Morecambe & Wise - Tribute Site

Eric & Ernie had many repeated visual gags - Here are just a few

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Eric suddenly catching sight of a camera and smiling into it. - above press the play button to watch.

Eric dressed in an overcoat and cloth cap and carrying a shopping bag.

Eric affectionately slapping Ernie's cheeks.

Wise's hair supposedly being a wig.

Eric getting strangled behind the curtain.

Eric deliberately making his glasses wonky and/or upside down.

Eric pretending to bully people, usually the star guest, by grabbing them by the collar and pulling them to his face.

Eric reading a kids comic, eating crisps, smoking a pipe etc.

Ernie appearing on stage and Eric joining him from behind the stage curtain but being unable to find the opening and then trying to fight his way out.

The duo's dance at the end of each show, which would see them exiting the stage by skipping and putting alternate hands behind their heads and backs.

Fake title sequences for Ernie 's plays which satirised current events or popular personalities of the time.

Visual jokes about Luton Town F.C., a football club of which Eric was a director.

Eric's prop - be it a mop, cuffs, a cane or trousers - getting progressively longer during dance sequences. Often, it got so long it became ridiculous (more laughs!), such as when his cane had reached such a length, he knocked Glenda Jackson from the stage.

Eric would throw a pretend ball in the air and catch it in a real paper bag, watching the invisible ball during its supposed flight and making a sound as though the ball had landed in the bag.

Eric putting a paper cup over his mouth and nose and performing a brief impersonation of Jimmy Durante; 'Sitting at my pianna the udder day ...'

Eric pretending that somebody had pinched his bottom.