Yeah, Bernard Levin. People forget, right? So sue me. :-P (But did you
get the De Quincey ref?) I don't think anyone else on this list, except
Patrick of course, knows what you are talking about as far as British
satire shows are concerned. I remember the Goon Show, even went to the
BBC to see it once. And the oscillating hum of the outer lock opening in
Journey into Space. It was either before or after that that I was locked
in the the coal scuttle for a year or two as punishment for a midnight
raid on the larder & eating up the family ration of cheese for the week
(about 150 gr., for those who thought Britain Won the War.) So PUHLEAZE
tell us the red-nose joke.
Repentant, of Ewell.
Robin Hamilton wrote:
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>>But unfortunately I have forgotten the Frost red nose joke
>>- in fact, all I can definitely recall of TWTWTW is said Millicent
>>Martin & a very snidely aggressive interviewer who later became popular
>>as a rightwing opera fan, was it Norman something? Frost was snide too -
>>remember that. Somehow I can hear/see Rowan & Martin in more detail.
>>Hoping for Enlightenment soon
>>jwalker
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>Oh shite -- I thought you'd know about this.
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>I think the opera mannie you're thinking of is Bernard Levin, but there were
>so many punches thrown on that show that it was difficult to count.
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>Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was pussycat -- TW3 and water.
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>I thought the David's Frost's Younger Brother joke was a cliché, so do I
>have to retail it?
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>Seriously, Martin, I simply assumed you'd know more about this than me.
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