Morecambe & Wise writer Eddie Braben - Miranda Hart's interview
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2013
- Miranda Hart talks to Morecambe & Wise writer Eddie Braben about what it was like to write for Eric & Ernie. Braben admits it was sometimes quite stressful. "The real pressure came when I was sat in front of that typewriter with all those blank pages and there was a deadline and there was nothing happening. That's when you realised there were 20 million or 25 million people looking over your shoulder - all saying make me laugh".
Eddie Braben passed away on Tuesday 21st March 2013, less than two months after this interview was broadcast.
www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/00...
This footage is from the 2013 TV special 'My Hero: Miranda Hart On Eric Morecambe', which is copyright the BBC. More details on the programme:
www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/mira... - Komedie
I'm so glad Miranda got to meet and interview Eddie, so that we had a chance to see this interview!
A very telling interview. Thank you so much.
Just watched Eric, Ernie and Me on BBCiplayer, about Eddie Braben's struggles with producing scripts for Morcambe & Wise, really good insight Into Eddie's life. It was great to see this little clip of the man himself chatting to Miranda. I believe he passed away not long afterwards. RIP Eddie Braben. .... "I'm playing all the right notes,.... But not necessarily in the right order" One of the funniest TV sketches I've ever seen !
What a lovely man !
Eddie certainly was a genius and appears to have made a huge contribution in developing 'the boys' to attain the sort of status that endures until this day. Interestingly though, it is unlikely he wrote much, if any, of the Andre Previn sketch, as they originally performed a version of it back in 1963, with Ernie as the conductor. (It's available on You Tube, search for original)
Did he have an office in Bet Lynch's blouse?
Thank you Miranda!
I have to agree ... Very sad when something you enjoy doing soooo much becomes just "your job".
Yes, I agree about their innocence being essential to how funny they were. But not about the studio being essential too. I watched That Riviera Touch (1966) recently, and laughed a lot. More, probably. than I would nowadays watching 98 minutes of their shows. They were very good in the film, very natural and very innocent and very funny.
Really, Morecambe & Wise were a triple act. Eric and Erine, the performers, and Eddie the genius writer behind all their BBC golden age shows.
He should have written with a partner. Makes it infinitely less stressful.
Doesn't work like that... 3 years later
A genius writer , who wrote for two comedy geniuses ❤❤❤
I always thought that he was a brilliant writer but he went up in my estimation when I heard him say he never found them funny on ATV, Two of a kind. I thought it was painful and their writers, who deserted them, were hopeless
Hey, can you tell me where you heard him say that? Thank you!