I set up this channel to record the ramblings of "Terry", my stoner-buffoon friend. However, his insistence that I make private any video that took off kind of harmed the channel, to the extent that the most well-known video on it has nothing to do with "Terry Time", and is instead this clip of (amusing) archive TV. - Terry's cameraman.
Love the hoots of laughter from this American audience, they'd never seen Rod and Emu before. In the UK he'd been terrorizing tv celebs since the 70s and we loved him xx
What I love about this is that Pryor actually had some idea of what was coming, but played along so beautifully. They had spoken back stage about the act. One comedian respecting another and giving them room to breathe.
Him and Emu was a very much loved and respected entertainer in the UK, by children and adults. I'm glad he made such a good impression in the USA too. I can't believe he attacked Carson though, but this was normal for his act. Have a look for Michael Parkinson and Rod Hull and Emu.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES honestly I find that hard to believe. Bookers for top US entertainment shows do their homework. Inviting him on but but forbidding him from performing his signature act like would be be like booking , say, Dana Carvey but stipulating no impressions.
There's a great bit at 2:21 just after he gets "bitten" and pulls his hand away in genuine panic where he's laughing at himself when he remembers it's just a puppet! Great host.
That may be one of the greatest 7 minutes of comedy gold I’ve ever seen! The comedy genius Richard Pryor meets the brilliantly bonkers Rod Hull and Emu. Thankyou RU-vid
This can only happen when people like Carson and Pryor are secure in who they are and let the humor flow and that was so funny. Adding, It's almost like thinking Emu is alive as that is how he was treated.
Before he died Rod sent me an autograph and a small part of Emu. I guess you could call it one of his feathers. Still have it in my collection. Rod sent Feathers to people who asked for them. Very sad day when I got the notice that he had died.
He was actually quite well known in the US in the 70s. Made lots of guest appearances on variety & talk shows. Johnny Carson absolutely would have known what was coming when he was booked onto his show, so I'm a bit baffled by the notion that Carson would have been in any way surprised.
I heard that Emu and Richard had a line of coke in the toilets. But they got disturbed because..there's somebody at the door....there's somebody at the door! And it was Grotbags selling her green minge.
I thought I had seen every single episode of the tonight show but obviously I missed this one. I really did not know who this guy was. I laughed so hard that I had to back up several times to hear what I had missed. Watched it a second time so my husband could see it and we just fell out laughing it was hysterical
@@ItsTerryTime No idea why, but this appeared in my recommended videos this evening. I hadn't thought of Rod and Emu in some time and being Irish, I'm not familiar with Carson's show.
Rod Hull was massive in the UK with this act, my guess is he stayed mostly at home due to his large audience and own television shows - he had a decent period of non-stop work. Maybe he felt it might be a bit more difficult to take this act to the US as perhaps (perhaps, this certainly does not include Pryor or Carson) fewer celebrities were willing to be 'beaten up' by a puppet. In the UK many celebrities lined up for that beating as it was deemed cool. Although one did not and Hull admitted he went harder at him for being a bit up his own backside about it - search for 'Michael Parkinson and Emu' to check it out!
Yep as well as a license to touch young girls and put his hand up women’s skirts. I watched him lose the audience completely and ruin his live show doing this once.
I have not been a happy camper for a long time. These old shows really mean a lot to me nowadays. This episode was on the other night and it was an absolute delight from beginning to end. I love how much everybody played along. It was so cool to see Richard in the 1st place, and he was on that night he was funny and gracious. Johnny couldn't have been better with that emo. It's funny because it scares you even when you're home in your living room . you don't know what that damn bird is going to do. Or worse yet you do know it's coming. 😆 I used to love this emo when I was a kid. Everybody on that stage was a kid at that moment. I'm 61 years old now and I was a kid in bed watching it with my dog 2 nights ago. 🥰
When we were kids we couldn't afford emu puppets so used football socks as our emu to attack our parents with. Great to see Rod and Emu again 😅 never fails to create a laugh
Rod Hull and Emu were hilarious as a child when he appeared on someone's chat show even though he promised not to attack the person beforehand you knew what was going to happen ended up sprawled over the floor with the presenter
What a good sport Johnny Carson always was! I had an actual Emu in my yard years back. Stroking him didn't work! The Sheriff was stunned when I called them. "How do you know it's an Emu and not an Ostrich?" Because each follicle had 2 feathers instead of one, of course. Eventually INS came and got him. It seemed his visa had expired. Rod Hull was no where to be found.
Jonnie Carson and the American audience were brilliant rodd and emu are typically bonkers slapstick comedy from Britain it's so childish but the best love the act 😀🙃🏴
I went to see them at the local theater and have never forgot how myself and other children were attacked by that bird. It was a very frightening experience.
I just heard about Rod Hull and Emu, referenced in Peep Show (if they were still around they'd use them for _Pringles_ commercials), and I am SHOCKED, I am SHOCKED AND OUTRAGED that nobody had told me about them before! 😮😊🖤 That costume/puppet is a great idea well executed :)
OMG...did I crack up or what. Hysterical. What good sports to allow this. I remember this man and his EMU from childhood and decided to look and boy was I happy to see these wonderful clips. I laughed so hard my cat ran out the kitchen, then I had a cough attack...lmao. Thank you Terrytime for posting this truly funny clip.
Beautiful on so many levels. The comedy coming together. The nuances. The timing. It’s perfect. The trifecta of: Rod/Emu, Carson, Prior. The adoration of the audience. Anarchy on prime time. One of the greatest 7 mins of tv history. No exaggeration
One bit I like to note is that there are a couple of instances where Rod is about to say one of his lines - eg. "You should have cleaned it before you came out" - but stops himself as the audience laughter is so great.
@@ItsTerryTime In those terms Rod Hull does absolutely nothing apart from carry (and obviously operate) Emu! He's just gauging the audience and looking for cues for Emu. He didn't promote anything, he said nothing about his act or himself beyond facile niceties about Emu. It's a model for the perfect execution of slap stick comedy and staying true to character (think of Partridge). He was loved in the UK, but I wonder if he missed his calling from the early days of silent cinema!
Never knew Rod had taken his act to the US !! Who else remembers Emu's Broadcasting Company on kids TV, in the Seventies ? Great fun and funny...though Michael Parkinson might disagree : ))
Modern late night hosts wouldn't be able to handle this. Corden would throw a fit at the idea that anyone tried to upstage him. Kimmell wouldn't know what to do because it doesn't fit into his pattern of awkwardly laughing at random intervals when a guest speaks like it's the funniest thing he ever heard. Fallon would just smile dumbly
As an Aussie kid from the 70's I'd not come across Emu in years ....what a hoot! Great laughs ...just what I needed 🇦🇺 ( the American pronunciation of Emu always makes me chuckle though...its Emew...not Emoo!!!!)
I like how Rod reads the body language of the guests and audience, and strikes only when they seem confident around the bird. At the very end, the woman in red grabs hold of Richard, and they all hunch into a Roman tortoise shell formation to protect themselves, while Richard and Johnny both are holding their hands up. On British TV, the host is often the biggest target, but Johnny continued to try to befriend Emu, until at the end they seemed like friends. I've never seen a host come out on top like that.
@@princessmoonwalker Well, yes...since emus don't talk. That being said, Emu was quite obviously supposed to be above the ordinary given the way in which Hull often had him interact with him and even with the audience -- Hull would cock Emu's head toward something as if Emu was saying "get a load of this, huh?"
Poor sod fell off the roof of his own house and died. I was in the pub. There was a TV on the bar and it was the first story on the news. When it was announced, the place went silent and someone shouted out 'Rod Hull is dead? Oh, fuckin' hell!!!' He was a popular bloke, Rod.
