Comedic geniuses. When Eric Morecambe died suddenly in 1984, way before his time, it caused a shockwave amongst the public. We lost a great duo, Ernie lost his career partner and the laughing stopped. It ended the era of super-smart, cleverly thought out comedy sketches (The Two Ronnies is another example) and comedy just mainly turned into one-liner gags & innuendo. It's great to watch them back and I often wonder if Eric had lived another 20 years what would have been :)
I had the great pleasure in meeting Ernie Wise when I was a serving Police Officer, Ernie lived on my patch, on Christmas Day he would purposely set off his burglar alarm, we were obliged to attend his premises whereupon he would wish us Merry Christmas and offer us a small “alcohol free tipple”😀😀
The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise made two very different takes on mastermind and it shows the differences between them. The Two Ronnies were comic actors and Morecambe and Wise were two comedians. Each pair was at the top of their game.
I remember seeing Eric and Ernie on a talk show. The interviewer was talking to Ernie. There was Eric, pipe in mouth, cheeky smile on his face, staring at the floor; and the quips he was coming out with! One after another, like a mind in overdrive. He had everyone in stitches. Brilliant man. Always troubled by the thought that he wasn't good enough or he could do better. His wife said each year the days before the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show was aired where a nightmare at home. Eric couldn't relax, worrying that the show wouldn't be good enough. They'd sit down to watch it and Eric would be like a cat on a hot tin roof. He'd keep asking 'Is that funny?' 'Will people laugh?' He only relaxed when he heard or read the reviews. He lived on his nerves and that's what killed him. Ernie was the opposite. He'd record the sketches and then go to the golf course or do something else. His attitude was 'What's done is done. We've given it our best. Can't change it. No point worrying about it.'
They were great especially with the scripts of Edie Braeburn who was considered the third member of the team, as he created their sketches at this time😁🤣 and took their comedy into a new direction.... Glad you enjoy these .. We enjoy watching them with you.. Keep trucking bro....😁😂🙂
I remember watching this, i was 11 years old and it just took me back to a time when on a Saturday night, me and my brothers and sisters would roll around the floor laughing at Morecambe and Wise. Now we all have grandchildren in a very different world. As i sip a glass of Brandy this night, it made me smile..
Classic comedy. I remember watching these shows when they were first broadcast with Mum and Dad. The Two Ronnies and Morecombe and Wise were shown on Saturday nights. Both of these shows had high viewing figures especially around Christmas. Terrific family entertainment
Well, I did tell you about this quite a while ago now, Alan - so at least you've finally got to it and seen why it was such a classic sketch back in the day (As with Greig's Piano Concerto & Singing In The Rain) - and just as funny even now! It's as funny as most of their guest singing ones, their Christmas special Musical ones, along with the many plays what Ernie "wrote" with high profile actors and actresses taking part . . .
With kids at home that was hard to do and I wanted to start season 2 sooner but starting in the next week or two I'll be sprinkling it back in but just know I will also be going with a wider range of subjects I react to on the channel and types of content to finally be more "Eclectic".
I now realise how I was so blessed growing up with Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies as the staples of the UK comedy. Christmas Day TV was armed marked by these four guys,that the whole family would watch together in our house.
EB✌️thank you so much for reacting to these legends it was brilliant laughing along with you Sir and we all could do with a good chuckle. Take care buddy 👍🍻
It cuts off a really underrated often missed gag. Ernie had been calling Magnus Magnusson "Mr McManus" all through it. At the end, he says he'll never watch his wrestling again. Mick McManus was a wrestler on TV during the 70s.
Mick McManus was a wrestler who I saw often back in his day as my dad was a second in his corner many times through the years. Les Kellet was always my favourite.
@@WillCamx yeah I watched with my nan too, well fiesty the old girl was😂wish you could of heard her screaming at the TV when the masked one came on 😂 'rip it off his head' she would yell in-between offering me biscuits😲I swear she could have been a nightclub bouncer but with knitting and bingo she just didn't have time😂😂✌️
This is the funniest thing I've see in a long time, thanks for sharing, such a shame they are no longer with us - Eric Morcambe was just the best; Morcambe and Wise, brilliant. Why don't we have 'innocent' humour and comedy like this any more?
I wish some of the skits they did with Glenda Jackson, Penelope Keith, Shirley Bassey and Peter Cushing are available for you to watch -- they're so funny. These serious artists allowed themselves to be **completely** humiliated by M&W in this outrageous and daft way and you could watch them a thousand times and they never lose their power. The one where we see Dame Flora Robson and she says "I worked with Morcambe and Wise -- and look what happened to me" and she's this tea-lady pushing a tea cart down the corridor. I grew up watching their shows on the TV and they're unforgettable.
Imagine how it was in 1970's for us Brits having The Morecambe and Wise Show and also The Two Ronnies programmes on in the same week. 1hr each and they had Christmas specials too which always got the highest viewing figures then.
We didn't realise how lucky we were. Morecombe & Wise's popularity peaked with the 1977 Christmas Show, when a phenomenal 28 million viewers sat down to watch, the most watched comedy programme in British television history.
Loved growing up in the 70s The 2 ronnies M&W and a host of other absolute comic genius back then and still to this day apart from only foods and horses 80s we’ve never bettered it
The two Ronnies had brilliant play on words in their sketches, but to me they sometimes seemed a little stiff. Morecambe and Wise were two comedians who could make you laugh by only staring at the camera or saying "Uuu-hu" or "Ready when you are, Polly!". It's the wonderful chemistry, the warmth, the lovingly - nasty treatment of each other and of the guest stars that made them so unique.
I would just like to say EB that your content is inherently enjoyable. Your laugh that's infectious and heart-warming. And the original take you have for the content you create, which I often agree with more often than not. However, I think it's because you have an amazing sense of decency and ethics that makes you come across as honest and those three words that mean so much to us Brits "down to Earth". Anyway, forgive my deviation from the standard comment. I just wanted to say what a stand-up and thoroughly decent fell I think you are. Peace!
Ahh what legends. I was born In the 90s and my parents and grandparents introduced me to these two. Very funny comedy, coming from a music hall tradtion for the whole family and every demographic as well that didn't rely on cheap gags, sexualised humour, rude words or poking fun at the establishment or working class or laughing about socio economic issues. Somehow they made the show for everyone and still managed to make great lasting comedy that left people feeling good after they watched it. Shame we don't really have anything like it now.
Mastermind was an interesting programme, the first series was all teachers, university professors and academics, the next season was tube train drivers, bus drivers and taxi drivers.
The Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows used to have the biggest viewer ratings on TV - back in the day when there were only three channels. So this meant that approaching half of the entire population of the UK was watching!!
I met Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise they came to where i live Morecambe in the UK we have his statue on the beach front here, I was born in the 60,s so i grew up watching these 2 and the 2 Ronnies
We had back then the Two Ronnie's & Morecambe & Wise. Two funny double acts. My preference has always been for the Ronnie's, however that's not saying Morecambe & Wise were not very funny guys. They were as part of Britain's comedy circuit as the Ronnie's & just as big. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
My friend came from the same town as Eric Morecambe. He met them both on a train journey home on leave. He said they are exactly the same in real life as you see them on television.
the 60's 70's & 80's saw swarms of brilliant British comedy, far too numerous to mention. So many comedic geniuses now alas long dead. Dick Emery, Benny Hill, M&W, Les Dawson & more.
The fact that it was actually Magnus is difficult to comprehend these day. A bit like watching the world stare-out championships (big train?) with real footy commentators - cheers
Have a look at some of the Christmas show plays wot Ernie wrote. Glenda Jackson is so funny. They always try to make the guests corpse. Tom Jones very nearly lost it.
At that time, a way to know if a celeb had made it was if they appeared on Morecambe and Wise. Celebrities knew they would get the mickey taken out of them or they'd end up having to do idiotic things, but they queued up. One of their most famous sketches was with a conductor called Andre Previn. Previn read the script, by torchlight, on the way to the recording. There were continuous references to Luton Football Club, of which Morecambe was a huge fan of. For example, a skit they did set in a POW camp had a German officer going (strangely enough) "Heil Hitler" to which one of the three English officers would respond "Luton for the cup!" Both the Previn and the POW camp sketches are worth a watch as you enjoyed this.
Such a talented duo, Christmas wasn't Christmas without an Eric and Ern show. Never a crude word or swearing used, something today's so called comedians should take lessons from. RUclips is great for watching stuff you grew up watching
Master Mind has been showing for decades now and Magnus Magnusson was the original presenter. Of course Morecambe and Wise were one of our favourite comedy duos back in the day.
A lot of people would compare the two double acts, but they were very different, Ronnie B would write some of the scripts under Gerald Wiley and send them in, and judged on their own merits, but he also appeared in other TV shows, likewise Ronnie C more clubs and theatres in the very early days with my late friend at Winstons and other clubs around London which is where he met his future wife Anne and Ronnie B and he also appeared in other TV shows, some of the drag these two did Ronnie C learned from Danny La Rue who knew me from 3 months old until he passed away in 09. Then with Morecambe and Wise they had script writers, the two acts would sometimes use the same ones at some point as again they all knew one another from The Frost Report which is where The Two Ronnies first appeared together but not as a double act, whereas Morecambe and Wise met during the war and Eric mum Sadie took over as a sort of manager /agent from the early days, I think Ernie had met Eric briefly around the circuit, but he didn't have a room to stay in one night and so the rest is history, they were teenage years by now, and the two of them plus Sadie in the room, she saw something in them together and formed the double act, but rarely did anything apart, until Eric passed away ironically after a theatre show with his friend Stan Stenett, he'd had another heart attack after the show in 1984, but went out leaving the audience happy, I think at the time Eric was supposed to be off after recovering from another heart attack, he had a few and heart operation, which bought him a few extra years, Ernie was lost without Eric, he carried on working, but never fully recovered, but within the TV series I think for both BBC and ITV you have " the plays what I wrote " much like the character Ernie plays in this Mastermind segment, Ernie was the one who thought he was a great writer and knew everything, pompous as we say in the UK, but had some great guests appearing in these plays, and guest artists poking fun at themselves via Eric, Des O'connor appeared a few times, Sir Cliff Richard, The Beatles did something with them when TV was still black and white, Sir Elton John, Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey, Dame Judi Dench and many many others, and Ernie was always known as a tightwad,the joke was a combination on his wallet, many of the great comics and actors would corpse and they'd keep it in the shows, even though they were sticklers for a couple of weeks rehearsals, the Xmas viewing was around 24 million likewise similar numbers for Two Ronnies
Ernie Wise is sadly overlooked in his role in this partnership - he was the perfect foil to Eric Morcambe's delivery. They worked so well as a team that neither would have succeded without the other.
Did you know The Beatles were on the Morecome and Wise Show. In 1963 I think. They sing two proper songs during the show then at the end Erie and Ernie join The Beatles.
The story goes that Eric's greatest line ever happened on the spot and was never used on telly. It seems a new guest was rehearsing with them while disappearing continually due to to a dreadful dose of diarrhea. Eric said, "He needs some of that pink stuff". Ernie, "What? Calamine?" Eric, "No. Elastoplast."
If you've got an hour and a half to spare, you might like to watch this made-for-TV film about the early days of Morecambe and Wise: ruclips.net/video/4JmuaxvsX_M/видео.html. It's a very touching account of two young lads making their first steps into the world of showbiz in the 1930s and 40s and finding the beginnings of success in their friendship. It was conceived and produced by Victoria Wood, a comedian of a later generation, also much loved and, like Eric Morecambe, who died before her time: she plays Eric's mother. Incidentally, there is a scene in which Eric and Ernie play to a very hostile audience in a Scottish theatre, presumably the Glasgow Empire where it was said that "no turn went unstoned"!
Apparently people would sign up to the show. The fact people where usually not always but sometimes more recognised for a stint on Morecombe and wise then their profession.
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*cough* “Arsenal!” was a running gag on the show. :-)
Great to see Magnus Magnusson (the actual presenter of Mastermind) taking part in this sketch too
Now I feel old! I actually remember this being broadcast.
@@marysmith1922 me too and I am old
And the fact that he was such a serious host of the real Mastermind makes this all the funnier.
Met him. Bigheaded
Comedic geniuses. When Eric Morecambe died suddenly in 1984, way before his time, it caused a shockwave amongst the public. We lost a great duo, Ernie lost his career partner and the laughing stopped. It ended the era of super-smart, cleverly thought out comedy sketches (The Two Ronnies is another example) and comedy just mainly turned into one-liner gags & innuendo. It's great to watch them back and I often wonder if Eric had lived another 20 years what would have been :)
Ya know Benny Hill was running at the same time as these guys were. There's always been greats and bottom of the pile trash, just as there is now
The arsenal answer is down to a regular joke on their show where a sneeze sound is disguised by the word arsenal being shouted
Magnus Magnusson was the actual presenter of Mastermind, celebrities knew they had made it when they were asked to appear on Morecombe and Wise
Eric Morecambe was so quick with responding with a funny quip. Nobody could ever equal
He was an absolute genius but together wow.
Lee Mack
Robin Williams and Bob Monkhouse. Both extremely quick comedic minds.
Not to take anything away from Eric though,. M&W were brilliant.
@@CMDRRustyDog RIP to them all. They were all great people
Ronnie Corbett did
Their breakfast sketch is hilarious and their ending song is pure gold Every word of it.
Bring me sunshine in your smile.
Shame we forget.
I had the great pleasure in meeting Ernie Wise when I was a serving Police Officer, Ernie lived on my patch, on Christmas Day he would purposely set off his burglar alarm, we were obliged to attend his premises whereupon he would wish us Merry Christmas and offer us a small “alcohol free tipple”😀😀
The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise made two very different takes on mastermind and it shows the differences between them. The Two Ronnies were comic actors and Morecambe and Wise were two comedians. Each pair was at the top of their game.
I love these two I can remember watching this with my mum and dad When I Was Little fantastic👌😂😂❤
Another institution!
Brilliantly written and performed and still funny after all these years
I remember seeing Eric and Ernie on a talk show. The interviewer was talking to Ernie. There was Eric, pipe in mouth, cheeky smile on his face, staring at the floor; and the quips he was coming out with! One after another, like a mind in overdrive. He had everyone in stitches. Brilliant man. Always troubled by the thought that he wasn't good enough or he could do better.
His wife said each year the days before the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show was aired where a nightmare at home. Eric couldn't relax, worrying that the show wouldn't be good enough. They'd sit down to watch it and Eric would be like a cat on a hot tin roof. He'd keep asking 'Is that funny?' 'Will people laugh?' He only relaxed when he heard or read the reviews. He lived on his nerves and that's what killed him.
Ernie was the opposite. He'd record the sketches and then go to the golf course or do something else. His attitude was 'What's done is done. We've given it our best. Can't change it. No point worrying about it.'
I love your laugh, your laugh is life sir😭😭🤣🤣🤣🙌
Eric can't help but be funny, a true natural 👍❤️🏴
That 🤝 at the end of you know you know 👍🏻
They were great especially with the scripts of Edie Braeburn who was considered the third member of the team, as he created their sketches at this time😁🤣 and took their comedy into a new direction.... Glad you enjoy these .. We enjoy watching them with you.. Keep trucking bro....😁😂🙂
02:26 Hence the recurring concept of "Plays What I Wrote".
03:55 That gag came from a stand-up routine they did where Eric was meant to be Mr Memory.
Superb again. Magnus Magnusson was a very renown guy, a brilliant academic, journalist, presenter etc. He was great to take part in this. Very funny.
I remember watching this, i was 11 years old and it just took me back to a time when on a Saturday night, me and my brothers and sisters would roll around the floor laughing at Morecambe and Wise. Now we all have grandchildren in a very different world. As i sip a glass of Brandy this night, it made me smile..
Same here. Beautiful memories
Ahhh, Morcambe and Wise😄🥰 …Kept us in stitches for many blessed years and STILL entertaining folks 🤗 glad you are enjoying them too 👍✨
I’m so glad Morecombe & Wise were in my life throughout their lives! I loved seeing your reaction to my comedic heroes! Thank you so much for posting!
We were truly blessed to have both the Two Ronnie's & Morecombe & Wise to entertain us. Such clever wordplay and witicisms from them both.
Proper comedy from actual legends of the game. So clever and the only duo to be mentioned with the two Ronnie's!
The two ronnies mastermind is funny too
Classic comedy. I remember watching these shows when they were first broadcast with Mum and Dad. The Two Ronnies and Morecombe and Wise were shown on Saturday nights. Both of these shows had high viewing figures especially around Christmas. Terrific family entertainment
Well, I did tell you about this quite a while ago now, Alan - so at least you've finally got to it and seen why it was such a classic sketch back in the day (As with Greig's Piano Concerto & Singing In The Rain) - and just as funny even now! It's as funny as most of their guest singing ones, their Christmas special Musical ones, along with the many plays what Ernie "wrote" with high profile actors and actresses taking part . . .
as with your other reaction videos, it's an absolute joy to see your delight at these classic comedy sketches
two Ronnies & morcombe & wise wordplay is always good (what happened to rising damp)
With kids at home that was hard to do and I wanted to start season 2 sooner but starting in the next week or two I'll be sprinkling it back in but just know I will also be going with a wider range of subjects I react to on the channel and types of content to finally be more "Eclectic".
I now realise how I was so blessed growing up with Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies as the staples of the UK comedy. Christmas Day TV was armed marked by these four guys,that the whole family would watch together in our house.
Dear old Magnus, original presenter of master mind, an them pair, just genius 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was a running joke in the series, someone would cough and Eric would shout out Arsenal! (the football team)
They were a regular feature on British television in the 70s and 80s, even appearing in a great episode of the Sweeney.
EB✌️thank you so much for reacting to these legends it was brilliant laughing along with you Sir and we all could do with a good chuckle. Take care buddy 👍🍻
It cuts off a really underrated often missed gag. Ernie had been calling Magnus Magnusson "Mr McManus" all through it. At the end, he says he'll never watch his wrestling again. Mick McManus was a wrestler on TV during the 70s.
Saturday at 4pm I would watch the wrestling with my granny. She loved to boo Mick McManus because he was a baddie.
Well spotted 👍 after all these decades it now makes sense 😂😂 it's only clicked now you've said it so cheers✌️🍻
Mick McManus was a wrestler who I saw often back in his day as my dad was a second in his corner many times through the years. Les Kellet was always my favourite.
@@WillCamx yeah I watched with my nan too, well fiesty the old girl was😂wish you could of heard her screaming at the TV when the masked one came on 😂 'rip it off his head' she would yell in-between offering me biscuits😲I swear she could have been a nightclub bouncer but with knitting and bingo she just didn't have time😂😂✌️
@@martindunstan8043 was that at Kendo Nagasaki?
Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off
You will love it.
Nearly 50 years on and I've never forgotten that Question 😁
I love it when you love it and enjoy yourself so much. Your laughter sets everyone off.
This is the funniest thing I've see in a long time, thanks for sharing, such a shame they are no longer with us - Eric Morcambe was just the best; Morcambe and Wise, brilliant. Why don't we have 'innocent' humour and comedy like this any more?
I wish some of the skits they did with Glenda Jackson, Penelope Keith, Shirley Bassey and Peter Cushing are available for you to watch -- they're so funny. These serious artists allowed themselves to be **completely** humiliated by M&W in this outrageous and daft way and you could watch them a thousand times and they never lose their power. The one where we see Dame Flora Robson and she says "I worked with Morcambe and Wise -- and look what happened to me" and she's this tea-lady pushing a tea cart down the corridor. I grew up watching their shows on the TV and they're unforgettable.
I was fortunate enough to meet Eric many years ago, and he was delightful - warm, naturally funny and everything you could hope for.
Imagine how it was in 1970's for us Brits having The Morecambe and Wise Show and also The Two Ronnies programmes on in the same week. 1hr each and they had Christmas specials too which always got the highest viewing figures then.
We didn't realise how lucky we were.
Morecombe & Wise's popularity peaked with the 1977 Christmas Show, when a phenomenal 28 million viewers sat down to watch, the most watched comedy programme in British television history.
Loved growing up in the 70s The 2 ronnies M&W and a host of other absolute comic genius back then and still to this day apart from only foods and horses 80s we’ve never bettered it
Love Eric and Ernie - you must watch their take offs of musicals like South Pacific and singin in the rain
The two Ronnies had brilliant play on words in their sketches, but to me they sometimes seemed a little stiff. Morecambe and Wise were two comedians who could make you laugh by only staring at the camera or saying "Uuu-hu" or "Ready when you are, Polly!". It's the wonderful chemistry, the warmth, the lovingly - nasty treatment of each other and of the guest stars that made them so unique.
I would just like to say EB that your content is inherently enjoyable. Your laugh that's infectious and heart-warming.
And the original take you have for the content you create, which I often agree with more often than not.
However, I think it's because you have an amazing sense of decency and ethics that makes you come across as honest and those three words that mean so much to us Brits "down to Earth".
Anyway, forgive my deviation from the standard comment. I just wanted to say what a stand-up and thoroughly decent fell I think you are.
Peace!
You could check out the Mitchell & Webb SS Officer sketch.
If you have time, check out the sketch with Morecambe & Wise and Andre Previn. Pure genius and you'll love it. Cheers.
Ahh what legends. I was born In the 90s and my parents and grandparents introduced me to these two. Very funny comedy, coming from a music hall tradtion for the whole family and every demographic as well that didn't rely on cheap gags, sexualised humour, rude words or poking fun at the establishment or working class or laughing about socio economic issues. Somehow they made the show for everyone and still managed to make great lasting comedy that left people feeling good after they watched it. Shame we don't really have anything like it now.
ALLO ALLO, British comedy is unbeatable EB. Always clever.
No hi de hi 👌
Mastermind was an interesting programme, the first series was all teachers, university professors and academics, the next season was tube train drivers, bus drivers and taxi drivers.
My comedy hero's, Eric died when I was 10 and I still mourn him i watch them all the time.
Every time I see a Morecambe & Wise clip I find myself wondering if Peter Cushing ever did get paid for his appearance on their show. 😁
The way the American laughs and enjoys the comedy is great.
Just realized I started singing 'Bring Me Sunshine' after watching this. It's raining outside this Sunday morning
I loved Mastermind. It's always good to see Magnus Magnussen.
'he won't sell much ice cream going at that speed' Eric hearing siren. More years ago than I care to remember.
The Morecambe and Wise Christmas shows used to have the biggest viewer ratings on TV - back in the day when there were only three channels. So this meant that approaching half of the entire population of the UK was watching!!
Russ Abbot's Masterbrain sketch is also quite funny
THE YOUNG ONES and bottom or Kevin Turvey,in fact anything with Rick and Ade,the dangerous brothers is a good example.
I was distracted by Erik’s crazy socks the whole clip 🤣
I met Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise they came to where i live Morecambe in the UK we have his statue on the beach front here, I was born in the 60,s so i grew up watching these 2 and the 2 Ronnies
The 'cough' ARSENAL line was an ongoing joke with M&W. I can't remember how it started, but there you go.
We had back then the Two Ronnie's & Morecambe & Wise. Two funny double acts. My preference has always been for the Ronnie's, however that's not saying Morecambe & Wise were not very funny guys. They were as part of Britain's comedy circuit as the Ronnie's & just as big. 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
I have never seen this, Morecambe and wise were brilliant and so very funny
Magnus Magnusson. Icelander working in the UK. Famous for this game as host.
This is absolutely brilliant. The first time iv seen this absolutely genius
Oh please react to more Morecambe and Wise! As other people have said, the breakfast sketch is just wonderful.
We knew that was coming! - Pass!
Eric Morecombe. Absolute legend!
My friend came from the same town as Eric Morecambe. He met them both on a train journey home on leave. He said they are exactly the same in real life as you see them on television.
Legends of UK Comedy Morecambe and Wise great Mastermind sketch
the 60's 70's & 80's saw swarms of brilliant British comedy, far too numerous to mention. So many comedic geniuses now alas long dead. Dick Emery, Benny Hill, M&W, Les Dawson & more.
The fact that it was actually Magnus is difficult to comprehend these day. A bit like watching the world stare-out championships (big train?) with real footy commentators - cheers
Have a look at some of the Christmas show plays wot Ernie wrote. Glenda Jackson is so funny. They always try to make the guests corpse. Tom Jones very nearly lost it.
At that time, a way to know if a celeb had made it was if they appeared on Morecambe and Wise. Celebrities knew they would get the mickey taken out of them or they'd end up having to do idiotic things, but they queued up.
One of their most famous sketches was with a conductor called Andre Previn. Previn read the script, by torchlight, on the way to the recording.
There were continuous references to Luton Football Club, of which Morecambe was a huge fan of. For example, a skit they did set in a POW camp had a German officer going (strangely enough) "Heil Hitler" to which one of the three English officers would respond "Luton for the cup!"
Both the Previn and the POW camp sketches are worth a watch as you enjoyed this.
Check out The Stanley Baxter sketch of Mastermind...pure class!!
I've never seen this i'm highly surprised at that as I thought I had seen all there stuff, I was laughing as much as you brilliant.
IMO this is their best ever sketch.
Thank you for another one full of outright belly laugh inducing nonsense! 👍 Be well😉
Such a talented duo, Christmas wasn't Christmas without an Eric and Ern show. Never a crude word or swearing used, something today's so called comedians should take lessons from. RUclips is great for watching stuff you grew up watching
In this world where we live there should be more happiness, so much joy we could give to each brand new bright tomorrow 😁
If you can find it, it's really worth checking out their sketch with Shirley Bassey.
"Stupid game!" became a catchphrase in our house.
This sketch is timeless 😂😂😂😂
Good one,EB,nice to see this sketch again and you even juxtaposed it again alongside the equally classic Two Ronnies sketch!🤣👌
Thanks. I needed a good laugh
Master Mind has been showing for decades now and Magnus Magnusson was the original presenter. Of course Morecambe and Wise were one of our favourite comedy duos back in the day.
A lot of people would compare the two double acts, but they were very different, Ronnie B would write some of the scripts under Gerald Wiley and send them in, and judged on their own merits, but he also appeared in other TV shows, likewise Ronnie C more clubs and theatres in the very early days with my late friend at Winstons and other clubs around London which is where he met his future wife Anne and Ronnie B and he also appeared in other TV shows, some of the drag these two did Ronnie C learned from Danny La Rue who knew me from 3 months old until he passed away in 09. Then with Morecambe and Wise they had script writers, the two acts would sometimes use the same ones at some point as again they all knew one another from The Frost Report which is where The Two Ronnies first appeared together but not as a double act, whereas Morecambe and Wise met during the war and Eric mum Sadie took over as a sort of manager /agent from the early days, I think Ernie had met Eric briefly around the circuit, but he didn't have a room to stay in one night and so the rest is history, they were teenage years by now, and the two of them plus Sadie in the room, she saw something in them together and formed the double act, but rarely did anything apart, until Eric passed away ironically after a theatre show with his friend Stan Stenett, he'd had another heart attack after the show in 1984, but went out leaving the audience happy, I think at the time Eric was supposed to be off after recovering from another heart attack, he had a few and heart operation, which bought him a few extra years, Ernie was lost without Eric, he carried on working, but never fully recovered, but within the TV series I think for both BBC and ITV you have " the plays what I wrote " much like the character Ernie plays in this Mastermind segment, Ernie was the one who thought he was a great writer and knew everything, pompous as we say in the UK, but had some great guests appearing in these plays, and guest artists poking fun at themselves via Eric, Des O'connor appeared a few times, Sir Cliff Richard, The Beatles did something with them when TV was still black and white, Sir Elton John, Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey, Dame Judi Dench and many many others, and Ernie was always known as a tightwad,the joke was a combination on his wallet, many of the great comics and actors would corpse and they'd keep it in the shows, even though they were sticklers for a couple of weeks rehearsals, the Xmas viewing was around 24 million likewise similar numbers for Two Ronnies
Good to see you on Rob's channel last night for the AFL.
Ernie Wise is sadly overlooked in his role in this partnership - he was the perfect foil to Eric Morcambe's delivery. They worked so well as a team that neither would have succeded without the other.
I love when you laugh Mr Beardy, you cover your mouth with your hand like a little Japanese schoolgirl, cute!
Did you know The Beatles were on the Morecome and Wise Show. In 1963 I think. They sing two proper songs during the show then at the end Erie and Ernie join The Beatles.
I love watching your videos! This was a masterpiece of comedy writing and all three of them pulled it off perfectly!!!
The story goes that Eric's greatest line ever happened on the spot and was never used on telly. It seems a new guest was rehearsing with them while disappearing continually due to to a dreadful dose of diarrhea.
Eric said, "He needs some of that pink stuff".
Ernie, "What? Calamine?"
Eric, "No. Elastoplast."
If you've got an hour and a half to spare, you might like to watch this made-for-TV film about the early days of Morecambe and Wise: ruclips.net/video/4JmuaxvsX_M/видео.html.
It's a very touching account of two young lads making their first steps into the world of showbiz in the 1930s and 40s and finding the beginnings of success in their friendship. It was conceived and produced by Victoria Wood, a comedian of a later generation, also much loved and, like Eric Morecambe, who died before her time: she plays Eric's mother.
Incidentally, there is a scene in which Eric and Ernie play to a very hostile audience in a Scottish theatre, presumably the Glasgow Empire where it was said that "no turn went unstoned"!
Good to see you drop in to the Dockers' AFL game or Rob's channel!!
Eclectic your laugh is contagious as you have me laughing with your laughter.
Magnus Magnusson there was the real presenter of Mastermind from its start and about 30 years.
Love it thanks good stuff
Your laugh always gets me! Brilliant! Glad you enjoyed :D
Apparently people would sign up to the show. The fact people where usually not always but sometimes more recognised for a stint on Morecombe and wise then their profession.