A wonderful comedian was Stan..... gave me the confidence to be "silly" with langwidj! Altho' 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!"
He 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.
I 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.....).
I 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!”
It is interesting to see what stands the test of time and what does not.
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A wonderful comedian was Stan..... gave me the confidence to be "silly" with langwidj!
Altho' 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!"
For some reason I couldn't abide Tommy Cooper.
Never found Unwin funny at all.....have you checked out Lee Mack yet? " Not Going Out" early ones.
Tommy Cooper for me and Dick Emery, Bob Monkhouse..... it was a golden era.
Godilybyload and carryoke !!! XXXX
I'd rather listen to a beginner learning bagpipes.
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.
Of the three I mentioned above, Cooper is the only one I still find funny.
Yes, I looked at him after you'd mentioned him before. At the time I couldn't put a face to the name.
You're right, there were a lot more 'funny' comedians around. These days they seem to rely on 'smut'.
Were you his scriptwriter?
That bad????
Unwinese - that was his language. Nobody ever mastered it like Stanley.
Even he made a bit of a mess of it occasionally. Not easy to keep-up Unwinese for long periods.
Magnonese is easier - you just pop a couple of plums in your mouth.
Gold-leafed Plums please!
No, not my idea of funny. I can't remember Bernard Bresslaw's humour at all, apart from his name.
He 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.
I always liked those characters he played. The dimwit giant. I wonder if he felt typecast?
I 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.....).
I 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!”
It is interesting to see what stands the test of time and what does not.
I 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.
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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