Dick Emery - The Driving Test (Reaction)

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[@Rocky19577]

The Dick Emery show was one of the best in its day

[@kieronball8962]

" Hello Honky Tonk " and " Oh You Are Awful, But I Like You " are two of Dick Emery's famous / favourite catchphrases.

[@matt01506]

My favourite was the bovver boy son "gaylord" Saying, "Dad, i got it wrong again" !

[@dazo69]

I still say oh you are awful and dad, I think I got it wrong again - my children growing up thought i was nuts 😂😂

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

I'm from the UK and grew up in the 1970s watching Dick Emery. He played so many funny characters.

[@peterjackson4763]

Yes. Everyone in our house would watch it.

[@bobbyboko6317]

Deserves to be remembered 😊

[@ladykaycey]

Yes this was Saturday evening TV in the 70s. I was young but we liked the Dick Emery Show. Innuendo went over our heads, very much like pantomime humour. I always waited for the character who said 'you are awful, but I like you'

[@cookiesroblox6759]

Love that you really understand our sarcastic.. witty.. dirty sense of humour.. old & new.. love hearing you laugh..

[@warbo3611]

Old fashioned British humor, lol. It's still funny.

[@john9508]

Grew up watching Dick Emery he was brilliant and hilarious

[@spursgirl5]

I used to love watching Dick Emery. Thank you for showing this and putting a big smile on my face.

[@matt01506]

The sketch from the BENNY HILL SHOW "Heroes through the ages" Is an absolute must 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Stuart_Cox1969]

I loved Dick Emery, so many characters for one man.

[@coffeeguy6673]

I haven't seen that since I was kid in the 70s. Slapstick, Dick Emery, great stuff.

[@barrygentry5364]

I had forgotten how funny Dick Emery was. I failed my first test but made it through at the second attempt. Had 2 no fault accidents in 51 years, no speeding tickets (more by luck than anything) and now living and driving on “the wrong side of the road” in Spain. Keep on reacting. ❤

[@Whi8ky]

You pass your driving test and then you start learning to drive😂

[@charlesmarshall1309]

This must be all of 50 years old, maybe more. Amazing you could find it.

[@kernow9324]

Haha. Thanks for reacting to Dick Emery. He's very funny. My favourite character is Mandy, the one at the end who said, "Ooh, you are awful, but I like you." Please do more Dick Emery reactions. When I took my test a few years ago I was so nervous the car kangarooed out of the test centre. Because I was so anxious I went deaf and couldn't hear what the examiner was saying to me. Thankfully my nerves did settle down after a few minutes. My hearing came back and I passed. Wouldn't like to do it again though 😀

[@howstean]

Glad you followed my recommendation ! As someone below says, now you need to review Dick Emery's "The Milkman".

[@larryc9617]

Jess you have such a great sense of humour, I think if we went on a comedy night together I would spend more time laughing with you than I would laughing at the comedian, your are so much fun 🙂

[@TheHitmann069]

Superb memories watching this with you. Thank you for sharing. Best wishes from across the pond.

[@stevencharalambous9199]

Harry Enfield's chemist

[@mariannesyrett7759]

I am just old enoughto remember Dick Emery, along with other great comedians like, two ronnies, morecombe & wise,tommy cooper. I have seen this clip many times and still laugh

[@deannebeech5249]

Les Dawson, Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper and Kenny Everert, all people I watched as a kid.

[@andywrong3247]

As a young kid I loved his sketch shows some characters you loved,you only needed to look @ the vicor with his false teeth to start laughing, he did a father &son routine with roy kinear, dad I've done it wrong again.benny hill,just had the edge.check out benny hill wife swap 1986.

[@peterjackson4763]

The book they are reading whilst waiting for their test is the highway code. It is the same edition as I used for my test (1976).

[@lordcharfield4529]

Oh, you are the utter king and queen of reactions - Dick Emery was the king of comedy when I was a young child! I still love him to this day!

[@rickb3645]

As you were talking about late night Television Jess... You brought back a distant memory of my childhood... When we used to ask our parents permission to stay up late... And watch several British Horror series during the 1970's and early 1980's... The first one was a series called... Hammer House Of Horror... The second series was called... Armchair Thriller... And the third series was called... Tales Of The Unexpected... And they were all quite scary for us as children... But we enjoyed being scared... Similar to the way that people like to be scared by Funfair Rides... They're typically not that scary to us now... But there are some episodes that can still make me jump... Even after all these years... And even though i know what's coming... You can still find several episodes and clips here on KZbin... One of my favourites was an episode of Armchair Thriller Called... Quiet As A Nun... 👻 All the very best guys. 👍

[@rickb3645]

@@wheyayeman404 Indeed my friend... I'm currently watching Armchair Thriller - Quiet As A Nun on KZbin. 👌

[@freethinker--]

Brilliant, brings back good memories. Can't beat 70s and 80s British comedy.

[@binaway]

My examiner got in the back seat and said to my instructor " I've just got my promotion, will be based closer to home and with a bid pay raise. He was as happy as Larry.

[@moodaymoom2271]

Oh those were the days, when comedy was funny. Also another great comedian was Stanley Baxter. Thanks for the laugh.

[@lloyd4301]

Oh man, haven’t watched Dick Emery since I was a kid. Great to see you two laugh out loud at his characters just like we did when it was first televised. More please.

[@bigbird2100]

Great video 👍 The characters and the "one liners"is what makes the Dick emery show so enjoyable 😂😂😂

[@ltsecomedy2985]

Hi Mike & Jess, I used to look forward to watching Dick Emery`s show every week when it was on. He was a very talented & creative comedian deploying his characters into different comical situations. Suggestions :- Dick Emery - The Milkman, Dick Emery - Bank Holidays .

[@ihobbs101]

In the UK we do all are driving on the highway from the first time sitting behind the wheel.

[@andyturner3056]

He was a big part of my childhood in the 70s when there was only 3 TV channels to choose from lol. Loved all his characters. So funny. My favourite character though was Lampwick for those that remember 😂

[@oopsdidItypethatoutloud]

It's so silly 😂 love it ❤ from Northeast England ❤️

[@kevdarby9460]

I am not going to request Harry Enfield 'embarrassing chemist compilation' today...

[@RNTV]

We've got that one coming very soon friend

[@kevdarby9460]

@@RNTV Looking forward to it:)

[@vallee3140]

@@RNTV goodie you will love it

[@elvwood]

My dad learned to drive in the army during the war, which meant he never had to take a test! If he had, he might have had to learn to drive better...

[@grabtharshammer]

My Dad also learned during the war and never took a driving test as such, however he went on to drive a Bus for years and then became a Driving Instructor (went on to help found the Association of Driving Instructors)

[@albertstevens4896]

He was also in a few films in the 60s and early 70s including one called 'Ooh...... you are awful' which was based on the characters in his TV show. The plot was that he was trying to get a bank account number, the digits of which were tattooed on various women's bottoms! Very British saucy postcard humour of that time. The driving examiner for the vicar was an actor called Michael Knowles who has been in several comedy programmes particularly 'It ain't half hot mum' which was a big sitcom in the 70s. Not shown much now because it is considered to be 'racist' in these PC times but was very funny. He also appeared and even wrote some episodes of 'Are you Being Served' which I believe is on PBS in the States. Other great comedies from the 70s and 80s are Dad's Army, Some Mothers do ave em, Porridge, Fawlty Towers, Allo Allo and a slightly later one is One Foot in the Grave from the 1990's. As has been mentioned Harry Enfield is very good and the South African chemist sketch is one to see and also the caricatures of the 1940s Public Information Films one of which is 'Women Know Your Limits'. Finally as has also been mentioned Morecambe and Wise were the go to entertainment on a Saturday evening in the 1970s and also on Christmas Day with the Two Ronnies. Their Christmas Day 1971 sketch with the famous conductor Andre Previn is a classic.

[@karendowse8721]

Omg Dick Emery was brilliant 😂

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

I agree honestly in England we are engaged to have a motorway experience of a driving lesson it's scary I think there should be more input regarding motorways but Dick Emery fantastic look to Norman Collier and Bernard Manning Russ Abbot

[@paulhanson5164]

Saturday evening family entertainment in the 1970s, Dick Emery, The Two Ronnies and the biggest of them all by a mile, Morecambe and Wise. All were on TV far longer but the 70s was the heyday.

[@jonathanocallaghan9202]

Dick Emery was incredibly talented and incredibly funny.!

[@stevehartley7504]

1 hour written Recognise road signs Hazard awareness Rights of way Plus put into practice on practical test 1 hour practical Parking parallel Reverse around corner 3 point turn Emergency stop Correct positioning on road whilst driving Points system not to go over to pass It's not easy!!!!!

[@barriehull7076]

Wikipedia: Richard Gilbert Emery (19 February 1915 - 2 January 1983) was an English comedian and comic actor. His broadcasting career began on radio in the 1950s, and his self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981. During 1953 he briefly formed a double act with Charlie Drake.[4] His television debut came in 1950 on The Centre Show on the BBC. He appeared on TV programmes including Round the Bend (BBC, 1955-56) and Educating Archie (ITV, 1958-59) and appeared with his friend Tony Hancock in several episodes of The Tony Hancock Show (ITV, 1956) and Hancock's Half Hour (BBC, 1957).[1] Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show which was broadcast for nearly ten years between June 1950 and February 1960, mostly at lunchtime on Sundays. The programme featured ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. The ventriloquist act was unique at the time as it was on the radio.

[@josefschiltz2192]

Was it really 1983 that he passed? That had to be around the same time that we lost Eric Morecambe. Two greats of British comedy.

[@leejones4757]

No way!! I'm 50 and my Nan used to play his records to me and my sister way back.

[@Georgeolddrones]

Brilliant guys, not seen this since the 70s dick Emery was brilliant I am probably one of your old subscribes, but I think you two are brilliant stay safe, love to all George the old man in England 😂🇬🇧👍🍺🍺🍾

[@josefschiltz2192]

The Dick Emery Show was usually on at roughly 7 to 8:30 pm on BBC1. If I remember correctly, without consulting the BBC Genome Radio Times pages which are online, it was on Saturday evenings. Good grief, these are nearly fifty years old. The character actors with Dick are quite familiar to those of my generation. The actor with the 'Nervous Instructor' was Royce Mills. Michael Knowles was the instructor who took off with the vicar - Michael Knowles was regular cast on It Ain't Half Hot Mum about an army concert party in India during WW2. Anthony Sharp, the owner of the driving school, was frequently cast as supercilious professional or aristocratic types, notably a few years earlier in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. He worked frequently with Benny Hill and also had a role in One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing.

[@johnfellows2867]

Dick was the President of the Airfix plastic kit model makers club.

[@Steve-nu4sv]

He had a repertoir of characters.

[@barriehull7076]

My test pass was 30th October 1973 two weeks after a failure, of course my older sister was cock a hoop to say that she passed 1st time in the convertible shown in the sketch. The Anglia that crashed was a Ford Anglia. Wikipedia: The Ford Anglia is a small family car that was designed and manufactured by Ford UK. It is related to the Ford Prefect and the later Ford Popular. The Anglia name was applied to various models between 1939 and 1967. In total, 1,594,486 Anglias were produced. It was replaced by the Ford Escort. Unique variants of the Anglia were produced by Ford Australia and by the Italian subsidiary of Ford.

[@ianjones2187]

I called out to you a while back to have a look at mick Miller doing the noddy sketch , it will straight up your street

[@polythenewrappedme6102]

You need to watch Dick Emery in The Milkman.

[@djgibby1301]

Oh yes. Great suggestion.

[@polythenewrappedme6102]

Cheers.

[@wesleyrodgers886]

Always remember his old man character.

[@davek834]

Good old 70s British slap stick innuendo fun ... Sadly a thing of the past

[@unclegreybeard3969]

I always thought the best driving instructor sketch was the one done by Bob Newhart.

[@neilcarpenter2669]

I'm old enough to remember watching Dick Emery as a boy, he was very talented however they probably wouldn't have him on TV today as some people would find offence.

[@jamesstewart8846]

This is a blast from the past! I particularly remember Hetty {the sex mad one}

[@deborahcox921]

👍

[@jokepy4230]

Dick Emery was a very popular TV comedian back in the day. Unfortunately, his shows don't get aired these days. I passed my driving test the first time but the route was blocked off by the town council shortly afterwards.

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

I suspected from the start that Dick might turn up to be the driving examiner.

[@glenn20081965]

The desperate old woman character is called Hetty. There's a hilarious skit with her trying to get into a man's prison.

[@tuggerkeg]

Take a look at this one it's old but good. Marty Feldman-Lightning coach tours.

[@nigelwatson1443]

Sorry, have to say it, Mike you made me laugh big time, watching Freddie Star Vincent. You had a bad Headache, but to see your reactions to this, and misheard lyrics Peter Kay, also Doggin! Your wife loved it, she was in stitches, especially VAN Gogh! I'm glad you loved the Dick Emery Driving test Scetch. Look out for these, Catherine Tate Nan and Lauren also Derek Scetches. The Iru Brew scetches are now banned in the UK, I think you know why, but they were hilarious. Mike, you said or sang, even though I used to be a Man! Look out for these: Marmite you either love it, or hate it. These will have you both wetting yourself with Laughter. The are un PC in the UK, but who cares, they were funny. One final thing Can I Come in your House? Mickey Flanagan. Mike your face was a picture, but your wife's face was red and so embarrassed. Great TV though. Best wishes From Nigel UK

[@jkpole]

Love Dick Emery

[@Mr_Fahrenheit]

You should try the UK driving test lol

[@DavidUKesb]

Dick Emery was a legend in the 70s

[@ronturner9850]

Dick Emery was always prime time! Try Kenny Everett a zanier character-lead performer. It’s not right to just call him a comedian, he was so much more. You’ll fall off your chairs watching some of his characters and stunts.

[@BrianMac2601]

Imagine if MTG or DeSantis watched this there would be a ban on showing it or Bill in Congress to have it taken off the Internet 😂

[@vallee3140]

Yes you must watch more Dick Emery

[@chicotime69]

Dick was a genius!!!!!

[@daveofyorkshire301]

The 70s had real humour...

[@hapipcoy8010]

mantap❤

[@wencireone]

More Tea Vicar

[@jimgallagher220]

Harry Enfield next, Kevin and Perry.

[@johnhewett9483]

a driving test ....not on public roads wow lucky you.... funnily enough the car i took my driving test was the same type as the one the priest crashed.... i am that old

[@arcadian78]

It’s great that in these times of such political correctness people can still laugh at Dick Emery….none of Dick’s characters were politically correct but he was incredibly funny😂

[@user-hm3qk8vw3r]

Can you please tell what the song is in your introduction?

[@RNTV]

It's a song a childhood friend of mine made. He posted it to his Facebook years ago and I asked to use it for the the intros. I've tried getting him to post it somewhere, but no luck.

[@user-hm3qk8vw3r]

Thank you.

[@ianbell4527]

Benny hill did a lot of funny stuff also

[@Anthny-vh8xr]

😂😂😂

[@michaelisles4756]

Past my driving test first time, past my PSV buses first time, got my coxswain test for boats you guessed it first time 😂😂😂 just saying

[@elemar5]

Did you pass English at school? It's passed. 😁

[@michaelisles4756]

@@elemar5 you don,t need pratice to be a Dickhead tosser

[@jjcustard6378]

Blimey, where'd you get Dick Emery from? That's 70s stuff 😂, I thought I was the only bloke in his 50s watching reactions, looking at the comments, obviously not

[@jamesgudgeon4868]

The late Great Dick Emery 9:11

[@user-kc1uf4og8m]

React to james acaster. The absurdity of the Britsh empire

[@user-nz9rj2kw4v]

Did you perhaps miss that the chap smoking all the cigarettes was in fact the tester?

[@RNTV]

I think it was meant to be missed up until the reveal

[@andrewmurray4308]

Dick Emery Milkman😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@RalphBrooker-gn9iv]

I’d forgotten how funny Dick Emery was. That is going back some.

[@ianroper2812]

Dick died in 1983, so this would have been in the 70’s

[@richt71]

Dick Emery was very funny but might not be very pc 50 years later!

[@grahamholmes9630]

Lady you've been driving for 20 years! How is this possible? You are surely far too young.

[@wencireone]

You Are Awful, But I Like You

[@BellumEtPacem]

Oh you are awful...

[@kuinchad]

the constant stopping and starting after just a few seconds is irritating guys...let it roll a bit and you may get a better grasp when watching something.

[@RNTV]

No one is forcing you to watch. We will always pause when we have something to say. It's part of reacting and following fair use law

[@kuinchad]

@@RNTV but every ten seconds give a scene a chance to breathe then comment many other reactors manage that

[@RNTV]

@@kuinchad First off, you are over exaggerating, but as someone who runs a discord server for reactors I can tell you that most reactors get their videos demonotized because they fail to follow fair use. Just because you see a video up doesn't mean it's copyright free.

[@geordieb3959]

Try Love Thy Neighbour , Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie.

[@geordieb3959]

Your driving tests are a joke compared to the U.K. tests.

[@cookiesroblox6759]

That line 'Oh I do like you but you are awful' is what Dick Emery is well known for.. its so well known & remembers from the 70's that a lot of us actually say it..