Hylda Baker interview

Russell Harty interviews hylda baker

[@shaunatkinson22]

I've just watched Nearest And Dearest and I'm currently watching Not On Your Nellie. She was a brilliant actress and I loved her phrases. There'll never be anyone like her. RIP Hylda x

[@johnbarry1965]

I'm rewatching Nearest and Dearest and Hylda was a total joy.

[@algiles881]

I'd say that without fear of contraception, Shaun.

[@tez1111]

What a true star she was! It's really sad that only a handful of people attended her funeral. I can't understand it... The same thing happened at Wilfrid Brambell's funeral. And yet, now, how much we give to have even a 5 minute chat with them! Rest in peace, Hylda. Dawn xxx

[@teresaecarroll3328]

LOVED THIS. BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF HILDA.

[@andrewroberts4736]

Hilda spent time living in Bexley Village when she was at the end of her career. I was a little boy of five and would see her in the street while she was out doing her shopping. She was unfailingly kind and always talked to my mum and talked to me too. A real talent.

[@rocker53zero]

Hylda was one of the funniest people who was ever on TV.

[@cassandrade-wolfe6926]

Absolute legend. Love her 👍

[@paulhancock3957]

Wish we had talent like the brilliant Hylda Baker..so funny 😂😅😅😅

[@marylynch951]

Absolutely agree 💯

[@roddersfiftynine]

Hylda was brilliant and I can say that without fear of contraception !

[@tenodogblu]

I loved Hilda! My old mum was a carbon copy of her always gettting her worms mixed up and that. LOL. She was real gem and such a great actress. Bless you my darling and thanks for the laughs and the memories. RIP XXXX

[@algie-t2w]

Your old mum sounds a proper ladel.

[@poetryreincarnations]

Russell Harty what a brilliant interviewer he was,and what a funny lady Hylda Baker was. My mum was her housekeeper in the late 1970's

[@deidraboswell8451]

Really?!?! Did she have any stories?

[@garydunn3037]

Hylda Baker the Mistress of Verbal Dyslexia. r.i.p. Hylda you are very sadly missed.

[@Villiago]

Gary Dunn I think you mean the mistress of malapropism!

[@garydunn3037]

Villiago ha ha, whatever.

[@Greenstead]

A very much missed lady.

[@andrewhubbard4044]

God bless Hilda Baker absolutely brilliant. RIP

[@stellap7624]

What a wonderful and very talented Woman She was. I always loved her from the first moment I saw her on television. My Mother used to copy a few of her catchphrases, and make everyone laugh. I'm currently watching 'Not on your Nellie'. And plan to revisit 'Nearest and Dearest' soon. What joy Hilda brought, and still brings.

[@popazz1]

"What are we today,then,Gilbert?" "Have you been our Walter? I say,have you beeeeen?" Bless her,a real treasure.

[@yozzerhughes]

This is so fab. Thanks every so much for posting. What a legend.

[@ChrisR_68]

I love Hylda baker, I used to watch her with my mam, I used to say be soon I said, be soon because I loved when she said that, I'm saving them up on KZbin absolutely legend she is love her

[@scottymat4566]

Ms Baker was one of our comic geniuses, Fantastic time for british comedy....We will never see their like again the whole comedy scene has changed so much...People don't seem to laugh at the type of humour that was around in that era ..

[@stevenwade7466]

Very well put . Most supposed comedy today is utter SHITE.

[@clairemooney1429]

i love hylda baker such afantastic funny actress brilliant in nearest and dearest

[@spib65]

Many thanks for posting this, a very talented lady, I also wondered what on earth had become of her?,..she was one of my favourites from Tv in my childhood,.....God bless her!

[@londonlady227]

Loved Hylda.....❤ Queen of the Malaprop.

[@davelawday6609]

Hilda is my all time favourite...she is the best...bless her ❤❤❤

[@rossmcl177]

"Eamon Andrews said 'This is your life' and I was almost prostitute on the floor!" LOL. what a great trooper. Love the way she presents the award to the guy with the bird at the start too.

[@rogerbarton1790]

Jean Fergusson (Marina, Last of the Summer Wine) did an absolutely brilliant one-woman show in which she played Hylda Baker telling her life story, Well worth a listen if you can find it.

[@stephenguppy8886]

I have seen an excerpt of the show. She is fabulous as Hylda.

[@annoldham3018]

Yes. And she wrote a book about Hylda too. Great.

[@alexcalledsimon]

A star turn if ever there was one.

[@linrkirk]

Thank you for posting got a tear in my eye from laughing.

[@daydream1900]

your welcome

An icon…God bless her🙏

[@celluloidal]

hilarious Hylda on her own by herself with nobody with her!

[@stephenguppy8886]

Well remembered lines.👍

[@niptodstan]

'Can you hear me Walter'? I must get a little hand on this watch.

[@andrewbenbow8100]

Good old hylda, she was great fun x

[@TonyKitchen471]

What a Talented Lady

[@lindyloo7177]

Great to see Russell reacting to Hilda like that 💝 Laughter really is the greatest therapy. 🎋🕊

[@ikkipiggy2299]

Hilda Baker, she so funny. A female that would have made a brilliant Drag Artist!!!! Fantastic British Humour at its best!

[@murielbarker4311]

I loved Russell Harry he always bragged that Richard Whiteley (countdown) was his tutor RIP Russell and Hilda

[@Alessiasbackheal]

Harty

[@shaunatkinson22]

Russell Harty was Richard Whiteley's tutor at Giggleswick Grammar School. I read it in Whiteley's autobiography Himoff.

[@euronick61]

We saw this show in London..it was excellent

[@esseker6320]

Very funny woman bless her.

[@johnbarry1965]

I was waiting for the brilliant Hylda to call Harty an Illegitimate Bachelor!!!

[@spiritladysoul]

Im able and shes bodied lol, wonderful humour, poor old mrs jacksons washing, oh i do miss her and her humour, wish they would show more of her again on tv in nearest and dearest, just soooo funny.....xx

[@briangreener1614]

lpl

[@jessiejames7492]

too bad there arent more episodes of NOT ON YOUR NELLIE on youtube. loved the 3 episodes some good soul uploaded

[@TheJohnpandy]

I saw Hilda at the Opera House in Blackpool Donald Peers was top of the bill. I loved her. John Sivorn

[@Michael-yd5ry]

Stop stood standing there,you big girls blouse. Brilliant.

[@macvoutie]

This is what is so great about You Tube. Until now I'd never heard of Hylda Baker (and I love Amer. Vaudville And Eng. Music Hall). She really takes charge when in front of an audience. Is there any film of the young Hylda Baker?

[@ChrisR_68]

I've just seen you posted this 14 Yr ago, I used to watch nearest and dearest with my mam as a kid and I only remembered her saying be soon I said be soon and have you been and many others. Thanks for this, she was so so funny, I just got the box set for nearest and dearest and I'm laughing so much lol, one of a kind that lady. Awful for her to get alzheimers bless her

[@RoonJazz]

She's great! She knew what she was doing at all times (with the possible exception of "You're The One That I Want" with Arthur Mullard). Great. x

[@paulbastiani8268]

Ruth-Elizabeth Page She had Alzheimer's by then sadly.

[@crossleydd42]

She knows, you know!!!

[@annoldham9355]

"And here am I, lying prostitute on the pavement!" Genius.

[@CK1223]

rip you gave us a lot of laughter

[@GrahamLondonUK]

Hylda Baker reminds me of a TV sitcom character called Ethel, who was Mildred Roper's sister in George & Mildred.

[@annturner9893]

Memories!!

[@robintumman1527]

Hylda Baker was fantastic. Does anyone have a copy of her "This is Your Life" to post? Regards, Robin.

[@shaunatkinson22]

It's on KZbin Robin

[@carolinepagett8511]

Lovely to see this..Thankyou.

[@rothwellss]

Must agree with the last comment After 40 or so years still laugh

[@connelpark]

hylda is adoreable

[@DDandrums]

Her rendition of You’re the one that I want with daughter-abuser Arthur Mullard was sheer perfection ❤

[@stevenwade7466]

Fantastic lady much better than TODAYS UTTER SHITE. Even that Amanda Hart has robbed her catch phrase " thankyou very glad . Miss you Hilda RIP x .

[@ROCKINGMAN]

Remember my dad watching Nearest and Dearest with Jimmy Jewel back in the early 70's. I thought she was a great little character then.

[@SuperFerdie1965]

Good evening Defective Inspector, you haven't had the pleasure of me yet have youuu?

[@jnuttso1]

She was so down to earth and very funny I like Russell harty always have so ner nen ner ner ner :-)

[@atlast1948]

@macvoutie You have missed some gems. Hylda was in Saturday night and Sunday morning, She played an abortionist in something else (not sure if that was the film Poor Cow) and she played the undertaker's wife opposite Leonard Rossiter in the musical "Oliver" which also starred Ron Moody as Fagin. Not to mention all the TV things. She was a good looking woman in her earlier years - weren't we all.

[@Lindabean1000]

I met her in piccadilly and found her very nice

[@catherinetobin7273]

Brilliant

[@maryarigho5868]

Tunbridge Wells Opera House is now a Wetherspoons.

[@daydream1900]

@Feisty1967 Bronchial pneumonia she also suffered form alzheimer's, she died in 1986 london.

[@murcury43]

hi hilda baker was a star . anyone thought of turning her life story into a tv drama . this would be brilliant, storys you here about hilda , ie not getting on with her brother ellie and her wild partys in blackpool. this would make a cracking drama. think patrica roulidge would play the part .

[@J-zr9lg]

Delightful ❤

[@malcolmcarroll9497]

She looks and sounds like a Dick Emery character 😂

[@reclaimerReclaimer]

1972 this is I suppose, judging by Michael York and Cabaret.

[@SuperFerdie1965]

Thought bubble coming out of Hylda's head - "do I really have to talk to this talentless bandit?"

[@glamdolly30]

+Francis Artanis Having watched a few vintage clips of the late Russell Harty I'm gobsmacked at how awful, inept and unfunny he was. He had an amazing knack for putting his guests ill at ease, really quite charmless.

[@SuperFerdie1965]

glamdolly20 Yes indeed. Harty was to interviewing what Beckham is to theoretical Mechanics and what Bamber Gascoigne was to arm wrestling.

[@glamdolly30]

+Francis Artanis Succinctly put - thanks for the laugh!

[@SuperFerdie1965]

glamdolly20 You are very welcome dear lady. Glad to amuse a glamdolly!

[@glamdolly30]

+Francis Artanis Ha! Ha! Love it, you're pure class! X

[@simonjones7727]

Dick Cavett eat your heart out...Really, what an outrageous old Queen. Rissole Smarty, that is. Hylda Baker on the other hand, she is just fabulous!

[@atlast1948]

Hylda had sad personal life. She suffered ectoptic pregnancy and numerous miscarriages - in later life she gave her love to her pet monkeys. Try get hold of the book written by Jean Ferguson (actress in Last of the Summer Wine. My great aunt told me Hylda was my cousin but she was actually second cousin of my second cousin who coincidentally died 2 weeks ago. Hylda's Aunt Florence married man called Dawber, this man's sister Jane married Henry Bullough who was my second cousin's Gdad.

[@larrymclarnon-pd8xf]

She knows you know.

[@Susan-on3gc]

She was so good, not easy in those days for a women, she only has to give a look.

[@lordmartin2933]

Lady Malaprops - EXCRUCIATINGLY FABULOUSLY FUNNY XXXXXXXXXXXX

[@bernardgibson8297]

Hylda Baker was born 3 years before my father & 5 years before my mother, BUT, as a red-blooded male who will be 82 next month,I REALLY fancy her!Whether it's her sense of humour or what,it's indefinable,& I would not be put off if she was wearing 'passionkillers'!(Probably make it more interesting!)

[@albaproductions9602]

bernard gibson That's a great age Bernard, My father-in-law will be 85 in November, He is on about 20 tablets a day has only one lung but has he slowed down, has he hell.Keep chasing the ladies Bernard.

[@Villiago]

bernard gibson It is all about the twinkle in the eye Bernard.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

great comment.

[@iggigrinner]

thanks

[@kieran196]

@atlast1948 She was in Up the junction with Dennis Waterman,Maureen Lipman,Alfie Bass & Queenie Watts.

[@spmoran4703]

My mother loved her . I found her very funny. She never knew how to dress. 😁 . And shes got a Hot Seat😅.

[@xboxgamer7453]

I said for Spoodle!..Hilarious

[@sitgeshorn]

Hi I aggree, there should be a tv Drama, Jean Fergusson ( Marina in Last of the summer wine)has already written a play and screenplay. Why not vist the Hylda Baker Fan Club, and see what the lates news is?

[@noonienotjune]

can daydream 1900 please post this again it wont download properly for me I love her thanks

[@nigelpearson6664]

It's said her parties were well worth going to. I wish.

[@jacksugden8190]

Seen her in some serious films, but here not certain whether to laugh at her, or laugh with her, she was unusual in Nearest & Dearest, she sometimes forgot her lines, no one knew or understood her dementia illness, that why Jimmy Jewell couldn’t get with her on set, as he had to push her to remember her lines, they would argue behind the studio sets at Granada, all history now loosing Hilda and Jimmy.

[@sarahholland2600]

She's certainly lucid, funny & interesting here. Dont know why you are implying she is an object of pity in this interview.

[@M.L.V.C.]

Can anyone explain what her catchphrase “She knows, y’know!” meant? Thx!

[@leelarson107]

Their repartee sort of reminds me of the Marx Brothers and their "Why A Duck" routine.

[@algie-t2w]

I remember the story how she would carry a tape measure and measure her name on the bill to make sure it was the biggest. Especially if appearing with Jimmy Jewel.

[@atlast1948]

@atlast1948 Quite a few of her relatives emigrated to US and Canada. I would have loved to have met Hylda She was not just a comedienne as she explains in the interview. Her father had serious accident in the theatre, hardly worked after this. Hylda was the mainstay of the family but eventually married - I don't think these marriages lasted. Hylda was born in Farnworth but her father Harold Baker was born in Rochdale.

[@sitgeshorn]

Hi everyone, I have set up a Hylda Baker Fanclub. With the help of Shaun and Ian..and more recently Robert.... Hylda Baker...She Knows Y'Know please be soon and visit us!

[@markstevens9660]

Ms. Harty’s easily amused ….😳😳🤷🏼‍♂️🤔

[@SuperFerdie1965]

Harty was to interviewing what the composer of that God-awful tune at the end was to musicianship.

[@markstevens9660]

Clearly of it’s time …. 🤣😳🤷🏼‍♂️🤔😊

[@greentorm5467]

Russell Harty was a good, down to earth host and interviewer. Parkinson the other hand would aim degrading questions toward female guests.

[@CK1223]

rip comedigiene clasic .

[@NICKROBERTS23]

You can already see the Alzheimer's taking effect, and Hylda is trying to hide it with comedy.

[@stephenguppy8886]

Such a cruel disease. Please, someone, find a cure.

[@learningpianoat61]

I remember seeing her in her first film... I can't remember the name of it, but she was the landlady of a bed and breakfast in Blackpool! This was a long time ago! LOL

[@w.urlitzer1869]

1972

[@65rowan]

Northern woman are right so and so's they stand for no messing, good on her. I hear if fans turned up at her door she would invite them in for tea and a chin wag every now and then. Don't believe every thing you read.

[@hemmay]

The wonderful Hylda Baker- but how awful and talentless was Russell Harty? Obviously not what you know....

[@moroccocamel]

Hylda was great in Nearest and Dearest. I think that she'd had a few drinkies before this interview.

[@angelpajarillo]

Hilda Baker was truly the consummate comediane with such a unique style forged from years of traditional g the boards fantastic ! However Russel Harty was such an insufferable snob and so disingenuous when he interviewed . I ca t believe how awful he was . Stupid irrelevant questions one after another .

[@vaslav030547]

Mutton/Lamb.

[@fattwat1]

thats thier loss