The lesser spotted Dick Emery
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Lesser spotted and also rarely, if ever mentioned.
Rare chance to see Dick Emery on film, BBC1 00:30 Ooh you are awful.
It's actually not that bad as a bit of a crime caper/comedy film from it's era Pat Coombes and Ronald Fraser are in it IIRC.
Probably a few other well known faces from the 70's are in there too.
Rare chance to see Dick Emery on film, BBC1 00:30 Ooh you are awful.
It's actually not that bad as a bit of a crime caper/comedy film from it's era Pat Coombes and Ronald Fraser are in it IIRC.
Probably a few other well known faces from the 70's are in there too.
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I know that Harry Enfield cites Dick Emery as an influence and you can also see similarities of that type of sketch show in Little Britain. Emery was, allegedly quite a difficult character to work with, but that characteristic seems to be par for the course for these comic actors.
You may know that his sister is Ann Emery and she played Mrs Ethel Meaker in Rentaghost.
I never knew that. Thanks.
Yes, Dick Emery was apparently rather difficult to work with. He was somewhat of a perfectionist and somewhat insecure. Personally I would love his shows to be released on DVD. If they can release Morecambe and Wise and The Two Ronnies why not give us some Dick !!!!!
In those days we loved the same characters in the same situatioins week after week, year after year.
Now comedians such as Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, David Walliams and Matt Lucas feel that characters have a limited appeal and want to kill them off quickly.
You can find some of these clips on Youtube....they're hilarious
Helen Fraser played daughter to the Lampwick character and Victor Maddern played the husband. Not in every series but in quite a few of them.
I enjoyed the spinoff films from those TV series - even though they were always totally panned by the critics. The two Steptoe & Son films are prime examples - I always thought the second one in particular was simply brilliant.
good looking in those days. Also saw the second Steptoe film
last weekend. That is probably one of the best spin off films from
British tv comedy - although the first one was pretty poor
Back to Emery, he was a must see part of BBC comedy in my youth
That era with him, Eric & Ernie + Mike Yarwood etc was probably about
has good as it gets for consistently good comedy entertainment
Although there is still some good comedy about today it just
seems more hit and miss in my opinion
some dick
No, they kill them off because people say they need to (atleast in David and Matt's case) even though loads of people still say they want to see those characters...
Army recruitment
Selection of sketches
This is why Emery is rarely repaeated on Terrestrial TV. The hows would have to be heavily edited to reflect today's social and legal climate.
Re: the film, it got me wondering what happened to Derren Nesbitt who was a bit-part actor in the 60s-70s and played the villain. According to Wiki, in 1973 he was charged with whipping his wife with a belt. It seems since then he has faded into obscurity.
The likeness is uncanny...in many ways.
Dick Emery was an essential part of my childhood. I remember the whole family going to see him at Blackpool Winter Gardens. He's still as funny as he ever was!
Army recruitment - my favourite Clarence sketch ever!
Which reminds me, my pesky neighbour has still got my Dick Emery DVD - must get it back!
I know that some of my male gay friends find Clarence and Mr Humphreys funny too. Just a matter of taste, and how one has been viewed in society I guess.
You might want to believe that, but Dave Allen doesn't get the mentions he deserves IMO either.
Humphries and Larry Grayson, safe and unthreatening campery.
Get into this later, busy with Peep show.
Dave Allen was actually funny though.
Yeah, nice and safe and unthreatening, the homosexuality only implied but obvious all the same, figures of amusement and generally a laughing stock, and the template was used again and again and again from Julian Clary to Graham Norton and Alan Carr.
Vile.
If people recognised themselves in those gross caricatures then fine, but if you didn't then it was grim.
Dave Allen= excellent viewing and one of the first masters of dry, observational humour and impecable timing. I particularly liked how he highlighted the obsurdity of belief when questioned through a child's eye.