@@senecaknowledge2274 Er, sorry, I will explain in simpler terms. The gentleman here, Michael Parkinson, affectionately known to his chat show viewers as Parky, has now also, around the time of my comment, similarly gone to meet his maker. Ok?
@@CashelOConnolly She was born in Ealing and educated in Liverpool and has an English accent. Her upbringing is definitely English. But Hey Irish humour and British humour are very similar, I have no idea why you feel the need to comment.
@@davidsuttie4192 Both her parents Bert and Maureen were immigrants from Dublin,County Dublin,Ireland. As an Irish guy from Bray,County Wicklow who’s spent time in England (regrettably) I don’t believe the English and Irish humour is the same at all. English humour derives its humour from manners and the class system plus low brow sniggering about s*x, where Irish humour comes from DEATH 💀 and hypocrisy especially in the Catholic Church and sublime word play sometimes very very morbid
Comedy without the Royale family and Mrs Merton is rarely funny anymore.Nothing like northern humour. If only the Royale family were actually the real Royal family before Nora and Denise left us. Instead of raking in the millions of cash they'd have collapsing on the floor with laughter
I dont say its a big loss .He had a full life, achieved so much and he was brilliant. On the other hand Caroline Ahern was a big loss ,so young and had so such more to offer.
Parkinson was a decent, honest individual and a gentleman, it's always sad when someone like him passes. Caroline Aherne was wonderful, so funny and quick-witted. Absolutely awful that she died so young.
He was amazing. As an Irish person, he was right up there with our finest. He was so smooth, I think it helped that he was a northerner, he was very calm and genuine. Very much admired on this small rock.
Spot on. So down to earth, salt of the earth, relaxed, always composed and always let the guest talk instead of constantly interrupting or talking over them which so many talk show hosts seem to think is the way and to make it all about them. 🤦🏻♂️
two wonderful people lost to us at this time. they bought so mush joy to so many people.. may god look after them until we can see them again in another life
One programme Parkinson hosted that is now buried in BBC Archives is the infamous 1992 Halloween special GHOSTWATCH. He was very good in it, and a shame that the BBC have never repeated it. It is now 31 years since it aired, I think it deserves an airing on British television. What harm can it do? As it looks dated now, no one will mistake it for a live show in 2023.
I remember that John , I was nearly convinced and wish I had recorded it .Same as the the famous recollections of the Oz Trials , Leslie Philips as the judge was brilliant , a couple of years earlier
I was 9 at the time and that scared the shit out of me, I rewatched it recently only to see a plastic skull stuck to a mop handle wrapped in a bin bag 😂😂
@@ExplodingPiggy I was only 7 years old when I saw it on the night. My parents had a rule back then - Sunday to Thursday nights bed time was 9pm. They knew I would never sleep earlier than that, so once the BBC 9pm News came on, I was up to bed. However Friday and Saturday nights along with when I was off on school holidays they let me stay up for as long as I wanted. So Ghostwatch airing on a Saturday was perfect for me to catch it in 1992. I remember it well. I was sitting on the sofa, dad in his chair, and we had just been watching Beadles About on ITV and he looked in the Radio Times and saw Ghostwatch and decided to turn over. We missed the first 30 seconds of the intro, so all we saw was Parky standing at the fireplace saying they were doing a LIVE investigation. It took us until around half way thru before we clocked on it wasn't real. My mum recognised an actor from a commercial playing one of the street's residences who tried to exorcise the ghost. From then on we enjoyed it as a drama. We tried to ring the number 081 811 8181 used also by Going Live, and we got engaged tone.
Oh I miss his show, we'll never meet the likes of him again because people tend to go for shock value with the absence of class. He was so watchable. Silly Jonathon Ross never let's his guests speak. Parky had listening skills.
It was more to do with the fact that in the same year he'd put together a clips show "Parkinson: The Interviews" which the BBC ran for 3 series. He first did the introductions for the shows in a mocked up studio in his garden shed.
Eh? Not sure what you mean. Craig Cash was a co-writer and appeared as Mrs Merton's son once or twice, but that was about it. The Mrs Merton Show started 3 years before The Royle Family existed
@@tonycowin Of course not, but you said she had a member of the Royle family on The Mrs Merton Show every week. So I think you mean because Caroline was playing Mrs Merton and in 3 years time she'd be playing Denise, that Denise was somehow on show every week? Er ok then, brilliant
@@tonycowin Arguing with you? Not really, I was just trying to understand what you were on about since what you said is complete nonsense and I thought maybe I misunderstood you. It's like saying Basil Fawlty was in Monty Python's Flying Circus, or Mr. Bean was in Blackadder
I’ve never seen mrs Merton before. As an Australian I don’t think we got the show. But I have to say she’s not a patch on our Edna Everidge. RIP to them all. 🦘
Caroline Aherne was a beautiful woman ,Barry was a completely different kettle of fish and also a legend, brilliant all of them, if you fancy a good cry listen to Dickie Bird saying goodbye to his best friend of 84 years , also FYI Parky and Dickie opened the batting for Barnsley cc, the player Parkie kept out of the team was Geoffrey Boycott
How can you compare. You sound a bit slow. It was a very smart and somewhat political pisstake on occasion.Like the interview Mrs Merton did with the ogre ; Mary Whitehouse
Are you for real or just trolling for the hell of it? He moved to where the work was, like many who have left legacies as great broadcasters/actors/musicians, etc. And he NEVER forgot his roots. Did you not watch/listen to his programmes? He loved his roots and was at Dickie Bird's 90th party at Headingley despite being virtually at death's door. Still not enough for you? Overrated my elbow! Success due to hard work and talent always attracts vacuous detractors. Rest in peace, Michael. Good lad.👏👏👏👏🏏
@@traceya9615 Honestly Tracey don’t encourage them by responding. If that comment is for real and not just childish trolling you’ve got the purest example there is of ‘jealous, chip on both shoulders, resentment of a successful popular man by a miserable, unsuccessful, envious loser’
@@gerardmackay8909 Yes Gerard, people like that aren't worth the time it takes to type; but I had a point to put across. Even if it's to someone with an I.Q. of a tin of beans - no offence meant to beans! 😊
Sir Michael Parkinson was truly one of a kind . Thank you for so many memories Sir Michael
A@
Very sadly missed Caroline Ahern , sooo talented .❤
And now Parky too!😢
@@KAF128What the hell is that supposed to mean?
He's now died too@@senecaknowledge2274
@@senecaknowledge2274 Er, sorry, I will explain in simpler terms. The gentleman here, Michael Parkinson, affectionately known to his chat show viewers as Parky, has now also, around the time of my comment, similarly gone to meet his maker. Ok?
@@KAF128😂😂👍
Two exceptional Talents greatly missed RIP
RIP Sir Michael Parkinson. One of the greats.❤️😥
I loved Caroline. She was a very clever and funny woman . a rare talent. God bless her . 💛💛
Best guest ever! Played every joke perfectly.
Two brilliant examples of British sarcastic humour and intelligence that we have sadly lost
Caroline Ahern considered herself as Irish ☘️
@@CashelOConnolly She was born in Ealing and educated in Liverpool and has an English accent. Her upbringing is definitely English. But Hey Irish humour and British humour are very similar, I have no idea why you feel the need to comment.
@@davidsuttie4192 Both her parents Bert and Maureen were immigrants from Dublin,County Dublin,Ireland. As an Irish guy from Bray,County Wicklow who’s spent time in England (regrettably) I don’t believe the English and Irish humour is the same at all. English humour derives its humour from manners and the class system plus low brow sniggering about s*x, where Irish humour comes from DEATH 💀 and hypocrisy especially in the Catholic Church and sublime word play sometimes very very morbid
@@CashelOConnolly My mother was four fifths Irish. She was called Iris!
@@CashelOConnolly And you don't think the likes of Ricky Gervais takes the piss out of the church and uses word play?
Caroline Ahern was brilliant as Mrs Merton it was her that got Michael Parkinson to do his chatshow again.
So sad to realise that these two wonderful talented people are not with us now. Very greatly missed and the world will not be the same.
Caroline was the same age as me. I'm still around, and 60 now. There but for the Grace of God go all of us. 😢
Comedy without the Royale family and Mrs Merton is rarely funny anymore.Nothing like northern humour. If only the Royale family were actually the real Royal family before Nora and Denise left us. Instead of raking in the millions of cash they'd have collapsing on the floor with laughter
Caroline Ahern was simply wonderful and I always liked Parkinson, too - death is such a drag.
Very sad loss this week with Parky passing. He was the best ever! No one ever came close to his talent!
I dont say its a big loss .He had a full life, achieved so much and he was brilliant. On the other hand Caroline Ahern was a big loss ,so young and had so such more to offer.
Parkinson was a decent, honest individual and a gentleman, it's always sad when someone like him passes. Caroline Aherne was wonderful, so funny and quick-witted. Absolutely awful that she died so young.
He was amazing. As an Irish person, he was right up there with our finest. He was so smooth, I think it helped that he was a northerner, he was very calm and genuine. Very much admired on this small rock.
As a Canadian, I agree. Every a single person loved him on this big rock.
He wasn't Irish, he was from Yorkshire
@@profaneangel0842 I think they mean, they are Irish, not Parky
Spot on. So down to earth, salt of the earth, relaxed, always composed and always let the guest talk instead of constantly interrupting or talking over them which so many talk show hosts seem to think is the way and to make it all about them. 🤦🏻♂️
@@profaneangel0842 he means he (Parky) was much admired by us over here in Ireland.
When TV was worth watching
Mrs Merton was brilliant you would laugh at her all the way through her show
This was hilarious, Parky was such a good sport (RIP).
Thanks for posting! Great memories and sad they're both gone.
two wonderful people lost to us at this time. they bought so mush joy to so many people.. may god look after them until we can see them again in another life
Both now sadly missed
R.i.p to Michael now 😢
This is great.❤
RIP Michael Parkinson, the best.
“What were you going on about?” “I don’t know, I’d forgotten.” Classic!
Been looking for this clip for ages. The Freddie Starr quip had me in fits.
The Royale family was seriously the best of British tv we saw
Sadly both are now together interviewing people upstairs. Sadly missed ❤
Just brilliant great northern English humour and warmth
Caroline was absolutely brilliant and so so funny, sadly missed 😢😢😢
I laughed all the way through and ended up a little bit sad.
Mrs M was such fun. Miss her, and Parky of course.
Now Mrs Merton can do a follow up interview. RIP.
Oof (but it's true)
Loved her as mrs Merton & & as Denise in The Royal Family
Cheers Rob....brilliant talents 👍
Parky was brilliant. Simply brilliant..
YES TOTALLY AGREE
@@davidjones6470 good man..
Just comes across as a down to earth northerner, nothing pretentious about him at all. RIP
@@coops1964 agreed..
I adored Mrs Merton. And Parky. Both brilliant
Will be remembered for his many appearances on Parkinson 😂😂
Noticed the age Generations in this audience, R.I.P to all who have passed away.
Both were quality. Mrs Merton was quick for an old girl.🙂
One programme Parkinson hosted that is now buried in BBC Archives is the infamous 1992 Halloween special GHOSTWATCH. He was very good in it, and a shame that the BBC have never repeated it. It is now 31 years since it aired, I think it deserves an airing on British television. What harm can it do? As it looks dated now, no one will mistake it for a live show in 2023.
I remember that John , I was nearly convinced and wish I had recorded it .Same as the the famous recollections of the Oz Trials , Leslie Philips as the judge was brilliant , a couple of years earlier
I was 9 at the time and that scared the shit out of me, I rewatched it recently only to see a plastic skull stuck to a mop handle wrapped in a bin bag 😂😂
@@ExplodingPiggy I was only 7 years old when I saw it on the night. My parents had a rule back then - Sunday to Thursday nights bed time was 9pm. They knew I would never sleep earlier than that, so once the BBC 9pm News came on, I was up to bed. However Friday and Saturday nights along with when I was off on school holidays they let me stay up for as long as I wanted. So Ghostwatch airing on a Saturday was perfect for me to catch it in 1992. I remember it well. I was sitting on the sofa, dad in his chair, and we had just been watching Beadles About on ITV and he looked in the Radio Times and saw Ghostwatch and decided to turn over. We missed the first 30 seconds of the intro, so all we saw was Parky standing at the fireplace saying they were doing a LIVE investigation. It took us until around half way thru before we clocked on it wasn't real. My mum recognised an actor from a commercial playing one of the street's residences who tried to exorcise the ghost. From then on we enjoyed it as a drama. We tried to ring the number 081 811 8181 used also by Going Live, and we got engaged tone.
would love it😊
I believe it has been unearthed recently.......
the brain-child of horror writer Stephen Volk
One of the funniest clips ever. We hardly think that they both are gone.
She was one of the best 🙏
What a really entertaining video- so enjoyable 👍🏻🥰🇦🇺
Best remembered for his many appearances on Parkinson.
I recall mrs Merton interviewing Andrew Neil. A brilliant series😊❤mrs Mertonis a little minx😮
Oh I miss his show, we'll never meet the likes of him again because people tend to go for shock value with the absence of class. He was so watchable. Silly Jonathon Ross never let's his guests speak. Parky had listening skills.
Caroline Aherne was so talented 😔
This is what inspired Parky to do his show again, I'm pretty sure!
Big respect to parky for mentioning the Ali
Caroline was marvellous, rip!
She was lovely. RIP.
I loved these 2 . Rip
Sad to think theyve both gone
May their Gods bless them both.
All we get now is Quiz shows yawn
You often wondered what she REALLY thought of her guests tho........
The mask that was Caroline Aherne never seems to slip on these shows !
A complex woman and really talented
Micheal parkinson & mrs, Merton rip😢
This show was in 1995?! Surely not !? 😮😮
Both missed the best ever ❤
Brilliant!
I am convinced the reason the Parkinson show was renewed was because somebody at the BBC saw this.
It was more to do with the fact that in the same year he'd put together a clips show "Parkinson: The Interviews" which the BBC ran for 3 series. He first did the introductions for the shows in a mocked up studio in his garden shed.
@@Stocko1234 I knew about this but I think this appearance had more to do with it
Actually, Freddie Starr was brilliant talking to Muhammed Ali 😂
That was a classic bit of TV with Freddie telling a horror story and Ali on the edge of his seat......
Very sadly missed
Quite diverse audience
Talent
parkinson was very shy
thanks , nice video :)
Wonderful.
pink overload here. we had a valour pink sofa back then lol
Both gone now and all the audience also, all dead...
She had a member of the Royle family on every week.
Eh? Not sure what you mean. Craig Cash was a co-writer and appeared as Mrs Merton's son once or twice, but that was about it. The Mrs Merton Show started 3 years before The Royle Family existed
@@Stocko1234 Caroline was in the Royle Family so she was on it every week. Did you forget she also starred in it as well as wrote it?
@@tonycowin Of course not, but you said she had a member of the Royle family on The Mrs Merton Show every week. So I think you mean because Caroline was playing Mrs Merton and in 3 years time she'd be playing Denise, that Denise was somehow on show every week? Er ok then, brilliant
@@Stocko1234 Youre arguing with me because I'm, checks notes, correct. Weird.
@@tonycowin Arguing with you? Not really, I was just trying to understand what you were on about since what you said is complete nonsense and I thought maybe I misunderstood you. It's like saying Basil Fawlty was in Monty Python's Flying Circus, or Mr. Bean was in Blackadder
Those stairs are a health and safety hazard.
I’ve never seen mrs Merton before. As an Australian I don’t think we got the show. But I have to say she’s not a patch on our Edna Everidge. RIP to them all. 🦘
Caroline Aherne was a beautiful woman ,Barry was a completely different kettle of fish and also a legend, brilliant all of them, if you fancy a good cry listen to Dickie Bird saying goodbye to his best friend of 84 years , also FYI Parky and Dickie opened the batting for Barnsley cc, the player Parkie kept out of the team was Geoffrey Boycott
How can you compare. You sound a bit slow. It was a very smart and somewhat political pisstake on occasion.Like the interview Mrs Merton did with the ogre ; Mary Whitehouse
Who was interviewing who?
That poor woman was so untalented she probably was just about beaten to the bottom spot by Victoria Wood.
I see two dead people talking
The book is dreadful..bangs on about sodding cricket and Ali,no wonder it's in every charity shop
Both gone now sadly……..😊
RIP Parky.
❤
I agree with the last comment TV now is rubbish
Deep joy 😂
She abused Hooky didn’t she?
For the most famous chat show host ever he was a pretty rotten chat show guest.
What a loss to comedy!
Helped ruin South Africa
How so?
Tbh Caroline Aherne was not very funny imo just like Victoria wood 🤷🏻♂️.
He was over rated .A Yorkshireman who soon forgot his roots and moved to where the real money was , London etc etc
Are you for real or just trolling for the hell of it? He moved to where the work was, like many who have left legacies as great broadcasters/actors/musicians, etc. And he NEVER forgot his roots. Did you not watch/listen to his programmes? He loved his roots and was at Dickie Bird's 90th party at Headingley despite being virtually at death's door. Still not enough for you? Overrated my elbow! Success due to hard work and talent always attracts vacuous detractors. Rest in peace, Michael. Good lad.👏👏👏👏🏏
@@traceya9615 Honestly Tracey don’t encourage them by responding. If that comment is for real and not just childish trolling you’ve got the purest example there is of ‘jealous, chip on both shoulders, resentment of a successful popular man by a miserable, unsuccessful, envious loser’
@@gerardmackay8909 Yes Gerard, people like that aren't worth the time it takes to type; but I had a point to put across. Even if it's to someone with an I.Q. of a tin of beans - no offence meant to beans! 😊
@@traceya9615 I’m with you 👍
Ouch!
R.I.P. 🕊🕊🕊