging a big heavy wardrobe behind him. Murphy sees him and says, "Why don't you get somebody to help you?" "I did," says Paddy. "He's inside carrying the clothes." :)
Glenn Johnson I remember watching this back in `75 and having just watched it here again after all these years,still as funny.No swear words.Says it all.Thankyou for uploading this.Brilliant.
I would loved to have Johnny Carson watch this. I wonder what he would have made of UK stand up comedy of the 1970s. Johnny was the king of comedy in the US in the 1970s. He brought on many US stand up comedians on the Tonight Show and made them stars. I wonder of he would liked any of these guys?
But back then comedy i feel was clearly pidgeon hold fyi..working mens clubs..more sort of public school fyi..monty phython..now all the various lines are blurred anything goes..2019
It's just our slang like stupid Americans always say awesome to describe something they approve of, totally ruining the impact of that word. Don't be such a dick. Anyway, the word proper is used in it's correct context here, so you criticism is invalid. Who the fuck are you to criticise our use of OUR language. You're so obviously a troll. How about actually saying something positive for once instead of just criticising others all the time. If you cahn't say something positive then fuck off elsewhere and take that chip on your shoulder with you.
@@Trev359 Chill out mate. Calling Americans stupid and then typing " How about actually saying something positive for once instead of just criticising others all the time. If you can't say something positive then fuck off elsewhere and take that chip on your shoulder with you".
3 years later.. how do you feel about your comment? lol... i hope you feel good about it, because its excelent. your comment still stands.. lets remember that the comedians of the 70s had jokes that were "too edgy" to be shown on tv in the 90s+.. frankie boyles are just the right amount of "edgyness" LOL... aka- everyone knows they are purely crude comments looking for a cheap laugh.. unchallenging- sympathetic and lazy
"Everything was rubbish in the seventies" I'm sorry you feel that way, because I remember the seventies very well, and I don't remember everything being rubbish at all. In fact, I think on the whole it was far superior to the time we live in now. Better TV, better music, better football, better movies...and a lot less government intrusiveness and surveillance than we have to put up with now. Give me the seventies every time...
Thanks for the upload, brings bk lots of memories n even tell the jokes to diff ppl, Bernard manning is class , he'd never get away with his jokes in this day of age lol
Wow a very young Mike Reid (aka Frank Butcher from Eastenders) and Frank Carson (from Tiswas). Brought up with these jokes. A lot of these comedians had completely different jokes when they played in the clubs or broadcast after the watershed!
Proper jokes by proper comedians, genuinely funny , and delivered with perfect timing. these were great times, today's comedy is so poor by comparison, and they haven't got the heart and spirit of these old comics...........miss these great times
I was 12 and laughed my arse off with my younger brother and for many years after, until it was sent back to safety, away from the new wave of political corrctness
Genuine question - and I mean this sincerely - what part of this specifically did you think was "great"? I mean, which joe really stood out to you as being top flight entertainment.
Luckily, I was born in '65. I was forced to watch these constantly rehashed old jokes when my parents had control of the TV while I was growing up. Then the 80s came along with the possibility of seeing alternative comedians like Alexi Sayle on a portable in the bedroom. Perfect timing for me. The comedy world was blown wide open , and we never looked back
'alternative' wasn't comedy, it was dumbed down slapstick and relied on profanity, just like today. Sure, these jokes are crappy, and in fairness, they never hardly made me laugh, but alternative simply appealed to the lowest of brows. Simple baby comedy, like the young ones, with stupid slapstick and toilet humour (and not even good toilet humour) Comedy never recovered after that.
Born same year and yes when watch the comedians now have to say so bad it's good. Young ones was brilliant and a start to more diverse and brilliant humour.
I too was born in 65. Whilst I don't think this programme has aged well, it must be remembered there was zero tolerance of foul language, or of "adult subjects" on TV in the 70s. The world we lived in then has gone forever, as through the ensuing decades, foul language and "adult themed" subjects became mainstream humour. Today of course it's fascinating to think we can say THE most foul language, about depraved $e×ual acts on TV without a care, but "The Vicar of Dibley" and "Only Fools and Horses" have warnings about possible offensive content!!
There was a paperback that came out around same time. I remember studying it assiduously as a schoolgirl and 1970s the comedians had so much personality. Alot of fun There was a music hall vibe holding British comedy lost since the 1980s. But judging by The Sketch Show 2003, British comedy has not suffered despite the predations of the EU experiment.
In the 70s I was a young / teenager, very hard times ( three day week) and yet I loved it and now in my 60s I love 70s music x
What a riveting story, it really is.
Three day week, I worked Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
@@malbig2344 So much so you felt complied to reply. Twat.
@@robcox1247 chill out fannybaws, I'm just saying that your story about being poor in the 1970's is really interesting. It really is.
@@malbig2344 I can just imagine some of these snowflakes on a pub crawl in Glasgow … they would go down about as well as a hog roast at a bah mitzvah!
Some of the greatest home grown comedians ever to grace a stage so many are gone now but they'll never be forgotten 😄😄😄
Ken Goodwin cracks me up what a man he is he's not dead is he brilliant comedian I wonder what he's doing now. When things were bad at home and the comedy's was on the box he made me laugh thanks Ken Goodwin ours Ziggy Marley from leicershire in the countryside in England.
He died on 18 February 2012 of Alzheimer's disease.
Excellent, love these snapshots of a better time! Great humour!
Grew up to this brilliant show.....great characters,...bloody funny , ..miss those great days
Fbbf the we are a lot of the
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Had a dog, took it t'pub dine t'road. Barman said that's nice dog mate, what is it.
A mongol dog mate, he said surely you mean a mungrel. No it's definitely a mongol. It jumped up on the bar I shouted. DOWN SYNDROME
Brilliant! I just love the 70's and would dearly love to go back to those times. Best music, fashion, tv programmes, football, cars and home design. Happy days!!
When Brexit happens you'll be there.
This must be a troll surely?
@@michaelt8682 my dearest Michael. In my observation of British media, I've noticed a clear correlation between Brexiteerism and a harking for some long lost Nirvana when Britain (England really) was a perfect white, isolated and dominant country. The economic damage being wrought on my country by the English (yet again) in pursuit of their own selfish interests makes me angry. Lying, deceitful and perfidious. Sometimes trolling has its place.
@@norwegianzound i meant the original comment! but thanks for the well thought out reply!
Jack F this is a comedy video, NOT a political one. Fuck off and take that massive chip on your shoulder with you. The sooner we're out of fucking Europe the better. Funny you didn't have the nerve to say which is your country. Is it that bad?
the 70's were awesome...the last decade before greed became king and a decade when the word 'offended' was rarely used...
The racial and sexual politics of the 70s led to the current liberal insanity. It's all connected.
Before thatcher ?
Rubbish
No work, no future, dirt and rubbish everywhere, open racism and sick man of Europe. We have come a long way.
Sadly a lot of these comedians voted politically Thatcher the source of that greed.
Ken Goodwin the funniest of them all, Just fantastic.
brings back memories brilliant
Got to be the BEST comedy show EVER produced for TV. No swearing.No lewdness,No boring jokes. Just real comedy with marvellous one liners plus racist jokes that did'nt offend. I watched The Comedians religiously in the 70's and regretted its disappearance when TV comedy went bad.
"plus racist jokes that didn't offend" ....... I didn't think there was anyone still alive that would say something like that.
@@robseddon629 now you know there are two. A joke is a joke, amazing how a black person can be racist to blacks, but a white or asian cant?
@@robseddon629the black comedian once asked if there were any darkies in when the comedians did a charity event for the blind. Nowadays no one would say that but I'm sure he wasn't offending anyone because he regarded himself as a darkie. You just be offended by this, the audience wasn't
i used to watch this back in the 70's george roper was a different class R.I.P. George thanks mate!!!!
George was my favourite, always a twinkle in his eye and a smile when the joke goes down well.
Had a drink with George at Stockport county,s social club and he told jokes all night./
I was 3yrs old at the time these guys were on the stage..lovely to see how young these guys were.. Grew up knowing them, but as much older men... Who sadly have now passed.
A good antidote for whenever I might get nostalgic for 1975.
Bloody hell, Charlie Williams!! Brilliant.
He laughed louder and longer at his own unfunny jokes than the audience did....
@@robseddon629 Oh come on, he was a decent comic.
@@jeffallinson8089 Seriously ?
@@robseddon629 I thought so, yes indeed.
brill remember the show well god bless most off them frank carson at his best .......thanks for putting this on you tube ....
It's great watching this. My memory is better than I thought it was.
Great memories, used to laugh to all these guys in the 70's.
Gosh, I remember this show back in the day. I had forgotten George Roper, though, but the sow joke made me laugh out loud.
I remember laughing back then but it's hard to remember why now.
Much simpler times.
Truely the best day of my life watching these TV programmes...
Been a band guy thru the seventies but I always got some one to record the comedians coz they were so funny, just brilliant comedy. Great times they were, but not PC for these days. Love it
Just amazing. There will never be anything to come close to these great shows and the great personalities loved by millions.
Just heard that, on the same day Frank Carson and Ken Goodwin have passed away. A great loss to Comedy
Colin Crompton's timing is so good it must be digital. And he really knows how to use a cigarette as a simple prop. Really miss that kind of laid back delivery.
Absolutely Brilliant...they were far more funny in those days...unlike today. Lots of Laughs.
Also including my favourite, George Roper, at complete ease with the audience, enjoying telling the jokes, like he was one of your mates who just happened to be good at it. I also liked Mike Burton with his surreal style of humour and Eddie Flanagan, so relaxed it looked like he'd forgotten why he was there in between his jokes. Mix in the excellent aforememtioned Charlie Wiiliams, and Ken Goodwin etc how could it not be a great show!
Bring bk the 70s 80s 90s good movies gd music bk then today years are rubbish nothin on music rubbish
It was brilliant back then at least people were more happier even though they had less !!! ;)
Yes, TheJamie43, we could laugh at ourselves back then. I'm Irish, and I used to love the Irish jokes. They aren't allowed any more :( I loved the one about Paddy coming down the street dragging a big heavy wardrobe behind him. Murphy sees him and says, "Why don't you get somebody to help you?" "I did," says Paddy. "He's inside carrying the clothes." :)
@Shahid Khan nuttin wrong with racists. Sure at least half of the english are racists. Lovely people
1978 is down as the happiest/contented year the UK has ever been,,, since then down hill and it is all due to over popularisation
Shahid Khan where are the racists?
TheJamie43 We had a good laugh then . Never seen anyone laugh now. Younger generation are so miserable.
I grew watching this in the 70s.
Great times wish we could turn the clock back , sadly we been sold down the river
@Big Bill O'Reilly - it's years too late.
Many thanks for the dates... Nice to have a good record.
Glenn Johnson I remember watching this back in `75 and having just watched it here again after all these years,still as funny.No swear words.Says it all.Thankyou for uploading this.Brilliant.
Hopefully now that we're out of the Common Market, we can get back to this great British comedy.
Are we? - Hope you are right
Please no !
Right on bro'. Comedy was ruined by these so called euro-comics with their sausage eating routines.
Ahhh I loved them days, when people knew how to have a good laugh, the 70s were the best!
46:03 'We get worse don't we?
Yep, sums this up perfectly.
I would loved to have Johnny Carson watch this. I wonder what he would have made of UK stand up comedy of the 1970s. Johnny was the king of comedy in the US in the 1970s. He brought on many US stand up comedians on the Tonight Show and made them stars. I wonder of he would liked any of these guys?
Proper innocent stand up, with out the nanny state mentality.. Proper belly laugh, absolutely great love it.
But back then comedy i feel was clearly pidgeon hold fyi..working mens clubs..more sort of public school fyi..monty phython..now all the various lines are blurred anything goes..2019
Why do working class English love to use the word proper for everything they approve of? If you don't like something, would you say it's improper?
It's just our slang like stupid Americans always say awesome to describe something they approve of, totally ruining the impact of that word. Don't be such a dick. Anyway, the word proper is used in it's correct context here, so you criticism is invalid. Who the fuck are you to criticise our use of OUR language. You're so obviously a troll. How about actually saying something positive for once instead of just criticising others all the time. If you cahn't say something positive then fuck off elsewhere and take that chip on your shoulder with you.
@@Trev359 Chill out mate. Calling Americans stupid and then typing " How about actually saying something positive for once instead of just criticising others all the time. If you can't say something positive then fuck off elsewhere and take that chip on your shoulder with you".
@@norwegianzound you think to much
great to see now,, cause did not see when as a kid in the 70s,!! / this time 1975,, was a 7 year old back then,!!
Work of art and a genius parody ahead of its time. Can't believe they got so many big names to mock their own future stereotypes...
Ken Goodwin classic gold ......
I imagine people on here criticising "The Comedians" would probably think Frankie Boyle is hilarious.
3 years later.. how do you feel about your comment? lol... i hope you feel good about it, because its excelent.
your comment still stands.. lets remember that the comedians of the 70s had jokes that were "too edgy" to be shown on tv in the 90s+.. frankie boyles are just the right amount of "edgyness" LOL... aka- everyone knows they are purely crude comments looking for a cheap laugh.. unchallenging- sympathetic and lazy
Haha again, absolutely right. Boyle is one of the unfunniest "comedians" probably EVER
Yep. Can't stand the fokker!
@@dougreed2257 hehe, he makes me laugh. i like the other guy too, um...kevin something
I do
could not agree more.
Great stuff for those of us who remember it, good clean comedy with no smut or swearing. Great family tv.
Remember watching as a kid
4 months and 14,000 hits !!! Someone must like this!!!.
Sheps Banjo Boys.....Fabulous.
"Everything was rubbish in the seventies"
I'm sorry you feel that way, because I remember the seventies very well, and I don't remember everything being rubbish at all. In fact, I think on the whole it was far superior to the time we live in now. Better TV, better music, better football, better movies...and a lot less government intrusiveness and surveillance than we have to put up with now. Give me the seventies every time...
People were a lot happier and a lot less materialistic lived on communities were everyone knew and looked out for each other. Thatcher killed it
@@markluxon5605 She sure did.
Hugh Jones yes, please take the 90s as far away as possible.
And no f#####g reality television in the 70's. Cowell has a lot to answer for.
it was ok.if it was so bad the kids today wouldn’t be nicking the music .
Fabulous.
They're all gone now, RIP these very funny guys !
Duggie Brown is still alive. He can be seen on some t.v. adverts these days.
1975,, / I was 7 year old , back then,!!
I remember these days they were the days when everybody didn't get offended by everything and didn't call everything racist.
I'm pretty sure Manning was racist mate. I saw him perform in the 80s and he was a shithouse and not in a funny way.
They were racist though.
@@ddanh4258 Things haven't changed only today if you say these things you get arrested but people still think the same way . . . .
@@dilwich racists thought those things then and racists think them now
@@craig7248 The word ''Racist'' has been so overused by offended snowflakes that it has lost all meaning nowadays. . . .
Fantastic!!!!! love it
Great show ! How the time goes was 15 when this went out. Great craic.
was a wee 7 year old back then,,!! i want to go back to then,,!! 70s, did not see this show back then,, ! great seeing now,,!
Thanks for the upload, brings bk lots of memories n even tell the jokes to diff ppl, Bernard manning is class , he'd never get away with his jokes in this day of age lol
Back when comedians were funny. Love this video.
A different world back then ..... I miss it !
me to wish i could go. back sometimes
Disliked this video because of Micky fin
@@dawnfinch8873 Yeah ... no alternative comedy, no Cambridge graduates. And no bloody Michael Macintyre.
likewise
Tim yes he’s a wanker isn’t he?
I saw Jerry Harris. Isn’t he Charly Callas? They look alike, same way of speaking, same way of making sounds.
Absolutely brilliant! These blokes knew how to tell jokes.
Except for Ken Goodwin
Jim Bowen is 1 of my favourite comedians. he was a host of Bullseye (UK) too.
Loved it! Most comedy now is based on observations.
Most comedy now is based on comedy. Unlike this rubbish. As funny as kidney stones.
memories ! thanks for sharing.
I walked around Charlie Williams' house as it was being built. It was across the M1 from Birdwell.
So Tankersley or Pilley?
met his daughter late last year
I was 4 years old ,holeeeee shit,how time flies ....
Great stuff!
They are all great...what a laugh...a genuinely funny bunch......comedy will never be like this again, love them all....
frank Carson,, i was lucky to meet him back in early 80s,, RIP, Frank,!God Bless from Portstewart,!
Not funny? I'm sitting here crying with laughter...it's hilarious!! Much better than most of the so-called comedians of today...
Fantastic, better than the crap modern stuff
Maybe you just don't understand the modern stuff.
@@p.jacobs643 i understand it all right, it’s not funny
Ken Goodwin total genius
Wow a very young Mike Reid (aka Frank Butcher from Eastenders) and Frank Carson (from Tiswas). Brought up with these jokes. A lot of these comedians had completely different jokes when they played in the clubs or broadcast after the watershed!
the best of the best
This is good.Thanks.
Thanks for posting...................best laugh I have had in ages..............talk about the bringing back memories, cheers.
Proper jokes by proper comedians, genuinely funny , and delivered with perfect timing. these were great times, today's comedy is so poor by comparison, and they haven't got the heart and spirit of these old comics...........miss these great times
I tried watching this lot several times back then but never heard a joke that i hadn't heard in the playground.
I was 12 and laughed my arse off with my younger brother and for many years after, until it was sent back to safety, away from the new wave of political corrctness
Gives me such a great feeling 😊
It was good to see Ken Goodwin again. Just looking at him made me laugh.
Great comedians, great comedy great times and no P.C..
Genuine question - and I mean this sincerely - what part of this specifically did you think was "great"? I mean, which joe really stood out to you as being top flight entertainment.
Luckily, I was born in '65. I was forced to watch these constantly rehashed old jokes when my parents had control of the TV while I was growing up. Then the 80s came along with the possibility of seeing alternative comedians like Alexi Sayle on a portable in the bedroom. Perfect timing for me. The comedy world was blown wide open , and we never looked back
I'd rather have toothache than watch Alexi Sayle.
We had no choice but watch them again we only had 3 channels..lol
'alternative' wasn't comedy, it was dumbed down slapstick and relied on profanity, just like today.
Sure, these jokes are crappy, and in fairness, they never hardly made me laugh, but alternative simply appealed to the lowest of brows. Simple baby comedy, like the young ones, with stupid slapstick and toilet humour (and not even good toilet humour)
Comedy never recovered after that.
Born same year and yes when watch the comedians now have to say so bad it's good. Young ones was brilliant and a start to more diverse and brilliant humour.
I too was born in 65. Whilst I don't think this programme has aged well, it must be remembered there was zero tolerance of foul language, or of "adult subjects" on TV in the 70s.
The world we lived in then has gone forever, as through the ensuing decades, foul language and "adult themed" subjects became mainstream humour.
Today of course it's fascinating to think we can say THE most foul language, about depraved $e×ual acts on TV without a care, but "The Vicar of Dibley" and "Only Fools and Horses" have warnings about possible offensive content!!
25:03 *Loved Charlie Williams from page 1 - so funny at the time to hear a Black {can I say that ?} comedian with a Sheffield Accent - RIP Adolphus !*
Back in the day's when comedy wasn't taken seriously.
Brilliant
My Pleasure..
Absolute magic.
Brilliant...love this comedy... Bernard Manning Frank Carson were my favorites
great days
hi ... thanks for that i know it was ken some thing so big thank u mate bless ...they were great hey ...lol
My old man was a stand up comic and he did a few of these 'Comedians'
Not this episode though. Still searching
It’s called life , gd times , rubbish times , no matter what year it is , hopefully it’s not so rubbish now !! 👍
Ken Goodwin would smash it today. Plenty worse than him getting away with it in 2019
The 70s was fantastic
There was a paperback that came out around same time. I remember studying it assiduously as a schoolgirl and 1970s the comedians had so much personality. Alot of fun There was a music hall vibe holding British comedy lost since the 1980s. But judging by The Sketch Show 2003, British comedy has not suffered despite the predations of the EU experiment.
We were easily pleased in those days.
couldn't agree more..
Proper comedians
Good grief. I'd forgotten how bad these guys were.
I agree!
19:42 - Isn't this the same act used by the Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket?
John King Jimmy has a letter from his son in his letter joke,he is asking for money.....No mon,no fun,your son,,,,,,,that's too bad ,your dad etc.
The good old days when comedians told jokes and make you laugh.
Your half right.
@@mustaphaleeq7016 You're half wrong. It's you're not your.
And there are two G's in "Bugger off".
@@malbig2344 Haha
Absolutely brilliant 😂😂😂😂
Good old British comedy. Can't beat it. Bernard Manning as Colin Crompton was hilarious!