An Audience With Kenneth Williams, December 23rd 1983

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@czeshirecat6278 9 ай бұрын

Horrified to realise, on 31st December 2023, that this video is 40 years old. I feel so privileged to have lived to watch brilliant people such as Kenneth in their prime and with very short eyebrows.

@davidvasey5065 4 ай бұрын

Video's 9 months old

@vasosandrea3532 2 ай бұрын

The man was amazing god bless him ❤

@ianpeddle6818 Ай бұрын

Me too every day I am grateful I got to see these wonderful performers completely different to the rubbish today.

@citizen1163 12 күн бұрын

I didn’t appreciate how great these people were at the time. Looking back from 2024, it saddens me.

@citizen1163 12 күн бұрын

Tempus bloody fugit! @czeshirecat

@AlanaPaton-q6b Ай бұрын

Ken's comic delivery is first rate, so glad this film survived. Didn't watch it when it was first broadcast, but I have been beaming like the Cheshire cat. Truly outstanding. Sad loss when he passed.

@OakApplegardens 10 ай бұрын

A genius. Great impression of Noel Coward.

@gwae48 11 ай бұрын

lovely man, very underrated, so funny.

@MrAJR76 Ай бұрын

"Underrated" by who? What level of rating do you think has wrongly been assigned to him? What rating level should he be at?

@fowlarch Ай бұрын

The immortal,one and only Kenneth Williams. I enjoyed decades of sublime wit,laughter and entertainment in years bygone. I wish I meet him in the afterlife!

@AntonyHR Жыл бұрын

A true comedic genius and consummate entertainer. We were blessed to have benefited from his immense talents. Sadly, it seems, he was deeply unhappy in himself. May that have dissolved once he passed into Spirit.

@EmmettRenshaw Жыл бұрын

So very amusing

@edinacloud5968 2 ай бұрын

Peter sellers had a similar unhappy private life

@happyuk06 2 ай бұрын

His impressions of Noel Coward were peerless.

@johnking5174 2 ай бұрын

23:28 - The most important friendship Kenneth had was with Gordon Jackson. He is mentioned so many times in his diaries. Gordon & his wife Rona were loyal friends to Kenneth for decades. He used to always spend New Year's Eve with Gordon, Rona & their children. They adored each other. A bit like brothers. Kenneth never had a brother, I think Gordon became an older brother to Kenny, as he was 3 years older than Kenny.

@JM_-ix7yh Ай бұрын

"I wonder if anyone will ever know about the emptiness of my life. I wonder if anyone will ever stand in a room that I have lived in, and touch the things that were once a part of my life, and wonder about me, and ask themselves what manner of man I was. How to ever tell them? How to ever explain? How to say that I never found Love - how to say that it was all my own fault - that when presented with it, I was afraid & so I spurned it, or laughed at it, or was cruel, and killed it: and knew that in the process I was killing myself." From KW's diaries

@JM_-ix7yh Ай бұрын

remarkable to read his diary and compare it to this extravagant performance

@scottpeter5704 11 ай бұрын

December 1983, where were you? I was in London, 18, gay boy from Dorset end of first term at Drama Centre ... life was beginning 😊

@scottpeter5704 11 ай бұрын

@@markalessandro3673 Who shot JR? Bronski Beat, Culture Club...? Was Joan Collins in Dynasty yet?

@gerardmackay8909 10 ай бұрын

Helping run a family pub in rural Durham aged 21. Gay too but, having watched a documentary from New York about a strange new disease called AIDS, I put my personal life on hold. Great year for music though: Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, Bonnie Tyler, Men at Work, Eurythmics, Police….and on and on.

@gerardmackay8909 10 ай бұрын

@colindasilva2442 8 ай бұрын

lordy you dont look old enough

@NatureBoy-kk2cv Ай бұрын

Does anyone know who the audience member "Matthew " in the rainbow jumper is? There will never be another talented man like Ken. Privileged to live in his time.

@NatureBoy-kk2cv Ай бұрын

Thankyou for replying. That audience was amazing too!

@pauldurkee4764 Ай бұрын

That is Matthew Kelly, first became well known in the 80s on a show called game for a laugh.

@paulhammons7077 8 ай бұрын

Old man😮😅😢😊. ❤

@WFitzgerald 27 күн бұрын

The thing with watching these LWT versions of older /earlier "An Audience with..." is the celebs in the audience - trying to remember who they are/were, and if they're alive, deceased, and or disgraced 😂

@josephineclay235 21 күн бұрын

🤲

@JOSEPHINECLAY-r6k Ай бұрын

JOSEPHINE JANE CLAY 🐈🤲miracle

@JOSEPHINECLAY-r6k Ай бұрын

🎉how many angels did I write print I can't remember 😂

@JOSEPHINECLAY-r6k Ай бұрын

now.

@johnking5174 2 ай бұрын

Watching the audience laugh means we get to see their teeth, and it seems by 1983 there must have been a severe lack of toothpaste in Britain, as most of their teeth has every colour except white.

@ianpeddle6818 Ай бұрын

What? ??????

@armagosa1 Ай бұрын

@johnking5174 Isn't it strange how our views of the world around us change over time? Human teeth have a natural range in colour from the almost white/Biege tones right through to almost brown or grey. Actual WHITE teeth are very rare indeed when they occur naturally. Pure luck of the genetic lottery. But thanks to media saturation, advances in dentistry, dental implants, advanced teeth whitening using ultrviolet light and modern gentle whitening chemicals, overnight whiteners the list goes on..... What we percieve as a healthy "normal" looking smile NOW, would have stood out like a bright row of freaky looking headlights to most folks in 1983.

@kevinfarrell523 4 ай бұрын

Very very . .know what I mean?

@johndaarteest 2 ай бұрын

In tents?

@vamphunt666 9 ай бұрын

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

@willfelix-moore8278 Ай бұрын

I have never been that keen on him I prefer The Khasi of Kalabar 😂

@naradaian 10 ай бұрын

Almost unbelievably clever - bless you Mr Williams, bless

@Andrew-el8xi Ай бұрын

The celebrities in those days earned there fame! Not like these jordie shore and made in Chelsea or towie crap ! Love Island! Lol seriously! Kenneth Williams is a legend

@superman00001 9 ай бұрын

You have to wonder how on earth he does it. It’s non-stop, effortless raconteur-ing. Mesmerising.

@graemeyetts3465 Ай бұрын

Staccato humour. Probably the best exponent.

@karlmylnere5712 2 ай бұрын

The most brilliant impressionist and entertainer that this land has produced , the depth of his talent is mostly not recognised , this video shows just a fraction of his ability , we will probably not see his like again.

@parh02 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful, Wonderful Man - I only hope that you truly realise how much you were Loved Kenneth. Without doubt the greatest orator and raconteur that I have ever seen in my 63 years on this planet. If there is such a thing as Heaven I would really like to meet and chat with you.❤ R.I.P Kenny

@timelordvictorious Ай бұрын

Not sure he. Ever new he was loved sadly

@kirstentaranto4846 Жыл бұрын

So brilliant!

@sharonjones873 9 ай бұрын

what an immaculately elegant man Kenneth was. Love him.

@rosemariemann1719 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if he had been born a bit later, might he have felt more at ease ? 'Gay ' was taboo, back then...folk are easier with it now😊. He amused us so much with his anecdotes, from an extraordinary life. It's so nice to be able to see him here on KZbin. Many thanks 😊 🇬🇧😊🦉💙⭐🇬🇧

@johnking5174 2 ай бұрын

I think the answer is yes. Remember it was only in 1967 that consensual same sex acts between two men were made legal in England. Also it was in the 1980s when gay men started to feel more liberated, especially with the alternative comedy scene arriving. So instead of being born in 1926, if he had have been born in 1956, possibly his personal life might have been easier, as he would have been in his 30s in the 80s. But on the downside, we would have never had him in the Carry On movies.

@bridgetchapman5985 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing!

@mimiweeks6919 Күн бұрын

Kenny (as he was known by his friends) was great pals with Dame Maggie Smith, who died yesterday, aged 89. I hope she's having a giggle with him.

@angelaegan7511 2 ай бұрын

Pure genius 😊

@kinsellaSE7 2 ай бұрын

Just pure refined entertaining talent. Forty years on and all the real actors and entertainers will soon be gone. At least we’ll have Ant and Dec though eh?

@mischamoselle1345 4 ай бұрын

Carefully planted question by Giles Brandreth, the ahem publisher of Acid Drops!

@johnking5174 2 ай бұрын

No surprises, as it happened on every An Audience With.

@MrAJR76 Ай бұрын

ALL the questions are pre-scripted by each audience member. That was how these "Audience With..." shows worked.

@johnking5174 Ай бұрын

@@MrAJR76 You can actually see Kenny has a script on his side table. Pieces of information which help him through the show if needed. However Lenny was a pro at these type of shows, he had a memory which was like a library.

@WFitzgerald 27 күн бұрын

@@johnking5174I suspect that was probably the running order of the questions, and who was going to ask 😉