The Krankies 

Watching this you realise how talented the Krankies are and how much pleasure they have brought audiences over so many years. Why no honours....MBE or something similar as recognition of this? What's the problem. This country in a just nuts! These two are a national treasure!

The funniest bit was Bernard Manning threatening to give little Jimmy a crack!

I remember watching this with my granny looking after us that night, this exact one, not seen this for 45 years but remember it with the bloke wearing a skirt but I was a 7 year old staying up late lol. Whenever I hear a bell ring the back of my mind always says ‘Members of the committee’. Amazing how things imprint on you as a kid lol. The good old days, I’d rather live through the70’s and 80’s again compared to now!

I love when "Wee Jimmy" first comes on, calling out for his mammy, members of the audience say "shhh" not realising it's part of the act.

That was weird yet good, the ventriloquist bit was amazing I loved them when I was a kid

Now that was very funny.

As a kid these guys were well into their career and I found it a bit creepy - but seeing this now its hilarious and brilliantly slapstick. Some 70s and 80s comedy has not aged well at all... but the humour in this clip is timeless :-)

I never knew Nicola Sturgeon was so versatile

I wonder how Ian first brought the idea to Janete of her dressing up like a little school boy , must have been a strange conversation 😏

Absolutely brilliant now that's entertainment

Comedy genius. Still waiting for the critics to catch up.

Always a briliant act

much better done than I remembered

Wow this is brilliant

Lol the cranckies are so funny , I went to see them today 😄😄

Freaked me out as a kid still does

To a "schoolboy" about to sit on your lap: "Watch me sporran - It could give you a nasty bruise" Ah... The Seventies.

Dearie me! That first joke ("bang went 10p"), first appeared as "Bang went saxpence" in "Punch" on 5th December 1868. At least he decimalised it!

Love the krankies

Brilliant.

A Mate: 'so what did you do at work today Ian?' Ian: 'oh you know, just hoyed me wife around abit'

A thousand thanks

Thanks for posting this. The Krankies put the Swinging into Swinging London, if you catch my drift.

Again comedy performing actors very funny. People of today do not understand this sort of comedy!

They were a swinging husband and wife!

So when he`s in company and he is introducing his wife he says, "Have you met the little woman ?".

gone yersell the crankies :)

Janet and Ian if you're reading this: I know when you invented the 'Wee Jimmie' character 40+ years ago, you calculated that every put upon, bossed about child would identify with and root for Jimmie, foil to the pompous and overbearing father figure. Well I was a kid in the 1980s and there wasn't a single episode of Crackerjack, the Electronic Komic of any of your shows where I wasn't waiting for Ian to finally flip and batter seven types of shite out of the wee prick....

And to think she went from wee Jimmy Krankie to, effectively, Anna Wintour. And to think they were even more experimental than Jagger, Faithfull (another AbFab alumna) and a Mars Bar.

My childhood would have been very different had I realised he was knobbing wee Jimmi.

One grew up to run Scotland

I didn’t know Nicola sturgeon did stand up

I am for sure Sturgeon will enjoy the krankies 😂

Any idea of the year ? I presume 1978. On a Seaside Special episode some of this act was the same, and that was 1978, they got big later in 78 with a spot on the Variety Performance.

Really cute

Saw this and thought of you for some reason.

She allowed herself to be thrown around! That’s pretty cool, most comedians nowadays would have law suits out. Updated: that is his wife, so I guess the rough treatment was allowed. Still pretty cool routine ❤

Classic Krankies but I don't get the suicide joke. Did he gas himself next door because of the high gas prices?

The 1980s were some sure weird times....

4:25

Wee Nichola has aged well..

Have you seen me mam haha these guys are jokes

I don't get it.

When I was young we used to sing Christmas Carols door to door and collect money for the Blue Peter Christmas charity. The Krankies got 3 verses of Once in David's etc and would not even come to the door. Truly miserable tightfisted Scottish gets.

He shouldn't be doing this he should be at school ,,,😮

Bernard Manning should have sat on her head and we could have been spared years of The Krankies

Apparently he used to treat her really bad

Found it repulsively unnatural then, and still do now.

This is an insult to every comic who’s tread the boards.

She's actually a little woman and he's a pea

Janette: Why do we always have to do ‘IT’ immediately as we get back in the dressing room? Ian: because I love you sooo much Janette. Janette: But why do I have to call you Daddy? Ian: Some women like to call their husbands Daddy when intimate? Janette: So why do you call me Jimmy and say I’ve been a very naughty boy? Ian: Roll play? Janette: So your ‘Roll Play’ fantasy is a school boy? Ian: Just shut the f**k up and get those shorts off…and call me Daddy ffs, you’re spoiling it Janette: Yes Daddy Ian: Good boy Jimmy ………or something like that😂

WTAF did I just watch?

Something not quite right with these two.

About as funny as colon cancer!

It's stunning to think people people found this creepy rubbish amusing.