Hancock's Half Hour - Fluffs and Ad-Libs
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- A compilation of gaffes from Tony Hancock's classic TV comedy series, featuring clips spanning 15 episodes. At the time it was common for small mistakes to be kept in the recording, due to the cost of production and the lack of time for editing.
The perils of live TV with no editing. Tony carries them so wonderfully.
Hancock was the master in comedy timing. His facial expressions are enough to make you laugh too 🤣
One of those rarities who could 'speak' with facial expressions.
Written in 1956/7 and still hilarious today. Sign of a real classic.
As Maxie Miller used to say...there'll never be another. Legend. One fluff that is missing which is one of my favourite Hancock moments. When Arhtur Mullard delivers an extended line in "Ericson the Viking", Hancock struggles to not laugh and replies "I did enjoy that", Gold :).
Mullard should have been in prison.
Ah yes, in "Ericsson the Viking".
....thanks for putting this together and posting...brightened up my day...cheers!😊
You're very welcome, thanks for watching! 👍👍
Love Tony Hancock. Legend
I grew up with Hancock's Half Hour, fabulous comedy. The two murderers fluff is hysterical!
All i can say is Comedy Genius.
There was a time in the UK after playing back used reels of spool tape nearly always find a recording of Hancock Half Hour somewhere on it.
I enjoyed this. I still regularly listen to his radio shows. I can remember him on TV in the sixties too, even though I was just a kid. Him and Sid were a great team. Shame he decided to get rid of all his Co stars.
Cohen punched pregnant women.
@@JamesHenderson-wk4hd
More info please
@@maryoleary5044 He punched his pregnant wife, and punched his pregnant mistress.
@@JamesHenderson-wk4hd Cohen?
@@paulweir5031 His real name was Solomon Joel Cohen.
2:23 "I still haven't heard what it is" 😂
A pleasure to watch.
There are some classics in the radio episodes as well. Particularly when Bill Kerr's line of "It's not a squirrel, Sid!" comes out as "It's not a Sirrel, Squid!"
Even the fluffs are hilarious.
pure class
Brilliant!
Wonderful, wonderful and wonderful!
Timeless comedy. Still watch it now
Brilliant, thanks!
As to editing: the earlier shows were live, so no possibility of editing. After the experience of 'There's an airfield at the bottom of my garden' where one scene nearly fell apart because of things going wrong, later series were video taped. The process was then very new and and untried, and the engineers felt that editing was not possible. Hancock's producer, Duncan Wood, demonstrated that it was, on a spare recording of another show - this was editing by physically cutting and splicing. The shows were recorded one scene at a time, with almost all edits being made on the fade to black between scenes where a glitch was less noticeable (there was a tendency for the picture to roll over). Re-taking any fluffs would involve going back to the beginning of the scene, and of course the audience reaction would be poorer. Only much later was copy-editing without physlcal cutting (and glitch-free) developed so that fluffed lines could be repeated and editied out in post-production.
I think Duncan Wood used an episode of "On The Bright Side" with Stanley Baxter and Betty Marsden to prove you could edit - OTBS was interspersed with vocal numbers and DW edited out all the music links to prove his point. It was only a six part series, but one of the few to be recorded in advance by the BBC at the time as a matter of course.
The problem was, as well, that editing was cumbersome and time consuming and the facilities had to be shared for other productions so cutting was at a minimum
WASNT HE BRILLIANT ,EVEN WITH THE MISTAKES,IVE GOT EVERY ONE OF HIS SHOWS,RADIO AND TV!!
He wasn't funny.
And neither are You MarkHarrison @@MarkHarrison733
Legendary
I have always thought that the line "free from sin in our own personal wives" was quite deliberate but made to look a bit like a fluff. It's too slick and well telegraphed. Possibly to avoid issues with censors who were very strict then.
Thanks so much for this!!!!!❤❤❤❤
You're very welcome 👍😁
Theres one scene where Tony forgot his lines & started rambling ,Warren mitchell playing the shop owner had a habit of not only knowing his own lines but everyone elses said "a word mista hancock." & whispered tonys lines in his ear, & tony carried on.Despite doing away with Kenny & Sid, he wanted Warren & his good friend dick Emery to be in HHH as much as possible.
'So free from sin in our own personal WIVES' Hahah *"$£% ...That one had me falling off my chair.....lol
I often think that Rick Mayal’s character in bottom took some influence from this.
`Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you?.....
Did she die in vain?.....`
Tony and Sid were great friends in real life. Sid remarked that Tony was his best friend.
Cohen punched pregnant women.
Lovely !
Triggers dad was in The Lift episode. You can recognise him by the eyes.
Trigger?
@@JamesHenderson-wk4hd I assume it's Charles Lloyd-Pack,father of Roger Lloyd-Pack....
@@anthonybailey1966 ?
@@MarkHarrison733 ....Roger Lloyd-Pack played Trigger in Only Fools And Horses!
@@anthonybailey1966 Never seen it.
The Blood Donor was one of the best.
Sorry, but no. His constant use of idiot boards ruined it.
@@paulweir5031 he was struggling to remember lines by that point. Memory wasn't his strongest suit.
@@paulweir5031For you, maybe.
@@BroonParker It wasn't funny at all.
@@MarkHarrison733 "Wasn't funny"? Have you gone stark raving mad?!
Such a shame how his life ended. Kevin Mcnally gets pretty close to impersonating him. Check out Hancock lost episodes on BBC Iplayer
Pre-empted Trump's language mangling by 3 score years & 10. But funnily.
I'm preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeety sure that some of these "fluffs" were deliberate.
It wouldn't surprise me 😉
Radio series was better
A better established medium when TV was more often than not live, on a very limited budget and just that bit more chaotic. And reading a script on the wireless avoided having to memorise so many lines week after week to be given in one take.
And like they used to say of radio "the pictures were better".
His shows went downhill in the absence of James and Patricia Hayes.
Definitely. He needed a foil to bounce off of. James was excellent, peerless.
The Blood donor ? The Lift ?
@@robingardner683 The last series was so unfunny.
@@stumpynadge It's difficult to laugh at Cohen, knowing that he often punched pregnant women.
@@MarkHarrison733 my guess is a majority of fans enjoyed the Blood Donor, the Radio Ham,the Lift etc. Also I think most fans regard the split from S.&G. as the beginning of T.H.'s slow decline.
The mistakes were the only funny thing about HHH.
The mistakes were the only funny moments in the show.