Better or worse than Michael Bentine?
Better or worse than Michael Bentine?
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There have been so many threads about celebrity deaths recently, my first thought on seeing the thread title was, he died ages ago.
In answer to your question, I preferred Harry.
There have been so many threads about celebrity deaths recently, my first thought on seeing the thread title was, he died ages ago.
In answer to your question, I preferred Harry.
He died years ago He lived not too far from me ...
There have been so many threads about celebrity deaths recently, my first thought on seeing the thread title was, he died ages ago.
In answer to your question, I preferred Harry.
He died years ago He lived not too far from me ...
I knew that!
Did you ever see him out and about?
I should clarify, a better entertainer or not.
Did he not do that song "Ying-Tong" hope that's not racist, sounds it !
There have been so many threads about celebrity deaths recently, my first thought on seeing the thread title was, he died ages ago.
In answer to your question, I preferred Harry.
He died years ago He lived not too far from me ...
I knew that!
Did you ever see him out and about?
No, but if I remember one of his children went to prep school with a friend of mine
Did he not do that song "Ying-Tong" hope that's not racist, sounds it !
Yes, I believe he did .....but it was back in the days when you could still put a golly on a jam jar
I should clarify, a better entertainer or not.
Well, neither of them made me laugh, but Harry could sing and Michael couldn't - so Harry wins.
Did he not do that song "Ying-Tong" hope that's not racist, sounds it !
Yes, I believe he did .....but it was back in the days when you could still put a golly on a jam jar
I used to have a golly toy, and sang baa baa black sheep and had a blackboard.
Nowadays, they'd have me locked up for race crimes.
I should clarify, a better entertainer or not.
Well, neither of them made me laugh, but Harry could sing and Michael couldn't - so Harry wins.
You see I had that in mind when posting. But I was not sure id MB sang or not.
I know HS did Songs of Praise, or at least I think so.
There have been so many threads about celebrity deaths recently, my first thought on seeing the thread title was, he died ages ago.
In answer to your question, I preferred Harry.
He died years ago He lived not too far from me ...
I knew that!
Did you ever see him out and about?
No, but if I remember one of his children went to prep school with a friend of mine
Did he not do that song "Ying-Tong" hope that's not racist, sounds it !
Yes, I believe he did .....but it was back in the days when you could still put a golly on a jam jar
I used to have a golly toy, and sang baa baa black sheep and had a blackboard.
Nowadays, they'd have me locked up for race crimes.
I still call blackboards, blackboards.
I know some people call Tipex 'whiteout' I'm offended by that.
I should clarify, a better entertainer or not.
Well, neither of them made me laugh, but Harry could sing and Michael couldn't - so Harry wins.
You see I had that in mind when posting. But I was not sure id MB sang or not.
I know HS did Songs of Praise, or at least I think so.
I have no recollection of MB singing but I'm sure you're right about Harry doing Songs of Praise.
Did he not do that song "Ying-Tong" hope that's not racist, sounds it !
Yes, I believe he did .....but it was back in the days when you could still put a golly on a jam jar
I used to have a golly toy, and sang baa baa black sheep and had a blackboard.
Nowadays, they'd have me locked up for race crimes.
I still call blackboards, blackboards.
I know some people call Tipex 'whiteout' I'm offended by that.
I'm with you all the way.
Funnily enough - on the radio this morning... someone requested 'If I ruled the world' by, I think, Tony Bennett and I immediately thought of Harry Secombe.. and after they played the request they gave a quick blast of the Harry Secombe version - took my right back to my childhood listening to Family Favourites on a Sunday
Funnily enough - on the radio this morning... someone requested 'If I ruled the world' by, I think, Tony Bennett and I immediately thought of Harry Secombe.. and after they played the request they gave a quick blast of the Harry Secombe version - took my right back to my childhood listening to Family Favourites on a Sunday
How serendipitous
Funnily enough - on the radio this morning... someone requested 'If I ruled the world' by, I think, Tony Bennett and I immediately thought of Harry Secombe.. and after they played the request they gave a quick blast of the Harry Secombe version - took my right back to my childhood listening to Family Favourites on a Sunday
I associate "If I ruled the world" with Harry too.
I'm getting all nostalgic now...
Did he not do that song "Ying-Tong" hope that's not racist, sounds it !
Yes, I believe he did .....but it was back in the days when you could still put a golly on a jam jar
I used to have a golly toy, and sang baa baa black sheep and had a blackboard.
Nowadays, they'd have me locked up for race crimes.
I sometimes thing political correctness had gone mad !
Did he not do that song "Ying-Tong" hope that's not racist, sounds it !
Yes, I believe he did .....but it was back in the days when you could still put a golly on a jam jar
I used to have a golly toy, and sang baa baa black sheep and had a blackboard.
Nowadays, they'd have me locked up for race crimes.
I still call blackboards, blackboards.
I know some people call Tipex 'whiteout' I'm offended by that.
I'm getting all nostalgic now...
so am I
Michael Bentine's Potty Time was epic
Highway vs Potty Time?
My vote goes to Bentine!
Did he not do that song "Ying-Tong" hope that's not racist, sounds it !
"The Ying-Tong Song" got its name from Spike Milligan's old army buddy Harry Edgington. (If you've ever read any of Milligan's army memoirs, you'll know all about him.) According to legend, Harry Secombe once referred to Edgington as "Edgerton", Milligan corrected him, saying "It's Edgington, Edgington.", and then emphasised the last two syllables as "Yington, yington." Secombe immediately came in with "Tiddle-i-po", and the rest, as they say...
Michael Bentine for me
I would also select Michael Bentine. His seres It's a Square World had some brilliant touches of inspired surreal lunacy and was years ahead of programmes which followed such as Monty Python.
Michael Bentine's Potty Time was epic
One in particular I remember was 'The battle of Waterloo'. It was really hilarious. The soldiers were just wee hats on pins, but we had a tiny pair of wellingtons topped by a Wellington type hat to represent Lord Wellington and a tiny pair of riding boots topped by a Nepoleon type hat to represent Napoleon. The cannons gave a wee whiff of smoke and a few seconds later, somewhere on the 'landscape' there was a wee spurt of sand to represent the shell landing. You'd really have had to see the whole thing to appreciate it properly.
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