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
@@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.
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
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!
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?
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!
@@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.
I hate to show my age but the matching shirts and ties in those days were horrendous and I avoided them like the plague....especially the blue and white Paisley patterned ones - a lot of the men who wore them thought that they were the height of fashion when in reality they looked like walking / talking Wedgwood crockery. Fortunately for myself when they were fashionable for older men I was 17 going on 18 which meant that I could get away with more outrageous and less cringey outfits than any of them without being ridiculed by my peers who dressed similarly to myself.
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.
Matt Burfield Hardly a need for a snarky reply. I haven't watched the BBC in over a year, but considering we have to pay for the 'privilege' of their existence, I think we are perfectly justified in complaining.
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
Classic. Absolute classic. Cannot be replicated. RIP Eric and Ern.
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 CZcams for these trips down memory lane even if we don't remember it. 😂
That sketch has everything: the surprise intro, Eric slowly gaining the audience’s sympathy and the payoff at the end. Sublime.
Whoever wrote this sketch needs a medal.
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.
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.
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.
Absolutely
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.
That Richard Osman gets everywhere.
I wish I had been alive to see their shows. I'm so glad we have CZcams or I'd have missed out on some amazing comedy
Well said Molly. A golden era of British comedy at its best.
Two of the greatest comedians ever.
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
Eric’s timing and ripostes were always good, but this one took his own top prize for subtlety and perfection.
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.
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!
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 loved these two I really did. Wonderful memories
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.
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 CZcams! 😊
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?
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.
Eric and Ernie were brilliant
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
Just brilliant-superb partners and yes very very funny 😁-sadly missed
Loved watching them . My favourite growing up in the 70s
Two Masters of their art, brilliant to watch. Sending up themselves like few can today.. Lovely
Not just because it's just really funny 😃🇬🇧🎬😁
But I have a tear in my eye 😢🆘💯💪😍🤠 real
ENTERTAINMENT.. RIP🙏
A great sketch from 2 great comedy legends. Their comedy will live forever.
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.
I absolutely love these guys. Eric is a legend am still enjoying watching them and just can’t stop laughing
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...
Such a classic & the counterfeit Eric was very good. As if in real life they would split up, ha!
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
😂😂😂😂😂
So good to see this again :-)
I loved Eric, I cried for 2 celebrities Eric and John Lennon
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
Absolutely brilliant 😂
Good clean fun. They are missed!
MatchstalkMan boring*
@@mattissotrendy but
Mmm
😂😂 Such brilliant memories!!!
They were the best 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"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
I was brought with these 2 as well as the 2 Ronnie's
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
When you had to learn the " CRAFT" before you got TV work...stage then TV...learn the craft son...you'll go far.
Fantastic as always
“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
Ernie cracking up at 3.20. I miss these two...
Love the Paisley shirt and ties!
'Viewers, please do not adjust your sets, the shirts really are like that..'
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.
Thanks for posting that, it is funny.
Ernie Wise was one of only a handful of show-biz people the the City of Leeds has produced.
I thought I had seen all of M&W’s sketches but never seen this one
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.
He is a good actor.
I remember buying a shirt & matching tie in Luton, I wonder if Eric went to the dame shop?
Richard Osman looks young here.....
The other Eric was the bloke who did the interviews on the Dick Emery show
How come we lost entertainment this good! Just wtf happened. NOTHING to watch on ANY evening let alone a Saturday night 😭💔
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.
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.
How clever that is!
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.
I don.t care what you say that is an excellent wig no joins anywhere ha ha ha
Brilliant
Epsidoe 5.3 The wonderful Gordon Clyde as New Eric.
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.
i can't see the joint and if i could, i wouldn't tell you....Class!
Join, not joint.
Never seen this one before? Brilliant! Who is the tall guy?
Ah, Vic and Bob.
The Morecambe and Wise Show (BBC) Series 5 Episode 3
Broadcast: 06/05/1971
I was only 4 when they made this. 😐
Who were the other 2 actors in the sketch?
I never realised Stephen Merchant was so old!
If you draw blood you get more money :D
Who's the girl ?
Which Gordon is this? Thanks for the video!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Clyde
the ‘second’ Eric! was he the same man in the “you are awful, but i like you sketches”. on Dick Emery shows?
yes
Looks like Richard Osman!
That's what I thought!
Hank Marvin.
Richard Osman's dad?
He's on Strings
who is the tall man?
He looks like that guy from "POINTLESS" !
Back in the days when the BBC was a great broadcaster - All we get Nowadays is drivel.
You've missed a lot then...
I hate to show my age but the matching shirts and ties in those days were horrendous and I avoided them like the plague....especially the blue and white Paisley patterned ones - a lot of the men who wore them thought that they were the height of fashion when in reality they looked like walking / talking Wedgwood crockery. Fortunately for myself when they were fashionable for older men I was 17 going on 18 which meant that I could get away with more outrageous and less cringey outfits than any of them without being ridiculed by my peers who dressed similarly to myself.
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.
bbc and itv getting worse on a saturdays
jade smith don’t watch them then
Matt Burfield Hardly a need for a snarky reply. I haven't watched the BBC in over a year, but considering we have to pay for the 'privilege' of their existence, I think we are perfectly justified in complaining.
@@frankanderson5012 we have to pay for all commercial stations every time we go shopping. The advertising fees don't come from nowhere.
Ernie's new partner was good but for some reason i prefer Erics new partner.
Think that's the fella who played the vox pop interviewer in the dick emery show each week... at whom the oh you are awful catchphrase was directed
Is that Stephen Merchant? 😊
it was not crude but was very funny two legions
A young Hugh Laurie I believe
He he, he could have been Eric's son !
He could also be Stephen Merchant's dad!
@Feisty1967
Proof that they are there please.
Who is the tall chap?
Gordon Clyde
Richard Osman's dad lol....
@@eyesofisabelofficial who's Gordon Clyde?
@@charliekane135 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Clyde
Who’s the fella playing the fake Eric?
That mid-Atlantic accent seems so odd now
Brilliant. Still not worth the TV licence though.
Who are the other two?