Reply to: Tony Hancock...

[Churchill]

Yep and alcoholism is the M25.<hic>

Hth.

[bogeyman]

Yep and alcoholism is the M25.

[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]

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'.

[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.

[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

[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)

[bogeyman]

Oh,

does that mean I can type in Scunthorp?

tim

Who put the C*** in Scunthorp?

The Labour party of course.

[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

[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.

[Moscow Mule]

Am I the only one who doesn't understand this?

tim

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.

[tim123]

Tony Hanoddy

Am I the only one who doesn't understand this?

tim

[Diver]

I think the docudrama the BBC did with Alfred Molina as Hancock was a masterpiece.

Molina had the exact same lugubrious look, and same unforgivingly bleak outlook as A. Hancock.

It was an excellent rendition.

[bogeyman]

I have just returned from not watching this television program in the public house.

I think Tony Hancock was a genius, if a little flawed.

I think the docudrama the BBC did with Alfred Molina as Hancock was a masterpiece.

Molina had the exact same lugubrious look, and same unforgivingly bleak outlook as A. Hancock.

[Diver]

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