Tony Hancock...

[KathyWoolfe]

I liked his half-hour shows....they always contained gems to make you laugh.

I just wish there was more of them about these days. Nowadays all you get are stand-up comedians who can't do anything else - along with comic actors who want to do drama etc.

[tim123]

Before, when "cock" was in the filter as a rude word, you'd get Tony Hannoddy.

Thankfully this dreadful state of affairs has been corrected.

Oh,

does that mean I can type in Scunthorp?

tim

[bogeyman]

Oh,

does that mean I can type in Scunthorp?

tim

Who put the C*** in Scunthorp?

The Labour party of course.

[Bagpuss]

Tony Hancock was a Brummie yow know r kid!

.....

I enjoyed the one on Steptoe and son, Harry H Corbett despite hailing from Manchester and being a method actor.. was forever typcast as a cockney working class buffoon. Wilf Brambles came across as a really sad old man (despite only being in his 50s when they first filmed)

[threaded]

Scunthorpe? Cycled there once to visit my uncle, when I were 10 or 11. On the way home the plod stopped me just shy of Hatfield, and took me back to Scunthorpe.

They thought I was a run-away, but they did give me sandwiches.

Little did they know they had just met a formidable long distance athelete in the making.

threaded in "nice tortoise" mode

[NickFitz]

Scunthorpe? Cycled there once to visit my uncle, when I were 10 or 11. On the way home the plod stopped me just shy of Hatfield, and took me back to Scunthorpe.

They thought I was a run-away, but they did give me sandwiches.

Little did they know they had just met a formidable long distance athelete in the making.

threaded in "nice tortoise" mode

Not as funny as Hancock, but have a for trying.

[bogeyman]

Thankfully this dreadful state of affairs has been corrected.

But AtW still dines out on it. He passes this off as a 'sense of humour'.

[bogeyman]

Maybe it's just a prerequisite that celebrities are paranoid self obsessed piss heads.

I think it goes with the territory.

It must have been hugely stressful, if you think about it.

TV (a new and extraordinary medium, at the time) conferred instant 'fame' on those who were unfortunate enough to grace it's gloomy little B&W screen.

Hancock couldn't live up to his own expectations as a comic and thwarted actor, and that ate him away from the inside, with the inevitable, tragic conclusion.

[bogeyman]

Yep and alcoholism is the M25.

[Churchill]

Yep and alcoholism is the M25.<hic>

Hth.