Aha, you thought I’d forgotten… actually I had, the holiday weekend made me lose track of what day it is. never mind, I remembered in time and here’s the comedy double. And have I got a bona selection today.
It’s so nice to vader these dolly old ekes again.First off, a brief history of Kenneth Williams’ camp comic creations, Julian & Sandy, the first openly gay charcters in British entertainment:
You can hear more of the hysterically funny Julian & Sandy on Round The Horne on BBC Radio 7, and a dictionary of polari can be found here.
Next is up is Kenneth Williams’ partner in radio crime, Hugh Paddick, making a rare television appearance in the only video I can find of him. ripped from what looks like a Danish-subtitlled broadcast of Morecambe and Wise. So that’s what he looks like. It’s one of Morecambe and Wise’s naughtier sketches, with a number of wicked little gay in-jokes.
Well, they were wicked for the time, though they’d be completely innocuous to anyone who saw Graham Norton.flirting shamelessly with Dr Who, the scrumptious David Tennant, on his show last week. This is part 1, parts 2-4 can be seen here.
And don’t forget your Dobbyroids, you’ll be needing them after that.
Today’s bonus clips are totally unrelated to the previous two: one’s a trailer for a Ken Burns’ spoof documentary on suburban life to be shown on PBS. It’s only mildly amusing, but it’s set to the Malvina Reynolds song ‘Little Boxes’,. You’ll be singing it all day.
Up next is an ode to the problem of the unibrow, a word I can’t read without thinking of Maggie’s evil Simpsons nemesis, the unibrowed baby Gerald.
