Belittling Ern : the changing performance dynamic of Morecambe and Wise Hewett, RJ http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2021.1893468 Title Belittling Ern : the changing performance dynamic of Morecambe and Wise Authors Hewett, RJ Type Article URL This version is available at: http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/59564/ Published Date 2021 USIR is a digital collection of the research output of the University of Salford. Where copyright permits, full text material held in the repository is made freely available online and can be read, downloaded and copied for non-commercial private study or research purposes. Please check the manuscript for any further copyright restrictions. For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, please contact the Repository Team at:
[email protected]. Comedy Studies ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcos20 Belittling Ern: the changing performance dynamic of Morecambe and Wise Richard Hewett To cite this article: Richard Hewett (2021): Belittling Ern: the changing performance dynamic of Morecambe and Wise, Comedy Studies, DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2021.1893468 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2021.1893468 © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Published online: 16 Mar 2021. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 16 View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rcos20 COMEDY STUDIES https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2021.1893468 Belittling Ern: the changing performance dynamic of Morecambe and Wise Richard Hewett University of Salford, School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology, Salford, UK ABSTRACT KEYWORDS Despite their renown as one of the most successful double acts Morecambe and Wise; in British television history, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise have television comedy; double received scant academic attention.