Please name them, as he was a comedic character actor . Please name 20 similar actors then .

@@jimshelley8831 totally agree. the other best comedic actors back then would be Sellers, Barker, Lowe people like that. Comparing them with comedians today is a lazy errand. But there are some about who can act Sacha Baran Cohen for example (who is a massive fan of Sellers).

@@jimshelley8831 I'd say Steve Coogan is pretty good, Paul Whitehouse too - actually, many in The Fast Show. Martin Freeman is OK I suppose. Olivia Coleman is great. Most of The Thick Of It too. Hugh Grant has come onto a game, Rafe Fiennes as well. The cast of Slow Horses largely do pretty well. Matt Berry. Kayvan Novak too. I'm running out of names now and anyway, I've just realise this is in response to @mohammaddavoudian7897. I've just stuck to British names but the point is there are loads of great comedic character actors

A few are good today, but years ago they were amazing and that certainly applies to Leonard Rossiter.

It was a different time, comparison doesn't work.....

😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂 very true just plan & simple verbal FUN!!!! With out taking offense.

Yawn. Do you know how boring it is to read this comment on every upload of a sitcom from the 60s and 70s, over and over again? Yes, we geddit, you hate today and would rather live in the 70s. So do I. Now, can we move on and just enjoy the brilliant comedy without stupid comments trying to make silly political points on absolutely everything?

@@DeltaJazzUK I got bored reading yours

@@lindastanley229 brilliance 😆😁

@@ld7103 thankyou

It died the same time black history month was started and occurs each month since years ago

​@@potatoface01- I'd say around 2005 or maybe a year or two earlier, but yes, the PC Woke Brigade have ruined everything, or have maybe it's people that always insist on abiding by them who the people are to blame. Because of this I only watch DVDs and the occasional Blu-ray (usually if it's a film). How sad these modern times have become.

Too busy trying to make everything as miserable as possible these days

My parents are from South America and I can remember watching this programme on a black and white television set in the 1970s. Great comedy

A Legend 🙏🏿

100% spot on, 👌

Lol 🤣🤣 every year..... Find some mistletoe

Kubrick was a huge fan of Rossiter. Says it all that one of the greatest directors of all time highly rated your acting abilities.

One of the very best!!...and missed!!..😞

He was great in 'Steptoe and son ' and also in 'The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin '.

@@meepsmusic1963 I think he played an escaped convict, if i remember correctly.I vaguely remember he was so disillusioned with the state of living in the Steptoe household he wanted to go back inside!

​@@clairejohnson6522 I didn't get where I am today without liking Leonard Rossiter .

Such sadness that Richard died at such a young age of just 31 in 1979.

All dead now sadly

I agree!

😂😂😂

I agree :)

Brilliance never fades.

This one,s got the legendary Larry Martin

And going straight. And in the nursery landscape program.

Why did that matter he was great.

And The Lovers with Paula Wilcox.

Rising Damp was classic comedy starring Leonard Rossiter

Behave they were dreadful

He truly was very,very special. A one off.

Amen

What am I supposed to put on me pineapple chunks🤣. The one liners are second to none.

Yes.

Him and Ronnie barker the guvnors

Happy days

I love all the oldes to back then tv was just 3 chanels thankyou keep posting👍

I was born that year. Flairs and platform shoes! Lol. Police cars were blue and white. From a British War Veteran

Martin ,complete genius by a comic god , and the cast !! .so sad about Richard beckinsale long gone ,never forgotten x

I can’t imagine how bad Christmas is gonna be this year?! Plus we have 200 channels of saturated shit on tv to look forward to lol.

Northampton, yes in those days the comedy was a mirror to the bigots i.e. like Alf Garnet and that ilk, to hopefully be laughed at and not agreed with unfortunately the narrow-minded bigoted brigade would be on the protagonist side.

Haha yes me and my brother were discussion this and how its not offensive mixed race people. Its funny cause how ridiculous narrow minded rigsby is. The joke is on him. Its not making fun of black people. Philip is the one who i intelligent and cones of better so his is it insulting to black people!?

Nice to hear it. Good onya buddy.

wolfspain7385: IKR, I can see why some would feel insulted but it's all about Rigsby being the butt of the joke looking like an ignorant fool.

@Hamilton Moses lol

Same.Loved The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin and the 'Grot Shop', the hippopotamus and his fantasies.

WELL SAID

well said

Comic actor is the term.

UK isn't a place

@@andrewjoyce9038 United Kingdom. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, since 1922.

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The good old days when mixed race marriages were still the norm and no one batted an eyelid - now everybody is obsessed with race and mixed race marriages are considered "unusual"!

@@LittleKitty22 That's not my experience at all. My mother was ostracized by virtually all of her white friends. I didn't know any other mixed race couples and there were very few mixed race kids around. And back then we were called 'half-caste' by white people. You are confusing a loving family environment with the reality of the world beyond my front door. It was anything but what you described. If your experience differs I'd be curious to hear about it. I don't recall any 'good old days'.

@@LittleKitty22 Your Home Office experience doesn't surprise me. i never cease to be staggered by the ignorance and stupidity of the people getting paid to shuffle forms and process paperwork on behalf of the UK government. You came to the U.K. in the 80's yet didn't notice or weren't told of the racial unrest in many cities at that time, riots in Handsworth, Brixton, Toxteth, Moss Side, Chapeltown? Thatcher's Britain was not a nice place for people of colour. I was lucky in many ways in that I didn't grow up in an inner city 'ethnic' enclave where the police hassled people with impunity. I grew up in a white middle-class environment with a father who just happened to be a black Jamaican. I escaped the worst abuse as a kid in the rural West of England, though teachers resented me because I was generally brighter than the white kids around me, they wanted me to excel only at sports. Things changed when my family relocated to industrial West Yorkshire. We lived in an all-white town near Leeds and the level of ignorance and racism from the kids was through the roof. Teachers were generally indifferent and did nothing to stop it. i think the drift to the right in many countries has allowed the venomous resentment of racists who previously tried to hide their true feelings to spring to the surface. Brexit idiots like Farrage and the goons in government would seem to confirm that. I've lived in Japan for a long time, xenophobia is deeply embedded in this society and the country is run by people who would have been imprisoned under the de-nazification that occurred in Europe after the war. It often amuses me when I see white people here complain when they've been discriminated against (as sometimes happens), forgetting that they largely benefited from racial bias back in their homeland. Different when the boot's on the other foot.

@@kieronjohnson8834 I came to live here in the 90's, only visited in the 80's as a young teenager. At the time I thought it was great how people of different races seemed to get on well with each other, but I probably didn't see the whole picture as I was not living here then and was only in my early teens. I heard about the racial unrest once I came to live in the UK as I was living in Handsworth/Birmingham then, it wasn't a nice place then either and it still isn't. Asians hate Asians of different religions, black people and Asians hate each other - it's terrible. It's still a very rundown area or at least it was still when I last saw it in 2014. The stupidity I encountered at the Home Office is something that I have experienced everywhere in the UK and it's shocking, I have lived in several countries and nowhere have I encountered the level of stupidity I come across here on a daily basis! In any other country, people who are so incompetent would long have been fired and would in fact be unemployable! Here it's the other way round - I'm unemployable because I'm not stupid enough! No joke - unfortunately that's very much the case! I have thought this through and have wondered whether I might have it easier just pretending that I'm of low intelligence (my reasoning being, I get treated as if I were stupid anyway so why not keep them happy and pretend to indeed be retarded) - but it's far more difficult to do than one thinks! How can I for example pretend to be of very low intelligence when the way I speak alone gives away that I'm not uneducated? How should I react when people speak to me in baby language and say things like "I won't explain that to you because you wouldn't understand it anyway" - while at the same time it's them that don't understand simple sentences in English even though they are native English speakers? I could write a book full of examples of such experiences! Very true what you say about the Brexit goons. I've heard it from so many people now since this whole Brexit palaver started - "we voted for Brexit to get rid of people like you", "enjoy the flight home" and "go home"! I've heard from European nationals that got chased down the road and told to "go home"! I've heard of Muslim businesses getting vandalized! I know there are a lot of very serious problems with members of a certain ideology being above the law in the UK (I've experienced that myself as the victim of this bias as members of this ideology get actively protected to the extreme by police, so much so that I the victim got hounded by police) and white people now suffering active disadvantages and downright racism from the government, but attacking people is surely not the way forward and neither is blind hatred towards anyone who is not white! Sadly this is what we got now. A renewed race riot is not far off. As for Brexit by the way - they'll soon complain when basic workers' rights get done away with because such rights as minimum wages, paid annual leave, a welfare benefits system, data protection, the Human Rights Act etc are all in existence purely thanks to the EU! I know about Japan, never been there but yes, it's well known that they hate anyone who is not Japanese. A lot of folks who go to work or study there find it shocking and regret going there. Japan has a fascinating culture but a lot of problems with prejudice. By the way, I gotta laugh when I always hear white people say that foreigners don't integrate - when it's British people who immigrate to Spain, Egypt etc and refuse to learn the local language and only socialize with each other! Oh the irony...

@@LittleKitty22 You are mistaken about the welfare benefits system! It came into being in the 1940's, long before the EU even existed! Further to this, the British dairy farming and fishing industries have been decimated by our membership of the EU and I can assure you that is the main reason a lot of people (especially in my part of the country) voted to leave! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/alevelstudies/1940-origins-welfare-state.htm A little light reading, none of which has any connection with the EU.

Quite agree. Leonard Rossitor : brilliant as the miserly landlord. I can't quite place the accent in the character.

@@helencampbell2064 he was from Liverpool. There’s a bit of Scouse in there.

@@Guapito1973 Thank you. Yes, just read 📚Leonard Rossiter's Wikipedia and he was indeed born in Liverpool. Although his Rigsby character seemed to have a bit of a Yorkshire accent. Actors are often required to speak in an accent completely different from their own.

I don’t think he was under rated, he was a very much respected actor/comedian of the time. He is still remembered today with great admiration. He was in 2 of the most popular comedy’s of the time and also great on stage.

@@vc23 never underrated,

Such a silly word this underrated when talking about a national classic.

@@irishking1414 Hey i agree , but he never got the same recognition as others around at the time .

Rigsby is who he is 😊 the same as everyone else xxxx

There was only me and my dad. Kelly Brook never bloody turned up

it's buff

I know how he feels

I think it's mainly to do with shared cultural references that everyone understood, which makes jokes easier to understand. Now, we are culturally and ethnically fragmented as a nation, so we don't have these shared references to joke about.

Sometimes you're better off speaking to the cat or even the wall.

@@Londonfogey you are absolutely right......speaking as Irish born and raised, we could still pick up on the references.

Love his voice

As the girl sits there smirking, allowing Rigsby to dig his own grave, pmsl. The writers back then were so so talented, and the acting was just a joy to behold.

Spot on .

Yet the joke is ALWAYS against the whites................ISNT THAT RACIST ?

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Qwhite right Karen!

jungle juice

Nor me!

Can't wait for someone to invent a pen an paper

@@billyclark7079 Rossiter would have no use for them now. Hes dead.

Stage experience.

I make jokes about whatever the hell I like. For example: They say romance is dead which is why I became a necrophiliac

@@SamuelBlack84 that's fuckin dead "boring"

When you could have a laugh.....full stop