Mr. Humphries's Gay Moments

[MsMikayla1996]

Mr. Humphries is so cute <3

[covatembel]

But what about the actor who played the Trevor Bannister role for a while? Isn't he still alive? I forget his name. He's in one of these clips.

[lisambofoh]

@covatembel But he wasn't an original.

[ilovefreddykrueger13]

You guys are forgetting Nicholas Smith who played Mr. Rumbold he's still living if I'm not mistaken. RIP John

[Jumpybeaver]

@ilovefreddykrueger13 Yep and surprisingly he was actually a few months younger than Trevor too.

[ilovefreddykrueger13]

@Jumpybeaver Well, Trevor had a heart attack he didn't just die of old age. RIP Trevor!

[Jumpybeaver]

@ilovefreddykrueger13 Yep. D: And Captain Peacock's actor just turned 91 this past Sunday too.

[MsFanmail]

this show is class

[Tabish29]

Wow. Trevor Bannister is gone. RIP Mr Lucas.

[mjdayetube]

With the death of Trevor Bannister, the only one left now is Frank Thornton (the oldest...)

[noyxti1]

hahahaha great opener

[Kidren]

Mr. Humphries the man that taught us all it was ok to be different :).

[jackbuster]

This is Mrs. Slocombe. Can you go to my front door, peek in letterbox, and if you see my pussy, drop a sardine on the mat?

[Animeluvester]

seriously, i come here to gawk at mr humphries cuz he's downright brilliant, and there are a huge amount of posts about gayness and if its right or not. who gives a rats ass what you all think. find something better to do, im gonna watch AYBS.

[loopielupie]

@soowhatsup100 i am a tea party consevative who also happens to be for gay rights. Not ALL republicans are anti-gay!!!!

[rebelraydaniel]

@loopielupie Good to know!

[flapoofeletory]

i like that your hatin on the homophobs. mr. humphries is one of my favorite brittish sitcom stars

[mrfrednoname]

I am going to try out for a part in a local play version of are you being served. Cool.

[CaligirlIzzy]

Love this -ESP the mafia one lol

[Pokemaniacify900]

@sooowatsup100 Think about it. I fully support God, but why would he create something if he hated it. I think that followers of the Lord that are homophobes are actually going against him, as there's no evidence in the bible that he hates homosexuals, but there is evidence that he loves everyone, therefore you obviously are going against "love thy neighbour".

[77darkmagic]

I love this show

[sooowatsup100]

@77darkmagic mr humphries was a goddamn homosexual

[77darkmagic]

@sooowatsup100 so fuckin what it was still funny..get over urself man

[sooowatsup100]

@77darkmagic eh, putting them on tv promotes it.

[77darkmagic]

@sooowatsup100 I'm sorry i don't have a problem with gay people you saying it's on tv promotes is doesn't make any sense to me when i see sex..alcohol,drugs,rape,hate crimes and some of everything else you really want to say what bothers you the most is some gay guy..gay people are the least of your worries in this world

[sooowatsup100]

@77darkmagic not really . . . society accepting homosexuality has led to a liberal acceptance of everything else under the sun. fifty years ago, everybody recognized that gay was just terrible and they felt the same way about drugs and the glorification of violence, but because of the liberals we have to accept everything now . . . from the gays to sex to drugs, etc. stop suppporting gays and the rest will take care of itself.

[77darkmagic]

@sooowatsup100 ok.let's put it this way..it is not my job to tell grown people how to live or who they should have sex with.if i followed you around and told you what to do..who you can sleep with who you can't because i thought it was wrong..you would get annoyed very quickly and most likely tell me to fuck off it's your life..When it comes down to it people have to except YOU for being YOU .Just like anyone you meet that likes you have to except you for being you & if they can't then OH WELL..

[sooowatsup100]

@77darkmagic god tells us how to live and we should follow the lord's way. democrats and liberals have messed with god's plan. you are likely a liberal democrat.

[77darkmagic]

@sooowatsup100 OH your one of THOSE people..yea talking to you is a waste of anyone's time your clearly a Moron

[sooowatsup100]

@77darkmagic then stop responding to me

[spartacus3ful]

Everyone thinks the Brits are so serious and straight laced all the time, but nothing could be further from the truth! They can be as wildly hilarious as the rest of them!

[jaxxstraw]

What a legand, and so sad that he has now passed away.

NIce to see the lovely Candy Davis as well at the end there.

[OutlawRebel117]

R.I.P. John Inman, you were the greatest comic.

[vanessamcqueen11]

Brilliant British comedy. Jon Inman played the best character in this series, he's absolutely hilarious, I love him.

[garethkemp84]

John Inman was a fantastic actor and he is greatly missed - i'm freeeeeeeee!!!

[violetphoenix10]

This show was so funny. I see it on PBS syndication now and the German Week episode made me laugh until I cried. I loved it when Mr. Humphries would answer the phone with a deep voice, saying,"Menswear?"

[Pikminlinkfan23]

You know in the the hold up you could clearly see john inman was trying not to laugh.

[Pikminlinkfan23]

@animallovercom Found it.

[Pikminlinkfan23]

@animallovercom I don't remember too but i'll look it up.

[Pikminlinkfan23]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! At 0:48 what is the episode called?

[smartanu18]

if you do that again i 'll be over to your side.

[sterlingman]

What about the "His and Hers" scene where the male voice-over says "Stand where you are. If you're looking for a real He-man..." LOL

[LordPosho]

i take it Wendy Richards means whoppa as in wop?

[starofwater]

He is bi lol

[DiplodocusRockStar]

Great, now get this smile off my face.

[journeyman2mage]

Mr. Humphrey's flamboyance reminds me of the "flaming" that gays often indulge in as a playful sign of identity--- we love to "flame" in the same proud but laughing spirit that people like Jeff Foxworthy love to tell "redneck jokes"

gays also "flame" as a way of defusing the inevitable traces of homophobia with our friends by turning it into a friendly game

just as Mr. Humphries and Mr. Lucas handle Lucas' mild homophobia by transforming it into risque banter between the two friends

[journeyman2mage]

back when this series first aired in the United States, Mr. Humphries became a favorite character in the U.S. gay scene!

he became the classic "supergay" whose nonconformity gave him license to explore avant garde ideas and live a bon vivant life

to the best of my knowledge, he is still a popular character among gays over the age of 25 years old

some of the politically fragile or desperately conformist ones dislike him, though

[mouseketeery]

Camp actors, characters and personas were LOVED in the 1970s and earlier. They allowed the audience to laugh at some pretty ripe humour whilst being non-aggressive and non-threatening. In a way they were the acceptable face of 'gayness'.

Consider the huge popularity of John Inman, Larry Grayson, Danny LaRue, Dick Emery, Kenneth Williams and Frankie Howerd.

[setta91]

He looks like Julian Assange.

[toastlady16]

love him!

[NoRegretsNot1]

Whats the name of the episode when they got robbed???where mr. humpries dressed like the italian???

[GrahamLondonUK]

@NoRegretsNot1 The 1985 episode is from series 10 and titled "The Hold Up".

[NoRegretsNot1]

@GrahamLondonUK Thank you, thank you!!

[HottBoi90210]

i love Mr. Humphries !!!!!!!!!!!

[dancar567]

What is the episode where the thieves are in the store?

[sisterblique]

@ kevinturvy it's not that he was doing that the time gone by homosexuality was done as quietly and was not in the nations interest there weren't many gay stereotypes on tv so some of us were gals to see him there be it that he is rather camp boys still do it today.

[kevinturvy]

John inman had a very negative effect on homosexuals in the 1970's, i am not gay myself but as a teenager in the 1970's my older brother and his mates used to beat up people who looked and acted like john inman, this was going on all over the country...

Most people saw john inman as someone outing and taking the piss out of gays, portraying them as depraved perverts who are also transvestites, as opposed to normal homosexual men who didnt mince around, limp wristed saying oooo hes a big boy

[kevinturvy]

He portrayed homosexuals as gay little mincing fairy's who wear women's underware and walk around with a limp wrist..

I bet a lot of gays got beaten up due to his negative bizzare stereotype version of a homosexual, He showed them as desperate depraved sexual animals who would shag anything in a pair of trousers... i suppose him and larry grayson didnt have to live in the real world, where gays were beaten up in the streets and had there windows smashed in... no they lived in a world of security

[quarkwrok]

@kevinturvy Do you think your brother and his mates were justified? Do you think camp Dick emery's wanted people to be 'queer bashed'? Only extremists target people and beat them up. normal people liked Mr humphreys sickos didn't. Seems you're got deep seated issues. I'm straight and not camp but it's a shame men are too scared to act camp in case they get beaten up for being soft, being gay or disowned by some stuck up gay people...

[kevinturvy]

@quarkwrok Got to remember back when this was on tv, members of the group Campaign for Homosexual Equality picketed one of his shows in protest as they believed his persona did not help their cause.

There were very few Gay men who watched this show when it was shown, it was embarrassing for them with its constant references to anal sex, sleeping with anything in trousers and suggested they were all transvestites.

Im Not Gay and dont condone attacking Gays, but this show pictured them as vile men

[kevinturvy]

@kevinturvy Cont..

And perverts who were sexually molesting men all the time, it really put them in a negative light, most of those 70's Gay comedy actors like Larry Grayson, Dick Emery etc were just doing it for a laugh.

But they could as they were living in there ivory towers away from the general public, they went out in there limo's to parties with there Lovvies from tv.

They didn't work in a shop or go down the pub and live in a terrace road.

Today's society is more tolerant

[quarkwrok]

@kevinturvy Yes I know there were some pretty anti-Grayson and Inman Gay protestors, doesn't make them right, but not fair to say they or you have issues - sorry for that remark it wasn't nice.

Bottom line is though when Mr. Humphreys is described as something vile and it is assumed the general public loathed him as a figure of fun and patheticness it is a complete misrepresentation of what was going on in the real world.

[quarkwrok]

@quarkwrok Getting a crack fix or looking for someone of a different race or creed to bash up isn't middle Britain but middle Britain gets the flak. I dunno, maybe it was too much pisstaking of the middle of the road and too many middle class grads wanting to appear right on and trendy for their class warfare who should have been tackling the extremists not the trailblazers (I know a few have admitted they were wrong to go after Inman & Grayson).

The thought that camp = vile is disturbing to me

[kevinturvy]

@quarkwrok Yes but the public think that is how all gay men act, they do now because they are copying the way these shows portrayed them..

TV imitates real life and people imitate Tv..

Look at frank spencer, he was A closet homosexual who avoided his wife's advances all the time and would sooner chuck himself out of a window and break both his legs that be forced to sleep with his wife, whom he married only Because she asked him and he was to scared to say no..

[quarkwrok]

@kevinturvy Fair point but this was always the case, and in an earlier era being a bit camp did not mean you were assumed to be gay. Being camp was assumed to be bad (like being a hippy?). This was an era when you could be attacked for being camp, not necessarily for being gay. Stereotyped portrayals were not set in stone and Kenneth Williams was treated better by an older generation. Personally I like camp people and John Inman was funny (and not cos he was camp). Time to let it go.

[BreezesofConey]

@kevinturvy Funny you say this, I acted a lot like Mr. Humphries and I have been gay since 15! I did not learn it from tv. Some I learned it from my peers and the rest was my natural behaviour.

[kevinturvy]

@BreezesofConey So your saying that there is a Homosexual kind of behaviour?

Where your peers drag queen julian clary, charles hawtrey, john inman types...

[TheNeonAngel]

i like the fact that his sexuality was always an indirect thing...not so in your face...

[plcj80]

Is Mr. Humphries the father of Neil Patrick Harris?

[nath909]

That gay guy blacked up? Wtf

[kieran196]

@nath909 No he has not 'blacked up' as such it supposed to be a 'mediteranian' type, you know olive skin.

[coltmanm]

what was he in real life???

[jonwiley]

@coltmanm Yes, I remember reading John Inman was gay in real life, had a longtime companion.

[mrburrfoot]

he was the best. a comic genius and great man. BECAUSE he kept his privet life privet and never tried to push his life style on anyone else. he never bashed hetros. being a bigot IS a two way street

[6672rock]

An absolute comic legend who will be sorely missed! The only actors left from this show still alive are Frank Thornton (Captain Peacock) and Trevor Bannister (Mr. Lucas). Kind of sad the more I think about it. At least those old episodes will always be around to enjoy. Rest in peace John Inman, and thank you for all the laughs and for getting me through some rough times in my life.

[Mst3kfanatic1]

@6672rock and nicholas smith (rumbold) last i checked

[MatteoriteX]

@6672rock

As of one year after your post, Frank Thornton and Nicholas Smith (Mr. Rumbold) are the only ones left alive.

[billygoyboyII]

OMG! The second tough who approaches Mr. Humphries, is definitely the same actor, who plays Malcolm Healthcliff's father, on the short-running, Are You Being Served Again."

[ItachiU29]

"where did they say that they came from?" LOOOL

[redsxncubs23]

thank you england for bringing this to USA!!!!

[mcgeeslover]

He is so funny!!!!

[gathomas47]

Simply brilliant. Mr Humphries you are missed.

[kenfig]

One of the best tv comedies

[drcoxcentral]

I'd be the first to say that he's the best actor to portray so called homosexuality positively. The homosexuality portrayed in the U.S. like Will and Grace or Ugly Betty makes me angry because how cruel and selfish they are portrayed. Honestly Mr. Humphries has to be one of the nicest characters in TV history. Big man crush for him that's for sure and I'm straight!

[Kaffyboy]

I wish they still made shows of this calibre. TV today is absolute shit. This was, and is, a classic!

[eccarter22]

My favorite television of all time. Seriously I love him so much. Thanks for the video.

[misslenny23]

Omg...the episode where they were trying to fend off those thieves...so funny!

[WJFuntingworthIII]

He looks like Colin from Whose Line Is It Anyway but with hair xDD

[chumshot1]

@WJFuntingworthIII XD totally!! I luv both of them <3

[cauthoncrazy]

Which episode is the wrestling from?

[dancebandleader]

Funny Funny funny. My favorite exchange:

PEACOCK; Mr. Humphries, are you free?

HUMPHRIES: No Captain Peacock, I'm changing the prices on these shirts.

PEACOCK: The man wishes to buy a dress.

HUMPHRIES: I'm free !!!

[veshengri]

Oh, please. Of *course* he was gay! They virtually came out and said it! Just watch this one clip again. It's just not proper, and no fun, to come right out and say "by the way he's gay" in so many words. Get a grip. ;)

[musicaorganum]

John Inman was truly great!

[ssg279]

This is sooo funny! I love Are you being served? and he was good in Grace and Favour too.

Thank you lisambofoh for uploading this!

[delores344]

i love this movie

[kara71583]

i"ve got some curtains that color, he is so funny we will miss you W.C.Humphries:(

[celticgurl93]

Dude...Humphies is so hilarious

[kkhwt]

Wendy Richard (Ms. Brahms, may she rest in peace as well) was quoted as saying that Mr. Humphries was never said to be gay; he was just a guy who was very good to his mother!

[Nema30]

And to think this was from the seventies, that's what I call groundbreaking

[tortythetortoise]

what episode is 0:14 from?

[mjhaan]

@tortythetortoise 'Fire Practise' great episode.

[tortythetortoise]

@mjhaan thanks I never saw the ending of that episode

[hyefi]

@tortythetortoise

Fire Practice

[bernardcz92]

Definitely the best character in Are You Being Served?. Mr Humphries is much friendlier than Jack from Will & Grace. But both aren't gay. I saw the all of the series and there are scenes where Mr Humphries shows that he may be bisexual. But apart from all that, he is the funniest and the most pleasant character. Jack of Will & Grace is most of the times quite arrogant and self-centered but still funny.

[rexsteel]

2:09 Luck guy getting kissed by a miss nude world.

[TheSodiumhaze]

Love it!!!!!!!!! Pure class!!!!!!

[Rodom73080]

I love old British tv shows like this one. it is much better than the crap that is on tv today

[ladyvee7110]

This show was way ahead of it's time. Edgy, suggestive humor without being crude. Great comedy.

[RDMinSC]

Some of the best wry satire that was ever written.

John Inman was exceedingly talented, but what we oft forget was the virtually unknown, to us, the viewers, the writers of the show, who actually brought life to the dialect!

Talk about talent. Those people had it!

[MrAreaRugs]

LOL LOL :)  thanks for posting

[fffreakbeat]

"where did he say they came from?" made me crack up. marvellous!

[all6inthelast]

Suggestive, smutty, brilliantly timed lines but I'd let my children watch this rather than the shameless filth we're given now. Inman was the class of talent we don't see on now.

[cne08]

R.I.P. Mr.Humphries. The best Are You Being Served character.

[Yangedd]

Captin Peacock: Are you free Mr. Humphries?

Mr. Humphries: I'm free!!!!!

Classic!

[picklez26]

Lol I love how he answers the phone in that really deep voice. Cracks me up..

[armystrong2727]

Rest in peace John we will always remember you and love you. I know when u got to heaven You asked GOD "are you free" lol

[stephcool]

Rofl someone please remind me before I die to as John if he asked God that!

[armystrong2727]

I meet John years ago at the public TV studio and man hes such a great man. funny ass hell but a beautiful person on the inside. Truly a man of many talents and a true spirit

[BETTYPRO40]

I get the feeling that the world was really his stage...I thought he was brilliant, in acting and off stage(going by the footage of interviews} just a dynamic personality that is of rare finding.,.. "He was what he was and thats all that he was" and I , for one, am glad he was :}!!!!

[terribletwin]

Thanks for puting up the video up. Loved Are You Being Served.

[jestanotherguy]

i remember watching this at a very young age but i always loved mr humphries his character was amazing i used to strut around saying I'm free and singing i feel like a woman but that's because of a boots advert lol very good vid tho

[chumshot1]

@jestanotherguy LOLZ!!!

[rockchick80s]

Loved this series - John Humphries Pured Camped It Up - The PC Brigade would be up in arms now a days lol

[BRUTUALTRUTH]

Bless him xxx

[PunkyGirlx3]

<3 him so much ^^

[fivebearrugs]

His sexuality was never confirmed on the show...it was always said that he was a mama's boy, lol... but he always hinted to either side.

[LuciusTheFair]

@fivebearrugs

If anything he was bisexual. In one episode it ends with him strongly implying he was going to meet up with a girl and "pitch a little woo."

[thoomolong]

@LuciusTheFair There is no such thing as bisexual. Only people gay people who are open to having heterosexual relationships to appear to be heterosexual or hetero friendly or just stay in the closet, as I believe Mr Humphries was doing.

[lisambofoh]

@thoomolong I'm bisexual. There you go.

[Garfie489]

@fivebearrugs in a spin off series it was said hes not "a womans man or a mans man" so i think he was bi yet he did go on to marry and have 6 kids

[Michaelmyersrulz]

@Garfie489  he was aso in a civil partnership with a MAN he'd been living with for like 10 years. look it up

[bettypro]

@fivebearrugs he was in his own league.

[jph0917]

I think Mr Humphries was Bi-Sexual and willing to go either way, but chose not tol

[teganstarr]

He is so attractive.

[captainra]

Ilove this series growing up I recently found itonline and bought the complete 10 year run on dvd.

[Giggles59]

Fantastic !!! Great job on this.

[cafecremelad]

and whats great is there are loads more in are you being served!!