Some of the greatest home grown comedians ever to grace a stage so many are gone now but they'll never be forgotten 😄😄😄

Grew up to this brilliant show.....great characters,...bloody funny , ..miss those great days

In the 70s I was a young / teenager, very hard times ( three day week) and yet I loved it and now in my 60s I love 70s music x

Ken Goodwin cracks me up what a man he is he's not dead is he brilliant comedian I wonder what he's doing now. When things were bad at home and the comedy's was on the box he made me laugh thanks Ken Goodwin ours Ziggy Marley from leicershire in the countryside in England.

the 70's were awesome...the last decade before greed became king and a decade when the word 'offended' was rarely used...

Ken Goodwin the funniest of them all, Just fantastic.

Excellent, love these snapshots of a better time! Great humour!

Brilliant! I just love the 70's and would dearly love to go back to those times. Best music, fashion, tv programmes, football, cars and home design. Happy days!!

I remember this as though yesterday. Loved the way that there was always a catch, and nothing vulgar, no swearing in order to get a laugh. This kind of comedy is no longer promoted.

Great memories, used to laugh to all these guys in the 70's.

I remember laughing back then but it's hard to remember why now. Much simpler times.

I was 3yrs old at the time these guys were on the stage..lovely to see how young these guys were.. Grew up knowing them, but as much older men... Who sadly have now passed.

Just heard that, on the same day Frank Carson and Ken Goodwin have passed away. A great loss to Comedy

Also including my favourite, George Roper, at complete ease with the audience, enjoying telling the jokes, like he was one of your mates who just happened to be good at it. I also liked Mike Burton with his surreal style of humour and Eddie Flanagan, so relaxed it looked like he'd forgotten why he was there in between his jokes. Mix in the excellent aforememtioned Charlie Wiiliams, and Ken Goodwin etc how could it not be a great show!

A good antidote for whenever I might get nostalgic for 1975.

Colin Crompton's timing is so good it must be digital. And he really knows how to use a cigarette as a simple prop. Really miss that kind of laid back delivery.

brings back memories brilliant

i used to watch this back in the 70's george roper was a different class R.I.P. George thanks mate!!!!

It's great watching this. My memory is better than I thought it was.

Bloody hell, Charlie Williams!! Brilliant.

Truely the best day of my life watching these TV programmes...

Gosh, I remember this show back in the day. I had forgotten George Roper, though, but the sow joke made me laugh out loud.

I grew watching this in the 70s.

Been a band guy thru the seventies but I always got some one to record the comedians coz they were so funny, just brilliant comedy. Great times they were, but not PC for these days. Love it

Hopefully now that we're out of the Common Market, we can get back to this great British comedy.

brill remember the show well god bless most off them frank carson at his best .......thanks for putting this on you tube ....

Got to be the BEST comedy show EVER produced for TV. No swearing.No lewdness,No boring jokes. Just real comedy with marvellous one liners plus racist jokes that did'nt offend. I watched The Comedians religiously in the 70's and regretted its disappearance when TV comedy went bad.

Ahhh I loved them days, when people knew how to have a good laugh, the 70s were the best!

It was brilliant back then at least people were more happier even though they had less !!! ;)

I would loved to have Johnny Carson watch this. I wonder what he would have made of UK stand up comedy of the 1970s. Johnny was the king of comedy in the US in the 1970s. He brought on many US stand up comedians on the Tonight Show and made them stars. I wonder of he would liked any of these guys?

omg memories thanks for sharing

Many thanks for the dates... Nice to have a good record.

Work of art and a genius parody ahead of its time. Can't believe they got so many big names to mock their own future stereotypes...

"Everything was rubbish in the seventies" I'm sorry you feel that way, because I remember the seventies very well, and I don't remember everything being rubbish at all. In fact, I think on the whole it was far superior to the time we live in now. Better TV, better music, better football, better movies...and a lot less government intrusiveness and surveillance than we have to put up with now. Give me the seventies every time...

A different world back then ..... I miss it !

Great times wish we could turn the clock back , sadly we been sold down the river

I imagine people on here criticising "The Comedians" would probably think Frankie Boyle is hilarious.

great to see now,, cause did not see when as a kid in the 70s,!! / this time 1975,, was a 7 year old back then,!!

Ken Goodwin classic gold ......

Glenn Johnson I remember watching this back in `75 and having just watched it here again after all these years,still as funny.No swear words.Says it all.Thankyou for uploading this.Brilliant.

They're all gone now, RIP these very funny guys !

Good grief. I'd forgotten how bad these guys were.

Absolutely Brilliant...they were far more funny in those days...unlike today. Lots of Laughs.

Just amazing. There will never be anything to come close to these great shows and the great personalities loved by millions.

4 months and 14,000 hits !!! Someone must like this!!!.

Proper innocent stand up, with out the nanny state mentality.. Proper belly laugh, absolutely great love it.

Ken Goodwin total genius

46:03 'We get worse don't we? Yep, sums this up perfectly.

Back in the day's when comedy wasn't taken seriously.

Fantastic, better than the crap modern stuff

1975,, / I was 7 year old , back then,!!

This is good.Thanks.

frank Carson,, i was lucky to meet him back in early 80s,, RIP, Frank,!God Bless from Portstewart,!

Loved it! Most comedy now is based on observations.

Thank you so much for that! ....:-))

memories ! thanks for sharing.

Great comedians, great comedy great times and no P.C..

Great show ! How the time goes was 15 when this went out. Great craic.

Remember watching as a kid

Back when comedians were funny. Love this video.

could not agree more.

Great stuff for those of us who remember it, good clean comedy with no smut or swearing. Great family tv.

Fantastic!!!!! love it

was a wee 7 year old back then,,!! i want to go back to then,,!! 70s, did not see this show back then,, ! great seeing now,,!

Thanks for the upload, brings bk lots of memories n even tell the jokes to diff ppl, Bernard manning is class , he'd never get away with his jokes in this day of age lol

Proper jokes by proper comedians, genuinely funny , and delivered with perfect timing. these were great times, today's comedy is so poor by comparison, and they haven't got the heart and spirit of these old comics...........miss these great times

I was 4 years old ,holeeeee shit,how time flies ....

its amazing what passed for comedy back then

I was 12 and laughed my arse off with my younger brother and for many years after, until it was sent back to safety, away from the new wave of political corrctness

Absolutely brilliant! These blokes knew how to tell jokes.

Sheps Banjo Boys.....Fabulous.

It was good to see Ken Goodwin again. Just looking at him made me laugh.

Ken Goodwin would smash it today. Plenty worse than him getting away with it in 2019

I remember these days they were the days when everybody didn't get offended by everything and didn't call everything racist.

Great stuff!

There was a paperback that came out around same time. I remember studying it assiduously as a schoolgirl and 1970s the comedians had so much personality. Alot of fun There was a music hall vibe holding British comedy lost since the 1980s. But judging by The Sketch Show 2003, British comedy has not suffered despite the predations of the EU experiment.

Luckily, I was born in '65. I was forced to watch these constantly rehashed old jokes when my parents had control of the TV while I was growing up. Then the 80s came along with the possibility of seeing alternative comedians like Alexi Sayle on a portable in the bedroom. Perfect timing for me. The comedy world was blown wide open , and we never looked back

My Pleasure..

Fabulous.

Thanks for posting...................best laugh I have had in ages..............talk about the bringing back memories, cheers.

Ken Goodwin 1933-2012 Bernard Manning 1930-2007 Frank Carson 1926-2012 Johnnie Wager ????- still alive Jackie Hamilton 1937-2003 George Roper 1934-2003 Jerry Harris ???? Charlie Williams 1927-2006 Mike Burton ???? Duggie Brown 1940-alive Mike Reid 1940-2007 Bryn Phillips 1934-2014 Colin Crompton 1931-1985 Jim Bowen 1937-alive

The good old days when comedians told jokes and make you laugh.

hi ... thanks for that i know it was ken some thing so big thank u mate bless ...they were great hey ...lol

Gives me such a great feeling 😊

I walked around Charlie Williams' house as it was being built. It was across the M1 from Birdwell.

the best of the best

Absolutely brilliant 😂😂😂😂

We were easily pleased in those days.

Wow a very young Mike Reid (aka Frank Butcher from Eastenders) and Frank Carson (from Tiswas). Brought up with these jokes. A lot of these comedians had completely different jokes when they played in the clubs or broadcast after the watershed!

Remember watching this show back in the 1970s. Even then, I found some jokes were better than others, some comedians were better than others, some episodes were better than others. While some 'politically minded' characters are quick to knock this show, as hostile to their values or views, its worth remembering this was afternoon television, on a Saturday? The comedians were here to entertain a family audience, comprising every age. Many had a quite different act for adult audiences, and many had survived a long career in working mans clubs etc. Whether you like their humour or not, the vast majority of decent, civilised human beings will be most concerned at those that seek to curb other peoples sense of humour, because they know it won't stop there.

They are all great...what a laugh...a genuinely funny bunch......comedy will never be like this again, love them all....

this takes me back

Proper comedians

My favourite show

Ken Goodwin. He made me cry laughing.

The Golden Age of Stand-up talent.

couldn't agree more..

I tried watching this lot several times back then but never heard a joke that i hadn't heard in the playground.

Absolute magic.

23.30 best combover this side of Dave Hill. Amazing