Ray Galton & Alan Simpson interview (Mark Lawson, 2008)
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2017
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Mark Lawson, 19/03/2008.
Not my copyright - just sharing found ephemera. (One clip removed.)
I thought my Mother was a bad cook, but at least her gravy used to move about! has to be one of the greatest lines ever.
'cant be much wrong with him, he was only there for 2 years'..Alan just said when talking about time in hospital during war for TB
RIP Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Both excellent writers
Writing Hancok and Steptoe and Son 🙏x
R.I.P Ray Galton :( I hope that you and Alan Simpson have been reunited and are relishing your comedy partnership. Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son will never be equalled.
Indeed. I met them both once - true comedy legends :)
Filmbuff- these guys wish that todays comedy was worth a script..
@@ppotter What was the circs?
@@ktkee7161 the what?
@@ppotter Circumstances.
My two favourite shows, Steptoe and Hancock, wonderful comedy and has not yet been equaled and never will !
Great interview!! I love Galton & Simpson, without them we wouldn’t have Steptoe & son, I salute them both.
Thanks for the upload.
Absolutely beautiful...legends of British TV. These men have provided my entire life with fantastic memories of superb TV. Into my adult life it only got better as I was now able to understand the complexity of the scripts.. amazing writers. Astounding productions.. simply wonderful pair who stayed together thru life and that is more than admirable.
Fabulous interview
Give him a second series you shit!
Smell my cheese.
Fantastic interview I could listen to them all day . Great writers !
Steptoe and Son is pure genius! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. There’s supposed to be an interview on the dvd box set but I’ve yet to find it.
It was on one of the old videos !
Now thats the waytodo an interview .. great guests need an informative but non intrusive interviewer.welldone all.
And you could tell he genuinely enjoyed their company.
I concur unanimously
Godfathers of british comedy
Brilliant all through, thank you.
I find Alan's remark about the impossibility of getting back to writing after a break very interesting. Clearly his nerves were shattered, hence his concentration problem. He refers briefly to a personal issue to do with his marriage as part of it. I once heard Alan refer to the pressure of writing they did as 'a young man's game', and, by his mid 40s it was simply to much. But of course he and Ray had given us so plenty of brilliance already!
Spike Milligan's a case in point. It's all very well being a genius, but deadlines can - I imagine - be deadly.
@@GOGOLH Yes, absolutely.
Beginning around 10:15, what they say about the rhythm of a sentence, one word, even one syllable, more or less making all the difference, is excellent. 'That's very nearly an armful', is funnier than 'nearly an armful', which is funnier than 'almost an armful', which is funnier than an 'an armful'. Similarly, in comedy it's funnier if you can be specific. For example, a mate of mind once upset his girlfriend and he told us, 'She threw a tin of Chappy at me!' So much funnier than saying, 'She threw a tin of dog meat at me.'
I just cant imagine how they came up with such unbelievably funny one liners..and how Harold could even remember those lines!!!just cracks me up.!!!brilliant
Wonderful
Refreshing to hear them not feel the need to overly ''share'' their issues. I had personal problems in my marriage. End of. I don't need to cry like a baby and make everyone say ''poor you''.
Well said. There is nothing more inconvenient than people with marital problem stories.....
@@vintagebrew1057 Right?
Wow!!! Thank you for this
When people talk about the first couple of waves of groundbreaking British comedy writers (Milligan... Cook... the Pythons etc), these two should always be spoken of in the same sentence, along with the writers of Round the Horne.
The names Took and Feldman should trip off people’s tongues...we should have a national Galton and Simpson day
Steptoe and son will never die greatest for me hands down
They will always be my fav comedy script writers they are the godfathers of British comedy writing
There was a brilliant Arena documentary on Galton and Simpson from around 2005- STILL not found it on a RUclips! In hope it gets uploaded someday it was really illuminating
Still not found it??
@@theculturedthug6609 No mate. If you come across a link or torrent please let me know!
It's on the BBC 4 arena website :)
@@ozorna9401 I've just looked and can't find it on there. If you could post a link we would all much appreciate it
Thanks
Galton and Simpson; Titans of comedy writing.
Fantastiv interview.
Two giants of comedy writing the godfathers
WONDERFUL SIGN O THEIR TIME ,50s/60s !
I saw Wilfred Bramble at the train station in Sheffield.
never understood why The Rebel was never better thought of ... also The Sunday Afternoon at Home and would rank that alongside anything by Harold Pinter
Wonderful having an insight t to the writers perspective, Must disagree on the final statements. I listen to all the Hancock and still laugh at the jokes every time even for the 100th time. perhaps it is in the delivery. What a loss these guys are.
irreplaceable
Could someone check this and post it again please. The last 15 minutes is completely out of sync.
Odd things seem to be happening with RUclips. Sync issues seem to occur where I've had to remove a clip due to copyright - but only all these years later! If you download the clip - or watch on a phone - there's no issue! No idea what's going on.
Reuploaded: ruclips.net/video/wEOEoOd1E64/видео.html
I wonder which episode of Rab C Nesbit?
Love the Hancock sketch with the oak tree the council want to cut it down and Hancock is saying "how dare you no way an oak tree the backbone of Britan etc etc...the Sid James the council man says we'll give you a quid and Hancock say Chop it down its only an old tree. Lmao.
Steptoe and son set the standard by which all other sitcom s are set .
What happened to the sinc???
Galton Versus Simpson'
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää - Sámi chant for a joik on "Prayer for the Earth"
Songs From Distant Earth. RIP ALL THREE.
“Simpleton” 😂😂🤣
Great comedy writers the men behind Handcock and many more comics.
Brilliant comedy writers England had back than. These two, Eric Sykes, Johnny Speight, Spike, Clement & La Frencais, The Python Team.
when galton and simpson wrote for frankie howard he was indeed going to quit and run a pub!his last performance written by the boys was at the opening of wolseley hall in cheshunt a local council banqueting sweet. he could still draw a crowd ! g and s were at the show and on entering frankie was accosted by our local rag and bone man charlie finch who also ran a mobile pea nut stall and was a local character.two things came from this one was them persuading frank not to quit til he did a comedy playhouse they were writing the other was the idea of an old rag and bone man!frank because of this was offered a live spot on that was the week that was which led to his career restsrting.charlie finch for years after would bunk into the local carnival parade as old man steptoe with his horse and cart.
G&S deserved knighthoods for the pleasure they brought, and still bring us. I met them at a screening of their Frankie Howerd series a decade or so ago. Lovely chaps, and the audience were in fits of laughter throughout - I think they even enjoyed watching their old pals.
@@ppotter frankie howard related in his bio this incident and g and s saved his career
@@ppotter Did Frankie Howerd ever write his own jokes was he a comedian or was he an actor reading scripts from Eric Sykes and G&S.
@@jahno7154 His writers said in retrospect that they were told to insert even 'oohs' and 'missus' in the scripts... then they said Frankie would complain that that was his input. Very few wrote their own material back then, but if you listen to Frankie's interviews he was quite a comical fellow in his own right.
@@ppotter Thanks very much for the info I was always curious about Frankie but yes he is funny in interview's that's good enough for me he's a comedian all right. Good heavens comedians writing for other comedians LOL
Thank heavens for a TB ward & " two miserable old gits"!!
When l think genius l think gallon and Simpson.god bless you guys.😂😊
I have to disagree with Alan. I have watched comedy series a few times and always enjoy them. Rising Damp and Fawlty Towers to name just two. Also films, The Life of Brian and the original The Producers have wonderful performances. And I still enjoy listening to Round The Horn and of course Hancock's Half Hour. Count Arthur Strong is also good.
For Hancock to be rounded both men had to write for him, Alan seems like the innocent childlike side of Tony and Ray the pompous and supercilious, which he always came across to me.
V Vvvv
I remember as a kid being told by a man how as kids thay would watch the dog fights in the sky.. The Spitfires attacking the bombers and fighting off the Stukas and Meschersmidts
Stone Me. G&S true genius ❤