Terry Thomas tells a joke about a budgie.
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2023
- Terry Thomas is one of the most talented and funniest actors in British history. He didn't often do stand up jokes but here you can see in this rare clip just how good he was.
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Rotter, Cad, Bounder, but still a British treasure, one of the best, RIP Terry.
Proper shower...absolute shower!
@@stewartbristow846 I say!
I remember you in the army! You were an absolute stinker then, and you're an absolute stinker now!
And on set he was one of the Film Industry's true gentlemen
Steady on old chap
A real treasure and a complete bounder!! Sad how he died alone and forgotten!!!
It sickens me that he died in abject poverty. He deserved so much more.
Dementia got him. Sad
Not quite - he was discovered living in a London flat dying from Parkinsons by Carry On actor Jack Douglas. Douglas organised an all-star benefit gig which raised enough money to put Thomas in a private nursing home for the last few years of his life.
@@mfrost71wThank you for much more positive reply.
He certainly hasn’t been forgotten! I understood that he had developed Alzheimer’s and I know from experience that in the earliest stages all money gets lost in different ways as it’s something that has to be managed, but can’t be by the sufferer. It’s wonderful that he was rescued.
One of the best British comedians.
The 'correction' "three days actually, it was a long weekend, I remember" is the sort of thing that really makes a professional stand out.
That and, "lost his wife ... rather careless of him ..."
I know. It's unexpected and very British. That's why it works so well.
I loved him in Too Many Crooks, diving through the window for his Bunny no Mummy?😂🤣
A great actor and yes it was very sad about his later years and death but I'll never forget him.
Love Terry Thomas. Worth a binge of his stuff on UA-cam . Long May he live in our consciousness.
School For Scoundrels 👍
Terry ended up totally broke living off charity at the end of his later life and died from Parkinson’s 😢
I remember him being "cancelled" ,as its now called, by the BBC after a live interview in which he said he was off to Switzerland to stuff some of the good old British cream into the Swiss tarts. Hilarious comedian
Ahead of his time
You can’t take cream through customs,that’s why he was cancelled.
Sounds like something he'd say... 😂
Every one of his films is a real treasure,
What a wonderful true English gent.
Before he died in a nursing home, funds all gone,
Elton John paid for his stay, Untill the day he passed away.
Thankyou Elton.
Wonderful story, I'd love to quote it, do you have a reference? Did some Googling around but couldn't find anything.
Makes me think better of Elton.
@@davidharrison8404 It was actually a benefit concert organised by Jack Douglas and others which raised £75000 for Terry Thomas to move into a care home. Not sure Elton John had anything other than may be being part of the line up but so was Phil Collins, Michael Caine and Richard Briers. He died about a year after moving into the nursing home.
That is a lot of crap! Elton John did nothing of the kind. Terry-Thomas and his wife were living in abject poverty when they moved back to London from Spain, having had to sell everything to cover his medical bills. Hearing about his plight, Jack Douglas organised a benefit concert for him and was able to raise enough for Terry to spend his remaining days in a nursing home in Godalming. Elton John had absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever.
The redoubtable Terry Thomas - wonderful comedic actor !
I say, ripping good laugh. Ahhh, Terry Thomas...one of many national treasures.
Brilliantly funny man. I always remember him in school for scoundrels with Alistair Sim & Ian Carmichael. Those of us at a certain age will remember the old Ealing comedies as well. Brilliant 👍👍
also 'I'm All Right Jack'. Great films...
Even as a kid the old movies were and are the best. Those geezers are immortals to me.
Hard cheese old boy. Lol
The great Terry Thomas - a favourite of mine ever since I was a child. Alistair Sim, Irene Handl, Margaret Rutherford…….I was blessed to be able to grow up watching these wonderful, irreplaceable people. How I miss them.I would rather be back there than here now with the “absolute shower” (as Terry Thomas would call them) we have. Now where’s that School For Scoundrels video? I have decided to go back there for 90 minutes or so.
"That "Are you ready yet?" line in School For Scoundrels always makes me laugh, people like Terry and Leslie Phillips were total legends.
"Hard cheese!" Great film.
Leslie Phillips was a very distant second to Terry Thomas.
I say!!
@@gharqad That’s the line I remember!
Always will be!❤❤
What a legend. Loved him in Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
“Hush, hush... and whoosh, whoosh.” LOL... LOVE that film... Terry was fantastic.
Loved this man since childhood whether he was playing the comic or the cad. He might have died in penury had it not been for a group of actors who collected money to alleviate Terry's circumstances. Rest in peace, dear soul, and thank you for all the helpless happiness you gave us all.
I remember a scene in Magnificent Men when Eric Sykes makes a stirrup of his hands to help Terry Thomas into his plane and Thomas says, in that inimitable, caddish toff manner, “I hope your hands are clean.”
Still makes me laugh.
I saw Terry in the 50’s at the White City as the cabaret during an Amalgamated Engineering Union conference. He had a piano accompaniment but when he started singing he tapped the microphone and claimed the record he was impersonating had a crack in it. As a young boy it cracked me up, sorry. Later he signed autographs and was chatting for ages with the Union members. From then on I was a fan and very pleased to see him become so successful.
Only Terry Thomas can pull that face 😂 brilliant actor.
An absolutely natural comic genius.
Thanks for the shout out for the quip. Cheers Bob.
I loved Terry-Thomas especially the poem "The Ong of Pring" the Song of Spring written on a typewriter with the letter 'S' missing.
Interesting to hear him breaking into his own accent
Agreed. I heard quite a strong North London accent just beneath the surface.
I thought the same
Never realised about the accent thing old chap
Yes exactly 😂
I don't think that was his own accent. He was just doing a 'Sarf Lundun' accent for the purposes of the joke. He was an actor, you know. I mean, he was born in Finchley, which was always a quite well- to-do upper class Jewish area. With a double-barrelled name, 'Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens'.
Great comedic actor. Loved the roles he played in movies. Especially It's a Mad Mad Mad World.
My favourite exasperated exclamation of his was "Ells bells and bloody ding dong!" That had me in stitches as a child and I use it myself on occasions.
I was just thinking the other day that I haven’t heard the expression “Hells Bells” for decades. Takes me back to my youth and gentler times.
The tennis match against Ian Carmicheal in School for Scoundrals,"oh hard cheese" absolute classic
“What an absolute shower!” Best quote ever.😂😂 RIP Terry.❤️
I user this phrase often when castigating some company or an individual in authority who fails. They haven't got the the vaguest clue what I'm on about, so I repeat it. It never works but I enjoy myself as I'm thinking of Terry.
@@Rutlandeyewhat does it mean? I watched his movies as a kid. Fantastic
One of the greats and certainly one of my favourite actor's.
What a treasure this man was. Such a sad ending to his life too. My kids, 11 and 13 roll around with laughter with some of his humour, especially his hilarious snobbish put-downs - fantastic stuff. Thanks for sharing and cheers from Sydney - Dave
You could argue he only had one character. But you can say that about a lot of actors. And he defined that character.
Legend.
Rubbish he could adapt to any character.
What your ignorently referring to is his highly distictive voice.
@@lordeden2732 Can't see him as Othello or Captain Kirk.
@@Leslie_Horwinkle
"The Klingons? Oh I say"!
@@ploppysonofploppy6066 Romulans … ? Shower, absolute shower.
@@lordeden2732free tip: if you're going to talk down to someone, learn to spell the words you're going to use 🤦♂️
TT was my hero a national treasure, legend will never forget him.
Only a true gentleman could play such a Boundah. We love you, Terry! ❤
Still remember watching him featuring in films broadcasted on German TV.
Throughout the decades lots of great and lovely stuff from Britain there. 👍
Ebsolute SHAAAARRR!! We still love you T-T ❤❤
R.I.P Terry Thomas. Part of my growing up in the '60's. More please - the Vintage Years, bring them all back . . .
What a shah ! A rotten shah ! That chap over there is a cad ...what ! Absolutely brilliant T-T . My two favourites from that era were Terry-Thomas and Sir Stanley Unwin . A proper ,good old fashioned regular riot!
Deep joy, deep joy!
Ah, I concurlymost, but unfortunale must correctlode the wordage deployed in your comment. Stanley Unwin was, although undoubt and certain of this, greatly of the worthage to be a Sir, he was in actile factly referreded as Professor therethroughout. Oh yes.
@@Benjiesbeenbetter.🤣🤣🤣👍
@Benjiesbeenbetter. Brilliant! Your remarkable command of Unwinese brings back great memories.
@bahoonies I once wrote an instruction sheet at work in that style. I wish I'd kept a copy.
An absolute legend.
Terry-Thomas was a wonderful character actor. Tragically, he had great difficulties in his later years, but we are better for his presence in the world.
Didn’t he get Parkinson’s disease?
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What a comedy legend,we will never see the likes of these comedians again,sadly!!
Yes, we will. (What a stupid comment.)
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage.........never to be forgotten by this Australian. " Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"........unsurpassed.
Les Griffiths
Brilliant true British humour love him such a cad lol😂
Pure brilliance! What a marvellous delivery.
Terry Thomas always cracked me up.
He was the epitomy of British humor. The great race, those daring young men in their flying machines, it's a mad........mad world,ECT. I cant tell if he was the model for Snidely Whiplash or vice versa?
A true genius. Never bettered, God bless his soul.
The archetype English upper class snob, played by Terry Thomas; who was not an upper class English snob...just a wonderfully talented actor!
😂 Ashamed to say I had forgotten Terry Thomas. Thanks for the reminder.
The old ones are the best!
It should be Terry-Thomas, with hyphen.
Yes you are quite right, well noted
Yep , still find myself saying ' you're a shower , an absolute shower ' from time to time !😂😂
I always loved watching his films at Grandma’s house when I spent my Saturdays there.
Terry your sorely missed, old boy. RIP.
I have always remembered Terry as the actor with the 'Gap'.
He played some very memorable rolls in his career.
I love Terry Thomas.
His cameo in “The Abominable Dr Phibes” is pure Terry-Thomas
Love Terry Thomas. Such a legend.
Always loved Terry Thomas in films when i was a kid , still do ." Absolute shower " 😂😂😂😂 .
EPITOME OF BRITISH UPPER CLASS !!!! I FIRST SAW THE STAR TERRY THOMAS IN A MOVIE CALLED " TOM THUMB" 1950's WITH RUSS TAMBLYN & PETER SELLERS. AFTER THAT THERE WERE DOCTOR & CARRY ON FILMS !!!! HIS VERY STIFF UPPER - CLASS LIP !! POSH CUT GLASS ACCENT I ADORED !!! R.I.P. TERRY THOMAS. MISSED GREATLY ! FROM, U.K. (2023).
Cleese said one time they were doing the parrot sketch live and when it got to the bit where he asks 'does the slug talk?', Palin ad-libbed 'well it mutters a bit', which corpsed Cleese,
OMG the genius of the much loved and terribly missed Terry Thomas!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Loved his superb cameo role in The Green Man.
World Class Entertainer… and sorely missed. R.I.P.
One of the Greatest Character Actors this country has EVER had and wonderful to watch.
Sadly, forgotten by so many.
Someone I could watch all day everyday.
Wonderful comic timing and wish I could have seen much more of him.
His Performance in "How To Murder your Wife" with Jack Lemmon, lifted the film to excellence.
A true comedy GREAT!
He’s not forgotten by me, absolute genius of comedy and style.
He was NEVER a character actor as he only played one character....Terry Thomas.....not that I had a problem with that.
Actually he was in real life an absolute gentleman and very generous to his colleagues.❤
Brilliant, natural comic, ,,,,,😉
The great comedian was my fourth cousin. Those of us living in Canada never got to meet him, but like many people around the world, we enjoyed his brilliant acting.
" So it's fistycuffs you want is it " 😂 Terry in it's a mad mad mad world
School For Scoundrels (1960). TT - Excellent film & performance as Raymond Delauney.
A Terry-Thomas performance was a good advert for a film.
R.I.P. Terry a true legend....
Someone you know? Terry Thomas from IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD. Hilarious I thought.
One of a kind. Great British character actor.
Ye, indeed. I Saw how he looked at the end. Just tragic.
Absolute boundah! 😂😂😂
I remember Terry Thomas, a very English Englishman.
Don't forget the hyphen!! It's Terry-Thomas. It's as important as the gap between his teeth.
Wtf?
He made that film 'those magnificent men in their flying machines' the success it was along with others ofcourse!!
Terry Thomas was the model for the Major Mandrake character played my Peter Sellers in the Stanley Kubrick film Doctor Strangelove. Watch the movie and you'll see it right away. When a true great like Sellers spoofs another comic you *know* it's out of respect and admiration.
Major Hitchcock (Terry Thomas) ," What a shower !!" as Fred Kite & co (works committee ) leave his office . ' I'm Alright Jack '😁😁😁😁👍
School For Scoundrels. Classic Terry.
The jeep crash scene he had with Milton Berle in its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was epic.
I thought he was going to say "Who moved the ladder"
The way he says fooood at the end cracked me up 😅
"He's the kind of chap who showers in his vest" 😂
Hard cheese old chap!🤣
Loved TT. Brilliant!🇬🇧
OMG! I laughed so hard !
"What an absolute shaaaower"
Still makes me laugh. He was SUPERB.
Shame we don't have any characters like him anymore.
Private's Progress and I'm All Right, Jack with Ian Carmichael starring.
Carmichael had a couple of long roles as Bertie Wooster (with Dennis Price as Jeeves - so few episodes survive) and Lord Peter Wimsey (at least they're on DVD)
A great Actor. RIP TERRY
“an absolute shower “
You mean "an ebsolute shah".
@@Otacatapetl 🤣Spot on. Actually spoke to him once. I was on a telephone help line in the late 80's and he called in. Either that or it was a very good impersonator.
Terry Thomas , the best cad ever
Great. Shows you how much of a joke is in the telling.
A great man. Sadly missed.
Magnificent Man in his flying machine…for sure.
He may have died broke, but he had a helluva life while the money was there. RIP Terry.
I’m told old to having laughing fits 😂 thanks for this
Terry Thomas... Thank you for the smiles... 🥲 🥲 🥲
I never expected that punchline! Food. LOL!
Just come across your channel..liked a subbed immediately…I’m a massive fan of all vintage TV…especially Terry👍👍👍👏
He really was a bloody shower.
Yes, one can sometimes overlook the most obvious, my dear boy. 😂
So cool Terry the loveable baddy❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Absolute legend
That's delightful. I'd try to remember it but I am reminded that 99% of a joke is in the presentation.