Lily Savage - Live At The Hackney Empire Theatre

Lily Savage performs live at the Hackney Empire Theatre in 1991.

[@Mossadagent666]

Paul should’ve been Knighted! 💯 Anyone agree with me ?

[@DistantCousin]

He would have turned it down. He wasn't a fan of the Monarchy

[@rebeccacharles-of5bo]

I've always said the same 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@DeanMoxley87]

Sir Paul O'Grady Dame Lily Savage

[@adamra6851]

❤

[@GaR3THW472]

@@DistantCousin he was close friends with Camilla so I doubt he would turn it down.

[@TheCuchilo]

Back in the late 70s early 80s I often saw Lily at the Vauxhall Tavern and the Black Cap. She would talk with me and not a 'friend' but a really good mate. Thank you Lily/Paul for everything. RIP

[@samanthacooke8098]

The only person who was totally honest,humorous, and supported minority causes human or animals,never met him but a comedic genius with honesty

[@micheleball4006]

Absolutely a gift this I've needed this so badly, Paul O'Grady was just something else we were truly blessed the day he was born 💙. RIEP Paul O'Grady sleep tight with the angels God's Blessings and Grace 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🕊🦋

[@trevorthompson7604]

Well Paul/lily you have done it again I've been laughing and crying over the last few days thank you for your talent and humour that shared with the world I will be thanking you forever rest well queen lily savage the world is going to be a very dull place without you ❤️🌹❤️🌹

[@jaguar6519]

R.I.P Paul you were a fantastic entertainer in everything you did you will be missed.

[@eddiemglass]

Rest In Peace, Lily.

[@pandorazbox9659]

Lily savage was always my happy place.. i am bereft

[@anthonysmith8800]

R.I.P Lilian May Veronica Savage. An absolute legend and I am so pleased I saw you live many times ❤

[@paulatreanor5566]

Greatly missed already.brought so much to this ñation.

[@mitchbrown2716]

A true legend and the nation will miss him and lily…. Raise hell in heaven !!! Xx

[@j1701why1]

It's about time we told funny people they are before,they leave us for the big stage in the sky. Lily/Paul. You are a very funny act. Please bring her back

[@eddiemglass]

Sadly, Lily and Paul have left us.

[@FrankNFurter1000]

This comment brought a tear to the eye again.

[@anthonysmith8800]

R.I.P Lilian May Veronica Savage ❤

[@angelawhittaker6037]

Paul O'Grady is so hilarious. No one will ever replace him. He'll be missed.

[@italianstallion9170]

A Haiku for Paul, He smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish, he should have reached 70 but only saw 70ish. Heaven he is in now, with 24 bar.

[@TenorReacts]

I mean I’ve played in some dead dives but this audience are like cadavers at a mortuary! 🪦

[@angemac1519]

This is a gift. Classic, Clever & very Funny. The audience were hard work though. God bless. Sadly missed. RIP 🌈

[@beverleypearson2646]

That audience were a Comedian’s worst nightmare, weren’t they? Can you imagine if Freddie Starr had have been on that stage?……. He’d have been chucking water over ‘em all, lol 😂

[@trevorthompson7604]

Lily a true treasure never fails to make me laugh long live Queen lily

[@gregoryaustin4016]

R.I.P Paul/Lilly you taught all to be ourselves …you will be missed by us all ❤

[@josephinepeery6938]

Have always loved Lily/Paul and always will. RIP big hearted wonderful man 🙏

[@scottkent3425]

lily savage queen of drag queens bring her back love her so much and should be proud and brilliant why don't BBC or ITV bring lily back got to better than the shit on TV on a Saturday night

[@warrendoe2164]

Because Paul doesn’t want to do drag any more.

[@eleanorluery]

This song has been stuck in my head for months. Still laugh like a drain every time I watch her. Love the dance too

[@scouser2010ify]

True artist standing in his own having the whole place laughing not many people can do that obviously stand ups can but they’re a rare breed if they’re actually funny at all

[@louiserowland9940]

Wonderful RIP Paul James Ogrady .You are missed.😇😇😇💖💖💖🕊🕊🦋🦋Fly high

[@rodneyfrost7891]

I sew him when he use to do all the bars ,clubs in the Midlands,,, gay bars ,he was fantastic and still is

[@koksy]

Me too! Saw him at the Nightingale and Gavans in the early 90s.

[@louiserowland9940]

@@koksy lucky you.

[@ivanolsen7966]

" there's a handbag thief in the third row .... " ...... love it

[@skinbristol]

RIP Paul O'Grady xxxx😢

[@lindalonergan7887]

RIP Paul O Grady and Lily Savage.

[@marialee627]

He's absolutely fantastic

[@ld4743]

Lily/Paul O'Grady is awesome! Love this! :)

[@rachelcastle7307]

Such a magnificent talent. Told it like it was, before Generation Y! God bless Paul O'Grady and his creation. ❤

[@pickybitch2707]

Loved Lily 💕💕💕

[@user-gt6vm4sg8y]

Omg a genius love you Paul 😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤

[@DistantCousin]

Oh my! NEVER seen this - how fabulous!

[@CathyKitson]

75p?! That dates it.

[@TiaStarx]

hahahahaha they've had loads of gays working in the cabin on Coronation St now this is like 24 years old WOW! bless Paul, love him so much, think Lily needs a last shout x

[@untruecrime485]

75p for a cider? Fuck me times have changed. That's the biggest joke in the whole video.

[@OldGoolekid]

1997....My local was 95p a pint of cider.... as a 16 year old at the time, it gave great value for my pocket money! Arseholed on a Sunday... missing from school o a Monday.... Marvellous!

[@brookegoslin]

Cool Lily Savage ... hilarious and adorable ♥️

[@ChrisManley1994]

"GO ON GIRL SING UP!!!!!!"

[@user-jh3cg9mv7g]

Absolutely. 🎉

[@andrew1598]

Thanks for uploading what a class act but struggling with the crowd

[@limitlesspeak]

What a legend! Real inspiration for drag artists, also! 75p for half a cider!!!!!!! Costs 3 quid these days!!! Lol

[@minanes6549]

The voice introducing her sounds like Jack Dee.

[@GdotTproductions]

Wilhelmina Nesbitt I was thinking the exact same thing.

[@burgersbeansandchips]

That's because it was

[@camrenwick]

A fantastic act

[@warrendoe2164]

She’s good but the audience seems half dead.

[@TheSpinDoctor]

I seem to remember they weren’t primed for what kind of act it was and they weren’t Lily’s normal audience. Paul talks about it in one of his autobiographies.

[@janettebarr6538]

Look up Billy Connolly on Parkinson with Barbara Woodhouse and Angie Dickinson he got much the same reaction the first time he was in the States Angie asked him how he got on In America he said he was as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit

[@xelallih]

have to agree

[@creativitycell]

Like his material.

[@No1grandma74]

Only half?

[@TotallyLostSoul]

Yay! I was born on the Wirral!

[@jessiejames7492]

Paul O Grady is a marvel

[@sarahburton3110]

💚💚💚

[@andrewhemsley36]

Never get bored of these old Savage videos, reminds of the good times in the 1990/s ( hope I don't sound old lol )

[@gildastarr2932]

💘💘💘

[@ANTINUTZI]

*FOREVAH* bona t' vada yer dolly eke, heartface ...

[@ANTINUTZI]

*FANNNNNNNN-TABULOSA!!!* When Lily tossed off that aside by *PERFECTLY* mugging Myra Hindley ... *I NEEDED OXYGEN.*

[@FrankNFurter1000]

Miss seeing these white ends on the box. Bona indeed! xxxx

[@dsszerothlaw]

Bona lallies!

[@ivyhope660]

There's not so much laughter now. RIP Paul.

[@DistantCousin]

Just been reading about this performance in Paul O'Grady's latest autobiog...

[@FrankNFurter1000]

Any dishy info?

[@420teamsupreme]

Spill the tea!

[@InfinityOf6]

Bloody acid house hat, the age of that lol

[@joannefalkinder393]

Them legs were brilliant

[@natashakingston8302]

I love blue banana and the fact that you shop there is cool. What was the name of the 2nd goth shop

[@MyLife-hl4or]

How that fucking wig never went up I'll never know

[@No1grandma74]

I know, I had my heart in my mouth waiting for it!

[@jasonbarron3047]

hahaha that made me laugh its true especially with all that hair lacquer and ciggies as well haha x

[@gwenduffield3183]

He should have got a knighthood Some odd people get knighthoods

[@meirwise1107]

Half empty Hackney Empire and the half that were there were comotosed! No wonder she retired! Should have stayed in the West End.

[@jamesm6333]

75 pence?! Ah the simple times

[@debradavitt5457]

I remember Tiktak Tiktak tiddle hi ho spike Milligan Ying tong song

[@carolsmcfmaulnlds3499]

Carol. Mcfmaulnlds

[@josephlenehan4461]

Joseph and today TV 😀

[@Tiefetiefe]

donna and kebab are touring greece

[@neondisco8635]

Is that Ricky Gervais doing the introduction?, voice is identical.

[@al2954]

Sounds like Jack dee to me

[@l.gaga5508]

I don’t think the audience got her humour

[@geraldinemurphy8482]

Yes he should be knighted.

[@FrankNFurter1000]

Is she playing to a theatre of corpses? God almighty.

[@rnw2739]

I'm sure they all are now...

[@FrankNFurter1000]

@@maddy605 As a gay man and lifelong fan of Paul & Lily's let me ask you this: What on Earth are you on about?

[@FrankNFurter1000]

@@maddy605 Yeah, you do see it was made two years ago? It's also a reference to the fact that the audience is not responding to a very funny set (possibly microphones not picking up the laughter well enough). Still, your outburst is really not it, love. Calm down and have a cuppa.

[@notreallydavid]

75p

[@dsszerothlaw]

Poll tax! Mad cow disease... Must be 1990?

[@dsszerothlaw]

Oh just seen 1991 😉

[@teresataubman2860]

1999

[@scouser2010ify]

Didn’t know fivers came out in the 90s lol

[@TheSpinDoctor]

They didn’t - was just when they did the new ones in 1990 and shrank them a bit vs the previous ones from the 70s. Same time as the 5p coin went from size of the current 10p to the size it now is, which she mentions too. 10p coins were more like a current 50p in size (but round) and quite thick - they got shrunk about 1992-3 I think. 50p got shrunk a bit later - they all used to be so heavy. I think the 20p is the only silver coin the same size as when it came in - which wasn’t until the 80s - it came in about the time the half-pence went. Seems like an eternity ago now.

[@saxonmurray5452]

😂

[@Satansassassin.1690]

Damn researched that you took that damn v@ccine. What a lose R.I.P Paul you were the best. Rest easy. GBNF

[@No1grandma74]

Dead audience! Paul worked his butt off - nothing!

[@GrampiesCorner]

Rather empty theater.

[@johnmclaughlin1946]

The unfunniest comedian ever

[@creativitycell]

Man in dress with big hair....oohh hilarious......welcome to the 1970s.....surprised he doesn't do blackface to...

[@rnw2739]

His blackface act is even funnier. The character he plays there is named Yaya Onukwowo, a Ghanaian lip plate sculptor who ascends the stage triumphantly swathed in Africa'an technicolour robes, flip flops, bangles galore and a massive Marge Simpson-esque afro-sponge wig, with a fruitbowl expertly balanced atop her head for the entire act. Very much akin to Lily, Onukwowo bemoans her native land, her life and just about everything else with the same ascerbic wit of the Scouse slapper, but delivers her rants in the soothing, melodic tones of your typical Sunyani mud-hut dweller. It is a masterful characterisation complimented with a script that is both hilarious, touching and respectful. Yaya captured the audiences hearts instantly with her harrowing account of the FGM she endured and how her obsessional quest to find a brand new clit has led her to London. A comedic tour de force, packed with such hilarious material as Yaya's side-splitting monologue which ponders why native African females breasts deflate so early, a highly amusing African rendition of the Chas N' Dave hit, 'Gercha!', and a particularly side splitting tale of the time Dawn French, whilst visiting Yaya's village for Comic Relief event, was suffering from a severe bout of gastroenteritis and tragically, before the first night was over, inadvertently destroyed several villagers habitats with her chronic flatulence, effectively rendering half the population homeless. O' Gradys comedic talent is in full flow during the dissertation of this true life disaster and although it ruined many Ghanaian lives which have not recovered to this day, Yaya's tongue in cheek delivery of that fateful night will guarantee some audience members are hospitalised due to the hysterical laughter she creates. Such whimsical delights are peppered occasionally with some strong pathos, none more powerful than the horrifying moment Yaya's happiness at purchasing her very first Tesco meal deal, turns to horror as she discovers her much missed, shrivelled clit in the prawn mayonnaise sandwich she has just bit into... You should give it a look..

[@PH-vv1ky]

It's drag you melt , still done today. You never hesrd of drag race? Absolute twat.

[@Me-hs4jj]

What a sad and unappreciated waste of such an enormous effort.