Yes, this really was the type of conversation from a million London working class terrace houses where the young ones continued to live with their parents and in laws in the 1960s and 70s. Alf is a very real character to me.. I met him in one form or other everyday of my childhood.
Brilliant, loved Till Death Us Do Part.....sadly all four are not with us anymore but leave us with this classic sitcom to watch, thankyou to you all !!
When I watched this as a child I was always sorry for Else and what she had to put up with. Watching it now I see she was the one getting the better of Alf.
@wanderer1955 Dandy Nicolls managed one series of in sickness and in health before she died. You could tell her health was deteriorating though she was so frail bless her.
Bloody brilliant. I was laughing all the way through. What the hell has happened to our world where this type of comedy is frowned upon and banned. Don't even attempt to tell me the world is a better place without it.
Its all gone to PC shit....just like this country.....be careful tho....we arn't allowed freedom of speech anymore ....what would alf think of it now.....god bless him......love this Show...👏
I had the pleasure of working with this amazing man Whenever anyone said anything about him taking the mickey out of the other races, his response was "It isn't them I'm taking the mickey out of" Loved the man, very gentle, caring and incredibly funny Warren Mitchell
Have you seen The Vikings. Dandy Nichols starring along side Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, and James Donald. Crazy to think she had starred with screen legends like those, and then later become the character of Alf Garnets wife in a TV series. She is very funny though. 😁
@@rmstitanic8163 I'm sure if you check out Warren Mitchell's career you'll find he had cameos with leading stars of the day, he appeared in a science fiction film with the American actor Forrest Tucker the Trollenberg Terror, which is just one of many appearances he made in films, also check out Diana Dors from sex symbol in the 40s and 50s to matriarch mother symbol in Queenie's Castle etc, you'll be amazed with who they started out with to how they ended up, even Harry H Corbett of Steptoe and Son fame appeared in films with big names one of them titled Floods of Fear with Howerd Keel,
How marvellous to see this, how we all laughed in the 70s, we are all fair game in comedy as long as it is not in bad taste, I don't think anyone was insulted here, it was the humour of the period, we could all be young, old ,mother-in-laws, tyrannical father in laws, white, black, other ethnic origins ,working class (I am ) and here, The Queen Mum, with a very good sense of humour invited to laugh with ground breaking comedy and from leading writers of the day. Times have changed.
EXACTLY ... Alf was always given the run round / out witted by hiswife / daughter / and new wife ... This is one of the best thought out, funniest, series to ever be broadcast ........ As English as roast beef or Darts and Snooker,,,, Warren Mitchel is an acting genius
@@Smithjones12All in the Family is often regarded in the United States as one of the greatest television series in history. (Wikipedia) Why was it dreadful?
Always love Alf Garnett his always going to make you laugh and smile love this takin the ____love his wife too yep like your old grandad but are grandads still like this crazy but so people say oh them days them days never forgotten
I saw warren Mitchell at a cabaret in Australia in about 1974. He came on as Alf garnet in the first half and then as himself after the break. Very funny guy.
Alf Garnett mentions Philip in the navy. He was my fathers immediate officer on HMS Kent until it came under attack in march 1942 at Malta when 128 men were killed, including the captain, by a bombs dropped by JU 88's whilst unloading a merchant ship. My father was crippled for life.
This is real comedy where they talk like real people do. so called comedies today like my family and others I cant even name dont compare to this. I love this show and In Sickness and in health later on
"Those were the days my friend. I thought they'd never end!" Sorry Mary Hopkins but the establishment murdered that line! Dandy Nichols was a British Institution as Alf's silly old moo! The perfect foil!
I got to see Warren Mitchell doing Alf Garnett in the '90s. He was as great as ever. I don't think even this older material is offensive, he's laughing at the people who think like Alf.
@@markharrison2544 It isn't shown now because it isn't 'politically correct' but I would argue that rather than encourage racism, it obviously mocked people who think like 'Alf'. We are laughing at him and his ridiculous rants and opinions. He's an idiot and anyone who is racist because of watching him is a moron.
@@rexterrocks Most people who watched the series did so because they loved the racism and fully agreed with Alf's views. Black children were abused at school by their peers who quoted the evil filth in this sick series.
@@markharrison2544 You are right that kids in particular, along with some idiot adults do copy things they hear but that shows how stupid they are. If you watch 'Til Death do us part', Alf is always an idiot. He's inept and is obviously stupid. I think anyone who thinks anything Alf says is credible and copies it must be an idiot. He's a joke and the programme is meant to show that his opinions are ridiculous. In the last series, he got a home help who turned out to be black and gay.I thought it was hilarious. I would never call this programme sick. Its obviously anti-racist.
They were the good old old days, bit of good old BRITISH HUMOUR , I remember Mary Whitehouse banning Chuck Berry 's song my Dingaling . These days kids of 5 years old swear more than Alf Garnett ever did , now you can't even smack a child , I was smacked by my parents and caned at school , it didn't do me any harm . It made me what I am today respect for the elderly and the disabled people .
You Brits still do the best comedy in the world, I'm lucky being an Aussie , I get the lot of it, just no one comparable to the Poms when a laugh is needed. Love it.
I wonder if Caroline Aherne watched this and said to herself, "I have an idea, I'll make a show about a family, and their surname is Royle , and I'll call it "The Royle Family".
0:45 - Watch Warren's eyes after he said this line here, with the reaction from the audience. He was thinking how the Queen Mother would react to that line, as she was present at this performance.
Tony Booth became Tony Blair’s father-in-law 8 years after this. Cherie would’ve been 18 in 1972, but Booth had left the family 10 years before. She first met Blair 4 years after this Royal Variety show. The Queen Mother died 30 years after this and the Queen died 50 years after. 50 years!
Worlds within worlds, a complex, layered theatrical event created by the remarkable Johnny Speight. The real-life theatre audience at the Royal Variety Performance eavesdrops on the Garnett family's reactions to an imaginary Royal Variety Performance on the telly. The satire is far-reaching, largely at the expense of Alf. Eat your heart out Gogglebox . . .
2:10 - Notice how after Dandy Nichols says her line here the is a long pause before Tony Booth starts his line. It is either Dandy had another line to say and forgot it or Tony forgot his line and was dying to think of it and got it after a few seconds.
Live performances can stress even the most experienced actor. That awful moment when your mind goes temporarily blank or a fellow-performer fluffs the cue line.
When asked if he thought Alf was racist, Warren said Alf was a shouter & initially thought the pilot was half a hour of a family rowing that nobody,d watch. Warren was the opposite of alf yet spoke the lines with such conviction,
4:25 - Took a few seconds for the audience to get the joke "you won't get your normal filth on there tonight" - Warren paused for the audience to react.
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Yes, this really was the type of conversation from a million London working class terrace houses where the young ones continued to live with their parents and in laws in the 1960s and 70s. Alf is a very real character to me.. I met him in one form or other everyday of my childhood.
Classic, absolute classic. Still funny today. This is a masterclass for the second rate "comedians" of today!
I agree, second rate "comedians" of today could learn from it. Superior ones, of course, are above it.
This is pure gold..perfect antidote to the cobblers on these days...
Your taste is as brilliant as this warren Mitchell and co perfomance ,gold trimmed with platinum ms cdf ty x
Brilliant, loved Till Death Us Do Part.....sadly all four are not with us anymore but leave us with this classic sitcom to watch, thankyou to you all !!
It's still broadcast on Now That's TV, channel. Plenty of beeps bleeping out "offensive" words. But it's still definitely worth watching
Makes we shiver when watching these old progs how many are no longer with us.
Yes l thought they had all died.l wasn't sure about worren mitchell.1972 .l was at school then .
The young woman is still alive and kicking.
@@johnhenshaw7655 No I’m sorry to inform you that the young woman….Una Stubbs sadly passed away in 2021 😢🙏
Warren Mitchell was incredibly talented man
He had a guest role in The Sweeney as a bent car park manager.
@@mnd1955 And in Dangerman as an Indian government official (with a dodgy accent)!
I love the documentary he did on his time at Oxford university, filmed in 1970.
When I watched this as a child I was always sorry for Else and what she had to put up with. Watching it now I see she was the one getting the better of Alf.
So true! Dandy had just a few lines in each episode but was the immovable object against which Alf crashed.
When she passed away I actually stopped watching TDDUP. Wasn't as good without her.
@wanderer1955 Dandy Nicolls managed one series of in sickness and in health before she died. You could tell her health was deteriorating though she was so frail bless her.
The comic timing is perfection in this sketch
Looking back on these old programmes makes me feel so sad. This was made when it was great to be British and proud to be part of it. Not any more..
Never enough credit given to the writers on these shows! Brilliant stuff.
There was only one writer for Till Death Us Do Part, called Johnny Speight. He wrote it all on his own.
@@johnking5174 Correct. I was meaning British comedy shows in general. Performers are stars....writers are writers.
Fantastic comedy in those days! No damn PC! British comedy was the best in the world! Down to earth, cheeky and witty!
Bloody brilliant. I was laughing all the way through. What the hell has happened to our world where this type of comedy is frowned upon and banned. Don't even attempt to tell me the world is a better place without it.
yeah you wouldn't say alf is racist he could tell them to bugger off or i not drinking in the same pub as him but he doesn't,
Very well said. The country changed so quickly. And not for the better.😔
Its all gone to PC shit....just like this country.....be careful tho....we arn't allowed freedom of speech anymore ....what would alf think of it now.....god bless him......love this Show...👏
It’s all about controlling us now.
Sad isn't it, all humour banned. It will soon be illegal to laugh. Not a nice world to be in.
One word BRILLIANT -bring back the old days :)
BRILLIANT - bring back the old days. That's 6 words not one!
George Ros those old days are back ,.,,there called Brexit.....
OTT..2019
All done in one take as it was live. Not many can survive that long nowadays.
I love the audience reaction when the curtain goes up and people recognise the show.
The man spoke so many truths...🥴 Dandy Nichols was absolutely brilliant.🌸
in the new one in sickness and in health straight off the bat oh look here's Zola Budd genius
I had the pleasure of working with this amazing man
Whenever anyone said anything about him taking the mickey out of the other races, his response was
"It isn't them I'm taking the mickey out of"
Loved the man, very gentle, caring and incredibly funny
Warren Mitchell
@@krisslee and a great socialist, adding to your point mate i think he added the joke was on people like you bigots
Have you seen The Vikings. Dandy Nichols starring along side Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, and James Donald. Crazy to think she had starred with screen legends like those, and then later become the character of Alf Garnets wife in a TV series. She is very funny though. 😁
@@rmstitanic8163 I'm sure if you check out Warren Mitchell's career you'll find he had cameos with leading stars of the day, he appeared in a science fiction film with the American actor Forrest Tucker the Trollenberg Terror, which is just one of many appearances he made in films, also check out Diana Dors from sex symbol in the 40s and 50s to matriarch mother symbol in Queenie's Castle etc, you'll be amazed with who they started out with to how they ended up, even Harry H Corbett of Steptoe and Son fame appeared in films with big names one of them titled Floods of Fear with Howerd Keel,
How marvellous to see this, how we all laughed in the 70s, we are all fair game in comedy as long as it is not in bad taste, I don't think anyone was insulted here, it was the humour of the period, we could all be young, old ,mother-in-laws, tyrannical father in laws, white, black, other ethnic origins ,working class (I am ) and here, The Queen Mum, with a very good sense of humour invited to laugh with ground breaking comedy and from leading writers of the day. Times have changed.
It's now 2022 and this skitt is a classic which would still be revalent today
Alf was definitely right about Prince Phillip’s swearing lol
SIRLESPATERSON
Back in the day, when we could laugh at each other and our selves with nobody getting precious and talking offence!
EXACTLY ... Alf was always given the run round / out witted by hiswife / daughter / and new wife ... This is one of the best thought out, funniest, series to ever be broadcast ........ As English as roast beef or Darts and Snooker,,,, Warren Mitchel is an acting genius
And they were smoking ! 😃
The American remake of this was dreadful 😱
I grew up watching this. Had an uncle just like Alf. God how I miss this type of television
@@Smithjones12All in the Family is often regarded in the United States as one of the greatest television series in history. (Wikipedia) Why was it dreadful?
@@PhilUKNet its a butchered remake
this reminds me of sunday afternoons round me nan and grandads,R.I.P gramps forever loved, never forgotten.
A pure comedian genius bring back this type of comedy any day .still makes you laugh all these years on .
Absolutely brilliant comedy, you dont find comedy like this anymore, pure gold, loved this series 🤣
Thank you for classic rip all
Just stumbled across this from 50 years ago. Wow! Class acting, and compulsive viewing back in the day.
Always love Alf Garnett his always going to make you laugh and smile love this takin the ____love his wife too yep like your old grandad but are grandads still like this crazy but so people say oh them days them days never forgotten
Dandy Nichols was phenomenal. Warren Mitchell threw himself 100% into this role. Very much appreciated.
Alf Garnet.... Fantastic.....he called a spade, a spade..... bless him.xxxx
I see what you did there and I don't like it
That's okay you get the idea now?
You don't have to like it but you will defend he's or here right to
Say it.
Just simply funny. No messages, just funny!
Brilliant ! Hard to believe he was a great Shakespearean actor too !
I saw him in Oxford, in the play ‘visiting Mr Green’ long before I knew about all this! And he did Shylock on BBC too.
Still one of the funniest programs on TV, Alfe letting it rip, simpley priceless,, superb acting from all of the cast,,, 🎭
Dandy Nicols is brilliant in this getting all the best one liners, overall though just superb despite a few mistakes which they covered nicely.
The swear box under the table 🤣
She was. She was a bit under the radar, but she was good.
Love TIL death do us part, one of the best comedies ever. This is comedy at his best
Now it makes sense. It does look like All in the Family!
Just brilliant.
Thank you for posting!! Such great television
This aired on Sunday 5th November 1972 on BBC One. The Queen Mother was the royal who attended this performance.
You're not the John King who went to Ricky Grammar are you, by any chance ?
thanks, was wondering which year
Brilliant… timeless, ageless, brilliant
Brilliant humour. Truly miss these classics . Thanks you tube
Thank you SO much for uploading this.... Now this was Comedy..
When comedy was real comedy. 👍
Timeless Brilliance,
2019 and still excellent
Enjoy next year
20/21 September!
😂😂😂👍
Moira
From England.
Anthony Booth ( Cherie Blairs dad) Una Stubbs RIP, Dandy Nichols and Warren Mitchell, All RIP, all class acts.
Brilliant. Top comedy. Real comedy. Freedom of speech at its best.
I saw warren Mitchell at a cabaret in Australia in about 1974. He came on as Alf garnet in the first half and then as himself after the break. Very funny guy.
I couldn't stop laughing, Brilliant.
Alf Garnett mentions Philip in the navy. He was my fathers immediate officer on HMS Kent until it came under attack in march 1942 at Malta when 128 men were killed, including the captain, by a bombs dropped by JU 88's whilst unloading a merchant ship. My father was crippled for life.
Brilliant great acting
This is real comedy where they talk like real people do.
so called comedies today like my family and others I cant
even name dont compare to this.
I love this show and In Sickness and in health later on
Una is 81 & the only one still with us..
yes, Una was lovely, turned up in a episode of heartbeat
a while back, still looking great .
Really !! - My goodness, doesn't time fly.
I really liked her back in 'those days.'
God bless you una your a gift from my past Iove you xxo
Sadly, not any more. RIP, Una! 😪
R.I.P To the Cast of Till Death Do Us Part
Fucking Brilliant. R.I.P. he was the best saying it as it is.
You need to put 10p in the box!
hahaha!!
Come on pay up!😂
10p £20 more like it. 😉👏
Moira
From England.
@@lennonpolo Didn't even notice it 1st time around. Good laugh for me when I got it. Thanks heaps.
I second that 😂
"Those were the days my friend. I thought they'd never end!" Sorry Mary Hopkins but the establishment murdered that line! Dandy Nichols was a British Institution as Alf's silly old moo! The perfect foil!
Bloody brilliant stuff the pc brigade
The Royle Family`s got nothing on these guys.
Your right Warren Mitchell invented the character while Ricky tomlinson played a version of himself
Too fuckin right.
Those were the days 🥰
Warren Mitchell at his restrained best. Why has the world become so PC that great comedy like this would be outlawed immediately? Spot-on stuff!!!
Warren Mitchell played his part to perfection , i never missed an episode !
Superb comedy god bless guys
Una Stubbs is beautiful. I used to fancy her as Aunt Sally as well. Happy days.
RIP, Una 😔
This aired as part of the 1972 Royal Variety Performance, aired on November 5th 1972 on BBC One.
I was 6 weeks old.
@@GEGBoxing😂😂i was 6 months old, 52 at the end of month, time flies.
What a classic bit of comedy in front of the queen I would loved to have been there Simon
It was in front HM The Queen Mother, the Queen did not attend that year 1972.
simon burgess a
I got to see Warren Mitchell doing Alf Garnett in the '90s. He was as great as ever. I don't think even this older material is offensive, he's laughing at the people who think like Alf.
The series encouraged racism in society, which is why it is never shown now.
@@markharrison2544 It isn't shown now because it isn't 'politically correct' but I would argue that rather than encourage racism, it obviously mocked people who think like 'Alf'. We are laughing at him and his ridiculous rants and opinions. He's an idiot and anyone who is racist because of watching him is a moron.
@@rexterrocks Most people who watched the series did so because they loved the racism and fully agreed with Alf's views. Black children were abused at school by their peers who quoted the evil filth in this sick series.
@@markharrison2544 : Why are yoh watching and commenting on sonething you hate so much? Better run to your safespace and cry, snowflake.
@@markharrison2544 You are right that kids in particular, along with some idiot adults do copy things they hear but that shows how stupid they are. If you watch 'Til Death do us part', Alf is always an idiot. He's inept and is obviously stupid. I think anyone who thinks anything Alf says is credible and copies it must be an idiot. He's a joke and the programme is meant to show that his opinions are ridiculous. In the last series, he got a home help who turned out to be black and gay.I thought it was hilarious. I would never call this programme sick. Its obviously anti-racist.
Legends
@Hello Ray how are you doing
Oh for freedom of thought !!
The good old days. RIP ..Warren Mitchell, Tony Booth and Dandy Nicholls.
Apsey boy johny speight as well
and Una Stubbs
Great comedy, great writing, great acting. Still a joy
Absolutely brilliant ,the good all days ,funny how Alf and son in law were allowed to support different parties ,without being cancelled .
I love the way that the 'Swear Box' is permanently at the ready.
Brilliant
Class sheer class
They were the good old old days, bit of good old BRITISH HUMOUR , I remember Mary Whitehouse banning Chuck Berry 's song my Dingaling . These days kids of 5 years old swear more than Alf Garnett ever did , now you can't even smack a child , I was smacked by my parents and caned at school , it didn't do me any harm . It made me what I am today respect for the elderly and the disabled people .
David Clarke I had heard that only as a rumour and never realised that it was true. Insane isn't it? I have laughed hard at this.
David Clarke well said David. me as well . the world is going to hell in a basket!
You Brits still do the best comedy in the world, I'm lucky being an Aussie , I get the lot of it, just no one comparable to the Poms when a laugh is needed. Love it.
@StealthyMonk And I thought I was a Grammar Nazi! Most comments on RUclips are barely readable .
@StealthyMonk " The mother of stupid is often pregnant ". That is a gem. I must make a mental note of that. I nearly choked!
Ive watched this so many times and still laugh every time. What a cast, what a script 😂😂😂.
Brilliant pure genius
Right On. Whatever happened to 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.'
We went pink
Great stuff!😂👍👍👍
Moira
From England.
Class!
Absolutely fantastic, when comedy was great.
Gone forever. Welcome to the " New Normal" 2021
So funny I remember watching this I'm 58 great
Pure class!
Forgot how lovely Una Stubbs was. ❤
Una was a looker in her day, and a lovely lady too. Old school. RIP x
Wooooow the best and English end of script ...purple sausage
Awesome video thanks gone but not forgotten rest in peace ✌️🙏🕊️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Brilliant bring Alf back.
I wonder if Caroline Aherne watched this and said to herself, "I have an idea, I'll make a show about a family, and their surname is Royle , and I'll call it "The Royle Family".
And then.I'll.make it unfunny.
Yep, she should have made a comedy though.
about as funny as a burning orphanage
brilliant!!!!
I had almost forgotten about the brilliance of Warren Mitchell
I'm watching this amid the black lives matter debarkle. 2020 were apologising for every little thing.
You're talking out of your arsehole.
@@gaskellr44 Shut up bastard
I don’t 😂😂
Come on with the swear box with Alf f--k in -ell Garnett with laughs per seconds 🤣👍.
He really knew the true BBC.
0:45 - Watch Warren's eyes after he said this line here, with the reaction from the audience. He was thinking how the Queen Mother would react to that line, as she was present at this performance.
Tony Booth became Tony Blair’s father-in-law 8 years after this. Cherie would’ve been 18 in 1972, but Booth had left the family 10 years before. She first met Blair 4 years after this Royal Variety show. The Queen Mother died 30 years after this and the Queen died 50 years after. 50 years!
Worlds within worlds, a complex, layered theatrical event created by the remarkable Johnny Speight. The real-life theatre audience at the Royal Variety Performance eavesdrops on the Garnett family's reactions to an imaginary Royal Variety Performance on the telly. The satire is far-reaching, largely at the expense of Alf. Eat your heart out Gogglebox . . .
You are absolutely spot on. It's a work of comedic genius.
As Jack Nicholson said in 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'. "At least I tried."
Be seeing you...
Nobody seems to have mentioned the fact that Tony Booth was really knocking back the sauce throughout this sketch😁
Irrelevant.still excellent
So would I be if u had produced a daughter as repulsive as Cherie is.
Or cold tea?
Bloody, layabout, Scouse git!
2:10 - Notice how after Dandy Nichols says her line here the is a long pause before Tony Booth starts his line. It is either Dandy had another line to say and forgot it or Tony forgot his line and was dying to think of it and got it after a few seconds.
Most likely that Dandy forgot hers because if you watch closely it also happened with Warren.
Live performances can stress even the most experienced actor. That awful moment when your mind goes temporarily blank or a fellow-performer fluffs the cue line.
When asked if he thought Alf was racist, Warren said Alf was a shouter & initially thought the pilot was half a hour of a family rowing that nobody,d watch. Warren was the opposite of alf yet spoke the lines with such conviction,
Ground breaking comedy, Up the 'ammers
John Lane : Alright, alright, don't be forkeesious 😁
4:25 - Took a few seconds for the audience to get the joke "you won't get your normal filth on there tonight" - Warren paused for the audience to react.
This was better than watching the royle family watching TV.
One program the BBC would never dare to show again. Shame really.
The series encouraged racism in society.
One of several. Freedom of speech includes the right to offend.
@@markharrison2544 Don't be so ridiculous.
@@markharrison2544 Twat
Brilliant as always