Now I am giving my age away. My mother took me to see them at the Pavilion theatre in Glasgow when I was very [honestly] little. Loved them then. Still love them now.

Without KZfaq most of us would never have heard of them let alone see them. They were great.

This is what You Tube should be about.Absolutely brilliant film of one of the greatest of all music hall acts.It doesn't get much better than this.

Comedy genius! I'm not sure how the tap-dancing Gandhi would be received by a modern audience but the whole routine is peerless. The best speciality act ever.

My dad god rest his soul always used to speak about wilson keppel and Betty I'm 67 now but knew about them since I was a kid and being an avid follower of film. Stage and theatre I learnt about many stage acts going back to vaudeville times

a genius act. Thank goodness for KZfaq, so that we can discover this kind of thing.

the best speciality act of all time

This is an example of REAL 'celebrity'......................back in the days when it had to be EARNED (and required something called 'Talent').

My Dad took me to see them when I was very, very little. They were in colour back then. They tickled my funny bone and still do, over the sands of time. Betty did a dance with her back to the audience but wearing a face mask on the back of her head which was a strange and funny illusion as her limbs and joints all appeared to work back to front.

Timeless and utterly brilliant !!

My God: better backdrops, a camel or two, snake charmer, a flying carpet, jugglers and a 20 minute act! Killer.

No television exposure in those days. Every cabaret act would travel around the UK performing the same act, week in, week out. By the time they would get back to the first venue, the paying public would have forgotten what they saw previously, so the act could continue as was. Nice work if you can get it. As a young lad, I used to enjoy my occasional visits to Swansea's Empire Theatre , which was part of The Moss Empire. Saw Wilson, Keppel and Betty, so this video is a trip down memory lane. Thanks.

Wonderful to see that people still are alive who saw them! I got to know about these amazing entertainers via a Swedish blog Stupido library, I am forever grateful!

Now this is what you call real comedy gold, Thanks for sharing

I have always loved Wilson, Keppel and Betty but I have no idea why. But that Betty taps like a machine gun, amazing.

the story of the Betty's is amazing, the original one became a war correspondent in WWII. Her daughter took over the role, and in the video of her on YT, if you look carefully you can see she has one arm she does not use. It was damaged by a bad surgeon when it was cut badly. It was never able to be repaired, even though one of the group...spent much money and time trying to help her. The other was more focused on the act, and the incredible need to remain THIN as possible!

How wonderful!! That has taken me back to my childhood and I am in my seventies now.❤

absolutaly brilliant love these guys

Спасибо за возможность увидеть это замечательное видео!!!

thank you very much. I remember watching the three artists performing. outside cinema's in the west end of London before the 1939-45 war!!! sometimes the acts were better outside , well I were only a little lad, so what did I know. memories. Tony

Merci KZfaq de me faire découvrir des pépites.

Absolutely brilliant. So, so funny.

Superb entertainment, blazing talent! Oh, to have seen it live!

I think there was something intangable yet truely very valuable in our past that we have simply thrown away. And in throwing this away, we have come to value each other less. I don't think young people will understand this, but people above a certain age most assureadely will. 😥

Watching this 90 tears later. Incredible!

Superb. My father was a big fan, now my 8 year old is trying to emulate this - he'll need a lot more practice...

Absolutely brilliant I never tire of watching them.

I must watch the sand dance almost every night! I just find it so amusing.

Wow! Brilliant act. Incredible talent that has endured and has influenced others. I recognize Morcome & Wise in parts of the sand dance.

My grandfather used to take me to the chiswick empire when I was a young boy and I was lucky to see a lot of artists performing one of the things I remember is they had a stand to the side with the number of the act that would be next so long ago one of my favourite was old mother riley which I saw at the kings theatre Hammersmith

Thanks for the posting, a few yeas ago there were only scraps surviving of this very famous UK Variety Act, now many have surfaced , thank goodness, and this must be the rarest film of the great comedy dance act, giving some extras over the Sand Dance routine that they always did as part of "Cleopatra's Nightmare", the full act name. Stephen.

clips of W & K are a rarity. even rarer are the ones with Betty, of whom there were several over the years.

I have never seen a moustacheless version before thank you.

C'est formidable. Merci pour le partage !

i grew up watching this , its still as good thank you for the post

I always loved the sand dance ,still makes me smile

Absolutely marvellous thank you so much.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

That was just priceless and it will take days to wipe the smile oo

SINCE I WAS A CHILD I wanted to know HOW did Old Egyptians WALK, and now I can die in peace bc finally I know!!! My schooling played out in Yugoslavia. Whenever a school subject "History" started its new "From the Beginning" round - every 4 years, in Art School & Academy every 2 - all schoolmates played "Let's walk like Old Egyptians" game, over and over again! Although half of my school used to walk around in Two-dimensional-Old-Egyptian-Style, I was never completely satisfied. 3D picture we were creating with our bodies just wasn't allive. I was missing something, some importaint component was escaping me, slipping out of my focus... for over half a century... I GOT IT Now! It's The SOUND. Sound & Rhythm. It's Old-Egyptian pulse, beat, flow, swing, it's the musical phrase of their walk. Wilson & Keppel, Thank You! Thank You from the bottom of my heart.

Great stuff. Just clicked on this after watching Frank Skinners BBC program about music halls.

Quality, we need this on BGT with the star wars stormtroopers though the original performers will be hard to beat

I would not have known of these talents without you tube.

Thanks for the link.

A must see at The Empire, Leicester Square in the 50’s....

I remember seeing these two when I was a child with my mum and dad. They would be dancing outside the Empire Leicester square in London . My dad especially would roll up at them.

Wonderful!

Wonderful!!

This goes into my collection of much watched favorites, along with Laurel and Hardy's Way Out West softshoe/minuet.

In the opening number, Betty dances to "In a Persian Market," by Albert Ketèlbey.

Посмотрела раз 20 ,не могу насмотреться! Это супер, магия просто!

I'm just reading about them now...& how the final Betty bought a VW Splitscreen minibus & she drove Jack & Joe & all the props across Europe touring the act in the latter years...!

The very best comedy of all time!!!

Thank you 'Toast of London' for bringing me here.

A tribute group at the Mayfair Theater in Santa Monica would bring the house down at 9:30 on a Friday night. Hysterical.

Brilliant!❤

Superb.

Music= In a Persian Market. by Albert W. Ketelbey.

Thanks for posting, not known to me! But wonderful stuff?

pure genius from a better time,,,

Fantastic! If only modern 'entertainers' had even a small percentage of these people's talent and hard work..........

Got sound now,,! Thanks,,,!

Betty Knox became a journalist and reported on the Nüremburg trials.

I saw them at the Chatham Empire as a child

Сколько раз вижу, балдею от Египтян!!!!

And now I can’t get the Persian Market song out of my mind. Damn you!🤣👍

GENIUSES!

I saw them at the Bristol Hippodrome in the 1950s. Great fun.

Never seen so much of Betty!

Great to watch. Thanks for sharing it! Do you know if the film is available on dvd? I would love to see the whole thing.

Put them on America's Got Talent and that fool Simon Cowell would send them home!

I'm addicted to W-K and Betty!

Brilliant

Bravo👏👏👏

Watch this with sound muted while listening to 'Jelly Dancers' by The Eels. You'll die laughing!

I watched them at the Hume Hippodrome, Manchester in the late 40s

Esto lo bailábamos en los festivales del cole.

So this is what life was iike before KZfaq... I had often wondered, now I know.

Any chance of posting this marvellous clip in better quality

Какая прелесть, можно вечно смотреть🔥😍

I invariably get the the feeling that tap/clog dancers are making it up as they go along ... till I see two together > 2:45 :-)

Some of the best dancers I have ever seen. Eat your heart out Astaire. The co-ordination is unbelievable.

I know of them thanks to Morecambe and Wise

This either proves time travel or some people can live for centuries. Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Chuckle brothers.

weee go girl

That was the original Betty - she left the act in 1941 to become a war correspondent

Mesmeric. I forgot to swallow for 5 minutes. Luckily breathing is automatic.

Très bien cool

Thats when comedy was comedy.....Brilliant.''

I'd much rather watch this, than I would Irish stamp dancing.

The two guys doing the Sand Dance looked just a little creepy

Better than today's rubbish,

the reason why any one from south shields is called a sand dancer !!!!

As a nipper, my parants and friends would speak of WK&B. Some how i remeber thinking of them ad Freeman 4:22 Harding and Willis. A shoe shop!

H'mm I don't think that bit a 1.07 where they seem to be taking the P out of Ghandi is very PC. Mind you that was back in 1934 so I think I will let it go, they still manage to have me in stitches.

They didn't show Paula Abdoul moved to tears.

Ray Purchase sent me.

So where is today's comparable talent? It doesn't exist, sadly ... talent seems to be a non-event these days.

fucking class,!!

Hilarious!

The sand dance is superb but using real sand elevates it to genius! How on earth did they come up with the idea of using sand? Peerless