He played as Albert Riddle the one-armed washer upper in robins Nest, two armed O'Reilly in Fawlty Towers, and made a commercial for a washing-up liquid called Three Hands! Avery handy man, sadly missed.
O’Reilly,Mrs Richards,the major,Ken Campbell in the anniversary,Bernard Cribbins ‘spoooooooons’,just some of the great actors who appeared.The funniest tv show ever by a mile.
I couldn't imagine any else portraying o'reilly than wilfred brambell of steptoe and son but david kelly did it with such ease and pomp and man who can forget the "smile",Rip mate you are sorely missed in this world,cheers
"Oh don't smile!" while covering his face and turning away, it's tiny, it's barely a moment in the scene and is immediately eclipsed by Sybil beating the ever living hell out of O'Reily but damn does it set it up perfectly. It'a so well timed it's insane.
I was just about to comment ‘and then Grandpa Joe went to bed for 30 years until the prospect of free chocolate got him out again’ , you beat me to it mate! He was a huge star here in Ireland and a very familiar and comforting face on our tv.
"If you're not over here in twenty minutes with my door I shall come over there and insert a large garden gnome in you, good day." The best part is the end when he is angrily marching away from the hotel carrying a gnome. Cybil: Where are you going Basil Basil: I am going to have a talk with O'riley dear.
The genius of the lamp 😂 David Kelly used to play a character called Sylvie in an Irish soap called 'Glenroe' - a right dodgy fucker who sold knock-off burglar alarms...hilarious 😂
"To be paerfectly honest, I like a woman with spirit!" "Oh, do you, is that what you like?" "I do, I do!" "Oh, good! Come on then, give us a smile...!"
The best part was cut out...goes something like this - Sybil: you hired him because he is cheap Basil: I wouldn't call him cheap Sybil: then what would you call him? Basil: well...cheap-ish
O'reilly: If the good lord wanted us to worry, he would've given us things to worry about. Basil: He has. My wife! She'll be back in 4 hours and can kill a man at 10 paces. Me: I feel you. I survived the army, but the thing I fear most is the person who sleeps next to me when she's mad.
wONDURFUL...I'm Irish...don't mind a joke on us at all at all. But I like to see everyone get it. Blacks, jews Irish, English, welsh, Scots, Americans (yes please) Germas, Gays...everyone. People are such feckin drama queens these days. PC me bollix
When it's female on male violence - yes, it is. Any male who can't take a bit of (justified) violence from a woman doesn't deserve to describe himself as a man.
Considering that almost every major civil engineering firm in the UK and Ireland is Irish owned and staffed - top to bottom - I would have thought this scenario especially unlikely. Rather like hiring an Italian chef, only to discover he's unable to make a single pasta dish, surely? This would be far better if it were remotely plausible.
considering this is 30+ years old and the stereotype of Irish biulders at the time I'd say this is plausible, so get of your millennial high horse and enjoy good old comedy
emrys At 58, I'm hardly a millennial. And this was never a stereotype of Irish builders that I'm aware of. If such were the case, the UK would have no motorways, and not an awful lot in the way of housing. Irish (and indeed Scottish and Geordie) builders of that generation were certainly known as hard drinkers and even harder workers, but not, I think, as a group necessarily suffering some form of collective brain damage. That was the work of Mr. Cleese and his singular political views. What else could you expect from a guy born Cheese who changed one letter of his surname by deed-poll? What a waste. He could have been John Cleeso.
Now David Kelly is close to the good Lord, I wonder how he would feel about you calling him British. Oh and all the Germans in The Germans really were German.
