The Legacy
For more than twenty years, Dick Emery dominated the TV schedules. The Dick Emery Show regularly pulled in audiences of 20 million, making him one of the giants of British character comedy, until his death in 1983.
Emery's humour is still admired by comic actors such as Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. His catchphrases were legendary - the most memorable being '"Ooh you are awful, but I like you" - and his influence can be seen in "The Lovely Wobbly Randy Old Ladies" played by Kathy Burke and Harry Enfield, with their catch phrase "Ooh, young man!", and in the performances of David Walliams and Matt Lucas in Little Britain.