Eddie Braben

Now watching the whole of Morecambe and Wise... long periods of, oh, really? Followed by short bursts of genius.

There's a lot of Morecambe and Wise, even the sort of the Ernest Maxim, the Eddie Braben stuff.

You watch the whole episodes and there's a lot to laugh at, but there's a lot that's like, yeah, okay.

There's a lot of fairly pedestrian stuff in there.

Yes, I was getting confused because the Gary Morecambe find was...

the only missing episode from the Eddie Braben years.

Right, okay.

So it's a different series.

They inserted themselves into the shows quite a lot, even though they couldn't act.

It's all a bit odd.

But people who tell you that there was none of what we think of as the prime Morgan Wise in that era, that Eddie Braben invented all of it, the relationship between the two, it's it's not true it's mostly there the main thing he did was soften was give eddie eddie ernie a character eric was eric you couldn't really do much to tame him but ernie sort of played us in the old days played a straight man like a sort of from the american double x abbott and stello sort of he played a sort of uptight straight man until eddie braven came along and made him A different sort of love-all idiot, I think.

Yeah.

He always did.

Um, the sad thing was Doddy, all Doddy's stuff was written by Eddie Braben, and he didn't ...

He short-changed Eddie, sadly, over that.

Yeah.

And he, in that moment, won Comedy Writer of the Year for the next three or four years.

Yeah, yeah.

And Eddie Braben was very, very funny.

Yeah.