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Eric Morecambe

Eric Morecambe

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DVD review - Morecambe and Wise: Two of a Kind

We all remember the classic Morecambe and Wise sketches and Christmas specials that they made for the BBC, but their first TV success was arguably over on commercial television, at ATV in the 1960s. This series was Two of a Kind and it spawned some of the double act's most famous routines.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 11th December 2016

Morecambe and Wise statue unveiled in Blackpool

A statue of legendary comedy duo Morecambe & Wise has been unveiled at a ceremony in Blackpool.

ITV News, 14th October 2016

Morecambe & Wise statue for Blackpool

A statue of Morecambe & Wise is to be erected in Blackpool, the "spiritual home" of the duo, this October.

British Comedy Guide, 29th September 2016

New exhibit shows archive pictures of BBC comedians

Compton Verney exhibition charts 60 years of comedy, from Hancock's Half Hour to Miranda Hart.

Mark Brown, The Guardian, 26th June 2016

Eric Morecambe's Jensen Interceptor for sale at £150,00

A sports car bought by comedian Eric Morecambe for £4,500 has been put up for sale for £150,000.

BBC News, 22nd February 2016

Radio Times review

Once upon a time the highlight of Christmas was settling down to watch Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's sketch show. You can see in this compilation that the roll call of stars who were prepared to be humiliated by the duo was legendary: Glenda Jackson, Peter Cushing, Shirley Bassey, Des O'Connor and Angela Rippon among them.

The running gags were brilliant and even if you can recite the words of their sketches verbatim, they still make you laugh. Eric's assertion to "Andrew Preview" that "I'm playing all the right notes - but not necessarily in the right order" is as funny today as it was way back in 1971.

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 16th December 2015

Great comedians can make anything funny. Eric Morecambe bleeding a radiator or Les Dawson reading out AutoTrader would be hilarious by default, but could modern standups work that same magic when, say, eating an entire watermelon or emptying a bathtub? Dave's new panel show hinges precariously on that premise, with a quintet of comics - this week including Frank Skinner, Tim Key and Roisin Conaty - performing acts at the behest of titular taskmaster Greg Davies. In practice, a premise unlikely to tickle the titter glands of many.

Mark Jones, The Guardian, 28th July 2015

Eric Morecambe sculptor puts the boot in

The latest work from the man who created the Eric Morecambe Statue is quite a feat...or rather, a foot. Graham Ibbeson will cast the Eric statue's boot in bronze and sell it to raise money for a new Morecambe and Wise landmark in our town.

The Visitor, 25th July 2015

Comic Relief: 'Eric Morecambe' fun run to be held

A fun run inspired by Eric Morecambe will be held in his Lancashire hometown for Comic Relief on 14 March.

BBC News, 2nd March 2015

So, Miranda's over, and leaves us in a fine tradition - Fawlty Towers, The Office - of going on just long enough and no longer, and creating a newly Hollywood-bound personality. Some fusspot critics adopted airs of frenetic postmodern sophistication towards what was, after all, a comedy show. I loved it, every bit, not least for allowing me to finally "get" - albeit only a bit - slapstick. I especially loved it for every reason the detractors resented: its retro nature, its channelling of Eric Morecambe (she even managed, along with his trademark deadpans to camera, to slap Stevie's cheeks) and its big, warm, sexy lunk of a star.

It ended rightly on a high (she married Gary, needless to say) and included bits of girly fun (meh), sharp observation (yay!) and, actually, a twitch more seriousness than has been usual. "That is not being a child," she says at one stage, grown strangely grave. "Sometime the world just needs to be... jollied." Indeed it does, and I raise my glass to Miranda Hart, producer Sarah Fraser, director Mandie Fletcher and all the other splendid women involved: 2015 deserves to be their brilliant year.

Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 4th January 2015

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