I saw the little fella when I was doing my degree at Durham University in 1984, the lecture theatre was packed, standing room only. When he finished the whole place erupted with applause. There was hardly anyone over the age of 22.
i listened to this record as an 11 year old at my grandparents house in 1983....i know it word for word, the war stories section is just as good....nostalgia doesnt even begin to quantify the feelings of pure happiness, safety and joy that watching this evokes in me...i still use the line when my son asks me for money..'where's tha gannin? hollang?' he just looks at me in bemusement hahah but i crack myself up hahah ...god bless y bobby....you had ya troubles like we all do, but your legacy is golden....
As a NE club organist I knew Bobby very well! I heard his routine more times than I remember and although his routine was pretty. Much the same I never stopped laughing!
Absolutely wonderful real art, real skill, real talent ,and real times ,industries, high streets, shops, pubs, clubs,corner shops etc etc real times,,better times
Saw little Bobby umpteen times. If he was on any local clubs we always made a beeline to see him. We knew the act backwards but the delivery was priceless. Likewise the Dixielanders , hilarious entertainment. Modern so called comedians should watch these guys and find out what comedy is all about.
Im a geordie and honestly this man was my dads fav comedian and as a member of the CIU Manors social club he saw bobby more times than i can count and thanks to the vhs of his routine i became a massive fan i may only be 45 but i can recite his jokes word for word lol
We all had nowt in them days but thinking back we were happier. We didn’t have to watch every word we said. You could call anybody love or pet and not be accused of being patronising. People had a sense of humour. We could laugh at ourselves. Happy memories. ❤
My late father was trying to put a flat pack together .we were playing Bobby's record on the record player. My dad couldn't put it together for laughing. He found him that funny he was crying with laughter. Bobby was bloody funny. I love watching him on the you tube channel. He was hilarious.
……Godspeed Bobby 🙏🏻 My beloved parents & I would be crying with laughter every time we listened to ‘The Little Waster’ on LP in the late 1970s ❤️❤️❤️❤️
The days when no one had owt, but we were all in the same boat so it didn’t bother us. That’s why we could laugh along at our own situation. Bobby just made meagre times so funny.
Thank you Jade what brilliant comedian he was. I've listened to his jokes many times and i still laugh even when you know what the punchline is. I managed to see Bobby three times live, and laughed all the way through his act, every time. He was the best and always will be. Thank you. )
Reminds me of my street when I was a kid, if you paid the rent two weeks running the police used to come around to see where you'd got the money from!🥺 All my clothes came from the Army and Navy Stores, I was the only five year old Japanese Admiral in our class!😲 Our school was the hardest in the town, we even had our own coroner!😉 Some kids took the piss out of my younger brother aged ten because he had red lines running down his face, so I told them it was because he was breast fed! They asked how that could possibly be? I said 'she used to come to the school on a lunchtime and breast feed him through the railings!🤫We used to walk to school and back home later, a round trip of ten miles, that just show's how thick we were, the school was only two streets away, but we always got lost every day!🤔 The teacher asked my brother 'What comes at the end of a sentence'? My brother said ' Parole miss'!🤭The school inspector asked one lad in our class 'who knocked down the walls of Jericho'? He said 'well it wasn't me'! The inspector went to the head master and told him that when he asked who knocked down the walls of Jericho? the ginger lad said it wasn't him! The headmaster said 'well, I've know little ginger Thompson since he was a kid, and if he says he never did it, then he never did it'!
A seen him at tyne theatre & after the show he was in the foyer & he very kindly signed the LP I bought which even when I listen to today is hilarious. Rest in peace Bobby. 👍🏆
Absolutely a icon as I have his dvd the little waster and the records a brilliant iconic comedian never used fowl language to get a laugh a great story teller so funny one of a kind may his soul rest in peace ✌️😂
Bobby Thompson was a comedy genius. He was clever. He was a great story teller about every day life in the North East. I'm old enough to understand what he is talking about. Bloody funny.
Southerner here, used to work with a lovely fella from Newton Aycliffe. On a quiet shift he'd tell me all these jokes. Carry yer bag? - nah let her walk still cracks me up
Honestly at 22 I think I could have a good bloody go at reciting this word for word like will never not be funny this and private Bobby aswell hall of fame sets 😂 if only I was around years ago to see the man live
Loved Bobby , we were so lucky them days , Bobby T , Alan snell , Brendan Healy , sue sweeney , endless list , I sit with Terry buster Joyce on a Friday night another scream 😊😊😊😂😂
In 1970's I saw Tony Capstick in a Sheffield WMC. He did a great show and had the whole place laughing. Now after all these years I know who he copied his act from.
Would anyone happen to know if the unedited version of this video is on YT or elsewhere please? It was filmed at Percy Main Club and my late mum and dad can be seen on it; I'd love to see it again.
I remember bobby walking on stage complimenting the audiences for looking very smart. Then came the punchline. Catalogue is gonna be busy tomorrow when this lot goes back.
I saw the little fella when I was doing my degree at Durham University in 1984, the lecture theatre was packed, standing room only. When he finished the whole place erupted with applause. There was hardly anyone over the age of 22.
Great days of clubland the youngsters will never know how wonderful it was sadly
i listened to this record as an 11 year old at my grandparents house in 1983....i know it word for word, the war stories section is just as good....nostalgia doesnt even begin to quantify the feelings of pure happiness, safety and joy that watching this evokes in me...i still use the line when my son asks me for money..'where's tha gannin? hollang?' he just looks at me in bemusement hahah but i crack myself up hahah ...god bless y bobby....you had ya troubles like we all do, but your legacy is golden....
As a NE club organist I knew Bobby very well! I heard his routine more times than I remember and although his routine was pretty. Much the same I never stopped laughing!
Interesting punctuation. There. Frank ;
Absolutely wonderful real art, real skill, real talent ,and real times ,industries, high streets, shops, pubs, clubs,corner shops etc etc real times,,better times
Oh my goodness, how funny was he? Not a word of bad language, how refreshing was that? ❤
How I wished I'd been old enough to see Bobby back then. I was born in 1972, too young to get in the clubs 😉
What a great comedian no vulgar language just great fun
So you like Chubby Brown then 😂
Well, Ah divv'na- I thought his reference to "scratching the Cheviots" _et seq_ a touch risqué (particularly the poaching bit)
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Knew Bobby from my days in Whitley Bay. A generous, friendly and kind hearted man as funny in real life as he was in the clubs.
I can confirm that Kevin, met him a few times, a really nice guy. He would pack any club he was appearing at.
After all these years Bobby is still funny, no foul language just unadulterated northern humour.
Never saw him live. But as an exiled geordie, memories and good ones of my upbringing.
I've heard him since I was a kid. I know all what's coming but still he creases me with laughter. He was just bloody brilliant.
Bought back a lot of very happy memories this😂😂He was my fathers favourite comedian, absolutely brilliant👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
He was my Dad's too
Watching this in south wales not easy to understand every word put had me laughing all the way through
Saw little Bobby umpteen times. If he was on any local clubs we always made a beeline to see him. We knew the act backwards but the delivery was priceless. Likewise the Dixielanders , hilarious entertainment. Modern so called comedians should watch these guys and find out what comedy is all about.
When I can understand him he's brilliant. His timing is perfect.
Im a geordie and honestly this man was my dads fav comedian and as a member of the CIU Manors social club he saw bobby more times than i can count and thanks to the vhs of his routine i became a massive fan i may only be 45 but i can recite his jokes word for word lol
We all had nowt in them days but thinking back we were happier. We didn’t have to watch every word we said. You could call anybody love or pet and not be accused of being patronising. People had a sense of humour. We could laugh at ourselves. Happy memories. ❤
I still say love pet flower chuck hiny to folk
Saw Bobby Thompson many times in SW Durham clubs and abolutely loved him. We still use the 'I'm no engineer' line when anything needs fixing.
I remember him in his latter days living in Monkseaton Whitley Bay. He was hilarious. 😊😊
My late father was trying to put a flat pack together .we were playing Bobby's record on the record player. My dad couldn't put it together for laughing. He found him that funny he was crying with laughter. Bobby was bloody funny. I love watching him on the you tube channel. He was hilarious.
……Godspeed Bobby 🙏🏻 My beloved parents & I would be crying with laughter every time we listened to ‘The Little Waster’ on LP in the late 1970s ❤️❤️❤️❤️
It was on often in my home back in the day great memories
Same here there both gone now there probably watching him in the working man's club in heaven
Never heard of this guy! But I'll be watching more for sure..
He's a proper legend up here in the northeast
Where have you been he's a legend 😂😂
It's good to see that Bobby Thompson is still incredibly funny in this day & age. RIP The little waster.
My grandparents came from Newcastle on Tyne. Moved to Canada in 1927. The language amazes me. Brings back great memories. Thanks for sharing.
The days when no one had owt, but we were all in the same boat so it didn’t bother us. That’s why we could laugh along at our own situation. Bobby just made meagre times so funny.
More money sloshin around these days but rarely for working class people
Thank you Jade what brilliant comedian he was. I've listened to his jokes many times and i still laugh even when you know what the punchline is. I managed to see Bobby three times live, and laughed all the way through his act, every time. He was the best and always will be. Thank you.
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I'm very happy you enjoyed watching this he was amazing I could watch it over and over again regardless of wether I know the jokes or not
Reminds me of my street when I was a kid, if you paid the rent two weeks running the police used to come around to see where you'd got the money from!🥺 All my clothes came from the Army and Navy Stores, I was the only five year old Japanese Admiral in our class!😲 Our school was the hardest in the town, we even had our own coroner!😉 Some kids took the piss out of my younger brother aged ten because he had red lines running down his face, so I told them it was because he was breast fed! They asked how that could possibly be? I said 'she used to come to the school on a lunchtime and breast feed him through the railings!🤫We used to walk to school and back home later, a round trip of ten miles, that just show's how thick we were, the school was only two streets away, but we always got lost every day!🤔 The teacher asked my brother 'What comes at the end of a sentence'? My brother said ' Parole miss'!🤭The school inspector asked one lad in our class 'who knocked down the walls of Jericho'? He said 'well it wasn't me'! The inspector went to the head master and told him that when he asked who knocked down the walls of Jericho? the ginger lad said it wasn't him!
The headmaster said 'well, I've know little ginger Thompson since he was a kid, and if he says he never did it, then he never did it'!
Thank you for your comment that is amazing
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A seen him at tyne theatre & after the show he was in the foyer & he very kindly signed the LP I bought which even when I listen to today is hilarious. Rest in peace Bobby. 👍🏆
Brilliant, just reminds you of times gone by
Castletown club. Bobby you were fantastic
Absolutely a icon as I have his dvd the little waster and the records a brilliant iconic comedian never used fowl language to get a laugh a great story teller so funny one of a kind may his soul rest in peace ✌️😂
Bobby was a mackem, absolutely brilliant he was.
My dad loved him great comedian . I can't stop laughing 😀
Bobby Thompson was a comedy genius. He was clever. He was a great story teller about every day life in the North East. I'm old enough to understand what he is talking about. Bloody funny.
Absolutely brilliant. I’m impressed if anyone not from the north east can understand 20 percent of this though 😂
Yorkie , here , I got about 40% of his act .
South-west - hardly caught a word.
Do we care if the southerners can understand..😂
Southerner here, used to work with a lovely fella from Newton Aycliffe. On a quiet shift he'd tell me all these jokes. Carry yer bag? - nah let her walk still cracks me up
I am from Middlesbrough and I’m struggling
Living in Canada now but from Crook Co Durham. Saw Bobby a few times and this brings it all back to me. Wonderful memories. Thanks for posting.
He is amazing i have not stopped laughing
Honestly at 22 I think I could have a good bloody go at reciting this word for word like will never not be funny this and private Bobby aswell hall of fame sets 😂 if only I was around years ago to see the man live
Loved bobby saw him loads of times
My Dad used to roar with laughing at Bobby Thompson 😂😂 Great comedian 😂
Bobby simply the best
It's nearly 60 years since I left Durham, this takes me back.
Brilliant! Especially the punch line!
Loved Bobby , we were so lucky them days , Bobby T , Alan snell , Brendan Healy , sue sweeney , endless list , I sit with Terry buster Joyce on a Friday night another scream 😊😊😊😂😂
Well said!
I was 12 when this went out never saw fortune to seeing Bobby live the closest i come was Peter Peverly tribute act
wished i was old enough to attened working mens clubs to watch the waster i had to listen to me dads albums
There will only ever be one little waster
At the time, 1982 seemed really modern, but looking back now it seems hardly distinguishable from the 1960’s.
Love this, watched it loads growing up. Reminds me of me nana and grandad x
Used to see him in the casino regular. He loved roulette.
Best comedian ever - still
From notts so struggle to understand accent but still a very funny man . RIP " WASTER"
Best comedian ever.
😂 Memories of seeing him at Gateshead Central Club
Absolute legend 😂😂😂😂
When watching this, put on closed caption [CC] it's even funnier... when he says mistletoe they write it as "misery tool" 😂
Every time I cry laughing 🤣
I saw him and his wife many times at the casino rooms in Newcastle In the early1980s
Great me father loved him ❤
He was a genius
He's great man 😍 so funny
we need part 2
What a brilliant irreplaceable comedian no filth, no foul language, he based his performance on some of his unfortunate downfalls.
Laughed my bollocks off man
.... What're Identifying As These Days Then... " THIS THAT or TUTHER? "... Very Whimsical Indeed 🏴🥂🥸 5:36
ah, fought, fought and fought and i still had to gan
legend
True north east legend never had to swear are be smutty
Gannin along the Roker Road.❤
Gannin along the Gosforth road........there what I was taught
Thought it was Scots wood road.
At least we were all off to see the Blaydon Races.
Great Stuff
went to see him twice and he never turned up so never tried again
Ha ha ha fantastic
In 1970's I saw Tony Capstick in a Sheffield WMC. He did a great show and had the whole place laughing. Now after all these years I know who he copied his act from.
What a friggen little waster ,,, we all miss ya Bobby
I still say if anyone asks me ,can i do this or that ," im not an engineer"😅
Howling!!!!!!!!!!!
If anyone outside of the northeast undertsands this i will give them a tenna
Brilliant 😅
Comedy genius
😂😂😂😂😂 Just Fantastic ❤😂😂😂
Good song
No swearing or filth but God so funny.
Ahl watch this wen i get outta beed.. 3.30 pm.. 😉
Brilliant this could you try and upload the 2nd part
Thank you for your comment I will see what I can do
everybody thats aboomer knows a bobby
Sunderland legend.
Bloody hell youre everywhere mate 🤣
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hello from brazil!
Hello there!
Legend, fly from Easington refuel at Peterlee (woop woop Peterlee my home town
Thank you for your comment
@@jaykyle5395 your welcome
Me Mum was from County Durham and the accent and the same sort of humour was nice to hear..
my sister in Gateshead was bullied in 70'd cos we had a washing machine. I got same for living in a private house!
I'm sorry that yous had to go through this but times were so different back then
@@jaykyle5395 heh heh no problem Jayde it toughned us up!
If you had a door bell when I was a kid you were definitely posh,that was the fifties
She should have told the bullies it was out the catalogue
Any chance you have the second part of this where he’s in army uniform?
keep an eye out you never know your wish may come true
Would anyone happen to know if the unedited version of this video is on YT or elsewhere please? It was filmed at Percy Main Club and my late mum and dad can be seen on it; I'd love to see it again.
Hes my partners step grandad ❤
The ONLY mackem I had ANY time for...!
Aal nivver understand how Wor Bobby wasn't a success in the States 😅
I remember bobby walking on stage complimenting the audiences for looking very smart. Then came the punchline. Catalogue is gonna be busy tomorrow when this lot goes back.
Castletown Sunderland hardest places to crack when are comedian
I'm from the North East, I can honestly say I can't understand 70% of what he's saying. 🤣
Really haha
Ha Ha He was mint Bobby Thompson like.
Jesus that's funny ..
can anyone translate @7:13 I follow all but this part
"is the worried" meaning are you worried then he says "well I'll stop then no good 2 of us worrying"