Paul Merton's PERFECT NIGHT IN featuring Ventriloquists

[@lesleywilbourne7823]

I never tire of watching these old ventriloquists - they take me back to my childhood and happy memories of watching with my family and trying to speak in front of a mirror without moving my lips…always a total failure! Ray Alan was another maestro! I can see now, revisiting these artists from past times, where today’s ventriloquists got their influence xx

[@angelsone-five7912]

Arthur Worsley and Charlie Brown were simply the best.

[@mertysgirl]

I've watched this video loads of times and never get sick of it. Paul's smile just makes me smile -he's gorgeous.

[@PeteLindup]

Neville King & Arthur Worsley. two of the greatest! Neville sadly passed away on August 22nd. RIP Nev.

[@radfordred]

Always a pleasure to see Nev as a artist and a customer down the Variety Club in Radford . R.I.P. Nev.

[@knibscratch]

Thanks for posting, Wondered if I would ever see this again,Good to see Worsley in colour.

[@illusionist1956]

Wonderful ventriloquist briiliant to see live on stage. I beleive he now lives in the States but comes back here regularly to appear in various shows. He plays the Good Old Days in Leeds this October. Go see him and laugh your head off.

[@Beertr1x]

Thanks indeed for posting this great clip. I've added a link back to it from the Lasting Tribute page for Neville - who was such a great talent. Hope that's all right

[@russocomedy]

Thanks so much for posting these. They inspire nostalgia...true...an era gone by, hopefully they introduce a sense of fun and a type of humor missing in today's venues but which will hopefully return in updated form as in the examples of America's Jeff Dunham. Again...Thank you

[@TaggleElgate]

Paul's PERFECT NIGHT IN was shown on August 29th, 2005

[@russocomedy]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[@Sketcher10]

thanks for uploading this!

[@Paul020253]

Brilliant!!!!! Love Arthur Worsley-wasnt he the greatest? Its a pity there are so few videos of him around

[@christopherlawley1842]

There seem to be a few more on YT now

[@stationers]

Spare a thought for Neville King. There should be more of him on You Tube. His act always had the audience in stitches. Basic but brilliantly done.

[@TaggleElgate]

Only the part with Paul commenting on the famous meeting between THE BEATLES and Eric & Ernie, which is already on KZbin several times (without Paul's comments of course), other than that, as I recall, it was mainly just Paul's intros to the programmes & film he chose for his PERFECT NIGHT IN, which I don't have...

[@andrewclayton4181]

Coo. Where's the rest of it? I'd like to see it all.

[@TaggleElgate]

No problem. Sad to hear of Neville's passing.

[@stwads]

Neville King also had a cat which mewed happy birthday when he pulled its tail.( You had to be there)!! Hilarious!!!

[@peterlovstrom4286]

Superb content 😂😂😂 ... but a bugbear of mine is I do wish directors and vision mixers wouldn’t keep cutting to sea the reaction of the audience -( in this case Paul Merton)-we don’t want to see his reaction ‘during’ the act for goodness sake-we want to see the ACT-all of it! .....-we KNOW Paul Merton finds it funny-he’s already told us and he’ll tell us afterwards too. However-that said the Vent Acts on this were priceless!😂

[@Perranporth]

This is the first time I've ever seen Barry Cryer with anything other than white hair!

[@andrea22213]

Just shows what having a cigarette in your hand can do for ones pigmentation.

[@wolflupus788]

Which One is the Dummy,? The one in the dress suit.!

[@dw69ful]

The thing about all these acts is that they are very, very funny. If you can remember like I can Sat /Sun nights on the telly.All the variety shows.We would crease up at these entertainers,and I think they were more than just acts with dummies.They were very believable characters. When you look at what is on offer now months and months of absolute S**T ie The X Factor etc. I will shut up....Apologies for going on ........

[@TaggleElgate]

No problem. "sick"? Love sick, maybe...?!?

[@lillyofthevalley225]

when was this recorded?

[@mylifeshero]

arthur worsley is probably the best ventriloquist in history. he makes jeff dunham look awful.

[@intruderart]

I don't think that's fair. Jeff Dunham is a wonderful vent and comedian and so is Arthur Worsley. Besides, Worsely doesn't converse with his figure. Dunham does.

[@Oldpigsass]

Apropos this point, I should refer you to Cy Young's article on this utterly original virtuoso published in The Independent newspaper: “Arthur Worsley was simply the best ventriloquist of his day, with a unique and memorable act. No good "vent" moved his lips when the dummy was "speaking", but Worsley carried this idea to an insanely logical conclusion: his doll, "Charlie Brown", had all the dialogue, and he never said a word. Worsley was the blank sheet of paper on which Charlie scrawled an unstoppable avalanche of oral insults at his master's expense, impudently directing these subversive remarks across the footlights toward his audience. There was none of the old cross-talk between authority figure and mischievous woodentop; Charlie dominated the act, and Worsley could only maintain a stiff upper lip against the slings and arrows of his dummy's outrageous wisecracks. All true - and nobody created the illusion that his dummy was "real" more brilliantly than Arthur Worsley.”

[@JenifAR87]

@@Oldpigsass Sure?

[@andrewmartin6445]

It doesn't take much to amuse Paul Merton.

[@JenifAR87]

Go on...

[@wayinfront1]

Completely ruined by the constant cutting to Merton's fat face. Yes, we know he finds the scenes funny. We'd enjoy them too if you let us watch them without interruption.