1979: The QUEEN of BLACK COUNTRY COMEDY | Nationwide | Inspirational Women

1979: The QUEEN of BLACK COUNTRY COMEDY | Nationwide | Inspirational Women | BBC Archive

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@Tim.Weaver 5 ай бұрын

😸This lady's accent reminds me of a joke told by the jazz musician Tommy Burton, another proud Midlander. A man from the Black Country goes into the vets, and says "I'd like to have my cat doctored." The vet asks: "Is it a tom?" "No," he replies, "it's outside in the car."

@JJONNYREPP 2 ай бұрын

1979: The QUEEN of BLACK COUNTRY COMEDY | Nationwide | Inspirational Women | BBC Archive 0916am 21.8.24 aooooohhh...yeah. you should be on telly with jokes like that. i have to say i was sat stony faced for a few seconds, there. then i read it again.... ahhhh roughly translated: is it at home, sir, the cat... the cat you want doctored? he was deaf, you see.... the guy who wanted his cat doctored....

@nozrep Ай бұрын

ahhhh i am Texan thank you for the translation! is it a tom? is it at-omm? no it’s in the car!😂😂

@JJONNYREPP Ай бұрын

@@nozrep Comments on ‘1979: The QUEEN of BLACK COUNTRY COMEDY | Nationwide | Inspirational Women | BBC Archive’ 5.9.24 0722am is it at home was the correct translation....

@Ziggy_Shakespeare 5 ай бұрын

I love it that theres about a 2 mins of set up between each punch line.

@cultofwedge1998 28 күн бұрын

I used to use a second hand book and record shop in the Black Country, a guy called Ken Allen ran it, sometimes he'd be out doing stuff, and a little quiet old lady ran it for a few hours, served me several times. One day I was talking to Ken and mentioned the old lady who served me, then he said 'that's my Mom, Dolly' then it clicked who she was. My parents often went to watch her shows, I never realised. Bless her.

@Mickster71 5 ай бұрын

I hope she lived for many happy and healthy years.

@PamK36 5 ай бұрын

Died in 1990, according to Wikipedia.

@TruculentSheep 5 ай бұрын

Got to say, she was looking and sounding great for 74.

@jasonayres 5 ай бұрын

A good lesson there for us. She was out there doing something productive with her time, having a laugh. It was a good earner, too. 300 a week! Agreed, better than being home in front of the telly every night. 🤔 Note to self: ... The telly, or the screen.

@tonythetyger99 5 ай бұрын

£300 in 79 would be worth around 1400 quid now

@original.dwornboy 5 ай бұрын

£1422.54 to be exact.

@matt.willoughby 5 ай бұрын

It would depend on what you're buying I suppose. Petrol or cigarettes would be a bit more I think

@matt.willoughby 5 ай бұрын

40 cigarettes cost £1, now it's about £40 for 40 cigarettes

@NoosaHeads 5 ай бұрын

An average house in 1979 was about £7000. (I bought a 6 bedroom Victorian terraced house for £6500 that year). That same house now would cost at the very least £250,000 ie minimum 30 times the '79 price, so £300 would, by that metric, be £9,000. A new Ford Escort 1300 Polular plus (I bought one) was £1300. An "equivalent" car today would be $25,000 ie 18x more. A loaf of bread is now about 15 x more than in 1979 and petrol is about 12x more. My best guess is that prices are a minimum of 12 times 1979 prices and more likely 15 times. These inflation calculators on the internet are always incorrect and the inaccuracies always understate the extent of inflation. If anyone out there thinks they can get a 3 bedroomed house for £35,000 (£7,000 at the 1979 price times a internet calculated inflation rise of only 5 times), good luck.

@luiathmorgan7709 5 ай бұрын

Still good money now !

@76ToneCrome 5 ай бұрын

Three hundred a week in 1979 must have been a pretty penny.

@jimmypenn 5 ай бұрын

My first wage as an apprentice electrician back then was £18 a week , an absolute fortune at the age of 18 , forward to 1982 , time served getting £44 a week

@FlibDokky 5 ай бұрын

2:07 😂😂😂

@mAiSiEbOOOO 5 ай бұрын

3:25

@FlibDokky 5 ай бұрын

@@mAiSiEbOOOO jesus christ lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@PamK36 5 ай бұрын

I don't know this lady ,being from the US, but our version would have to be Minnie Pearl.

@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s 5 ай бұрын

2:05 🤣

@FlibDokky 5 ай бұрын

translation please

@djtomoy 5 ай бұрын

What language is she speaking?

@JJONNYREPP 2 ай бұрын

1979: The QUEEN of BLACK COUNTRY COMEDY | Nationwide | Inspirational Women | BBC Archive 0919am 21.8.24 as MM once said: here's the birmingham james cagney: here's kiddin' at you, look!

@marknewbold2583 Ай бұрын

@@JJONNYREPPBirmingham is not the Black Country

@JJONNYREPP Ай бұрын

@@marknewbold2583 Comments on ‘1979: The QUEEN of BLACK COUNTRY COMEDY | Nationwide | Inspirational Women | BBC Archive’ 1829pm 20.9.24 innit? so where's Birmingham in relation to the black country. is it not in the midlands..my folk music lp's suggest it's part of the black country. or have Warick and Worcestershire disowned it? i mean aston isn't birmingham, either, is it? i aint bothering goin' down there.... it'd be far too confusing

@bardo0007 5 ай бұрын

Google translate did not work here

@sparkmanuk 4 ай бұрын

Now a bland London accent is taking over the south of England moving out.

@lonesomeStu 5 ай бұрын

Old Style!

@mrb5606 4 ай бұрын

And they say female comedians ain't funny.........

@Illustraful 5 ай бұрын

Funnier than Jo Brand.

@kingeatking 5 ай бұрын

To be fair a lifeless corpse would be funnier than that clown.

@octaviussludberry9016 5 ай бұрын

You might like to look up the word subjective.

@chrisredditch 5 ай бұрын

I'm funnier than Jo Brand and I'm a miserable sod.

@kingeatking 5 ай бұрын

@@chrisredditch yup. I'd believe it 👍

@Illustraful 5 ай бұрын

@@octaviussludberry9016 OK. I think this woman was funnier than Jo Brand. Then again, a chair is funnier than Jo Brand.

@RolandoRatas 5 ай бұрын

2:04 good to see that Brummies were quite liberal even back in 1979 !

@jasonayres 5 ай бұрын

My grandmother (and other older relatives) used to say this particular word for a collective noun of a group of sticks. ie. Tinder. But, whatever was on that spoon in that advertisement, it certainly wasn't a group of sticks collected for firewood. I'm not from around that way.

@TheRosycruxian 5 ай бұрын

Just saw your comment at that exact moment ~ thought exactly the same !! 😂😂😂😂😂

@Illustraful 5 ай бұрын

I'd completely forgotten that that was the name for a type of meatball. 😂

@robinvanags912 5 ай бұрын

@@jasonayres Purchased from the butcher - good for dinner. The nationally-available brand: 'Brains' is still going.

@jasonayres 5 ай бұрын

@robinvanags912 Thanks. I do remember offal covered in a salty gravy, from my youth. Salty gravy used to make certain dishes palatable. I was taught to just eat what was put in front of me, regardless.