A line in a Joni Mitchell song..." Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone"...I enjoy these two fine entertainers now more than ever
Makes me laugh every-time the paper-bag trick, used to keep my dog amused too, I'd do it & you could see him try to follow what I was "throwing" & he'd get confused when he looked in the paper bag. Such simple fun.
SAME ....hahaha!! Drove me INSANE trying to work it out as a nipper ...begged him to tell me, all he kept saying was: "when you're older!" ....he's ALWAYS flippin' annoying like that ....HAHAHA!!
When I first saw that line as a kid I nearly soiled myself! Choked on what I was drinking too. I'm 39 now ans my mum always reminds me of her complete shock at me hyperventilating to that joke 🤣🤣🤣
It's the simplest little trick but it still cracks me up every time I see it. I don't think anyone else could make it as funny. Eric Morecambe just had a real talent for making people laugh. RIP Morecambe and Wise. I'm sure you're a sell out act in Heaven!
I miss all these comedians from the past, everything they did was funny. Everyone was up for a laugh on the M&W show, Previn, O'Connor & who will ever forget Angela Ripon's appearance??💃comic geniuses. Happy days. Thanks for posting.
I met Eric when I was a kid. He was a very genuine bloke. His private persona is just the same as his public one. What you see is what you get. He was a massive Frank Zappa fan
ABSOLUTELY---I SAW THEM AT THE BRISTOL HIPPODROME. THAT AFTERNOON BEFORE THE SHOW, HE WAS WALKING NEAR THE THEATER , AND WAS SPOTTED BY FANS, HE STOPPED, SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS AND CLOWNED AROUND , AS IF HE WAS ON STAGE. A LOVELY MAN , WHO WAS GENUINELY FUNNY BY NATURE.
I do this trick all the time to friends lil kids, cause I saw this wen I was a kid, they're amazed! Thanks to these guys! 🥰🥰 I'm 50 now, what a memory! I don't remember important stuff which annoys me wife! 🤣🤣
Always gets a laugh. They were the best, greatly appreciated,always able to sit with the kids and enjoy, no need to worry about there content. Really hate to say it but. I miss the good old days.
I grew up with 3 TV channels. My 10 year-old has a multitude of 'entertainment' windows - most of which cost me! But show her Eric's 'Penny Bag' (thank you Ben for the pricing) and she laughs like a maniac. If you watch her, so she doesn't notice, you can see her following the flight of the rubber ball with her eyes and finger - and that's the genius of Eric - attention to detail and timing. I'll wager any money he mucked around with a real rubber ball to perfect that 'Penny Bag' routine.
One of the stupidest, simplest, BRILLIANT visual paper bag tricks, you'll ever witness, perfermed by a REAL comedic genius. And yes, I learnt how to do it, watching Eric! I miss them both.
Just thinking of what Des might have said about showing up uninvited to the wedding of Eric Morecambe's daughter= Des= "Well, I had to, didn't I? I've always had a soft spot for her, what with the rough start she got in life." Eric "Rough start? Rough start? What's all this about a rough start?" Des= "Having you for a father." Eric= "I mean besides that."
My dad showed me that trick when I was a kid. Unfortunately, one day when I was trying to do it, I lost the ball. My dad got mad because he couldn't do the trick anymore.
Ernie says "There'll be a line in there that we said when we first started (0:52). As someone who loves stand up, I've watched videos of many comedians over the years, and from across their career span, and you do see this time and again, something that they did when the first started they keep bringing back. One example was Lee Evans with his mime to "Bohemian Rhapsody". When I first saw him he said he was due to perform in France the year before, and had to come up with a routine that would work there as he didn't speak the language. Some years later he does the same mime... and even saying it was for being in France the year before!
It may be very simple for Eric - as he says - but David Frost proves that it takes skill and comic timing to make this gag work when he fails at it. Ohhhh, Eric and Ernie, echoes of a simpler, funnier era when you were at the top, where you belong.
That stage show in 1973 at The Fairfield Halls in Croydon was later edited into an hour long show broadcast in 1987 on ITV as Morecambe & Wise On Stage.
Saw the clip of M&W with the Beatles, which I loved, so have gone down the rabbit hole here on RUclips. And it's HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! from me in NYC. As a child in the 70s, I grew up watching the great Carol Burnett on Saturday nights, but this is just as funny IMO. Shame that their guest spots on The Ed Sullivan Show back in the 60s weren't better received in America.
I've just watched Eric and ernie,s home videos. At first l was critical..... At least they could afford holidays abroad and not have to fight with hunger over a piece of toast.yet I'm not envious...... Maybe I'm growing old....ok yeah just a little bit!.. more so cause there was love showing in each video. How fucking lucky and lovely those kids are.
You just don't get comedy like this anymore... Ernie: "Will you stop playing with that bag?!?" Eric: "It's a fella, whaddya talking about?!?" This sketch explains where Dudley Moore got his laugh...
You can't find it on DVD I'm afraid, although you can watch the whole thing on youtube. Just type in "Morecambe and Wise live part 1" and that should do the trick.
The live clip they use, where he does the bag trick, what dvd is that off? Or whats the name of the clip? I've been looking for that episode FOREVER but could never find it!
@ThePaudybyrne well, i dont know if its the 'correct' way, but i hold the bag with my writing hand, and put my index and fourth finger inside the bag whilst the middle finger is behind the bag so i can then use my middle finger and thumb to flick the bag whilst holding it in the same hand so it makes the noise..... If that makes any sense :L
Arthur Tolcher was an old friend of Eric and Ernie from their music hall days, when they became famous they put him on their shows. He was a virtuoso harmonica player. He died in 1987.
They were wonderful on TV but they were outstanding LIVE ...... never laughed as much, for the whole show .... especially the "after curtain bit", which of course was perfectly scripted, came across as totally real
I'm only 16 but I've known how to do the bag trick since I was about 10 or 11, me and my friends used to sit in the lunch hall and do it with peoples' crisp packets. By the way what concert is this from and is it up on RUclips anywhere if it int can someone please post it... XD
I´m looking for the sketch where Ernie asked Eric for the fiver he owed him, Eric asked for another five or ten pounds, and through a long process of argument managed to reach the "logical" conclusion that Ernie owed him five pounds, so he kept the second one Ernie had given him.. or something on those lines.
@RandyRedCactus These people tend to post these comments to try and break that classic stereotype of young people always listening to Rap Music, Heavy Metal and just being generally Scary. By telling everyone that there are some teenagers who enjoy breaking away from what everyone expects them to be and laughing at what THEY find funny instead of whats popular.
ooohh my god,my dad made me watch this when i was a kid and i never got,,watching it now i nearly pissed myself laffing,,,by the way the trick is done by merely holding the paper bag by the thumb and forefinger and clicking your fingers
This is quality. I mean who doesn’t do this every time they get a paper bag? Always makes me smile
A line in a Joni Mitchell song..." Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone"...I enjoy these two fine entertainers now more than ever
Makes me laugh every-time the paper-bag trick, used to keep my dog amused too, I'd do it & you could see him try to follow what I was "throwing" & he'd get confused when he looked in the paper bag. Such simple fun.
Eric's paper bag trick never gets old!
Just a brilliant demonstration of pure comedy
My Dad used to entertain me with that after obviously watching Eric. I loved it.
I entertained my son with it. Same result.
Can't wait for grand kids.
A Man who can make an empty paper bag funny?
Must be a Comedy Genius. :)
he was
That's who my dad learnt the paper bag trick from. I'm 21 and it never fails to make me smile! :')
SAME ....hahaha!!
Drove me INSANE trying to work it out as a nipper ...begged him to tell me, all he kept saying was: "when you're older!"
....he's ALWAYS flippin' annoying like that ....HAHAHA!!
All dads of a certain age know it and know the next generation does :)
My grandad for me 😉
Your dad knew Hitler?
When you lose your way a bit......half an hour of these two gets you right back in the happy place.
You cannot beat the paper bag trick! I laugh every time . Thanks Eric and Ern.
2021... still a classic.
They'll keep me chuckling till the end of my days 🤣 I'm 44 so hopefully I've got plenty of days the enjoy the greats
I do that trick once in a while loved them two, such talent and they learnt there craft well. RIP M&W
Greatest ever line in comedy :
"He wont sell much ice cream going at that speed!"
1977 Christmas special. Love it and have been using that joke for the last 42 years. Eric loved this joke - me too. Eddie Braben classic.
I remember that line.......
When my kids were little I made them laugh with that one....
Eric Morecambe was the business!
When I first saw that line as a kid I nearly soiled myself! Choked on what I was drinking too. I'm 39 now ans my mum always reminds me of her complete shock at me hyperventilating to that joke 🤣🤣🤣
I nearly wet myself laughing when said that, I was a child, but tears rolled down my cheeks.
I wrote a murder mystery set in Morecambe all around that line!
It's the simplest little trick but it still cracks me up every time I see it. I don't think anyone else could make it as funny. Eric Morecambe just had a real talent for making people laugh. RIP Morecambe and Wise. I'm sure you're a sell out act in Heaven!
god bless them
I miss all these comedians from the past, everything they did was funny. Everyone was up for a laugh on the M&W show, Previn, O'Connor & who will ever forget Angela Ripon's appearance??💃comic geniuses. Happy days. Thanks for posting.
Eric legend I still miss u Eric my all time favourite comedian
Funniest bloke that ever lived, RIP Eric, a true comedy genius
I met Eric when I was a kid. He was a very genuine bloke. His private persona is just the same as his public one. What you see is what you get. He was a massive Frank Zappa fan
ABSOLUTELY---I SAW THEM AT THE BRISTOL HIPPODROME. THAT AFTERNOON BEFORE THE SHOW, HE WAS WALKING NEAR THE THEATER , AND WAS SPOTTED BY FANS, HE STOPPED, SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS AND CLOWNED AROUND , AS IF HE WAS ON STAGE. A LOVELY MAN , WHO WAS GENUINELY FUNNY BY NATURE.
Probably one of the few acts from that generation you could be proud of meeting, a lot got caught on operation Yew tree...
Didn't realise he was a Zappa fan! Great talent AND great taste in music!
nahh really
This comment is 4 years after yours ..........a Zappa fan ????? you're pulling my leg right ?
My dad did this to me for years when I was a little kid. "If you can catch the 10p I'll give you it.." Took me fucking years to figure it out.
Everyone's silly uncle.
Ace when Ernie fails and Eric snatches the bag back.
It's good to know how to do it properly. So many people try and can't do it right.
Ernie: 'Will you stop playing with that bag?'
Eric: 'Its a fella what you talking about.'
That had me in stitches
I do this trick all the time to friends lil kids, cause I saw this wen I was a kid, they're amazed! Thanks to these guys! 🥰🥰 I'm 50 now, what a memory! I don't remember important stuff which annoys me wife! 🤣🤣
Masters of their trade at the top of their game. Genius, absolute genius!
Always gets a laugh. They were the best, greatly appreciated,always able to sit with the kids and enjoy, no need to worry about there content. Really hate to say it but. I miss the good old days.
This is my dad's favourite trick which he has done since we were little, never knew it was morecambe and wise
I grew up with 3 TV channels. My 10 year-old has a multitude of 'entertainment' windows - most of which cost me! But show her Eric's 'Penny Bag' (thank you Ben for the pricing) and she laughs like a maniac. If you watch her, so she doesn't notice, you can see her following the flight of the rubber ball with her eyes and finger - and that's the genius of Eric - attention to detail and timing. I'll wager any money he mucked around with a real rubber ball to perfect that 'Penny Bag' routine.
"Will you stop playing with that bag?!"
"It's a fella, what are you talking about?!"
I'd love to think Arthur's got 'Not now Arthur' on his gravestone
I want to hug these too that’s how much love I have for them I miss them so much stars
One of the stupidest, simplest, BRILLIANT visual paper bag tricks, you'll ever witness, perfermed by a REAL comedic genius. And yes, I learnt how to do it, watching Eric! I miss them both.
My dad showed me that trick when I was a kid in the early 60s
Just thinking of what Des might have said about showing up uninvited to the wedding of Eric Morecambe's daughter=
Des= "Well, I had to, didn't I? I've always had a soft spot for her, what with the rough start she got in life."
Eric "Rough start? Rough start? What's all this about a rough start?"
Des= "Having you for a father."
Eric= "I mean besides that."
only eric morcombe could make a prop, not even worth a penny, such a classic gag. GENIUS
My dad showed me that trick when I was a kid. Unfortunately, one day when I was trying to do it, I lost the ball. My dad got mad because he couldn't do the trick anymore.
hilarious
Ernie trying to sing his song while Eric does what comes naturally.... this is what comedy is all about.
Ernie says "There'll be a line in there that we said when we first started (0:52).
As someone who loves stand up, I've watched videos of many comedians over the years, and from across their career span, and you do see this time and again, something that they did when the first started they keep bringing back. One example was Lee Evans with his mime to "Bohemian Rhapsody". When I first saw him he said he was due to perform in France the year before, and had to come up with a routine that would work there as he didn't speak the language. Some years later he does the same mime... and even saying it was for being in France the year before!
It may be very simple for Eric - as he says - but David Frost proves that it takes skill and comic timing to make this gag work when he fails at it. Ohhhh, Eric and Ernie, echoes of a simpler, funnier era when you were at the top, where you belong.
That stage show in 1973 at The Fairfield Halls in Croydon was later edited into an hour long show broadcast in 1987 on ITV as Morecambe & Wise On Stage.
I used to have my children in stitches doing the bag trick.
OMG. I love Eric Morcambe.
I love how they're so funny, they can laugh at their own material
God, that must be wonderful...Eric and Ernie were masters. The only one who comes close nowadays is Bruce Forsyth.
My mum has been doing it for as long as I can remember (I’m only 13 so not that long ago) she tried to teach me but I still can’t do it
David Frost: About as funny as a dose of the clap!
Saw the clip of M&W with the Beatles, which I loved, so have gone down the rabbit hole here on RUclips. And it's HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! from me in NYC. As a child in the 70s, I grew up watching the great Carol Burnett on Saturday nights, but this is just as funny IMO. Shame that their guest spots on The Ed Sullivan Show back in the 60s weren't better received in America.
I know those who never saw them in their heyday can't understand just how funny these two were in their prime but god they were good.
ARSENAL!
97channel love it
He'll not sell much ice cream going at that speed.
I love the paper bag trick...I learned to do it
Dads and uncles everywhere do the paper bag trick. If they don't already, they should 🙂
I've just watched Eric and ernie,s home videos. At first l was critical..... At least they could afford holidays abroad and not have to fight with hunger over a piece of toast.yet I'm not envious...... Maybe I'm growing old....ok yeah just a little bit!.. more so cause there was love showing in each video. How fucking lucky and lovely those kids are.
"Im sorry! I didn't realize! I though ya had the best one on!" LOL
You just don't get comedy like this anymore...
Ernie: "Will you stop playing with that bag?!?"
Eric: "It's a fella, whaddya talking about?!?"
This sketch explains where Dudley Moore got his laugh...
I learned to do the trick. I still do it today.
You can't find it on DVD I'm afraid, although you can watch the whole thing on youtube. Just type in "Morecambe and Wise live part 1" and that should do the trick.
You can buy it on vhs, I have a copy.
The live clip they use, where he does the bag trick, what dvd is that off? Or whats the name of the clip? I've been looking for that episode FOREVER but could never find it!
go see stage show if you can, Eric and Ernie, bloody fantastic.
Arthur Tolcher, classic man!
I tried this trick with a bag from my local supermarket ...it wouldnt work..I wonder why ?
You missed?
@ThePaudybyrne well, i dont know if its the 'correct' way, but i hold the bag with my writing hand, and put my index and fourth finger inside the bag whilst the middle finger is behind the bag so i can then use my middle finger and thumb to flick the bag whilst holding it in the same hand so it makes the noise..... If that makes any sense :L
The best ever 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Sad that all 3 of them are brown bread, you dont get talent like these 3 anymore RIP
I like the paper bag trick
@CannedCarrott if you have this dvd please put up the clip from this special of them on ATV dancing to "bring on the ritz"
Not now Arthur
Arthur Tolcher was an old friend of Eric and Ernie from their music hall days, when they became famous they put him on their shows. He was a virtuoso harmonica player. He died in 1987.
wow..have you got any more of Eric & Ernie?
I know how to do the paper bag trick :) My dad taught me when i was little.
They were wonderful on TV but they were outstanding LIVE ...... never laughed as much, for the whole show .... especially the "after curtain bit", which of course was perfectly scripted, came across as totally real
wow thats so good!
Not now, Arthur.
Any relation to Arnold Rimmer :-)
i do it to the younger generation in work and it cracks em up lol
what is arthurs second name
I'm only 16 but I've known how to do the bag trick since I was about 10 or 11, me and my friends used to sit in the lunch hall and do it with peoples' crisp packets. By the way what concert is this from and is it up on RUclips anywhere if it int can someone please post it... XD
They are so far ahead of Frost it's amazing.
Aww my dad used to do this for me when i was a wain (kid) , i love eric 7 ernie!
'He's singing folks'
I´m looking for the sketch where Ernie asked Eric for the fiver he owed him, Eric asked for another five or ten pounds, and through a long process of argument managed to reach the "logical" conclusion that Ernie owed him five pounds, so he kept the second one Ernie had given him.. or something on those lines.
KbcBerlin it's similar to their bank robber sketch.
LMAO! My cats laying on the bed next to me watching this! :)
Ha ha how funny is that guy!
will you stop playing with that bag?! what are you talking about thats a fella there...
brilliant
Wow, that's so simple I'm suprised I didn't just see it for what it was.
Had anybody heard of the M and W's Butler of the Year sketch? Have heard funniest thing ever, but never seen in?
brilliant :D
"As designed by Adolf Hitler." XD
He's singing folks...
No just the teaurn. TEAURN!
I'm laughing my head off
not now arthur!
Eric's paper bag trick 2111pm 15.5.23 everyone should learn the paper bag trick. ... as for mr frost - was he stoned?
Could Arthur only play Y Viva Espana?🤣
genius
💜👍💜👍
@DeepSnowBand - Nah! It was just a good long-running gag.
i don't want to know how its done !
As far as i'm concerned its an invisible ball and thats that !!
Proper funny bones.
there are a few different ways to do this trick
@RandyRedCactus These people tend to post these comments to try and break that classic stereotype of young people always listening to Rap Music, Heavy Metal and just being generally Scary. By telling everyone that there are some teenagers who enjoy breaking away from what everyone expects them to be and laughing at what THEY find funny instead of whats popular.
Not now Arthur….
Poor Arthur
ooohh my god,my dad made me watch this when i was a kid and i never got,,watching it now i nearly pissed myself laffing,,,by the way the trick is done by merely holding the paper bag by the thumb and forefinger and clicking your fingers
aaw...poor arthur! :(
wonder if ant and dec can do that
blackpig24601 I used to think dec was Ernies son 😂xxx