I lived very close to the timber merchants location in Churchfield Road, Walton on Thames (it's still there) and during a break in filming I asked Arthur Lowe to autograph a Dad's Army annual for me, which he was happy to do. It's great to see all these comedy legends again, thanks for posting it.
I had the Great honour of being granted a 10 minute interview with Eric about 15 years ago. He was an absolute gentleman and talked for 50 minutes until his manager, Norma Farnes, had to practically drag him away for a public appearance. What a legend, and the world is a poorer place for his passing. RIP Eric, and all the other great stars in The Plank (both versions).
I can relate to that, my dad laughed so much I thought he would have a stroke. This was filmed around my part of the country. There are references to Weybridge, Kingston. There's another version which features Tommy Cooper in place of Arthur Lowe. Some actors in this version appear as different characters in the other one.
This is so funny, I remember my parents talking about it, many years ago. It is so good to see all those great comedy actors again. They made me laugh during so many years. This gives me warm feelings again and a big smile on my face. Thanks for posting.
Brilliant, can't be bettered!! Better than I remember having watched it the first time around!Wish comedy today made me laugh like this. Bless you Eric and all the 1970's celebs who appeared in it!
Stumbled upon this by chance today, absolute gold!! Have heard about it in my younger days but being born in the late 70s in India, had never had a chance to watch until today! Will surely be watching it a few times! Love it.
i was born 2 years after this was made, my grandad had it on vhs and i would watch it all the time, such a classic, rewatching this now brought back so many memories
Classic British comedy at its best. I have seen it so many times but still laugh all the way through. So good to be watching this at this time with so much bad happening in the world. Thank you for sharing. This is the better remake of the plank.
I've not seen this slap stick comedy for years, so it is nice to come across it again for some giggles. What a magnificent cast of class actors/esses to appear in this film, and all done without the need for them to speak. Great stuff!
I completely agree with David . This little film is hilarious and the way the participants act is very well observed . English Tati . Thank you for having shared this marvellous moment of British humour .A real treat.
This movie used to be played around christmas every year in Sweden for decades but ow I have´nt seen it for a long time. Thanks for letting me see it again here!
This aired EVERY New year's eve on Swedish television when I was a kid. This and Dinner for one (in Swedish it is called The Countess and the Servant) was apparently the most funny movies Swedish TV-directors could think of.
Both versions originated in an episode of Sykes and the.... In the 1967 version, his co-star in the series (and the later Sykes) Hattie Jacques has a cameo.
Awesome cast... Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, George Roper, Charlie Drake, Diana Dors, Jimmy Edwards and so many other stalwarts of British film and TV... :0)x
Sally Ann Loveday George Roper was the character name of Brian Murphy. He starred with the late great Yootha Joyce as George and Mildred Roper in "George and Mildred "
@@gailcrook2687 Poor sods? Swedes are some of the nicest people and happiest in the world. Not to mention that Sweden last year was number 1 on the personal freedom index and will most likely be number 1 this year. They are top on innovation and pretty much every world ranking there is. I would not call them poor sods when they live a better life than any other country together with the other Scandinavian countries.
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I can't help myself from laughing so hard at this movie it's a comedy masterpiece.
No worries, Yup, I was in the same boat, spent literally years trying to track this down. Nightmare to search for on Google, as you just get the original Movie in searches.
And of course Henry Cooper, great British Champion boxer, in the pub who blames Reg Varney the innocent window cleaner, for drinking his pint of beer. 😂😂 The seamless and timeless brilliance of the whole thing. It's choreographed like a top musical show in that everything fits beautifully. Jimmy Edwards as the copper sat on the plank on his bike and at the end when they didn't even know they'd lost the plank a second time. I'm stating the obvious I suppose. Superb, all of it. 😂😂
Reading some of the comments I have to say the live viewers laughter works for me! It sounds spot on! And I think this one is way funnier than the 1967 original, and thanks Guru Larry if this is your work, Great!!!
Pure gold. 👍 Thank you for posting this. They used to air this every new years eve here in Sweden back when I was a kid. Laughed my arse off every time... Haven't sen it in 30+ years, but its still just as funny 😆.
Excellent !😂😂😂 I cried laughing from one end to the other! Great Art! Thanks a lot for this hilarious movie ! From deep south of France 🥖🍷🧀, 🖐😀🦊…pop…🍄⁉️
This is a classic one, I saw this on Austrian TV back in the days. I looked for it now on RUclips and it is even you Larry having that film on your channel. ;-)
I was wondering in 2024 does anybody still remember laughter? Because I hardly see it these days and I watch a lot of funny films and shows like the above hilarious Plank! It brings back memories of who we used to be until wokeness came along and put an end to that.. ❤
@guru larry gaming: Thanks for the upload! I remember seeing this as a kid and I have been looking for it ever since. I still find it as funny as I did then.
So many names of extremely talented people, actors, presenters...James Hunt!! Henry Cooper...and the lit goes on and on....what humour. What we all need today with what is going on in this mad, mad world led by a mad man.
Lovely to see this on RUclips....I wondered how rare it was, it used to be regularly broadcast in the 80s and I have a copy on super 8 film but I've not seen it on more modern formats.
I think the implication was that it was genius to cast a former world champion racing driver (i.e. "great" driver regardless of how much of a tosser he was) as a one-eyed truck driver who wouldn't notice driving into (and around with) a plank.
@@sockington1 Oh ! and what great things have you achieved in your life Mr S apart from from having a number 1 after your title ! Take some some advice never judge people you don't really know !
All the times i have clicked past this video and finally watched it How Funny is That Haha what would you have to pay nowadays to have all them wonderful actors in one short film like that i dred to think well glad i watched it in the end :-)
Four years before this was made I used to ride in a Morris 1000 (the first car with the problem doors)on the first leg of my journey to school I only did it for a few weeks. As the driver turned left, I was sat in the back on the right hand side by the door, the door opened and I only just managed to stay in the car the car was so old it didn't have seatbelts. The second time it happened, I stopped taking the ride and went on the bus. It was half an hour earlier but a lot safer.
This was the version that was shown once a year in Swedish TV when I was a kid in the 1980s. It is way funnier than the older version with spoken lines and Tommy Cooper.
A had a Video VHS copy with the cover signed by Eric Sykes that was In a bundle I bought at a car boot sale.. I've always kept It and It's somewhere In my mothers house now.. A very funny bloke and a great cast of characters..
I lived very close to the timber merchants location in Churchfield Road, Walton on Thames (it's still there) and during a break in filming I asked Arthur Lowe to autograph a Dad's Army annual for me, which he was happy to do. It's great to see all these comedy legends again, thanks for posting it.
and that is some timber yard ! never seen so much in one area.
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I agree with you 💯 😂
I had the Great honour of being granted a 10 minute interview with Eric about 15 years ago. He was an absolute gentleman and talked for 50 minutes until his manager, Norma Farnes, had to practically drag him away for a public appearance. What a legend, and the world is a poorer place for his passing. RIP Eric, and all the other great stars in The Plank (both versions).
Must have been difficult to talk to a profoundly deaf and later blind person?
British comedy at its best!
I recall watching this in the 70’s and it is still my favourite.
I can remember my Father laughing out loud to this wonderful comedy! Eric Sykes and Arthur Lowe , so brilliantly funny ! 💚🔨
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That’s a great memory to have.
I can relate to that, my dad laughed so much I thought he would have a stroke. This was filmed around my part of the country. There are references to Weybridge, Kingston. There's another version which features Tommy Cooper in place of Arthur Lowe. Some actors in this version appear as different characters in the other one.
my mother would roar with laughter, it used to be on xmas day in NZ when i was a kid -every year
This is so funny, I remember my parents talking about it, many years ago. It is so good to see all those great comedy actors again. They made me laugh during so many years. This gives me warm feelings again and a big smile on my face. Thanks for posting.
Perfect comedy. Such an incredibly simple premise and no dialogue yet half an hour of great fun. And a soundtrack that fits the mood spot on.
Brilliant, can't be bettered!! Better than I remember having watched it the first time around!Wish comedy today made me laugh like this. Bless you Eric and all the 1970's celebs who appeared in it!
Brilliant simply brilliant ....when comedy really was comedy - just watched 2 minutes of it and are roaring! Thank you for posting!
Stumbled upon this by chance today, absolute gold!! Have heard about it in my younger days but being born in the late 70s in India, had never had a chance to watch until today! Will surely be watching it a few times! Love it.
Fantastic to see all the old greats, just what we need in these awful times,
Amazing to see so many talented comedians together.
James Hunt and Henry Cooper there too. 👍
i was born 2 years after this was made, my grandad had it on vhs and i would watch it all the time, such a classic, rewatching this now brought back so many memories
This is on NOW talking pictures, sky Channel 328
R. I. P., Christopher Plummer
😔💕🇯🇲🏴🕊️✝️
The car troubles just get better
So old and still marvelous. Better than what they produce nowadays.
Classic British comedy at its best. I have seen it so many times but still laugh all the way through. So good to be watching this at this time with so much bad happening in the world. Thank you for sharing. This is the better remake of the plank.
I've not seen this slap stick comedy for years, so it is nice to come across it again for some giggles.
What a magnificent cast of class actors/esses to appear in this film, and all done without the need for them to speak.
Great stuff!
Yeah, took me years to track down a copy. It's come out on DVD since, but it goes for silly money now.
Close. Two words were spoken. "It's paint!"
I have been looking for this for years. I first saw it when I was a small child. Amazing!
Legendär! Ich habe den Film als Kind geliebt. Mein Vater hatte ihn immer wieder auf VHS gezeigt. Humor braucht keine Worte! Ein Meisterwerk
I completely agree with David . This little film is hilarious and the way the participants act is very well observed . English Tati .
Thank you for having shared this marvellous moment of British humour .A real treat.
Excellent, fab work.
British comedy at it's finest. Even today it will still rival modern interpretations. Very well done. Kind regards.
World comedy at it finest i would say
@@Mrbimmer11 Hear, hear. Bring on Terry Thomas, Peter Sellers, Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane. Kind regards.
Nothing like old british comedy.
This movie used to be played around christmas every year in Sweden for decades but ow I have´nt seen it for a long time. Thanks for letting me see it again here!
ah the Swedish Wizard of Oz then
This aired EVERY New year's eve on Swedish television when I was a kid. This and Dinner for one (in Swedish it is called The Countess and the Servant) was apparently the most funny movies Swedish TV-directors could think of.
Dinner for one was also a popular showing on German TV on news years eve. I think ZDF have it on every year.
Dinner for one is still screened every new year's eve on SBS Australia
This alway makes me laugh!🤣👍
Thanks for upload, greetings from Sweden! ❤️🇸🇪
They used to air this on New Years here in Sweden!
Just brilliant humor. Nice to see all the famous british celebrities from the 70ties. Sykes,Lowe,Cribbins,Lumley,Hunt....!
Love all the old cars. So well done words not needed, brilliant
Some great old stars in this ! Lovely to see the great Kenny Lynch in it.
Loved Kenny Lynch singing James Taylor's song, On the Roof. A great song. Not in this film of course. I think it was Kenny's signature song.
This is the best version of this movie. Love it xx
As a little kid I watched this at my grandparents home here in The Netherlands. Again enjoyable to watch 👍
Zelfde herinnering. Mijn opa vond dit prachtig net zoals Tommy Cooper. En het is ook gewoon leuk.
Eric Sykes and Arthur Lowe are perfect for this , I guess that's why I adore this one ..
Eric Sykes had such a great sense of timing and yet he was just about deaf, amazing. Cheers
The Plank has got to be one of my favorite Eric Sykes shorts of all time.
Both versions originated in an episode of Sykes and the.... In the 1967 version, his co-star in the series (and the later Sykes) Hattie Jacques has a cameo.
Absolutely adored this!! Thank you xxxx
Always on TV on New Year´s Eve in Sweden in the 80!s
Awesome cast... Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, George Roper, Charlie Drake, Diana Dors, Jimmy Edwards and so many other stalwarts of British film and TV... :0)x
Sally Ann Loveday George Roper was the character name of Brian Murphy. He starred with the late great Yootha Joyce as George and Mildred Roper in "George and Mildred "
Great Britain at its greatest. Fond memories. Made my day watching this. Thank you 😊
This version was shown every new years eve on swedish television for many years.
This and Dinner for one.
Same procedure as last year.
maybe thats why swedish folks like Barnes as much as they seem to.
Poor sods
@@gailcrook2687 Poor sods? Swedes are some of the nicest people and happiest in the world. Not to mention that Sweden last year was number 1 on the personal freedom index and will most likely be number 1 this year. They are top on innovation and pretty much every world ranking there is. I would not call them poor sods when they live a better life than any other country together with the other Scandinavian countries.
I can't help myself from laughing so hard at this movie it's a comedy masterpiece.
Larry. You will never know how much I appreciate this. It has got to be the best comedy routine ever. The best of the best comedians. I am in heaven.
No worries, Yup, I was in the same boat, spent literally years trying to track this down. Nightmare to search for on Google, as you just get the original Movie in searches.
And of course Henry Cooper, great British Champion boxer, in the pub who blames Reg Varney the innocent window cleaner, for drinking his pint of beer. 😂😂 The seamless and timeless brilliance of the whole thing. It's choreographed like a top musical show in that everything fits beautifully. Jimmy Edwards as the copper sat on the plank on his bike and at the end when they didn't even know they'd lost the plank a second time. I'm stating the obvious I suppose. Superb, all of it. 😂😂
Gone are days when a comedian could give people a belly laugh with out using bad language. Only true professionals could do that.
I was a kid living in southern Europe during the cold war when I watched this movie. What a great movie.
This is one of the funniest comedies I've ever watched over and over again!
Reading some of the comments I have to say the live viewers laughter works for me! It sounds spot on! And I think this one is way funnier than the 1967 original, and thanks Guru Larry if this is your work, Great!!!
+John Wharton Yup, it's mine :D
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British comedy at it's best. Love this!.... simple, funny and to a degree timeless!...
Hard to believe it was done with just the one cameraman. Great script and acting.
Classic!😅😅!,all our Stars!.great job fellas,hysterical!😅😅😅😅❤❤
Pure gold. 👍 Thank you for posting this.
They used to air this every new years eve here in Sweden back when I was a kid. Laughed my arse off every time... Haven't sen it in 30+ years, but its still just as funny 😆.
Hej fellow Swede!🇸🇪
These comedies are the best compared to some of the comedies that you get today😂
Espectacular ...
El mas fino humor inglés ...
Ya no hay series como estas.
in days of man-made misery, we need a good laugh............. and I laughed years ago at this, and I still do today.
many thanks
just needed to watch this now, thanks Bud!
Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for posting this.
Thank you ever so much for this. Another thing I didn't know Harry H Corbett starred in
Wow that is what i call real amusement.I watched it in the 70´s also but thank you for posting this
Thank you SO much! It reminds me of a sort of Laurel and Hardy, British Style. No words needed! MH
The sot of comedy we seem unable or unwilling to make today. That's why it's timeless.
Excellent !😂😂😂
I cried laughing from one end to the other!
Great Art!
Thanks a lot for this hilarious movie !
From deep south of France 🥖🍷🧀,
🖐😀🦊…pop…🍄⁉️
I still love this short movie, supremely acted, very very clever 🤣🤣🤣
This is a classic one, I saw this on Austrian TV back in the days. I looked for it now on RUclips and it is even you Larry having that film on your channel. ;-)
Lol, what are the chances? :D
Yeah I've been lookign for this movie myself for years, so when I found it I put it online ASAP.
Amazing I thought I would never see it again
I was wondering in 2024 does anybody still remember laughter? Because I hardly see it these days and I watch a lot of funny films and shows like the above hilarious Plank! It brings back memories of who we used to be until wokeness came along and put an end to that.. ❤
For me it's not just a comedy, it's a portal into the 1970s and what life was like in different areas.
Rofl. 😂😂😂😂😍😍So gorgeous. It seams to be the English version of Jacques Tatis Monsieur Hulot.
A pure true classic , The Plank , many thanks for the
upload Guru Larry Gaming , regards from sweden.
Such a great remake of a classic with a few little differences and love the fact that Eric Sykes portrayed the role of Tommy Cooper too.
@guru larry gaming: Thanks for the upload! I remember seeing this as a kid and I have been looking for it ever since. I still find it as funny as I did then.
One of the best british comedy movies ever !!!!! Thanks...
Sheer brilliance 👍🇬🇧😂 Loved it for years.
Brilliant, best of British comedy. Great actors, 👍 watch this time and time again... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇦🇺
Absolutely fantastic. Eric Sykes how brilliant he was.
So many names of extremely talented people, actors, presenters...James Hunt!! Henry Cooper...and the lit goes on and on....what humour. What we all need today with what is going on in this mad, mad world led by a mad man.
Fantastic ! So very clever, enjoyed a great belly laugh
Omg, thang you for sharing! My dad recorded it when i was a child and i used to watch it very often
Me too!
Lovely to see this on RUclips....I wondered how rare it was, it used to be regularly broadcast in the 80s and I have a copy on super 8 film but I've not seen it on more modern formats.
He touches my heart every time I Watch this documentary !
The late great James Hunt as the truck driver... pure genius!
I think the implication was that it was genius to cast a former world champion racing driver (i.e. "great" driver regardless of how much of a tosser he was) as a one-eyed truck driver who wouldn't notice driving into (and around with) a plank.
@@nn-ro1lv World Champion 1976. GET IT RIGHT.
@@sockington1 tosser? You mean mad lad. The only "Tosser" in F1 was Ricardo "Tosser" Rosset.
@@sockington1 in YOUR opinion. It was a different time
@@sockington1 Oh ! and what great things have you achieved in your life Mr S apart from from having a number 1 after your title ! Take some some advice never judge people you don't really know !
You know you're getting old when you can remember & name every one of the comedians that performed in "The Plank" lol
so so true but it was british humour at its best
Sorry are these my feet ? I heard that Pardon. ?
@Katarina Hernandez Ha! No, a touch of the Sylvester Stallone about him though! He's not
Sylvester.
I know James Hunt made a cameo. And Joanna Lumley
@Katarina Hernandez It's Lionel Blair and the other gentleman is Bernard Cribbins...both alive today too Katarina.
Great to see this again. I still had to laugh at it even though I have seen it so many times over the years.
Wow , I haven't seen this since the mid-80s, what a blast from the past.
Great fun to see so many famous faces all in this this skit!
Wonderful, saw it as a kid. Also nice to see Joanna Lumley and Bernard Cribbins. :)
I'd forgotten what a stellar cast this film had - a who's who of TV & film comedians and actors.
I felt in love with the British Humor since I saw it, in Romania, on TV at the end of the '60s
Still hilarious too this day, I remember this being on ITV one Christmas in the 80s
Thanx for sharing. This is an epic comedy😂👍🏻
Im happy this still holds up today,
watched it with my daughter, and she thought it was brilliant too
So many fantastic actors that have
Passed
Thank goodness they are remembered for eternity on film
What a fantastic list of names - thank you
All the times i have clicked past this video and finally watched it How Funny is That Haha what would you have to pay nowadays to have all them wonderful actors in one short film like that i dred to think well glad i watched it in the end :-)
A timeless classic! 👏👏👏
Absolute classic i have thank my granddad for showing me this proper comedy not like the crap we get today I am not an oldie I am under 30
love this ... pure brilliance
Haven't laughed so much in ages. What a cast ❤ it.
Fantastic comedy of great old days!
This by far the best version.
You’ll never see a line up of the best in British comedy ever....🇬🇧👍
@Deane Minister Health and safety would close it down wouldn't they?
Am I correct in thinking that the old gentleman trying to cross the road @ 20:07 was the great character actor Wilfrid Hyde - White ?
Yes Magnus.
@@streetcat1510 Thank you , I wasn`t sure.Best wishes.
Four years before this was made I used to ride in a Morris 1000 (the first car with the problem doors)on the first leg of my journey to school I only did it for a few weeks. As the driver turned left, I was sat in the back on the right hand side by the door, the door opened and I only just managed to stay in the car the car was so old it didn't have seatbelts. The second time it happened, I stopped taking the ride and went on the bus. It was half an hour earlier but a lot safer.
This was the version that was shown once a year in Swedish TV when I was a kid in the 1980s. It is way funnier than the older version with spoken lines and Tommy Cooper.
fyfan vad lustigt att jag kom att tänka på den här nu..
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Hej fellow Swede!
A had a Video VHS copy with the cover signed by Eric Sykes that was In a bundle I bought at a car boot sale.. I've always kept It and It's somewhere In my mothers house now.. A very funny bloke and a great cast of characters..
You should look for it, could be worth quite a bit.