The story behind this clip: An item fell through. Filler was needed for a live show. The producer went to the BBC bar and saw several comedy writers having a booze up and dragged them to the studio to talk ad hoc on their profession. One - John Antrobus - was deemed too pissed and ejected at the start.
Any fly on the wall documentary or interviews from the 50s - 70s shows just how you were in the minority if you didn’t smoke and smoking meant smoking anywhere from 1 to 4 packs a day
It was John Antrobus? 😊 Denis Tuohy still with us and wide eyed in Medialand? Wide Eyed and still with us? That excuse could go either way. Hei Denis. 😊.
1966. Standing on a railway concourse. Cannot prove it of course. I am not a comedy writer. Was that an interloper at start of the tape? Every Holmes Should Have Juan. RIP all seen and especially Julie Ege. Freddie Francis and Jack Palance.
my dad inherited all the smoking pipes from his relatives as they died, and used them all. and used black solid pipe tobacco, what you cut with a knife, he died from asbestos, when he was 78, in 1992 and got £4,000 compensation 4 weeks after he died, and had left it to the asbestos compensation charity, who fought his case, all the maintenance men died from asbestos at the NHS hospital I worked at, the management did not care, about the people, they spent time rejecting their claim, even though they died from it, the management where only interested in not paying money. which really comes from the public taxpayers. I have to wait for my turn. once you have a bit of asbestos in your self, you will died from it, unless you died from some thing else, in the mean time.
The story behind this clip: An item fell through. Filler was needed for a live show. The producer went to the BBC bar and saw several comedy writers having a booze up and dragged them to the studio to talk ad hoc on their profession. One - John Antrobus - was deemed too pissed and ejected at the start.
Was John Antrobus too drunk to be in the programme?
I think they'd all been in the BBC club for a few!
Any fly on the wall documentary or interviews from the 50s - 70s shows just how you were in the minority if you didn’t smoke and smoking meant smoking anywhere from 1 to 4 packs a day
The london heat of the 1966 UK national smoking competition 😉
Smoking was obviously mandatory.
Clearly.
I can hear Alf Garnet when Speight articulates his points 😂
Honestly, love, this is a great clip. No seriously, love. Love, I mean it. For gods sake, love.
A free and intelligent discussion on the BBC, archive indeed!
I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
Could we not just change the choreography?
@@JamesMMcCann so they don't trod upon it
More than a few amazing writers in that discussion......
They both had valid points but Johnny Speight just shouted louder. A year or so later and Marty Feldman would be a comedy star himself.
Green room must off been hammered… Marty said love more times the the No6s smoked 😂
Would have been interesting to see Galton & Simpson discuss, if they could have got a word in.
I can smell the smoke from here.
Ashtrays 😂
Can just about see this through the haze 🤣
How much smoking could be done in one TV interview - just shows what a different time 1966 was.
Sykes and the library book then BBC Archives. Hei John.😊
I like to imagine that after the cameras cut the writers were restrained and returned to their padded rooms at the BBC asylum.
🤣🤣🤣
Ian La Frenais hair piece was bold for the time!!
Beatle wig 😜
Brave move to wear one on top of his full head of hair.
@@kamandi1362 yeah lol think just a weird top ruffling of his barnet
I’m developing a smokers cough, watching this
Must of been smoky in that room 😬
Must have
@halloeverybodypeeps *_"must've"_* is clearly a contraction of *_"must of"_* Jeeesh! Everyone in Australia 🇦🇺 knows that!
Does the BBC still have an in-house bar ?
The have an in-nonce bar now.
Don't knock Dicksons, Love~🧡
It was John Antrobus? 😊 Denis Tuohy still with us and wide eyed in Medialand?
Wide Eyed and still with us? That excuse could go either way. Hei Denis. 😊.
1966. Standing on a railway concourse. Cannot prove it of course. I am not a comedy writer. Was that an interloper at start of the tape? Every Holmes Should Have Juan.
RIP all seen and especially Julie Ege. Freddie Francis and Jack Palance.
my dad inherited all the smoking pipes from his relatives as they died, and used them all. and used black solid pipe tobacco, what you cut with a knife, he died from asbestos, when he was 78, in 1992 and got £4,000 compensation 4 weeks after he died, and had left it to the asbestos compensation charity, who fought his case, all the maintenance men died from asbestos at the NHS hospital I worked at, the management did not care, about the people, they spent time rejecting their claim, even though they died from it, the management where only interested in not paying money. which really comes from the public taxpayers. I have to wait for my turn.
once you have a bit of asbestos in your self, you will died from it, unless you died from some thing else, in the mean time.
Smoking in public was banned in the 1980s I think.
No it wasn't I worked in smoke-filled offices and clubs in the 1980s and 90s. Not fun for an asthmatic I can tell you.
I'm guessing that all of the smokers are dead!
are they smoking funny cigs?
No, just pissed.
Jazz cigarettes, Devils lettuce...
No, even the swinging 1960s BBC would have drawn the line at smoking weed on camera. Behind the scenes... who knows.
Even back then comedians had an eliteist attitude.
Everyone smoking 🚬
When the BBC was worth it's salt.
Smoking does not cause cancer!
Tw1t!
Nope, it's actually good for you! And massively increases your cool points!
@@johnmc3862 Who is Jack?
Heroic comment
@@the-np4mr Herr The, do they not use sarcasm where you reside?