Terry Thomas tells a joke about a budgie.
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- 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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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.
Only Terry Thomas can pull that face 😂 brilliant actor.
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
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
One of the greats and certainly one of my favourite actors
*actors. An apostrophe isn’t needed to pluralise a word.
@johnmanning5568 please excuse my lack of proofreading.
@@Valoremnihilo thank you for you pleasant and mature reply. Yes, proofreading reading is vital when writing the plural of a noun because I have noticed that invariably Autocorrect inserts an apostrophe into the word. It happens to me many times and I amend accordingly.
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. 👍
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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I thought he was going to say "Who moved the ladder"
Brilliant true British humour love him such a cad lol😂
A true genius. Never bettered, God bless his soul.
"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)
Terry your sorely missed, old boy. RIP.
Hard cheese old chap!🤣
Loved TT. Brilliant!🇬🇧
Brilliant, natural comic, ,,,,,😉
Ah, the inspiration for Dick Dastardly! Drat, and double drat! 🤣
OMG! I laughed so hard !
Haha. I've heard this gag but didn't realise it was older than I new off. Loved this guy.
Terry was natural born comedian, treasure in english comedy. I have to mention Marty Feldman here as an other great comedian.
The jeep crash scene he had with Milton Berle in its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was epic.
So cool Terry the loveable baddy❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is where Python's dead Parrot sketch comes from. Cleese's persona and the indefatigable optimistic denials of Palin's salesman are all there!
That's delightful. I'd try to remember it but I am reminded that 99% of a joke is in the presentation.
Oh I say, ding dong, British icon.
More Leslie Philips if I remember correctly 😊
@@bapsmcginty4782 Lovable Leslie indeed. Did he ever catch Wren Chasen?
Wrong comedy actor. Leslie Phillips was the ,"Ding Dong" guy.
A graduate of the school for scoundrels 😂😂
"Hard Cheese"
A good joke! Impeccably told.
I heard this joke decades ago, except it was a parrot, not a budgie. I rather suspect Terry Thomas got this from someone else, too. The version I heard, the man would go back each time to the pet shop owner, who would charge him exhorbitant prices for every little bit of extra equipment he sold him.
Gin and tonic is the cornerstone of the British Empire ..... and YOU'VE forgotten the tonic.
I cannot believe I’ve never heard that one before 😂
From 1947 onwards he styled himself Terry-Thomas, with a hyphen.
great actor
He actually does a good working class accent
That's very true and I can tell that you're an old fan of him
I loved seeing Terry in films, he's the personification of the Clarkson/Hammond/May archetype Jaguar driver.
But I'm sorry, its a great joke, but not the best joke. That titlemis reserved for:
Imfamy! Imfamy!
They've all got it in for me.
Brilliant!!!
He was a very good friend of my Father.
tell us more.✨✨✨✨👍👍
Absolute legend!
My Dad was a black cab driver in the '60's. Terry Thomas had a terrible reputation for hailing a black cab to take him home, pretending on arrival that his wallet was inside his house. He'd then disappear into the house, never to come out again. Word went round, and few cabbies would stop for him.
AND WE NOW KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WIFE. AHAHAHA AHAHAHA LOL
Terry ended up totally broke living off charity at the end of his later life and died from Parkinson’s 😢
Heard this joke told by Frank Carson years ago, had me buckled.
what was the J about the bloke who sees 10 pound not stuck under car weel and somehow a bunch of chaps all etc. it was FUNNY
He was great in it's a mad mad mad mad mad mad mad world movie
Terry-Thomas.
Well hello
Ding dong 😂
Totally great man, didn’t deserve the end he had -
Good one! Lol
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wotta guy!
If I had milk it would be coming out of my nose....
I love how TT has worked in a slight working class accent ...
How did a fellow born and bred in Finchley acquire an accent like that?!!
My Step Dads Godfather.
You should know Courtney-it’s your daughter!
there is a video report somewhere here on Terry Thoma's later years when he was retired and forgotten , in penury and misery, and actually died that way
The correct spelling of his name is Terry-Thomas.
Made my day!
Working class bloke - the accent was learnt - he was hard as nails
Liverish is a great word.
What a contemptible caption for a post.
A forgotten genius
Terry-Thomas should be hyphenated. That's how he spelled his name.
This is probably how ppl starved in the Empire lmao 🤣
How sad that this man died in abject poverty, after playing rich men in movies.
I am going to tell that one.
I WISH THE WHOLE COUNTRY STILL SPOKE LIKE THIS.
I say...
@@jasonwadsworth1160 surely you jest in gay banter
@@russcooke5671 well, is it gay banter? Or toff banter ! I say, jolly good show old bean, holly good show!!
Yes, gay banter....
Terry Thomas was a legend and it's a total tragedy how he died.
He was a genius!❤
A great actor and yes it was very sad about his later years and death but I'll never forget him.
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.
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.
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.
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 😢
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
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?😂🤣
@@markmadonna4099 😂😂😂
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'.
The redoubtable Terry Thomas - wonderful comedic actor !
The tennis match against Ian Carmicheal in School for Scoundrals,"oh hard cheese" absolute classic
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.
I say, ripping good laugh. Ahhh, Terry Thomas...one of many national treasures.
"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 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
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.
It should be Terry-Thomas, with hyphen.
Yes you are quite right, well noted
Don't forget the hyphen!! It's Terry-Thomas. It's as important as the gap between his teeth.
Wtf?
Sir Percy Ware-Armitage.........never to be forgotten by this Australian. " Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"........unsurpassed.
Les Griffiths
'Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies'.
An absolutely natural comic genius.
Thanks for the shout out for the quip. Cheers Bob.
What a legend. Loved him in Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
“Hush, hush... and whoosh, whoosh.” LOL... LOVE that film... Terry was fantastic.
Someone you know? Terry Thomas from IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD. Hilarious I thought.
I loved Terry-Thomas especially the poem "The Ong of Pring" the Song of Spring written on a typewriter with the letter 'S' missing.
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.
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.
Richard Briers(the good life) said terry thomas is his cousin. They were close cousins. He said the family didnt talk like that but terry did. He even spoke like that on and off camera.
TT was my hero a national treasure, legend will never forget him.
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... 😂
That can’t be right - I’m constantly told about how in these days, people weren’t so easily offended and all jokes were taken in good humour and I can’t imagine why people would lie about that so I’m going to assume this is not true.
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 🤦♂️
Bob Newhart used this same joke. I don't know who had priority.
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?
Great comedic actor. Loved the roles he played in movies. Especially It's a Mad Mad Mad World.
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.
He was a class act Terry, and from an age when people looked the part, in his case suits from Saville Row.
What he would think of Lewis Hamilton i dont know, good lord, your not getting into my jalopy dressed liked that, your a shower, a complete shower.👍
R.I.P Terry Thomas. Part of my growing up in the '60's. More please - the Vintage Years, bring them all back . . .