I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this down the years…as a kid and now as an old lady. And it’s still funny 😂

Absolute comic genius ! had the pleasure of meeting Eli Woods, a totally unassuming guy and a credit to his profession

Classic humour from an age long since gone, impeccable timing. RIP all three.

Roy Castle was on a Float on the Isle of Mann. My mum called him so she could take his photo. This was almost 40 years ago, mum had problems getting the camera to take his picture. Roy stayed smiling in a finishing act position until mum could take the photo. A great professional. Missed by many.

@eugenefarrar1959

4 жыл бұрын

One of the best, from an era where the stars weren't celebrities, they were grafters, none better.

I’ve watched this so many times. Absolutely incredible timing by three comic geniuses! No swearing, just good honest comedy 👍

Fantastic. A real tribute to Jimmie James. Three great performers but I still think Eli is the best.

Eli Wood ....he starred in a rerun of this sketch on TV .. he'd hardly changed in appearance .... what a legend

@kevinbennett7615

5 жыл бұрын

This is the one from the 80's. It says so in the title.

@philippaine

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/oHxppKiPe9fSpNY.html Try this link!! 1962.

So clever. The timing of all three is superb. Highly professional.

Timing, pace, writing, performance = a perfect cocktail of comedy. Sadly the recipe seems to have been lost today.

@tdsymes

3 жыл бұрын

I love this sketch, but you are wrong. Timing in comedy is just as good today as ever was. And the style of comedy fits the age we are in.

@davidoconnell4100

2 жыл бұрын

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

The timing is immaculate!

Absolutely marvellous. Professionals who know the ropes and know how to do it. Classic

Great timing. I love the guy in the middle, and the fact that none of them corpsed. So good.

If the audience weren't standing to applaud that at the end, they should have been. Thank you for posting it, and thank you to Michael Parkinson for capturing a little bit of history

bloody fantastic , remember watching this live, and trying to play it back, on vhs only to find I hadn't pressed the record button,

I made the mistake of watching this on a busy train. I ended up having to hide in a corner because of the shaking shoulders and the tears of laughter streaming down my face. Classic comedy. Thank you for sharing!

@dambuster6387

5 жыл бұрын

There is a earlier version of this with some else in stead of Roy Castle that,s was one of the original,s of the act who I think passed away.

@eugenefarrar1959

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent isn't it.

@highpath4776

2 жыл бұрын

@@dambuster6387 Fred Waring ?

Glorious!! A classic piece of choreographed madness performed wonderfully. Thank goodness moments like these will now never be lost. Thank you for uploading.

A fantastic sketch, in fact in the top three of all time. At first I wasn't too keen on Roy Castle playing the part of the idiot, but after watching this several times it dawned on me just how good he was here and he was perfect for this role. There isn't enough of this kind of comedy on youtube, more's the pity as I can watch this kind of entertainment all day and night. A sad fact that all have departed this world, but I believe strongly that as long as you live in people's memories you can never truly die. Thanks for the so very many laughs guys. It's been one of life's pleasure's knowing you.

@ianbentley7276

4 жыл бұрын

i remember the original with jimmy james, and have looked at it on here, but i think this is much better, can't understand why it's in black and white though.

I remember seeing the original sketch when I was still at school. Coincidentally, I was born in Leamington Spa and lived there for a number of years. A gorgeous blond with blues eyes lived a few doors away. Sod the Bounty Bar.

@tomkent4656

4 жыл бұрын

You can watch part of the original sketch with Jimmy James here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZZ-IrNKcfritctI.html

THANKS FOR POSTING THIS GEM OF BRITISH COMEDY .MY THANKS TO COLIN PATERSON FOR HIS SPOT ON COMMENT.

Thanks to people like you uploading clips like this, people like me get to see the cream of British comedy...thanks Planty 77 for posting this gem.

When ever I need cheering up I watch this.

Good old fashioned comedy, sadly missed on today’s television.

My mother and her sisters would often tease me with the "`ave you been puttin` about that I`m barmy?" bit when I was a child. I think they must have heard it when Jimmy James was the lead, but as a child I had no answer to the simple question. Made me laugh though, they were the funniest people I have ever known. All three of them died many years ago. Some of their routines were straight out of music hall, I can still hear them sixty years later, and smile.

As with the original version with Jimmy James, it's the timing, as well as the comedy script that makes this sketch special. It's a shame we don't see more like this on todays comedy shows. You could still see James Casey and Eli Woods in some episodes of " Last of the summer wine ".

AMAZING ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!!!!

Absolutely brilliant

There's that surreal touch of Morecombe & Wise about all this! Pure Music Hall stuff. Another hilarious Music Hall sketch is Sandy Powell as the useless ventriloquist, also on KZread.

Following a fall last Saturday, when i landed flat on my chest, i made the mistake of watching this hilarious comedy clip. Couldn't help laughing, but laughed so hard that i am in absolute agony now. I remember seeing this particular clip on the Parkinson show back in the 1960s. Oddly, it hasn't aged at all. Still fresh & very clever humour.

So funny after so many decades .🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

OK.... I really enjoyed that. I've never seen it before. Thank you.

I am ancient enough to love comedy without swearing and based on clever use of language....plus some dubious choreography.

What a gem . Thanks for sharing .

Perfect timing throughout. Wow!

what a piece of classic comedy

My wife just not get this at all!! I love it!!!

Such timing - no egos just comic genius a product of the music halls ! even a tiny touch of Laurel and Hardy in there - brilliant !

Sad about Roy Castle. He left us too early.

Brilliant, just brilliant, and as already stated no swearing and no filth. No real comedians about these days that compare. Such excellent timing and so so funny. Ditto to a comment below....I can't stop watching it either!!

@bmcgoo6027

2 жыл бұрын

There is 'filth' in this when they talk about the Bounty bar - for fuck's sake.

Jimmy James! Now I see where Eric Morcambe got his inspiration... the glasses, the talking off, the three word repostes, the missed moves.... it's all there. Classic act.

@tomhenshaw2206

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the same, then read that Jimmy Casey used to write for Morecambe and Wise and helped Eddie Braben hone their classic work from the 60s and 70s. Btw Eli Woods and James Casey were cousins.

That's when entertainers were pro and really did have talent. superb!

That was just superb.

Thanks for posting. Funniest sketch I've seen in a long time

A brilliant routine and somehow the black and white seems to enhance music hall feel of the piece.

It is just so funny, cannot stop watching it, bless the three of them.

@snerper

7 жыл бұрын

Phil Strong= same here, real comedy, no smut just funny lines!

Brilliant performance, perfect timing👍👍 the likes of which we’ll never see again😢

Comic genius, perfect timing and choreography

That was a scream! Didn't see it at the time, but I did just now. Thank you.

Eli Woods was fabulous, a real original and sooooooo funny, his timing was legendary.

There is no comedy anywhere near this standard now great timing and so simple fantastic.

Absolutely brilliant.....don't get anything like this now ...

Still brilliant

Falling on the floor with laughter!

This was pure comedy long may they live in our memories

" The lodger got more meat than your father, you know " wonderful stuff.

Back in the seventies, our band played a Christmas gig at a hotel in Altrincham and Ely was the main attraction. Was very funny but we had a hard job following his singing. Thought he got the best laughs in this video, great timing.

Wonderful!

I’ve never seen these guys before. They’re great.

Black and White makes this so much better

Love this even though I've seen it many times.

RIP Eli Woods

I was lucky enough to see them perform this routine on stage during a recording of "Castle's Corner".

Brilliant.

Such an epic sketch and still totally timeless! The first time I saw this the part of Jimmy Casey (who may or may not have died at that point) was performed by Roy Hudd, again with Roy Castle and Eli Woods. Again the timing was exceptional! Does any one else remember that version and of so is there a recording of it waiting to be found somewhere.....? Thank you for sharing this wonderful routine, stands alongside "Who's on First?" by Abbot and Costello

@jillalexander3006

Жыл бұрын

No - that version was James Casey and Eli Woods but Hidd doing ROy Castle's part. I think it is on here off a Sunderland variety concert. Not as good as this though. Roy Castle had done this part with the other two for several years on the variety circuit. Hudd just an egotist who had to muscle his way into everything and make it about himself. Dreadful man. This is the best version of BOx Sketch I ever saw but the stooge in the long coat changed regularly in fact the chap in the hat was originally that stooge when his father was the main part.

i remember watching this as a kid & found it hilarious then. watching it now for the first time since its broadcast, i was laughing so hard i could hardly breath. brilliant. thanks for sharing

@JohnBamber2312

6 жыл бұрын

I feel just the same

@highpitwilma

5 жыл бұрын

Same here! Classic! Thanks for posting it!

I,m pleased to say that Jimmy Casey & Eli Woods were relations of mine .

Loved it.

Just great..

I do think this is the best version of the Box sketch done. James Casey is better than is his dad I think. Roy Castle is the best Box holder as well.

@ianbentley7276

4 жыл бұрын

agreed, i saw the original, and have looked back at it on here, but this outshines it.

Still makes me laugh out loud!

@susanwoolfitt7297

6 жыл бұрын

Jacqueline Kalich i

RIP all three, James Casey , Head of Comedy at BBC Manchester was the son of Jimmy James who originated this sketch..

A masterclass in comedic timing.Who could do this today ?

@martinspeak9244

Жыл бұрын

Nobody - !!!!

James Casey's father Jimmy James was the original and I saw him do this live, Huton Conyers and Eli Woods were his stooges and they where brilliant

This was hilarious. I haven't laughed out loud like this for ages. Wonderful.

Classic Comedy...All Talented And Perfect Timing.

Comedy perfection. Plain and simple.

I really enjoyed that 👍🏻

No crudity nudity or need to blaspheme. An era when Comedy reigned supreme.

One of the funniest sketches ever, I remember these three doing the same classic act on the Royal Variety Performance, I think the original performance it was based on goes back to the 1930's, but I cannot remember who did it, but I know I've read it somewhere probably in Roy's Memoirs

Best sketch ever on TV? If not, very close to being so.

@martinspeak-nd3ob

Ай бұрын

Try Freddy Starr “Vincent” sketch completely different but just as funny and clever

Brilliant👏👏👏👏👏👏😂

Brilliant!!

52 people without an iota of a sense of Humour..👿

WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan.

Amazing

Wonderful comedy. You couldn’t analyse it.

classic sketch,makes me laugh every time i watch it.

Wonderful old piece of business.

What a shame today's comedians aren't up to this standard. Pure geniuses.

James Casey & Eli Woods thay were grate

Absolute brilliant class comedy. No smut, no swearing and no filth.

Now THATS entertainment

@bigal3617

4 жыл бұрын

spot on

I remember seeing this sketch when I was twelve at the London Palladium . That would be about1958 , i always thought the straight man was Jimmy James

@ianbentley7276

4 жыл бұрын

The man in the hat is Jimmy James's son, James Casey, taking the part of his late father. .

@jillalexander3006

4 жыл бұрын

The one in the long overcoat changed many times over the years.

absolutely brilliant real natural skill talent eli woods was fantastic wonderfull real entertainment real natural laughter

Brilliant. Old troupers who knew what was funny and how to do it. No smut and no bad language.

One of the funniest things you will ever see.

James Casey was the writer & producer of The Clitheroe KId...

@jillalexander3006

Жыл бұрын

Well nobody's perfect!

When I see acts like this it makes me wonder how the hell acts like Ant and Dec, Reeves and Mortimer even get off the bus. Today there is nothing of this calibre being shown on TV. Unfortunately none of these prolific talents are alive today.

@patrickkelly7085

5 жыл бұрын

especially the Geordie twosome they are talentless

@philippaine

5 жыл бұрын

Ant and Dec are a pair of talentless idiots

@Kirkee7

5 жыл бұрын

I agree totally

@kevvome

5 жыл бұрын

Ant and Dec are pure untalented shite, but Reeves and Mortimer are very funny. Horses for courses I suppose.

@mrbrown2186

5 жыл бұрын

Bob Mortimer is a national treasure.

RIP Eli Woods....

I'm reminded of the joke about the two photographers in Africa watching Lions from a blind. One of the Lions sees them, roars and starts walking toward them. One of the men starts changing from sneakers to running shoes and his pal says, "Do you think you can outrun a Lion"? and his mate said, "As long as I can outrun you that's all that matters".

TRULY MAGNIFICENT best COMEDY EVER 👍👌💯