Downstairs, Upstairs

Love that Bob (Newhart)!

Interviews with friends of Bob Newhart at an event celebrating 50 years in show business at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, in North Hollywood on June 2, 1010.

TRIBUTE: WENDY RICHARD 20 JULY 1943 - 26 FEBRUARY 2009

Wendy Richard, who has died aged 65 of cancer, was one of the busiest television actors of recent decades. She became a household name as Pauline Fowler, the matriarch who battled on undaunted through the many upheavals of EastEnders.

Before EastEnders, she was best known as Miss Brahms, a foil to Mollie Sudgen's Mrs Slocombe on the groundbraking series, Are You Being Served?



The cast of Are You Being Served? (from left to right): Mollie Sugden as Mrs Slocombe, Wendy Richard as Miss Brahms, Trevor Bannister as Mr Lucas, Nicholas Smith as Mr Rumbold, Larry Martyn, Arthur Brough as Mr Grainger, John Inman as Mr Humphreys and Frank Thornton as Captain Peacock. (Photograph: BBC)

There are several clips featured on the Guardian.

The pilot episode of Are You Being Served. The opening scene has Miss Brahms stuck in a lift in a miniskirt. The tone had been set:



The pilot continues:



"Are you free?" The final segment:



And of course the first part of the infamous "Dear Sexy Knickers..."!

THE BIG SHOW: BANKHEAD AND DIETRICH

GEORGE CARLIN, R.I.P.

'IF PEOPLE WANT CLEAN WATER, BUY IT IN A BOTTLE'

Thanks to Five Before Chaos.

OH, LORD!

The Election, The Candidates, The President

GREEN WEEK

Here are De Stroopwafels, a funky, hilarious duo from the Netherlands...promoting green stuff:

The Comedian's Comedian....

For your holiday weekend pleasure, a friend from the UK sent me YouTube links of Les Dawson , one of the all-time British comedians. Deffo not PC.

Shirley Bassey & Les Dawson -



Gotta love the bits with Les Dawson & Roy Barraclough as Cissy & Addy -