TISWAS - SOME OF THE FUNNIEST MOMENTS -1-.wmv

[@monicabrowne888lionvictory]

All the celebrities who appeared on TISWAS, had a wonderful, great sense of humour. It was so much fun, chaos and laughter. One of the best, and amazing UK children's programme ever. 😅😂🤣😎😍🥰😁

[@SegaStation]

I just remember the Genesis band members dressed up as flowers on compost corner while Lenny Henry dressed as David Bellamy daubed their faces with God only knows what. I think that got me into Genesis!

[@soniajackson7829]

Not just for kids

[@DJ_Hadez]

⁠compost corner

[@martinhambleton5076]

Just brilliant. I am so glad I grew up when I did. Adults also enjoyed Tiswas.

[@Mayhemdog]

I feel so lucky to have had Tiswas on Saturday mornings when i was a kid ! The Multi Coloured swap shop was on BBC1 . You had the swap shop kids and the Tiswas kids , the Tiswas kids were obviously more mental than the geeky swap shop kids , great times .

[@Seeking_Gnosis]

I was a bit of both. When the adverts came on I would turn over and put swap shop on, then turn back.

[@maureendixon2011]

I was an adult loved both I was a kid that never grew up they tell me I'm 70 now and I'm thinking no a plate of egg chips mushy peas will do me fine

[@maureendixon2011]

Love what you love Tiswas went to OTT

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Swap Shop just wasn’t funny, and how the concept of watching kids try and swap jigsaws with bits missing ever got the green light I’ll never know. Tiswas had much cooler guests who’d be encouraged to go a little crazy. With Tiswas, you never knew what was going to happen - with Edmonds and John Craven, you were never sure whether anything would happen.

[@robwarner1858]

@@MrMusicbyMartin Brilliant comment!

[@alanknotts1844]

Michael Palin is clearly off his head. My favourite Python. A true wonderful eccentric🤣👍

[@sexobscura]

Because that's how Socialists are

[@paulputnam8211]

Tiswas in the morning, World of Sport on the afternoon. Good times, great memories !

[@johnmcfadyen6341]

That was my Saturday as well.brilliant times

[@raypentony]

Tisways in the morning, wrestling in the afternoon!! Great times

[@SegaStation]

After 1230pm, Dickie Davis had some power lifting to do!

[@jasonallen9144]

Wrestling with Kent Walton followed by the football results, get your pools coupon out.

[@yettsoman4364]

Pissed on Friday night...stagger out of bed for Tiswas on Saturday 1030...this is what they want!

[@MrFoxboy7]

im 60 in 2020 sitting here pissing myself laughing i loved tizwas

[@mohammedakram4529]

This was proper kids entertainment on a Saturday morning. Great memories, very funny.

[@englishpatriot1446]

The best saturday morning tv for kids you'll ever get.AWESOME.

[@noelschemicaleffluence2328]

Swapshop was better.

[@gregcampbell2643]

Tiswas was perfect for students, not just kids!

[@MrCt40]

The funny thing was Chris Tarrant often said there was usually no script to follow - They would just make stuff up on the spot abs carry it off - brilliant

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

Whenever Lenny Henry Bleats about racism in the media they should show him this clip of him pretending to be Asian. That should shut him up

[@andrewgraham5527]

Indeed

[@sexobscura]

You're rissing the point

[@felixdk8727]

Nonsense and bulls

[@raymondberry9482]

True

[@missgreeneyes2650]

My life has never been the same since Tiswas ended. Thanks so much for uploading. I laughed a lot and have strained a few muscles. It's been worth it. The kids haven't got a clue. Look at their faces as Frank Carson tries to make the adults laugh.

[@TeddyBear-ii4yc]

Is that you Sally? How's Mr James? You've not done much since TISWAS, have you? ;-)

[@IainLucey1972]

I don't care what anyone says, this was the peak of Saturday morning tv entertainment for kids before the PC brigade and rules too over..... :)

[@SegaStation]

God You're so right - I remember when it was inexplicably replaced with no real warning by No 73 and although I was probably around 8/9 years old ITV Saturday Mornings were never the same. I started watching Saturday Superstore around that time and rarely went back to ITV 😑

[@maxpeterson9378]

Have you not heard of Dick and Dom you donut

[@sasa-ke2024]

It was stupid. I must have been the only person in my school that thought so. It is just not funny, a guy pouring wine on his head and calling it something dumb like Cote de Knickers. It was just always throwing custard pies, ALWAYS the same. Swap Shop was way, way better

[@nagaslrac]

Oh, yes! I suppose things were pretty marvellous in 'the good old days'. Four year old kiddies digging coal! Three year old kiddies er, digging coal as well as the four year old kiddies. I suppose you think that was the limit, don't you? Well Ive got news for you. I think old people are really boring. And the only reason you don't understand our music is because you don't like it!

[@SegaStation]

@@nagaslrac sorry, that did make me chuckle. Bullying that old man in the DHSS for no good reason LOL

[@danwoodhouse9290]

no programme has ever come up to tiswas level

[@Cromper]

The EU eventually banned it. But now we're leaving, it will come back!

[@evonne_okafor]

Edward Smith Don't count on it

[@faraway2686]

What happened to our childhood days? The kids these days have nothing to look forward to on Saturday mornings 👎 Tiswas awesome 😎

[@TeddyBear-ii4yc]

@@Cromper The Big Breakfast had a lot of the same ingredients as TISWAS, live crowd & crew participation, anarchy, silliness, in-jokes, anarchy, cheap TV relying on presenters humour & chemistry, did I mention anarchy & silliness? and both were shows for children but also aimed at young-at-heart adults? IMHO ;-)

[@GreatWestern175]

@@faraway2686 everything is all digital now, even CBBC and ITV are on streaming or online now which just sad. Plus most kids are on their smartphones with social media, tiktok and KZbin. And even worse is that BBC and ITV are still airing shows that are well over 20 and 30 years old like Strictly Come Dancing, I'm A Celeb, This Morning and many others. It has become sch a boring and outdated system now. No wonder traditional TV has been in decline for over 10 years now.

[@davids736]

Just too funny.... I remember me and my mum watching this every Saturday.... Genius, I say, genius! :-)

[@shaunig6716]

Loved this show, just Brilliant!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Always looked forward to Saturday mornings as a kid 😁 #SaturdayIsTizwasDay

[@susanbraithwaite9354]

I have tried to describe this to my New Zealand friends, all I could say was its like Monty Python for children, full of chaos, that adults would get up with a hangover to watch

[@garryleerob]

Ha ha, many 's the time I'd been out with my mates in Stretford, Manchester, and got up with a hang-over and watched TISWAS. You know the stars that came on didn't do it for the money...they must've spent literally pennies on the backgrounds and special effects for that show. 🤣Stars like Robert Plant, Genesis, Cozy Powell, Motorhead, Quo, weren't there for the money, Michael Palin, Olivia Newton-John, good grief even Jackie Chan turned up. Cozy Powell actually drove down the morning after a concert for Rainbow the night before in Manchester. He wasn't promoting anything...AND judged a competition for junior drummers! Frank Carson once got ' flanned ' on there, only for Tarrant to shout out, ''Frank, what are you doing here, you are not even booked for today!''

[@chrisevans5259]

I remember my dad wouldn't go shopping with my mum every Saturday ....until Tiswas as had finished.....it was loved by young and old,.....it was totally bonkers, but great entertainment........they were simpler times, but times of more fun

[@keltacuk8112]

I can still hear my mum & dad shouting up the stairs while me , my brothers and sisters were still in our beds....." It's on...hurry up"......Then blasted the Tiswas Song out..Happy,happy days!!!!!

[@michaelflynn1136]

I lived in the uk in the late 70's and early 80's. watched it every Saturday with my brother and father. later we found out that it was more popular with adults.

[@nicksmith7519]

Haha very true I enjoyed it but my dad seemed to enjoy it more. A bit like Monty Python for kids.

[@HrhFish]

It was cos the Dads fancied Sally James and used the kids as an excuse 😁

[@frflinstone]

back when TV wasn't a pile of stinking turd this was actual ENTERTAINMENT

[@kevinbaskin9489]

When I feel low I watch ten minutes of tiswas and it's okay

[@jacklawrence2212]

The greatest kids show ever made - no question, and still funny. Punk rock, Zoo TV which looked, beautifully, like it might fall apart at any second. Long live the Phantom Flan Flinger!

[@dannad123]

Pleased I had this in my childhood, saturday mornings were heavenly back then!

[@michaelflynn1136]

I lived in the U.K. from '79 to '83 and this was the best show on t.v. It was said that more adults watched this show more than kids. So they started a show called OTT, but it wasn't as popular. Tiswas was the best.

[@garrigproductions]

Fabulous to see this again with Rick Parfitt again,, RIP Rick, a real friendly gentleman.

[@postiekeefveness4415]

I was in my late 20's when these were aired. I had to work Saturdays so I used to Video Tiswas and watch it that evening when I got home from the pub. Am still a big kid now.

[@infamyinfamy]

My dad wouldn't let me watch Tiswas, it was too low brow apparently. Those few Saturday mornings when he was out , and I would turn the TV onto ITV were precious!

[@iansmith8263]

u poor fucker! my and my dad and younger sis watched it together...every week!!

[@ConnieGMK]

wow incredibly sad..

[@TheRowlandstone73]

Bernard Manning on a saturday morning kids' show! Hahaha!

[@Muckylittleme]

I think this was the peak of Lenny Henry's career.

[@Marcus538]

What career ?

[@frankiepaul9869]

@@Marcus538 ohhh sick burn.

[@frankiepaul9869]

@peter jones that's just what the world needs, more people like you stirring the shit. Seriously tell us all the point your trying to make?.

[@frankiepaul9869]

@peter jones As I thought, the world is leaving you people behind..... so goodbye.

[@garypeacock5919]

What peak ?

[@petem7118]

If we was playing at home we would always watch this…. Loved it….!

[@2opler]

`Kids, go outside to play, your dad wants to watch tiswas`.

[@johnnydancer4695]

Best Saturday morning kids show ever, period. Swap Shop and Saturday Superstore were the biggest load of twee crap. No comparison.

[@robferguson8696]

Yep, whenever I switched on swap shop, it was Edmonds (self righteous brothers) chatting to some kid about their stamp collection. There was no contest, Saturdays were Tiswas.

[@raymondberry9482]

We need more of this. Just to prove television used to be brilliant and actually really funny once upon a time.

[@tracysteele2270]

Remberinng my childhood still find it hilarious

[@garywhitehead4160]

It was either this or Noel Edmunds boring upper class Swap Shop.... sooooo glad I chose this classic!!

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

That took me back, ta for the upload! So much stuff you wouldn't get away with these days ...

[@stuartadair]

Love the doo-dah joke at the end, You just wouldn't get away with it on TV at anytime these days and Tiswas had it on a Saturday morning.

[@paulbangash4317]

Was a great programme. I used to watch it with my young son as an excuse !!!

[@The4thDensity]

Bring back TISWAS!

[@BagOfSticksFork]

I am 11 and my dad showed this to me! It's one of the funniest kids shows ive seen!

[@DazDaz105]

My dad used to drag me, and my brothers out of bed to watch Tiswas. Back then we didn’t really understand any of it. When you watch Tiswas as an adult I can see why dad liked to watch them. Saw one with Dave Prowse and Bernard Manning, manning said to Prowse, ‘I thought you got knocked down’ Genius 🤣

[@rimski7265]

Michael Palin was brilliant in these sketches!

[@noonthumbs2644]

Was that Cozy Powell with Rick Parfitt? 🤣🤣

[@shaunatkinson22]

It was Andy Bown, keyboard player and guitarist who became a full time member of Status Quo in 1982

[@ianbannister8404]

When I was a kid in the 70’s I was only allowed to watch swap shop on Saturday mornings as Tiswas was classed as way tooooo naughty 😅

[@oddities-whatnot]

Amazing to think this was a kids TV show, as there is so much adult humour in it!

[@evonne_okafor]

Simon George They got away with it until it went rubbish in the last series

[@jenniferlaughlin47]

Then again most of us didn't get the adult humour I personally remember tiswas as condensed milk sandwiches the dying fly spit the dog and phantom flan finger watching it back as an adult is funny, I said to my 80 yr old mum the other day that greased lightening lyrics were rude didn't notice till adulthood and she said no it wasn't I wouldn't of bought you that if it was rude I said take a listen 😅

[@wobblewobble7330]

old is gold.

[@IainLucey1972]

Thanks for all your comments.... A big creamy flan in the face to all of you...... OGGI OGGI OGGI.... :)

[@GrimRipa1]

I was on Tiswas around 1977/78 when Chris got us children to hold cards which spelt Cartoon. We were all in the wrong place and Chris started moving us in to the right place and splatting us with egg custard's. I'm trying to find this particular episode

[@audreywade826]

We once sacrificed watchi g tiswas one saturday to go to a local live swapshop so we could shout turn over and watch tiswas everytime they went live...😂

[@005AGIMA]

Mum and dad out on the weekly shop. My older brother John in charge of the TV. It was Tiswas every Saturday morning without fail :D

[@bryanleigh6497]

Compost Corner had growths you didn't want to see

[@HrhFish]

The guy in the flower outfit on the right in Micheal Palin's compost corner .... isn't it Rick Parfitt?

[@IainLucey1972]

Yes it is Thanks for your comment... This is still what they want or wanted... :)

[@ackerjawaka1966]

Compost Corner 😜

[@janetnjie8318]

Was a great Saturday morning programme 😀

[@stevebinning977]

Even Lenny Henry was funny on Tiswas

[@garyfaulkner1480]

Classic tv show.. Watched it every Saturday morning. Just who.is the phantom flan flinger..😂😂

[@56postoffice]

Chris Tarrant, Lenny Henry, Sally James, Bob Carolgees. Anarchic Saturday morning TV at its best.

[@dih9788]

Bizarre how many of these points from TISWAS are relevant, Revelations today 2020!

[@robotman2937]

I remember watching this on a Saturday morning

[@donnkelt9114]

The best programme EVER

[@danbus180]

The ending is the best bit I would love to see them react it in today's world

[@TeddyBear-ii4yc]

The Big Breakfast had a lot of the same ingredients as TISWAS, both were childrens shows but also aimed at young-at-heart adults, live crowd & crew participation, anarchic, silliness, in-jokes, anarchy, cheap TV relying on presenters chemistry with their banter and give and take humour, did I mention anarchy & silliness? IMHO ;-)

[@cosmicchong]

The funniest kids program ever on TV What progress we have when you consider the wokies and health and safety would never allow a program like that to be made theses days.

[@dwightdaone2815]

Rick Parfitt struggling to keep his laughter in during Gumby Flower Arranging

[@cosmos8567]

The gumby Sketch - brilliant

[@NeoSeer]

Judging by the not so stealthy meat and veg undercover yet on display lol in compost corner I am surprised my God fearing parents allowed me to watch this lol 😂

[@ecotubeview]

Hi - do you have an original copy of the Genesis fan club episode? I'm actually in it and would like to get a better copy...my dad is their manager so I'd really like to get a decent copy as I was only 13 and there aren't any other videos of me at that age!

[@2opler]

I do the `dying fly` for a light cardio these days. sally James` garters used to do that.

[@triffid68]

Is that Charlie Chuck around 13:30?

[@moletown8585]

Pure televisual joy!

[@Rqfhhvizzxij]

Il girasole ha bisogno del sole e aqua

[@adrianrosenlund-hudson8789]

Loved this program. Head over heels in Love with Sally, too, in that way you are when you’re young 🤪 look at children’s tv now. Not at all the same quality.

[@amazulu3401]

Just classic. Cannot believe as a kid I was an MCSS viewer. BP not Magpie as well. Dont remember my parents having a problem with ITV as many of my mates parents did.

[@rogergibson5172]

BBC,ITV,Sky,anyone,please,please,please repeat this show,and put something funny on!!!!!!

[@colinelderfield6964]

Brilliant nothing like it today sadly.

[@zincpatriot7227]

The pub I used to drink in back in the 70’s, was empty on a Saturday morning, until after 12 when everyone would turn up at once after ‘ ‘Tiswas had finished, it was the main topic of conversation. Better times.

[@johnanthonyp]

clearly been drinking with TISWAS Legends.Birmingham-quite big without being a northern.

[@wanwandokko]

Reeves and Mortimer got some inspiration from a certain Palin bloke here. Brilliant Tiswas

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

I will bet a million pounds there is some tiswas in bob monkhouse s archive. ..he recorded everything

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Michael Palin What a varied career he had in show business from Monty python to this and movies dramas and travel.documentaries

[@carlosbooovy1174]

Brilliant.. I was born in 73 but i can still remember watching this.. My parents didn't like it and my gran was appalled at the idea of being smashed in the face with a custard pie (i think she thought the plates were pottery). And not forgetting old lenny lenny len with the oooooooookkkkkkkkkkk in the strong west indies accent of which i used to copy. Apparently it was a nod to Eric dunkley song (OK Fred).

[@SegaStation]

Jesus, Bernard Manning on kids TV? Just let that sink in!

[@NeoSeer]

Sentimentality will always try to convince us that our generation had it the best. When in reality it was just what was the best thing for us then

[@placidrenegade]

There is nothing like a dame!!! Nick Nacky!!! Hahaha

[@peterturley2960]

Never remembered Michael Palin being on it??

[@simonfernandes6809]

The BBC had Blue Peter. TISWAS had Green Nigel - with the legendary David Rappaport. No comparison really. And what other show could get on one of the Pythons!

[@Isobel31Swan]

Tizwas was compulsory viewing in my household in1970s and 1980s.

[@kurtphipps7823]

Shame about tv now,the golden days of tv are gone,these were funny shows,3 channels and they were great viewing,

[@bajanb]

Shaw Taylor Police 5 before Crimewatch. Those were the good old days. 😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@gazeyre]

Awww the memories.....Didn't they end up doing an adult spin off?

[@williamgeorgefraser]

OTT. I think it only lasted for 6 episodes or so before it was pulled. There are some videos on YT of the balloon dancers and other stuff but unfortunately "The Great Gustavo" isn't available. That one was a real killer: a mind reader who explains how the brain works by putting a spoon into his top hat and scooping our his "brains" (rice pudding) layer by layer. With no place to put it, he eats it. The sickest and funniest sketch I have ever seen.

[@robferguson8696]

Anyone remember the guy in the pig mask (Porky?) who played the piano, and the dummy producer who fell down the stairs?

[@RobertHarrison-cn3ok]

"Today Is Saturday: Watch And Smile"

[@carlosbooovy1174]

The golden age of kids TV. I'm so glad i was here to see it... There's nothing that comes anywhere near the kids TV that we grew up with (1973)

[@toutetsu3533]

use to love tiswas as a child

[@dih9788]

Status Quo Rick Parfitt. Wonderful times. Go for 5D and break the Status Quo where we are in Ascension 2020.

[@nivram0544]

Bread & condensed milk sandwich fit only for Egg'n'Spoons like Hemmy Henry

[@paulmcnicholas3846]

Tiswas was the punk rock of Saturday morning kids entertainment while Swap Shop was progressive rock!

[@stilln68la]

Couldn`t have put it better.

[@craigharris2731]

Sally James. Sally James. Sally James... Sigh. I'd just graduated from Magpie's Susan Stranks. The world divided into TISWAS fans and Swapshop fans. Still does, come to think of it. This must have been the last time ITV had the better of two competing shows, telly selly time notwithstanding.

[@sametoyoutoo8509]

Multi coloured swap shop was utter visual poo

[@bannerzone_UK]

You just don't get entertainment like this anymore!

[@indigohammer5732]

This is what we want

[@davidspencer3191]

laughed so much .. lol .. stolen tarts LMAO