Saturday, 19 July 2025

Count Arthur Strong: Flying Lesson


Count Arthur Strong (hat and red bow-tie) isn't to everyone's taste, but I particularly like this sketch.

CAS being his usual bumbling self.

12 comments:

Adrian Ward said...

I like Count Arthur Strong, I used to listen to his show on Radio 4. I never knew he had a TV show but as I've never had a television I suppose that isn't surprising.

Cro Magnon said...

I've always liked him. He is of the same ilk as Harry Worth, and I find them both equally appealing. We have a TV here, but it doesn't work. I have a plug-in thingy for it with hundreds of recorded programmes that I occasionally watch.

Frances said...

I used to listen to him on the radio..never seen a TV show. Looks like a young Rory Kinnear at the start...he was at Oxford the same time as my son.

Cro Magnon said...

Roy Kinnear lived just down the road from us in Sussex, I presume that Rory is his son? Poor Roy came to a sad end.

Yorkshire Pudding said...

From Wikipedia...
Count Arthur Strong... an elderly, pompous, out-of-work actor from Doncaster with delusions that he is a show-business legend. The character has been described as "a mixture of physical and mental clumsiness, mirthful malapropisms and Tourettic tics, whose pride forbids him from ever conceding fallibility, even as his world crashes around him".

Carol Caldwell said...

That was hilarious.

Cro Magnon said...

That sounds about right!

Cro Magnon said...

I find him very funny. It's a strange, very English, humour.

Travel said...

I flew enough as a teenager, that I could get it in the air, getting it safely back on the ground is a bit more challenging. As they say, any landing you walk away from is a good landing.

Cro Magnon said...

As long as the controls were simple enough, I expect we could all stand a chance at landing; even if the nose ended up in the ground!

Traveller said...

Cannot stand the insane laugh track

Susan said...

British humor does make me laugh.

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