[…]. DS.Please Note: Dennis Main Wilson’s interview is not strictly chronological and contains strong views on politics, World War Two and – of course – comedy and light entertainment.Dennis Main Wilson Side 1Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT history pro[…]
[…]they would just go on and do the show and it would be a bit rough the first house, and the dancers would sort of, just posture really, but it was the comedy, that was all the people had come for really and it was extraordinary. And the Queen's Theatre Glasgow was even rougher and that was the neares[…]
[…]me. Then I started in 1935 with Varnel. And we went on right up until 1942, up to about 1941/2.RF: These pictures are now rightly regarded as British comedy classics. But they weren't always perceived so.VG: No, they weren't, indeed I remember the reviews we got of Oh, Mr Porter! were nothing. They […]
[…] ’64 election was called the BBC schedule on that Thursday night included Steptoe, Steptoe & Son. Steptoe at that time was the most popular comedy programme on British television. The audiences were 12, 14, 15 million people. Marcia Falkender…Marcia Williams, as she then was, w[…]
[…]blicly available.Derek Threadgall 10:14 Would it be fair to say that with the membership of the society, we are talking about the kind of comedy that was very popular in Tony's day? London, the writers pee had? Would it be fair to say that by joining the society, people, especially, as y[…]
[…]ousemaster was Arthur Marshall now Arthur Marshall was not desperately well known to the public at that time because although he had been a writer of comedy and had appeared on radio he'd gone to the war and had returned to Arnold to teach again and was my housemaster now.SPEAKER: M2He was a man of […]
[…] had seven or eight weeks to make a Will Hay comedy and in those days all feature films only ran […]
[…]didn't teach me everything he knew; but he developed this kind of basic format for my father's television show with The Silhouettes, with the type of comedy number. And he laid the foundations for that show which last virtually in that form all my father's life. I changed it a bit, I'm jumping a hea[…]
[…], and then we had a very good time with it afterwards talking with it.Derek Threadgall 24:04 You don't appear to go too much on analysing comedy.Unknown Speaker 24:13 Now I don't believe in There's a great saying analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and t[…]
[…]mes Television, mainly with Morecambe and Wise again, and eventually as a consultant at London Weekend Television responsible for many classics of TV comedy. But first, John, tell us where you were born and when? John Ammonds 1:46 Yes, well, I started life on the 21st of M[…]
