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	Frequent performers included [[Pat Coombs]], [[Victor Maddern]], [[Deryck Guyler]], [[Roy Kinnear]], [[Joan Sims]] and [[Josephine Tewson]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>		Frequent performers included [[Pat Coombs]], [[Victor Maddern]], [[Deryck Guyler]], [[Roy Kinnear]], [[Joan Sims]] and [[Josephine Tewson]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>

	The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[w:David Nobbs\|David Nobbs]] and [[w:Peter Tinniswood\|Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html\|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[w:Selma Diamond\|Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey\|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[w:Lucille Kallen\|Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[w:Harold Pinter\|Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/\|publisher=[[BBC]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[w:Mel Brooks\|Mel Brooks]] and [[w:Mel Tolkin\|Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[w:Your Show of Shows\|Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[w:Sid Caesar\|Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[w:NBC\|NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>		The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[w:David Nobbs\|David Nobbs]] and [[w:Peter Tinniswood\|Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html\|publisher=[[w:British Film Institute\|British Film Institute]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[w:Selma Diamond\|Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey\|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[w:Lucille Kallen\|Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[w:Harold Pinter\|Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/\|publisher=[[w:BBC\|BBC]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[w:Mel Brooks\|Mel Brooks]] and [[w:Mel Tolkin\|Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[w:Your Show of Shows\|Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[w:Sid Caesar\|Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[w:NBC\|NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>

	Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[w:Camp (style)\|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[w:Judith Butler\|Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book\|author1=Laurel Forster\|author2=Sue Harper\|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125\|date=14 December 2009\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4\|pages=125–}}</ref>		Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[w:Camp (style)\|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[w:Judith Butler\|Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book\|author1=Laurel Forster\|author2=Sue Harper\|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125\|date=14 December 2009\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4\|pages=125–}}</ref>
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	==Vox pops==		==Vox pops==
	Contrived [[w:vox pop\|vox pop]]s with the show's characters were a notable feature; this would later be featured in the shows of [[w:A Bit of Fry & Laurie\|Fry and Laurie]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/500399/index.html\|title=BFI Screenonline: Bit of Fry and Laurie, A (1989-95)\|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> The format was developed by David Cummings and the interviewer was played by [[w:Gordon Clyde\|Gordon Clyde]]. Each character played by Emery would be asked the same question by the interviewer. The vox pops that featured Mandy, a 'very friendly blonde bombshell', would end with her perceiving a [[double entendre]] in the innocuous question of the reporter and then after giving them a 'friendly but over-forceful push' and saying her catchphrase, "Ooh, you are awful, but I like you".<ref name='BBCDE'/> The popularity of Mandy's catchphrase would see it included in the ''[[w:The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations\|Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations\|]]'', described as 'Mandy's habitual protest'.<ref name="Knowles2007">{{cite book\|author=Elizabeth Knowles\|title=Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjLTsncFKCgC&pg=PA60\|date=23 August 2007\|publisher=[[w:Oxford University Press\|]]\|isbn=978-0-19-920895-1\|pages=60–}}</ref>		Contrived [[w:vox pop\|vox pop]]s with the show's characters were a notable feature; this would later be featured in the shows of [[w:A Bit of Fry & Laurie\|Fry and Laurie]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/500399/index.html\|title=BFI Screenonline: Bit of Fry and Laurie, A (1989-95)\|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> The format was developed by David Cummings and the interviewer was played by [[w:Gordon Clyde\|Gordon Clyde]]. Each character played by Emery would be asked the same question by the interviewer. The vox pops that featured Mandy, a 'very friendly blonde bombshell', would end with her perceiving a [[double entendre]] in the innocuous question of the reporter and then after giving them a 'friendly but over-forceful push' and saying her catchphrase, "Ooh, you are awful, but I like you".<ref name='BBCDE'/> The popularity of Mandy's catchphrase would see it included in the ''[[w:The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations\|Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations\|]]'', described as 'Mandy's habitual protest'.<ref name="Knowles2007">{{cite book\|author=Elizabeth Knowles\|title=Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjLTsncFKCgC&pg=PA60\|date=23 August 2007\|publisher=[[w:Oxford University Press\|Oxford University Press]]\|isbn=978-0-19-920895-1\|pages=60–}}</ref>

	==Home Media==		==Home Media==

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	The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[w:David Nobbs\|David Nobbs]] and [[w:Peter Tinniswood\|Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html\|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[w:Selma Diamond\|Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey\|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[w:Lucille Kallen\|Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[w:Harold Pinter\|Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/\|publisher=[[BBC]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[w:Mel Brooks\|Mel Brooks]] and [[w:Mel Tolkin\|Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[w:Your Show of Shows\|Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[w:Sid Caesar\|Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[w:NBC\|NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>		The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[w:David Nobbs\|David Nobbs]] and [[w:Peter Tinniswood\|Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html\|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[w:Selma Diamond\|Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey\|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[w:Lucille Kallen\|Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[w:Harold Pinter\|Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/\|publisher=[[BBC]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[w:Mel Brooks\|Mel Brooks]] and [[w:Mel Tolkin\|Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[w:Your Show of Shows\|Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[w:Sid Caesar\|Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[w:NBC\|NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>

	The show became anachronistic with the advent of the 1980s, being perceived as homophobic, racist, and sexist{{Citation needed\|reason=Hardly. In the early 80s it was no different to The Benny Hill Show. Possibly a retrospective comment?\|date=May 2022}}. In an appraisal of ''The Dick Emery Show'' the BBC wrote that none of the show's sketches would 'seem out of place' on the 2000's BBC sketch show ''[[w:Little Britain\|Little Britain]]''.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>

	Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[w:Camp (style)\|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[w:Judith Butler\|Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book\|author1=Laurel Forster\|author2=Sue Harper\|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125\|date=14 December 2009\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4\|pages=125–}}</ref>		Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[w:Camp (style)\|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[w:Judith Butler\|Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book\|author1=Laurel Forster\|author2=Sue Harper\|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125\|date=14 December 2009\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4\|pages=125–}}</ref>

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{{Infobox television
| image = The_Dick_Emery_Show.jpg
| caption = The Dick Emery Show opening title sequence.
| runtime = 25–50 minutes<ref name="BBC Comedy"/>
| creator = David Cummings
| starring = [[Dick Emery]] [[Pat Coombs]] [[Deryck Guyler]] [[Roy Kinnear]] [[Joan Sims]] [[Josephine Tewson]] [[Arthur English]]
| country = United Kingdom
| company = [[BBC]]<ref name="BBC Comedy"/>
| distributor = [[BBC Worldwide]] [[2entertain]] [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] (Australia, home video)
| network = [[BBC One|BBC1]] (1963-64, 1969-81) [[BBC Two|BBC2]] (1965-67) <ref name="BBC Comedy"/>
| picture_format = [[405-line]] [[Black-and-white]] (1963–67) [[625-line]] Black-and-white (1968-1969) 625-line [[PAL]] (1970–1981)<ref name="BBC Comedy"/>
| audio_format = [[Monaural|Mono]]
| num_series = 19<ref name="BBC Comedy"/>
| num_episodes = 166<ref name="BBC Comedy"/>(85 missing)
| first_aired = {{start date|1963|7|13|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1981|2|7|df=y}}<ref name="BBC Comedy"/>
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'''''The Dick Emery Show''''' is a British sketch comedy show starring [[Dick Emery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8958285d|title=The Dick Emery Show[04/12/64] (1964)|website=BFI}}</ref> It was broadcast on the [[BBC]] from 1963 to 1981.<ref name="BBC Comedy">{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/d/dickemeryshowthe_7772490.shtml|title=The Dick Emery Show|date=2 December 2003|work=BBC Comedy Guide|access-date=24 November 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040426090831/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/d/dickemeryshowthe_7772490.shtml|archive-date=26 April 2004|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name='BFI'/> It was directed and produced by [[Harold Snoad]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f8801bc|title=Harold Snoad|website=BFI}}</ref> The show was broadcast over 19 series with 166 episodes.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'/> The show experienced sustained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. The BBC described the show as featuring 'a vivid cast of comic grotesques'.<ref name='BBCDE'/>

Frequent performers included [[Pat Coombs]], [[Victor Maddern]], [[Deryck Guyler]], [[Roy Kinnear]], [[Joan Sims]] and [[Josephine Tewson]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>

The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[David Nobbs]] and [[Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web|title=The Dick Emery Show|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web|title=The Dick Emery Show|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[Mel Brooks]] and [[Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>

The show became anachronistic with the advent of the 1980s, being perceived as homophobic, racist, and sexist{{Citation needed|reason=Hardly. In the early 80s it was no different to The Benny Hill Show. Possibly a retrospective comment?|date=May 2022}}. In an appraisal of ''The Dick Emery Show'' the BBC wrote that none of the show's sketches would 'seem out of place' on the 2000's BBC sketch show ''[[Little Britain]]''.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>

Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[Camp (style)|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book|author1=Laurel Forster|author2=Sue Harper|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125|date=14 December 2009|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4|pages=125–}}</ref>

Out-takes of [[corpsing]] from the series were subsequently included in the show in a section called 'The Comedy of Errors'.<ref name='BFI'/>

==Characters==
Characters portrayed by Emery included: ''Bovver Boy'', a hapless [[skinhead]] whose father was played by [[Roy Kinnear]]; the [[camp (style)|camp]] and cheerful ''Clarence''; [[First World War]] veteran ''Lampwick''; and ''Mandy'', a 'very friendly' middle-aged [[Blonde bombshell (stereotype)|blonde bombshell]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref name="ForsterHarper2009"/> Some other characters were ''College'' (an intellectual [[tramp]]); the 'menopausal would-be-maneater' ''Hetty''; and ''Ton-up Boy'', the biker.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'/>
Hetty and Mandy were both played by Emery in [[Drag (clothing)|drag]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref name="BBC Comedy"/>

==Vox pops==
Contrived [[vox pop]]s with the show's characters were a notable feature; this would later be featured in the shows of [[A Bit of Fry & Laurie|Fry and Laurie]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/500399/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Bit of Fry and Laurie, A (1989-95)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> The format was developed by David Cummings and the interviewer was played by [[Gordon Clyde]]. Each character played by Emery would be asked the same question by the interviewer. The vox pops that featured Mandy, a 'very friendly blonde bombshell', would end with her perceiving a [[double entendre]] in the innocuous question of the reporter and then after giving them a 'friendly but over-forceful push' and saying her catchphrase, "Ooh, you are awful, but I like you".<ref name='BBCDE'/> The popularity of Mandy's catchphrase would see it included in the ''[[The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations|Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations]]'', described as 'Mandy's habitual protest'.<ref name="Knowles2007">{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Knowles|title=Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjLTsncFKCgC&pg=PA60|date=23 August 2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-920895-1|pages=60–}}</ref>

==Home Media==
An 85 minute compilation titled ''Comedy Greats: Dick Emery'' containing the very best sketches from ''The Dick Emery Show'' was released on UK PAL VHS by BBC Video on 11 October 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comedy-Greats-Dick-Emery-VHS/dp/B00004CZSL|title=Comedy Greats:Dick Emery [VHS]|work=[[Amazon.com|Amazon.co.uk]]|date=11 October 1999|accessdate=24 November 2011}}</ref>

This was re-released on Region 2 DVD on 11 July 2005 by 2 Entertain Video BBC Studios titled: ''The Best of Dick Emery''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Dick-Emery-DVD/dp/B0009WL8P0|title=The Best of Dick Emery [DVD[|work=[[Amazon.com|Amazon.co.uk]]|date=11 July 2005|accessdate=24 November 2021}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0056749}}
*{{Screenonline TV title|1192094}}

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	The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[w:David Nobbs\|David Nobbs]] and [[w:Peter Tinniswood\|Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html\|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[w:Selma Diamond\|Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey\|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[w:Lucille Kallen\|Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[w:Harold Pinter\|Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/\|publisher=[[BBC]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[w:Mel Brooks\|Mel Brooks]] and [[w:Mel Tolkin\|Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[w:Your Show of Shows\|Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[w:Sid Caesar\|Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[w:NBC\|NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>		The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[w:David Nobbs\|David Nobbs]] and [[w:Peter Tinniswood\|Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html\|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[w:Selma Diamond\|Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey\|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[w:Lucille Kallen\|Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[w:Harold Pinter\|Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/\|publisher=[[BBC]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[w:Mel Brooks\|Mel Brooks]] and [[w:Mel Tolkin\|Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[w:Your Show of Shows\|Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[w:Sid Caesar\|Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[w:NBC\|NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>

	The show became anachronistic with the advent of the 1980s, being perceived as homophobic, racist, and sexist{{Citation needed\|reason=Hardly. In the early 80s it was no different to The Benny Hill Show. Possibly a retrospective comment?\|date=May 2022}}. In an appraisal of ''The Dick Emery Show'' the BBC wrote that none of the show's sketches would 'seem out of place' on the 2000's BBC sketch show ''[[w:Little Britain\|Little Britain]]''.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>

	Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[w:Camp (style)\|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[w:Judith Butler\|Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book\|author1=Laurel Forster\|author2=Sue Harper\|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125\|date=14 December 2009\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4\|pages=125–}}</ref>		Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[w:Camp (style)\|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[w:Judith Butler\|Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book\|author1=Laurel Forster\|author2=Sue Harper\|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125\|date=14 December 2009\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4\|pages=125–}}</ref>

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	'''''The Dick Emery Show''''' is a British sketch comedy show starring [[Dick Emery]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8958285d\|title=The Dick Emery Show[04/12/64] (1964)\|website=BFI}}</ref> It was broadcast on the [[BBC]] from 1963 to 1981.<ref name="BBC Comedy">{{Cite news\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/d/dickemeryshowthe_7772490.shtml\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|date=2 December 2003\|work=BBC Comedy Guide\|access-date=24 November 2021\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040426090831/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/d/dickemeryshowthe_7772490.shtml\|archive-date=26 April 2004\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name='BFI'/> It was directed and produced by [[Harold Snoad]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f8801bc\|title=Harold Snoad\|website=BFI}}</ref> The show was broadcast over 19 series with 166 episodes.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'/> The show experienced sustained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. The BBC described the show as featuring 'a vivid cast of comic grotesques'.<ref name='BBCDE'/>		'''''The Dick Emery Show''''' is a British sketch comedy show starring [[Dick Emery]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8958285d\|title=The Dick Emery Show[04/12/64] (1964)\|website=BFI}}</ref> It was broadcast on the [[w:BBC\|BBC]] from 1963 to 1981.<ref name="BBC Comedy">{{Cite news\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/d/dickemeryshowthe_7772490.shtml\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|date=2 December 2003\|work=BBC Comedy Guide\|access-date=24 November 2021\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040426090831/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/d/dickemeryshowthe_7772490.shtml\|archive-date=26 April 2004\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name='BFI'/> It was directed and produced by [[w:Harold Snoad\|Harold Snoad]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f8801bc\|title=Harold Snoad\|website=BFI}}</ref> The show was broadcast over 19 series with 166 episodes.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'/> The show experienced sustained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. The BBC described the show as featuring 'a vivid cast of comic grotesques'.<ref name='BBCDE'/>

	Frequent performers included [[Pat Coombs]], [[Victor Maddern]], [[Deryck Guyler]], [[Roy Kinnear]], [[Joan Sims]] and [[Josephine Tewson]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>		Frequent performers included [[Pat Coombs]], [[Victor Maddern]], [[Deryck Guyler]], [[Roy Kinnear]], [[Joan Sims]] and [[Josephine Tewson]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>

	The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[David Nobbs]] and [[Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html\|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey\|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/\|publisher=[[BBC]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[Mel Brooks]] and [[Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>		The principal writers of the programme were David Cummings, John Singer, and John Warren. Additional contributions were by [[w:David Nobbs\|David Nobbs]] and [[w:Peter Tinniswood\|Peter Tinniswood]].<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1192094/index.html\|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> Other writers included [[Dick Clement]], [[Barry Cryer]], [[w:Selma Diamond\|Selma Diamond]], [[Esmonde and Larbey\|John Esmonde]], [[Marty Feldman]], [[w:Lucille Kallen\|Lucille Kallen]], [[Bob Larbey]] and [[w:Harold Pinter\|Harold Pinter]].<ref name='BBCDE'>{{cite web\|title=The Dick Emery Show\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/dickemeryshow/\|publisher=[[BBC]]\|accessdate=3 August 2020}}</ref> The American comedy writers [[w:Mel Brooks\|Mel Brooks]] and [[w:Mel Tolkin\|Mel Tolkin]] contributed sketches in the early years of the show.<ref name='BFI'/> The nature of the show with its rapid sketches was initially inspired by the American sketch show ''[[w:Your Show of Shows\|Your Show of Shows]]'' starring [[w:Sid Caesar\|Sid Caesar]] that was broadcast between 1950 and 1954 on [[w:NBC\|NBC]].<ref name='BBCDE'/> Emery later developed his own characters for sketches.<ref name='BBCDE'/>

	The show became anachronistic with the advent of the 1980s, being perceived as homophobic, racist, and sexist{{Citation needed\|reason=Hardly. In the early 80s it was no different to The Benny Hill Show. Possibly a retrospective comment?\|date=May 2022}}. In an appraisal of ''The Dick Emery Show'' the BBC wrote that none of the show's sketches would 'seem out of place' on the 2000's BBC sketch show ''[[Little Britain]]''.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>		The show became anachronistic with the advent of the 1980s, being perceived as homophobic, racist, and sexist{{Citation needed\|reason=Hardly. In the early 80s it was no different to The Benny Hill Show. Possibly a retrospective comment?\|date=May 2022}}. In an appraisal of ''The Dick Emery Show'' the BBC wrote that none of the show's sketches would 'seem out of place' on the 2000's BBC sketch show ''[[w:Little Britain\|Little Britain]]''.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BBCDE'/>

	Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[Camp (style)\|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book\|author1=Laurel Forster\|author2=Sue Harper\|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125\|date=14 December 2009\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4\|pages=125–}}</ref>		Peri Bradley critiqued the show in the chapter "The Politics of Camp" in ''British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade''. Bradley examined how [[w:Camp (style)\|camp]] could "operate as a political and liberating force" in the 1970s; and felt that Emery's characters "comprised representations [which] instigated" a "transformation of consciousness" as described by the gender theorist [[w:Judith Butler\|Judith Butler]].<ref name="ForsterHarper2009">{{cite book\|author1=Laurel Forster\|author2=Sue Harper\|title=British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smakBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125\|date=14 December 2009\|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing\|isbn=978-1-4438-1838-4\|pages=125–}}</ref>

	Out-takes of [[corpsing]] from the series were subsequently included in the show in a section called 'The Comedy of Errors'.<ref name='BFI'/>		Out-takes of [[w:corpsing\|corpsing]] from the series were subsequently included in the show in a section called 'The Comedy of Errors'.<ref name='BFI'/>

	==Characters==		==Characters==
	Characters portrayed by Emery included: ''Bovver Boy'', a hapless [[skinhead]] whose father was played by [[Roy Kinnear]]; the [[camp (style)\|camp]] and cheerful ''Clarence''; [[First World War]] veteran ''Lampwick''; and ''Mandy'', a 'very friendly' middle-aged [[Blonde bombshell (stereotype)\|blonde bombshell]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref name="ForsterHarper2009"/> Some other characters were ''College'' (an intellectual [[tramp]]); the 'menopausal would-be-maneater' ''Hetty''; and ''Ton-up Boy'', the biker.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'/>		Characters portrayed by Emery included: ''Bovver Boy'', a hapless [[w:skinhead\|skinhead]] whose father was played by [[Roy Kinnear]]; the [[camp (style)\|camp]] and cheerful ''Clarence''; [[w:First World War\|First World War]] veteran ''Lampwick''; and ''Mandy'', a 'very friendly' middle-aged [[w:Blonde bombshell (stereotype)\|blonde bombshell]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref name="ForsterHarper2009"/> Some other characters were ''College'' (an intellectual [[w:tramp\|tramp]]); the 'menopausal would-be-maneater' ''Hetty''; and ''Ton-up Boy'', the biker.<ref name="BBC Comedy"/><ref name='BFI'/>
	Hetty and Mandy were both played by Emery in [[Drag (clothing)\|drag]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref name="BBC Comedy"/>		Hetty and Mandy were both played by Emery in [[w:Drag (clothing)\|drag]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref name="BBC Comedy"/>

	==Vox pops==		==Vox pops==
	Contrived [[vox pop]]s with the show's characters were a notable feature; this would later be featured in the shows of [[A Bit of Fry & Laurie\|Fry and Laurie]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/500399/index.html\|title=BFI Screenonline: Bit of Fry and Laurie, A (1989-95)\|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> The format was developed by David Cummings and the interviewer was played by [[Gordon Clyde]]. Each character played by Emery would be asked the same question by the interviewer. The vox pops that featured Mandy, a 'very friendly blonde bombshell', would end with her perceiving a [[double entendre]] in the innocuous question of the reporter and then after giving them a 'friendly but over-forceful push' and saying her catchphrase, "Ooh, you are awful, but I like you".<ref name='BBCDE'/> The popularity of Mandy's catchphrase would see it included in the ''[[The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations\|Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations]]'', described as 'Mandy's habitual protest'.<ref name="Knowles2007">{{cite book\|author=Elizabeth Knowles\|title=Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjLTsncFKCgC&pg=PA60\|date=23 August 2007\|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]\|isbn=978-0-19-920895-1\|pages=60–}}</ref>		Contrived [[w:vox pop\|vox pop]]s with the show's characters were a notable feature; this would later be featured in the shows of [[w:A Bit of Fry & Laurie\|Fry and Laurie]].<ref name='BFI'/><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/500399/index.html\|title=BFI Screenonline: Bit of Fry and Laurie, A (1989-95)\|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> The format was developed by David Cummings and the interviewer was played by [[w:Gordon Clyde\|Gordon Clyde]]. Each character played by Emery would be asked the same question by the interviewer. The vox pops that featured Mandy, a 'very friendly blonde bombshell', would end with her perceiving a [[double entendre]] in the innocuous question of the reporter and then after giving them a 'friendly but over-forceful push' and saying her catchphrase, "Ooh, you are awful, but I like you".<ref name='BBCDE'/> The popularity of Mandy's catchphrase would see it included in the ''[[w:The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations\|Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations\|]]'', described as 'Mandy's habitual protest'.<ref name="Knowles2007">{{cite book\|author=Elizabeth Knowles\|title=Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjLTsncFKCgC&pg=PA60\|date=23 August 2007\|publisher=[[w:Oxford University Press\|]]\|isbn=978-0-19-920895-1\|pages=60–}}</ref>

	==Home Media==		==Home Media==
	An 85 minute compilation titled ''Comedy Greats: Dick Emery'' containing the very best sketches from ''The Dick Emery Show'' was released on UK PAL VHS by BBC Video on 11 October 1999.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comedy-Greats-Dick-Emery-VHS/dp/B00004CZSL\|title=Comedy Greats:Dick Emery [VHS]\|work=[[Amazon.com\|Amazon.co.uk]]\|date=11 October 1999\|accessdate=24 November 2011}}</ref>		An 85 minute compilation titled ''Comedy Greats: Dick Emery'' containing the very best sketches from ''The Dick Emery Show'' was released on UK PAL VHS by BBC Video on 11 October 1999.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comedy-Greats-Dick-Emery-VHS/dp/B00004CZSL\|title=Comedy Greats:Dick Emery [VHS]\|work=[[w:Amazon.com\|Amazon.co.uk]]\|date=11 October 1999\|accessdate=24 November 2011}}</ref>

	This was re-released on Region 2 DVD on 11 July 2005 by 2 Entertain Video BBC Studios titled: ''The Best of Dick Emery''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Dick-Emery-DVD/dp/B0009WL8P0\|title=The Best of Dick Emery [DVD[\|work=[[Amazon.com\|Amazon.co.uk]]\|date=11 July 2005\|accessdate=24 November 2021}}</ref>		This was re-released on Region 2 DVD on 11 July 2005 by 2 Entertain Video BBC Studios titled: ''The Best of Dick Emery''.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Dick-Emery-DVD/dp/B0009WL8P0\|title=The Best of Dick Emery [DVD[\|work=[[w:Amazon.com\|Amazon.co.uk]]\|date=11 July 2005\|accessdate=24 November 2021}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==