RIP Bobby Ball and RIP Rick Parfit . This has reminded me how good Tommy and Bobby were. Obviously Tommy is still with us , but it shows what fabulous performers they were as a double act.
Cannon and Ball did the pantomime season some years ago at the Grand Opera House in Belfast and it was by far the best, funniest panto that I’ve ever been to. I’m over 70 now so I’ve been to a lot of pantos. They were brilliant.
Absolute class 👏🏻 Cannon and Ball you really made Saturday nights I love your jokes, your singing you had the whole package, your one liners, your braces. “I’m gypo the gypsy and I’ve come to play” still cracks me up now😂😂 Thank you for the fun and laughter, I still sing your theme tune, 🎶 laugh me a laugh, grin me a grin and then I know that we can win, dance me a dance, joke me a joke and blow the clouds away. Just a fact :- Cannon and Balls theme song, Together We’ll Be OK was written by noted composer Nigel Hess in 1978. Mr Nigel Hess also wrote TV themes for Wycliffe, Dangerfield, Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Last of the Summer Wine and New Tricks Bobby I can still see you queueing in the Seafarers on. Saturday evening, entertaining everyone waiting whilst autographing fish and chip papers, always a laugh, always a joke always a smile for us all May you R.I.P in beautiful Heaven 🕊️ 🙏🏻 Lets us all remember Cannon and Ball fulfilled their dreams and finally played Las Vegas, wonderful. Sweet dreams xxxx
Lucky enough to work back stage in 87 for opera house blackpool and cannon and ball season show...I was 16 and such fun and eye openers for me...great memories and laughs..😊👏👏.....rip bobby 🌹
Love all the negative comments from the Russell Brand fans. Before they made it to TV Cannon and Ball used to fill the clubs and stars of the small screen would turn up in the audience to watch true craftsmen at work. They were the only comedians you could see every night of the same week and laugh every night of that week. TV didn't do them justice, same for Russ Abbot and to some extent Freddie Starr. Haters hate on Tommy and Bobby were great whether or not you agree doesn't really matter, does it?
I was in my early 20's when they came out, thought they were dire, as was Little and Large........... though I was brought up on Morecambe and Wise, so these lot couldn't hold a candle to them.
@@theknightwhosaysni1356 Yeah, the Morecambe & Wise, Two Ronnies, Mike Yarwood, Goodies and Dave Allan years spoiled us. Comedy couldn't match it and needed a new direction which came some years later. But comedians attracted to ITV were less funny there, I'm not sure why but the writing was cruder and lacking in finesse.
I'm no Brand fan, but watching this sober rather than in a club after a few pints doesn't help. The truth is they weren't very funny then and they aren't now.
Does anyone remember a show called 'Seaside Special ' every Saturday early evening. My mum and dad used to love it. TV back then was a damn sight more entertaining. There was no P.C. and not as many ethnic faces as today especially in advertisements!!
THIS IS WHY I LIKE FACETUBE......A GOLDEN CAPTURED FOREVER...2 GREAT ACTS......i ENJOYED CANNON AND BALL LATER IN LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE....THE SWAN MAN OF ......
This was the first time id seen what Quo looked like back in 1984, Id herd 12 gold bars and liked some of the songs. This clip (although cringeworthy now) cemented my love for the band. Although I still remeber that after all the Caroline intros I was Dissaponted that they played Marg Time.
The look on Rik and Francis' faces when Bobby did that jibe about drug-takers. Probably all had a line before going on and after the show it was time to hit the legendary Quo stash of weed.
Fuck me, they must have been completely skint to have agreed to this. Or greedy. Either way, Cannon and Ball were major talents around this time as can be seen from the clip. Thank God the BBC saved this for future generations of comedy lovers.
shauna, im sure they never wrote the ad script, a duo that broke all box office records are fact, commanded larger tv audiences than any modern day comedian ever will
