Just two years before he died love him and Ernie so much Christmas is never the same without them!

Eric and Ernie, lovely guys and great comedic timing. No foul language or smut. They often did sketches in a double bed together, but it just seemed perfectly normal back then.

Such a beautiful man. His talent was beyond compare. Just think, 50 years on and he is still making us laugh. I loved him so much as a child. ❤

@Leongoldfarb

14 күн бұрын

He hadn't mastered that genius timing when he was a child!!

No exaggeration but when Eric Morecambe died, the country went into national mourning. We’d lost our best loved comedian.

@Dukes-nt1er

12 күн бұрын

YES.......I WAS 18......AND REMEMBER THE 11TH HOUR TRIBUTE PROGRAMME BRING ME SUNSHINE HOSTED BY MICHAEL PARKINSON SHOWN LATER THAT EVENING......YES.....A BLOODY SHOCK......YES...I CRIED....AND SO DID MY FATHER.....I REMEMBER ERNIE WISE...NOT HAVING SLEPT....ON TV-AM THE FOLLOWING MORNING......THAT TOOK GUTS......ALL 40 YEARS AGO.......WHERE HAS THAT TIME GONE.............AMAZING......R.I.P LEGEND.

@BernardFitzsimons-hx1sk

8 күн бұрын

That's a massive exaggeration.

@astroboirap

8 күн бұрын

no it didn't, it was just another day

@stormhawk3319

8 күн бұрын

@@BernardFitzsimons-hx1sk you’re a little & large fan

@stormhawk3319

8 күн бұрын

@@astroboirap and you’re a cannon & ball fan

I really miss those two! Thank you for the fun you gave us all back then! Sigh!

How great to see him speaking face to face about his life. Seemed a lovely bloke behind the stage persona. RIP Eric

Unbelievable I opened this today May 26th 2024! Still fantastic performer.

@paulc180

17 күн бұрын

my birthday 26th

@the8ctagon

11 күн бұрын

Why is it unbelievable, given that the video was only uploaded 12 days ago as I write this?

@paulc180

11 күн бұрын

@@the8ctagon anniversary of his passing

@the8ctagon

11 күн бұрын

@@paulc180 But the video was only uploaded on 23/05/2024 in anticipation of the anniversary of his death, so it is far from "unbelievable" that the KZread algorithm should have suggested this new video a few days later. Nothing mystical is going on here.

@rafflesxyz4800

9 күн бұрын

Noooooooooooooo. Never?

Hard to believe its been 40 years 😢

The wonderful Eric Morecambe. The first time I have seen him interviewed/just as 'himself '. A true National Treasure.

2:30 “I’d like to know, though, where all those critics went!” Perfect!

There are many people that you could call a national treasure, but Eric and Ern are very, very high up that list. I am now very old, so I remember the 1960s shows on ITV with Dick Hills worry and Syd Green as writers, (and of course the magical 70s BBC shows.) And I saw them live back in the 1970s and Eric did his paperbag gag, (you just click your fingers obviously) and it was magical. But ‘that’s easy for you to say’ they were both brilliant lovely people.

Eric Morecombe was a genius. As a family we watched the Morecombe and Wise Christmas show every year. It was bloody funny. Eric getting a hold of Andre Previn then slapping him on both cheeks was hilarious. Even his orchestra laughed. Classic TV.

@PSUK

23 күн бұрын

We always watch the Christmas show as a family as well. My late dad used to cry with laughter at Eric and Ernie’s jokes and sketches! Christmases were never the same somehow after he died.

@paulweir5031

21 күн бұрын

A pity that you couldn't spell his name, seeing as how you were such a fan.

@PSUK

21 күн бұрын

@@paulweir5031 a pity that KZread will always have a pedantic twat

@brucethomas5123

14 күн бұрын

Paul weir ,just what the internet needs,a pathetic pedant

Great interview, I like how open and honest he is. Sometimes comedians of his generation hide behind their act when giving interviews, but great that he showed us who he really was.

LTFC's greatest ambassador & a true gem of a man COYH Eric!

Happy times on telly in a country we were all happy to be British. Mum and Dad like this 😊

@nicholasturner4552

15 күн бұрын

As you said people were happier I agree

Exactly 40 years today we lost Eric, I really miss u Eric u were my favourite comedian, I miss’ Ernie to

Thanks for sharing - I’ve never seen this before. He seems much more serious here. Perhaps it’s because he’s without Ernie?… I imagine this is actually very similar to what the show was like in Tewksbury on the night he sadly passed away - an interview, where he’s prompted to reminisce. God bless him anyway. 40 years, and now reunited with his lovely Joan.

Mrs Batholomew died only a few weeks ago in our home town of Harpenden (village really). at the age of 96, packed out with celebs, just as at Eric's funeral. Eric & Ernie were, at one point, Joint Presidents of the British Beer Mat Collectors Society (in the 70s) - now not a lot of people know that?

@the8ctagon

11 күн бұрын

Would you like to correct the surname above? It's missing an R.

@davidjames9014

11 күн бұрын

@@the8ctagonWhat? Are you serious????

@the8ctagon

11 күн бұрын

@@davidjames9014 Deadly serious.

Sad loss , such a funny man and so natural too . RIP ERIC

A lot of folks these days don't get M&W, they only know comedians who hone 'tight 5's' with killer punchlines which is fine even tho it's a culture that eats itself as it has to increasingly shock or overstep lines in order to stand out in the competition (early Frankie Boyle etc.), but M&W was a totally different creature, watching them was more like visiting a fun relative or friend, comfort in familiarity

Large formative part of my growing up and humour during my childhood, what a fantasttic pairing they were, sadly sadly missed!👏👏👏👏🍻🍻

Still do the paper bag/invisible ball trick to this day for my grandkids.

The great man himself

He was only around 56 at this point - when you see how men looked of that age then, compared with now, it was a very diferent time. Smoking pipes, horned rimmed glasses, blazers, etc. Mid fifites was considered quite old in those days, where as now its considered quite young.

Forty years already! He is very much missed.

Gloria was magnetic she was so attractive 😊

Love the energy eric - ⚡️⚡️

There were very few, if any Englishmen as funny as this wonderful man! Tommy Cooper maybe. One of the secrets of comedy is an ability to have the crowd roaring themselves hoarse before you've uttered a word... take a look, the very embodiment of that ability is right there, talking to the lovely Gloria!!!

Brilliant, simple !!

Those were the days between good times and bad when the country still had something to enjoy.

An interview before google. Researchers were totally lost.

Will miss those two , every Xmas waiting to see their special .

2:18 - In fact, Eric kept the cutting of that statement about their first BBC show in the 1950s, he kept that cutting in his wallet until the day he died according to his son Gary.

Ever the funny man, he was brilliant.

Thank u 4 posting this

I am glad Gloria Hunniford became more professional after this interview to get some of the basics wrong however whether it is her or her researches It is so unprofessional, but Eric was so class the way he handled it because he was a class guy.

@CookingAroundTheWorld

17 күн бұрын

She actually sounded quite bitchy when Eric contradicted per poorly researched statements. The man is comedic royalty.

@WILLIAM1690WALES

17 күн бұрын

@@CookingAroundTheWorld approximate Morecambe and Wise Christmas special 1977, was actually watched apparently by 27 million British people absolutely amazing?

@bletheringfool

16 күн бұрын

I worked with a guy who had known her for years and he didn't get on with her said she was a complete b1tch. Of course I only have his word for that but I have heard others says similar. She didn't like to admit she had made a mistake or that the information was wrong. As if Eric needed to be corrected on his own life!

@CookingAroundTheWorld

16 күн бұрын

@@bletheringfool could not agree more. the way she sulked and rushed him onto another topic after she had made a complete mess of the previous topic, told the story.

RIP ERIC & ERNIE

Taken from us far soon.

Aw, Eric is so lovely here, sometimes he could I reckon be annoying in interviews, but here he clearly wanted a proper talk. Of course the ghastly Gloria hadn't prepared properly so the chance of the sort of wonderful conversation he, according to so many witnesses, had with Stan Stennett on stage the night he died in 1984, which was very very unfortunately not recorded, was missed.

@gaskellr44

14 күн бұрын

I thought the same, that she was a bit wooden, as I feel she should have ridden along with his banter, instead of just concentrating on her own line of questioning, and also, the possible incorrect info she had on him.

pure class

One of the few people whose death announcement I can remember. I think the others were John Lennon, Lord Mountbatten, Princess Diana & The Queen. His death was quite a loss to the country.

@seamusoflatcap

13 күн бұрын

A bigger loss than Lennon

Loved Eric Morcambe . Would love to know how he did the bag trick !

@nicholasdavies6264

23 күн бұрын

Hi, the bag trick was hilarious! As he throws the invisible object up in the air his fingers on the bag flick it and it sounds like something dropping into the bag. 😂

@Brittunculi

18 күн бұрын

Clicked his fingers

My mum loved the both of them

I remember watching E&E as guests on a kids saturday morning show, swop shop or something. They were answering questions from the kids. One of them asked Eric 'What colour underpants do you wear?' After a short silence Eric said 'white, erm yes white' but then he said 'well their a bit grey at moment the wife's on holiday. None of the kids got it (thank god) but I swear I saw the camera shake.

@alanhaggart6971

13 күн бұрын

I recall that show - another kid asked "what would you be if you weren't making people laugh for a living?" and quick as a flash Eric answered "Mike & Bernie Winters"! Genius.

Eric and Ernie - the nation's uncles -

Glorious Honeypot...I am sure it was !

My favourite M&W skit was when they go to meet Eric Porter, in his dressing room, so Ernie could ask Porter if he'd appear in his play (in a sense, a 'play within a play'). Morecambe and Porter were the perfect class foils to each other, with Wise having to act as uncomfortable mediator, all the while, fearing Morecambe would ruin it all--classic!: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJitl5iMkdynk6w.htmlsi=fHCLOdeiDymud6tQ

Luton Towns greatest son!

long time ago

Isn't this interview just wonderful. Him and Ernie.....well along with Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello they were the greatest British double act EVER! Don't mention Des O' Connor!

Why not the complete interview?

ARSENAL! 🤣

any chance of doing tape source videos like this as 50fps?

Both should have been knighted.

I'd never realised quite how unpleasant Gloria Hunniford is.

@CookingAroundTheWorld

17 күн бұрын

I thought she was quite bitchy.

Wud they have done more things .final film 84

@dacrlit

21 күн бұрын

Yes, Gone Fishing presented by Eric Morecambe, 1985 to 1999. Ernie Wise's presents the Golden Greats of Cinema. 1985 to 2000.

@traceya9615

20 күн бұрын

​@@dacrlitIt's lovely of you to think of something like that. Wish it could have happened. ❤

I thought it was December 1981 when he passed.

@ClassicBritishTelly

19 күн бұрын

May 1984,

Terrible research.

So he is the inspiration for Kinky John??? ;P

28th May.

Black American singer!

@ChillToMusic87

23 күн бұрын

Correct.

That woman was pretty dam nasty - continual put downs?

@CookingAroundTheWorld

17 күн бұрын

She was really bitchy.

gloria knows nothing...so fake

@grahamegaw-mc3bw

13 күн бұрын

IS THIS KNOCK NORTHERN IRELAND DAY OR WHAT? NOT TO MENTION THE SLAGGING OF EAMONN HOLMES, A MAN IN A WHEELCHAIR.

@the8ctagon

11 күн бұрын

​@@grahamegaw-mc3bwIf you people from Northern Ireland want respect, then you should try not to be so daft-headed, and also work on making your accent sound less comical, smh.

Every Christmas there on its starting to get boring move on the BBC

@paulweir5031

21 күн бұрын

They are or they're, not there.

@traceya9615

20 күн бұрын

You're boring already, pal!

@user-nd5fz5jd9o

19 күн бұрын

Two ronnies were funnier

@davidholgate123

16 күн бұрын

'It's'... 'they're' and please learn to use full stops or a comma!

@MarkStevens8899

16 күн бұрын

Still a million times funnier than Mrs Brown's Boys .

A very boring man