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Morecambe and Wise

March 2024

  • Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

    I am not an elderly white man. But you’d think so from my taste in TV comedy

    Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
    Rising Damp, Only Fools and Horses, The Morecambe and Wise Show … I love them all, even though they haven’t aged well, writes Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

August 2023

  • Amanda Abbington, Layton Williams and Angela Rippon

    Angela Rippon to be oldest Strictly Come Dancing contestant

    Ex-newsreader famous for dancing on 1976 Morecambe and Wise show will be joined by Amanda Abbington and Layton Williams

June 2023

  • Glenda Jackson in 1999.

    In memory of Glenda Jackson: ‘She touched something central about what it means to be alive’

    Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember the desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament

June 2022

  • Glenda Jackson: ‘I’ve been very lucky in the parts I’ve had the opportunity to do’

    The reader interview
    Glenda Jackson answers your questions: ‘I think that’s a gross insult about politicians and actors, frankly’

    The groundbreaking actor and politician answers your questions about the difficulties of Ken Russell, the joys of Morecambe & Wise and whether she sends Tony Blair a Christmas card

December 2021

  • Eric Morecambe, left, and Ernie Wise.

    Bring me sunshine: ‘new’ Morecambe and Wise Show episode brings Christmas cheer

  • Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise seen on ITV in the 1960s

    Lost Morecambe and Wise episode found in attic to air on Christmas Day

  • Dennis Herdman, Tom Hiddleston and Thom Tuck.

    The Play What I Wrote review – Morecambe and Wise homage brings us sunshine

  • Dennis Herdman and Tom Hiddleston in The Play What I Wrote.

    The Play What I Wrote review – Tom Hiddleston has a laugh in farce masterclass

November 2021

  • TOBY JONES, SEAN FOLEY, RALPH FIENNES AND HAMISH McCOLL IN "THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE" @ WYNDHAM'S THEATRE (OPENING: 5-11-01) TRISTRAM KENTON 10/01 (3 RAVELEY STREET LONDON NW5 2HX TEL: 020 7267 5550 mob 07973 617 355) EMBARGOED UNTIL 12PM ON MONDAY 5TH NOVEMBER

    How we made
    ‘Roger Moore collapsed one night. I thought he’d died’: how we made The Play What I Wrote

    ‘Ralph Fiennes strode into the dressing room and said he loved the show – we booked him there and then. The whole thing was very kick-bollocks-scramble’

August 2021

  • Eric Morecambe (left) and Ernie Wise

    Morecambe and Wise found Monty Python ‘boring’ and ‘irritating’

    Comedy duo’s damning verdict revealed in newly discovered footage from Norfolk student TV station

March 2021

  • Alan Curtis, actor

    Other lives
    Alan Curtis obituary

    Other Lives: Stage, film, and TV actor who was the voice of the public address system at Test matches

November 2020

  • Des O’Connor, who passed away on Saturday aged 88.

    Des O’Connor was in on the joke with Eric Morecambe

    Letter: Claire Whatley says the late TV entertainer was the butt of affectionate teasing rather than cruelty or snobbery

October 2020

  • CHILDRENS ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE, BRITAIN - 1982<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Nils Jorgensen/REX/Shutterstock (93553h) Bobby Ball and Tommy Cannon CHILDRENS ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE, BRITAIN - 1982

    Bobby Ball obituary

    Half of the popular comedy duo Cannon and Ball who enjoyed huge television success in the 1980s

April 2020

  • Eric Morcambe, Observer Magazine, 8 September 1973

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: the genius of Eric Morecambe

    Theatre critic Kenneth Tynan celebrates the funny straight man – one of British television’s comedy masters

December 2019

  • Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about comedy, from Eric and Ernie to Lee and Herring

    Ken Dodd’s biographer picks his zingers from the literature of laughter-giving

November 2019

  • Eric and teddy bears

    Eric Morecambe: rarely seen photos of the comedy legend

    As Sir Lenny Henry presents a new series celebrating the comedy of Morecambe and Wise, rarely seen photographs of Eric (and Ernie) offer an insight into his work and life both on and off stage

March 2019

  • André Previn and Mia Farrow (wearing a hooded cloak) turn heads in the street

    André Previn, the classical maestro who knew the value of pop culture

    Petroc Trelawny
    His charismatic TV appearances won the conductor huge fame and introduced millions to Mozart and Grieg

December 2018

  • Eric and Ernie on The Ed Sullivan Show in March 1963

    TV review
    Morecambe & Wise in America review – Eric and Ern are back! What a joy

  • Morecambe and Wise in America: Eric and Ernie on The Ed Sullivan Show in March 1963.

    Morecambe & Wise in America: how the duo made it in the US

October 2018

  • Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise and Penelope Keithin the 1977 Christmas show produced by Ernest Maxin

    Ernest Maxin obituary

    Producer and director behind Morecambe and Wise and other hit television comedy shows
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