When girls are sixteen, they're ready for Goodnight Ladies and Gentlemen! Goodnight Ladies and Gentlemen!
But there was another similar one that may or may not have been the final straw. He told a tale of walking along a very narrow ridge that connected two precipices. The story went on to say that he was edging his way across when he came face-to-face with this girl. In a film with Jerry Lewis and others he said of entering spooky, ancient dark empty houses that he was not at all afraid He wore a huge kipper tie and was known for rambling 'shaggy dog' stories which speeded up until he shouted "Play the music!
Open the cage! He came and went surprisingly 'fast', spiv that he was supposed to be. Perhaps the constabulary caught him? In fact he was also a film actor and his name was Arthur Leslie Norman. He always had a little political rhyme eg. It was played by husband and wife Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels. Both Americans maybe they came over because they were too ironically funny for the us?
John Weaver pointed out they featured previously in 'Hi Gang' which I now recall too. Perhaps it was because in those days, if you were not married, it was unheard of that two 'unmarried persons should live together [as the difference in the two surnames suggests].
He was an accomplished violinist and used his musical talent as part of his comedy routine, deliberately playing off-key etc. One musician who was often called in to do a stint on guitar, banjo or other fretted instruments was the Polish-born Jewish multi-musician, Ivor Mairants , who at that time had a guitar academy in West Street, off Cambridge Circus and behind Charing Cross Rd.
See here. One catch phrase was "Good Old Charl-ieee " eventually also said when young Prince Charles was in the audience. Always ended with the words "That little thing that goes something like this Roger from Manila reminds me: "There was, of course, no smut in those days and recall vividly Kenneth Horne saying in one of his monologues: ". John Weaver reminds: "There were three shows in the s connected with the services which were aired in rotation.
You have mentioned all of these or their successors separately but they were in fact part of the same series under the umbrella title Merry-go-Round. I recall as a boy finding the Navy version the least humorous of the three and Much Binding the best, but post-Monty Python all of them would probably now seem very tame and not particularly funny.
Jewel and Warris had as a signature tune, which they sang in duet, 'Shine on Harvest Moon'. They seemed very funny to me in the early 50s when I was about 15 years old. It flopped on telly because Peter Brough's mouth was seen to move! The show started out with a schoolmasterly and rather lugubrious-sounding character called Morton, who'd say when he though himself to be 'crisp', "Oh!
Get in there, Morton". He would tell the first half, but then the second half seemed to bare no relation to the first because it came from a different joke. Morton was the impossible Archie's teacher, and was always made a laughing stock. The teacher trying to educate Archie changed often and various starts - many subsequently foremost in radio comedy - made a succession of teachers for the dummy, Archie. Joy Nichols was also involved. One of the best shows was where - to Mr.
Glum's outrage, chronically out-of-work Ron managed to get a job as a copper at the local Police Station. One of the funniest lines they managed was when Ron was pressing past Eth to bring in his bike through the narrow hall passageway and she complained about him rubbing himself up against her. He replied in that utterly gormless voice, "But I like it, Eth".
A correspondent, Peter Moore, adds his favourite bit from the Glums. After much deliberation. They are the dying words of Julius Caesar as he is stabbed by Brutus et al. They've all got it in for me! It was a Sunday lunchtime show, a domestic comedy in which Kitty Bluett played his wife, Fred Yule his brother-in-law. At the beginning of his career, Peter Sellers appeared as Soppy, a small boy criticised by the nation's watchdogs for his catchphrase, "Just like your big red conk!
There was the glamour girl who would do anything, but "Not until after six-o'clock! But his timing and tone of voice were marvellous. His chief companions were Sid ney James — always playing the role of a Cockney crook, and the simplest ocker ever, Bill Kerr. I think this was where that most utter chump of all twisted bawdiness, Kenneth Williams, first loomed into view.
The strange, queer Kenneth Williams was the biggest camp outrage until Edna Everidge came up from down under. Hancock's poem was as abstract as he could make it, but - when questioned what it was about, he eventually hit on 'It's an attack on the licensing laws'.
Asked what the phrase 'flaming camels' symbolised he replied "They're the camel drivers in the Gobi desert, you won't get any change out of 'em! Sid James followed with a modern poem in which he inserted such words as 'lead roof' and 'fortune made' but he is judged by the Society as outclassed by Bill Kerr with a winning poem consisting of nonsense and which ends on the words 'Ching, cham, chollup'. When Hancock was chucked out of the Poet Society which he was hosting in his own house in East Cheam he got very 'narked' and decided to start another society to change the entire world Ken Williams became a feature here, until he went off with Sid James etc.
Greatly steamed! Of this illustrious weekly disturbance on the Light programme so much has been written that I need not expand, other than direct fans to my web page about my having met the 'original' on whose voice Bluebottle was actually modelled , a certain red-bearded scoutmaster in Essex called Ruston Hayward, who is still extant !
Needle- nardle-noo! The greatest British impressionist ever - Peter Sellers - was the backbone of the performances, while Spike Milligan broke his back and his mind occasionally in writing the shows Marvellous developments in that illustrious institution - to think that raspberry-blower Secombe and mad Spike Milligan were actually elevated to such formal orders! Our heroes! But Spike should rather have been rewarded for his war service long ago, while he was instead made a deserter because the strains of shell-shock got him!
Not to mention his very early stand on vivisection and animal rights at the price of ridicule! Since this was written Spike received a very well-earned knighthood Sir Spike Since then, he has passed over into the beyond He has been hailed by many as the man who permanently and single-handedly or single-'mindedly' changed the nature of British comedy to his deep and yet more subtle mentality, after which there was no going back.
Dance Matinees. Why not hope for:— The name, in advance, of the winner of the Grand National? A Ministry of Laughter to help us to see the funny side of things and save us from the sin of being deadly serious? A reduction of income tax in the next Budget. What a hope! Mr Lloyd George saying something kind about the Ministry of Agriculture.
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