Rising Damp - For The Man Who Has Everything [Christmas Special 1975]
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2014
- Rigsby has a miserable Christmas with no cards, no friends, and nobody to kiss underneath his mistletoe.
Classic Christmas special - first broadcast 26 December 1975. 
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Rossiter had, in his little finger, more talent and comedy than 20 of the so called comedians today.
Please name them, as he was a comedic character actor . Please name 20 similar actors then .
@@jimshelley8831 totally agree. the other best comedic actors back then would be Sellers, Barker, Lowe people like that. Comparing them with comedians today is a lazy errand. But there are some about who can act Sacha Baran Cohen for example (who is a massive fan of Sellers).
@@jimshelley8831 I'd say Steve Coogan is pretty good, Paul Whitehouse too - actually, many in The Fast Show. Martin Freeman is OK I suppose. Olivia Coleman is great. Most of The Thick Of It too. Hugh Grant has come onto a game, Rafe Fiennes as well. The cast of Slow Horses largely do pretty well. Matt Berry. Kayvan Novak too. I'm running out of names now and anyway, I've just realise this is in response to @mohammaddavoudian7897. I've just stuck to British names but the point is there are loads of great comedic character actors
A few are good today, but years ago they were amazing and that certainly applies to Leonard Rossiter.
It was a different time, comparison doesn't work.....
The good old days when people wasn’t offended at every little thing , absolutely brilliant .
😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂 very true just plan & simple verbal FUN!!!! With out taking offense.
Yawn. Do you know how boring it is to read this comment on every upload of a sitcom from the 60s and 70s, over and over again? Yes, we geddit, you hate today and would rather live in the 70s. So do I. Now, can we move on and just enjoy the brilliant comedy without stupid comments trying to make silly political points on absolutely everything?
@@DeltaJazzUK I got bored reading yours
@@lindastanley229 brilliance 😆😁
@@ld7103 thankyou
This is SO funny - Leonard Rossiter was a marvellous actor !
One of the very best!!...and missed!!..😞
He was great in 'Steptoe and son ' and also in 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin '.
@@meepsmusic1963 I think he played an escaped convict, if i remember correctly.I vaguely remember he was so disillusioned with the state of living in the Steptoe household he wanted to go back inside!
@@clairejohnson6522 I didn't get where I am today without liking Leonard Rossiter .
At some date, British comedy died....I don't know when exactly...it was probably PC'd out of existence.......thank Heaven for RUclips, that reminds us just how great it was then...this episode shows the great writing we had then; gone for ever I'm afraid.
It died the same time black history month was started and occurs each month since years ago
@@potatoface01- I'd say around 2005 or maybe a year or two earlier, but yes, the PC Woke Brigade have ruined everything, or have maybe it's people that always insist on abiding by them who the people are to blame. Because of this I only watch DVDs and the occasional Blu-ray (usually if it's a film). How sad these modern times have become.
Proper class British comedy, they don't make them like this any more. Genius writing.
Too busy trying to make everything as miserable as possible these days
Enjoy while you can before it gets banned. Wonderful funny program with some great actors. 😊😊
I watch this religiously every Christmas. Look at Rigsby's face at the start when he surveys the room and thinks about the rotten Christmas he's had! Brilliant. Rossiter was one of the greats!
A Legend 🙏🏿
100% spot on, 👌
Lol 🤣🤣 every year..... Find some mistletoe
Kubrick was a huge fan of Rossiter. Says it all that one of the greatest directors of all time highly rated your acting abilities.
Holy cow this is 45 years old and it's still funny as hell.
I agree :)
Brilliance never fades.
This one,s got the legendary Larry Martin
Long lost comedy , never to be replaced.
Richard Beckinsale died very young, but he starred in two the greatest comedy series ever produced, viz, ' Rising damp ', and ' Porridge '. What a legacy he left us.
And going straight. And in the nursery landscape program.
Why did that matter he was great.
And The Lovers with Paula Wilcox.
Rising Damp was classic comedy starring Leonard Rossiter
Behave they were dreadful
Rossiter was a genius. No other word for him.
He truly was very,very special. A one off.
Amen
What am I supposed to put on me pineapple chunks🤣. The one liners are second to none.
Yes.
Him and Ronnie barker the guvnors
The days when we had comedy on TV.
Beautiful, Just Beautiful . I do miss the great days when we could ALL appreciate great comedy .
My parents are from South America and I can remember watching this programme on a black and white television set in the 1970s. Great comedy
Miss those days .miss those shows
As an Italian that spent a part of his life in the UK I feel safe to say that Leonard Rossiter was one of the greatest commedians in the world. STILL IS.
Greetings from Italy
WELL SAID
well said
Comic actor is the term.
UK isn't a place
@@andrewjoyce9038 United Kingdom. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, since 1922.
Im black and I found this hilarious. Laughed so much with the lady from Southampton. People are so easily insulted nowadays.
Northampton, yes in those days the comedy was a mirror to the bigots i.e. like Alf Garnet and that ilk, to hopefully be laughed at and not agreed with unfortunately the narrow-minded bigoted brigade would be on the protagonist side.
Haha yes me and my brother were discussion this and how its not offensive mixed race people. Its funny cause how ridiculous narrow minded rigsby is. The joke is on him. Its not making fun of black people. Philip is the one who i intelligent and cones of better so his is it insulting to black people!?
Nice to hear it. Good onya buddy.
wolfspain7385: IKR, I can see why some would feel insulted but it's all about Rigsby being the butt of the joke looking like an ignorant fool.
@Hamilton Moses lol
Rising Damp, a timeless
Masterpiece
I used to watch this as a kid with my black Dad and white Mum, we all cried our eyes out watching the inimitable Leonard Rossiter, (my Dad more than anyone). I feel so fortunate that I grew up during the heyday of British comedy.
The good old days when mixed race marriages were still the norm and no one batted an eyelid - now everybody is obsessed with race and mixed race marriages are considered "unusual"!
@@LittleKitty22 That's not my experience at all. My mother was ostracized by virtually all of her white friends. I didn't know any other mixed race couples and there were very few mixed race kids around. And back then we were called 'half-caste' by white people. You are confusing a loving family environment with the reality of the world beyond my front door. It was anything but what you described. If your experience differs I'd be curious to hear about it. I don't recall any 'good old days'.
@@LittleKitty22 Your Home Office experience doesn't surprise me. i never cease to be staggered by the ignorance and stupidity of the people getting paid to shuffle forms and process paperwork on behalf of the UK government.
You came to the U.K. in the 80's yet didn't notice or weren't told of the racial unrest in many cities at that time, riots in Handsworth, Brixton, Toxteth, Moss Side, Chapeltown?
Thatcher's Britain was not a nice place for people of colour.
I was lucky in many ways in that I didn't grow up in an inner city 'ethnic' enclave where the police hassled people with impunity. I grew up in a white middle-class environment with a father who just happened to be a black Jamaican. I escaped the worst abuse as a kid in the rural West of England, though teachers resented me because I was generally brighter than the white kids around me, they wanted me to excel only at sports.
Things changed when my family relocated to industrial West Yorkshire. We lived in an all-white town near Leeds and the level of ignorance and racism from the kids was through the roof. Teachers were generally indifferent and did nothing to stop it.
i think the drift to the right in many countries has allowed the venomous resentment of racists who previously tried to hide their true feelings to spring to the surface. Brexit idiots like Farrage and the goons in government would seem to confirm that.
I've lived in Japan for a long time, xenophobia is deeply embedded in this society and the country is run by people who would have been imprisoned under the de-nazification that occurred in Europe after the war. It often amuses me when I see white people here complain when they've been discriminated against (as sometimes happens), forgetting that they largely benefited from racial bias back in their homeland. Different when the boot's on the other foot.
@@kieronjohnson8834 I came to live here in the 90's, only visited in the 80's as a young teenager. At the time I thought it was great how people of different races seemed to get on well with each other, but I probably didn't see the whole picture as I was not living here then and was only in my early teens.
I heard about the racial unrest once I came to live in the UK as I was living in Handsworth/Birmingham then, it wasn't a nice place then either and it still isn't. Asians hate Asians of different religions, black people and Asians hate each other - it's terrible. It's still a very rundown area or at least it was still when I last saw it in 2014.
The stupidity I encountered at the Home Office is something that I have experienced everywhere in the UK and it's shocking, I have lived in several countries and nowhere have I encountered the level of stupidity I come across here on a daily basis! In any other country, people who are so incompetent would long have been fired and would in fact be unemployable! Here it's the other way round - I'm unemployable because I'm not stupid enough! No joke - unfortunately that's very much the case! I have thought this through and have wondered whether I might have it easier just pretending that I'm of low intelligence (my reasoning being, I get treated as if I were stupid anyway so why not keep them happy and pretend to indeed be retarded) - but it's far more difficult to do than one thinks! How can I for example pretend to be of very low intelligence when the way I speak alone gives away that I'm not uneducated? How should I react when people speak to me in baby language and say things like "I won't explain that to you because you wouldn't understand it anyway" - while at the same time it's them that don't understand simple sentences in English even though they are native English speakers? I could write a book full of examples of such experiences!
Very true what you say about the Brexit goons. I've heard it from so many people now since this whole Brexit palaver started - "we voted for Brexit to get rid of people like you", "enjoy the flight home" and "go home"! I've heard from European nationals that got chased down the road and told to "go home"! I've heard of Muslim businesses getting vandalized!
I know there are a lot of very serious problems with members of a certain ideology being above the law in the UK (I've experienced that myself as the victim of this bias as members of this ideology get actively protected to the extreme by police, so much so that I the victim got hounded by police) and white people now suffering active disadvantages and downright racism from the government, but attacking people is surely not the way forward and neither is blind hatred towards anyone who is not white! Sadly this is what we got now. A renewed race riot is not far off.
As for Brexit by the way - they'll soon complain when basic workers' rights get done away with because such rights as minimum wages, paid annual leave, a welfare benefits system, data protection, the Human Rights Act etc are all in existence purely thanks to the EU!
I know about Japan, never been there but yes, it's well known that they hate anyone who is not Japanese. A lot of folks who go to work or study there find it shocking and regret going there. Japan has a fascinating culture but a lot of problems with prejudice.
By the way, I gotta laugh when I always hear white people say that foreigners don't integrate - when it's British people who immigrate to Spain, Egypt etc and refuse to learn the local language and only socialize with each other! Oh the irony...
@@LittleKitty22 You are mistaken about the welfare benefits system! It came into being in the 1940's, long before the EU even existed! Further to this, the British dairy farming and fishing industries have been decimated by our membership of the EU and I can assure you that is the main reason a lot of people (especially in my part of the country) voted to leave!
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/alevelstudies/1940-origins-welfare-state.htm
A little light reading, none of which has any connection with the EU.
Richard Beckinsale was educated by two comic geniuses - Leonard Rossiter and Ronnie Barker - and they both adored him.
Such sadness that Richard died at such a young age of just 31 in 1979.
All dead now sadly
Absolutely brilliant Leonard!!😂
Rigsby was brilliant ! the whole household was just comedy perfection.
48 years ago. Fantastic comedy. No filth no swearing just great innuendo .so sad to lose Leonard and Richard. What could they have done with their careers.
I remember one Christmas being just like Rigsby. All alone, everywhere you go everyone seems happy in couples and families. You feel like you are the only one alone. I remember thinking this has got to be the worst Christmas ever, then a few years later i spent the time with someone and realised there are a lot worse situations than being alone.
Saw this while in Manchester 1975 as a kid Christmas special , when Christmas actually meant something and TV was worth watching
Happy days
I love all the oldes to back then tv was just 3 chanels thankyou keep posting👍
I was born that year. Flairs and platform shoes! Lol. Police cars were blue and white.
From a British War Veteran
Martin ,complete genius by a comic god , and the cast !! .so sad about Richard beckinsale long gone ,never forgotten x
I can’t imagine how bad Christmas is gonna be this year?! Plus we have 200 channels of saturated shit on tv to look forward to lol.
Leonard Rossiter , is a legend as a kid me and my dad would watch this and piss ourselves laughing at Rigsby , probably one of the greatest under rated comedy actors of his time . Legend in my eyes
I don’t think he was under rated, he was a very much respected actor/comedian of the time. He is still remembered today with great admiration. He was in 2 of the most popular comedy’s of the time and also great on stage.
@@vc23 never underrated,
Such a silly word this underrated when talking about a national classic.
@@irishking1414 Hey i agree , but he never got the same recognition as others around at the time .
Rigsby is who he is 😊 the same as everyone else xxxx
Leonard Rossiter was a perfectionist and this is a great study in loneliness. His acting just makes it a joy to watch.
😅
U will never get comedy like this again British is best
So many FANTASTIC comedies came out of the 1970's. I wish I could go back. Simpler times, but MUCH MUCH happier times.
Brilliant from start to end. Pure solid 24 carat british comedy at its best.
I used to think he was thinking the stuff he said when he was alone, but now I know he's really talking to himself. Haha. Because now I do the same. I rant like that. 🤣🤣
Truly stands the test of time
Best one was where he was burning some wood to attract Mr's Jones only to find out it wasn't African love wood it was from his wardrobe 😂
I agree!
😂😂😂
Richard Beckinsale was such a charming, handsome young man. It's heartbreaking that he was only 31 years old when he passed.
When life was normal and we could laugh at anything without bieng critized the best comedy ever made Rigsby is a legend
Rigsby's comic timing and rhythm is second to none. Brilliant stuff.
First few minutes of this are as good as comedy gets. The monologue talking to Vienna and then the exchanges with Larry Martin, the milkman, are pure gold. Watched this countless times and always howl with laughter.
"If Rigsby played blind man's bluff in a harem he'd end up with the eunuch". What a brilliant line!
it's buff
I know how he feels
What a show! Couldn’t show this now on tv! The slightest things said and we’re up in arms about it. Dearest most handsome Richard Beckinsale 🌈🙏🏻 gone way way too soon at age of 31. I believe he was the balm for Leonard on those shows. Calmed him down from watching everything. Don is a beauty to watch. Gabrielle Rose is outstanding considering she’s Canadian. Never would know with that British accent she puts on
One of the funniest men ever, what an actor.
Larry was brilliant in this it's shame he wasn't featured in more episodes
Fantastic show so much better than the crappy stuff we get now
watching on xmas day 2022 as my visitors haven't turned up, a brilliant episode of a superb series.
My father’s job in the 70’s was as a damp proofing specialist. He had his company details advertised on his van.........woodworm, dry rot and rising damp! The amount of prank calls we used to get in the evenings asking if “Rigsby was there?” always gave us a laugh. Happy times!😂 😂 😂
Leonard Rossiter just superb here. Talking to the cat at the start alone had me laughing. The mix up with the lady from Northampton was just hysterical.
You just realise how much we have lost watching these. There's nothing even a tenth of good as this being made now.
I think it's mainly to do with shared cultural references that everyone understood, which makes jokes easier to understand. Now, we are culturally and ethnically fragmented as a nation, so we don't have these shared references to joke about.
Sometimes you're better off speaking to the cat or even the wall.
@@Londonfogey you are absolutely right......speaking as Irish born and raised, we could still pick up on the references.
What an absolute Classic this comedy show was, loved watching Rising Damp as a kid in the 89’s, how i miss being so you free,innocent and single
That impeccable comic timing from Leonard Rossiter...he really was a fabulous comic actor
Classic comedy at its best.
Leonard Rossiter what a funny fella
Don Warrington, such a voice, and exquisite timing. Still utterly superb today.
Quite agree. Leonard Rossitor : brilliant as the miserly landlord. I can't quite place the accent in the character.
@@helencampbell2064 he was from Liverpool. There’s a bit of Scouse in there.
@@Guapito1973 Thank you.
Yes, just read 📚Leonard Rossiter's Wikipedia and he was indeed born in Liverpool. Although his Rigsby character seemed to have a bit of a Yorkshire accent. Actors are often required to speak in an accent completely different from their own.
Absolute genius. Leonard rossiter is a legend. 👍👏
Leonard was absolutely FANTASTIC!
May he rest in peace!
Easily ITV’s best comedy, Leonard Rossiter was something else.
The pace of this is astonishing.
That is refreshing. People having fun before PC made us all so glum.
This was made about 40 years ago and it beats anything made today. I am suffering from broken ribs and had tears rolling down my face with laughing and trying to hold my ribs
Jo Moreland
Love it
And wetting yourself with laughter.
Try "The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin"
I wouldn't go that far but it is very good.
There was still bedsits and shared rooms like this in the south of England in the 80s I know I lived in one for 3 years but absolutely loved it 🏴 still watch these repeats when there on itv3 in 2022
The way he turns on the tap and says "water!" always cracks me up.
As the girl sits there smirking, allowing Rigsby to dig his own grave, pmsl. The writers back then were so so talented, and the acting was just a joy to behold.
Comedy writers of the past were so good, their fine work brings continued laughter always....🥳
The sad thing is can’t make this any more great comedy
Pure genius !
Only had 3 channels back then, but the viewing was first class.
So jolly, I remember when it first came out and watch it every year.
That look from Rigsby at the beginning is exactly how Christmas and New Year felt.
There was only me and my dad. Kelly Brook never bloody turned up
Happy, happy days. And the irony is that Phillip was always the coolest, most intelligent. He wound them all up and watched them go. In today's dystopia it would be banned as racist. Yet the joke is ALWAYS against the whites. Beautiful acting. Heartwarming and hilarious. I was so lucky to have grown up in that world - so much more honest, far less materialistic...and such talent!!!
Spot on .
Yet the joke is ALWAYS against the whites................ISNT THAT RACIST ?
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Qwhite right Karen!
jungle juice
The greatest sit com ever in my opinion, and I haven’t forgotten only fools and horses.
I have seen many classic comedy actors over the years, but this guy, has to be one of the very best .
Brilliantly written. How Leonard Rossiter remembered all his lines baffles me. I cant even remember a loaf tin of beans and a pint of milk when I go to the shops
Nor me!
Can't wait for someone to invent a pen an paper
@@billyclark7079 Rossiter would have no use for them now. Hes dead.
Stage experience.
They where all vary funny and good actors use to make lots laugh so much... wish we could go back in time❤
I agree with you, but let's not forget he also co-starred with Paula Wilcox in a lovely comedy called The Lovers. The appeal of Richard Beckinsale was always in his gentle, innocent vulnerability.
Brilliant
Brilliant writing, brilliant acting, brilliant storyline. This really is comedy Gold - made my day, thank you!
This was such well written show and all the actor's were superberb.I am Indian and never found this racist.
One of my all time fave sitcoms. Rigsby still has me in stitches. Classic.
still so funny after all these years
😂😂
Richard Beckinsale was so cute he would be 70 this year if he was still alive so sad he died at 31 of a heart attack.
Yes, he was father of Samantha & Kate Beckinsale...
Yes. A brilliant comedy actor.
A very sad loss.
cocaine
31, no way. How sad. Always watched this with my mom and dad. Pity you wont get this today with all the pc. Again, the words might be a bit choice to the youth of today but it made mainstream tv, i cannot recall people complaining and once again the the star of the show played the fool, people just laughed at his brilliance! He always made me feel out of breath.
Sid Arthur no, he had a congenital heart problem that he wasn’t aware of.
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL TO SEE
GOOD OLD FASHIONED HUMOUR
ONCE AGAIN .....GENIUS...👍👍👍❤
Great comedy, brilliant actor. Timeless classics 🤣.
Thanks 🙏
Shout out from Oz
Moved from UK 🇬🇧 15 years ago but always miss English sitcoms.
The casting was inspirational, the acting superb, the writing brilliant.
Best comedy era, you had these faulty towers , porridge, ain't half hot mum, steptoe and sons, are you being served ,bless this house ect ect,,sad to say but we haven't got any good comedy series on t.v ,good job we can watch our favorites at a touch of a button
I loved this show .The Rise and fall of Redmond perrin was also funny.
Same.Loved The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin and the 'Grot Shop', the hippopotamus and his fantasies.
Classic British comedy at its best!! So glad to have grown up in the U.K. watching these comedies once a week during the evening! These were the good old days!!
They were the good old days, real comedy, we just Lough watching these classic shows, no political correctness...
He was so loquacious in the part - how he delivered it all was a sign of Rossiter's amazing talent
British comedy at its best....Classic Rigsby!
Blimey a very very long time ago gosh I was still at infant school. We made the best and funniest comedies then.🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love from the UK ❤️🙏👍
The writing on this is superb. Add the incredible talent of Rossiter - and all the actors, and you have pure comedy gold.
"No need to call me 'Bwana!' " I love his facial expressions when he thinks he's being sympathetic, generous and knowledgeable 😂
when you could have a laugh without fear
I make jokes about whatever the hell I like. For example: They say romance is dead which is why I became a necrophiliac
@@SamuelBlack84 that's fuckin dead "boring"
When you could have a laugh.....full stop
So wish I could turn the clock back . The good old days
One of the best comedy series of the 1970s. Leonard Rossiter was a very versatile and talented actor
My mixed race parents used to laugh there heads off at this show! Rigsby was such a tosser! What a great show! Everyone in it was fantastic! Merry Christmas!
My dad used to love this show ,brings back memories .The best !
One of my familys favourite comedy's when I was a youngster . Rewatching this Christmas . The nostalgia 💕
Loved Don Warrington and he is now in Death in paradise,a great actor.
Love his voice
A performance of absolute brilliance from Leonard rossiter backed up with great performances from the cast.
Can't beat a bit of indulgence before Christmas 🎄⛄ Rising Rigbie on all accounts simply Wonderful 👍
Genius comedy with Leonard Rossitter and Richard Beckinsale! Great cast and more laughs in this, than anything on the TV nowadays!
this comedy gold there’s no way anybody can be offended to this
Has anyone complained about it?
*by this
@@sargonsblackgrandfather2072
I think he's talking about the 182👎
sad people
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🥰🇯🇲🏴🕊️🔥✝️
I think I saw a documentary of this truly amazing series. The writer's said they would write the half hour script and would come up 10 minutes short solely because Leonard Rossiter was the fastest delivery of lines in the World. The man was a complete genius.
i love the conversations rigsby has with vienna