Ah yes we did. My surname is Emery so the teachers at school called me dick!! Was hillarious to all my class mates! Couldn't get away with that now ha ha! 🤣🤣
Dick Emery is hugely underrated imo- for someone who was on BBC prime time for most of my childhood and is genuinely hilarious it’s surprising he hasn’t had the recognition he deserves, partly no doubt because it never gets repeated on British TV He did use stereotypes but there was no sense of hatred - the format of the show worked brilliantly with the recurring characters and I thought it was seaside humour done much more intelligently than Benny Hill who you reviewed recently Really hope you react to some more Dick Emery, Alan - love your channel
Dick Emery did use stereotypes but his humour was always inclusive. Everyone was in on the joke. It was of its time, though, and so much would now be considered by taboo by the schedulers.
THE most under rated GREAT & much forgotten Dick Emery bless him, I grew up laughing at him, Tommy cooper, Eric Sykes, Dave Allen, Dicky Henderson & Harry Worth etc, who all had their own half hour comedy shows all through the week in the 60's & 70's. May they all Rest In Peace.
Glad you found this, or someone recommended it. Dick Emery was at the time one of the highest watched shows, his catchphrase "You are awful but I like you" was repeated many a time.
Another classic from my childhood. This brought back some memories. Lol. Dick Emery had loads of different characters, all hilarious. But The last clip is the reason My mum used to say and do that to my dad when he said something outrageous. "You are awful, but I like you", then she would proceed to almost push him over. Lol.
Very true, every characterisation was done with affection, there was nothing offensive in it. I know fashions change in everything, including humour. But where are today's comedians who can hold a one hour TV show together like the late, great Dick Emery, Les Dawson, Larry Grayson or Stanley Baxter - to name just four great comic names of the 'seventies and 'eighties. They are very much missed! Will Ant and Dec get belly laughs like this, 40 years from now? They don't even get them today!
During the 70's and 80's UK TV had many sketch shows like the Two Ronnies, Dick Emery Show, Monty Python, Benny Hill show, Tommy Cooper show, Morecombe and Wise, Not the Nine O'clock News. These shows were usually on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Usually it was a sketch show, then a sitcom, then a chat show, then the news and then late night documentaries like Whicker's World, then TV stations would closed down from 1am til 7am.
If you watch a lot of his stuff you will come to recognise these characters as he uses them often. Thank you, this brightened my evening and took me back to my youth - which is a long way indeed!
Watched Dick Emery as a child, I am now 62. Remember laughing so much with my parents. I do see more humour now than I understood back in the day. The BBC and ITV had lots of shows like this and then the PC crowd installed themselves and the shows disappeared.
There is also the grandpa character with a speech impediment, Lampwick. Many of his characters were in sketches based around vox pops. There is also his tramp/hobo character that wears a bowler hat, has street smarts & is known as "College". Dick Emery a 1 man variety show.
thank you so much for these clips and reactions, for those of us Brits of a certain age, this gives a warm glow from happy memories, back when comedy was funny and life was simpler. God Bless.
Dick Emery had about 12 characters that he played in every show. One of the best ones which wasn't included in this particular sketch was 'Lampwick' the old butler. Many of the characters had catch phrases that they always used. The gay one said, "Hello honky-tonk, how are you?" and the 'young woman' always said, "Ooh you ARE awful, but I like you," before pushing the man over.
And again, another great video. I'll keep repeating this till I'm blue in the face, the UK use to be a great place to laugh at ourselves when nobody was offended 🤷♂️
I'm so happy you reacted to DicK Emery, he tends to be forgotten. His shows were aired as i was growing up, from the 60's to 80's & he was huge in the UK at that time. The car being driven by the goofy vicar, was a Ford Anglia (1960's), funny looking thing, like a mini version of the U.S big 1950's cars. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
After having lived in Kenya for 3 years where my dear departed mother passed her driving license (a feat in itself with most of the drivers never having had a test), we moved to Scotland where she had to take another test. Her test examiner was a dour Scotsman and at one point told her to make an emergency stop, which she did but he said that was not "emergency". These were the days when there weren't any seat belts .... and told her to try again. This time she really hit the pedals and the poor examiner's head cracked the windshield. He wasn't very happy but had to give her her licence - that would have made a good sketch !!!!
WowWho'd be a driving instructor or examiner.My Mother was like Thora Herds character in Last of the Summer Wine.One day she panicked on a round about.Drove onto it..a policeman came and had to drive it off and point it in the right direction for home.
Yes, that would have made a good comedy sketch. John Sullivan would have used that in Only Fools & Horses. As the John was the creator & there were real life situations in his episodes.
Dick Emery starred in one of the very first films to feature John Candy, Find the Lady (1976) with his own primetime BBC show running 1963-1981. There is PLENTY to see :-)
I used to love Dick Emery as a kid! As for Kenny Everett, one that springs to mind which I found on UA-cam is listed as 'Spiderman needs a squizzle'. It's a short clip & a bit grainy but I think it's funny as I remember this sketch from the show. I also think his character Reg Prescott was hilarious. There's another clip titled 'The Best of Kenny Everett Reg Prescott Diy', but there are so many funny moments from his shows it's hard to pin down anything in particular as he was so funny!
Forgotten about Dick Emery. Another programme I watched with my mum where I started not understanding the show and over the years ended up trying not to explain it to her. I took my test in Tooting and managed not to panic when a cement mixer was parked in the middle of the road. My mum on her second try, turned the corner just when a grand piano was crossing the road. Not by itself.
I’m so pleased you’ve tasted a piece of The Dick Emery Show. I used to love watching him on a Sunday evening with my dad. We both would be in stitches. A very funny man. More please sir 👍😍🐸
He was a pilot and motor cyclist and his son said he had a job keeping his high powered bike upright at traffic lights due to short legs! Fondly remembered in the UK as one of the greats. He got fed up with his characters at the end, especially Mandy (last in the clip) as people incessantly cat called him "You are awful but I like you"!
Superb! I remember watching Dick Emery with my Grandparents in the 1970s, those characters were his main 'go to' ones. Ref Kenny Everett try out his Reg Prescott DIY videos, side splitting!
@Dan Didnot you had a box? luxury! we had to stick our heads in't fishtank with baby sharks nibbling at us. and dad would thrash us with plug end of the wire (if we had been good) ;-)
@@MacStoker Well, when I say a box, I meant a matchbox, of course. A soggy one. 23 of us, there were, livin int matchbox. We had to get up at 5 o'clock int mornin, work downt pit for 16 hour a day, and when we got home, our dad would sell us for medical experiments and spend't money on brown booze, if we were lucky! The 90s were hard up North.😄
@@MacStoker Aye, 'Appen. They don't know they're born, with their VR Pokemons and electric toothbrushes. What's that about? "Clean your teeth!" "I can't!" "Why not?" "The Leccy's bin turned off, you never paid the bill Dad!"
The dark haired sex starved woman character was based on his BBC producer's secretary. When she quizzed him on who he had based the character on he very tactfully said: "You've never met her." Which was true!
Loved Dick Emery. With regards to Kenny Everett, there's a goldmine of fantastic comedy from him. He was a genius on both radio and television. As others have mostly recommended his best characters, I'd recommend his Rod Stewart and Bee Gees sketches. Both comedy gold. I'd also recommend his Spiderman sketch, although that's probably too short for a reaction video.
Hi there EB! Some Kenny Everett's character's that I remember for you to look up are Cupid Stunt (How did he get away with that one on 70s TV? ;) ). Sid Snot and Angry of Mayfair.
If you can find them Dick Emery also made at least two movies featuring most of his characters and some of the actors who normally just played bit parts got to develop their own characters too.
I grew up watching The Dick Emery Show on the BBC from 1963 to 1981. There was also another show by Stanley Baxter on the rival ITV channel. With a similar format.
The fabulous Dick Emery, brilliantly funny. King of comedy threw out the 70's.He always wanted to be a serious actor but sadly never got a chance. Sadly not shown on UK TV anymore.
Dick Emery and Stanley Baxter were both geniuses. They played SO many brilliant, believable characters. It’s just a shame that their comedy probably wouldn’t be ‘PC’ enough, these days. Kenny Everett was also awesome.
ahhhhh, that brought back a few memories of my 1958 Ford Anglia, I swear that my back problems of today are because of what I got up to in the back of that car, either that or it was the pushing of the bloody thing!
I was very lucky to grow up watching all these wonderful U.K. comedians, you are now discovering. They are greatly missed & very few modern one`s come close to their mastery of the Art. Wonderful to see you enjoying their work, several decades later. As for Kenny, lookout for his Space Hero character, Captain Kremmen, great fun.
Hi Al, I saw him play live at a end of pier show at Blackpool UK when I was about 12yrs old on holiday. He was just as good and professional as he was on tv. Another show of interest from the '70's was "The Goodies" which used to be shown on BBC 2 just after I got back from school. Used to watch it with my dad, the first episode had a situation similar to King Kong up the empire state building but won't spoil it here as it's a twist on it. All the best.
How lovely to see our American cousin roaring with laughter at one of our great British comedians of the 'seventies and 'eighties. Dick Emery was one of many great comedy icons this country produced at that time. It was a golden age for TV entertainment. Today we have Ant and Dec - 'nuff said! Will people be laughing at those two numpties 40 years from now? Let's face it, they don't get the laughs this Dick Emery sketch gets now when they are in their prime!
It was a long time ago, The Dick Emery show was weekday primetime on BBC1 (don't think it was Saturday Night material which was mostly a movie then). He had a roster of characters he used in various different settings every week, that he used for years.
Another of Kenny Everett’s characters I just thought of was Reg Prescott the DIY expert. Any of these sketches featuring Reg are very brilliantly done, too! Check ‘em out!
Reg Prescott, Cupid Stunt, Marcel Wave, and Sid Snot...........wonderful characters all..........and as if the show wasnt already brilliant enough, because it was so funny, it had Hot gossip and Cleo Rochas............and a cardboard cut-out Michael Parkinson as well.........
@@MichaelHill-we7vt Yeah! I could never tell the.difference between the cardboard cutout and the real Michael Parkinson most of the time! 😀 But, yeah, all of Kenny’s characters were brilliant, absolutely! I don’t know if you have seen those “live action” sketches he did of Captain Kremmen at all, where uKenny played.the Captain and if anyone can remind me again who the young lady was that played Carla. She did the character justice I thought! Worth seeing again particularly the “brick wall” one. The breakdown in communication between the Captain and Carla is hilarious! Thanks for your reply, Michael! Enjoy life!
@@johnrowley5833 indeed.....great comedic memories....back in the time when we could just laugh at things because they were funny! And Kenny WAS funny.....he didnt take himself seriously (or anyone else for that matter!) and that Rod Stewart Mickey-take is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen............. all the best, my friend! regards
@@MichaelHill-we7vt Thanks. And just a quick mention too, he did those other two that I knew of similar to the Rod Stewart one. He did Elton John where his glasses grew to a ridiculous size and I am more certain it was Barry Mannilow than Barbara Streisand, where the nose grew too! We could go on all day talking about them couldn’t we? So many great ones! Cheers, my friend. All the best to you!
Great reactions!! And so many Kenny Everett ones to recommend, perhaps a short and sweet one to search for would be "Kenny Everett Mac burgers". Keep up these, they are fantastic.
@@wesleyrodgers886 It's entirely possible. I think he was in Up Pompeii, roles in light comedy seemed to be his thing, so it's no surprise to see him in The Dick Emery Show. Edit: Sad to see that he passed in 2019. I'd forgotten that he did Dalek voices in the mid-late eighties.
OMG, I had forgotten about Dick Emery. I remember watching him as a kid. Still so funny. I remember the gay character best. 🤣🤣🤣 And you so need to watch Kenny Everett. He’s so funny. 🤗 xx
The show ran for 18 years, 160+ episodes. Typically it was made up of loose sketches like this, where his regular characters interacted with other performers, a regular feature were vox pop interviews with passing members of the public, all his characters. He wanted a change by 1981, and he was starting to work on other styles of comedy, but he died of a heart attack in 1983. Here is another one, the milkman ua-cam.com/video/VY59eQSdQu8/v-deo.html
great series, try his feature film where he plays a conman ,he plays many characters in that too, it's called "ooh you are awful". for Kenny Everett check out the kenny everett tv show and the kenny everett video cassette, also did a film called "bloodbath at the house of death"
thought you might like this I was born in the early 70s so I grew up on this type of comedy 🏴The Dick Emery Show was a British sketch comedy show starring Dick Emery. It was broadcast on the BBC from 1963 to 1981. It was directed and produced by Harold Snoad. The show was broadcast over 18 series with 166 episodes.[1] The show experienced sustained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. The BBC described the show as featuring 'a vivid cast of comic grotesques'.
Dick Emery was fantastic. We'll never see the likes of these '70s comedies again due to cultural sensitivity these days. The characters Emery created were as funny as they were absurd. The same characters appeared in different sketches every week on his show and we all had our favourites.
For those lucky enough to grow up watching Dick Emery and Dave Allen, we had a great life
when the world was fun, when people knew how to take a joke..
Ah yes we did. My surname is Emery so the teachers at school called me dick!! Was hillarious to all my class mates! Couldn't get away with that now ha ha! 🤣🤣
You are awful!
Wouldn't be allowed now, some get offended so easily
@@gailcrook2687 The 'comedians' of today rely on swearing and sex for the laughs. No real intelligence seems to be needed.
Dick Emery is hugely underrated imo- for someone who was on BBC prime time for most of my childhood and is genuinely hilarious it’s surprising he hasn’t had the recognition he deserves, partly no doubt because it never gets repeated on British TV
He did use stereotypes but there was no sense of hatred - the format of the show worked brilliantly with the recurring characters and I thought it was seaside humour done much more intelligently than Benny Hill who you reviewed recently
Really hope you react to some more Dick Emery, Alan - love your channel
Spot on!
Dick Emery did use stereotypes but his humour was always inclusive. Everyone was in on the joke. It was of its time, though, and so much would now be considered by taboo by the schedulers.
im convinced "little britain " is based entirely on dick emery,
He was absolutely huge in the 70s. A bit forgotten now, but a real talent. Good reaction vid
THE most under rated GREAT & much forgotten Dick Emery bless him, I grew up laughing at him, Tommy cooper, Eric Sykes, Dave Allen, Dicky Henderson & Harry Worth etc, who all had their own half hour comedy shows all through the week in the 60's & 70's.
May they all Rest In Peace.
Glad you found this, or someone recommended it. Dick Emery was at the time one of the highest watched shows, his catchphrase "You are awful but I like you" was repeated many a time.
Another classic from my childhood. This brought back some memories. Lol. Dick Emery had loads of different characters, all hilarious. But The last clip is the reason My mum used to say and do that to my dad when he said something outrageous. "You are awful, but I like you", then she would proceed to almost push him over. Lol.
He played a lot of characters you wouldn't be allowed to today, but they were never disparaging.
ua-cam.com/video/VY59eQSdQu8/v-deo.html
Very true, every characterisation was done with affection, there was nothing offensive in it. I know fashions change in everything, including humour. But where are today's comedians who can hold a one hour TV show together like the late, great Dick Emery, Les Dawson, Larry Grayson or Stanley Baxter - to name just four great comic names of the 'seventies and 'eighties. They are very much missed!
Will Ant and Dec get belly laughs like this, 40 years from now? They don't even get them today!
You are right. If Dick Emery were starting out today he would have to have his wings clipped which would mean stifling his talent.
Yes it was called humour. Good days.
One of my favourite british comedians was Les Dawson, his piano playing was legendary. 🎹 🎹 🎹 🎹 🎹 🎹 🎹 🎹
During the 70's and 80's UK TV had many sketch shows like the Two Ronnies, Dick Emery Show, Monty Python, Benny Hill show, Tommy Cooper show, Morecombe and Wise, Not the Nine O'clock News. These shows were usually on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Usually it was a sketch show, then a sitcom, then a chat show, then the news and then late night documentaries like Whicker's World, then TV stations would closed down from 1am til 7am.
If you watch a lot of his stuff you will come to recognise these characters as he uses them often. Thank you, this brightened my evening and took me back to my youth - which is a long way indeed!
Watched Dick Emery as a child, I am now 62. Remember laughing so much with my parents. I do see more humour now than I understood back in the day. The BBC and ITV had lots of shows like this and then the PC crowd installed themselves and the shows disappeared.
There is also the grandpa character with a speech impediment, Lampwick. Many of his characters were in sketches based around vox pops. There is also his tramp/hobo character that wears a bowler hat, has street smarts & is known as "College". Dick Emery a 1 man variety show.
George Kitchener Lampwick, I got him confused with the Clive Dunn character at times
@@highpath4776 James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick 👍😎
thank you so much for these clips and reactions, for those of us Brits of a certain age, this gives a warm glow from happy memories, back when comedy was funny and life was simpler. God Bless.
Dude from the 70s through 80's - 90's British TV was awesome.
"You're awful..But I like you." This had actually slipped from memory.
They made a film around him about the same time.
@@MegaBadgeman thanks. Will seach it up. Also reminded me of harry worth. (Forgotten so much in old age. Ha!.)
Great catchphrase! Miss Dick Emery.
It was so famous it got into the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. And there was a song based on it.
Beat me to it lol 👍. This made me think of frank spencer lol
Dick Emery is brilliant. His catchphrase 'Oh you are awful, but I like you', is a classic
Dick Emery had about 12 characters that he played in every show. One of the best ones which wasn't included in this particular sketch was 'Lampwick' the old butler. Many of the characters had catch phrases that they always used. The gay one said, "Hello honky-tonk, how are you?" and the 'young woman' always said, "Ooh you ARE awful, but I like you," before pushing the man over.
Ooh, you are awful but I like you!
And again, another great video. I'll keep repeating this till I'm blue in the face, the UK use to be a great place to laugh at ourselves when nobody was offended 🤷♂️
and now they have banned the song Delilah from Rugby matches, they reckon the crowd will sing it louder than ever.
I'm so happy you reacted to DicK Emery, he tends to be forgotten. His shows were aired as i was growing up, from the 60's to 80's & he was huge in the UK at that time. The car being driven by the goofy vicar, was a Ford Anglia (1960's), funny looking thing, like a mini version of the U.S big 1950's cars. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
After having lived in Kenya for 3 years where my dear departed mother passed her driving license (a feat in itself with most of the drivers never having had a test), we moved to Scotland where she had to take another test. Her test examiner was a dour Scotsman and at one point told her to make an emergency stop, which she did but he said that was not "emergency". These were the days when there weren't any seat belts .... and told her to try again. This time she really hit the pedals and the poor examiner's head cracked the windshield. He wasn't very happy but had to give her her licence - that would have made a good sketch !!!!
WowWho'd be a driving instructor or examiner.My Mother was like Thora Herds character in Last of the Summer Wine.One day she panicked on a round about.Drove onto it..a policeman came and had to drive it off and point it in the right direction for home.
@@helenbailey8419 They should have met - sure they would have become best friends !
Yes, that would have made a good comedy sketch. John Sullivan would have used that in Only Fools & Horses. As the John was the creator & there were real life situations in his episodes.
Dick Emery starred in one of the very first films to feature John Candy, Find the Lady (1976) with his own primetime BBC show running 1963-1981. There is PLENTY to see :-)
Thanks, didn't know that. And Peter Cook!
Dick Emery played the same characters week in week out, never offensive never smutty and always superb.
I used to love Dick Emery as a kid! As for Kenny Everett, one that springs to mind which I found on UA-cam is listed as 'Spiderman needs a squizzle'. It's a short clip & a bit grainy but I think it's funny as I remember this sketch from the show. I also think his character Reg Prescott was hilarious. There's another clip titled 'The Best of Kenny Everett Reg Prescott Diy', but there are so many funny moments from his shows it's hard to pin down anything in particular as he was so funny!
Forgotten about Dick Emery. Another programme I watched with my mum where I started not understanding the show and over the years ended up trying not to explain it to her. I took my test in Tooting and managed not to panic when a cement mixer was parked in the middle of the road. My mum on her second try, turned the corner just when a grand piano was crossing the road. Not by itself.
I’m so pleased you’ve tasted a piece of The Dick Emery Show. I used to love watching him on a Sunday evening with my dad. We both would be in stitches. A very funny man. More please sir 👍😍🐸
He was a pilot and motor cyclist and his son said he had a job keeping his high powered bike upright at traffic lights due to short legs! Fondly remembered in the UK as one of the greats. He got fed up with his characters at the end, especially Mandy (last in the clip) as people incessantly cat called him "You are awful but I like you"!
I think Emery was the pioneer of playing multiple characters in one sketch.
Stanley Baxter was also doing multiple characters too!
@@davidchamberlain5425 Yep, Baxter was ITV, Emery BBC, though I preferred Harry Worth
@@highpath4776 all brilliant in their own ways.certainly supreme to today's amateurs...fact
Try Peter Sellers.
He & Alec Guinness were both good at playing multiple characters.
Like everyone else, I had forgotten about Dick Emery. Truly classic!
Dick Emery was comedy gold. I used to love watching him when I was growing up. Hilarious.
Superb! I remember watching Dick Emery with my Grandparents in the 1970s, those characters were his main 'go to' ones.
Ref Kenny Everett try out his Reg Prescott DIY videos, side splitting!
Dick Emery was multi talented & is so missed.
The man was a genius! 🇬🇧👍🏻🇺🇸
70's humour.......sadly cancelled never to be seen again (apart from YT vids!!) - Mike Yarwood was another of that era....
@Dan Didnot you had a box? luxury!
we had to stick our heads in't fishtank with baby sharks nibbling at us. and dad would thrash us with plug end of the wire (if we had been good)
;-)
@@MacStoker Well, when I say a box, I meant a matchbox, of course. A soggy one. 23 of us, there were, livin int matchbox. We had to get up at 5 o'clock int mornin, work downt pit for 16 hour a day, and when we got home, our dad would sell us for medical experiments and spend't money on brown booze, if we were lucky!
The 90s were hard up North.😄
@@robertwright7937 try telling folk that these days mate. They'd never believe it...
@@MacStoker Aye, 'Appen. They don't know they're born, with their VR Pokemons and electric toothbrushes. What's that about?
"Clean your teeth!"
"I can't!"
"Why not?"
"The Leccy's bin turned off, you never paid the bill Dad!"
.....and freely available in all good DVD retailers. Hardly cancelled, considering they're still widely available.
Don't you just love good, clean, honest entertainment. We won't see the like of it again so we should enjoy these clips whilst we still can.
I love Dick Emery, I had forgotten just how funny he was. Thank you for doing this.x
The dark haired sex starved woman character was based on his BBC producer's secretary. When she quizzed him on who he had based the character on he very tactfully said: "You've never met her." Which was true!
Loved Dick Emery. With regards to Kenny Everett, there's a goldmine of fantastic comedy from him. He was a genius on both radio and television. As others have mostly recommended his best characters, I'd recommend his Rod Stewart and Bee Gees sketches. Both comedy gold. I'd also recommend his Spiderman sketch, although that's probably too short for a reaction video.
Kenny was a legend
Great to see Dick Emery again. I love catching up with all my old favourite comedy shows.
So long since I have seen this used to love his comedy. You are awful was said a lot back then. His most famous character.
Finally!!
At last you have discovered comedy gold 😊 🇬🇧
Hi there EB! Some Kenny Everett's character's that I remember for you to look up are Cupid Stunt (How did he get away with that one on 70s TV? ;) ). Sid Snot and Angry of Mayfair.
If you can find them Dick Emery also made at least two movies featuring most of his characters and some of the actors who normally just played bit parts got to develop their own characters too.
I grew up watching The Dick Emery Show on the BBC from 1963 to 1981. There was also another show by Stanley Baxter on the rival ITV channel. With a similar format.
Every character had their own catch lines. this took me back to my youth.
Dick Emery was a TV regular with a lot of characters. Very un-pc these dys though I don't know why but he's been much underrated altogether
I love watching your reactions to comedy from 70s 80s because it’s the same reaction I had growing up with it
All my childhood memories are in the old shows.
He was certainly a funny guy. Good to see these reactions all these years later.
A legendary time in British comedy, the 1970s.
The fabulous Dick Emery, brilliantly funny. King of comedy threw out the 70's.He always wanted to be a serious actor but sadly never got a chance. Sadly not shown on UK TV anymore.
Thanks man. I’d forgotten all about Dick Emery
Dick Emery! There is so much I have forgotten!
Dick Emerys material is a goldmine. Kenny Everett, you should look out for a character called Cupid Stunt .
All done in the best possible taste.
Cupid Stunt! A Shining Wit as Dr Spooner would say
Used to watch Kenny Everett when I was about 7. Took me 10 years to get the Cupid Stunt gag
Sid snot was my favourite
@@cyrus2728 and Gizzard Puke. but don't forget Captain Kremmen and Carla
Loved Dick Emery. A real British gem.
That was filmed outside the old swimming pool in Staines. I spent half my childhood in that building!
Dick Emery and Stanley Baxter were both geniuses. They played SO many brilliant, believable characters. It’s just a shame that their comedy probably wouldn’t be ‘PC’ enough, these days. Kenny Everett was also awesome.
ahhhhh, that brought back a few memories of my 1958 Ford Anglia, I swear that my back problems of today are because of what I got up to in the back of that car, either that or it was the pushing of the bloody thing!
I was very lucky to grow up watching all these wonderful U.K. comedians, you are now discovering. They are greatly missed & very few modern one`s come close to their mastery of the Art. Wonderful to see you enjoying their work, several decades later. As for Kenny, lookout for his Space Hero character, Captain Kremmen, great fun.
Hi Al,
I saw him play live at a end of pier show at Blackpool UK when I was about 12yrs old on holiday.
He was just as good and professional as he was on tv.
Another show of interest from the '70's was "The Goodies" which used to be shown on BBC 2 just after I got back from school. Used to watch it with my dad, the first episode had a situation similar to King Kong up the empire state building but won't spoil it here as it's a twist on it.
All the best.
I used to watch Dick Emery with my dad. Loved it!😂😂
That makes me feel old; I was a lot lot younger when this came out.
Then like me you are old lol.
What a joy, so glad you have found Dick Emery, such a cracking comedian.
His how-to-build a BeeGee sketch was epic. Well worth a look.
Wow! I've never seen or heard of this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
How lovely to see our American cousin roaring with laughter at one of our great British comedians of the 'seventies and 'eighties. Dick Emery was one of many great comedy icons this country produced at that time. It was a golden age for TV entertainment.
Today we have Ant and Dec - 'nuff said! Will people be laughing at those two numpties 40 years from now? Let's face it, they don't get the laughs this Dick Emery sketch gets now when they are in their prime!
It was a long time ago, The Dick Emery show was weekday primetime on BBC1 (don't think it was Saturday Night material which was mostly a movie then). He had a roster of characters he used in various different settings every week, that he used for years.
Oh my days. Dick Emery was one of the best. I remember watching his shows. So funny.
Dick Emery:
English comedy genius ☺️👌
Tim Leicester 🇬🇧
'Oh you are awful....but I like you though' became a catch phraze because of Dick Emery's character.
look at Kenny Evereytt's Sid Snot character, hilarious
And when he does the Bee Gees spoof👍🏼
@@helenbailey8419 oh god yeah i forgot about that ,hilarious.
he was great laughed my head off every time grew up watching him just pure classic xxx
Another of Kenny Everett’s characters I just thought of was Reg Prescott the DIY expert. Any of these sketches featuring Reg are very brilliantly done, too! Check ‘em out!
Reg Prescott, Cupid Stunt, Marcel Wave, and Sid Snot...........wonderful characters all..........and as if the show wasnt already brilliant enough, because it was so funny, it had Hot gossip and Cleo Rochas............and a cardboard cut-out Michael Parkinson as well.........
@@MichaelHill-we7vt Yeah! I could never tell the.difference between the cardboard cutout and the real Michael Parkinson most of the time! 😀 But, yeah, all of Kenny’s characters were brilliant, absolutely! I don’t know if you have seen those “live action” sketches he did of Captain Kremmen at all, where uKenny played.the Captain and if anyone can remind me again who the young lady was that played Carla. She did the character justice I thought! Worth seeing again particularly the “brick wall” one. The breakdown in communication between the Captain and Carla is hilarious! Thanks for your reply, Michael! Enjoy life!
@@johnrowley5833 indeed.....great comedic memories....back in the time when we could just laugh at things because they were funny! And Kenny WAS funny.....he didnt take himself seriously (or anyone else for that matter!) and that Rod Stewart Mickey-take is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen............. all the best, my friend! regards
@@MichaelHill-we7vt Thanks. And just a quick mention too, he did those other two that I knew of similar to the Rod Stewart one. He did Elton John where his glasses grew to a ridiculous size and I am more certain it was Barry Mannilow than Barbara Streisand, where the nose grew too! We could go on all day talking about them couldn’t we? So many great ones! Cheers, my friend. All the best to you!
@@johnrowley5833 Unforgettable comedy! even now I still laugh at the thought! cheers!
Great reactions!! And so many Kenny Everett ones to recommend, perhaps a short and sweet one to search for would be "Kenny Everett Mac burgers". Keep up these, they are fantastic.
So reminds me of growing up and watching these programmes with my family at home. It was hilarious.
Use to watch as a kid in the 70s,! With my late gran,! Born 23rd May 1968 from northern Ireland UK, 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧
You should watch his full length movie "Ooh! You are awful"
you need to look up Kenny Everette's character General Cheeseburger. it will bring the American patriot out in you. lol
gather them up into a BIIG GEEN field and,,, LOL
@@keithskelhorne3993 methinks you mean "Round 'em up, put 'em in a field and..."
Don't forget Brother Lee Love, Those hands, lol. He WAS a televangelist!
@@AndrewHalliwell thats the one, typing and vodka dont mix too good lol :)
You're my go too on UA-cam, keep em coming, love from Manchester England 🇬🇧🇺🇲
OMG! it's been so long since I saw Dick Emery... he was so funny. Loved watching this with you :-0
Taking the first test with the worrier instructor is an actor I've not seen in a very long while, Royce Mills.
Wasn't he in Reggie Perrin?.
@@wesleyrodgers886 It's entirely possible. I think he was in Up Pompeii, roles in light comedy seemed to be his thing, so it's no surprise to see him in The Dick Emery Show. Edit: Sad to see that he passed in 2019. I'd forgotten that he did Dalek voices in the mid-late eighties.
Please react to Spike Milligan - Grovelling Bastard. He was good pals with Dick Emery. Sorely missed.🙏
OMG, I had forgotten about Dick Emery. I remember watching him as a kid. Still so funny. I remember the gay character best. 🤣🤣🤣 And you so need to watch Kenny Everett. He’s so funny. 🤗 xx
Keep up the good work love your comedy sketch reactions
“You are awful, but I like you!” became a big catch phrase at the time.
Dick Emery is a legend of 1970s Saturday Night Prime time BBC tv in the UK. Catch phrases like You are awful but I like you, Hello honky tonks.
The show ran for 18 years, 160+ episodes. Typically it was made up of loose sketches like this, where his regular characters interacted with other performers, a regular feature were vox pop interviews with passing members of the public, all his characters. He wanted a change by 1981, and he was starting to work on other styles of comedy, but he died of a heart attack in 1983. Here is another one, the milkman ua-cam.com/video/VY59eQSdQu8/v-deo.html
Kenny Everett - Captain Kremen and Karla - Building a Wall . Short but priceless and it's on UA-cam.
I think his last character is called Mandy and 'You are awful...but I like you' became Dick Emery's catchphrase.
That was his catch line 'Oh you are awful, but I do like you.: Thanks for the memories.
I had forgotten how good he was, thanks for reacting to it.
great series, try his feature film where he plays a conman ,he plays many characters in that too, it's called "ooh you are awful". for Kenny Everett check out the kenny everett tv show and the kenny everett video cassette, also did a film called "bloodbath at the house of death"
You'll enjoy whatever you can get hold of by Dick Emery. So glad you enjoyed him. I grew up watching him on a Saturday night.
probably some ormost of the tapes were reused
You really should see the Mitchell and Webb sketch named "Are We The Baddies?" That one will have you in stitches.
Never seen his work before, this was good so going to check out more of him
The man testing the vicar is captain Ashford in ain't half hot mum.
bloke in charge of the test center played the Minister of the Interior in the film "A Clockwork Orange" :)
thought you might like this I was born in the early 70s so I grew up on this type of comedy 🏴The Dick Emery Show was a British sketch comedy show starring Dick Emery. It was broadcast on the BBC from 1963 to 1981. It was directed and produced by Harold Snoad. The show was broadcast over 18 series with 166 episodes.[1] The show experienced sustained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. The BBC described the show as featuring 'a vivid cast of comic grotesques'.
Dick Emery was fantastic. We'll never see the likes of these '70s comedies again due to cultural sensitivity these days. The characters Emery created were as funny as they were absurd. The same characters appeared in different sketches every week on his show and we all had our favourites.
Dig out the Dick Emery stuff before Squirrel starts having a DE Wed or Thurs. Love to see your genuine enjoyment of this stuff. Keep up the good work.
LOVED Dick Emery - his character were hilarious and so clever - not mean at all