“It’s The Way That They Tell Them’ Back in the seventies, stand up comedy was king and top of the pile were the stars who appeared on this Saturday night weekly TV show produced between 1974-77 by Granada Television. Set in an imaginary club under the stewardship of the redoubtable Colin Crompton as Chairman the [...]
Ken Dodd brings ‘Happiness’ to Sunderland
What makes you have a good old hearty laugh? When it comes to having a tear stained face through laughing there are a few who do it for me. Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, The Goons, Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, Joe Pasquale, the radio show ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’ and then there’s [...]
The Comedians -The Very Best of Series Three
SOMETHING TO SMILE ABOUT. Long before Bernard Manning walked around in his underwear on TV documentaries, Mike Reid played Frank Butcher in Eastenders and Jim Bowen hosted Bullseye, in another life they were comedians, and very funny with it too. In the halcyon days of providing variety entertainment on TV many of us used to [...]