Morecambe & Wise - No one will work with Eric 

Craftsmanship like this is a thing of the past and much missed. These two were total masters of the natural style of humour

Our best-ever comedy duo. Thank goodness for videotape. Still in tears of laughter in 2023.

I read in Zorba The Greeks autobiography that he was deeply hurt that he'd never been approached to appear in any television plays what Ern wrote, he also expresses regret at Shirley Bassey giving them his number, Shirley Bassey goes on to play Lulu in the quarter final

Love their 1970s shirts!

Part of my childhood I adored Morecame and Wise

A genius of rehearsal, perfect timing and superb writing

Eric knew exactly how long the paper should stay on his head for maximum laughs, years and years of listening to audience reaction.

Eric and Ernie trying to hold it together after Sir Felix hangs up the phone is one of the best moments of this sketch.

They were brilliant and I loved them! There aren't any comedians like them anymore. Brilliant ❤❤❤❤😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅🤗💯😍😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Aww I miss this so much these were the days of good tv shows

The world was a better place with M&W in it.

Here I am in 2019 and still laughing at these two

Absolutely hilarious comedy from Eric and Ernie, totally spontaneous, no joins , unlike Ernies hair ,hard to keep up with the jokes, so much is delivered by Erics facial expressions ,no one can keep a straight face on his show !!

That tie lol. It's like in the 1970s people wanted their tie to blend with their shirts and BOTH to blend with the wall paper :P

One word for these truly great Gentlemen, Brilliant.

Very few comic actors make me laugh before they speak, Stan Laurel, Groucho, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson & Eric Morecambe.

Eric was brilliant at improv!

Anyone see the wink Eric gives Ernie after the paper? True partnership.

"HE KNOOOWS NOTHING!"

Love this one. 7:53 is a great moment, they really kept it together. Like the hip '70s clothes instead of the cardigans! I have this, I think it's either series 5 or 6. Thanks for posting!

Loved them so much! 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Only one word. CLASS !!!!

they had sum funky shirts in 70s ledgends rip eric and ernie

Love this skit ...You can't flaming get Zorba the Greek can ya ?

It's when Eric fails to appreciate the plays wot Ernie wrote - that's the part that always gets me! And I still can''t see the join! Arsenal!

The sketches in the flat was my favourite of all there sketches 😀👍.

All those years ago and Noel Edmonds is still wearing shirts like that!.

Loved the part when the piece of paper lands on Eric's head

Get a load of Ernie's shirt and tie. So 1970's.

Just watched this skit again. This is one of the best ever....Rubbish.

"I'll never use her margarine again!"

Pure comic genius

This is brilliant

Brilliant! 😂

I remember the 1970's when men's shirts and ties looked as though they were made out of wallpaper.

Good sketch. Every single person in this fine sketch was now dead. Just thought I might tell you all that 😫.

cant understand how anyone would not want to work with our Eric they were both masters of improv

Anybody would have considered himself extremely lucky and honoured to work with Eric Morecambe 😂😅😂

eating celery like that uses up more calories than it gives you; and i really like Ern's shirt & tie

Brilliant

7:55 lol :D You can't script things like that! lol Gold!

Wonderful! The Governors.

Used to work on these on the cameras. Can here the production secretary calling shots quietly in the background....

I am sure that if you were to show this to anyone from another country you'd just get stony faces. It's very hard to explain comedy like this which relies so much on taking quite ordinary sentences and words and turning them into something else entirely.

Why do all these great actors live in the same house?

"SHE KNOWS NOTHING!"

yep, she's counting how many seconds before cutting to another camera, must be an audio bleed from the control room. good sketch, never seen it before.

just imagine being back in these days again. Did anyone speak about the New World Order? Anyone speculate about Annunaki Aliens, Skull & Cross Bones. Did the television brain wash us, or just make us happy. We had 3 channels in those days, and did we need any more? The quality of television was very high. Why did we let this situation go? there are more of us than there is of them. Let's bring back the good life! Be satisfied with less, which was really much more. Bring back the quality life.

from 8:00 to8:10 you can see Eric trying to think of a punch line.

Can anybody else hear a woman's voice faintly calling out numbers during the sketch?

At 7:57 I lost it hahah 😂

Classic

That blue sofa is just like the crap you can buy these days from made.com.

In the quiet bits you can hear audio breakthrough from the vision gallery, a woman's voice.

That last lady looks my top women Champ from RAID: shadow legends hahahaha (middle one looks like The Queen)

To make things clear as it seems there are a few people on these video comments section who are targeting Eric Morecambe's politics. First, Eric very rarely ever did political jokes with Ernie. Second, he gave Thatcher kind words after her 1979 win as many other entertainers did. Eric was no hard line right winger, far from it. But after the 1978-1979 winter of discontent, many supported Thatcher in 1979.

7:55 xD

I wonder if what Ern says about Eric being good company for about five minutes and then getting tiresome is based on truth. From what I have heard, Eric was always 'on' and it must have got very wearing for most people who don't want to be like that all the time.

Lol the pair in his head

What was he eating

NBA

genius,dosent get funnier ,the days of good comedy are over

Hj

Eric is my grandad

Ernie is my granddad.

Just like Ant & Dec - Crap!

Eric is my grandad

Eric is my grandad