Did you say whole family watches TV? Gee whiz ! I forgot we did back in the good old seventies, we would share the one TV. Thanks for reminding me, we used to watch Mary Tyler Moore,Love Boat, Carol Burnette and order Chinese food, or Pizza.
@@davidfanara3229 Awesome Dave !! Also Quincy ME, The Liberace Show, The Dave Allen Show, Iron Sides, Kojak, The Goodies, and for me Aussie TV shows as well: The Don Lane / Bert Newton Show, Matlock Police, Homicide, The Norman Gunston Show, Hoges, and many others.
How lucky we were to have lived to see them at their absolute finest. Not a soul on telly can touch them! Lovely to see a young Cilla enjoying it as much as the audience. Now that’s talent!
It was a honour and a privilege to have been bought up in that era. Comedy the music the people and friends around us were all a joy to have known. They really were the good old days.
Everyone in the day watch theses two. A time when life was without the rigid ethics we see today. A time when just gentle ,simple comedy was the dish of the day. All we have left is memories and the ambience of the times..glad I lived through 60/70s..golden age.
Love this. Cilla seems so at ease, so happy, so joyful. Eric & Ernie are such good company, so unpredictible and spontaneous. The gold standard for comedy.
Eric Morecambe is a serious contender for being the funniest man in history. Cilla was a fantastic guest, and her constantly bursting into laughter just made it even funnier. Ernie's dancing at the end was the icing on the cake!
Ernie was so good, the way he fades in and out around Eric so effortlessly, when he's in he fills the screen but makes himself prectically invisible so the full focus can fall on Eric, incredible skill and symbiosis between them
Morecambe and Wise always make me think of my dear old grandad, who loved them to bits. I can still see him sitting in his favourite chair, laughing 'till he needed his hanky to wipe away the tears. Happy memories from watching their shows at Christmas in their old cottage.
Now Ant and Dec win best comedy duo awards year after year and they are about as funny as a dose of piles, it's actually an insult to Morecambe and Wise who were the GREATEST....shows where we are nowadays...RIP Eric and Ernie...thank you for making the world a better place...
I loved Eric and Ernie, they were really funny , they also came over as nice guys. I don't know about Ant and Dec, I've never watched them for longer than 10 seconds.
@King Royal I hope you are wrong on that score. Cilla (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) came from a very working-class background. She enjoyed her success, though I can't ever imagine that she would 'pull up the ladder'. I can't really speak personally of John Eric Bartholomew.
Oh that lovely girl! Clearly having the time of her life and loving every minute with Eric and Ern. I’d have been frightened to death in front of that audience and the cameras, yet she laughs her head off, delivers all the script and belts out the song. Morecambe and Wise brought out the best in their guests with love and laughter. I remember BBC newsreader Angela Rippon exploding into a high-kicking dance routine that came out of nowhere, it wouldn’t have been much more of a surprise if Nelson had stepped off his column in Trafalgar Square and kicked the winning penalty in the Cup Final! Glenda Jackson, André Preview, Fenella Fielding…all just magical.
I just adore this sketch, with the lovely Cilla genuinely cracking up at E & E 's antics, so spontaneous and genuinely hilarious no matter what your taste. Nothing like this today, it all has to be either vulgar, rude or crude, and oh yes, no talent.
Just incredible, three true earth angels with a wonderful talent that lifts you even on the darkest of days, they are all truly missed but never forgotten. God love them and bless them, thank you Eric, Ernie and Cilla.
Brilliant! My mum would make us home made hamburgers. The only night in the week when we could eat them while watching TV and eat with our hands and then sit and watch Eric and Ernie. Cilla was in stiches. It's the TIMING more than anything else - pure genius!
I think the secret of Eric and Ernie was that they were clearly great friends off screen and you always felt you were being let into a little slice of their fun world when they were together. Without doubt the best comedy duo this country ever produced.
Ernie Wise very underrated and a great talent as shown by his great dancing here. What an awesome duo they were. And Cilla Black so gorgeous and lovely and talented.
Eddie Braben actually gave Ernie a better personality and more to do with his writing. Eddie was the man who turned Ernie into the pompous playwright which Ernie loved.
hmm maybe so, but they cut out the scene where Eric and Ernie spit roasted Cilla.. Eric was in the mouth end, and he was hung like a Klingon, she was choking and gagging.. it was superb.
@@livelongandprosper70 I honestly don't understand what you were referring to? Cilla black did a sketch with them, that's what I'm guessing you meant. I don't remember it. What is spitting roast Cilla? Explain the sketch please?
No you dont sound old at all...this si indeed what comedy used to be about...these days most of the stuff you get is a load of cobblers...I would rather see this time and tie again than watch some wise crack drone on about current affairs in the guise of modern-day comedy...Morecambe and Wise were probably the best British comedy duo...
@@RB747domme Ignore Rob hes talking a load of cobblers...he thinks spit roasting someone is comedy...what a bloody shame, the times we live in and th people we encounter :(
🎼Fifty years since this bit, and the world has gone to shi... but you still make us smile and that makes our life worthwhile! 🎶 Gone but never forgotten. ❤️
Life will never be the same for me again. I know those days won't ever come back, there's no time machine or anything. I wasn't even born back then, but at leaat we have the glory of sound and video to bless us with masterpieces like this.
What a superb sketch….so simple but so funny. Sadly they’re all gone now. R.I.P. Eric, Ern, Cilla and Eddie Braben, and thank you for all the wonderful entertainment and laughs 🙏🏻
The bit where Eric twitches as though Cilla had touched him, brilliant. Then one of the best lines ever. "For another pound we could have had Lulu..and she brings her own teeth" Comedy Gold
Morcambe & Wise, The Two Ronnies, Faulty Towers, The Good Life, Carry On, Benny Hill, The Goodies, etc. etc. These days we have Ant & Dec, Made in Essex, and Cake Off.
The direction is brilliant. No continuous and pointless switching from camera to camera. The director is content to stay with the same shot for ages with no urgency to switch to another until there is something worth switching for.
*"The Morcambe, Wise and Black Show"* I'm not usually a Cilla fan, but she's just _wonderful_ in this! So talented and natural - that suddenly the perfect double act Double-Act is a perfect Tripple-Act, as though it had been that way forever.
She's really natural and lovely here. The exaggerated so called Scouseness came later. I know, I'm from Liverpool. She from just North of city centre, I'm from south end. Accents change over time but then, cld pinpoint particular districts. I am a Lancashire lass not a Scouser. Before Merseyside was invented. aged 82 🕊️
Incomparable. Eric Morecambe was arguably the funniest man ever and Ernie Wise was the perfect foil. People forget that Ernie was a superb song and dance man.
Ernie was the business brain behind the double act. Bill Cotton their boss at the BBC said he was as hard as stone when their contract came up for renewal every two or three years. He had a business brain, and would have made an excellent businessman if he never met Eric. Eric said that he would never have had the financial security in life if it were not for Ernie. Indeed many theatres, TV producers etc would offer very little money to Eric as they thought he was a fool. Ernie sorted that out. You never ever messed with Ernie money wise.
I remember going to a concert in England with my mother and our next door neighbor to see Cilla Black I was just a young girl then it was 1970 but it was such a wonderful experience and she sang so beautifully it was a great night I remember to this day and I now live in the USA but it's such a pleasure to go back in time and see Morecambe and wise which I love so much back then are you being served which was hilarious and the Jimmy tarbuck show that I used to enjoy. I miss Jolly Old England and I miss the 70s it was a much better time
Neither nor ... You simply forgot, or ignore: Winter of Discontent, Three-Day Week, Sterling Crisis, England a beggar to the European Common Market (humiliated by De Gaulle, no less!), industrial unrest, wild strikes, Bloody Sunday as part of the gaping reeking wound of the Northern Ireland conflict .... and the racial and religious time-bomb, now exploding, already ticking. Bleak, bleak times, though I grant you these are bleaker.
Marvellous ! I think it shows the high regard in which they held Cilla, in letting her join in THEIR signature song - not sure if many others would have been allowed to do that !
In our house in the 60s and 70s, M&W were compulsory viewing. Just laughing, piss taking great humor, with some music thrown in. Yeh, six minutes of smiles here.
wat laughter n belly laugh,,good old days stil brings laughter,,good bless eric,cilla party together where ever yous are? and thank u for all the laughs,,
how i miss those days of watching Eric and Ernie and laughing so heartily with my parents at these two wonderful men and their irreplaceable comic genius
Eric never ad-libbed on a tv recording. The scripts were airtight on the day of recording, if he ad-libbed during rehearsal and it was funny the ad-lib would be written into the sketch and Eric would perform it as if he'd just thought of it. But Eric and Ernie were both meticulous for never taking a risk and going off-script on a recording but were so good at performing they could make a scipted remark look off the cuff. I believe it was Tom Jones that mentioned it in an interview he said nobody was allowed to go off-script not even Eric once the script had been finalized and everything was rehearsed to the point of tedium.
Was in Blackpool last week and I heard Bring Me Sunshine but by someone else, I was nearly crying because it brought me back to watching Morecambe and Wise and their own wee bit of Sunshine that they gave us. Cilla was a great sport here,just wholesome clean fun. Sadly missed all three of them.
I have just spent the last two hours watching Eric and Ernie, two hours of total pleasure. From the days when Comedians didn't need to use bleeped out words or political attacks, just comedy. I miss those days.
AmethystDew Yes, I remember watching Saturday night TV with my mum and dad. It would be 'The Generation Game' followed by 'Starskey and Hutch' or 'Kojak', 'Benny Hill' 'Steptoe and Son' etc. We only had 3 channels but we really did have so much to watch even though looking back some of it is now no longer politically correct....
Claire Smith I know, i'm a bit sad for the time gone by and loved ones passed, but I do have some wonderful people in my life now at 58 so I am blessed. x
Yep, Dave. I agree. As a family we used to enjoy Opportunity Knocks, New Faces, the Dave Allen Show, Charlie's Angels, The Liver Birds, the list goes on.