I set up this channel to record the ramblings of "Terry", my stoner-buffoon friend. However, his insistence that I make private any video that took off kind of harmed the channel, to the extent that the most well-known video on it has nothing to do with "Terry Time", and is instead this clip of (amusing) archive TV. - Terry's cameraman.
Love the hoots of laughter from this American audience, they'd never seen Rod and Emu before. In the UK he'd been terrorizing tv celebs since the 70s and we loved him xx
There's a great bit at 2:21 just after he gets "bitten" and pulls his hand away in genuine panic where he's laughing at himself when he remembers it's just a puppet! Great host.
What I love about this is that Pryor actually had some idea of what was coming, but played along so beautifully. They had spoken back stage about the act. One comedian respecting another and giving them room to breathe.
That may be one of the greatest 7 minutes of comedy gold I’ve ever seen! The comedy genius Richard Pryor meets the brilliantly bonkers Rod Hull and Emu. Thankyou RUclips
Him and Emu was a very much loved and respected entertainer in the UK, by children and adults. I'm glad he made such a good impression in the USA too. I can't believe he attacked Carson though, but this was normal for his act. Have a look for Michael Parkinson and Rod Hull and Emu.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES honestly I find that hard to believe. Bookers for top US entertainment shows do their homework. Inviting him on but but forbidding him from performing his signature act like would be be like booking , say, Dana Carvey but stipulating no impressions.
This can only happen when people like Carson and Pryor are secure in who they are and let the humor flow and that was so funny. Adding, It's almost like thinking Emu is alive as that is how he was treated.
Before he died Rod sent me an autograph and a small part of Emu. I guess you could call it one of his feathers. Still have it in my collection. Rod sent Feathers to people who asked for them. Very sad day when I got the notice that he had died.
He was actually quite well known in the US in the 70s. Made lots of guest appearances on variety & talk shows. Johnny Carson absolutely would have known what was coming when he was booked onto his show, so I'm a bit baffled by the notion that Carson would have been in any way surprised.
I heard that Emu and Richard had a line of coke in the toilets. But they got disturbed because..there's somebody at the door....there's somebody at the door! And it was Grotbags selling her green minge.
I thought I had seen every single episode of the tonight show but obviously I missed this one. I really did not know who this guy was. I laughed so hard that I had to back up several times to hear what I had missed. Watched it a second time so my husband could see it and we just fell out laughing it was hysterical
@@ItsTerryTime No idea why, but this appeared in my recommended videos this evening. I hadn't thought of Rod and Emu in some time and being Irish, I'm not familiar with Carson's show.
Rod Hull was massive in the UK with this act, my guess is he stayed mostly at home due to his large audience and own television shows - he had a decent period of non-stop work. Maybe he felt it might be a bit more difficult to take this act to the US as perhaps (perhaps, this certainly does not include Pryor or Carson) fewer celebrities were willing to be 'beaten up' by a puppet. In the UK many celebrities lined up for that beating as it was deemed cool. Although one did not and Hull admitted he went harder at him for being a bit up his own backside about it - search for 'Michael Parkinson and Emu' to check it out!
Rod Hull and Emu were hilarious as a child when he appeared on someone's chat show even though he promised not to attack the person beforehand you knew what was going to happen ended up sprawled over the floor with the presenter
Beautiful on so many levels. The comedy coming together. The nuances. The timing. It’s perfect. The trifecta of: Rod/Emu, Carson, Prior. The adoration of the audience. Anarchy on prime time. One of the greatest 7 mins of tv history. No exaggeration
One bit I like to note is that there are a couple of instances where Rod is about to say one of his lines - eg. "You should have cleaned it before you came out" - but stops himself as the audience laughter is so great.
@@ItsTerryTime In those terms Rod Hull does absolutely nothing apart from carry (and obviously operate) Emu! He's just gauging the audience and looking for cues for Emu. He didn't promote anything, he said nothing about his act or himself beyond facile niceties about Emu. It's a model for the perfect execution of slap stick comedy and staying true to character (think of Partridge). He was loved in the UK, but I wonder if he missed his calling from the early days of silent cinema!
Yep as well as a license to touch young girls and put his hand up women’s skirts. I watched him lose the audience completely and ruin his live show doing this once.
When we were kids we couldn't afford emu puppets so used football socks as our emu to attack our parents with. Great to see Rod and Emu again 😅 never fails to create a laugh
I have not been a happy camper for a long time. These old shows really mean a lot to me nowadays. This episode was on the other night and it was an absolute delight from beginning to end. I love how much everybody played along. It was so cool to see Richard in the 1st place, and he was on that night he was funny and gracious. Johnny couldn't have been better with that emo. It's funny because it scares you even when you're home in your living room . you don't know what that damn bird is going to do. Or worse yet you do know it's coming. 😆 I used to love this emo when I was a kid. Everybody on that stage was a kid at that moment. I'm 61 years old now and I was a kid in bed watching it with my dog 2 nights ago. 🥰
Jonnie Carson and the American audience were brilliant rodd and emu are typically bonkers slapstick comedy from Britain it's so childish but the best love the act 😀🙃🏴
What a good sport Johnny Carson always was! I had an actual Emu in my yard years back. Stroking him didn't work! The Sheriff was stunned when I called them. "How do you know it's an Emu and not an Ostrich?" Because each follicle had 2 feathers instead of one, of course. Eventually INS came and got him. It seemed his visa had expired. Rod Hull was no where to be found.
I just heard about Rod Hull and Emu, referenced in Peep Show (if they were still around they'd use them for _Pringles_ commercials), and I am SHOCKED, I am SHOCKED AND OUTRAGED that nobody had told me about them before! 😮😊🖤 That costume/puppet is a great idea well executed :)
I went to see them at the local theater and have never forgot how myself and other children were attacked by that bird. It was a very frightening experience.
Never knew Rod had taken his act to the US !! Who else remembers Emu's Broadcasting Company on kids TV, in the Seventies ? Great fun and funny...though Michael Parkinson might disagree : ))
As an Aussie kid from the 70's I'd not come across Emu in years ....what a hoot! Great laughs ...just what I needed 🇦🇺 ( the American pronunciation of Emu always makes me chuckle though...its Emew...not Emoo!!!!)
OMG...did I crack up or what. Hysterical. What good sports to allow this. I remember this man and his EMU from childhood and decided to look and boy was I happy to see these wonderful clips. I laughed so hard my cat ran out the kitchen, then I had a cough attack...lmao. Thank you Terrytime for posting this truly funny clip.
Modern late night hosts wouldn't be able to handle this. Corden would throw a fit at the idea that anyone tried to upstage him. Kimmell wouldn't know what to do because it doesn't fit into his pattern of awkwardly laughing at random intervals when a guest speaks like it's the funniest thing he ever heard. Fallon would just smile dumbly
I like how Rod reads the body language of the guests and audience, and strikes only when they seem confident around the bird. At the very end, the woman in red grabs hold of Richard, and they all hunch into a Roman tortoise shell formation to protect themselves, while Richard and Johnny both are holding their hands up. On British TV, the host is often the biggest target, but Johnny continued to try to befriend Emu, until at the end they seemed like friends. I've never seen a host come out on top like that.
@@princessmoonwalker Well, yes...since emus don't talk. That being said, Emu was quite obviously supposed to be above the ordinary given the way in which Hull often had him interact with him and even with the audience -- Hull would cock Emu's head toward something as if Emu was saying "get a load of this, huh?"
Poor sod fell off the roof of his own house and died. I was in the pub. There was a TV on the bar and it was the first story on the news. When it was announced, the place went silent and someone shouted out 'Rod Hull is dead? Oh, fuckin' hell!!!' He was a popular bloke, Rod.
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I set up this channel to record the ramblings of "Terry", my stoner-buffoon friend. However, his insistence that I make private any video that took off kind of harmed the channel, to the extent that the most well-known video on it has nothing to do with "Terry Time", and is instead this clip of (amusing) archive TV. - Terry's cameraman.
Love the hoots of laughter from this American audience, they'd never seen Rod and Emu before. In the UK he'd been terrorizing tv celebs since the 70s and we loved him xx
Poor old Michael Parkinson... he hated with every bone in his body that episode with Rod and Emu 🤣
The genius of Rod was getting you to forget that it was a puppet - the asides, looking away, all the little movements that gave Emu his own life!
Carson played it beautifully, what a classy host he was, best ever.
No one quite like Johnny!
There's a great bit at 2:21 just after he gets "bitten" and pulls his hand away in genuine panic where he's laughing at himself when he remembers it's just a puppet! Great host.
RIP Richard, Johnny, Rod & Emu.
Emu is still alive and living in a retirement home in Surrey!
Carson was a true comedy gentleman. He often played second fiddle to allow others to get the laughs and be the star. I sure miss him.
What I love about this is that Pryor actually had some idea of what was coming, but played along so beautifully. They had spoken back stage about the act. One comedian respecting another and giving them room to breathe.
Johnny did the same and probably better. He was acting as if Joan Embery were on with a REAL animal.
Richard talked to Rod after the show and said his bit was one of the funniest things he's ever seen.
That may be one of the greatest 7 minutes of comedy gold I’ve ever seen! The comedy genius Richard Pryor meets the brilliantly bonkers Rod Hull and Emu. Thankyou RUclips
As a child I grew up with Rod Hull & Emu. I loved that bird. Still hilariously funny after all these years. RIP Rod. ✌️
Props to Richard Prior for going all in at the end, the timing was perfect! "How does he go with dumplings!" He knew this was gold!
Richard Pryor told Rod later backstage that his act was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
That's true. Also Rod was told not to attack Johnny or Richard but Rod did it anyway.
Him and Emu was a very much loved and respected entertainer in the UK, by children and adults. I'm glad he made such a good impression in the USA too. I can't believe he attacked Carson though, but this was normal for his act. Have a look for Michael Parkinson and Rod Hull and Emu.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES honestly I find that hard to believe. Bookers for top US entertainment shows do their homework. Inviting him on but but forbidding him from performing his signature act like would be be like booking , say, Dana Carvey but stipulating no impressions.
Rod hull also told Richard that the maximum time for the act was about 5 minutes. After that it becomes not funny.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES of course he was. And brilliantly, of course he did!
Superb comedy act
I loved him as a kid. It’s great to hear the American audience laughing with him.
There's somebody at the door, oh there's somebody at the door........ Miss you Rod
And he gets to savage Richard Pryor no less! What a duo. And Rich is pissing himself with laughter that anyone could be more crazy than him.
"How does it go with dumpings?" That did it.
It's like he wanted some action!
Sat here 40 years old still believing emu is real. Rod was a genius
This can only happen when people like Carson and Pryor are secure in who they are and let the humor flow and that was so funny.
Adding,
It's almost like thinking Emu is alive as that is how he was treated.
I've watched this excerpt from the Tonight Show dozens of times and each time I see Johnny Carson trying to sweet talk Emu, it cracks me up.
Rod and EMU are some of the funniest I have ever seen .Especially the way Johnny played along.He was great .
When I was a kid this was a top notch act. Hillarious.
As an adult , it still is a top notch act ... Great stuff .
Before he died Rod sent me an autograph and a small part of Emu. I guess you could call it one of his feathers. Still have it in my collection. Rod sent Feathers to people who asked for them. Very sad day when I got the notice that he had died.
awww how nice x
Brilliant stuff. Rod Hull was a bloody legend back in the UK. Never expected to see him on American TV as well.
He was actually quite well known in the US in the 70s. Made lots of guest appearances on variety & talk shows. Johnny Carson absolutely would have known what was coming when he was booked onto his show, so I'm a bit baffled by the notion that Carson would have been in any way surprised.
Very sad when he passed away
He attacked Gay Byrne on The Late Late Show I Ireland one time as well years ago
utter shite. Billy Connolly got it right when he said 'if that bird goes for me I'll break it's neck and your arm'
I heard that Emu and Richard had a line of coke in the toilets. But they got disturbed because..there's somebody at the door....there's somebody at the door! And it was Grotbags selling her green minge.
Just gotta love Rod & Emu
I just found this here on RUclips and I was just taking a gulp of my delicous Beer when he grabbed Johnny by his neck and I spit my Beer everywhere
I love the way a puppet gets blamed for the bad behaviour! That’s what made Rod Hull so brilliant - he gave that bird its own character! Genius!
Rod Hull was a comedy genius. Great to see him and Emu again after all these years.
I remember watching rod with that bird when I was a kid and being completely mesmerised. You never really knew what he was gonna do next.
one gag! entire career!!! brilliant
I thought I had seen every single episode of the tonight show but obviously I missed this one. I really did not know who this guy was. I laughed so hard that I had to back up several times to hear what I had missed. Watched it a second time so my husband could see it and we just fell out laughing it was hysterical
Can I ask where you found this? I've always had views on it, but I seem to be getting a lot more these past few weeks. Was it linked somewhere?
@@ItsTerryTime It would've been Rod's birthday today so a lot of people sharing his videos on Twitter
@@ItsTerryTime No idea why, but this appeared in my recommended videos this evening. I hadn't thought of Rod and Emu in some time and being Irish, I'm not familiar with Carson's show.
Rod Hull was massive in the UK with this act, my guess is he stayed mostly at home due to his large audience and own television shows - he had a decent period of non-stop work.
Maybe he felt it might be a bit more difficult to take this act to the US as perhaps (perhaps, this certainly does not include Pryor or Carson) fewer celebrities were willing to be 'beaten up' by a puppet.
In the UK many celebrities lined up for that beating as it was deemed cool.
Although one did not and Hull admitted he went harder at him for being a bit up his own backside about it - search for 'Michael Parkinson and Emu' to check it out!
This is absolutely hilarious. Every time I watch it my spirits soar !!
@@SH-zz2ef Keep snotty remarks off my channel.
@@SH-zz2ef quiet, dummy.
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I've never seen this before & just laughed my butt off!
Hilarious I bet Carson never saw that coming. Calling him Emoo, what d'you expect 😂
Richard Pryor too, what a ledge!
The look on Pryor's face when he says, "He doesn't like coffee..."
No one overshadows Emu!
Emu made everyone on stage and the audience laugh really hard a,
Didn't Billy connelly say if that bird attacks me I will break its arm
Both heroes in the UK, I didn't realise the Emu had flown across the Atlantic, what a great performance 👏👏
Emu didn't fly across the Atlantic, y'know being a flightless bird and all😂
Absolutely hilarious rod hull and emu were one of my favourite shows growing up 😂😂👌👌👌👌
Rod Hull and Emu were hilarious as a child when he appeared on someone's chat show even though he promised not to attack the person beforehand you knew what was going to happen ended up sprawled over the floor with the presenter
It was great when emu attacked jimmy savile though.
Every time he curled his beak you knew what was coming, I loved Emu and it was so clever that Rod Hull made you believe he couldn't control him!
Beautiful on so many levels. The comedy coming together. The nuances. The timing. It’s perfect. The trifecta of: Rod/Emu, Carson, Prior. The adoration of the audience. Anarchy on prime time. One of the greatest 7 mins of tv history. No exaggeration
One bit I like to note is that there are a couple of instances where Rod is about to say one of his lines - eg. "You should have cleaned it before you came out" - but stops himself as the audience laughter is so great.
@@ItsTerryTime In those terms Rod Hull does absolutely nothing apart from carry (and obviously operate) Emu! He's just gauging the audience and looking for cues for Emu. He didn't promote anything, he said nothing about his act or himself beyond facile niceties about Emu. It's a model for the perfect execution of slap stick comedy and staying true to character (think of Partridge). He was loved in the UK, but I wonder if he missed his calling from the early days of silent cinema!
Rod was on kids TV here in Australia in the 60s. That's where he first got Emu. Also was on Kaper Kops.
Legendary appearance
He created his own licence to beat up anyone he wanted to on TV. Genius.
Yep as well as a license to touch young girls and put his hand up women’s skirts. I watched him lose the audience completely and ruin his live show doing this once.
Emu, Rod, Johnny and Richard, all fantastic here
There will never be a time when this is not hysterical
Richard looks TRULY terrified up until the dumplings line.. =)
Rod Hull was a legend. Really nice to see this video, made me laugh!
Rod hull is up there with Chaplin as a comedy genius. GOD rest him and EMU.
Don't talk rubbish.
@@scoop2963 It's not 'rubbish' my friend it's an opinion. Go watch Chaplin, I'll stick with the genius Rod hull.
Def is
I agree with scoop29. How dare you compare Hull to Chaplin. Chaplin was crap!
Not forgetting Chaplin was a complete prick and a nonce.
When we were kids we couldn't afford emu puppets so used football socks as our emu to attack our parents with. Great to see Rod and Emu again 😅 never fails to create a laugh
Absolute legend Rod Hull.
I have not been a happy camper for a long time. These old shows really mean a lot to me nowadays. This episode was on the other night and it was an absolute delight from beginning to end. I love how much everybody played along. It was so cool to see Richard in the 1st place, and he was on that night he was funny and gracious. Johnny couldn't have been better with that emo. It's funny because it scares you even when you're home in your living room . you don't know what that damn bird is going to do. Or worse yet you do know it's coming. 😆 I used to love this emo when I was a kid. Everybody on that stage was a kid at that moment. I'm 61 years old now and I was a kid in bed watching it with my dog 2 nights ago. 🥰
it shouldnt make you laugh ..... but it does thats comedy gold ....right there....
Grew up watching rod and emu no swearimg no smut just pure slapstick. Rip Rod.
Pure entertainment!!! No politics, just absolute hilarity!! The audience is proof of that. Thank you for this amazing upload!!
I think i laugh louder now than when i did when i was young
Rod Hull and Emu made my childhood. Love loved them in the UK and is very much missed.
Jonnie Carson and the American audience were brilliant rodd and emu are typically bonkers slapstick comedy from Britain it's so childish but the best love the act 😀🙃🏴
All stand for the glorious ruler of the emu empire!!! May he reign for ever more!!!!
What a good sport Johnny Carson always was! I had an actual Emu in my yard years back. Stroking him didn't work! The Sheriff was stunned when I called them. "How do you know it's an Emu and not an Ostrich?" Because each follicle had 2 feathers instead of one, of course. Eventually INS came and got him. It seemed his visa had expired. Rod Hull was no where to be found.
Physical comedy. All British culture is founded in it.
Today and Emu were fixtures on UK TV for years.
I used to love when Rod showed up.
I just heard about Rod Hull and Emu, referenced in Peep Show (if they were still around they'd use them for _Pringles_ commercials), and I am SHOCKED, I am SHOCKED AND OUTRAGED that nobody had told me about them before! 😮😊🖤
That costume/puppet is a great idea well executed :)
Rod was the absolute master of his craft.
Rod Hull and Emu were just brilliant…
I first saw Rod on a kids show with the Hudson Brothers in the early 70s. What wild schtick he did!
Just brilliant, loved how they all warmed to him
I long for the days of comedy like this - no PC, just good clean fun
I had forgotten how brilliant emu was
I went to see them at the local theater and have never forgot how myself and other children were attacked by that bird. It was a very frightening experience.
Never knew Rod had taken his act to the US !! Who else remembers Emu's Broadcasting Company on kids TV, in the Seventies ? Great fun and funny...though Michael Parkinson might disagree : ))
Emoo 😂
As an Aussie kid from the 70's I'd not come across Emu in years ....what a hoot! Great laughs ...just what I needed 🇦🇺 ( the American pronunciation of Emu always makes me chuckle though...its Emew...not Emoo!!!!)
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Isn't Emoo what cows use as social media? 🤔
OMG...did I crack up or what. Hysterical. What good sports to allow this. I remember this man and his EMU from childhood and decided to look and boy was I happy to see these wonderful clips. I laughed so hard my cat ran out the kitchen, then I had a cough attack...lmao. Thank you Terrytime for posting this truly funny clip.
Modern late night hosts wouldn't be able to handle this. Corden would throw a fit at the idea that anyone tried to upstage him. Kimmell wouldn't know what to do because it doesn't fit into his pattern of awkwardly laughing at random intervals when a guest speaks like it's the funniest thing he ever heard. Fallon would just smile dumbly
Unfortunately these times / talents are gone forever.
Its so sad!. loved that feathery thing in my younger years!.
Loved emu as a kid I had one
yes i know - a little bird told me
They were the days ..great stuff ..
I like how Rod reads the body language of the guests and audience, and strikes only when they seem confident around the bird. At the very end, the woman in red grabs hold of Richard, and they all hunch into a Roman tortoise shell formation to protect themselves, while Richard and Johnny both are holding their hands up. On British TV, the host is often the biggest target, but Johnny continued to try to befriend Emu, until at the end they seemed like friends. I've never seen a host come out on top like that.
It is not a bird, it is Rod's hand in there and he is attacking people with it, and the arm you see around the puppet is a fake one.
@@PreservationEnthusiast - I still think it is very funny.
The woman in Red is Ally Sheedy. This is from June 9, 1983 (I looked it up on IMDB) right when War Games came out.
@@PreservationEnthusiast No shit Sherlock
@Paul Mcdonnell Rod Hull was subject to several complaints of sexual assault when "emu" went up ladies skirts and groped them.
Never saw this slapstick side of Johnny. Love it.
The amazing thing.about Emu was that he never said a word -- he never needed to.
It makes the puppet more lifelike
@@princessmoonwalker Well, yes...since emus don't talk. That being said, Emu was quite obviously supposed to be above the ordinary given the way in which Hull often had him interact with him and even with the audience -- Hull would cock Emu's head toward something as if Emu was saying "get a load of this, huh?"
Emu was one of the great silent comedians!
He just curled his beak and I started laughing ..
Back when night time TV was fun to watch before going to bed (or work in my case)
😊hilarious! I miss late night Johnny Carson.
Absolute master. This is surreal that Rod and Richard are on the same show
This is a classic piece of TV
I had an emu puppet as a kid and used to attack my dad with it 😂
Absolute comedy gold rod and emu
Rip rod
Thanks for these videos. Some of the best entertainment.
My goodness there's 3 names I never thought I'd see in the same sentence!!
best line "How does he go with dumplings"
Must admit I wasn't a fan of Emu when younger but that line and the reaction completely cracked me up
So preposterous and so funny. Never gets old. Very appealing to kids and anyone else who loves to see the rules being broken.
Rod Hull, sadly missed. Nice to see EMU deliver some pain to all and sundry.
Yes yes yes! I'm so happy this happened ☺️
Rod was brilliant loved all over the world 🌎
This is awesome. Plus add Richard Pryor. Like I said these talents are gone forever.
He was on every show Saw him 3 times live on stage with Larry Grayson
Poor sod fell off the roof of his own house and died. I was in the pub. There was a TV on the bar and it was the first story on the news.
When it was announced, the place went silent and someone shouted out 'Rod Hull is dead? Oh, fuckin' hell!!!'
He was a popular bloke, Rod.
The producers from NBC told Rod not to attack Carson. He completely ignored it.
Strictly speaking, they told him to "take it easy": www.newsfromme.com/pov/col236/
Where's the fun in that? That was his whole shtick!
@@ItsTerryTime that was awesome thank you
@@user-ms3jz7ub7n I know they told him not to attack Richard because he was recovering from facial surgery. But he did it anyway.
@@princessmoonwalker Oh seriously? I didn't know that. He was a lot wilder with Richard Pryor than he was with Johnny Carson.
Very funny bit...takes me back to when late night TV was good....
What a legend Rod was.
Johny Carson is the ultimate host, probably one of the best ever, ,
Simple but so funny. Happy and funny memories as a kid...thank you Rod and Emu of course
one of the funniest acts ever
What an Act😂😂😂