When I was a wee lad, I had three absolute favourite comedians. Bernard Breslaw, Tommy Cooper, and this man, below, Stanley Unwin.
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A wonderful comedian was Stan..... gave me the confidence to be "silly" with langwidj!
ReplyDeleteAltho' most of mine is written, and I use Wetherspoonerisms a great deal..... but langwidj evolvos and to and it is easy to "phoin a nu crase" or word... especially if you are trying to make someone read something important.... it is all about "getting the message across!"
I don't find him as funny as I did. When I was younger he was a novelty; these days he's a bit passé.
DeleteFor some reason I couldn't abide Tommy Cooper.
ReplyDeleteOf the three I mentioned above, Cooper is the only one I still find funny.
DeleteNever found Unwin funny at all.....have you checked out Lee Mack yet? " Not Going Out" early ones.
ReplyDeleteYes, I looked at him after you'd mentioned him before. At the time I couldn't put a face to the name.
DeleteTommy Cooper for me and Dick Emery, Bob Monkhouse..... it was a golden era.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, there were a lot more 'funny' comedians around. These days they seem to rely on 'smut'.
DeleteGodilybyload and carryoke !!! XXXX
ReplyDeleteWere you his scriptwriter?
DeleteI'd rather listen to a beginner learning bagpipes.
ReplyDeleteThat bad????
DeleteUnwinese - that was his language. Nobody ever mastered it like Stanley.
ReplyDeleteEven he made a bit of a mess of it occasionally. Not easy to keep-up Unwinese for long periods.
DeleteMagnonese is easier - you just pop a couple of plums in your mouth.
DeleteGold-leafed Plums please!
DeleteNo, not my idea of funny. I can't remember Bernard Bresslaw's humour at all, apart from his name.
ReplyDeleteHe is best known for the Carry On films where he appeared a bit dumb and stupid. I worked with his brother in the late 1960s in London. He was fiercely protective of him and said that in real life Bernard wasn't the least bit dumb.
DeleteI always liked those characters he played. The dimwit giant. I wonder if he felt typecast?
DeleteI remember Unwin from 1960s radio, and found him funny at the time. Another two names from that period - Bob Newhart with his telephone call routines (the driving instructor, Rayleigh and tobacco...) and Tom Leher with his songs (the period table, poisoning pigeons in the park.....).
ReplyDeleteI do remember both of them. We didn't get to hear much of them in the UK, but occasionally they'd crop-up on the radio.
DeleteI never found them funny when I was young and always wondered why adults were laughing at them. They haven’t stood the test of time very well in my opinion. Rather like the fact that the gravestone of him and his wife bears the epitaph “Reinitey in heavenly-bode. Deep Joy!”
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see what stands the test of time and what does not.
I don't find him as funny as I did as a child. In those days I thought he was hilarious.
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