Ernie Wise

Morecambe and Wise give freshness to very venerable material indeed. They got a lot of mileage last night out of knickers, bloomers, and, incredibly, drawers. If a joke doesn't work. they work at it until it does.

This peripatetic pair ("Do what?" asks the idiotic one in horn-rimmed glasses) have perfected the moth-eaten to a real art. Generations of grease-painted clowns could only nod their approval.