Bea Arthur, Les Dawson & Jerry Lee Lewis (Aspel & Company, 1993)

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7 жыл бұрын

Aspel & Company, 23/05/1993 - a star-studded episode, with Les Dawson (in one of his last interviews), the Golden Girls' Bea Arthur, and Jerry Lee Lewis - who plays Great Balls of Fire at the end (and YT let it stay!).
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@jackspry9736 11 ай бұрын

RIP Bea Arthur (May 13, 1922 - April 25, 2009), aged 86 RIP Les Dawson (February 2, 1931 - June 10, 1993), aged 62 RIP Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 - October 28, 2022), aged 87 You will be remembered as legends.

@MarkHarrison733 5 күн бұрын

Lewis is remembered as a child abuser.

@martinplatt5928 6 ай бұрын

Hard to believe but we lost Les just 18 days after this interview. He was an incredibly funny and talented man. A true one off as they used to say. RIP Les.

@MarkHarrison733 5 күн бұрын

He was an unfunny racist.

@tallulah2 4 жыл бұрын

Bea looks so beautiful here.

@martinplatt5928 3 жыл бұрын

Dawson was without doubt my favourite. An outstanding comedian who always makes me laugh.

@carolnichol2721 5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Les Dawson a legend and bea arthur another legend

@AlfredHawthornBennyHill 6 жыл бұрын

I never knew that Bea Arthur and Les Dawson met. A rare meeting of two American and British acting and comedy legends.

@booth2710 3 жыл бұрын

In an interview she said she stayed friends with Les and his wife Tracey.

@AlfredHawthornBennyHill 3 жыл бұрын

@@booth2710 That's great to know.

@MarkHarrison733 5 күн бұрын

@@AlfredHawthornBennyHill Arthur was an Israeli.

@Joanna7428 2 жыл бұрын

Les died 18 days after this - he was brilliant ♥️

@desertrose1226 2 жыл бұрын

Bea Arthur was Beautiful. She looked like Helen Mirren!

@martin77722 4 жыл бұрын

les dawson was a one off legend truely missed by us all

@baldcat59 7 жыл бұрын

Les was a comic genius. RIP

@MIS315 4 жыл бұрын

Love the way Bea Arthur speaks

@marrisapayton943 3 жыл бұрын

Sure do she laughs just like dorothy

@dcanmore 6 жыл бұрын

Dear old Les died less than three weeks after this interview.

@tmatthewwolfen1847 4 жыл бұрын

Didn't even get to see his little daughter's first birthday; very sad. How did he die?

@dcanmore 4 жыл бұрын

@@tmatthewwolfen1847 from the mid 1980s he had major health problems but was still a workaholic, in 1993 he suffered a massive heart attack which killed him instantly, aged 62.

@BritishComedyUK69 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, I love British Comedy x

@stephenvincent4989 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely great a placid “The Killer” great balls of fire - Jerry Lee once seen and heard live never forgotten.

@justinwade5074 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this.

@ppotter 6 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome.

@theculturedthug6609 3 жыл бұрын

Can't believe Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive.

@crocheting-around-the-planet 2 жыл бұрын

Very sad day when Les Dawson passed RIP

@stevencassidy6982 6 жыл бұрын

I once read Les Dawsons novels - it was about this old lady who turns serial killer. It had me in stitches.

@ppotter 6 жыл бұрын

I remember that one! Takes me back... :D

@cloudbusting.heights 3 ай бұрын

Bea is adorable

@knightmedia1 5 жыл бұрын

Didn't realise how robotic Aspel can be.......even Les Dawson was having digs from time to time LOL

@mauricehayden8835 Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatPerahia Parkinson related a lot better to the humour of Dawson I think

@TheTmny876able 2 жыл бұрын

3 legends on one show ! wow.

@MarkHarrison733 Жыл бұрын

Hardly.

@stuartb3609 8 ай бұрын

Ron Wood included?

@CRAIG5835 6 жыл бұрын

This was 2 months before he passed.RIP Lord Les.

@anthonypoole6417 4 жыл бұрын

He seemed such a lovely man.

@1963Austria 4 ай бұрын

Loved Les's dry sense of humor......

@davidwardle8247 2 жыл бұрын

Les and Bea taken too soon, wonderful people. They don't make um like this anymore??

@davidfos84 Жыл бұрын

And now, only Mr. Aspel is alive.

@rosewallace8395 6 жыл бұрын

I love Les Dawson Is This One Of Final Interviews

@theculturedthug6609 3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@jasongibson3496 7 жыл бұрын

I love Bea Arthur. One of my favorite actors.

@NicCalder 6 жыл бұрын

Jason Gibson quickly

@wolfenstein6676 5 жыл бұрын

*actresses

@John-ro1iv 4 жыл бұрын

@@wolfenstein6676 you ain't allowed say that these days

@vinnysamways63 Жыл бұрын

@@John-ro1iv Who says? Serious question. Who on Earth makes these ridiculous rules?

@PaulEcosse Жыл бұрын

That was bizarre. What an eclectic mix.

@mikekenyon8323 3 жыл бұрын

Ronnie Wood playing guitar

@natalietripp6476 6 жыл бұрын

We love you les xx

@rinkadink66 Жыл бұрын

Great to see Les again..🙂🙂🙂

@Darts4544r4 5 жыл бұрын

A great line up of guests, ashame they are wasted on below par interviewing technique of aspel here.

@ianmilleris Жыл бұрын

RIP Jerry Lee Lewis

@madeleine9907 Ай бұрын

Did Bea live in London ... she was great in Golden Girls 🎉

@sleazyslytherin6836 5 ай бұрын

Bea and Les at 16:12 are just adorable

@marrisapayton943 4 жыл бұрын

Les dawson is cool too

@iap-ug3oy Жыл бұрын

My husbands last wife had his child when he was 75 …..Yes..I laughed to…….his first son will be 50 now…..Well done LES…..We miss you…

@thomashall9182 2 жыл бұрын

To age 58, Jesus, this great man is now 86 and still compos mentis.

@thomashall9182 2 жыл бұрын

@אריאל .🕎How do you know all about judgment day? Are you somehow in receipt of information not yet in the public domain? First of all, before you pontificate about my ultimate fate, please give me evidence that Gods of any kind actually exist, if you can you will be the first person in history to do so and I will personally recommend you for the Nobel Prize. Hit me with it...

@markharrison2544 6 жыл бұрын

Dawson clearly had COPD.

@alanberkeley7282 Жыл бұрын

This was 22nd May 1993. He died of a massive heart attack 19 days later so I wonder if he was in the first stages of heart failure?

@c.s.jackson7214 5 жыл бұрын

Whole lotta shakin Going on at the Lanai.

@johnnyherridge7274 6 жыл бұрын

Ronnie Wood!

@dannyodonnell2181 4 жыл бұрын

Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Goin’ On!! They witnessed greatness that night! The Killer Rocks On!

@Sheffield_Steve 4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing that when Les referred to the "Brains Trust", he was referring to the fact that 3 Hollywood celebs ruined the show the week before, by product placement of their restaurant chain that they bought into and eventually made Aspel give up the show/taken off? If so, I can possibly understand why he might have been looking nervous about anyone else saying or doing something wrong. The ITC that later became Ofcom, came down heavily on Aspel &/or LWT at the time.

@ppotter 4 жыл бұрын

I'd forgotten that, and was surprised to see a branch in London still running.

@theculturedthug6609 3 жыл бұрын

The legendary Clam on bass.

@ppotter 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahahahaah

@garethwilkinson3456 9 ай бұрын

I loved this. Teens

@rowdyways4228 5 жыл бұрын

Jerry Lee is the very best! Most interviews with him the interviewer always tries to take old stories after they have been twisted and turned into things that never happened. And Jerry Lee Lewis is very polite and carries himself with the upmost of class. In turn making the interviewer look like an idiot.

@MrBobthebird 3 жыл бұрын

rowdy Ways, Well said. Michiel Parkinson should have done this. Aspel is way out of his depth here.

@jessiejames7492 6 жыл бұрын

Ron wood on guitar?

@peteandurnot 6 жыл бұрын

jessie james yep that's him.

@Colsoloact-po9wv 4 жыл бұрын

Jerry looking real uncomfortable with some of Aspel's questions......Good Ol Les didn't look that comfortable with him either...Ive seen Aspel interview a lot better than this....more respectfully

@joshhayes5218 10 ай бұрын

This was broadcast on the 29th May 1993 and he died on the 10th of June 1993 he seems in good health here

@MarkHarrison733 5 күн бұрын

He had COPD.

@johnblood3731 3 жыл бұрын

Jerry is the man

@willigee7885 2 жыл бұрын

aspel almost murders his guests with his lack of interest in the responses. Les made JLL laugh tho.

@christopherdrennan5819 5 жыл бұрын

The same year he died.

@ppotter 5 жыл бұрын

Yup. Few months later.

@markharrison2544 5 жыл бұрын

@@ppotter A few days later.

@ppotter 5 жыл бұрын

@@markharrison2544 Weeks ;)

@markharrison2544 5 жыл бұрын

@@ppotter Do you know if he had been diagnosed with COPD?

@andreagaul4960 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if that story about not using the upstairs loo was the inspiration for The Dentons in League of Gentlemen.

@MrBobthebird 3 жыл бұрын

Aspel , why bring on a man or guest to just sit there and try to destroy them, worst job of interviewing I have ever seen.

@jamesparker40 2 жыл бұрын

At the time of writing Aspel is 89 and Lewis is 86...the rest are all dead...the joy of KZfaq...dead people looking at other dead people...Lewis has now gone(22/08/22) so only Aspel left.

@iap-ug3oy Жыл бұрын

Ho! For heavens sake , have you had a bad day…

@RDBb-jn3rm 5 жыл бұрын

Aspel was such an awkward and sarcastic interviewer, painful a lot of the time.

@flakyb321 5 жыл бұрын

RDB247 202b maybe so but I really appreciate him slowing that joke down for us

@davidfos84 4 жыл бұрын

He seemed very unsure of himself here, even shy, as if he's unsure what to say or how to react. Maybe his confidence was knocked by what happened the previous week.

@bendover9663 4 жыл бұрын

@@davidfos84 what happened??

@jessiejames7492 4 жыл бұрын

thats his way. i hate those interviewers who ask a question then butt in and its like they want the person theyre interviewing only to tell them what they want to hear...Aspel listens. One o fthe best interviews he did was in the early days when he interviewed george harrison and ringo starr. You could she he enjoyed it . esp ringo. was joking throughtout. they complimented each other..

@davidfos84 4 жыл бұрын

@@bendover9663 Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis basically took over the show in order to promote Planet Hollywood opening in London. Aspel was extremely unhappy about it and it led to the end of the show a few weeks later.

@elbecko7969 3 жыл бұрын

Is there going to be any rock n roll? I'll expect to see Ronnie Wood there

@johnblood3731 3 жыл бұрын

Loved Ron since the faces days. He seems like a real gentleman from his pod casts. Take care.

@eleanorperry655 4 ай бұрын

Bea Arthur medley irv Berlin Barry bostwick

@philb4462 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this when it aired originally. If I remember rightly it was only a few weeks before Les Dawson died.

@alanberkeley7282 Жыл бұрын

It was filmed Saturday 22nd May 1993. It went out the following day and he died on Thursday 10th June.

@alanberkeley7282 Жыл бұрын

Listening to Les talk and breathe I wonder if he was in the first stages of heart failure? This is only 18 days before he died.

@cliveglover7343 Жыл бұрын

Imagine Les Dawson playing whole lotta shaking going on??

@CarysCreatesThings Жыл бұрын

That would have been incredible! His piano playing was genius. You could tell he was a skilled pianist because his wrong notes were so calculated & perfectly timed for comedic effect. It takes a great musician to be able to play so badly.

@marrisapayton943 4 жыл бұрын

He kissed her

@Throgmorton1961 6 жыл бұрын

Why cant Les play and sing like Jerry?

@ppotter 6 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@dannyodonnell2181 4 жыл бұрын

mastermind but Jerry can be funnier if he’s in the mood

@alanparish4870 3 жыл бұрын

Just watched Les and Shirley Bassy working together and they were great playing off each other. I felt uncomfortable watching this.l realise Les was not at his best, but there was no rapport with Aspel or any of his guests. Shame.

@terryleather4920 3 жыл бұрын

Harpurheys finest son

@iap-ug3oy Жыл бұрын

I used to go swimming every day at Harpurhey baths ….in the 1950 s …I am 82 now in 2022.

@HappyinJapan358 2 жыл бұрын

Aspel really dissed Les there

@philiphalpenny9761 6 жыл бұрын

Aspel was fairly cold with Les. Awkward viewing...

@jessiejames7492 6 жыл бұрын

never could understand Les Dawson. could appreciate his comedy even less..

@peteandurnot 6 жыл бұрын

I don't think he was cold, I think maybe he knew Les wasn't in the best of health.

@jessiejames7492 4 жыл бұрын

@@peteandurnot his deappan expression is his. i rememer an itnerview he did with david walliams and matt lucas. he asked a question and they both said' wha????? and they both burst out laughing at his deadpan expression. like what was so funny?

@John-ro1iv 4 жыл бұрын

21:26 one of the more cringey moments. In all the years aspel was doing shows, I never realised how boring and wooden he was. In this clip, there doesn't seem to be any rapport with the guests. Talentless.

@davidfos84 2 жыл бұрын

In the earlier editions he's much more engaged. Frankly I think he was bored and disillusioned by this point after the Planet Hollywood episode. Also, I think Aspel wanted to do a genuine interview rather than Les going through his repertoire. His interview with Rik Mayall a few weeks earlier was MUCH better. He also said years later that he was forced to ask salacious and sleazy questions by the producers, as evidenced by his exchange with Jerry Lee. This culminated in Aspel resigning. Not really defending him and just my opinion of course. It still comes off badly whatever the reasons.

@John-ro1iv 2 жыл бұрын

@@davidfos84 I must look up the planet Hollywood and Lewis episodes. I wasn't aware of them