I was born in 68, so this takes me back to happier times. My mother passed last year, I’m the last one standing now, my father died when I was a teen, my brother 18 yrs ago and now that my mum has gone, I’ve spent many nights watching tv from my youth remembering happy times when I had all my family around me.
I was born in 67, I recall the show will great memories. 👍 My parents are also now gone my father in my teens just like you, but you have a lot of living to do yet! There are many inevitabilities in life, accept them - move forward don't live in the past.
Linda. I’m 61 now and born in 1961. I often dream vividly about my teenage years at home during the 1970s. This has only started happening recently. Everyone has gone too. All the best to you Linda.
I was born in 1956, and like many of you whose parents have since passed, I get great comfort revisiting these shows of my childhood. Especially shows that used to air on a Saturday night, when the whole family would sit down and enjoy the great entertainment.
I was born just 1 day or so after Woodstock ended in '69 and both my parents passed away 40 years later (2009; mum to cancer in May, dad to cirrhosis in September as a result of his alcoholism). I reminisce the good old days of evenings, as a kid sitting watching this show with them (along with The Two Ronnies) back in the mid-to-late 1970's (just after Australia started receiving colour broadcasts). Fond memories. I remain strong and carry on with life thanks to the support of my wife and her parents (who are still alive) 💪😇 My condolences to those of you whose parents have since passed.😇🙏
Just sent this to my 89yr old mum. She rang me in tears of laughter and sadness, saying how things were so much better/happier then, but are so bad now. I loved Dick Emery as a kid.
Thanks. Glorious memories of the family huddled around the TV at Christmas laughing our socks off in a time before people thought it was a human right not to be offended.
I was an 80s kid and my children , teens now, gasp at words I use, they even have to ask what certain words mean ha.. I will NEVER stop calling a spade a spade. Nobody can make me either ! x
@@El_Gormo They are not Allowed to show these Comedies anymore on bbc because they offend the certain people, Dear god what is OUR country turning into 🤐
@@karaperrio-du5gs American comedy is crap for the most part, not only that but none of the modern comedy I've seen is woke. By the way "woke" is basically a non-insult.
The line _"ooh, you are awful - but I like you!"_ from Emery's Mandy character never gets old! 😇 British comedy of the 1970's like this series is now considered a timeless classic.🥰
Suddenly I'm back in our living room on Christmas night, in front of the coal fire, laughing with my mum & dad. "Oh you are awful... But I like you" 😊😊😊😊😊😊 But this is the first time I've seen it in colour!
Well that's not true. I'm what would be called "woke" and Dick Emery is brilliant. I think you'll find it's the right wingers who would hate this type of comedy.
@@martinputt6421 If you class yourself as WOKE and don't mind this, what are you thoughts on Little Britain and Come Fly With Me? You must think it's alright to black up then.
@@marklee1783 I love Little Britain but I didn't really connect with Come Fly With Me, found it a bit boring, probably due to being stuck in an airport setting for each episode.
This is pure magic for me, especially as the 70s was my era and this is the classic comedies I knew and loved. My Dad loved Dick Emery we all used to be all cosy watching these greats at Christmas. Thank you so much for finding these classics. I know they must be hard to come by. They don't make them like this anymore.
Very touching "Mr College" scene. Reminds me of helping a down and out chap when I was 14 . How good of Mr Emery to shed light on the less fortunate . God Bless you Dick Emery.
We immigrated to Canada from Scotland when I was a kid. Remember watching Dick Emery with my parents on the odd occasion it was on TV. My friends didn’t understand the humour the way my family did. Like everyone else this brings back very happy memories of sitting around with my family and bonding over this show. Thank you. X
Why Dick Emery's complete collections of shows have never been released on DVD is beyond me. He, along with Benny Hill, the two Ronnie's,, Morecambe and Wise etc are absolute classics of British comedy and should be in every home to be viewed especially by younger generations who sadly don't know what true comedy is all about.
The BBC release a few compliations on various formats but the poor sales of these made the BBC reconsider any future releases void. Now in the World of streaming, releasing this on DVD would be even unlikely, you also must remember there were over 100 editions of the show, a costly project to say the least
In the late 1950s I worked at the Manchester Hippodrome ..Ardwick Green….and Dick Emery came for a week …he was so much fun ,he had a date with one of the girls…. Those were the days ….people today are not the same.
I was born in 1973and grew up with these,and when they put'ooo you are awful'film on the TV,and was lucky enough-(or not!!!)to have a beta max video I taped it and watched it everyday in the school holidays in daytime before being kicked out to play!!!he was hilarious,even through a child's eyes.non-ofensive,not times if'p.c gone mad'just silly but clever British humour,no one was offended and I was brought up in Luton where there's a high percentage of 'diverse'cultures.Extremely amusing man and co stars.
Fabulous, happy days watching these brilliant shows. Dick Emery was up there with Benny Hill, Morecambe and Wise, Two Ronnie's etc and all the great sitcoms as our best ever comedy shows. .
This is such a pleasure to watch. Makes one feel proud to be British. Dick Emery was a real cockney legend. That Granddad Lampwick shoulda had all the makings of a sitcom,but alas
Sir. You are AMAZING! I have no idea where you are getting these from, but I can't find the words to say how grateful I am to see so many complete shows. Have a GREAT Christmas!
It's taking a while to Obtain these, mainly from private collectors who want a pricy sum for them, some i already own, still sorting through some, hope you had a good Xmas
@@TVGreats Thanks for your kind reply! What you're doing takes me back to the 80's and early 90's of trading Dr Who's and other classic TV on VHS with folks around the world. If I could go back in time, there's lots more stuff that UK Gold and Granada Plus showed that I would now make sure to record on SVHS. I think apart from a few Frankie Howerd shows and the BBC Kenny Everetts, everything I recorded back then is available on DVD.
@@TVGreats I grew up in the 1970's watching British comedies like this. The best-known ones of the time (besides The Dick Emery Show) included The Goodies, The Two Ronnies, The Benny Hill Show, Fawlty Towers, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Are You Being Served?, Bless This House, George & Mildred, On the Buses, Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Dad's Army, Man About The House, Robin's Nest, Open All Hours, The Upchat Connection, Doctor at Large. Once again you have brought nostalgia and memories back. 👍🏼😎👍🏼
Fantastic upload… can’t beat a bit of Dick at Christmas Great to see the wonderful Ballard Berkeley and Claire Nielsen (your game, milady and the Waldorf Salad) making an appearance too
This brings back some childhood memories of when I lived in England. I'm amazed at how many different characters Dick Emery played in one show and each of them was distinctive. The one I particularly remember was the dim-witted young man named Gaylord.
This takes me right back to our family watching Dick Emery together and laughing together too. Thanks so much for the upload. I know we're not supposed to laugh at some of this anymore but it's funny so I will continue to do so.
I remember the first time I discovered Dick Emery. 20th August 1997. Sadly he’d long since left us but I remember a tribute to him being on telly this particular night. I thought he was hilarious and I couldn’t believe I’d never seen him before. RIP Dick x
Fantastic to find this Dick Emery Christmas Special, just thrilling! Pure nostalgia for childhood Christmases of the 70s and early 80s - and so much funnier than the ghastly, derivative 'Mrs Brown's Boys'. THANK YOU and a happy and healthy 2023 to you and yours! XXX
Dead right, there! My best friend and I got together for a couple of days this Christmas and we were in stitches watching this. So many memories of me, mum and dad splitting our sides laughing.
@@kevinbeck6785 Agreed - how Brendan O' Carroll has the nerve to claim he writes 'Mrs Brown's Boys', when the jokes are all antique and have been recycled umpteen times before he cut and paste them into the 'script', God only knows! This episode of 'Dick Emery' is 40 years old, and was miles ahead of the feeble, predictable, woefully unfunny Christmas/New Year editions of 'Mrs Brown's Boys'. This was laugh-out-loud funny, and high quality in every respect. God bless the great Dick Emery! I watched the recent 'MBBs' specials out of curiosity, and I honestly could not believe how bad they were. The jokes aren't clever enough to be called 'double entendres' - they are single entendres, crude and witless, without an ounce of intellectual thought behind them. He actually had a running gag in which a woman talked about 'blowing' her husband - much to Mrs Brown's shock, as naturally she assumed the woman meant giving him oral sex. When the 'misunderstanding' was finally revealed, it turned out the woman meant blow drying her hubby's hair. Hilarious, huh? As a joke it simply didn't work, because no one ever talks of 'blowing' someone in that context. Utterly pathetic! The show's humour was never sophisticated, but it has now plummeted to become a series of crude sex and toilet gags, without a laugh to be had and no credible plot - and some of the worst, most wooden performances you'll see on network television, thanks to O' Carroll casting his own family and friends in the leading roles! Pathetic is too kind a word for that embarrassing drivel. What is the BBC thinking?! The glory days of BBC comedy are long gone. God bless Dick Emery, Ken Dodd, Ronnie Barker, Stanley Baxter and all the great British comics of yesteryear. They were sheer class - and are badly missed in 2023!
@@glamdolly30 Thank You for your brilliant reply, i love watching the old comedy shows that are still funny, just finished watching all The Likely Lads series, and the Christmas special, how the BBC still think Mrs Browns is still funny, when first shown getting over 12 million viewers and now under 2 million, same unfunny gags year after year, if they were to show some of the classic comedy shows the viewing figures would be much higher and for once we could all have a LAUGH 😂😂
@@kevinbeck6785 Absolutely right - why don't the BBC repeat their best comics' work, like Dick Emery, Les Dawson, the Two Ronnies, etc etc. I guess if they did it would show up 'Mrs Brown's Boys' and their other modern, so-called comedy shows for the third rate, unfunny, garbage they are!
Yes because im so sure young people including myself would want to watch some crap 1970s camp comedian dressed up in black face doing Asian stereotypes
Dick's character "College" was one of his best and most subtle, being a cleverly-written mix of comedy and pathos. I also loved Bert and his reliably unsuccessful inventions! Both probably aren't what people think of when they think of Dick Emery, but they show that he could do sitcom as well as short character sketches. My favourite character is probably most people's: Mandy, and that wonderfully violent reaction to an interviewer's perpetual unintentional innuendo - "Ooh, you are awful! But I like you!" Marvellous. :-)
Brilliant & the Major (Fawlty Towers) lol .. And ''You are awful but I like You'' Classic humour. Now everything is Not Allowed .Like Pubs taking the piss is down the Swanie Arms.
He also played Hester's father Guy in the 80s sitcom Fresh Fields. I think it was his last TV role before he died and it gave him a little more depth than the muddle-headed Major. He also had a nice cameo in the movie National Lampoon's European Vacation.
I hope John Cleese has seen this... he speaks so politely of those he's worked with, but I got the impression he had a particular fondness for Ballard Berkeley!!
@@kevinbush4300 IIRC Cleese said he enjoyed writing for Ballard Berkeley more than any other regular character, and stopped the series partly bc Berkeley had died.
That last part with the huge turkey reminded me of our once upon a time turkey. We dont usually have turkey but chicken and other meats. One yr i bought a big turkey. Our family didnt eat that much. Nor our guests. It was too much. Later we tried to finish it the following da ys after christmas. We had roast turkey, curry turkey, stew turkey , turkey on sandwiches ! In the end we threw the rest away. Poor . Turkey. I often wondered how many birds are reared just to be killed and go to waste. So sad. We never bought turkey again.
To think we may not had the pleasure of Dick! On Parkinson he was asked what else he would have done if he didn't have a show biz career. He said he would have wanted to be an airline pilot. Thanks for being part of our youth, i was 13 then.
Dick Emery performed in Brisbane at Festival Hall many many years ago. They said before he started that no one was to take camera flash photos 📷. (He had epilepsy) He started up and sure enough someone in the audience took a flash shot. He immediately walked off stage and there was a 15 minute delay. He came back on and mentioned it constantly, grumbling about it as he kept going with his routines.
Once saw him in a pantomime, Puss in Boots about 40 odd years ago. I remember not being able to get my head around the fact that I had seen him on the telly and there he was right in front of me. I kept asking my Dad if it was really him !! 😊
I do ,I was a cashier in the late 1950s and 1960s…I loved those days ,T V comedy was great …I worked in live Theatre and met many great show business people …Ho! How things have changed …….Very sad……
Wot? No Roy Kinnear? That thug character's really hamstrung without his dad. Didn't even get to use his catchphrase. "Daaaad... I fink I got it wrong again!"
I was born in 68, so this takes me back to happier times. My mother passed last year, I’m the last one standing now, my father died when I was a teen, my brother 18 yrs ago and now that my mum has gone, I’ve spent many nights watching tv from my youth remembering happy times when I had all my family around me.
I was born in 67, I recall the show will great memories. 👍 My parents are also now gone my father in my teens just like you, but you have a lot of living to do yet! There are many inevitabilities in life, accept them - move forward don't live in the past.
Linda. I’m 61 now and born in 1961. I often dream vividly about my teenage years at home during the 1970s. This has only started happening recently. Everyone has gone too. All the best to you Linda.
I was born in 1956, and like many of you whose parents have since passed, I get great comfort revisiting these shows of my childhood. Especially shows that used to air on a Saturday night, when the whole family would sit down and enjoy the great entertainment.
Be strong Linda 💪🗣️💯✌️ the people who you don't know are with you 💓🙏💪🗣️💯✌️🇬🇧
I was born just 1 day or so after Woodstock ended in '69 and both my parents passed away 40 years later (2009; mum to cancer in May, dad to cirrhosis in September as a result of his alcoholism). I reminisce the good old days of evenings, as a kid sitting watching this show with them (along with The Two Ronnies) back in the mid-to-late 1970's (just after Australia started receiving colour broadcasts). Fond memories. I remain strong and carry on with life thanks to the support of my wife and her parents (who are still alive) 💪😇 My condolences to those of you whose parents have since passed.😇🙏
Just sent this to my 89yr old mum. She rang me in tears of laughter and sadness, saying how things were so much better/happier then, but are so bad now. I loved Dick Emery as a kid.
Thanks. Glorious memories of the family huddled around the TV at Christmas laughing our socks off in a time before people thought it was a human right not to be offended.
I was an 80s kid and my children , teens now, gasp at words I use, they even have to ask what certain words mean ha.. I will NEVER stop calling a spade a spade. Nobody can make me either ! x
Well said, the BBC will not show one of the greatest comedies of all time Only Fools and Horses
Happy days
It’s on Gold all the time and they are owned by BBC. If it was on bbc all the time people would moan about repeats.
@@El_Gormo They are not Allowed to show these Comedies anymore on bbc because they offend the certain people, Dear god what is OUR country turning into 🤐
The brilliant Dick Emery!!! British comedy isn't the same now without him!!! 😄😄😄
we do not have comedy like America it is woke rubbish
@@karaperrio-du5gs American comedy is crap for the most part, not only that but none of the modern comedy I've seen is woke. By the way "woke" is basically a non-insult.
The line _"ooh, you are awful - but I like you!"_ from Emery's Mandy character never gets old! 😇
British comedy of the 1970's like this series is now considered a timeless classic.🥰
The Interveiwer falling over was eagerly anticipated! Happy times
I love the mediaeval episode, "Ooh thou art awful, but I like thee!" 😁
Dick Emery was a comedy genius. I loved watching his shows in halcyon days.
Suddenly I'm back in our living room on Christmas night, in front of the coal fire, laughing with my mum & dad. "Oh you are awful... But I like you" 😊😊😊😊😊😊 But this is the first time I've seen it in colour!
Comedy gold, and much better than most so-called modern comedy shows.
Dick Emery was YEARS ahead of his time. Very cheeky humour which the appalling Woke Brigade would tut tut at!! He was an absolute legend 🤗🤗
Well that's not true. I'm what would be called "woke" and Dick Emery is brilliant. I think you'll find it's the right wingers who would hate this type of comedy.
What's the Woke Brigade?
@@ajw9533little hypocrite leftists who think they can dictate our freedom.
@@martinputt6421 If you class yourself as WOKE and don't mind this, what are you thoughts on Little Britain and Come Fly With Me? You must think it's alright to black up then.
@@marklee1783 I love Little Britain but I didn't really connect with Come Fly With Me, found it a bit boring, probably due to being stuck in an airport setting for each episode.
This is pure magic for me, especially as the 70s was my era and this is the classic comedies I knew and loved. My Dad loved Dick Emery we all used to be all cosy watching these greats at Christmas. Thank you so much for finding these classics. I know they must be hard to come by. They don't make them like this anymore.
Very touching "Mr College" scene. Reminds me of helping a down and out chap when I was 14 . How good of Mr Emery to shed light on the less fortunate . God Bless you Dick Emery.
We immigrated to Canada from Scotland when I was a kid. Remember watching Dick Emery with my parents on the odd occasion it was on TV. My friends didn’t understand the humour the way my family did. Like everyone else this brings back very happy memories of sitting around with my family and bonding over this show. Thank you. X
Simpler days when all the old school were still around enjoying a nice big xmas dinner.....i miss those days.
the guy was pure genius.all my childhood memories,comedy at its best
Remember watching this show with my Dad on a Saturday evening. My Dad loved it. Takes me back. Thank you.
We were the lucky ones watching these shows when they first played. Great memories of simple uncomplicated times if we were lucky...
This appears to be the "Dick Emery Christmas Show" (December 24th, 1975 7.55pm)
Why Dick Emery's complete collections of shows have never been released on DVD is beyond me. He, along with Benny Hill, the two Ronnie's,, Morecambe and Wise etc are absolute classics of British comedy and should be in every home to be viewed especially by younger generations who sadly don't know what true comedy is all about.
The BBC release a few compliations on various formats but the poor sales of these made the BBC reconsider any future releases void. Now in the World of streaming, releasing this on DVD would be even unlikely, you also must remember there were over 100 editions of the show, a costly project to say the least
I watched Peter Ustinov recently and reminded me of Benny Hill’s mannerisms. Both classics.
In the late 1950s I worked at the Manchester Hippodrome ..Ardwick Green….and Dick Emery came for a week …he was so much fun ,he had a date with one of the girls…. Those were the days ….people today are not the same.
He loved the women from whats been written 😀
As a man of a certain age, this takes me back. Happy days.
GREAT memories 💓🇬🇧
A support cast of old friends. Some segments had real heart👍🤩😳🤫
🎬🆘Easy to MISS the old days 😂🤠💪💯🇬🇧🆘🧐😅
Thank you for uploading these great shows, a real treat to watch again. Remember them all growing up in the 1970's 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for this ! Can't beat comedy like this xx
I was born in 1973and grew up with these,and when they put'ooo you are awful'film on the TV,and was lucky enough-(or not!!!)to have a beta max video I taped it and watched it everyday in the school holidays in daytime before being kicked out to play!!!he was hilarious,even through a child's eyes.non-ofensive,not times if'p.c gone mad'just silly but clever British humour,no one was offended and I was brought up in Luton where there's a high percentage of 'diverse'cultures.Extremely amusing man and co stars.
Mr Emery had mega talent oozing from every pore!
Thank you Sir & God bless. xx
This has been SUCH a joy to find again. I grew up watching Dick and his Sister. Thank you.
Loved Dick emery, he created some great and unforgettable characters!
Fabulous, happy days watching these brilliant shows. Dick Emery was up there with Benny Hill, Morecambe and Wise, Two Ronnie's etc and all the great sitcoms as our best ever comedy shows. .
Also Bernard Manning best stand up the UK has ever produced
I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THIS
reminds me of asking my dad "can i stay up and watch this".... same with the professionals and minder. happy times.
Dick Emery
The Two Ronnies
Stanley Baxter
Dads Army
On the Buses
Steptoe and Son… that time all but a distant memory. Thank you for posting this ♥️
This is such a pleasure to watch. Makes one feel proud to be British. Dick Emery was a real cockney legend. That Granddad Lampwick shoulda had all the makings of a sitcom,but alas
Sir. You are AMAZING! I have no idea where you are getting these from, but I can't find the words to say how grateful I am to see so many complete shows.
Have a GREAT Christmas!
It's taking a while to Obtain these, mainly from private collectors who want a pricy sum for them, some i already own, still sorting through some, hope you had a good Xmas
@@TVGreats You are a miracle worker - your efforts are hugely appreciated, thanks so much for sharing the love!
@@TVGreats Thanks for your kind reply!
What you're doing takes me back to the 80's and early 90's of trading Dr Who's and other classic TV on VHS with folks around the world.
If I could go back in time, there's lots more stuff that UK Gold and Granada Plus showed that I would now make sure to record on SVHS.
I think apart from a few Frankie Howerd shows and the BBC Kenny Everetts, everything I recorded back then is available on DVD.
@@TVGreats I grew up in the 1970's watching British comedies like this. The best-known ones of the time (besides The Dick Emery Show) included The Goodies, The Two Ronnies, The Benny Hill Show, Fawlty Towers, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Are You Being Served?, Bless This House, George & Mildred, On the Buses, Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Dad's Army, Man About The House, Robin's Nest, Open All Hours, The Upchat Connection, Doctor at Large.
Once again you have brought nostalgia and memories back. 👍🏼😎👍🏼
@@RoughJustice2k18 Not forgetting others loke Kenny Everett.
What a talent. pushing against the boundaries in the 70's that have appeared in 2024. Thank you.
Fantastic upload… can’t beat a bit of Dick at Christmas
Great to see the wonderful Ballard Berkeley and Claire Nielsen (your game, milady and the Waldorf Salad) making an appearance too
This brings back some childhood memories of when I lived in England. I'm amazed at how many different characters Dick Emery played in one show and each of them was distinctive. The one I particularly remember was the dim-witted young man named Gaylord.
This takes me right back to our family watching Dick Emery together and laughing together too. Thanks so much for the upload. I know we're not supposed to laugh at some of this anymore but it's funny so I will continue to do so.
World of Dick Emery,
Thanks for this longer Christmas episode with Dick reprising many of his well-loved characters!
My claim to fame is that as a chef I once cooked Dick Emery’s dinner 😂
Fantastic Characters so well written legend R.I.P
”takes two to hold the postman down ”... absolutely cracked me up
Alway the greatest and very very funny hours of fun thanks
One of my lovely nan mattys favorites ❤ fantastic. Has ever.
This is pure comedy gold
Love this show ❤️
I remember the first time I discovered Dick Emery. 20th August 1997. Sadly he’d long since left us but I remember a tribute to him being on telly this particular night. I thought he was hilarious and I couldn’t believe I’d never seen him before. RIP Dick x
Met Dick Emery when he came to Nelson (NZ ) boys and I were in front row shook hands with us yrs ago in 80s⌚
OH brilliant when Christmas Comedy was Funny and we could all laugh as a family and not worry what these woke nutters are saying, Thank You !!
Why is there always some prick who has to bring right-wing politics into it?
Ah those were the days so carefree wish I could go back to the early 1970s
@@alandawson2130 👍👍
Smile Linda - good memories will last forever. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA (born 1958).
Now all we get is celebrity game shows. Thanks for the wind back to proper humour.
fantastic so underrated, love DE
Fantastic to find this Dick Emery Christmas Special, just thrilling! Pure nostalgia for childhood Christmases of the 70s and early 80s - and so much funnier than the ghastly, derivative 'Mrs Brown's Boys'.
THANK YOU and a happy and healthy 2023 to you and yours! XXX
Dead right, there! My best friend and I got together for a couple of days this Christmas and we were in stitches watching this. So many memories of me, mum and dad splitting our sides laughing.
Great Words, oh mrs browns boys is a comedy never knew that just awful show and still the bbc think its worth putting that rubbish on Christmas Day
@@kevinbeck6785 Agreed - how Brendan O' Carroll has the nerve to claim he writes 'Mrs Brown's Boys', when the jokes are all antique and have been recycled umpteen times before he cut and paste them into the 'script', God only knows!
This episode of 'Dick Emery' is 40 years old, and was miles ahead of the feeble, predictable, woefully unfunny Christmas/New Year editions of 'Mrs Brown's Boys'. This was laugh-out-loud funny, and high quality in every respect. God bless the great Dick Emery!
I watched the recent 'MBBs' specials out of curiosity, and I honestly could not believe how bad they were. The jokes aren't clever enough to be called 'double entendres' - they are single entendres, crude and witless, without an ounce of intellectual thought behind them.
He actually had a running gag in which a woman talked about 'blowing' her husband - much to Mrs Brown's shock, as naturally she assumed the woman meant giving him oral sex. When the 'misunderstanding' was finally revealed, it turned out the woman meant blow drying her hubby's hair. Hilarious, huh?
As a joke it simply didn't work, because no one ever talks of 'blowing' someone in that context. Utterly pathetic! The show's humour was never sophisticated, but it has now plummeted to become a series of crude sex and toilet gags, without a laugh to be had and no credible plot - and some of the worst, most wooden performances you'll see on network television, thanks to O' Carroll casting his own family and friends in the leading roles!
Pathetic is too kind a word for that embarrassing drivel. What is the BBC thinking?! The glory days of BBC comedy are long gone. God bless Dick Emery, Ken Dodd, Ronnie Barker, Stanley Baxter and all the great British comics of yesteryear. They were sheer class - and are badly missed in 2023!
@@glamdolly30 Thank You for your brilliant reply, i love watching the old comedy shows that are still funny, just finished watching all The Likely Lads series, and the Christmas special, how the BBC still think Mrs Browns is still funny, when first shown getting over 12 million viewers and now under 2 million, same unfunny gags year after year, if they were to show some of the classic comedy shows the viewing figures would be much higher and for once we could all have a LAUGH 😂😂
@@kevinbeck6785 Absolutely right - why don't the BBC repeat their best comics' work, like Dick Emery, Les Dawson, the Two Ronnies, etc etc.
I guess if they did it would show up 'Mrs Brown's Boys' and their other modern, so-called comedy shows for the third rate, unfunny, garbage they are!
If only could have comedy like this again . Life was so much better till all these young people now became politely correct .
Comedy isn’t like this anymore because young people thing it’s rubbish. Tastes change, move on.
Yes because im so sure young people including myself would want to watch some crap 1970s camp comedian dressed up in black face doing Asian stereotypes
@@El_Gormo move on to what?
I was waiting for some old fart to come up with the usual drivel. The state of this country is down to you, not the youngsters.
I love the way that Bert's friend Walt talks. It suggests that he's sending Bert up without him actually doing so.
Born in 64 remember his Christmas shows.
Blimmey the old major from faulty towers 😂😂rip what a beloved character cheers stevo 🍀🍀🍀🍀
Some things never change at Sainsburys!
4:15… wow! Ballard Berkeley!! What a star!
The best there was
When comedy was comedy.
Dick's character "College" was one of his best and most subtle, being a cleverly-written mix of comedy and pathos. I also loved Bert and his reliably unsuccessful inventions! Both probably aren't what people think of when they think of Dick Emery, but they show that he could do sitcom as well as short character sketches. My favourite character is probably most people's: Mandy, and that wonderfully violent reaction to an interviewer's perpetual unintentional innuendo - "Ooh, you are awful! But I like you!" Marvellous. :-)
Brilliant & the Major (Fawlty Towers) lol .. And ''You are awful but I like You'' Classic humour. Now everything is Not Allowed .Like Pubs taking the piss is down the Swanie Arms.
Love this show each week it started , the range of characters he portrayed made it si interesting , a much freeer time for sure
Dick Emery was a comic genuis
I liked Mandy and Honky Tonks!🌈
"Oh hello, Honky Tonk; nice to see!""
This is hilarious
Very clever, witty man.
Wow it's Christmas again and i'm watching it again👍👍🎄🎄
im so happy to see this guy evey time make my day
I realise from this and other sketches what an accomplished actor Ballard Berkeley was. Great comedy from the days when we were charmed.
Made my weekend to watch this. Top upload my friend.
Born 67 so watched regularly with my mum
This is more like it. Just TV have been showing the ITV 1979 Christmas special. All singing all dancing, bit like the Yarwood format.
I remember the late great Dick Emery. I liked the vox pops with his various characters.
Ohhh! The dressing gowns! The memories! X🙏🎄😁🧑🎄
Absolutely brilliant one of the best entertainers ever
Ballard Berkeley at 4:20. The immortal Major Gowen of 'Fawlty Towers'.
He also played Hester's father Guy in the 80s sitcom Fresh Fields. I think it was his last TV role before he died and it gave him a little more depth than the muddle-headed Major. He also had a nice cameo in the movie National Lampoon's European Vacation.
Yes, wonderful in 'Fawlty Towers', a lovely, classically English actor.
@@DoctorBrodski wow! I didn’t realise!
I hope John Cleese has seen this... he speaks so politely of those he's worked with, but I got the impression he had a particular fondness for Ballard Berkeley!!
@@kevinbush4300 IIRC Cleese said he enjoyed writing for Ballard Berkeley more than any other regular character, and stopped the series partly bc Berkeley had died.
That last part with the huge turkey reminded me of our once upon a time turkey. We dont usually have turkey but chicken and other meats. One yr i bought a big turkey. Our family didnt eat that much. Nor our guests. It was too much. Later we tried to finish it the following da ys after christmas. We had roast turkey, curry turkey, stew turkey , turkey on sandwiches ! In the end we threw the rest away. Poor . Turkey. I often wondered how many birds are reared just to be killed and go to waste. So sad. We never bought turkey again.
To think we may not had the pleasure of Dick!
On Parkinson he was asked what else he would have done if he didn't have a show biz career. He said he would have wanted to be an airline pilot. Thanks for being part of our youth, i was 13 then.
Was this 1974? The year is hidden at the end.
Oh yes wonderful comedy from Dick Emery in the 70s. The opening was when they had Christmas in the summer when the shops weren't so busy.....
Did anyone spot the Major from Fawlty Towers ?
Dick Emery performed in Brisbane at Festival Hall many many years ago. They said before he started that no one was to take camera flash photos 📷. (He had epilepsy) He started up and sure enough someone in the audience took a flash shot. He immediately walked off stage and there was a 15 minute delay. He came back on and mentioned it constantly, grumbling about it as he kept going with his routines.
Wow thanks, this brings back memories. Still funny too.
Dick Emery was excellent and very Good
Good to see the major from Fawlty Towers in this episode and he did not mention the cricket 😊
Once saw him in a pantomime, Puss in Boots about 40 odd years ago.
I remember not being able to get my head around the fact that I had seen him on the telly and there he was right in front of me.
I kept asking my Dad if it was really him !! 😊
Amazing video 👍🏻👍
Who remembers old money, and when VAT was introduced?
I do ,I was a cashier in the late 1950s and 1960s…I loved those days ,T V comedy was great …I worked in live Theatre and met many great show business people …Ho! How things have changed …….Very sad……
BRILLIANT AS EVER !! 🤣🤣🤣😂😂!!! MR. DICK EMERY. THOSE WERE THE DAYS ! FROM, U.K. (2023).
Dick Emery and Benny Hill pure gold memories.
Wot? No Roy Kinnear? That thug character's really hamstrung without his dad. Didn't even get to use his catchphrase. "Daaaad... I fink I got it wrong again!"
That was my favourite Dick Emery routine. Two comedy greats together.
Superb pic quality .
The Mr College sketch is beautifully acted. Genuinely touching. Superb stuff.
Very nice to see this thank you of course too.
In all fairness, the English do excellent comedy...pure gold
They DID excellent comedy...Not any more..
I like the way that Ernie and Lil clearly love each other. Unusual to have a couple portrayed as being happily married.
Dick Emery Show at Christmas 0521am 9.5.23 very amusing. very tizer and crisps tv. the good old days.
Problem is there is NO comedy on tv anymore
This is so much better than the garbage of today.
Dick Emery A true legend and a British icon
At last something funny and happy