Eric and Ernie, Morcambe and Wise to the world, were to British comedy what Garry Moore and Durwood Kirby were to American television, or perhaps better, Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore were to American radio comedy. Not spectacular, but very, very good comedian hosted variety-shows. The did great skit humor (not in the vein of Monty Python, but more like a quiet version of Sid Caesar during his Show of Show days... well- scripted and well acted situational comedy skits; their humor is better visible than audible, but so little of their material has been saved, anything's better than nothing. Many years ago I lived for a considerable time in British Commonwealth countries outside of the UK, primarily Hong Kong and Bangladesh (even though many were British educated or British trained in their native Hong Kong or Bangladesh, they were as diverse in everything you could imagine except for respect and appreciation about the Brits they worked or trained with. If you watched nothing else on televion in either place, you watched Yes, Minister (later Yes, Prime Minister), and Morecambe and Wise. And if you didn't, you didn't know what everyone else was talking about the next morning. Highly recommended if for no other reason than (as a whole), excellent British comedy and so little Morecambe and Wise available. One of the all-time British Comedy Greats XMinusOne 2008-05-21 03:07:07 2008-05-21 03:07:07 4 1 4.00