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Little Shop of Humour Part 2
When Fry and Laurie updated the Hardware Shop sketch they took it to a slightly darker place than the Two Ronnies did with Fork Handles. They played very cleverly on the trepidation that most laymen will feel when having to … Continue reading
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Goon With The Wind
Fork Handles has just received from worldofbooks.com a copy of the Autobiography of Max Geldray – Goon With The Wind. Look forward to reading and reviewing!
Talent Triumphs in the Face of Prejudice Part 3
It speaks volumes for the regard in which Stott was held that his private life remained, rightly, private. Divorcing his first wife, he quickly re-married. Shortly after the second marriage, Stott returned from a holiday in Scandinavia in 1972 having … Continue reading
Talent Triumphs in the Face of Pejudice Part 2
Five years after the war finished, Stott was not only busy writing film scores, he also became Musical Director of the then fledgling Phillips Record Label, arranging and conducting for all of that label’s British artists as well as orchestrating … Continue reading
Talent Triumphs in the Face of Prejudice Part 1
Fork Handles explores the astonishing tale of the musical genius of Wally Stott and Angela Morley How many musicians can claim playing in Geraldo’s famous 1940’s orchestra, arranging and conducting countless hit records and live shows for acts as diverse … Continue reading
You Really Ought to K-now W-ho’s W-ho!
Flanders and Swann were probably my earliest comedy memory. Born in 1964, by the time I heard them they were probably already on the wane, being superseded, for adults at least, by the more acerbic satire of The Frost Report … Continue reading
Ring Out The Old Ring In The New
How appropriate, on New Year’s Day, and more pertinently, the Day Ronnie Corbett is “upgraded” to a CBE to make the radical diversion from gardening to blogging on British Comedy. British comedy is enjoying unprecedented levels of popularity today, with … Continue reading
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