One amazing guy very funny used to love watching him when I was growing up Plus boy could he sing he had a fantastic voice

I just loved those days so much in my life. The entertainment in those days was much better quality programmes on those 3 or 4 channels than all of today's crap that's on tv these days. Freddie Star was my absolute favourite for nighttime entertainment.

RIP Freddie.. You made many generations laugh.. Your singing voice was amazing too..

I'd take this over strictly celebrity talent xfactor ANY day

Its shows like this that help us escape the shitty world we live in today...RIP Freddie!

@philsam4913

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly,the 80's was & ALWAYS WILL BE the best decade to have lived for both adults & kids,it was down to earth people everywhere,happyness & enthusiasm was in the air,great music 🎶 disco's,barn dances(if you lived rural,like I did),in the Scottish highlands,even Police were good,if facing about in our cars,he'd just give a boot up the backside(Scottish for a sarcastic,light hearted warning !! lol,unless you were extremely unlucky or a tragedy happened then you'll know the atmosphere of the 80's I am talking about,ANYBODY who says it was crap,or even that remark about Freddy Staff's Hitler or Max Wall routine NOT BEING FUNNY,is one of those new PC correct,millennial save space seeking moron,wouldn't know how to have fun or how to even go about organising having fun !! lmao. If you weren't there,then that other person above or below I forget,DON'T PUT DOWN WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW,BECAUSE YOU'RE 2 brain cells couldn't handle the comedy of the 80's !!

@kamandi1362

3 жыл бұрын

From one year later in 2020. If you thought the World was shitty then... ☹️

@gbwildlifeuk8269

3 жыл бұрын

How could this help us escape the shitty world we live in today, when this was decades before today?

When comedy was real ... and no swearing, just genuine comedic talent ... hilarious 😂😂😂

When watching telly was worth a laugh and worth watching, Thanks for the laughs and Rest in Peace Freddie x

This has to be brilliant as these were real comedies and will outlast time especially Freddie Starr he was brilliant and that was what we grew up with god bless Freddie

They knew how to entertain us back then. Quality tv with fantastic stars.... xx

@alimantado373

3 ай бұрын

Bella Emberg, Russ Abbot, Freddie Star so many Emmys , so many accolades🤡🤡

Truly mad cap comedy, harmless fun! RIP Mr Starr!

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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Sobering reminder of good clean fun. Lucky to of been part of it !

@Ironlord2015

5 жыл бұрын

To "have" been part of it, not "to of" :/

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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@anthonybailey1966

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ironlord2015 it must be a demanding job,being part of the grammar police....!

@DarrenHarrison7160

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ironlord2015 Awwww do you need a tissue.....

That last dance with Russ Abbott as the old piano player....the times I've watched that is countless and has me in stitches every time. That dance and the beads swinging around his next is awesome. 😂😂😂😂

Its just good old fashioned Comedy which beat todays Comedians any day of the week 🤣🤣🤣

Still better than the crap which passes for prime-time comedy today.

I absolutely adore Freddie Starr. Brilliant. 💖💖💖

I loved Freddie variety mad house, very sad to hear of his passing , he was a great comedian ,God Bless and keep you .R.I.P Freddie

I remember this; It was a 'B' rated comedy show which I watched occasionally. Good simple humour and looking at it now, hell of a lot better than "Kill whitey" and all the current woke rubbish faux comedy programmes.

@DanceySteveYNWA

3 жыл бұрын

Kill whitey? I think that was the title of the second in the Zulu Trilogy. 😂 This is a show I assume? Never heard of it.

This was great. Best bits with Freddie, of course. Russ Abbott dancing is hilarious and bonkers ! xx

Oh god!!!!! I broke some ribs last month!! And I’m crying in pain and laughter... Freddie was superb and that last sketch with Russ dancing nearly killed me

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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So sad to hear Freddie Starr died in Spain this morning,R.I.P FREDDIE STARR,LEGEND!!

@micknorthall9615

5 жыл бұрын

Roy oOrbesson

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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another one bites the dust! rest in peace freddie honey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What a talent! Nothing like this nowadays... too much PC

RIP FREDDIE STARR You were a great comedian and will be sadly missed.

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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Soon after this LWT decided not to employ Starr any longer and it became Russ Abbot's Madhouse. The supporting cast included Les Dennis, Dustin Gee and Michael Barrymore.

so sad to hear freddie passed away .. r.i.p freddie :(

@djangiebaby

3 жыл бұрын

@A Room From The Past im pretty sure everyone knows whom i meant

@djangiebaby

3 жыл бұрын

@A Room From The Past en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Starr

1979 Tiswas on Saturday morning, Freddie Starr on Saturday evening ! couldn't be better

RIP Freddie Starr

@michealhaynes7834

5 жыл бұрын

Rip in peace you were a fantastic singer I will never forget how much you were able to get audience totally entertain ed

@paulakhurst2670

4 жыл бұрын

You was a legend

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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I love this Freddie Starr is brilliant singer and comedian

@herbieshine1312

6 жыл бұрын

Sandra Watterson I agree except for his comedy and singing. his complete lack of an original idea for 40 years. his one singing routine has been I wish I was Elvis his comedy routine has been Nazi, fall over. 40 years of Nazi and fall over. how is that funny

@sasitorndisrapong2170

4 жыл бұрын

@@herbieshine1312 hi by M by CT bub

@herbieshine1312

4 жыл бұрын

@@sasitorndisrapong2170 sorry I don't understand what you're saying

For some strange reason I couldn't stop watching this

Great entertainer and singer, it´s very nice. RIP Freddie Starr..

Surprised how many times I laughed out loud to this, good comedy never dies! Long live Freddie's memory

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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This is so,so ,so so funny ! LOL! Brilliant! Derek

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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bloody brilliant what more can i say.

U will never see anything like this again such a sad world now

Best show in the world you got a great laugh

Then Russ Abbot had his own show after this.

People obviously don't have a sense of humour with the type of comments on here... This is hilarious love it! They were all fab! 😂😂

@peterfuidge1718

5 жыл бұрын

There is no swearing so they don't understand it.

@davidsomerset

5 жыл бұрын

Are you insane? This is bloody awful!!

@johnhughes8466

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidsomerset Talkin shit again are you!

@johnhughes8466

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidsomerset What do you think is funny then you elitist twat!

@robertdavidjones8424

2 жыл бұрын

U are so right x

Russ Abbot always made me laugh. I don't think I saw this show, but I rarely missed his later BBC shows.

The legend that is freddie❤❤❤

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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Toni Palmer was fantastic. I only watched it because of her. This particular show didn't show her at her best!!!

Still more watchable and entertaining than 99% of today's programming.

A blast from the past, those were the days

Love you Freddie. Saw him at the Hemel Hempstead pavilion in the nineties. Side splitting. Love the glorious gorgeous non P. C content.

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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Once a week, during the 80's, I'd have to endure the pure agony of the Des O'Connor show. Always Shirley Bassey, often Freddie Starr. Sweet lord, have mercy. God as my witness, I once had a tooth extracted whilst not properly under the anaesthetic and felt the entire procedure. It was comparatively a fairly enjoyable experience which I have fond memories of.

Brilliant man who suffered with Depression. RIP ❤ ❌️❌️❌️❌️❌️❌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great it makes me smile and laugh 😂

I'd rather this than the dross we get now, such as Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Stinkaway.

That generation of English entertainers and viewers went through the blitz and other traumas of ww2. That's what I always think about.

@dunebasher1971

5 жыл бұрын

Starr didn't, not really. He was born after the Blitz and was still only two years old when the war ended. Russ Abbot was born in 1947.

@Madmen604

5 жыл бұрын

@@dunebasher1971 oh, well during recovery then, very funny guys...

How I long for the good old days

We need another freddy starr

@commandingjudgedredd1841

Жыл бұрын

I'm afraid with legends like Freddie, we get them only once.

1979 for god sake I was 13. Those were the days. I wasnt really funny, but better than Xfactor, Voice and BGT.

@geoffdundee

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Gasparutti ......i was 14.............isnt it amazing how things have changed.................seems like were not allowed to laugh these days

@dunebasher1971

4 жыл бұрын

The only difference these days is that the casual racism and sexism that was everywhere in TV comedy has been removed, and thankfully so. So are you saying that you find it impossible to laugh at comedy unless it's being racist or sexist?

Brilliant stuff from a better time.

There's only one Starr and that's. Freddie.r.i.p.

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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It was indeed a golden age of television, but this programme was not typical of what was around then. Critics and the public hated it, Freddie quit after one series, and Russ Abbot did a much better version of the show. You don't have to go back to 1979 to find crap comedy. Our television screens are awash with it these days.

@nasskhan4543

5 жыл бұрын

I remember liking it. It gave Russ Abbott an opportunity.

@billcobbett9259

4 жыл бұрын

Ruined by poor material

loved him

Worth it just to see Norman Collier do the broken mike routine :)

@OfflineSetup

6 жыл бұрын

Joanne Gray did Norman Collier have any other routine?

@OfflineSetup

5 жыл бұрын

@@Trev359 I knew about the "chicken" but not the rest. There is no need to go on, I was being unfair in my original comment. A great entertainer who entertained a great many people including myself and my family.

@OfflineSetup

5 жыл бұрын

@@Trev359 Actually I was sort of "having a go" because I was "trying" to be funny, which upon reflect was disrespectful to his memory and totally undeserved. Thank you for allowing me (a year later) to correct my message and be able to show respect he deserved. In future I will leave the "funny" to people with 10% of the skills (and above) that Norman had.

Don't all take it that LWT simply decided that the show didn't suit Freddie Starr and simply handed it over to Russ Abbot ,I have read Freddie's autobiography and he tells a different story to what is being implied - there were internal issues at work that led to him walking out during the production and LWT did subsequently relaunch the show with Russ Abbot and a slightly different cast.

I loved this show - completely un PC as it was, the Hitler character was hilarious!

brilliant

Hi there do you have anymore complete episodes of this as I'm a mega Freddie Starr fan. Thanks

@cameronwaddel4072

Жыл бұрын

Have a look at the Freddie Starr - Official UK Fan Club here on KZread, they have the first 5 of the 6 episodes of this show, of which, this is the 2nd.

how did i miss this on tv, back then,,? was a 11 year old,

I laughed my head off at the YMCA song..........god knows they couldn't do that now.

@robertsmalley8138

5 жыл бұрын

Why not ? Please explain .

@robertsmalley8138

5 жыл бұрын

@Nosaveddata I would be the last person to complain

@robertsmalley8138

5 жыл бұрын

@Nosaveddata sorry but that is a load of these days comedy is much bolder such as Ricky Gervais no limit with him .

@robertsmalley8138

5 жыл бұрын

@Nosaveddata The stand up shows made in the USA and UK really are hilarious you gotta see them .

@redeemerl5212

5 жыл бұрын

No you are right, they couldnt do that now some of them are dead

This is gloriously mad!

Crikey, this is hard work

@johnhughes8466

5 жыл бұрын

No you are probably hard work! Dickhead!

@Noactualdirection

5 жыл бұрын

Classy. I comment on a video, you get personal.

@OfflineSetup

4 жыл бұрын

@@Noactualdirection "hard work" was being generous.

Watching 40 years to the day....

I don't remember this show, but what a lineup! Russ Abbot, Norman Collier and the inimitable Freddie. His Freddie Starr Hitler made me laugh.

Real Saturday night entertainment, no Ant and fucking Dec, no ponsy Simon Cowell, no reality tv competitions just great television shows

19:05 Never see this on X Factor. Comedy Gold

That is why its called VARIETY .

great comedy very very funny

Great great entertainment 😊 fantastic ! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

That WhoDunnit sketch had me in stitches 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Did anybody take offence at that ? Sheer brilliant lunacy! very funny to boot.

Whilst enjoying this, please take a minute to remember the hamster.

This is actually Episode 2, broadcast on 10/11/1979, not Episode 6, broadcast on 1/12/1979, as per the list from the Official UK Freddie Starr Fan Club, which can be found here on KZread and also on Facebook.

How I miss this kind of entertainment, so funny if sometimes a little not up to silly pc standards these days 🙄 Good clean fun 😂👏

@dunebasher1971

Жыл бұрын

You mean you prefer the old racist, homophobic comedy?

Great comedy, very funny ...

it was mint got about 4 good belly laughs out of that show

the good old days, when you could laugh at things! take me back .

@dunebasher1971

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, because nobody laughs any more, do they? Literally nobody.

He's a good laugh

The whistling bit was good, or could have been good at any rate. I think they were going for the Spike Milligan 'Q' sort of thing but they mistook incompetence for anarchism.

Good night Freddie. R.I.P.

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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Thinking back now i remember the Russ Abbott show it must of been after this. I was in the Cubs the Owl pack about this time,we would sing that ging gang gooly song also dib dib dib dob dob dob just sit down n shut your gob. I think Abbott might of sang it on TOTP's.

Miss freddy

Some alt comedy, PRE alt comedy in this 🤫

Absolutely brilliant crazy madhouse show So near the knuckle with the hitler sketch but Freddie was a one off Russ abbott continue this trend of comedy

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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Strangely, there's a "Devised By" credit, but no writer credits.

What has happened to comedy this was so funny couldn’t stop laughing Freddie star is the best and russ about and the rest of the cast we will never have anything like this again thank you all

Back when tv was way better back then the crap that's on today,! And we only had 3 channels back then,!

freddie starr the best xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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So funny.

That might be the worst title sequence I've ever seen. It's like a warning.

Better than the shit on tv today.

Oh, they don't them like that anymore. Too much of this namby-pamby touchy feely nonsense nowadays. Why don't we see more of Frederick Starr on the telly along with his amusing Hitler impersonation?

@Dim4323

6 жыл бұрын

choking horror and eating hamsters

@stevepepperday1798

6 жыл бұрын

Used to love these shows Better than all the political correctness and shite today

@dunebasher1971

6 жыл бұрын

Prefer your comedy casually racist and sexist, then?

@stevepepperday1798

6 жыл бұрын

dunebasher1971 in the days before political correctness... people now are miserable do as they are told robots So called comedians today arent funny

@dunebasher1971

6 жыл бұрын

So just to clarify, by "in the days before political correctness" you mean "the days when it was still OK to be casually racist and sexist"?

More!

The absolute bollocks x

Bloody awesome

Broadcast quality, was this a Betamax recording or ?...

Good old British Madhouse Comedy. before the PC brigade poked their bloody noses in and spoiled everything. R.I.P Freddie.

@mandypreece2636

4 жыл бұрын

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the ymca, at the start,, lmfbo,,!!!