No one appearing on their show could keep a straight face, theu were so best. We're lucky to have KZread to be able to watch them again and, again. 🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

it's hard to believe that in a very few years we will be celebrating the centenaries of their births. 2025 for Ern and 2026 for Eric

It's sad that Eric wasn't around anymore when they finally decided to make a "This is Your Life" episode for Ernie Wise. All the people present talked about the wonderful duo and the happy memories from the M&W show, and it was so heartbreaking to see Ernie sit there alone.

One word BRILLIANT ❤

Legends really miss them 😔

A class double act nobody can replace them

It would have been perfect if at the end of the sketch they turned around and the real host of This is your Life was standing there with the big red book

Great stuff Eric and Ernie, the best !

What can you say simply the best ever double act ever

@johnhayes5633

Жыл бұрын

They-we're absolutely-so very funny, without resorting-to anything-in "bad-taste"!

“Eric, do you know what good, clean fun is?” “No, Ern, what good is it?”

What do you say, but brilliant. I have stolen - and adapted - Ernie's joke about school qualifications and used it multiple times in my life and did not remember, until now, where the joke came from .

So thrilled little ern got the real red book with Michael aspel

@patbest7057

2 жыл бұрын

Glen m yes saw Ernie W this is your life only wish Eric m had been there also rip to them both

This is laugh out loud funny! Excellent.. Classic stuff :)

@johnking5174

8 жыл бұрын

+Pete Marr Shame it was a rehash from their BBC show. Funny yes, but original, sadly no.

@dlamiss

8 жыл бұрын

+John King sadly much of the Thames stuff was a rehash of the older BBC material as has been admitted in various books about them.. In all honesty Morecambe and Wise were never the same after his second heart attack

@Voxac100b

8 жыл бұрын

+dlamiss Agree. By this time Eric was writing and doing other projects. He knew he had to slow down but kept going for Ernie

@johnking5174

8 жыл бұрын

By 1982 the quality and material of the Thames shows were dire. They also had to encounter the fact that their comedy style was becoming dated.

@dlamiss

8 жыл бұрын

+John King interesting point regarding it becoming dated. The Blockbuster sketches with Previn, Bassey etc still stand the test of time but a lot of the bread and butter material such as this sort of sketch has dated very badly. Whereas the Two Ronnies material INHO has aged much better

This particular version is from Series One of the duo's Thames years, which is on a double DVD alongside four Thames specials.

This is first broadcast [series 1 episode 4] in September 1980 for Thames TV,and this is my all-time favourite sketch,and I remember this first screened on Tuesday night at 8:30 pm,and I`ve got the complete series on DVD,and I hope they`ll bring more shows for Thames TV and release on DVD by Network DVD.

dos it matter wot year, i remember sitting with me ma and da watching this what shows are family now.?

"ask any prison warder" !!!

I'm not sure. There were two "This Is Your Life" sketches". One was broadcast on 24 September, 1980 on episode 4 of the first Thames TV series. Second one was in Series 3 on Thames TV. Episode 4, broadcast on 17th November 1982. Both were scripted by the great Eddie Braben.

“I think one of us should be”..🤣🤣😀😀

This is brilliant! What year is it? x

@bpage4132

3 жыл бұрын

This brilliant opening sketch was first originally broadcast in September 1980.

All they had to do was walk on the stage....... often imitated never equalled.

@BritishAlienCompany I would guess this would be early about eighties. Eric died in 1984 and this looks like on of the ITV shows they did at Thames Television. They left the Beeb around 1977-78.

1:50 🤣🤣

I'm a bit surprised to hear this was from the Eddie Braben. I never really got on with their ITV stuff; I thought they went rather downhill when they left the Beeb, so I'm surprised to hear it was material from one of their original writers.

@alexlabedat9105

6 жыл бұрын

I think that this is recycled from a BBC show like Andre Previn piano which was a sketch on ATV

@DenkyManner

5 жыл бұрын

@@alexlabedat9105 I recognise the A Levels joke from a different show but it wasn't part of a This Is Your Life sketch.

@martm216

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are quite right. This sketch is a re-working, a remix I should say, of several sketches they did about ten years earlier. I have them on an LP I bought in 1971. The BBC years were their best. They were giants of comedy then. The ITV shows just somehow don't have the same quality.

@martm216

Жыл бұрын

Quite right. It was from an earlier series on the BBC. I know 'cause I have the original sketch on an LP I bought around 1971. The original was better, although this one is of course still funny. They were comic giants. And Eddie Braben was their best writer.

what does Eric say at 4.50?

@kaynewalker5719

8 жыл бұрын

Ask any prison warden

The blue and white flag is Scottish the white is the transverse cross of St. Andrew

Are these 2 both up in Heaven now?

@peterfarkas6833

6 жыл бұрын

Little Missie yes they are

@kjamison5951

6 жыл бұрын

Sadly yes but their memory lives on forever.

@Pittodrie1977

5 жыл бұрын

For sure

@KayEl58

4 жыл бұрын

I really want to believe in heaven just so I can sleep soundly knowing that Morcambe and Wise are there.

@ExploreDerbyshire

2 ай бұрын

Yes making God and the angels giggle , no doubt