Dick Emery

[barry1010]

Ch 5 is showing a documentary about him tonight. I loved him when I was a kid and it will be interesting to see if I find him funny now I'm all grown up. The gurgling vicar had me in stitches.

[emmie]

i too found him funny as a kid, though i won't watch the programme i too wonder if i would find him amusing now.

[barry1010]

I was a strange kid, my favourite programme was Call My Bluff.

[Tilly2]

I didn't like Dick Emery. I thought he was 'rude'. :-)

[emmie]

can't remember watching that as a kid.

[emmie]

rude in what way tilly.

[emmie]

he was known for his saucy sometimes risque routines that was for sure.

[barry1010]

I thought Benny Hill was 'rude' and even today he turns my stomach a little.
He was awful and I didn't like him.
I did like Dickie Henderson

[emmie]

never like Benny Hill, i found him very creepy.

[Bobbisox1]

Loved the days of Dick Emery " oh you are awful but I like you"they entertained us on Saturday night TV then Sunday night at the London Palladium, ,Dixon of Dock Green , Emergency Ward 10, loved them all and even as a young girl, I liked What's my Line

[Dagman]

"Dad, dad, I think I've got it wrong again dad!". The humour was of it's time, same as Stanley Baxter, good in it's day.

[Bobbisox1]

Couldn't stand Benny Hill,euckkk
Dickie Henderson was a very versatile performer, great tap dancer and singer

[burlyshirley]

I too found Benny Hill creepy, but I used to like Dick Emery. Doubt I'd find his humour funny today though.

[barry1010]

Yes, I liked What's My Line, too. I still enjoy panel shows.

[barry1010]

Stanley Baxter came across as a lovely, kind man.

[emmie]

i find most panel shows a bore, there are ones like Q1 in its heyday were good.

[barry1010]

Strange how many comedians dressed as women in those days.

[Bobbisox1]

Dag, Stanley Baxter lived across from our friend in Paphos in a village called Tala, their villas were opposite one another's , he lived there with a young blonde man who he said was his PA ( haha) he's only just 'came out to the world aged 90

[david small]

Remember Arthur Haynes? Up to my neck in muck and bullets. Nicholas Parsons was his stooge for a while.
Also Hilda Baker...

[barry1010]

I still enjoy QI, I went off it a bit when Stephen Fry was making too many comments about choirboys, public school spankings and bottoms.

[windywillow]

I liked Dave Allen. I watched a re-run recently and still enjoyed it.