BRIAN READE: 'Stop grovelling and back the BBC squaring up to Donald Trump'

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/bbc-trump-sue-panorama-billions-36431292

Is it a good day for Morecambe & Wise?

Trick question, it's always a good day! Elton John ("sounds like a rest stop on the motorway") tries to teach Eric and Ernie to sing a duet in countermelody, from their 1976 BBC Christmas special.

#BritishComedy #EricMorecambe #ErnieWise

Via Dave Hutchinson on Bluesky. A classic Eric Morecombe one liner gag.

15-second video: https://youtu.be/sedG1kBtn1M

#Comedy #EricMorecambe

Eric Morecambe on Ice Cream

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Played two gigs in a very large (for me) venue in Morecambe this weekend. I'm knackered! Please send kittens and heavy slow riffs.

#liveMusic #gigs #morecambe #EricMorecambe #tired

Another favourite image from my 30+ year photographic career. Next in my valedictory miscellany, another celebrity portrait… sort of. This is the Eric Morecambe statue, by Graham Ibbeson, on Morecambe Promenade. I’ve photographed it many times but the young couple made this shot.
#photography #portrait #statue #ericmorecambe

Who knew that I had something in common with Robbie Williams?

Eric Morecambe was my childhood hero too. I was devastated when he died.

I don’t blame Robbie for going all out to buy Eric’s glasses. It’s hard to think of any object (other than his pipe maybe?) that is more quintessentially Eric. What a thrill to have them!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/09/robbie-williams-eric-morecambe-glasses

#EricMorecambe #MorecambeAndWise #RobbieWilliams #glasses #childhoodhero

‘Best of the best’: Robbie Williams buys Eric Morecambe’s glasses for £20,000

Singer says he cried ‘happy, childlike tears’ after placing winning bid on late comedian’s glasses and pipe at auction

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My natural tendancy is to view the looming year of #2025 a bit like... #EricMorecambe

#3goodthings about the #family #holiday #today day 10/14

0. Going to #Morecambe, sad to say not very impressive on a damp Monday, but...

1. #EricMorecambe statue - had to smile.

2. Time in games arcade, much enjoyed by grandchildren. Prize value v. Cost about 1:10, save the football goal game and grandson that saved the day.

3. KFC for lunch, edible, enjoyed by grandchildren, and no Mummy to complain at lack of healthy - the joys of grandparenting 😸

@StarTrekHour @petertrek1

I'd actually go further. This one episode shows all the weaknesses in PRO. It is like a #StarTrek show written by AI. Someone fed Star Trek but For Kids into a chatgp clone, and PRO was what it spat out. All the bits are there, but the way they are arranged are, to quote #EricMorecambe, "playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order". Contrast with LD, and you can see the love and care in it. Not here though.

#StarTrekHour

Eric Morecambe , Ernie Wise and James Hunt - Texaco 2 (1977)

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