tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post5473172221552027165..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Remembering Dickie HNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-46995165742554479062012-08-28T21:08:37.827+01:002012-08-28T21:08:37.827+01:00Saw Dickie H. in pantomime in Leeds I think it was...Saw Dickie H. in pantomime in Leeds I think it was. I must have been about 6! Long coach trip there, even longer one back. Night buses. Did he have something to do with an elephant? Oh and bless there was that incident on Parkinson when he suddenly fell silent... He cracked the punchline to a long-winded joke and nobody had noticed. 'That's it, that's the joke!' Parkinson snickered but was up to the great Bob Hope to ease his pain with 'Great joke Dickie, great joke'. Now where's that clip?<br /><br />Saw Doddy in Leeds an'll. Came back with plastic Diddy man.David Aspdenhttp://davidaspden.yolasite.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-57904876804569217922012-08-27T17:25:28.826+01:002012-08-27T17:25:28.826+01:00I recall seeing Doddy too with Diddymen on tow. Bu...I recall seeing Doddy too with Diddymen on tow. But that was in Brdford I think. I guess I never got Ken but then I was perhaps too young to appreciate and there was always the Knottyash baggage to get in the way Banished To A Pompous Landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141515769740567476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-66942312256460896372012-08-27T11:15:13.751+01:002012-08-27T11:15:13.751+01:00Ah yes - Les Dawson. I agree - our greatest stand-...Ah yes - Les Dawson. I agree - our greatest stand-up, along with Ken Dodd (tho, with Dodd, you have to be there). I saw Les once at St Pancras, but he seemed preoccupied and in a hurry to get somewhere. Probably the bar...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-63474625826358181302012-08-27T00:43:56.898+01:002012-08-27T00:43:56.898+01:00My own favourite meeting in Scarborough, on he Sca...My own favourite meeting in Scarborough, on he Scalby Mills train no less was the great Les Dawson srill to my mind the finest English stand-up of the last 50 years. I was but a child at the time and didnt think twice about bothering the great man sitting in the seats behind us with his own family. But despite my dads urgent shusshing Les was a total trouper said hello and shook hands with lets see....10 year old me? Banished To A Pompous Landhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141515769740567476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-11045149185116255952012-08-24T22:07:04.091+01:002012-08-24T22:07:04.091+01:00I'll see what I can do Mahlerman - I only star...I'll see what I can do Mahlerman - I only started that lark because I came under Chinese attack. Maybe the coast's clear now...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-85458130349885804352012-08-24T19:42:54.077+01:002012-08-24T19:42:54.077+01:00M above is me, Nige. Got into a dreadful tangle tr...M above is me, Nige. Got into a dreadful tangle trying (and failing) to prove I am not a robot. Any chance you could make those puzzles a bit easier?mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-54606262579573628132012-08-24T10:41:37.102+01:002012-08-24T10:41:37.102+01:00A great Illingworth quote, m - thanks! 'Jim...A great Illingworth quote, m - thanks! 'Jim' Swanton indeed... <br />As for young Harry Webb, he preceded me at my primary school, also attended a tin tabernacle in Carshalton, but graciously refused to contribute to its centenary appeal when he was rich and famous. A former neighbour dandled young Harry on his knee back in India - he was some kind of cousin - while down the road was a chap who dandled the young Dylan Thomas on his knee (but failed to take the opportunity to throttle him). A lot of celebrity dandling on that road.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-91836259948242443652012-08-23T20:40:45.317+01:002012-08-23T20:40:45.317+01:00I treasure the comment made by the great Raymond I...I treasure the comment made by the great Raymond Illingworth about the pompous EW Swanton, that he 'was such a snob, that he wouldn't travel in the same car as his chauffeur'. Dickie H rented a room in our house in Coventry in the late 50's, and dapper is the word. Dabbler too perhaps, as I remember he and my (single) mother seemed to hit it off. He was followed a few years later by a certain Harry Webb, a small, chubby, Indian-looking boy, who later changed his name and sang at Wimbledon.mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-22487760410621994102012-08-23T19:18:18.523+01:002012-08-23T19:18:18.523+01:00Vague memories of that opium for the masses, Sunda...Vague memories of that opium for the masses, Sunday Night at the London Palladium, so long ago, so naff. Little bloke, Mohair suit, thin black bow tie, cut away collar, patent leather shoes. Or was that Laurence Harvey. <br /><br />What is it I wonder, about the mid-Atlantic accent, when spoken by the British, Lulu for instance it sounds false, when adopted by Americans, Gore Vidal is an example, it sounds musical. maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-67578491362265255942012-08-23T14:13:26.462+01:002012-08-23T14:13:26.462+01:00Remembered by you, your brother, Malty... and me.Remembered by you, your brother, Malty... and me.Frank Keyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12762546247488319616noreply@blogger.com