A fabulous tenor voice which, for some reason, his contract forbade him to use. What a silly, sad waste. 😥 I believe that his original ambition was to be an opera singer.
@@lesleyvivien2876 I didn’t know that ! .. I remember a documentary about Dick Emery .. apparently in his many series he was given some pretty poor sketch material but he never complained and just through his talent turned mediocre writing into good stuff .. some of the sketches were just so so but he himself was always great .. a true gentleman!
@@xl5man You're in a majority, which shows how well suppressed it was. I have no idea why! 😢 And you're right, he always seemed committed to his characters, and never acted as though the material was beneath him.
The phrase ‘You are awful but I like you’ was one of his regular sayings. Another similar comedian worth looking up is Stanley Baxter, very funny and very talented!
The Dick Emery Show was one of those comedy shows that as a family, we never missed. Before I had my teeth fixed with a brace, I could do a really good impression of the vicar. One of my favourite sketches was where he was at a funfair with a well endowed girl. She'd just won a couple of coconuts and was singing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" and Dick said "You certainly have my dear"
Oh my days!! That was a blast from the past. Now this is harmless comedy and had the whole family in stitches back in the day. You should also look at Benny Hill, Russ Abbott, 'Mind your language' and Love thy neighbour. The best of British comedy from the 70's & 80's. Love it!! 4:00
Dick served in the airforce and was THE expert for a lot of kids post war learning to make model aeroplanes. He had a lot of characters that were quite memorable and he was a solid regular on TV during the 70s. Deserves far more recognition then he gets in my opinion.
@@pencilpauli9442 Think he was the Airfix modelers president. He also flew and crashed his Tiger Moth. On i think Parkinson tv show said if he wasn't on tv he would have liked to be an airline pilot.
Hi Amanda. Well that was a welcome blast from the past, he was very big in the 70s and" oh you are awful but i like you" was his catchphrase, he had some standard characters that appeared every week, and a some different ones, a very talented man. Thankyou Amanda, hope you are well. 😀😀😀
He is sadly neglected today, most Brits under 40 have probably not heard of him, he never gets repeats. I think he is written off as outdated, but he was a really clever performer. He had these regular characters, though there were one offs, like the driving instructor too. What was different was the way he combined his characters in these extended sketches, here is one about a milkman ruclips.net/video/VY59eQSdQu8/видео.html
He played many different characters, a very popular comedian in the UK. I was fortunate to meet him once, he was buying petrol for his motorbike, he was a keen biker.
Dick Emery's character Mandy (The last 'lady' in the sketch) always had the catchphrase 'OOh you are awful but I like you' followed by a push/shove of the person and a staggering walk in her high heels or boots. Which is always how I looked like as I could never walk in high heels! 😃👠👠
One character that didn't turn up in this sketch was veteran James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick, my own personal favourite Most of the regulars were here. The learner driver at the beginning was character actor Royce Mills. The senior character was played by Anthony Sharp, who turned up in numerous dramas and comedy series including To The Manor Born, but would also appear in drama series like The Life And Times Of David Lloyd George. Dick Emery, like many of his generation of comedians appeared regularly at The Windmill Theatre, after discharge from the armed forces - like Peter Sellers, Dick was in the Royal Air Force - Such legends of comedy as Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan appeared on the stage which boasted that Dick would also appear with The Goons on radio, sometimes to give one of the regulars a break. His own series ran on the BBC for eighteen years from 1963.
Dick Emery was very popular. My parents took me and my sister to see his show on Brighton Pier when we were kids. His characters were great. On the TV show, you would see all the half dozen or so characters of his every week. He played a rocker riding a motorcycle in one sketch. He was a real motorbike rider. He was also a bit of a womaniser in real life apparently. The jokes never got tiresome, in fact most were family favourites and even after watching many episodes of his show, one expected catch phrases like "ooh you are awful-but I like you" or "I got it wrong again Dad" or "Hello honky Tonks, how are you" and very time although you heard them all before, it made you crease up laughing. A talented man indeed, and a very funny one.
I saw him an blackpool...I was also taken,dragged along to Freddie Starr, val doonican, little and large,cannon and ball,liver birds to name a few I can remrmber.
Maurice (hello Honky tonks) was a favourite with my pals and me when we were kids and I remember a few of us mincing about the playground at school, with our satchels draped over our shoulder and saying "oh hello Honky tonks, how are you?!" We were a mad bunch of children. (I wonder if it had anything to do with attending Broadmoor school, at the time?!)
Dick Emery was a master of funny characters. His TV shows were all generally based on various funny characters from all walks of life, you have to watch more😊
The Dick Emery show, that was MUST see TV on a Saturday night. Watching you react to these clips certainly brought back some really happy memories watching this show with my family growing up..
My Father had false teeth and one day he pushed them forward and said thank you my son just like Dick Emery's vicar character I was crying with laughter. 🤣😂.
Excellent comedy from yesteryear! Couldn't make a lot of the content today that's for sure. Dick Emery was one of a niche group of prime time TV comedy gold, other similar sketch format shows included "The Benny Hill Show", "The Two Ronnies", "The Kenny Everett Television Show", "The Les Dawson Show" and "The Goodies". Other more episodic story driven comedies were "It Ain't Half Hot Mum!", "Open All Hours", "Porridge" and "Some Mothers Do Have 'Em". Great video Amanda, really brought back the memories! 😉😎
I loved Dick Emery , a brilliant comedian. Shame the such comedy is frowned upon these days. YEs, he plays many characters. You have seen some of the more common ones. Definately, watch more of his show...
Yikes - indeed! Any of today's networks would find themselves instantly canceled if they used such (hilarious but harmless) material. We have to wonder why the world seems so much more a gloomy place these days with just a handful of those in our entertainment media wielding the power (and/or lawsuits) working so hard to ensure all content is woke, inclusive and always uses the correct pronouns!
@@mpwaterhouse yes I’ve come to think that all this political correctness in comedy is a sign of us not coming together but growing apart .. we have stopped laughing at ourselves as a society..
My brother-in-law’s brother played the part of the interviewer asking questions which she always took the wrong way and he invariably ended up being pushed into the bushes after his “Oh you are awful……. That was in the earlier black and white TV days.
He played many different characters. But he had the most wonderful oporatic voice, after many years doing his comedy act he shocked the nation two years running when he appeared on the Royal Variety show and sang the desert song one year followed by the gondolier the following year.
So many catchphrases. I remember just about all of them. The kind of comedian who could make the whole family laugh. The kids laughed at the silly bits and the grown ups laughed at the double entendres. Even Little Miss giggles at the clowning around. Oh, and I have orders to say "Hello Auntie Manda. Lots of love and cuggles". So, duty discharged as instructed, Your Ladyship. 😄😄
There's another character of his I remember who didn't show up in this sketch sequence and that's an old man called James Kitchener Lampwick who had a speech impediment that would kick in every so often - it's hard to describe, you need to hear it. I have fond memories of these Dick Emery shows from the first time round in the 1970s.
Hi Amanda, great to see you reacting to another of the wonderful comedians I grew up watching on Tv. I realise now, just how lucky we were in the `60`s onwards, to have such talented people to cheer us up. For more of him try (Dick Emery - The Milkman) 6 Mins 6 Secs long, (Dick Emery a short compilation from his BBC shows) 4 Mins 35 Secs long.
First person I've seen reacting to Dick Emery! He was a staple of TV in the 1960s and 1970s. Risque, but always clean. He did a lot of different characters - a couple of the ones shown were regulars (Mandy, the last one, was one of them, as was the effeminate instructor who addressed people as "honytonks"). He also regular played a old man called Lampwick.
Dick Emery provided something on TV which, of course, will never be seen again. The whole family could sit down together and share a common bit of fun. Parents laughed at the innuendo and children giggled at the silliness. The same could probably be said about the Benny Hill Show. These shows weren’t sophisticated but were cross-generational fun. Adults and children looked forward to the broadcasts and laughed together. Not sure if I can find something similar now. If you liked his plethora of characters then have a look at Kenny Everett. Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt became engrained in the British Psyche. Oh, and what happened when the network realised that one of them was a Spoonerism
The Carry On films were the same humour as well. I can remember watching them as a child, and laughing at the silly names, and the situations. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I understood the double entendres. 😆
When I was a young boy, Dick emery was the guest at the grand opening of our brand new woolworth store in Abingdon, oxfordshire. This was around 1972/73. I was 5 or 6 at the time. But i remember seeing him open the store.
This was one of the few Saturday night highlights we watched during the 70's. Saucy humour, but never crass or vulgar with it. He played a plethora of characters, some of which were female, as you might have guessed! His main catchphrase playing Mandy, (the last one to feature in this clip), being, 'Oh, you are awful... but I like you', before shoving the person, (usually a man who'd just inadvertently said some suggestive double entrandre), hard in the shoulder.
Such a great talent. A shame that changing attitudes has meant that he is somewhat disregarded from historic rolls of honour. Such was his talent that the famous Goons would have Dick Emery fill in if one of the cast was unwell.
Dick Emery was great. I remember watching him as a kid. I think he did many characters and not sure but I think Roy Kinnear was with him in some too. He was very very good, again a blast from the past. Thanks Amanda for reminding me how old I am lol!
Dick Emery's show was a favourite of mine he played so many characters, he has made films aswell, I thought the films were funny aswell, he was one of Great Britain's favourite comedians, he is sadly missed he would be hard to replace,
That clip features most of his regular characters - the flamboyant homosexual, the randy middle-aged housewife, the idiot young man who stole the Mercedes (he usually messed things up and had the catchphrase "Dad! I've got it wrong again!"), the toothy priest of dubious morality, and Miss "Ooh you are awful, but I like you!" Silly but all good clean stuff. Dick Emery was a big star in the 1970s, and in fact, that kind of 'subverting expectations' type humour used to be very common in British comedy - as you'll also see from sketches by others stars who were popular around that time like the Two Ronnies.
Dick Emery is a 1915 born english commedian also known for his voice acting talent because he voiced many characters in the 1968 Beatles-animated movie Yellow Submarine including Lord Mayor of Pepperland and Jeremy Hillary Boop P.H.D. Hope you're well. Bye.
Oh Amanda! What a PROPER sense of fun you`ve got. I love watching your videos because YOU make me laugh as much as the comedy situations, and you have a really infectious laugh too. Please keep up the good work and make this almost 90 year old Brit enjoy his old age. Thank you so much.
Dick Emery was hugely famous and very very popular throughout the 70s until his death in the 80s. You saw a fair few of his characters in this sketch. I recommend the Dick Emery feature film called Oh You Are Awful. Do look up Stanley Baxter next....
Ooohh how awwwwful! 😉😁 I had forgotten all about “hello honkytonks how are youuuu?” But now I’ve heard it, it will be my greeting to one and all! I’ll probably get a smack in the face for it, but it’s worth the laugh! 🤣🤣 And I loved seeing all those “classic” cars - especially the Imp!❤️❤️
That brought back memories! (70s kid 80s adolescent) A couple of other British comedy recommendations would be 'The Goon Show' especially 'What time is it Eccles?' and, secondly any episode of 'Sykes'. The Goons were a radio comedy team in the 50s that had a big influence on Monty Python and The Beatles. Great stuff!
DIck Emery was a comedy sketch show with him playing a range of different characters with a lot of innuendo thrown in. This was prime time on a Saturday evening back in the early 1970's
Thank you. That was great. You might also like Tommy Cooper, from a bit earlier. His delivery was so good the audience was roaring with laughter before he even got to a punch line.
He was a legend ! Yes he did those characters mostly. There were a lot of his catch phrases in there as well. Everyone loved him here in Ireland and the uk. I’m so glad you reminded me of how clever he really was.
Thanks for the reminder of so many times spent having a laugh at this comedian's outrageous characters.. Some of them produced familiar catchphrases - "Ooh, you are awful (pause) , but I like you!" being one of them.
In the 70's I worked in a theatre where Dick Emery was appearing in pantomime. One of my colleagues had a painful infection in his nose. Dick paid for him to be seen by his doctor in Harley Street and covered the cost of his medication.
Hi Amanda, not Dick Emery connected (did you know he was in 'Yellow Submarine' as Jeremy,the Nowhere Man? I don't know if you know about Rainbow,the kids show for 5 6 7 year olds and they did a 'blooper' adult version. Dead funny.
The "Honky tonks" character, Maurice, was always a favourite as a kid with my pals and me, for some reason and we didn't even see the character as gay, just a bit camp and extremely funny! Ripping good laugh.
Dick Emery was the king of double-entendre. He did indeed cycle through a common set of characters he would weave hilarious vignettes around. I believe he got some of comedic grounding from Tony Hancock in Hancock's half hour. A subsequent comedian with a slightly more risqué Emery-esque format was Kenny Everett.
Hi Amanda, very pleased to meet you. I watched this video and really enjoyed the manner in which you show the clips and your reactions of how much you are enjoying the show. It was a real pleasure to watch and double the enjoyment. I found myself laughing along. Dick Emery was once a regular on BBC tv and his sketch show was a must see every weekend. Even today, many years since his unexpected sudden death, his comedy is very much alive. He was in real life, a true gentleman and a wonderful and kind soul with a real talent. I completely agree with your end conclusion report on your overall view. He would add intelligent twists at the end, like the opening clip where he is smoking. We think he is the one going to sit the test where as he is in fact the instructor. So funny, May I complement you on your channel. I will be watching and liking your other videos. Thank you so much. May I also pay a compliment on your tattoos. I think they are really nice and suit you. Thanks again, Amanda. Best, Rajeev.
He had many characters, twists and turns. You can watch any of his clips, all clean, just a bit "saucy" Loved Dick Emery back in the day. We used to sit as a family and watch, I expect I was laughing at different things to mum and dad. I suppose he wouldn't get on the telly now...
Dick Emery was a comedian that played in many films and serious roles as well. He was more popular for his TV shows where he plays different characters, he was much like Benny Hill in comedy style that was saucy and slapstick.
There was a Northern Ireland comedian called James young he died in 1974 ( he was 56) he had his own Tv Show called 'Saturday Night ' which aired its 1st episode in 1972, he also released several comedy albums & there is a stand alone dvd called 'Our Jimmie' The Very Best of James Young or as as a limited Collector's Edition ( 1 dvd, 2 cds)
Lovely trip down memory lane. He was a staple back in the 70's in the UK. How would the drag sketches be received in the US in today's climate, I wonder. Never was it thought he was corrupting the youth. Same with Danny La Rue and many others. The pantomime dame is still a major role in the theatre at Christmas.
Dick Emery was a very popular comedian when i was younger, in the 1960/70's and remains on of my favourite British comics. But many Brits today have never heard of him, and attitudes have changed towards some of his characters.
Brilliant comedian Dick Emery. In the first sketch with the fella sitting on the bench with him, he is Royce Mills, I knew his daughter Samantha. When I use to watch this as a kid, my brother called me Dick Emery whenever I wore my denim jacket like one of his characters. We won’t see this stuff on tv now as not politically correct. You should look at Fawlty Towers, Mind Your Language, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Love Thy Neighbour, Alf Garnett….👍🥂
Dick Emery was the one of the highlights of Saturday night TV back in the 70's. He had many characters but his most famous was the lady with the "You are awful, but I like you". He used to do that deliberate trip now and again. His style of entertainment was brought from the stage of the early 50's and 60's, the saucy postcard style of humour. Others of the same style would be Freddie Starr and Stanley Baxter but no one did it as well as Dick emery!
On of the few programs the whole family watched together. My Dad jokingly said for years, "I've got it wrong again Dad", in the voice, if I cocked something up as a kid. The you are awful lady is my fav, there is always an innuendo in there.
Dick Emery was very popular during the 70's. His humour was "British saucy postcard humour" But you never heard swear in his shows. Greatly missed.
His 'vicar' was hilarious.
Yes the toothy vicar is my favourite character. As for swear words … the “strunts” sketch where the vicar has a tea party.
I've got to get the series' and the film. He was great when I was a kid in the 70s
Totally agree with that !
In some ways , he was a precursor to Harry Enfield , with all the different characters he used to do !
Dick was a very talented comic, and what people may not be aware of he also had a powerful lovely singing voice. Very funny man RIP
A fabulous tenor voice which, for some reason, his contract forbade him to use. What a silly, sad waste. 😥
I believe that his original ambition was to be an opera singer.
@@lesleyvivien2876 I didn’t know that ! .. I remember a documentary about Dick Emery .. apparently in his many series he was given some pretty poor sketch material but he never complained and just through his talent turned mediocre writing into good stuff .. some of the sketches were just so so but he himself was always great .. a true gentleman!
@@xl5man You're in a majority, which shows how well suppressed it was. I have no idea why! 😢
And you're right, he always seemed committed to his characters, and never acted as though the material was beneath him.
The phrase ‘You are awful but I like you’ was one of his regular sayings. Another similar comedian worth looking up is Stanley Baxter, very funny and very talented!
Stanley Baxter was a comedy genius. Apart from his hilarious musical skits his "Parliarmo Glasgow" sketch is brilliant and still on YT.
but not Harry Worth who will send you nuts with frustration
@@Jack-fs2imworst still Mike Yarwood 😂
@@davidwhitehead3694 showing yr age ,I loved Arthur Haynes tho ,so dry
Parlyamaburzi!!!😂😂
Dick Emery was a genius at 70's style risqué comedy with neither smut nor bad language. A Saturday night favourite.
That was very nostalgic. Wild, whacky and very funny. Dick Emery's comedy was risqué and full of double-entendres which I love!
The Dick Emery Show was one of those comedy shows that as a family, we never missed. Before I had my teeth fixed with a brace, I could do a really good impression of the vicar. One of my favourite sketches was where he was at a funfair with a well endowed girl. She'd just won a couple of coconuts and was singing "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" and Dick said "You certainly have my dear"
The toothy vicar was one of my favouites.
Oh my days!! That was a blast from the past. Now this is harmless comedy and had the whole family in stitches back in the day. You should also look at Benny Hill, Russ Abbott, 'Mind your language' and Love thy neighbour. The best of British comedy from the 70's & 80's. Love it!! 4:00
Dick served in the airforce and was THE expert for a lot of kids post war learning to make model aeroplanes. He had a lot of characters that were quite memorable and he was a solid regular on TV during the 70s. Deserves far more recognition then he gets in my opinion.
Didn't know about the model aeroplane thing.
Was he in an advert for Airfix?
@@pencilpauli9442 Think he was the Airfix modelers president. He also flew and crashed his Tiger Moth. On i think Parkinson tv show said if he wasn't on tv he would have liked to be an airline pilot.
Yes, Airfix at the height of its popularity here@@pencilpauli9442
I can still smell the Humbrol paint...😅
He was the president, this is correct. He had a page in the 1970s kids' comic 'Buster' where he talked about his favourite models.
Hi Amanda. Well that was a welcome blast from the past, he was very big in the 70s and" oh you are awful but i like you" was his catchphrase, he had some standard characters that appeared every week, and a some different ones, a very talented man. Thankyou Amanda, hope you are well. 😀😀😀
I agree, very welcome. I was hoping Mandy might have turned up too.
Dick Emery had a variety of characters (most played by himself) who regularly turned up. He's highly respected.
Thank you Amanda for taking me back down memory lane to a great comedian. 🤣
He is sadly neglected today, most Brits under 40 have probably not heard of him, he never gets repeats. I think he is written off as outdated, but he was a really clever performer. He had these regular characters, though there were one offs, like the driving instructor too. What was different was the way he combined his characters in these extended sketches, here is one about a milkman ruclips.net/video/VY59eQSdQu8/видео.html
..insted they make rubbish like 'Dreaming whilst Black' now . .. .-what trash . ..!!!
He certainly was, rewatching as an adult made me think how much work went into the individuality of the characters, the quirks and nuances.❤
Anyone can be British it means little nowadays.
He made a classic movie
@@WInnerwinnerchickendinner. 1972 Hilarious
He played many different characters, a very popular comedian in the UK. I was fortunate to meet him once, he was buying petrol for his motorbike, he was a keen biker.
Dick Emery's character Mandy (The last 'lady' in the sketch) always had the catchphrase 'OOh you are awful but I like you' followed by a push/shove of the person and a staggering walk in her high heels or boots. Which is always how I looked like as I could never walk in high heels! 😃👠👠
One character that didn't turn up in this sketch was veteran James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick, my own personal favourite Most of the regulars were here. The learner driver at the beginning was character actor Royce Mills. The senior character was played by Anthony Sharp, who turned up in numerous dramas and comedy series including To The Manor Born, but would also appear in drama series like The Life And Times Of David Lloyd George.
Dick Emery, like many of his generation of comedians appeared regularly at The Windmill Theatre, after discharge from the armed forces - like Peter Sellers, Dick was in the Royal Air Force - Such legends of comedy as Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan appeared on the stage which boasted that Dick would also appear with The Goons on radio, sometimes to give one of the regulars a break. His own series ran on the BBC for eighteen years from 1963.
Dick Emery was very popular. My parents took me and my sister to see his show on Brighton Pier when we were kids.
His characters were great. On the TV show, you would see all the half dozen or so characters of his every week.
He played a rocker riding a motorcycle in one sketch. He was a real motorbike rider.
He was also a bit of a womaniser in real life apparently.
The jokes never got tiresome, in fact most were family favourites and even after watching many episodes of his show, one expected catch phrases like "ooh you are awful-but I like you" or "I got it wrong again Dad" or "Hello honky Tonks, how are you" and very time although you heard them all before, it made you crease up laughing.
A talented man indeed, and a very funny one.
I saw him an blackpool...I was also taken,dragged along to Freddie Starr, val doonican, little and large,cannon and ball,liver birds to name a few I can remrmber.
The catchphrase 'Hello Honky Tonks' was given to him by Marty Feldman 👍
Maurice (hello Honky tonks) was a favourite with my pals and me when we were kids and I remember a few of us mincing about the playground at school, with our satchels draped over our shoulder and saying "oh hello Honky tonks, how are you?!" We were a mad bunch of children.
(I wonder if it had anything to do with attending Broadmoor school, at the time?!)
Dick Emery was a master of funny characters. His TV shows were all generally based on various funny characters from all walks of life, you have to watch more😊
The Dick Emery show, that was MUST see TV on a Saturday night. Watching you react to these clips certainly brought back some really happy memories watching this show with my family growing up..
Yep. That was when Saturday night TV was worth watching. His father and son 'bovvaboy' double act with the late, great Roy Kinnear was gold.
Dick Emery was a comedy genius. Very talented. One of his characters was Lampwick. xx
My Father had false teeth and one day he pushed them forward and said thank you my son just like Dick Emery's vicar character I was crying with laughter. 🤣😂.
Excellent comedy from yesteryear! Couldn't make a lot of the content today that's for sure.
Dick Emery was one of a niche group of prime time TV comedy gold, other similar sketch format shows included "The Benny Hill Show", "The Two Ronnies", "The Kenny Everett Television Show", "The Les Dawson Show" and "The Goodies". Other more episodic story driven comedies were "It Ain't Half Hot Mum!", "Open All Hours", "Porridge" and "Some Mothers Do Have 'Em". Great video Amanda, really brought back the memories! 😉😎
I loved Dick Emery , a brilliant comedian. Shame the such comedy is frowned upon these days. YEs, he plays many characters. You have seen some of the more common ones. Definately, watch more of his show...
Yikes - indeed! Any of today's networks would find themselves instantly canceled if they used such (hilarious but harmless) material. We have to wonder why the world seems so much more a gloomy place these days with just a handful of those in our entertainment media wielding the power (and/or lawsuits) working so hard to ensure all content is woke, inclusive and always uses the correct pronouns!
@@mpwaterhouse yes I’ve come to think that all this political correctness in comedy is a sign of us not coming together but growing apart .. we have stopped laughing at ourselves as a society..
My brother-in-law’s brother played the part of the interviewer asking questions which she always took the wrong way and he invariably ended up being pushed into the bushes after his “Oh you are awful……. That was in the earlier black and white TV days.
He played many different characters. But he had the most wonderful oporatic voice, after many years doing his comedy act he shocked the nation two years running when he appeared on the Royal Variety show and sang the desert song one year followed by the gondolier the following year.
So many catchphrases. I remember just about all of them. The kind of comedian who could make the whole family laugh. The kids laughed at the silly bits and the grown ups laughed at the double entendres. Even Little Miss giggles at the clowning around.
Oh, and I have orders to say "Hello Auntie Manda. Lots of love and cuggles". So, duty discharged as instructed, Your Ladyship. 😄😄
Not only was he a great comedian he was also a qualified pilot and owned his own Tiger Moth which now resides at the Scottish Museum of Flight!
Seriously! Well I never knew that.
Interesting, my Uncle did according to his flight logs 34 hours trining in a Tiger Moth.
There's another character of his I remember who didn't show up in this sketch sequence and that's an old man called James Kitchener Lampwick who had a speech impediment that would kick in every so often - it's hard to describe, you need to hear it.
I have fond memories of these Dick Emery shows from the first time round in the 1970s.
Hi Amanda, great to see you reacting to another of the wonderful comedians I grew up watching on Tv. I realise now, just how lucky we were in the `60`s onwards, to have such talented people to cheer us up. For more of him try (Dick Emery - The Milkman) 6 Mins 6 Secs long, (Dick Emery a short compilation from his BBC shows) 4 Mins 35 Secs long.
First person I've seen reacting to Dick Emery! He was a staple of TV in the 1960s and 1970s. Risque, but always clean. He did a lot of different characters - a couple of the ones shown were regulars (Mandy, the last one, was one of them, as was the effeminate instructor who addressed people as "honytonks"). He also regular played a old man called Lampwick.
I think that honky tonk character was called camp Clarence.
Straight back to my youth.... I loved The Dick Emery Show ... so full of good belly laughs
Dick Emery provided something on TV which, of course, will never be seen again. The whole family could sit down together and share a common bit of fun. Parents laughed at the innuendo and children giggled at the silliness. The same could probably be said about the Benny Hill Show.
These shows weren’t sophisticated but were cross-generational fun. Adults and children looked forward to the broadcasts and laughed together. Not sure if I can find something similar now.
If you liked his plethora of characters then have a look at Kenny Everett. Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt became engrained in the British Psyche.
Oh, and what happened when the network realised that one of them was a Spoonerism
a bit like Eric Sykes . . .now its all about Racial ideas ..like 'Dreaming whilst Black' ...terrible garbage !
The Carry On films were the same humour as well. I can remember watching them as a child, and laughing at the silly names, and the situations. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I understood the double entendres. 😆
When I was a young boy, Dick emery was the guest at the grand opening of our brand new woolworth store in Abingdon, oxfordshire. This was around 1972/73. I was 5 or 6 at the time. But i remember seeing him open the store.
This was one of the few Saturday night highlights we watched during the 70's. Saucy humour, but never crass or vulgar with it. He played a plethora of characters, some of which were female, as you might have guessed! His main catchphrase playing Mandy, (the last one to feature in this clip), being, 'Oh, you are awful... but I like you', before shoving the person, (usually a man who'd just inadvertently said some suggestive double entrandre), hard in the shoulder.
his show was one of the most popular each week, sad day when he died so young.
One of our greatest ever comedians, he does lots of different characters.
A blast from the past
Took me back to my childhood
Thanks 👍
The stuff we grew up with in the 70's and early 80's, still best tv decades.
Such a great talent. A shame that changing attitudes has meant that he is somewhat disregarded from historic rolls of honour. Such was his talent that the famous Goons would have Dick Emery fill in if one of the cast was unwell.
Dick Emery was great. I remember watching him as a kid. I think he did many characters and not sure but I think Roy Kinnear was with him in some too. He was very very good, again a blast from the past. Thanks Amanda for reminding me how old I am lol!
Dick Emery was always one of my favourites.BRILLIANT.
Dick Emery's show was a favourite of mine he played so many characters, he has made films aswell, I thought the films were funny aswell, he was one of Great Britain's favourite comedians, he is sadly missed he would be hard to replace,
That clip features most of his regular characters - the flamboyant homosexual, the randy middle-aged housewife, the idiot young man who stole the Mercedes (he usually messed things up and had the catchphrase "Dad! I've got it wrong again!"), the toothy priest of dubious morality, and Miss "Ooh you are awful, but I like you!" Silly but all good clean stuff. Dick Emery was a big star in the 1970s, and in fact, that kind of 'subverting expectations' type humour used to be very common in British comedy - as you'll also see from sketches by others stars who were popular around that time like the Two Ronnies.
Dick Emery is a 1915 born english commedian also known for his voice acting talent because he voiced many characters in the 1968 Beatles-animated movie Yellow Submarine including Lord Mayor of Pepperland and Jeremy Hillary Boop P.H.D. Hope you're well. Bye.
I didn’t know about the voice work. Thank you for that information.
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Oh Amanda! What a PROPER sense of fun you`ve got. I love watching your videos because YOU make me laugh as much as the comedy situations, and you have a really infectious laugh too. Please keep up the good work and make this almost 90 year old Brit enjoy his old age. Thank you so much.
Dick Emery was hugely famous and very very popular throughout the 70s until his death in the 80s. You saw a fair few of his characters in this sketch.
I recommend the Dick Emery feature film called Oh You Are Awful.
Do look up Stanley Baxter next....
Ooohh how awwwwful! 😉😁 I had forgotten all about “hello honkytonks how are youuuu?” But now I’ve heard it, it will be my greeting to one and all! I’ll probably get a smack in the face for it, but it’s worth the laugh! 🤣🤣
And I loved seeing all those “classic” cars - especially the Imp!❤️❤️
That brought back memories! (70s kid 80s adolescent) A couple of other British comedy recommendations would be 'The Goon Show' especially 'What time is it Eccles?' and, secondly any episode of 'Sykes'. The Goons were a radio comedy team in the 50s that had a big influence on Monty Python and The Beatles. Great stuff!
Used to love watching him on tv as a child. 70s, when comedy was fun.
He did many characters. He was incredibly entertaining.
Good to see this clip of him playing some of his characters.
Dick Emery was a comic genius - he played lots of different characters - those were but a few
He did a character called Lampwick and old guy Dick Emery was really talented and funny 😊
DIck Emery was a comedy sketch show with him playing a range of different characters with a lot of innuendo thrown in. This was prime time on a Saturday evening back in the early 1970's
Thank you. That was great. You might also like Tommy Cooper, from a bit earlier. His delivery was so good the audience was roaring with laughter before he even got to a punch line.
He was a legend ! Yes he did those characters mostly. There were a lot of his catch phrases in there as well. Everyone loved him here in Ireland and the uk. I’m so glad you reminded me of how clever he really was.
Very good; Very funny, very double entendre as life was back in the sane days of the '60s!!!
The sketches I remember the most was he father and son sketch, the father played by Roy Kinnear, the famous quote “Dad, I think I got it wrong again”
Dick Emery was a genius, check out his "Milkman" sketch, absolute classic
I saw Dick Emery in theatre back in the 1970's as a teenager.He was absolutely brilliant Amanda.😂
Dick Emery was a staple in our house when i was a kid in the 70s. Still makes me laugh out loud and ive seem just about all of em😂😂😂
Thanks for the reminder of so many times spent having a laugh at this comedian's outrageous characters..
Some of them produced familiar catchphrases - "Ooh, you are awful (pause) , but I like you!" being one of them.
All in the best possible taste. Absolutely love watching your reaction to the comedy some of us youngsters (76 and still going strong) grew up with.
Amanda reacting to Dick Emery; this has made my day. 🤣🤘
I grew up watching this, we could do with more like it today.
In the 70's I worked in a theatre where Dick Emery was appearing in pantomime. One of my colleagues had a painful infection in his nose. Dick paid for him to be seen by his doctor in Harley Street and covered the cost of his medication.
Hi Amanda, not Dick Emery connected (did you know he was in 'Yellow Submarine' as Jeremy,the Nowhere Man?
I don't know if you know about Rainbow,the kids show for 5 6 7 year olds and they did a 'blooper' adult version. Dead funny.
The late and very, very great Mr Emery. RIP
What a testimony to Dick Emery's comic talents that this young lady finds him just as funny today as we all did (and still do) after all these years!
My absolute favourite comedian from the 70s 😂😂😂
He had some great characters. Ran very close to the edge. Always made me laugh out loud, ie unusual for me.
The "Honky tonks" character, Maurice, was always a favourite as a kid with my pals and me, for some reason and we didn't even see the character as gay, just a bit camp and extremely funny! Ripping good laugh.
'... and the way you reacted when the policeman suddenly put his hand up' What a classic, it's a shame it almost got buried under the previous laugh.
Dick Emery was the king of double-entendre. He did indeed cycle through a common set of characters he would weave hilarious vignettes around. I believe he got some of comedic grounding from Tony Hancock in Hancock's half hour. A subsequent comedian with a slightly more risqué Emery-esque format was Kenny Everett.
Hi Amanda this was very funny 😂ive never watched him before but my parents used to watch him i too will have to check out some more of his shows
Hi Amanda, very pleased to meet you. I watched this video and really enjoyed the manner in which you show the clips and your reactions of how much you are enjoying the show. It was a real pleasure to watch and double the enjoyment. I found myself laughing along. Dick Emery was once a regular on BBC tv and his sketch show was a must see every weekend. Even today, many years since his unexpected sudden death, his comedy is very much alive. He was in real life, a true gentleman and a wonderful and kind soul with a real talent. I completely agree with your end conclusion report on your overall view. He would add intelligent twists at the end, like the opening clip where he is smoking. We think he is the one going to sit the test where as he is in fact the instructor. So funny, May I complement you on your channel. I will be watching and liking your other videos. Thank you so much. May I also pay a compliment on your tattoos. I think they are really nice and suit you. Thanks again, Amanda. Best, Rajeev.
He had many characters, twists and turns.
You can watch any of his clips, all clean, just a bit "saucy"
Loved Dick Emery back in the day.
We used to sit as a family and watch, I expect I was laughing at different things to mum and dad.
I suppose he wouldn't get on the telly now...
That was his catch phrase, You are awful but I like you. I knew you'd love him.
Dick Emery was a comedian that played in many films and serious roles as well. He was more popular for his TV shows where he plays different characters, he was much like Benny Hill in comedy style that was saucy and slapstick.
Just the opening theme tune brings back so many happy memories for me.
The elderly driving instructor appeared in another classic British comedy. He played the vicar in Steptoe & Son.
And a doctor in the episode where Albert 'loses' his memory too.
A true Legend like most of the 60's and 70's Stars.
Emery was a constant in my youth TV schedule, Loved that he played male, female, straight or gay characters, all with his usual saucy humour.
Omg it’s years since I’ve seen him. Great stuff.
His shows ran on television from 1963-81 ...he was married 5 times as well! ,,,Londoner buried in mortlake ..funny man R.I.P
He was one of a kind extremely talented and very funny every thing he did was comedy gold and at ji finest
I use to love watching Dick Emery absolutely hilarious 🤣🤣
Dick Emery was a huge fave in Britain in the 70's. essential viewing back then.
There was a Northern Ireland comedian called James young he died in 1974 ( he was 56) he had his own Tv Show called 'Saturday Night ' which aired its 1st episode in 1972, he also released several comedy albums & there is a stand alone dvd called 'Our Jimmie' The Very Best of James Young or as as a limited Collector's Edition ( 1 dvd, 2 cds)
the British has got the best comedy Legacy in the world . ..carry on ....On the buses . . . .Hinge and Bracket . .. -the Best .!
Duck Emery was one of the greatest character comedians ever, still miss him to this day
Lovely trip down memory lane. He was a staple back in the 70's in the UK. How would the drag sketches be received in the US in today's climate, I wonder. Never was it thought he was corrupting the youth. Same with Danny La Rue and many others. The pantomime dame is still a major role in the theatre at Christmas.
Dick Emery was a very popular comedian when i was younger, in the 1960/70's and remains on of my favourite British comics. But many Brits today have never heard of him, and attitudes have changed towards some of his characters.
i thought he was funny :)
one of my all time favourites from my childhood lol loved dick emery and all his characters
Dick had so many characters it was unreal. A genius with double entendre too.
Brilliant comedian Dick Emery. In the first sketch with the fella sitting on the bench with him, he is Royce Mills, I knew his daughter Samantha. When I use to watch this as a kid, my brother called me Dick Emery whenever I wore my denim jacket like one of his characters.
We won’t see this stuff on tv now as not politically correct.
You should look at Fawlty Towers, Mind Your Language, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Love Thy Neighbour, Alf Garnett….👍🥂
It's nice to see a younger generation enjoying what mine loved back in the 1970s in the UK.
Dick Emery was the one of the highlights of Saturday night TV back in the 70's. He had many characters but his most famous was the lady with the "You are awful, but I like you". He used to do that deliberate trip now and again. His style of entertainment was brought from the stage of the early 50's and 60's, the saucy postcard style of humour. Others of the same style would be Freddie Starr and Stanley Baxter but no one did it as well as Dick emery!
Amanda's expressions & giggling at British humour very entertaining.
I watched him as i growing up he was so funny and loved his shows, the other one i watched was Dave Allen
On of the few programs the whole family watched together. My Dad jokingly said for years, "I've got it wrong again Dad", in the voice, if I cocked something up as a kid. The you are awful lady is my fav, there is always an innuendo in there.
Les Dawson is another veteran comic worth watching. I met him as a kid after a pantomime, he was a really nice and genuine fella.