Surfer said:
soldlisa04 said:
I can remember seeing him in Blackpool when I was 10 years old (34 years ago) along with a very young looking Little and not so Large and being in hysterics. Very funny man!
He was before my time which is why I don't know him. Clip was funny!
Most of the comedians who were around on tv and at holiday resorts back in the 1970s were funny, unlike most of those who call themselves comedians nowadays and 'do stand up' as they like to call whatever it is that they do. It's certainly not comedy, that's for sure.
None of the present lot, with the possible exception of Peter Kay, would have lasted five minutes on the stage of the even smallest back street working mens club. The concert secretary would have 'paid them off, half fee' or given them their bus fare home in other words, yet somehow this present lot have managed to discredit the stuff that really made us all laugh.
They then replaced it with sneering sarcasm laced with the sort of filthy language that would have earned them a fat lip even in a public bar room, and the cheeky so and so's call the proper comedians of old 'offensive'!
It beggars belief when we see how low tv 'entertainment' has sunk.