Ah yes we did. My surname is Emery so the teachers at school called me dick!! Was hillarious to all my class mates! Couldn't get away with that now ha ha! 🤣🤣
Very true, every characterisation was done with affection, there was nothing offensive in it. I know fashions change in everything, including humour. But where are today's comedians who can hold a one hour TV show together like the late, great Dick Emery, Les Dawson, Larry Grayson or Stanley Baxter - to name just four great comic names of the 'seventies and 'eighties. They are very much missed! Will Ant and Dec get belly laughs like this, 40 years from now? They don't even get them today!
Dick Emery is hugely underrated imo- for someone who was on BBC prime time for most of my childhood and is genuinely hilarious it’s surprising he hasn’t had the recognition he deserves, partly no doubt because it never gets repeated on British TV He did use stereotypes but there was no sense of hatred - the format of the show worked brilliantly with the recurring characters and I thought it was seaside humour done much more intelligently than Benny Hill who you reviewed recently Really hope you react to some more Dick Emery, Alan - love your channel
Dick Emery did use stereotypes but his humour was always inclusive. Everyone was in on the joke. It was of its time, though, and so much would now be considered by taboo by the schedulers.
THE most under rated GREAT & much forgotten Dick Emery bless him, I grew up laughing at him, Tommy cooper, Eric Sykes, Dave Allen, Dicky Henderson & Harry Worth etc, who all had their own half hour comedy shows all through the week in the 60's & 70's. May they all Rest In Peace.
Another classic from my childhood. This brought back some memories. Lol. Dick Emery had loads of different characters, all hilarious. But The last clip is the reason My mum used to say and do that to my dad when he said something outrageous. "You are awful, but I like you", then she would proceed to almost push him over. Lol.
Glad you found this, or someone recommended it. Dick Emery was at the time one of the highest watched shows, his catchphrase "You are awful but I like you" was repeated many a time.
During the 70's and 80's UK TV had many sketch shows like the Two Ronnies, Dick Emery Show, Monty Python, Benny Hill show, Tommy Cooper show, Morecombe and Wise, Not the Nine O'clock News. These shows were usually on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Usually it was a sketch show, then a sitcom, then a chat show, then the news and then late night documentaries like Whicker's World, then TV stations would closed down from 1am til 7am.
And again, another great video. I'll keep repeating this till I'm blue in the face, the UK use to be a great place to laugh at ourselves when nobody was offended 🤷♂️
Watched Dick Emery as a child, I am now 62. Remember laughing so much with my parents. I do see more humour now than I understood back in the day. The BBC and ITV had lots of shows like this and then the PC crowd installed themselves and the shows disappeared.
Dick Emery had about 12 characters that he played in every show. One of the best ones which wasn't included in this particular sketch was 'Lampwick' the old butler. Many of the characters had catch phrases that they always used. The gay one said, "Hello honky-tonk, how are you?" and the 'young woman' always said, "Ooh you ARE awful, but I like you," before pushing the man over.
If you watch a lot of his stuff you will come to recognise these characters as he uses them often. Thank you, this brightened my evening and took me back to my youth - which is a long way indeed!
There is also the grandpa character with a speech impediment, Lampwick. Many of his characters were in sketches based around vox pops. There is also his tramp/hobo character that wears a bowler hat, has street smarts & is known as "College". Dick Emery a 1 man variety show.
I'm so happy you reacted to DicK Emery, he tends to be forgotten. His shows were aired as i was growing up, from the 60's to 80's & he was huge in the UK at that time. The car being driven by the goofy vicar, was a Ford Anglia (1960's), funny looking thing, like a mini version of the U.S big 1950's cars. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
thank you so much for these clips and reactions, for those of us Brits of a certain age, this gives a warm glow from happy memories, back when comedy was funny and life was simpler. God Bless.
After having lived in Kenya for 3 years where my dear departed mother passed her driving license (a feat in itself with most of the drivers never having had a test), we moved to Scotland where she had to take another test. Her test examiner was a dour Scotsman and at one point told her to make an emergency stop, which she did but he said that was not "emergency". These were the days when there weren't any seat belts .... and told her to try again. This time she really hit the pedals and the poor examiner's head cracked the windshield. He wasn't very happy but had to give her her licence - that would have made a good sketch !!!!
WowWho'd be a driving instructor or examiner.My Mother was like Thora Herds character in Last of the Summer Wine.One day she panicked on a round about.Drove onto it..a policeman came and had to drive it off and point it in the right direction for home.
Yes, that would have made a good comedy sketch. John Sullivan would have used that in Only Fools & Horses. As the John was the creator & there were real life situations in his episodes.
I used to love Dick Emery as a kid! As for Kenny Everett, one that springs to mind which I found on RU-vid is listed as 'Spiderman needs a squizzle'. It's a short clip & a bit grainy but I think it's funny as I remember this sketch from the show. I also think his character Reg Prescott was hilarious. There's another clip titled 'The Best of Kenny Everett Reg Prescott Diy', but there are so many funny moments from his shows it's hard to pin down anything in particular as he was so funny!
@Dan Didnot you had a box? luxury! we had to stick our heads in't fishtank with baby sharks nibbling at us. and dad would thrash us with plug end of the wire (if we had been good) ;-)
@@MacStoker Well, when I say a box, I meant a matchbox, of course. A soggy one. 23 of us, there were, livin int matchbox. We had to get up at 5 o'clock int mornin, work downt pit for 16 hour a day, and when we got home, our dad would sell us for medical experiments and spend't money on brown booze, if we were lucky! The 90s were hard up North.😄
@@MacStoker Aye, 'Appen. They don't know they're born, with their VR Pokemons and electric toothbrushes. What's that about? "Clean your teeth!" "I can't!" "Why not?" "The Leccy's bin turned off, you never paid the bill Dad!"
I’m so pleased you’ve tasted a piece of The Dick Emery Show. I used to love watching him on a Sunday evening with my dad. We both would be in stitches. A very funny man. More please sir 👍😍🐸
Dick Emery starred in one of the very first films to feature John Candy, Find the Lady (1976) with his own primetime BBC show running 1963-1981. There is PLENTY to see :-)
The dark haired sex starved woman character was based on his BBC producer's secretary. When she quizzed him on who he had based the character on he very tactfully said: "You've never met her." Which was true!
Superb! I remember watching Dick Emery with my Grandparents in the 1970s, those characters were his main 'go to' ones. Ref Kenny Everett try out his Reg Prescott DIY videos, side splitting!
Loved Dick Emery. With regards to Kenny Everett, there's a goldmine of fantastic comedy from him. He was a genius on both radio and television. As others have mostly recommended his best characters, I'd recommend his Rod Stewart and Bee Gees sketches. Both comedy gold. I'd also recommend his Spiderman sketch, although that's probably too short for a reaction video.
Forgotten about Dick Emery. Another programme I watched with my mum where I started not understanding the show and over the years ended up trying not to explain it to her. I took my test in Tooting and managed not to panic when a cement mixer was parked in the middle of the road. My mum on her second try, turned the corner just when a grand piano was crossing the road. Not by itself.
If you can find them Dick Emery also made at least two movies featuring most of his characters and some of the actors who normally just played bit parts got to develop their own characters too.
Hi there EB! Some Kenny Everett's character's that I remember for you to look up are Cupid Stunt (How did he get away with that one on 70s TV? ;) ). Sid Snot and Angry of Mayfair.
ahhhhh, that brought back a few memories of my 1958 Ford Anglia, I swear that my back problems of today are because of what I got up to in the back of that car, either that or it was the pushing of the bloody thing!
I grew up watching The Dick Emery Show on the BBC from 1963 to 1981. There was also another show by Stanley Baxter on the rival ITV channel. With a similar format.
Dick Emery and Stanley Baxter were both geniuses. They played SO many brilliant, believable characters. It’s just a shame that their comedy probably wouldn’t be ‘PC’ enough, these days. Kenny Everett was also awesome.
The fabulous Dick Emery, brilliantly funny. King of comedy threw out the 70's.He always wanted to be a serious actor but sadly never got a chance. Sadly not shown on UK TV anymore.
He was a pilot and motor cyclist and his son said he had a job keeping his high powered bike upright at traffic lights due to short legs! Fondly remembered in the UK as one of the greats. He got fed up with his characters at the end, especially Mandy (last in the clip) as people incessantly cat called him "You are awful but I like you"!
Great reactions!! And so many Kenny Everett ones to recommend, perhaps a short and sweet one to search for would be "Kenny Everett Mac burgers". Keep up these, they are fantastic.
I was very lucky to grow up watching all these wonderful U.K. comedians, you are now discovering. They are greatly missed & very few modern one`s come close to their mastery of the Art. Wonderful to see you enjoying their work, several decades later. As for Kenny, lookout for his Space Hero character, Captain Kremmen, great fun.
Hi Al, I saw him play live at a end of pier show at Blackpool UK when I was about 12yrs old on holiday. He was just as good and professional as he was on tv. Another show of interest from the '70's was "The Goodies" which used to be shown on BBC 2 just after I got back from school. Used to watch it with my dad, the first episode had a situation similar to King Kong up the empire state building but won't spoil it here as it's a twist on it. All the best.
@@wesleyrodgers886 It's entirely possible. I think he was in Up Pompeii, roles in light comedy seemed to be his thing, so it's no surprise to see him in The Dick Emery Show. Edit: Sad to see that he passed in 2019. I'd forgotten that he did Dalek voices in the mid-late eighties.
It was a long time ago, The Dick Emery show was weekday primetime on BBC1 (don't think it was Saturday Night material which was mostly a movie then). He had a roster of characters he used in various different settings every week, that he used for years.
How lovely to see our American cousin roaring with laughter at one of our great British comedians of the 'seventies and 'eighties. Dick Emery was one of many great comedy icons this country produced at that time. It was a golden age for TV entertainment. Today we have Ant and Dec - 'nuff said! Will people be laughing at those two numpties 40 years from now? Let's face it, they don't get the laughs this Dick Emery sketch gets now when they are in their prime!
I have to absolutely recommend that you watch, if you haven’t already, Kenny Everett’s The Twelve Days of Christmas! Hilarious content right there! You will love it!!!!!
The show ran for 18 years, 160+ episodes. Typically it was made up of loose sketches like this, where his regular characters interacted with other performers, a regular feature were vox pop interviews with passing members of the public, all his characters. He wanted a change by 1981, and he was starting to work on other styles of comedy, but he died of a heart attack in 1983. Here is another one, the milkman ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VY59eQSdQu8.html
OMG, I had forgotten about Dick Emery. I remember watching him as a kid. Still so funny. I remember the gay character best. 🤣🤣🤣 And you so need to watch Kenny Everett. He’s so funny. 🤗 xx
Paul Hogan had a similar show before he did the Crocodile Dundee films. He was pretty good but I think Dave Allen's At Large shows were best, he was a great story teller and incorporated some good sketches into his shows too.
Another of Kenny Everett’s characters I just thought of was Reg Prescott the DIY expert. Any of these sketches featuring Reg are very brilliantly done, too! Check ‘em out!
Reg Prescott, Cupid Stunt, Marcel Wave, and Sid Snot...........wonderful characters all..........and as if the show wasnt already brilliant enough, because it was so funny, it had Hot gossip and Cleo Rochas............and a cardboard cut-out Michael Parkinson as well.........
@@MichaelHill-we7vt Yeah! I could never tell the.difference between the cardboard cutout and the real Michael Parkinson most of the time! 😀 But, yeah, all of Kenny’s characters were brilliant, absolutely! I don’t know if you have seen those “live action” sketches he did of Captain Kremmen at all, where uKenny played.the Captain and if anyone can remind me again who the young lady was that played Carla. She did the character justice I thought! Worth seeing again particularly the “brick wall” one. The breakdown in communication between the Captain and Carla is hilarious! Thanks for your reply, Michael! Enjoy life!
@@johnrowley5833 indeed.....great comedic memories....back in the time when we could just laugh at things because they were funny! And Kenny WAS funny.....he didnt take himself seriously (or anyone else for that matter!) and that Rod Stewart Mickey-take is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen............. all the best, my friend! regards
@@MichaelHill-we7vt Thanks. And just a quick mention too, he did those other two that I knew of similar to the Rod Stewart one. He did Elton John where his glasses grew to a ridiculous size and I am more certain it was Barry Mannilow than Barbara Streisand, where the nose grew too! We could go on all day talking about them couldn’t we? So many great ones! Cheers, my friend. All the best to you!
thought you might like this I was born in the early 70s so I grew up on this type of comedy 🏴The Dick Emery Show was a British sketch comedy show starring Dick Emery. It was broadcast on the BBC from 1963 to 1981. It was directed and produced by Harold Snoad. The show was broadcast over 18 series with 166 episodes.[1] The show experienced sustained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. The BBC described the show as featuring 'a vivid cast of comic grotesques'.
Wow that’s really going back to when I was a kid I remember watching this stuff with my with parents long time ago ( 50 now ) 👍 many thanks for the great memories EB 😀
