YES.......I WAS 18......AND REMEMBER THE 11TH HOUR TRIBUTE PROGRAMME BRING ME SUNSHINE HOSTED BY MICHAEL PARKINSON SHOWN LATER THAT EVENING......YES.....A BLOODY SHOCK......YES...I CRIED....AND SO DID MY FATHER.....I REMEMBER ERNIE WISE...NOT HAVING SLEPT....ON TV-AM THE FOLLOWING MORNING......THAT TOOK GUTS......ALL 40 YEARS AGO.......WHERE HAS THAT TIME GONE.............AMAZING......R.I.P LEGEND.
@@paulc180 But the video was only uploaded on 23/05/2024 in anticipation of the anniversary of his death, so it is far from "unbelievable" that the RU-vid algorithm should have suggested this new video a few days later. Nothing mystical is going on here.
Great interview, I like how open and honest he is. Sometimes comedians of his generation hide behind their act when giving interviews, but great that he showed us who he really was.
There are many people that you could call a national treasure, but Eric and Ern are very, very high up that list. I am now very old, so I remember the 1960s shows on ITV with Dick Hills worry and Syd Green as writers, (and of course the magical 70s BBC shows.) And I saw them live back in the 1970s and Eric did his paperbag gag, (you just click your fingers obviously) and it was magical. But ‘that’s easy for you to say’ they were both brilliant lovely people.
Mrs Batholomew died only a few weeks ago in our home town of Harpenden (village really). at the age of 96, packed out with celebs, just as at Eric's funeral. Eric & Ernie were, at one point, Joint Presidents of the British Beer Mat Collectors Society (in the 70s) - now not a lot of people know that?
Thanks for sharing - I’ve never seen this before. He seems much more serious here. Perhaps it’s because he’s without Ernie?… I imagine this is actually very similar to what the show was like in Tewksbury on the night he sadly passed away - an interview, where he’s prompted to reminisce. God bless him anyway. 40 years, and now reunited with his lovely Joan.
Eric Morecombe was a genius. As a family we watched the Morecombe and Wise Christmas show every year. It was bloody funny. Eric getting a hold of Andre Previn then slapping him on both cheeks was hilarious. Even his orchestra laughed. Classic TV.
We always watch the Christmas show as a family as well. My late dad used to cry with laughter at Eric and Ernie’s jokes and sketches! Christmases were never the same somehow after he died.
He was only around 56 at this point - when you see how men looked of that age then, compared with now, it was a very diferent time. Smoking pipes, horned rimmed glasses, blazers, etc. Mid fifites was considered quite old in those days, where as now its considered quite young.
I was twelve then, and the same age as his son Steven. Now just turned fifty four and my brother fifty six, so we are that age group! I don't smoke and only need reading glasses.
A lot of folks these days don't get M&W, they only know comedians who hone 'tight 5's' with killer punchlines which is fine even tho it's a culture that eats itself as it has to increasingly shock or overstep lines in order to stand out in the competition (early Frankie Boyle etc.), but M&W was a totally different creature, watching them was more like visiting a fun relative or friend, comfort in familiarity
I am glad Gloria Hunniford became more professional after this interview to get some of the basics wrong however whether it is her or her researches It is so unprofessional, but Eric was so class the way he handled it because he was a class guy.
@@CookingAroundTheWorld approximate Morecambe and Wise Christmas special 1977, was actually watched apparently by 27 million British people absolutely amazing?
I worked with a guy who had known her for years and he didn't get on with her said she was a complete b1tch. Of course I only have his word for that but I have heard others says similar. She didn't like to admit she had made a mistake or that the information was wrong. As if Eric needed to be corrected on his own life!
@@bletheringfool could not agree more. the way she sulked and rushed him onto another topic after she had made a complete mess of the previous topic, told the story.
2:18 - In fact, Eric kept the cutting of that statement about their first BBC show in the 1950s, he kept that cutting in his wallet until the day he died according to his son Gary.
Aw, Eric is so lovely here, sometimes he could I reckon be annoying in interviews, but here he clearly wanted a proper talk. Of course the ghastly Gloria hadn't prepared properly so the chance of the sort of wonderful conversation he, according to so many witnesses, had with Stan Stennett on stage the night he died in 1984, which was very very unfortunately not recorded, was missed.
I thought the same, that she was a bit wooden, as I feel she should have ridden along with his banter, instead of just concentrating on her own line of questioning, and also, the possible incorrect info she had on him.
There were very few, if any Englishmen as funny as this wonderful man! Tommy Cooper maybe. One of the secrets of comedy is an ability to have the crowd roaring themselves hoarse before you've uttered a word... take a look, the very embodiment of that ability is right there, talking to the lovely Gloria!!!
Hi, the bag trick was hilarious! As he throws the invisible object up in the air his fingers on the bag flick it and it sounds like something dropping into the bag. 😂
One of the few people whose death announcement I can remember. I think the others were John Lennon, Lord Mountbatten, Princess Diana & The Queen. His death was quite a loss to the country.
I remember watching E&E as guests on a kids saturday morning show, swop shop or something. They were answering questions from the kids. One of them asked Eric 'What colour underpants do you wear?' After a short silence Eric said 'white, erm yes white' but then he said 'well their a bit grey at moment the wife's on holiday. None of the kids got it (thank god) but I swear I saw the camera shake.
I recall that show - another kid asked "what would you be if you weren't making people laugh for a living?" and quick as a flash Eric answered "Mike & Bernie Winters"! Genius.
My favourite M&W skit was when they go to meet Eric Porter, in his dressing room, so Ernie could ask Porter if he'd appear in his play (in a sense, a 'play within a play'). Morecambe and Porter were the perfect class foils to each other, with Wise having to act as uncomfortable mediator, all the while, fearing Morecambe would ruin it all--classic!: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rdy56SayAcI.htmlsi=fHCLOdeiDymud6tQ
Isn't this interview just wonderful. Him and Ernie.....well along with Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello they were the greatest British double act EVER! Don't mention Des O' Connor!
@@grahamegaw-mc3bwIf you people from Northern Ireland want respect, then you should try not to be so daft-headed, and also work on making your accent sound less comical, smh.
