Summary
Season 2 features spliced together interviews of Peter Sellers, Barry Humphries, Frankie Howerd, Julie Walters, Bruce Forsyth and Kenny Everett taken from various TV chat shows.
Season 2 features spliced together interviews of Peter Sellers, Barry Humphries, Frankie Howerd, Julie Walters, Bruce Forsyth and Kenny Everett taken from various TV chat shows.
You’ll remember the “Ooh no, missus” and “Titter ye not”, but may have forgotten “Hearken!” This week’s archive-trawl turns the spotlight on doyen of the double entendre Frankie Howerd.
With his brown suits and bird’s-nest-wig, Francis Alick Howerd could manipulate an audience like few other stand-ups. An enthralling career in clips reveals how scant material gave way to proper jokes, stammering to confidence. A gleeful chat-show saboteur, Howerd looked deeply hurt when Michael Parkinson outed the depressive beneath the quips, but made Russell Harty go red in a more typical digression. And one interview exposes how canny Howerd’s humour was: by not aligning himself, he was able to take the mickey out of absolutely everyone.
role | name |
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Narrator | Tamsin Greig |
Executive producer | John Quinn |
Frankie Howerd
You’ll remember the “Ooh no, missus” and “Titter ye not”, but may have forgotten “Hearken!” This week’s archive-trawl turns the spotlight on doyen of the double entendre Frankie Howerd.
With his brown suits and bird’s-nest-wig, Francis Alick Howerd could manipulate an audience like few other stand-ups. An enthralling career in clips reveals how scant material gave way to proper jokes, stammering to confidence. A gleeful chat-show saboteur, Howerd looked deeply hurt when Michael Parkinson outed the depressive beneath the quips, but made Russell Harty go red in a more typical digression. And one interview exposes how canny Howerd’s humour was: by not aligning himself, he was able to take the mickey out of absolutely everyone.
role | name |
---|---|
Narrator | Tamsin Greig |
Executive producer | John Quinn |