American Reacts to Dick Emery The Milkman

[@stevepecket2535]

Its such a shame that comedians like him don't or aren't allowed to exist anymore. I'm 50+ now but grew up watching Dick in the 70s. The different characters he did (lots included in this sketch) then at the end of the show he would show the "bloopers" Usually where they'd fluffed their lines and ended up falling about laughing. Oh how I miss those days where every character trait was fair game

[@michaelj2528]

Memories from my childhood, sadly no more thanks to the BLOODY PC brigade who have taken the joy and the fun and the laughter out of life ,

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Oh christ, I'm fed up of people like you who push blame for their shit lives onto non existent entities that only exist in your head.

[@TC-qd1zw]

Well stand up and do it. Stop being a wimp.

[@Hairnicks]

What a treat, haven't seen Dick Emery in years, forgot just how funny he was.

[@davidcorbett1713]

Oldschool classic British comedy at its best. Its simple easy comedy and Dick Emery was the father figure of many later comedians with multiple characters. A Milkman who looked like Hitler shows the genius of him.

[@pixielated2003]

Dick had an amazing talent to change into so many different characters. I still find his humour so funny 😁

[@michaelj2528]

@@pixielated2003 get stuffed

[@pixielated2003]

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[@zetectic7968]

The milkman is an archetype of British humour with adventures with bored and lonely housewives while the husband is at work. The 1st housewife was actress Wendy Richard, was in Are you being Served, appeared on the comedy song in the 1960's "Come Outside" and latterly a more serious role in the soap EastEnders.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

There used to be that famous sign for the milkman, a packet of OMO wash powder in the kitchen window, which stood for 'Old Man Out'. These days, unless you are a milkman named DAZ, you obviously have no chance!! 😆👍🇬🇧❤🇺🇸

[@anthonyharty1732]

Dick Emery is hilarious, his shows were top class, he was a comedy genius. 😂🤣😂

[@queenarchives350]

Saw Dick Emery live at theatre, absolutely brilliant all the characters he did. Another comedian who was very similar was Stanley Baxter show a Scottish comedian.

[@adrianbradley8513]

Over here in Northern Ireland we had a similar comedian in the seventies called Jimmy Young.I was born in 1972 but I've watched him on DVD and listened to him on audio cassette. His humour was mostly based on the Protestant/ Roman Catholic situation over here so you really had to live over here or know about Northern Ireland life to get has humour. He also sung humourous songs to other popular tunes and did some monologues( talking along with sad music) which,as they say over here, would draw a tear from a stone.

[@missxsoph1]

All his brilliant characters in one sketch,pure class

[@MrRhelli]

The Dick Emery Show was among the first to show bloopers at the end of the show under the title Comedy of Errors. Glad you're enjoying the myriad of characters and the simple yet clever wordplay.

[@andyknight7285]

Childhood tv for me , funny man .

[@speedtriplerider7853]

In my experience most Yanks just don't get Limey humour and I think you were like this when you first started watching our comedy. It's been great watching you develop your understanding and appreciation. You still miss a few more subtle comedy moments but you're getting there. Your laugh is infectious and has me laughing my head off at things I've known and laughed at for years and years. Brother, you've still got so much to discover, there really is a gold mine of comedy to be discovered and I'm enjoying watching you discover it. It might interest you to know that when I was a little kid in the 60s the funniest thing for me was The Beverley Hillbillies, I really thought they were real and wanted to run off to America and go and live with them, well either them or on The Ponderosa. Keep it up mate.

[@IanDarley]

Elly May "hey pappy, I found a double-barrelled slingshot"

[@speedtriplerider7853]

@@IanDarley i remember that, we could go on for ever though - the fancy eating table with the plate pushers, the cement pond - glorious stuff mate

[@IvorClegg]

@@speedtriplerider7853 It was just like ricochet-shootin'!

[@TheEclecticBeard]

Loved the Beverley Hillbillies growing up. I appreciate noticing I'm picking up on more of the comedic nuances as well. Some of it when I started was like a 747 going overhead.

[@stephenfox8685]

Agreed, but thanks to social media and culture sharing, their taste has broadened.

[@greatgruff1442]

thank you for reminding us there was once comedy on the tv

[@Isleofskye]

This was great but I am almost 68 in London and my first comedy was "The Rag Trade" with Reg Varney etc but there have been plenty of really funny shows in the last 10 years or so like . Alan Partridge, Derry Girls, Father Ted, Fleabag (Comedy-Drama) Peep Show,Inbetweeners etc

[@montyzumazoom1337]

Ahh Dick Emery, very funny talented man. Good family entertainment when I was growing up as a kid, we all loved his show.

[@dazo69]

I love watching you react to all my old favourites growing up. So funny and brings back so many memories and i love seeing you laugh along with the rest of us lol.

[@Paul-010]

Oooh for the days of British humour, how we all laughed!

[@tonyneal4716]

As a teenager, i always liked Dick Emery's comedy sketches. He'd play the irreverent vicar, the guy who was stuck in his job and couldnt escape. The Bovver boy who was a simpleton but always tried to improve his lot. The frustrated spinster who would never let a chance go by when it came to men. Love it!!

[@alanjay5974]

Great Stuff EB.One of the main reasons this goes down well in the USA & abroad is because it's straight forward comedy that doesn't crack jokes about famous Brit names & places that u haven't heard of from that time period..Can u please take note of these 2. Dick Em The Seaside Blackpool & Dick Em Happily Married.Perhaps for near future showing when u can.All the best.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

Great reaction to one of our past very funny comedians. His female characters were hilarious. 🙂👍🇬🇧❤🇺🇸

[@lindylou7853]

Wendy Richard - that’s where she was before, “Are you being served?” (Comedy - you’ll get to that one. One of the main characters has a cat …), and, “East Enders” (BBC daily soap based on a pub in London’s East End). Sadly, I see she died in 2009. Hard to believe when you see her answering the door to the milkman. Now, perhaps you’ll take a look at Father Ted and the Booby Trap sketch. Dougal (the naive, innocent priest who’s two baps short of a picnic), drives the milk float after Father Ted gets his predecessor sacked for being too friendly with his customers. And Benny Hill’s, “Ernie, the fastest milkman in the West’. That song went to number one!

[@jillosler9353]

I'm so glad that I grew up with this comedy when you were allowed to laugh at risque jokes and nobody took offence at everything. The reasoning behind using a milkman as the main reference was because the standing joke at an unplanned pregnancy was "it must have been the milkman"!

[@AreJayCee]

Loved watching Dick Emery back in the day. Great stuff.

[@coot1925]

I loved dick Emery when I was a kid. The British sense of humour is one of cheeky innuendo. The "carry on" films were a classic example of this humour. I miss the old electric milk floats. The milkman would give me 50p if I helped him with his delivery on the estate. Supermarkets killed the milkman off when they started selling milk at much cheaper prices.

[@stevenc5227]

@coot, yes i did the same thing back in the 70s, helping the milkman deliver round the village when i was a kid for a bit of money, wouldn't be allowed these days would be called child labour, it was a unigate milk float red and white, i would get up extra early and meet him at the end of my road, i loved to ride in the float as well.

[@helenbailey8419]

The milkmen are back in Manchester

[@coot1925]

@@helenbailey8419 oh wow, is it expensive? I loved the gold top. I really don't understand the skimmed milk thing, it's like water with a drop of white emulsion in it. ✌❤

[@maggiebeee66]

You are reviving a lot of lovely memories showing these lips! Thanks & keep up the laughs!

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

Stanley Baxter was another comedian from the 70's early 80's. Dick Emery even made a movie btw about a criminal who tattooed safety deposit box numbers on his ex girlfriends bottoms

[@vallee3140]

TV these days is so short of stuff like this,I spend my evenings on here, having a good laugh.

[@alanbryant3016]

I've just come across your site and I've been watching all evening you are so entertaining. BRILLIANT!

[@lindyloo401963]

I loved this guy ,grew up watching him good old fashioned British comedy at its best 👌

[@MrSinclairn]

Wow,a good dose of 1970s outrageous Dick Emery humour(which I haven't seen for donkey years)l,thanks for this!😂

[@kylebarker7362]

Great to see you enjoy classic as well as current British comedy, Eclectic Beard. Watching your reaction vids always puts a smile on my face regardless of what mood I was in prior. Keep up the good work!! A recommendation you may like; one of the most popular current panel shows here is Would I Lie To You. One of the captains is David Mitchell from Mitchell and Webb you've done before. Classic clips from that include "Lee Mack's Ex's Spell Bermuda", "Kevin Bridges Accidentally Bought A Horse" and anything with Bob Mortimer.

[@Isleofskye]

Really good reaction and I had forgotten how good Dick Emery was.True story. Between 1971and 73 a Pakistani friend of mine: Mr.Rahman, who I worked with asked me if I had seen Digger Murray last night and I thought "Australians aren;t known for their comedy?" and, of course, he said Dick Emery. It was a laugh a fortnight there:( Sadly, that last Housewife: June Whitfield, who got him beaten up, died in 2018 and only yesterday I watched a video about her unattended grave yet she had a daughter and became very famous in The UK..

[@softshallow7435]

Are you doing any more Love Thy Neighbour reactions pal? You only did a pilot one? 🙏🏽

[@TheEclecticBeard]

Yes I will be doing more of that show

[@tonyknox6739]

Wow Dick Emery haven't seen this in years great stuff Alan

[@777petew]

It was just lovely comedy and not written to offend anyone. The characters are too extreme to be true, nor representative. I lived in the 70s and even gay people would laugh. What's happened to the World when you can't laugh any more? When I was a boy, a neighbour looked at me and said to me and my parents "He doesn't look like his Dad. He must be the Milk Man's" My Mum and Dad were there and just laughed. Not meant, was ridiculous and instantly recognisable as humour. Who's offended?

[@DruncanUK]

The milkman maybe?? 🤣

[@jshaw4757]

It's become so sad ....

[@adrianbradley8513]

Totally agree. So much of seventies comedy was based on stereotypes like the milkman and bored wives at home while their husband is at work. For some unknown reason it was ALWAYS the milkman and NEVER any other man calling at the house selling things eg coalman, breadman etc. Having said that this type of comedy wouldn't be written nowadays as the only people who call at houses nowadays are postal/courier workers because of modern living. Well over here in Northern Ireland anyway.

[@dfddwm]

@@adrianbradley8513 Can you imagine the pussy riot brigade at the BBC watching this?

[@JazzFunk22]

Ooohhhh you are awful but I like you 🤭 .......✋

[@lynneivison5773]

You do know most of those characters are Dick Emery himself including some of the women. I am reminded how brilliant he is.This was what I was brought up on. Please play Benny Hill's 'Earnie, the Fastest Milkman in the West.' Same sort of silliness.

[@steverpcb]

The Eclectic Beard has already done Ernie, take a look at his other videos :)

[@ianpunter4486]

Sitting here in retirement in Thailand 2023.......OMG... 1969, first week as a camera assistant in the BBC Film Department....2 weeks filming Dick Emery in front of Ealing Film Studios

[@robingraham6820]

So glad you have found British humour from the good old days. Word play, innuendo, whit, and much more. Analysing and presenting humour as humour kills it. “subtle” is the key word and dead pan is the secret. The best comedians never laugh at their own humour, they just look bemused. Sadly modern humour is badly damaged by PC and the need for a fall guy to make fun of. In British humour, the comedian is usually his own “fall guy”. Have a look for radio humour, there is plenty of that too. Keep enjoying and keep reminding us of the good old days when laughter was not a crime.

[@jkpole]

Great childhood memories.. Thank you

[@666jamie666]

Its great to see you guys over the pond enjoying our classic comedy. In the nicest possible way if there is one thing we do better than anyone else its comedy. Good to see you enjoy and understand it as it completely lost on a lot of people. Keep up the great content 👍

[@John-kr7iz]

old school comedy, gotta love it

[@watchreadplayretro]

I could be wrong, but I do believe that's a young Ben Elton at the door behind the Reverend at 6:56 EB if you search for him within YT you'll find his political standup comedy shows from the 80s and 90s. He's since become more famous as an author (and was more a writer behind the scenes including The Young Ones, Black Adder, The Thin Blue Line etc) Anyway! This was fantastic, and as always your understanding of it's flow and that wonderful laugh. Great stuff! Thank you!

[@postscript67]

You are wrong. It's the actor who played Wolfie Smith's pal in "Citizen Smith".

[@watchreadplayretro]

@@postscript67 Thanks for the correction. My word he sure sounds and looks similar though. I'll look up Citizen Smith, cheers! :)

[@0ckyj]

Sounds like the Hotel California, "you can check in any time you like butyou can never leave".

[@StephenButlerOne]

You would love the Carry on Films. This great short if I didn't know better, could be took from a a Carry on movie. Start with Carry on camping and carry on nurse, There must be 30 movies. With the majority excellent.

[@agentsuperargo5023]

Dude!? Poor Milkman!,just subscribed 😂😂😭😭😭

[@kennethstark9383]

Fantastic childhood memories massive thumbs up 👍

[@Spodikus]

I've never seem that sketch, brilliant absolutely hilarious. Thanks for that

[@chipbuttytime3396]

The gorgeous woman at the start is Wendy Richard who was born in the same town as Roy Chubby Brown, Middlesbrough.

[@hightensionlabs]

Dick Emery was a genius.

[@robertlangley1664]

I use to help our milkman when I was on school holidays,happy days

[@jurgenolivieira1878]

That moustache style was very popular actually back in the days AH made it impopulair but in some countries it still is a seen here and there (especially on older people). Although this version seems like bit of a parody to me. :-) I live in The Netherlands and British comedy has always been a staple but I am not familiar with this series so thank you for sharing. You laugh is infectious, hahaha.

[@rogershore3128]

Really miss great comedy like this.... Where did it all go wrong?

[@maggiebeee66]

Dick Emery was great at playing multiple characters.. He and Les Dawson were so funny and got the females off to a tee!

[@nickdoughty518]

A policeman in the suburbs??!! Must have been filmed in the 70s.

[@markshaw270]

1:08 don't forget Charlie chaplain had it first 😁😆

[@marktownsend9333]

I was a young lad when watching Dick emery classic British comedy thanks for reminding me of this top 🍌

[@TheYjmfan]

Dick Emery a man of many faces and characters.

[@Richie_]

Our comedy back then was brilliant.

[@Walesbornandbred]

I miss the days when this sort of comedy was popular on tv. I love Dick Emerys characters.

[@MrNigelTBean]

We were so lucky, Dick Emery, Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Dave Allen, Frank Carson, Spike Milligan, Monty Python, The Big Yin, (Billy Connely), Mike Yarwood ad infinitum.

[@philtheecow3404]

1:24... Wendy Richard also deceased 😩

[@huwgriffith1138]

He also plays an old man. Lampwick.

[@ltsecomedy2985]

Hi E.B., I get the feeling that substitute milkman would also be suffering with his nerves, after that day. Probably would have had words to say to the regular one, if he got the chance !! :)Again, I realise just how lucky I was growing up in the `60`s & `70`s. Watching great comedies through till 2000. I think my last one was (2 Point 4 Children).

[@markfarrell4733]

You've got to watch..Harry Enfields .. Character.."Mr Cholmondley Warner"..They were a skit on the Public information films from the 1930's to the ,1950's... parodies of the British Stiff upper lip society..Start wiith the "Congugal Rights" sketch.

[@lesleypulling129]

My Garden Gate is the same lol love Dick Emery taking the mickey lol

[@wesleyrodgers886]

Loved it. 🙂

[@henryhartley9993]

I forgot how funny Dick Emery was, his characters were brilliant...

[@PsyQoTexxXas]

Bro when he pulled out the goldfish I lost it

[@paulbeard3238]

Haven't watched it all but there was a joke about a washing powder in the UK it was called OMO and if in kitchen window it meant old man out so the post man / milk man was lucky.. If you get the meaning😉😋😜😍👌

[@karenblackadder1183]

It was a typical British joke of the time. OMO was a good washing powder. RIP Alan 'Fluff' Freeman

[@JohnSmith-do3ek]

In my childhood ,milkmen would leave their dairies at 4am to deliver milk to the local community. Now, nobody has milkmen it is twice the price of buying it in supermarkets. We can get 6 pint cartons of milk for the same price as 2 or 3 pints of delivered milk.

[@CrazyInsanelikeafox]

Dick Emery. Comedy GOLD😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnnyrandom100]

I haven't seen Dick Emery since i was kid. I didn't understand him them but that was funny.

[@queenarchives350]

Enjoying your new reviews

[@gremlinuk1968]

I was a milkman back in 1984, when I lift height school, a 16 year old,,did for 10+ years,! Geart times , and seen many a thing when out on the rounds ,! , 😁 ,

[@sporkfindus4777]

It's nice to see the old cars

[@aquiles2375]

The first young girl started in the series " Are you being served"

[@dfddwm]

They'd never show this on British television now. But notice it isn't cynical or sarcastic... just funny. Good old fashioned fun.

[@shenysys]

If not mistaken, the first girl was a regular on Man about the house.

[@colinhughes916]

Your the Best EB - HILARIOUS From the UK 🇬🇧

[@MrOwwl]

Things you find that better than snl! CLASSIC, I LOVE 'EM!

[@Jason-io5bu]

You need to see more of Dick Emery look at driving test

[@TheEclecticBeard]

One step ahead of you on that one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIavYZp_nLtlhNU

[@terenceburchett6122]

The brilliant Dick Emery. Irreplaceable.

[@davidpimm3859]

The Pub Landlord Al Murray has his own sitcom called 'Time Gentlemen Please.' All the episodes are on here & I think you might like it!

[@saturdayplayer2492]

Have you tried Porridge or Open All Hours both with the brilliant Ronnie Barker.

[@TheEclecticBeard]

Open All Hours, the pilot episode and first 4 episodes of the first season are on the channel. I've reacted to the first episode of Porridge for my channel members.

[@thelastoftheanglosaxons.3724]

Pauline from EastEnders was so hot as a youngun! Honky Tonks 🤣🤣 as nippers it's something we use to shout out to people then peddle away like fuck before we got a wack across the nut! I still reminisce at those days gone by. I just can't understand why so many people today would find any offence in comedy like this. It's a shame when you think of programs like, it ain't alf hot mam, Alf Garnet etc that have now all been placed on the back shelf never to be seen again because of a minority of offended people...

[@anotherblonde]

Check out Harry Worth, he was before Dick Emery, also check out Not the Nine O'Clock News

[@timranachan3224]

I believe he was a biker, and I (think I) remember reading decades ago that he owned three houses in England, France and America, again, I am probably misremembering but he had a garage at each house containing various motorcycles CBX1000 being mentioned? Nice to find anyone with any information? Cos the guy is an absolute legend. "Ooh you ARE awful. But I liiike you..."

[@simonmountford4291]

Fun at the funfair…all the full episodes are on KZbin…

[@simonmountford4291]

No one did females characters better then Emery, however my favourite characters are the father and idiot son with late great Roy Kinnear. Comedy 🎭 gold.

[@davesy6969]

Ernie, fastest milkman in the west.

[@shenysys]

Don't forget - Ernie drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

[@bangersnmash4856]

For a sort of modern take, have a look at the league of gentlemen. Their in the village of Royston vasey ( which is roy chubby browns real name) 👍

[@swinetownswine]

look for his film where he plays all his main characters its amazing called OOH YOU ARE AWFULL ......there should be a trailer for it on youtube

[@garylucas7050]

It’s great you get British comedy ..the old stuff was the best

[@gordonlinton3555]

Just in case you are not familiar with his work, In this sketch, Dick Emery played the milkman, the golfer, the denim jacket lad, the reverend, the lady who stole next doors milk & the lady who collects men in her house .

[@keepgoing1973]

Check out the "Carry On " films. They are long movies but very funny from the same era and humor as this

[@poljames7492]

Have you watched "it aint half hot mum" yet,,,,nice to see ya loving our British sense of humoUr

[@MrOlgrumpy]

Look at anything from Dave Allen,very subtle

[@richt71]

Hey Alan Grew up watching this but they won't show it anymore as it classed as offensive now! You wanna check out the song he wrote 'Ernie the fastest milkman in the west'.

[@MrSinclairn]

Wrong,that was his fellow comedian Benny Hill!🙄

[@fasthracing]

"You are awful but I like you"

[@cseosborn892]

Amazing how English society was served by so many trades and services coming to the front door. It was so much more civilised in those days.

[@j0hnf_uk]

Self-deprecating humour is the best kind there is as we can all identify with, at least, something implicated by either the context of what's said or, in some cases, the characters themselves. Who goes out of their way to be, 'offended', by something they see of themselves in something that's patently meant to be taken purely as a joke, anyway? Best not answer that. You might, 'offend', someone(!)